MASK AND GOWN

Composer: Various
Lyricist: Various

Opened: October 10, 1957, John Golden Theatre, NYC
Performances: 39

Note: Only numbers not found on the live performance acetate of the show and reissued on CD by AEI are noted below.

Don't Give Up The Ship (C: Harry Warren; L: Al Dubin) (from the film SHIPMATES FOREVER):

1. 78/Decca 613 (Dick Powell and male octet with Victor Young and his Orchestra) [also 78/Decca 25250; reissued on The Singing Troubadour, CD/Great Movie Themes 60020]
2. 78/Decca 1761 (Lyn Murray and the Decca Band)
3. 78/Champion 40065 (Ted Russell and his Orchestra)
4. 78/Perfect 6-02-01 (Chick Bullock, vocal, with Chick Bullock and his Levee Loungers) [also 78/Oriole 6-02-01; 78/Melotone 6-02-01]
5. 78/Victor 25183 (Cliff Weston with Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra) [reissued on The Chronological Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra 1928-1935, CD/Classics 833]
6. George Lewis in Hi-Fi, Cavalier CVP 6004 (George Lewis) [reissued as CD/Upbeat Jazz 221]
7. Jump Presents Bobby Gordon, Keith Ingham, and Hal Smith, CD/Jump 1217 (Bobby Gordon, Keith Ingham, and Hal Smith) (unverified)
8. First Half, CD/Jazz Crusade 3096 (Big Bill Bissonnette's International Jazz Band) (unverified)
9. Chris!, CD/Jazz Crusade 3022 (The Chris Blout New Orleans Jazz Band) (unverified)
10. Half & Half, CD/Stomp Off 3989 (Grand Dominion Jazz Band)
11. Don't Give Up The Ship, CD/Collectables 6945 (The Boilermaker Jazz Band)
12. From the Far East to Down South with Love, CD/Louisiana Red Hot 1107 (Rag Pickers Of Tokyo)
13. The Standards: The Songs of Harry Warren, CD/Warner/Chappell 1/2 (Mitch Miller & The Gang)
Radio transcriptions exists performed by the Palais Royale Orchestra, the Ray Bloch Male Chorus with orchestra conducted by Ray Bloch, and an uknown orchestra and chorus.


Hesitation Waltz (C: Emile Waldteufel):

1. 78/Edison 51049 (Ernest L. Stevens, piano)
2. 78/Victor 35396 (Conway's Band directed by Patrick Conway)
3. 78/Columbia 4364/32376 (Hepburn Wilson) (unverfied)
4. 78/Victor 17588 (Victor Military Band)
5. 78/Edison 51042 (Ernest L. Stevens' Trio)
6. 78/Edison 50158 (Band For Dancing)


Other Material:

Bolero (C: Dorothea Freitag)
Copper Mood (C: Dorothea Freitag) (added during the run to replace "Speedy Gonzales")
House Of Blue Lights (M/L: Ronny Graham) (cut after opening)
Make Friends (C: Arthur Siegel)
New Sounds (C/L: Ronny Graham)
Setting The Stage (C: Francesco Scarlatti)
*Shakin' The Blues Away (C/L: Irving Berlin) (added during the run to replace "House Of Blue Lights")
Shangri-La (C/L: Ronny Graham)
Speedy Gonzales (C/L: Ronny Graham) (cut after opening)
T.C. On T.C. (by Sidney Carroll)
*Waltz In E Minor (C: Frederick Chopin)

*I have not attempted to compile discographical information on these well-known pieces.