SEVEN LIVELY ARTS
Composer: Cole
Porter
Lyricist: Cole Porter
Opened: December 7, 1944 ,
Ziegfeld Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 182
Big Town:
1. Cole Porter Revisited Vol. IV,
Painted Smiles (S) PS-1371 (Laura Kenyon, Nancy Grennan, Christine Ranck, Jamie
Rocco, John Sloman, Ken Parks, Richard Casper, and Peter Marinos) [reissued as
CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-117]
A radio transcription performed by an
unidentified chorus with Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra is also known to
exist.
Dainty, Quainty Me
(unusued):
1. Unpublished Cole Porter Vol.
II, Painted Smiles (S) PS-1358 (Edward Earle) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles
PSCD-125]
Drink:
1. Night And Day, CD/EMI Classics
CDC 7 54203 2 (Thomas Hampson with the Ambrosian Chorus and the London Symphony
Orchestra conducted by John McGlinn)
Ev'ry Time We Say
Goodbye:
I have not attempted to compile
discological information for this Porter standard.
Frahngee-Pahnee:
1. 78/RCA 10-1157 (Thomas L.
Thomas) [reissued on Cole Porter (Music & Lyrics), JJA (M) 19745]
A
radio transcription performed by Eleanor Steiber with Andre Kostelanetz and His
Orchestra is also known to exist.
Hence It
Don't Make Sense:
1. 45/Victor 20-1640 (Tony
Pastor, vocal, with Tony Pastor and His Orchestra) [reissued on Cole Porter
(Music & Lyrics), JJA (M) 19745]
A radio transcription performed by
Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra is also known to exist.
I Wrote A Play (unused):
1. Cole Porter Vol. III, Painted
Smiles (S) PS-1370 (Arthur Siegel) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles
PSCD-105]
If I Hadn't A Husband (unused;
music used for "Should I Tell You I Love You?" in AROUND THE
WORLD):
For recordings of "Should I Tell
You I Love You?" see:
1. 78/Song Of The Month Club Real Records 1195A
(Larry Laurence (Enzo Stuarti) with Ray Cater and his Orchestra) [reissued on
The Ultimate Cole Porter - Volume IV, CD/Pearl GEM 0195]
2. 78/Musicraft
15068 (Kitty Kallen with Sonny Burke and His Orchestra) [reissued on Our Lady
Kitty Kallen, CD/Sepia Recordings 1013]
3. 78/Decca 18907 A (Dick Haymes
with orchestra directed by Earle Hagen)
4. 78/Signature 15029 (Monica Lewis
with Ray Bloch and His Orchestra)
5. Blue Barron And His Orchestra
1946-1950, CD/Circle 24 (Blue Barron and His Orchestra)
6. Cole Porter
Revisited Vol. V, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-122 (Sandy Stewart)
Radio
transcriptions performed by Louise Carlyle with The Music Of Manhattan
conducted by Norman Cloutier and by the Charlie Spivak Orchestra are also known
to exist.
Is It The Girl (Or Is It The
Gown)?:
1. 78/RCA 10-1157 (Thomas L.
Thomas) [reissued on Cole Porter (Music & Lyrics), JJA (M) 19745]
2.
Cole Porter Revisited Vol. IV, Painted Smiles (S) PS-1371 (Dolores Gray and
Chorus) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-117]
3. Something For The Boys,
Sound Stage Recordings (M) 2305 (Gene Walsh)
4. Cole Porter: A Musical
Toast, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD2-5826 (Joanna Gleason Bill Bowersock, and Peer
Hayashida with music direction by Ron Abel)
Radio transcriptions performed
by Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra and by The Music Of Manhattan are also
known to exist.
Only Another Boy And
Girl:
1. 78/RCA Victor 10-1156 (Dorothy
Kirsten with The Victor Orchestra conducted by Maximillan Pilzer) [reissued on
The Classic RCA Performances, CD/Collector's Choice M 01012]
2. 78/Hit 7121
(Alan Dale with George Paxton and His Orchestra)
3. 78/Victor 20-1636 (Jimmy
Saunders with Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra) [also 78/V Disc 406; reissued
on V Disc Recordings, CD/Collectors' Choice Music 6653]
4. 78/Columbia 36767
(Jane Harvey with the Benny Goodman Quintet) [also 78/Columbia C 742; reissued
on You're Sensational: Cole Porter In The '20s, '40s, & '50s, CD/Koch
A-33714]
5. You're The Top: Love Songs Of Cole Porter, CD/Telarc CD-83463
(Bobby Short, piano and voice, with orchestra conducted by Loren
Schoenberg)
6. Red, Hot And Blue, CD/Documents 222926 (unknown
performer)
Radio transcriptions performed by Eleanor Steiber and Earl
Wrightson with Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra and by The Music Of
Manhattan conducted by Norman Cloutier are also known to exist.
Pretty Little Missus Bell
(cut):
1. Cole Porter Vol. III, Painted
Smiles (S) PS-1370 (Georgia Engel and the Boys) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles
PSCD-105]
Scene de Ballet (M: Igor Stravinsky):
No attempt has been made to
compile discological information for this classical music
piece.
Weber's Concertina for Clarinet
(Benny Goodman Clarinet Spot) (M: Carl Maria von Weber):
No attempt has been made to
compile discological information for this classical music
piece.
When I Was A Little
Cuckoo:
1. Songs I Taught My Mother,
10"/Vanguard (M) VRS-9004 (Charlotte Rae with John Strauss and his Baroque
Bearcats) [reissued as CD/PS Classics PS-644]
2. Unpublished Cole Porter
Vol. II, Painted Smiles (S) PS-1358 (Kaye Ballard) [reissued as CD/Painted
Smiles PSCD-125]
3. The Decline And Fall Of The Entire World As Seen Through
The Eyes Of Cole Porter, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-124 (Dody Goodman)
Unrecorded Material:
The Band Started Swinging A Song
(added after opening or else inadvertently omitted from the opening night
program)
Bea Lillie Song Spot (M: Unknown)
The Big Parade/Yours For A
Song (appears to be the musical elaboration of the Act I finale skit "Billy
Rose Buys The Metropolitan Opera") (not in programs)
Billy Rose Buys The
Metropolitan Opera House! (sketch including a "Toreador Dance" with uncredited
music)
Café Society Still Carries On (unused; no music
survives)
Dancin' To A Jungle Drum (Let's End The Beguine)
The Great Man
Speaks (sketch by Charles Sherman)
Heaven On Angel Street (sketch by Moss
Hart)
Local Boy Makes Good (sketch by George S. Kaufman)
Pas De Deux (M:
Uncredited)
There'll Always Be An England (sketch by Moss Hart)
Ticket
For The Ballet (sketch by Moss Hart)
Where Do We Go From Here?"
(unused)
Wow-Ooh-Wolf!