RINGS OF SMOKE



Composers: Cliff Hess; Joseph Stanley
Lyricist: Cliff Hess

Opened: 1920
Performances: Unknown


Daughter Of Rosie O’Grady (M: Walter Donaldson; L: Monte Brice):

1. 78/Columbia A 2561 (Robert Lewis with orchestra)
2. 78/M-G-M 30138 (Gene Kelly with orchestra conducted by Carmen Dragon) [also found on Song And Dance Man, MGM 30; reissued on A Couple Of Song  & Dance Men, CD/ASV/Living Era 5568]
3. 78/Rainbow (Eddie “Piano” Miller Trio)
4. 78/Victor 22386 (Victor Novelty Orchestra)
5. Roughhouse Piano, 45EP/Capitol EBF-345 (Joe Fingers Carr) [reissued on Let’s Do It Again: From Honky Tonk To The Classics, CD/Jasmine JASCD 534]
6. He’s Irish & He’s Beautiful, CAS/Rainbow Records BRW-4-1001 (John Kiley)
7 . Irish Favorites, CD/Madacy 51186 (The Starlite Singers)
8. Magic Of Ireland, CD/Madacy 8078 (Irish Ceili Band & Singers)
9. Irish Favorites, CD/Sonoma STC 20125 (The Dublin Ramblers)
10. 25 Irish Favourites, CD/Madacy 0660 (Barry O’Down and The Shamrock Singers)
11. In Whitcomb In Hollywood, CD/Vivid Sound RATCD-005 (Ian Whitcomb)
Radio transcriptions performed by Leroy Holmes Orchestra and by the Waltz Festival Orchestra conducted by Paul Winter are also known to exist.



Unrecorded Material:

I’m Rosie O’Grady Herself (L: Edgar Allen Woolf)
In Barcelona
Jazzy Scene (M/L: Eddie Conrad)
A Leetle Bit Too Much
Rings Of Smoke (M: Eddie Conrad; L: Edgar Allen Woolf)
The Smokey-Mokey Elf (M: Cliff Hess; L: Edgar Allen Woolf)
Stop Your Teasin’
Waiting