HOW NOW, DOW JONES
Composer: Elmer
Bernstein
Lyricist: Carolyn Leigh
Opened: December 7, 1967, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 220
Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast album are noted below.
Don't Let A Good Thing Get Away (cut):
1.
Studio demo, No label U4RM-8941 (unknown performer)
A recording by Bing Crosby with orchestra conducted by Ernie
Freeman is also known to exist.
Note: A song with the same title
and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh but with music by Michael Leonard is
known to exist. It is not known at this time the extent to which
the lyrics are the same as those used with Bernstein's music.
For recordings of the Leigh-Leonard song, see:
1. Young Man Of Manhattan, CD/Harbinger1503 (Eric Comstock) (M:
Michael Leonard)
2. Love Is The Thing, CD/Audiophile ACD-314 (Joyce Breach with
William Roy, piano)
How Now Dow Jones (cut):
1. Composers' Demo
Music To Their Ears (cut):
1. 45/United Artists UA
50220 (Elmer Bernstein, His Chorus & Orchestra)
2. Composers' Demo
Sea Chanty (cut):
1. Composers' Demo
Tangiers (cut):
1. Composers' Demo
Where You Are (cut; originally written
for HOW DO YOU DO, I LOVE YOU):
1. Composers' Demo
2. Studio demo, No label U4RM-8941
(unknown performer)
3. How Now, Dow Jones, RCA Camden (S) CAS-2189 (The Living
Voices and orchestra conducted by Bob Armstrong)
4. John Gary On Broadway, RCA Victor (S) LSP-3928 (John Gary
with orchestra conducted by Dick Grove)
5. Lost Broadway
And More, CDr/Original Cast (Brooke Sunny Moriber with William
Zeffiro, piano)
Unrecorded Numbers:
Charlie's Number
(ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Crazy Night Ballet
Guess What Charlie (ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
I Ain't Got It For The One That's Got It For Me (cut)
It's Gonna Be You (ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Our Little Mid Manhattan Pied A Terre (ASCAP/Library of Congress
only)
Panic
Status Quo (cut)
Take Me There (cut)
That's Music (cut)
Up In Smoke (cut)
Wall Street Hoedown (cut)
We'll Stand And Cheer (cut)