JOHNNY JOHNSON
Composer: Kurt
Weill
Lyricist: Paul Green
Opened: November 19, 1936, 44th Street Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 68
Note: Only numbers not found on the 1997 studio cast album are noted below.
To Love You And To Lose You (L: Edward Heyman) (same music as "Johnny's Song (Listen To My Song)"; new lyric for publication):
1. 78/Victor 25504 (Howard
Barrie with Ray Noble and His Orchestra)
2. Kurt Weill Revisited Vol. II, Painted Smiles (S) PS-1376
(Blossom Dearie)
3. September Song: Dick Hyman Plays The Music Of Kurt Weill,
CD/Proscenium PRO 01 (Dick Hyman, piano)
A radio transcription performed by the Harry Reser Orchestra is
also known to exist.
We Need A Man (unused; same music as
"Triffst Du Mich Abends In Der Schenke" from DER KUHHANDEL
and "If You Should Meet Me" from A KINGDOM FOR A COW):
1. Der Kuhhandel,
CD/Capriccio 60013-1 (Frederic Mayer, Eberhard Buchner, and the
Kolner Rundfunkchor with the Kolner Rundfunkorchester conducted
by Jan Latham-Konig) (as "Triffst Du Mich Abends In Der
Schenke")
Unrecorded Material:
Epitaph (unused; later
reused in the posthumous songspiel WAR PLAY)
Minny Belle's Song (unused)