MARY JANE MCKANE



Composers: Herbert Stothart; Vincent Youmans
Lyricists:
William Cary Duncan; Oscar Hammerstein II
 
Opened: December 25, 1923, Imperial Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 151

Note: This show was originally called PLAIN JANE.


Come On And Pet Me (M: Vincent Youmans) (cut; later used in A NIGHT OUT and HIT THE DECK as “Sometimes I’m Happy” with new lyric by Irving Caesar and Clifford Grey):

1. Vincent Youmans Revisited, Painted Smiles PS-1352 (Mary McCarty with musical direction by Norman Paris and Dick Hyman) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-142]


Toodle-oo (M: Vincent Youmans):

1. 78/Broadway 11361 (Majestic Dance Orchestra)
2. 78/Emerson 10735 (Al Epps and His Hotel Astor Orchestra)
3. 78/Cameo 506 (Arthur Lange and His Orchestra)
4. 78/Brunswick 2566 (Carl Fenton’s Orchestra)
5. 78/Okeh 40028 (Vincent Lopez and His Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra)
6 . 78/Victor 19220 (The Manhattan Merrymakers directed by Hugo Frey)
7. 78/Vocalion 14745 (Ben Selvin and His Moulin Rouge Orchestra)
8. Oscar Hammerstein Revisited, Painted Smiles PS-1365 (Blossom Dearie and Arthur Siegel) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-136]
9. Orchids In The Moonlight: Songs Of Vincent Youmans, CD/Arabesque Z6670 (Joan Morris and Robert White with William Bolcom, piano)



Unrecorded Material:

All For Charity (L: Oscar Hammerstein II) (xyr)
Down Where The Mortgages Grow
The Flannel Petticoat Gal (M: Vincent Youmans) (also used in HAMMERSTEIN’S NINE O’CLOCK REVUE)
Give A Girl A Chance (ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Just Look Around (added after opening)
Laugh It Off
Lovely Lady (ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Mary Jane McKane (revised version of “Plain Jane”)
My Boy And I (M: Vincent Youmans) (later became title song of NO, NO, NANETTE with a new lyric by Otto Harbach)
Not In Business Hours
Plain Jane (ASCAP/Library of Congress only; later revised as “Mary Jane McKane”)
The Rumble Of The Subway (Subway Chant)
Speed
Stick To Your Knitting (M: Herbert Stothart)
Thistledown (aka “Opening, Act Three”) (M: Herbert Stothart)
Time-Clock Slaves
You’re Never Too Old To Love (added after opening)