RAILROADS ON PARADE
Composer: Kurt
Weill
Lyricist: Edward Hungerford (based primarily on folk
songs)
Opened: April 30, 1939, New York World's Fair, Flushing
Meadows, Queens, N.Y.C.
Performances: Unknown
The Atlantic:
1. Railroads On Parade,
CDr/Transcription Records (cast with orchestra
conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Baltimore & Ohio RR
(Horse-Drawn):
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
End Music:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Erie
Canal:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast
with orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Galloway:
1. Railroads
On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with orchestra
conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Iron Horse:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Land Of Gold:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
Lincoln &
Dodge: The Pacific Railroad:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
Lincoln's Funeral Train:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
Mile After Mile (based on music Weill
wrote for "This Train Is Bound For Glory"):
1. Charming Weill, CD/RCA Red Seal 09026 63513 2 (Max Rabe with
the Palast Orchestra conducted by H.K.Gruber)
The Open Road:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
Opening Credit:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
Orange Farm (orchestral arrangement of
the Tango from MARIE GALANTE) (added to the 1940 revival):
1. Kurt Weill A Paris, CD/Assai 207192 (Loes Luca with the
Ensemble Dreigroschen directed by Giorgio Bernasconi) (as
"Tango")
2. Marie Galante Suite/Songs From Davy Crockett, CD/Koch Schwann
3-6592-2 (Joy Bogen with Thomas Hrynkiw, piano, and the
Orchestra of St. Luke's conducted by Victor C. Symonette) (as
"Tango")
Note: A vocal version entitled "Youkali" with lyrics by Yvette
Fernay was used in the CASINO DE PARIS REVUE (1934) and
LOVEMUSIK and another vocal version entitled "The River Is So
Blue" with lyrics by Ann Ronnell was written for the unproduced
film THE RIVER IS BLUE. See the corresponding entries in
LOVEMUSIK and THE RIVER IS BLUE elsewhere on this website.
Overture:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Pacific Railroad Is Completed:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Pony Express:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Railroad
Comes (1833):
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Railroad
Comes To California:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
Railroads Go
Where Ships And Steamboats Cannot:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
Sacramento incl. "Snagtooth Sal"
(added to the 1940 revival):
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Sea:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Stourbridge
Lion:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Tom Thumb:
1. Railroads On Parade,
CDr/Transcription Records (cast with orchestra conducted by
Isaac Van Grove)
A Trans-Continental Railroad:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The Union-Pacific Railroad:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
The US Begins To Build Locomotives:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
Wells-Fargo:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
Westward Ho!:
1. Railroads On Parade, CDr/Transcription Records (cast with
orchestra conducted by Isaac Van Grove)
Unrecorded Material:
The British Grenadiers
Heave Away
Here's A Brave Beginning
I'm Been Working On The Railroad
Low Bridge
Oh, Mister, Where's The Train
Once Was The Time
Our Lincoln Comes (L: Charles Alan)
Pullman Blues (added to the 1940 revival)
Pullman Scene (L: Charles Alan)
Riding On The Cars (L: John Godfrey Saxe)
Riding On The Railroad
The Sailor's Wife (added to the 1940 revival)
Tell Ol' Bill (added to the 1940 revival)
Two Little Girls In Blue (added to the 1940 revival)
We'll Man The Trains
We're City Men Of Sober Mien
We're Travellers Through And Through
What The Engine Said
Wheels Through The Night (L: Charles Alan)