RAINBOW

Composer: Vincent Youmans
Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II

Opened: November 21, 1928, Gallo Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 29

Come Back To Me (M: Harry Akst; L: Grant Clarke) (written for the movie version entitled SONG OF THE WEST):

1. 78/HMV C1944 (New Mayfair Orchestra conducted by Ray Noble)


Hay! Straw!:

1. 78/HMV C1944 (New Mayfair Orchestra conducted by Ray Noble)


I Like You As You Are:

1. The Broadway Musicals Of 1928, CD/Original Cast OC 6827 (Eddie  Korbich and Joyce Chittick with musical direction by Ross Patterson)

I Want A Man (melody originally intended for OH, PLEASE!):

1. The Legendary Libby Holman, Monmouth-Evergreen (S) 6501 (Libby Holman with Gerald Cook)
2. Like Time On My Hands, 20th Century-Fox (M) fxg-5020 (Til Dieterle)
3. The Carioca: Songs Of Vincent Youmans Volume 2, CD/Arabesque Z6692 (Joan Morris and Robert White with William Bolcom, piano)
4. Life's A Funny Present: More Broadway Flops & Roadkills 1919-1955, CD/Rialto SLRR-9306 (Debbie Shapiro Gravitte with musical direction by David Holcenberg)
5. Vincent Youmans Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-142 (Ann Hampton Callaway with accompaniment by Robert Marks)
6.  The Musicality Of Youmans, CD/JAY CDJAZ 9017 (Christiane Noll with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Aaron Gandy)


The One Girl (subsequently used in ONE NIGHT IN VENICE (1929) and THE ONE GIRL):

1. 78/Victor 22229 (John Boles with orchestra conducted by Leroy Shield) [also 78/Gramophone B 3424; reissued on American Songbook Series: Vincent Youmans, CD/Smithsonian RD 048-20; also found on Tea For Two: The Songs Of Vincent Youmans, CD/Living Era CD AJA 5379]
2. 78/Columbia 2116 D (Ben Selvin and His Orchestra with vocal refrain) [also 78/Columbia CB 75]
3. 78/Brunswick 4662 (Ben Bernie and His Orchestra with vocal chorus)
4. 78/Victor 21931 (Frank Luther with the Victor Orchestra conducted by Nat Shilkret) [reissued on Music Of Broadway: The Twenties Volume 3 (1928-29), JJA (M) 19803]
5. 78/Parlophone R1471 (London Hippodrome Orchestra conducted by Samuel Rogers)
6. 78/HMV C1944 (New Mayfair Orchestra conducted by Ray Noble)
7. Vincent Youmans Revisited, Painted Smiles (S) PS-1352 (Charles Rydell and The Boys with musical direction by Norman Paris and Dick Hyman) [reissued on CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-142]
8. Through The Years With Vincent Youmans, Monmouth-Evergreen (S) MRS-6401/2 (Paul Trueblood and Rita Segree, pianos with Lou Gatti, xylophone) [reissued on CD/Audiophile ACD-89]


Virginia (same music as "The Road To Home" in THROUGH THE YEARS, "If I Told You" in WILDFLOWER, and "Sweet As Sugar Cane" in GREAT DAY):

1. Through The Years, CD/PS Classics 103 (Hunter Foster and Female Chorus with orchestra conducted by Aaron Gandy) (as "The Road To Home")


West Wind (L: J. Russel Robinson) (written for the movie version entitled SONG OF THE WEST):

1. 78/Victor 22229 (John Boles with orchestra conducted by Leroy Shield) [also 78/Gramophone B 3424; reissued on Tea For Two: The Songs Of Vincent Youmans, CD/Living Era CD AJA 5379]
2. 78/Brunswick 4662 (Ben Bernie and His Orchestra with vocal chorus)
3. 78/Columbia 2086 D (Charles Lawman)
4. 78/HMV C1944 (New Mayfair Orchestra conducted by Ray Noble)
5. Australia’s Queen Of Song, CD/EMI 8146512 (Gladys Moncrieff)
A radio transcription performed by an unidentified vocal quartet with Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra is also known to exist.


Who Am I (That You Should Care For Me)? (L: Gus Kahn) (cut):

1. Through The Years With Vincent Youmans, Monmouth-Evergreen (S) MRS-6401/2 (Ellie Quint with musical direction by Paul Trueblood) [reissued on CD/Audiophile ACD-89]
2. Like Time On My Hands, 20th Century-Fox (M) fxg-5020 (Til Dieterle)
3. Vincent Youmans Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-142 (Dorothy Loudon with accompaniment by Arthur Siegel)
4. Barbara Lea & Keith Ingham Celebrate Vincent Youmans, CD/A Records AL 73238 (Barbara Lea with Keith Ingham, piano; guitar, and Greg Cohen, bass)


Unrecorded Material:

The Bride Was Dressed In White
Coming Through The Rye (cut)
Diamond In The Rough (same music as "When We Are Married" in LOLLIPOP)
A Faded Rose (cut; lyric lost)
Forty-Niner And His Clementine (cut; lost)
Get A Horse, Get A Mule (cut)
How To Win A Man (cut)
I Look For Love (cut)
Let Me Give All My Love To Thee
My Mother Told Me Not To Trust A Soldier (same music as "Draw Your Own Conclusion" in OH, PLEASE!)
On The Golden Trail
Primping (cut)
Star Soliloquy
Sunrise (cut; melody reused for "The One Girl")
Who Wants To Love Spanish Ladies?