NEW PLANTATION REVUE

Composer: Harry Akst
Lyricists: Sam M. Lewis; Joe Young

Opened: 1925, Plantation Café nightclub
Performances: Unknown

Dinah (subsequently used in AFRICANA):

I have not attempted to compile discological information for this standard beyond original cast member performances.   Although a cast list is not available at this time, it known that Ethel Waters appeared in at least one Plantation Revue and would later perform this song throughout her career.
1. 78/Columbia 487 D (Ethel Waters and Her Plantation Orchestra) [reissued on Ethel Waters On Stage And Screen (1925-1940), CD/Columbia Special Products 75018]
2. 78/Continental C 10007 (Ethel Waters with the J.C. Heard Orchestra) [reissued on The Chronological Ethel Waters 1946-1947, CD/Classics 1249]
3. 78/Decca 234 A (Ethel Waters with orchestra) [reissued on The Complete Decca Recordings, Swingtime ST-1031]
4. Miss Ethel Waters, Monmouth 6812 (Ethel Waters)
5. Ethel Waters On The Air, Totem 1041 (Ethel Waters)


Unrecorded Material:

Hot-Foot’n
We’re Gonna Have Fun