SEE AMERICA FIRST



Composer: Cole Porter
Lyricist: Cole Porter

Opened: March 28, 1916, Maxine Elliott’s Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 15


I’ve A Shooting Box In Scotland (later revised for use in SEE AMERICA FIRST):

1. 78/Victor 18165 (Joseph C. Smith and His Orchestra)
2. R.S.V.P. The Cole Porters, Respond no number  (Jack and Sally Jenkins with the Mac Frampton Orchestra)
3. A Couple Of Song And Dance Men, United Artists 29888 (Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire with orchestra conducted by Phil Moore) [reissued on You’re Sensational: Cole Porter In The ‘20s, ‘40s, & ‘50s, CD/Koch A-33714; Fred Astaire: The Complete London Sessions, CD/EMI 5200452]
4. Mabel Mercer And Bobby Short - Second Town Hall Concert, Atlantic SD 2-605 (Bobby Short, piano and voice, with Beverly Peer, bass, and Richard Sheridan, drums) [reissued on At Town Hall/Second Town Hall Concert, CD/Collectables COL-CD-6839]
5. Close: Steve Ross & Cole Porter, CD/Stolen Moments 1016/7 (Steve Ross, piano and voice)
6. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger HCD-3402 (Ruth King with Eubie Blake, piano)


See America First:

1. Cole, RCA (S) LRL2 5054 (Julia McKenzie with orchestra conducted by John Burrows)


Unrecorded Material:

Badmen (Opening Chorus)
Beautiful, Primitive Indian Girls
Bicholoride Of Mercury (not used; now lost)
Buy Her A Box At The Opera
Damsel, Damsel (Prithee Come Crusading With Me) (originally written for PARANOIA)
Dawn Music (inst.; now lost)
Dinner (not used)
Ever And Ever Yours
Fascinating Females (not in programs)
Finale Act I (Hail The Female Relative)
Finale Act II  (lost)
Greetings Gentlemen (not in programs)
Hail, Ye Indian Maidens (not in programs)
Hold-Up Ensemble
If In Spite Of Our Attempts (possibly same song as “Indian Maiden’s Chorus”)
Indian Girls’ Chant
Indian Maiden’s Chorus (possibly same song as “If In Spite Of Our Attempts”)
I’ve (Got) An Awful Lot To Learn
Lady Fair, Lady Fair (not used)
The Lady I’ve Vowed To Wed
The Language Of Flowers (originally written for PARANOIA)
Lima
Love Came And Crowned Me (not used; rewritten song from PARANOIA)
Mirror, Mirror (Opening Chorus, Act 2)
Oh, Bright, Fair Dream (not used)
Pity Me Please (not used)
Revelation Ensemble (not used)
Serenade (not used; now lost)
Slow Sinks The Sun (not used; originally written for PARANOIA)
The Social Coach Of All The Fashionable Future Debutantes (not in programs)
Something’s Got To Be Done
Step We Grandly (not used)
Strolling Quite Fancy Free (not used)
Sweet Simplicity (not used)
To Follow Every Fancy
Wake, Love, Wake (not used; now lost)
When A Body’s In Love (not used)
When I Used To Lead The Ballet (originally used in POT OF GOLD)
Will You Love Me (When My Flivver Is A Wreck)? (lost; probably not by Porter)
Woodland Dance (inst.; now lost)
Younger Sons Of Peers (unclear if used)