MACUSHLA
(Play with Songs)



Composer: Ernest R. Ball
Lyricist: J. Keirn Brennan

Opened: February 5, 1912, Grand Opera House, N.Y.C.
Performances: 24


The Girl I’ll Call My Sweetheart Must Look Like You (M/L: Chauncey Olcott; Dan J. Sullivan):

1. 78/Columbia A 1189 (Walter Van Brunt with orchestral accompaniment) [also 78/United Record A 1189]


I’ll Miss You, Old Ireland (God Bless You, Goodbye):

1. 78/Columbia A-3525 (Chauncey Olcott with orchestral accompaniment) [reissued on Music From The New York Stage Vol. 2: 1908-1913, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9053-5]


Macushla (M: Dermot MacMurrough; L: Josephine V. Rowe):

1. Click here for recordings of "Macushla".


Macushla Asthore  (Pulse Of My Heart):

1. 78/Columbia A-2988 (Chauncey Olcott with orchestra) [also 78/Columbia 33018; reissued on Music From The New York Stage Vol. 2: 1908-1913, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9053-5]


Mother Machree:

I have not attempted to compile discographical information for this standard beyond original cast member and composer performances:
1. 78/Columbia A-1337 (Chauncey Olcott with orchestral accompaniment) [reissued on Music From The New York Stage Vol. 2: 1908-1913, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9053-5]


That’s How The Shannon Flows:

1. 78/Columbia A-3525 (Chauncey Olcott with orchestral accompaniment) [reissued on Music From The New York Stage Vol. 2: 1908-1913, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9053-5]


‘Tis An Irish Girl I Love And She’s Just Like You (L: J. Keirn Brennan; Al Dubin) (Dubin’s lyric added for the 1920 revival):

1. 78/Columbia A-2988 (Chauncey Olcott) [also 78/Columbia 33018; reissued on Music From The New York Stage Vol. 2: 1908-1913, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9053-5]
2. 78/Victor 64925 (John McCormack with orchestra) [reissued on In Irish Song, CD/Pearl 9338]
A radio transcription performed by Christopher Lynch is also known to exist.


Who Knows? (L: Paul Laurence Dunbar) (used in the 1919 revival; also used in THE HEART OF PADDY WHACK):

1. 78/Perfect 11538 (Craig Campbell with orchestral accompaniment) [also 78/Pathe 25011]
2. 78/Victor 64424 (John McCormack with orchestra)
3. 78/Brunswick 10006 (Mario Chamlee with orchestra)
4. 78/Black Swan 2013 (J. Arthur Gaines with the Black Swan Trio)


Unrecorded Material:

Good-Bye My Emerald Land (M/L: Frederic Knight Logan; Chauncey Olcott)
Ireland, You’re The Motherland (M: Arthur R. Grant; L: Thomas Meehan) (used in the 1919 revival)
My Land (M: Ernest R. Ball; Chauncey Olcott; L: Bartley Costello)
She’s Irish (M: James Rule; L:  Alex Sullivan) (used in the 1919 revival)
With A Twinkle In Her Eye (L: Chauncey Olcott; Louis Weslyn)
The Word From An Irishman’s Tongue (M: Arthur R. Grant; L: Thomas Meehan) (used in the 1919 revival)