THE NIGHT BOAT



Composer: Jerome Kern
Lyricist: Anne Caldwell

Opened: December 21, 1920, New Amsterdam Theatre, N.Y.C.; September 10, 1921, Winter Garden Theatre, London
Performances: 570 (N.Y.C.); 387 (London)

Note:  Unidentified selections also appear on Two Shows By Jerome Kern, Vol. 2: The Night Boat/The Bunch And Judy, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CTS210P-1M (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos).


Bob White (cut):

1. Two Shows By Jerome Kern, Vol. 2: The Night Boat/The Bunch And Judy, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CTS210P-1M (Ben Kazez and Barbara Scanlon with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)


Don’t You Want To Take Me?:

1. Two Shows By Jerome Kern, Vol. 2: The Night Boat/The Bunch And Judy, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CTS210P-1M (Ensemble with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
2. Jerome Kern Revisited Vol. III, Painted Smiles PS-1379 (Susan Kreutzer) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-134]


Down By The Erie (M/L: George M. Cohan) (originally used in HELLO, BROADWAY):

1. George M!, Columbia (S) KOS 3200 (Jonelle Allen, Susan Batson, Roger Braun, James Dybas, Ronald Young, and company with orchestra conducted by Jay Blackton) [reissued as CD/Columbia CK 3200]


Girls Are Like A Rainbow:

1. Early Kern, CD/Rialto Recordings SLRR-9102 (Greg MacKellan with musical direction by Glenn Mehrbach)


Good Night, Boat (L: Anne Caldwell; Frank Craven):

1. 78/Victor 35702 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone Vol. III: 1914-1920, CD/Pearl GEMS 0084]
2. 78/Columbia A 6148 (Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra) [reissued on Ragtime To Jazz, Vol. 2: 1916-1922, CD/Timeless CBC 1045]
3. 78/Victor 18661 (Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra)
4. 78/Puritan 11013 (Newport Society Orchestra) (unverified)
5. Two Shows By Jerome Kern, Vol. 2: The Night Boat/The Bunch And Judy, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CTS210P-1M (Ben Kazez, Barbara Scanlon, Kimberley Dolanski, and David Troiano with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
6. Back In The Limelight: Piano Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)


A Heart For Sale:

1. Two Shows By Jerome Kern, Vol. 2: The Night Boat/The Bunch And Judy, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CTS210P-1M (Kimberley Dolanski and Men with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
2. Jerome Kern Revisited Vol. III, Painted Smiles PS-1379 (Adelle Sardi) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-134]
3. Back In The Limelight: Piano Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)


I Love The Lassies (I Love Them All):

1. 78/Victor 35702 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone Vol. III: 1914-1920, CD/Pearl GEMS 0084]
2. 78/Victor 18661 (Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra)
3. Two Shows By Jerome Kern, Vol. 2: The Night Boat/The Bunch And Judy, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CTS210P-1M (Ben Kazez with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)


I’d Like A Lighthouse (same music as “Honeymoon Land” in TOOT TOOT):

1. Two Shows By Jerome Kern, Vol. 2: The Night Boat/The Bunch And Judy, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CTS210P-1M (Kimberley Dolanski and David Troiano with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
2. Back In The Limelight: Piano Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
3. 6. Lost Broadway And More Volume 6: Jerome Kern, CD/Original Cast OC-1399 (Michael Marcotte and Samantha Massell with Michael Levine, piano) (as "Honeymoon Land")


Left All Alone Again Blues:

1. 78/Victor 35702 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone Vol. III: 1914-1920, CD/Pearl GEMS 0084]
2. 78/Emerson 10163 (Plantation Jazz Orchestra)
3. 78/Columbia A 2939 (Marion Harris with orchestral accompaniment) [reissued on Look For The Silver Lining, CD/Living Era CDAJA 5330]
4. 78/Puritan 11013 (Newport Society Orchestra)
5. 78/Columbia A 6148 (Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra) [reissued on Ragtime To Jazz, Vol. 2: 1916-1922, CD/Timeless CBC 1045]
6. 78/Victor 18661 (Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra)
7. Gershwin . . . From Tin Pan Alley To Broadway, Mark 56 Records (M) 680 (George Gershwin, piano) [reissued on Kickin’ The Clouds Away: Gershwin At The Piano, CD/Klavier K 77031]
8. Jerome Kern Revisited Vol. IV, Painted Smiles PS-1380 (Armelia McQueen) [reissued on Jerome Kern Revisited Vol. III, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-134]
9 . Two Shows By Jerome Kern, Vol. 2: The Night Boat/The Bunch And Judy, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CTS210P-1M (Barbara Scanlon with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
10. The Girl I Knew… The Music Of Novello & Kern, CD/Harbinger HCD 1501 (Lorna Dallas with musical direction by Christopher Denny)
11. Very Good Eddie, DRG 6100 (Virginia Seidel with orchestra conducted by Lynn Crigler) [reissued as CD/DRG 6100]
12 . Americains En Europe, Vol. 1, CD/EMI 8569332 (unknown performer) (unverified)
13. Lowe Stokes, Vol. 1: 1927-1930, CD/Document DOCD 8045 (Lowe Stokes) (unverified)
14 . Swamp Nots, CD/CD Baby 60408 (Swamp Nots) (unverified)
15. Jerome Kern Collection, CD/Silva America 3006 (Eric Parkin)
16. Back In The Limelight: Piano Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)


The Lorelei (cut; subsequently used in SALLY):

1. 78/Columbia F1075 (George Grossmith, Heather Thatcher & Seymour Beard with the Winter Garden Theatre Orchestra conducted by  John Ansell) [reissued on Jerome Kern In London 1914-23, World (M) SHB 34]
2. Sally/Good News, World Records (M) 7065 (Betty Parker and Jimmy Parkinson with orchestra conducted by Geoff Harvey)
3. Sally, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CSA05P-2M (Diane McEwen-Martin, Greg Wakefield, David Troiano, and Dennis Eagle with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)


M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I (M: Harry Tierney; L: Bert Hanlon; Benny Ryan) (originally used in ZIEGFELD MIDNIGHT REVUE (1916) and HITCHY-KOO OF 1917):

1. 78/Columbia A 2224 (Anna Wheaton)
2. 78/Victor 45137 (France White of Rock and White with orchestra) [reissued on Music From The New York Stage 1890-1920, Vol. 4: 1917-1920, CD/Pearl GEMMCDS 9059]
3. 78/Path 20074 (Ada Jones with orchestral accompaniment)
4. Memories, CD/Sepia 1131 (Ethel Merman with the Mitchell Boys Choir, The Old Timers Quartet, and orchestra conducted by Jay Blackton)


On The Banks Of The Wabash (Far Away) (M/L: Paul Dresser) (also used in ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1923):

1. 78/Perfect 11008 (Hudson Male Quartet)
2. 78/Decca 3331 (Mills Brothers with guitar) [also 78/Decca 23626; reissued on Paper Doll, CD/MCA MCAD-20262]
3. 78/Columbia 1358 D (Shannon Quartet)
4. 78/Victor 27878 (Clyde Rogers, Stuart Wade and the Martin Men with Freddy Martin and His Orchestra) [also 78/V Disc 195; reissued on V-Disc Recordings, CD/Collectors’ Choice Music 6677]
5. 78/Path 020691 (Shannon Four)
6. 78/Victor 22387 (American Singers)
7. 78/Victor 17397 (American Quartet)
8. 78/Gennett 4798 A (Criterion Quartette)
9 . 78/Columbia A 1893 (Broadway Quartette)
10. 78/Edison 51370 (James Doherty)
11. Join Bing And Sing Along, RCA Victor (S) LSP-2276 (Bing Crosby) [reissued on CD/Hallmark 710082]
12. America The Beautiful, CAS/Prairie Productions (Paul McDowell Stone)
13. Bing Crosby Meets Al Joslon, CD/Sepia 1053 (Bing Crosby and Al Jolson)
14. After The Ball, CD/Elektra/Nonesuch 79148-2 (Joan Morris with William Bolcom, piano)
15. Gilda, CD/Soundtrack Factory 33536 (Rita Hayworth)
16. Let’s Do It: Bolcom & Morris At Aspen, CD/Omega Music OCD-3004 (Joan Morris with William Bolcom, piano)
17. Early Swedish Recordings, CD/Gala 100514 (Jussi Bjorling)
18. 1890’s, Vol. 2: Wear Yer Bran’ New Gown,CD/Archeophone 9006 (George J. Gaskin)
19. Songs My Father Taught Me, CD/Hyperion 67290 (Thomas Allen)
20. A Nickel’s Worth!: Authentic Nickelodeon And Orchestrion Music Of Yesteryear, Vol. 2, CD/Gold (unknown performer)
21. Favorite Melody, Vol. 2, CD/Unknown label (Joy Katzen-Guthrie)
22. Dutch Jazz Giants, Vol. 5: The Dutch Swing College Band With Bob Kaper, CD/Point (Dutch Swing College Band with Bob Kaper)
23. Those Beautiful Ballad Years, CD/Avid RKD 7 (Mike Redway)
24. At The Jazzband Ball, CD/Jazz Hour 73530 (Dutch Dixie All Stars)
25. 28 Big Ones, CD/King 4119 (The Stonemans)
26. The State Songs, Vol. 1, CD/Big Strike Music (Rick Pickren)
27. Parlor Songs & Rags, CD/Helicon HE-1001 (Julianne Baird)
28. The Hits And More…The Party Pop Stylings Of Russ Conway,CD/Jasmine JASCD 182 (Russ Conway)
29. Ralph Flanagan Plays For Dancing, Vol. IV 1954-1958, CD/Sounds Of Yesteryear DSOY853 (Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra)
30. Dixieland Heaven, CD/Davis 105 (Lee Castle)
31. Dancing On The Ceiling, CD/Grasmere GRCD 52 (Colin Fry)
32. If You Let Me Care For You, CD/The Entertainment Brokerage (Mike Swan)
33. Up North, Down South, CD/Jasmine JASCD 194 (Jaye P. Morgan)
34. The Truth Hurts, CD/WTII Records WTI 53 (Dessau)
35. The Treasury Of Barbershop Quartets, CD/Soundies (unknown performer)
36 . Bird In A Gilded Cage, CD/Orchard 4142 (Molly Watson)
37. Home, A Healing Journey: Songs As Metaphor For The Journey Of The Soul, CD/Family Of Light (Jane Hammett)
38. De 20 Mest Onskade, CD/EMI (Gosta “Snoddas” Nordgren)
39. Sweet Swingin’ Stuff, CD/Verve 654402 (Stuff Smith)
40. The Best Of Barbershop Quartet, CD/Emporio 823 (The Square Pegs)
Radio transcriptions performed by the Allen Roth Orchestra, The Knickerbocker Four, and Five Shades Of Blue are also known to exist.


Rip Van Winkle And His Little Men (cut):

1. Two Shows By Jerome Kern, Vol. 2: The Night Boat/The Bunch And Judy, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CTS210P-1M (David Troiano with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)


Row, Row, Row (M: James Monaco; L: William Jerome) (originally used in THE WHIRL OF SOCIETY and ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1912):

1. 78/Varsity 8185 (Peggy Nolan with Lang Thompson and His Orchestra)
2. 78/Columbia A 5472 (Prince’s Band)
3. 78/M-G-M 30282 (Carleton Carpenter and Debbie Reynolds) [also found on Two Weeks with Love/I Love Melvin, CD/Sony 48609]
4. 78/Columbia 37280 (Pearl Bailey with orchestra conducted by Mitchell Ayres) [reissued on The Chronological Pearl Bailey 1944-1947, CD/Classics 1213]
5. 78/Decca 5181 (Dick Robertson, vocal, with Dick Robertson and His Orchestra) [also 78/Decca 3031]
6. 78/Decca 27667 (Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra) [reissued on Memories, CD/MCA 80440]
7. 78/Bluebird B 10541 (Mary Ann Mercer with Mitchell Ayres and His Fashions In Music)
8. 78/Columbia A 1244 (Arthur Collins with orchestra)
9 . 78/Victor 17205 (Ada Jones with orchestra) [reissued on 1913: Come And See The Big Parade, CD/Archeophone ARCH 9005]
10. 78/Victor 20-3571 (Phil Harris, vocal, with Phil Harris and His Orchestra)
11. 45/Coral 65538 (Jerry Burke)
12. Seven Little Foys, 45EP/Victor EPB 3275 (Bob Hope)
13. Here Comes The Mississippi Showboat, Capitol (S) 1684 (Tennessee Ernie Ford)
14. Vaud-Villities ’65, No label (S) O26-41 (The Men’s Glee Club featuring Dick Wilson)
15. Broadway’s All Time Hits, Mercury Wing (M) MGW 12166 (Vivian Blaine with orchestra conducted by Glenn Osser)
16. Now, Mainstream (S) 56042 (Clea Bradford with orchestra conducted by Jim Tyler)
17. Minstrel Scandals, Continental (M) ZB 8147 (unknown performer)
18. Two Of A Kind, Atco (S) 90484-1-Y (Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer with Billy May and his Orchestra) [reissued as CD/Atco 90484-2]
19. Oh! You Beautiful Doll, CD/Arabesque Z6675 (Robert DeCormier Singers and Ensemble directed by Robert DeCormier)
20. The Complete Eddie Cantor Story, CD/Original Cast (Eddie Cantor)
21. Pals, CD/Original Cast 9918 (Eddie Cantor and George Jessel)
22. A Very Well Traveled Man, CD/Omni Records OMN 101CD (Henson Cargill)
23. Not Your Standard Spike Jones Collection, CD/Collectors’ Choice Music CCM 3292 (Spike Jones)
24. The Rare Monro, CD/EMI 37255 (Matt Monro)
25. Drifting And Dreaming With Jo Stafford, CD/Vintage Jazz Classics 1040 (Jo Stafford)
26. Seven Little Foys, CD/Original Cast 5637975285 (Company)
27. Swing Me An Old Song, CD/EMI TOCJ9669 (Julie London)
28. Beauty And The Beard, CD/RCA 57732 (Ann-Margret with Al Hirt)
29. Happy Jazz, CD/Magic DAWE 84 (Red Nichols)
30. Over The Hills And Far Away, CD/Universal 5349302 (The Springfields)
31. Memories, Decca DL9028 (Ethel Merman with the Mitchell Boys Choir, The Old Timers Quartet, and orchestra conducted by Jay Blackton) [reissued as CD/Sepia 1131]
32. Oh! You Beautiful Doll, CD/Arabesque 6675 (Robert DeCormier)
33. Southern Gentlemen Of Song, CD/Collectors’ Choice Music CCM 10082 (Phil Harris)
34 . Blonde Bombshell/In Hollywood, CD/Jasmine JASCD139/50 (Betty Hutton)
35. Rounds Galore And More, Vol. 3, CD/Astoria Productions (Rounds Galore & More Singers)
36. 100 Years Ago Hits From The Turn Of The Century, CD/Cinematic Creations (Cinematic Creations)
37. Get Happy, CD/Disky CB901169 (Big Ben Banjo Band)
38. Pirates, Bubbles, And Llamas, CD/Aaron Vande Wege 52128 (Aaron Vande Wege)
39. More Songs My Daddy Taught Me, CD/Bob Blake (Bob Blake)
40. Hello, Frisco!, CD/Lovers Point Jazz (Ann Gibson)
41. Patron Of The Arts, CD/Viper’s Nest Gold 151 (Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor)
42. Lowe Stokes, Vol. 1: 1927-1930, CD/Document DOCD 8045 (Lowe Stokes)
43. Presenting That Celebrated Maestro/Oh, Play That Thing!, CD/Collectables COL-CD-6804 (Max Morath)


(By The) Saskatchewan (M: Ivan Caryll; L: C.M.S. McLellan) (originally used in THE PINK LADY):

1. 78/Victor 31823 (Victor Light Opera Company) [also 78/Victor 35423; reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone – Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMS 0083]
2. 78/HMV 04528 (Light Opera Company)
3. 78/HMV 0685 (Mayfair Orchestra)
4. 78/Victor 5839 (Reinald Werrenrath with the Haydn Quartet) [also 78/Victor 17225]
5. 78/Columbia A 1024 (Andrea Sarto with Women’s Chorus and orchestral accompaniment)
6. The Prince Of Pilsen/The Pink Lady, AEI Records 1172 (Jessica Dragonette, Charles Kullman, and Chorus with orchestra conducted by Al Goodman)


Some Fine Day:

1. Back In The Limelight: Piano Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)


Whose Baby Are You?:

1. 78/Victor 35702 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The Gramophone Vol. III: 1914-1920, CD/Pearl GEMS 0084]
2. 78/Columbia A 6148 (Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra) [reissued on Ragtime To Jazz, Vol. 2: 1916-1922, CD/Timeless CBC 1045]
3. 78/Victor 18661 (Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra)
4. 78/Path 22367 (Webb’s Novelty Entertainers)
5. 78/Lyric 4219 (Billy Murray’s Melody Men)
6. 45/Radar 45-91013 (The Honeydreamers with Norman Paris and His Orchestra)
7. Gershwin . . . From Tin Pan Alley To Broadway, Mark 56 Records (M) 680 (George Gershwin, piano) [reissued on Kickin’ The Clouds Away: Gershwin At The Piano, CD/Klavier K 77031]
8. Two Shows By Jerome Kern, Vol. 2: The Night Boat/The Bunch And Judy, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CTS210P-1M (Kimberley Dolanski and David Troiano with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
9. Early Kern, CD/Rialto Recordings SLRR-9102 (Greg MacKellan and Paige O’Hara with musical direction by Glenn Mehrbach)
10. Back In The Limelight: Piano Selections From Early Broadway Musicals, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1018 (Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)


Unrecorded Material:

Buffo Finale (Act 1)
Catskills, Hello (Opening, Act 2)
Chick! Chick! Chick! (cut; also cut from HITCHY-KOO OF 1920)
Congo Love Song (M: J. Rosamond Johnson; L: Bob Cole) (originally used in NANCY BROWN)
Finale (Act 2)
Girls In The Sea (cut)
Jazz (cut)
Jug Band And Dance
Laundry Duet
Maid’s Sextette
She’s Spanish (cut)