NOBODY HOME
Composer: Jerome
Kern
Lyricists: Various
Opened: April 20, 1915, Princess Theatre, N.Y.C.,
transferred on June 7, 1915 to the Maxine Elliott Theatre
Performances: 135
Another Little Girl (L: Herbert Reynolds):
1. 78/Victor 35457
(Victory Military Band)
2. Lost Broadway And More Volume 6: Jerome Kern, CD/Original
Cast OC-1399 (Michael Marcotte and Jenny Ashman with Michael
Levine, piano)
3. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034 (orchestra
with musical direction by Adam Aceto)
Any Old Night Is A Wonderful Night (M:
Jerome Kern; Otto Motzan; L: Schuyler Greene, Harry B.
Smith) (later interpolated into TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT):
1. 78/HMV 02579 (George
Grossmith, Jr.) [also 78/HMV C574; 78/HMV C1150; reissued on
To-Night’s The Night, CD/Palaeophonics 103]
2. 78/HMV C411 (Mayfair Orchestra conducted by Arthur Crudge)
[also 78/HMV 2-0452; reissued on To-Night’s The Night,
CD/Palaeophonics 103]
3. 78/Victor 35457 (Victory Military Band)
4. 78/Victor 35471 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on
Broadway Through The Gramophone - Volume III, CD/Pearl GEMS
0084]
5. Lost Broadway And More Volume 6: Jerome Kern, CD/Original
Cast OC-1399 (Michael Marcotte and Erick Pinnick with Michael
Levine, piano)
6. Lost Broadway And More Volume 6: Jerome Kern, CD/Original
Cast OC-1399 (Erick Pinnick and Michael Marcotte with Michael
Levine, piano)
7. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034 (orchestra
with musical direction by Adam Aceto)
Note: 78/HMV C-594 contains a medley by the Light Opera Company
that likely contains this number.
At That San Francisco Fair (M: Ford
Dabney, James Reese Europe, and Jerome Kern; L: Schuyler
Greene):
1. 78/Victor 35471 (Victor
Light Opera Company) (Finale) [reissued on Broadway Through The
Gramophone - Volume III, CD/Pearl GEMS 0084]
Dance:
1. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034
(orchestra with musical direction by Adam Aceto) (unclear
if this is Dance Finale (Act 1) or Military Dance)
In Arcady (L: Herbert Reynolds):
1. 78/Victor 35471 (Victor
Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The
Gramophone - Volume III, CD/Pearl GEMS 0084]
2. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034 (orchestra
with musical direction by Adam Aceto)
The Magic Melody (L: Schuyler Greene):
1. 78/Columbia A 5687
(Prince's Band supervised by G. Hepburn Wilson)
2. 78/Victor 17790 (Billy Murray with orchestra)
3. 78/Victor 35471 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on
Broadway Through The Gramophone - Volume III, CD/Pearl GEMS
0084]
4. Jerome Kern Revisited Vol. II, Painted Smiles (S) PS-1378
(Kaye Ballard, Arthur Siegel, and Chorus) (as "It Isn't My
Fault") [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-111]
5. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034 (orchestra
with musical direction by Adam Aceto) (two renditions)
6. Musicals Lost And Found Broadway Sampler: 1915, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1040 (Elyse Willis and Ensemble with Adam Aceto and
Jan Roper, pianos)
Opening
Chorus (Act I):
1. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1034 (orchestra with musical direction by Adam
Aceto)
Wedding Bells Are Calling Me (L: Harry B. Smith) (added
after opening; later used in VERY GOOD EDDIE):
1. 78/Vic 35529 (Victor
Light Opera Company) [reissued on Broadway Through The
Gramophone - Vol. III, CD/Pearl GEMS 0084]
2. Very Good Eddie, DRG (S) 6100 (Company with orchestra
directed by Lynn Crigler) [reissued as CD/DRG CDRG-6100]
3. Very Good Eddie, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CVE05P-2C (Mitch
Gillett, Lynn Bishop, and Chorus with Adam Aceto and Patrick
Johnson, pianos)
Why Take A Sandwich To A Banquet (aka
"You Don't Take A Sandwich To A Banquet") (M: Worton David;
L: J.P. Long):
Note: A recording entitled
"Never Take A Sandwich To A Banquet" can be found on Close
Pursuit, CD/Esteric 3450 (Leslie Drayton) but it is not known at
this time if this song is by David and Long.
You Know And I Know (And We Both
Understand) (L: Schuyler Greene) (originally used in A GIRL
OF TODAY):
1. 78/Victor 35457
(Victory Military Band)
2. 78/Victor 35471 (Victor Light Opera Company) [reissued on
Broadway Through The Gramophone - Volume III, CD/Pearl GEMS
0084]
3. The Land Where The Good Songs Go,
CDr/PS Classics PS-1211 (Heidi Blickenstaff and Company with
music conducted by David Loud) (verse used in album’s version of
“A Fine Romance”)
4. Broadway Tuned Up, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1034 (orchestra
with musical direction by Adam Aceto)
Unrecorded Material:
Bed, Wonderful Bed (aka
"Bed, Beautiful Bed") (M: Dan Lipton; C.W. Murphy; L: Lawrence
Grossmith)
The Chaplin Walk (M: Jerome Kern, Otto Motzan; L: Schuyler
Greene) (added during the run)
Cupid At The Plaza (cut after opening)
Dance Finale (Act I)
Finale (Act II)
Hands Up (added for the subsequent tour)
Keep Moving (added during the run later dropped on tour;
originally used in A MODERN EVE)
Military Dance (inst.)
Nobody Home Cakewalk (inst.) (M: Otto Motzan)
Opening Chorus (Act II)
Ten Little Bridesmaids (dropped during the run)
That Peculiar Tune (M: Jerome Kern; Otto Motzan; L: Schuyler
Greene; Herbert Reynolds) (cut)