KATHERINE DUNHAM AND HER COMPANY

Composer: Various
Lyricist: Various

Opened: April 19, 1950, Broadway Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 38

Batacuda (M: Don Alfonso) (previously used in TROPICAL REVUE and CARIBBEAN RHAPSODY and subsequently used in BAMBOUCHE!):

1. Afro-Caribbean Songs And Rhythms, 78/Decca 511 (Katherine Dunham) [also 10"/Decca 5251]
2. 78/Vocalion 4906 (Don Alfonso and His Orchestra)
3. The Music Of Brazil, Columbia 8622 (Percy Faith and His Orchestra) [also 45/Columbia 4-39321; reissued on The Music Of Brazil/Shagrila, CD/Collectables Records 6898]
4. Latin Spice, RCA Victor 169 (Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra)
5. The Best Of Xavier Cugat, Mercury 6015 (Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra)
6. Hawaii & Its Lullabies, CD/ANS 13015 (Don Alfonso)
7. Blen, Blen, Blen, CD/Musica Latina 55017 (Machito and His Afro Cubans)
8. Cuban Love Song, CD/Harlequin Records 103 (Xavier Cugat and His Orchesra)
9. In Person: 1940-1942 Radio Broadcasts, CD/Harlequin Records 166 (Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra)
10. Cugat's Nugats, CD/Harlequin Records 125 (Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra)
11. Noco Gomez and His Orchestra, CD/P-Vine Records 23251 (Nico Gomez and His Orchestra)


Florida Swamp Shimmy [Barrel House Boogie] (M: Meade Lux Lewis; Albert Ammons) (previously used in TROPICAL REVUE):

1. 78/Victor 27504 (Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons, two piano boogie woogie with drums) [also 78/Gramophone B 9251; reissued on The Chronological Pete Johnson 1939-1941, CD/Classics 665]
2. 78/Decca F 41009 (Harry Roy and His Orchestra) [also 78/London 116; reissued on V.E. Day: The Dancebands, CD/Empress Music 844]
3. Shufflin' The Boogie, CD/Jazz Colours 8747482 (Bob Hall)
4. At The Window, CD/Lake 23 (Bob Hal)


Maracatu (Brazilian Indian Rhythm; folk air):

1. Katherine Dunham Presents Drum Rhythms of Haiti Cuba Brazil: The Singing Gods, CD/Caney 523 (unknown performer)
2. Percussions of Latin America, CD/Playasound 360501 (unknown performer)

Unrecorded Material:

Adeus Terras (M: adapted by Vadico Gogliano-Nardini)
Afrique (Native Air) (dropped after opening)
Barrelhouse (M: Stacy) (dropped after opening) (subsequently used in KATHERINE DUNHAM AND HER COMPANY (1955) and BAMBOCHE!)
Choros (M: Vadico Gogliano) (previously used in TROPICAL REVUE and BAL NEGRE and subsequently used in KATHERINE DUNHAM AND HER COMPANY (1955) and BAMBOCHE!)
Flaming Youth (by "Brad" Gowans) (previously used in TROPICAL REVUE and BAL NEGRE and subsequently used in KATHERIN DUNHAM AND HER COMPANY (1955) and BAMBOCHE!)
Jazz In Five Movements (M: Dorothy Freitag)
L'Ag'Ya (M: Robert Sanders) (previously used in TROPICAL REVUE and BAL NEGRE)
Nostalgia (M: arranged by Beane) (dropped after opening) (subsequently used in BAMBOCHE!)
Rites De Passage (added after opening) (previously used in TROPICAL REVUE)
Shango (added after opening)
Tropics (added after opening) (previously used in TROPICAL REVUE and CONCERT VARIETIES)
Veracruziana (M: Dorothea Freitag & Foster; adapted by Vadico Gogliano-Nardini) (subsequently used in KATHERINE DUNHAM AND HER COMPANY (1955))