MAKE IT SNAPPY
Composer: Jean
Schwartz
Lyricist: Harold Atteridge
Opened: April 13, 1922, Winter Garden Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 96
1. 78/Columbia A 3621 (The
Columbians with the Dance Orchestra De Luxs)
2. 78/Edison 50989 (Broadway Dance Orchestra)
I Go So Far With Sophie (M/L: Abner
Silver) (sheet music only):
1. 78/Columbia A 3754
(Eddie Cantor) [reissued on The Columbia Years: 1922-1940,
CD/Columbia C2K-57148]
2. Comedy Songs, CD/Audiophile 163 (Ian Whitcomb with The
Bluesmen)
I Learned About Women From Her (lyrics
based on Rudgard Kipling):
1. A Gay Caballero:
Original Recordings 1926-38, CD/Bygone Days BYD 77076 (Frank
Crumit) (unverified)
I Love Her-She Loves Me (M/L: Irving
Caesar; L: Eddie Cantor) (sheet music only):
1. 78/Edison 50988
(Atlantic Dance Orchestra)
2. 78/Columbia A 3624 (Eddie Cantor with orchestra) [reissued on
The Columbia Years: 1922-1940, CD/Columbia C2K-57148]
3. 78/Victor 18902 (Club Royal Orchestra directed by Clyde
Doerr)
4. Keyboard Wizards Of The Gershwin Era, Vol. 4, CD/Peral GEMMCD
9204 (Zez Confrey, piano roll)
I’m Hungry For Beautiful Girls
(M: Fred Fisher; L: Wilbur Held; Billy Rose) (not in
programs):
1. 78/Columbia A 3624
(Eddie Cantor with orchestra) [reissued on The Columbia Years:
1922-1940, CD/Columbia C2K 57148]
2. 78/Vocalion 14312 (Billy Jones)
Little Rover (Don’t Forget To Come Back
Home) (M: Walter Donaldson; L: Gus Kahn) (sheet music only):
1. 78/Gennett 5052
(Lanin’s Famous Players)
2. 78/Gennett 5055 (Ernest Hare with orchestra)
3. 78/Emerson 10581 (Irving Kaufman with orchestra)
4. 78/Brunswick 2387 (Billy Jones with orchestra)
5. 78/Banner 1163 (Hollywood Dance Orchestra)
6. 78/La Belle 1424 (Wallace Downey Dance Orchestra)
7. 78/Victor 19063 (International Novelty Orchestra)
8. 78/Vocalion 14520 (The Criterion Male Quartette)
9. 78/Okeh 4858 (Detroit Arcadia Orchestra)
(Tell Me What’s The Matter) Loveable
Eyes:
1. 78/Columbia A 3621 (The
Columbians with Dance Orchestra De Luxe)
2. 78/Edison 50989 (Broadway Dance Orchestra)
3. 78/Victor 18902 (Club Royal Orchestra directed by Clyde
Doerr)
4. 78/Connorized 3085 (Raderman’s Orchestra)
5. 78/Broadway 11130 (Sergeant Markel, piano, with the Eddie
Davis Orchestra)
6. 78/Brunswick 2280 (Oriole Terrace Orchestra)
7. 78/Vocalion 14347 (Leo F. Reisman Orchestra)
8. 78/Bell P 156 (Moulin Rouge Orchestra)
Lovin’ Sam (The Sheik Of Alabam) (M:
Milton Ager; L: Jack Yellen) (not in programs; also used in
LIZA, SPICE OF 1922, and THE BUNCH AND JUDY):
1. 78/Grey Gull 1131
(Arthur Hall with the Musical Bell Hops)
2. 78/Columbia A 3757 (Nora Bayes)
3. 78/Columbia A 3730 (Ted Lewis and His Band)
4. 78/Gennett 4978 (Billy Jones with the Reser Trio) [also
78/Cardinal 541]
5. 78/Paramount 20171 (Frisco Syncopators)
6. 78/Gramophone 18976 (Miss Patricola with the Virginians
directed by Ross Go.) [also 78/Victor 18976; reissue don The
Hits Of ’23: Dreamy Melody, CD/ASV/Living Era CDAJA 5523]
7. 78/Cameo 291 (Dixie Daisies)
8 . 78/Perfect 7-05-29 (Gene Kardos and His Orchestra) [also
78/Melotone 7-05-29]
9 . 78/Perfect 14069 (Majestic Dance Orchestra) [also
78/Triangle 11174; 78/Path 020858; 78/Puritan 11174]
10. 78/Brunswick 2346 (Margaret Young with orchestra)
11. 78/Okeh 4732 (Guyon’s Paradise Orchestra directed by Jules
R. Herbuveaux)
12. 78/Okeh 6024 (Tiny Hill & Ensemble with Tiny Hill and
His Orchestra)
13. 78/Banner 1136 (Arthur Fields)
14. 78/Okeh 4792 (Aileen Stanley)
15. 78/Okeh 41305 (Emmett Miller and His Georgia Crackers)
[reissued on Minstrel Man From Georgia, CD/Columbia Legacy
66999]
16. 78/Regal 9380 (Roy Collins’ Orchestra)
17. 78/Vocalion 14447 (Selvin’s Dance Orchestra)
18. 78/Vocalion 4633 (Lois Best with The Champagne Music Of
Lawrence Welk)
19. Jim Kweskin,
Mountain Railroad 52780 (Jim Kweskin) [reissued on Jim Kweskin
Lives Again, CD/Mountain Railroad 52672]
20. The Firehouse Five Plus Two Story, CD/Fantasy 77102
(Firehouse Five Plus Two)
21. King Kong, CD/Heart Times Coffee Cup Studios 7595 (Les Deux
Love Orchestra)
22. Canned Heat, CD/Unknown label (Tracy K and Jamie Steinhoff)
23. Love My Stuff, CD/Red House Records RHRCD 239 (Paul Geremia)
24. Carousel Breezes: Seabreeze Park, CD/Dynamic 100 (Wurlitzer
Band Organ)
25. Juanita Hall Sings The Blues, CD/Original Jazz
Classics/Counterpoint 1928 (Juanita Hall)
26. Young Man With A Horn, CD/Blue Moon BMCD 4110 (Harry James
and His Orchestra)’
27. Vampin’ Lady: The Music Of Milton Ager, CD/Sixpence (Joyce
Moody)
My Yiddishe Mammy (L: Eddie Cantor;
Alex Gerber) (sheet music only):
1. 78/Columbia A 3625
(Irving Kaufman with orchestra) [reissued on The Irving
Kaufman Anthology: The Last Recording Pioneer, CD/Archeophone
ARCH 5504]
2. The Best Of The Borsht Belt Shows, WJG (S) B8BS-1/2 (Billy
Daniels)
Seven Or Eleven, My Dixie Pair O’ Dice (M: Walter
Donaldson; L: Lew Brown) (not in programs):
1. 78/Gennett 5071 A
(Aileen Stanbley with orchestra)
2. 78/Lincoln 2041 (Velvetone Dance Orchestra)
3. 78/Path 020938 (Fry’s Million Dollar Pier Orchestra)
4. 78/Columbia A 3828 (Dolly Kay)
5. 78/Emerson 10641 (Pennsylvania Syncopators)
6 . 78/Brunswick 2413 (Margaret Young with orchestra)
7. 78/Banner 1186 (Al Bernard with orchestral accompaniment)
8. 78/Apex 8049 (Glantz and His Orchestar)
9 . 78/Okeh 4818 (Sophie Tucker with the Rega Orchestra)
[reissued on Jazz Age Hot Momma 1922-1929, CD/Take Two TT 404]
10. 78/Victor 19048 (Billy Murray and Ed Smalle with
orchestra)
11. 78/Vocalion 14545 (Ernest Hare with Selvin’s Orchestra)
12. Fletcher Henderson With The Blues Singers, Vol. 2
(1923-1924), CD/Document 5343 (Hannah Sylvester with Fletcher
Henderson and His Orchestra) (unverified)
The Sheik Of Araby (M: Ted Snyder; L:
Harry B. Smith; Francis Wheeler) (not in programs):
I have not attempted to compile discographical information for this standard.
(I’ll Be In My Dixie Home Again)
Tomorrow (M: J. Russel Robinson; L: Roy Turk) (sheet music
only):
1. 78/Perfect 12024
(Harry Blake)
2. 78/Okeh 4685 (Markel’s Orchestra)
3. 78/Vocalion 14446 (Emil Coleman and His Montmartre
Orchestra)
4. 78/Grey Gull 1127 (Majestic Dance
Orchestra)
5. 78/Gennett 4975 (Bailey’s Lucky
Seven) [also 78/Starr 9298; 78/Apex 461]
6. 78/Gennett 4976 (Billy Jones with orchestral accompaniment)
7. 78/Perfect 14052 (Hazay Natzy’s Orchestra directed by Jack
Green) [also 78/Path 020826]
8 . 78/Triangle 11177 (Arthur Hall with Joe Samuels and His
Orchestra)
9. A Blessing To People, CD/Bear
Family BCD 16817 (The Dixon Brothers)
10. Edison Diamond Disc Fox Trots,
CD/Diamond Cut (City Hall) 307 (Ernest Stevens)
Waikiki, I Hear You Calling Me (M:
Harry Ruby; L: Bert Kalmar) (sheet music only):
1. 78/Okeh 4589 (Billy
Jones with orchestra)
Where The Bamboo Babies Grow (M:
Walter Donaldson; L: Lew Brown) (sheet music only):
1. 78/Columbia A 3715
(Frank Crumit with novelty orchestra)
2. 78/Gramophone B 1525 (Jack Hylton and His Orchestra)
3. 78/Gennett 5004 (Bailey’s Lucky Seven) [also 78/Apex 586]
4. 78/Perfect 14059 (Nazay Natzy’s Orchestra)
5. 78/Brunswick 2362 (Bennie Krueger’s Orchestra)
6. 78/Victor 18986 (The Virginians directed by Ross Gorman)
Unrecorded Material: