GREAT GUNS

Composer: Clay A. Boland
Lyricist: S. Bickley Reichner

Opened: 1939, Mask & Wig Club, Philadelphia, PA
Performances: Unknown

Note: A radio transcription of at least a portion of the show performed by the Mask & Wig Club is known to exist.

I’ve Got My Eye On You:

1. 78/Bluebird B 10395 (Herb Muse with Les Brown and His Orchestra)
2. 78/Vocalion 5253 (Fritz Heilbron with Jan Garber and His Orchestra)


Midnight On The Trail:

1. 78/Victor 26126 (Jack Leonard with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra) [reissued on The Chronological Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra 1938-1939, CD/Classics 1197]
2. The Chee-Chee Girl, CD/ASV/Living Era CDAJA 5486 (Rose Murphy)
3. Rose Murphy/Evalyn Tyner, CD/Audiophile ACD-70 (Rose Murphy, piano and voice, with unidentified bassist and drummer)


Stop It’s Wonderful:

1. 78/Victor 26325-B (Edythe Wright with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra) [reissued on The Chronological Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra 1939, Vol. 2, CD/Classics 1278]
2. 78/Decca 2770 (Bon Bon with Jan Savitt and His Orchestra)
3. 78/Decca F. 7350 (Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon with orchestral accompaniment) [reissued on Your Company’s Requested, CD/Vocalion 6099]
4. 78/Bluebird B 10441 (Elisse Cooper with Eddie DeLange and His Orchestra)
5. 78/Varsity 8080 (Ramona and Her Men Of Music with vocal refrain)
6. 78/Columbia 35249 (Bonnie Baker with Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra) [reissued on The Best Of Orrin Tucker And His Orchestra, CD/DRG/Collectors’ Choice Music CCM 00922]
7. 45/Warner Brothers WB 5006 (Bonnie Baker with orchestra conducted by Wilbur Hatch)
8. Think Pink! A Kay Thompson Party, CD/Sepia 1135 (Kay Thompson and Tony Martin with Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra)
9. Glen Gray & His Casa Loma Orchestra: Live At Meadowbrook Ballroom, Cedar Grove, NJ 1940, CD/Jazz Band EBCD 21502 (Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra)
10. Teddy Stauffer And The Original Teddy’s, CD/Document 220820 (Teddy Stauffer and The Original Teddy’s)
11. Together, CD/EMP 157142 (Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra)
A radio transcription performed by Tony Martin with Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra is also known to exist.


When I Climb Down From My Saddle:

1. 78/Bluebird B 10394 (Russ Carlyle with the Music Of Yesterday And Today Styled The Blue Barron Way)
2. 78/Vocalion 5063 (Eddie Howard with Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra)
3. 78/Vocalion 5102 (Henry Russell, vocal, with Henry Russell and His Romancers)


Unrecorded Material:

Bingo Bill
Change Cowhands Pardner
Go West Young Man
Great Guns
Right There And Then
So Sentimental