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):
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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)