HONEYMOON LANE
Composer: James F.
Hanley
Lyricist: Eddie Dowling
Opened: September 20, 1926, Knickerbocker Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 353
Half A Moon Is Better Than None (L: Eddie Dowling; Herbert Reynolds):
1. 78/Victor 35811 (Victor
Light Opera Company with Johnny Marvin)
2. 78/Lincoln 2562 (San Lanin and His Orchestra with vocal
refrain) [also 78/Path X 6946]
3. 78/Harmony 342 H (Tom Martin with The Astorites)
4. 78/Romeo 309 (The Troubadours)
5. 78/Banner 1867 (Irving Kaufman with the Hollywood Dance
Orchestra)
6. 78/Brunswick 3336 (Ray Perkins with piano)
7. 78/Brunswick 3396 (Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt
Orchestra)
8. 78/Victor 20231 (Johnny Marvin, ukulele and voice, with Nat
Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra) [reissued on Breezin’ Along
With The Breeze, CD/ASV/Living Era CDAJA 5453]
9. 78/Path 36522 (Herb Hobbs with Lanin’s Arcadians)
10. 78/Oriole 781 (Chas. Dickson with Bob Green’s Dance
Orchestra)
11. 78/Columbia 750 D (Johnny Marvin)
Half Moon:
1. 78/Columbia 832 D
(Johnny Marvin and The Knickerbockers) [also 78/Columbia 750-D;
reissued on With A Little Ukulele In My Hand, CD/Proper 1658]
2. 78/Victor 20231 (Johnny Marvin)
3. 78/Edison 51841 (Johnny Marvin)
4. 1926, RCA (M) LPV-557
(Johnny Marvin)
Headin’ For Harlem (added for the
subsequent national tour; originally used in SIDEWALKS OF
NEW YORK):
1. 78/Path 36717 (Jimmy
Lytell)
2. 78/Harmony 521 H (Brown-Morris Orchestra)
3. 78/Victor 20976 (Franklyn Baur with Nat Shilkret and the
Victor Orchestra) [reissued on The Hot Dance Sides 1926 To 1930,
CD/Swing Time 9912]
4. Booze And Broads: Music Of The Roaring 20’s, CD/Gold 20
(unknown performer)
Jersey Walk (Shake ‘Em Up Kid) (M/L:
Henry Creamer; Eddie Dowling; James F. Hanley):
1. 78/Victor 35811 (Victor
Light Opera Company with Johnny Marvin)
2. 78/Columbia 750 D (Johnny Marvin)
3. 78/Victor 20231 (Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra)
[reissued on Roger Wolfe Kahn: 1925-1932, CD/Jazz Oracle BDW
8013]
4. 78/Perfect 11636 (Miss Lee Morse and Her Blue Grass Boys)
5. 78/Columbia 14182-D (Ethel Waters) [reissued on The
Chronological Ethel Waters 1926-1929, CD/Classics 688]
6. 78/Gennett 6011 (Johnny Marvin)
7. 78/Edison 51841 (Johnny Marvin)
6. Charleston Mad, CD/Stomp Off 1324 (Neville Dickie)
7. Living In Sin, CD/Coeur De Jeanette Productions 4 (Janet
Klein and Her Parlor Boys)
The Little White House At The End Of
Honeymoon Lane:
1. 78/Victor 35811 (Victor
Light Opera Company with Johnny Marvin)
2. 78/Path 36522 (Herb Hobbs with Lanin’s Arcadians)
3. 78/Brunswick 3396 (Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt
Orchestra)
4. 78/Edison 51862 (Arthur Fields with Duke Yellman and His
Orchestra)
5. 78/Harmony 271 H (Irving Kaufman with Lou Gold and His
Orchestra) [also 78/Banner 1897]
6. 78/Harmony 343 H (Charles Harrison)
7. 78/Romeo 274 (Broadway Broadcasters)
8. 78/Brunswick 3462 (Lee Sims, piano)
9. 78/Victor 20289 (Tom Waring with Waring’s Pennsylvanians)
[reissued on Music Of Broadway: The Twenties Volume 1 (1925-26),
JJA (M) 19796]
10. 78/Victor 20489 (Pauline Alpert, piano)
11. 78/Columbia 762 D (Frank Harris (Irving Kaufman) with Howard
Lanin and His Orchestra) [reissued on Come Josephine In My
Flying Machine, New World (M) NW-233]
12. 78/Lincoln 2562 (San Lanin and His Orchestra)
13. 78/Victor 20231 (Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra)
[reissued on Crazy
Rhythm, CD/Living Era CDAJA 5682]
14. 78/Okeh 40704 (Johnny
Marvin)
15. Echoes Of A Songbird, CD/Jasmine JASCD 646 (Lee Morse)
Mary, Dear! I Miss You Most Of All
(M/L: Henry Creamer; Eddie Dowling; James F. Hanley):
1. 78/Victor 35811 (Victor
Light Opera Company with Johnny Marvin)
2. 78/Columbia 810-D (Kate Smith)
Unrecorded Material:
Chorus Picking Time On
Broadway
Dreams For Sale
Finale (Act 1)
Finale (Act 2)
Gee, But I’d Like To Be Bad
Halloween (ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Head Over Heels In Love
Honeymoon Lane (M/L: Eddie Dowling; James F. Hanley; Billy Moll)
(ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Little Old New Hampshire (dropped for the subsequent tour)
A Little Smile, A Little Sigh
On To Hollywood
Opening Chorus (Act 2)
Opening Number
The Ruffian Ballet
The Stone Bridge At Eight
The Understudy Dance Specialty
Whad-D’Ya-Say (We Steal Away)?