MUSIC BOX REVUE (1924)
(Fourth Edition)
Composer: Irving
Berlin
Lyricist: Irving Berlin
Opened: December 1, 1924, Music Box Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 184
Alice In Wonderland (Come Along With Alice) (different than song in THE CENTURY GIRL):
1. Everybody Step: Irving
Berlin’s Music Box Revues And Other Songs From 1921-1925,
CD/Oakton ORCD0008 (Benjamin Sears with Bradford Conner, piano)
All Alone (added after opening and used
in the subsequent tour; previously used in the post-Broadway
tour of THE THIRD MUSIC BOX REVUE; also used in THE PUNCH
BOWL):
I have not attempted to
compile discographical information for this Berlin standard.
Always:
I have not attempted to
compile discographical information for this Berlin standard
beyond original cast member performances.
1. 78/Victor 10-1171 (Grace Moore) [reissued on with
orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon) [reissued on The Best Of
Broadway - The Revues, CD/Flapper PASTCD-7813]
The Call Of The South:
1. 78/Gennett 3069 (Wally
Erickson’s Coliseum Orchestra) [reissued on Gennett Records
Greatest Hits, Vol. 3, CD/Starr-Gennett/Sanyo 03]
2. 78/Decca 29147 (Bing and Gary Crosby with Matty Matlock’s
All-Stars) [also 45/DEcca 9-29147; reissued on Good & Rre,
Vol. 2, CD/Sepia 1091]
3. 78/Victor 19557 (Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra)
4. A Night At The Palace, Take Two (M) TT 108 (Blossom Seeley
and Bennie Fields)
5. Everybody Step: Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revues And Other
Songs From 1921-1925, CD/Oakton ORCD0008 (Benjamin Sears and
Bradford Conner, with Bradford Conner, piano)
6. Vintage Art Hodes, CD/Solo Art 20 (Art Hodes)
Don’t Wait Too Long (added for the
subsequent tour):
1. 78/Edison 51664 (Golden
Gate Orchestra)
2. 78/Gennett 3191 (Bailey’s Lucky Seven)
3. 78/Harmony 52 H (Franklyn Baur with orchestral accompaniment)
4. 78/Bell 379 (Frank Dailey’s Meadowbrooks)
5. 78/Victor 19850 (Art Landry and His Orchestra) [reissued on
1924-1926, CD/Swing Time 2003]
6. 78/Victor 19949 (The Revelers with piano)
7. Live In London, CD/Harkit Records HRKCD 8063 (Annie Ross with
the Peter King Quartet)
The Happy New Year Blues (sheet music
only):
1. A Broadway Christmas,
CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5517 (Vicki Lewis with musical direction
by Lanny Meyers)
2. Everybody Step: Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revues And Other
Songs From 1921-1925, CD/Oakton ORCD0008 (Bobbi
Carrey with Margaret Ulmer,
piano)
Listening (cut after opening):
1. 78/Domino 3461 (Newport
Society Orchestra)
2. 78/Columbia 302 D (The Romancers)
3. 78/Brunswick 2881 (Brunswick Hour Orchestra directed by
Walter Haenshcen)
4. 78/Victor 19541 (Philip Spitalny and His Orchestra)
5. 78/Columbia 280 D (Helen Clark with orchestra)
6. 78/Perfect 12177 (Frank Sterling)
7. 78/Victor 19613 (Grace Moore with orchestra conducted by
Rosario Bourdon) [reissued on The Ultimate Irving Berlin Volume
II, CD/Pearl GEM 0117]
8. Irving Berlin Revisited, MGM E-4435 OC (Sandy Stewart)
[reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-118]
Polly Of Hollywood (M: James H. Hanley;
L: B.G. DeSylva) (added after opening):
1. 78/Columbia 320 D
(Vaughn De Leath)
Rock-A-Bye Baby:
1. 78/Victor 19668 Grace
Moore with orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon) [reissued on
The Ultimate Irving Berlin Volume II, CD/Pearl GEM 0117;
Original Cast! The Early Years, CD/Metropolitan Opera MET 801CD]
Tell Her In The Springtime:
1. 78/Victor 19613 (Grace
Moore with orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon) [reissued on
The Ultimate Irving Berlin Volume II, CD/Pearl GEM 0117]
2. 78/Columbia 279 D (Sam Lanin and His Roseland Orchestra)
3. 78/Oriole 305 (Oriole Dance Orchestra)
4. 78/Parlophone E 5357 (The Melody Sheiks)
5. 78/Victor 19517 (Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra)
6. 78/Vocalion 14955 (Ben Bernie and His Orchestra)
7. Irving Berlin: All By Myself Vol. 1 – Everybody Step: The
Years 1921-1926, Monmouth Evergreen (S) MES/6809 (The Jack Manno
Singers with the Rusty Dedrick Orchestra) [reissued as
CD/Audiophile 21/22]
Tokio Blues:
1. 78/Parlophone E 5357
(The Melody Sheiks) [reissued on Hot Dance Bands From OKeh
1923-1931, CD/Retrieval Recordings RTR 79050]
2. 78/Perfect 14385 (Casino Dance Orchestra)
3. 78/Victor 19631 (The Brox Sisters with piano by Arthur
Johnston) [reissued on The Ultimate Irving Berlin Volume II,
CD/Pearl GEM 0117]
4. Wallowitch & Ross, CD/Miranda Music MMCD1004 (John
Wallowitch and Bertram Ross with John Wallowitch, piano)
Unlucky In Love (cut after opening):
1. Everybody Step: Irving
Berlin’s Music Box Revues And Other Songs From 1921-1925,
CD/Oakton ORCD0008 (Benjamin Sears with Bradford Conner, piano)
Where Is My Little Old New York?:
1. Let’s Go Back To The
Waltz, CD/Premier 1007 (Bobbi Baird with Mike Renzi, piano)
2. Something Cool, CD/DRG 713 (Yvonne Roome)
Who (cut after opening):
1. 78/Gramophone B 5-541
(Jack Hylton and His Orchestra) [reissued on Say It With Music:
British Dance Bands Play Irving Berlin, Vol. 2, CD/American
Songbook Classics]
2. 78/Everybodys 1040 (Bar Harbor Society Orchestra)
3. 78/Victor 19631 (The Brox Sisters with piano by Arthur
Johnston) [reissued on The Ultimate Irving Berlin Volume II,
CD/Pearl GEM 0117]
Unrecorded Material:
Bandana Ball
Broadway Scene
Catskill Mountain Scene
A Couple Of Senseless Censors
Don’t Send Me Back (To Petrograd)
I Want To Be A Ballet Dancer
In The Shade Of A Sheltering Tree
Moving Picture Baby (M/L Leo Edwards; Blanche Merrill) (cut
after opening)
Rigoletto A La Danse (dance)
Sixteen, Sweet Sixteen (lost)
Wild Cats
Yiddisha Eskimo (not used)