LI'L ABNER

Composer: Gene DePaul
Lyricist: Johnny Mercer

Opened: November 15, 1956, St. James Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 693

Note: Only numbers not found on 2002 CD reissue of the original Broadway cast album are noted below.

It's A Nuisance Having You Around (cut):

1. 45/Columbia 40774 (Rosemary Clooney with the Frank Comstock Orchestra) [reissued on Memories Of You, CD/Bear Family BCD-15 914 GK; Li'l Abner, CD/Sony Classical/Columbia/Legacy SK 87700 (bonus track)]


(I Wish It Could Be) Otherwise (cut; reinstated for the film version):

1. Li'l Abner, Columbia (S) OS 2021 (Peter Palmer and Imogene Lynn [for Leslie Parrish] with orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle) [reissued on CD/Masterworks Broadway 88843 02373 2; also 45/Columbia 4-41539]


There's Room Enough For Us (aka "Room Enuf For Us") (added during the run):

1. Li'l Abner, Columbia (S) OS 2021 The "Li'l Abner" Chorus with orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle) [reissued on CD/Masterworks Broadway 88843 02373 2]
2. Li'l Abner, Century Custom Records 20703 (Raytown South High School Fine Arts Department under the direction of Eddie See, George Petrie, Sandra Eberting, and Perry Morris)


The Way To A Man's Heart (cut):

1. Percy Faith Plays Music From The Broadway Production Li'l Abner, Columbia (M) CL 955 (Percy Faith and His Orchestra) [reissued on Li'l Abner/Broadway Bouquet, CD/Collectables COL-CD-7564; also found on Li'l Abner, CD/Sony Classical/Columbia/Legacy SK 87700 (bonus track)]


Unrecorded Material:

Eight-Dallor Wedding ("Wedding Song") (Not used; lyric missing)
I'm Just A Mammy's Boy (not used)
I'm Too Durn Bashful (not used)
In Society (cut; music retained as dance for "Society Party")
Matador (M: Howard Jackson) (not used)
Night Song (M: Hal Borne) (not used)
Society Party (aka "In Society /High Society") (dance)
Somewhere, Someplace, Somehow (not used; lyric missing)
Sorry (not used)
There's Somethin' Might Peculiar Goin' On (not used)