SMILES

Composer: Vincent Youmans
Lyricist: Harold Adamson; Clifford Grey

Opened: November 18, 1930, Ziegfeld Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 63

Be Good To Me (L: Ring Lardner):

1. Orchids In The Moonlight: Songs Of Vincent Youmans, CD/Arabesque Z6670 (Joan Morris and Robert White with William Bolcom, piano)


Carry On Keep Smiling (L: Ring Lardner) (added after opening then cut):

1. Life's A Funny Present: More Broadway Flops & Roadkills 1919-1955, CD/Rialto SLRR-9306 (Susan Watson with Scott Harlan, Kevin McMahon, and Michael Heitzman with musical direction by David Holcenberg)
2. The Carioca: Songs Of Vincent Youmans Volume 2, CD/Arabesque Z6692 (Joan Morris and Robert White with William Bolcom, piano)


He Came Along (cut):

1. Vincent Youmans Revisited, Painted Smiles PS-1352 (Gloria DeHaven with musical direction by Norman Paris and Dick Hyman) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-142]
2. The Broadway Musicals Of 1930, CD/Original Cast OC 6241 (Marty Testa with the Ross Patterson Little Big Band)
3. Barbara Lea & Keith Ingham Celebrate Vincent Youmans, CD/Challenge Records 73238 (Barbara Lea and Keith Ingham)


I'm Glad I Waited:

1. Vincent Youmans Revisited, Painted Smiles PS-1352 (Maureen Stapleton with musical direction by Norman Paris and Dick Hyman) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-142]
2. The Carioca: Songs Of Vincent Youmans Volume 2, CD/Arabesque Z6692 (Joan Morris and Robert White with William Bolcom, piano)
3. Through The Years With Vincent Youmans, CD/Audiophile ACD-89 (Paul Trueblood and Rita Segree, pianos)
4. The HMV Sessions, Vol. 1: 1930-1934, CD/Dutton Vocalion 6009 (Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra)


If I Were You, Love (I'd Jump Right In The Lake) (L: Ring Lardner):

1. The Broadway Musicals Of 1930, CD/Original Cast OC 6241 (Deven May with the Ross Patterson Little Big Band)


La Marseillaise (M/L: Rouget De Lisle) (cut after opening):

I have not attempted to compile discological information for this anthem.


More Than Ever (L: Harold Adamson) (cut):

1. Vincent Youmans Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-142 (Ann Hampton Callaway with accompaniment by Robert Marks)
2. Through The Years With Vincent Youmans, CD/Audiophile ACD-89 (Bob Quint with musical direction by Paul Trueblood)


Say Young Man Of Manhattan:

1. Vincent Youmans Revisited, Painted Smiles PS-1352 (Cab Calloway with musical direction by Norman Paris and Dick Hyman) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-142]
2. Young Man Of Manhattan, CD/Harbinger Records HCD 1503 (Eric Comstock)


Smiles (cut):

1. New Orleans Jazz Brunch, CD/Summit Records 302 (Kevin Clark, cornet, and Tom McDermott, piano)


Time On My Hands, You In My Arms (L: Harold Adamson; Mack Gordon) (same music as "What Can I Say?"):

1. I have not attempted to compile discological information for this standard beyond composer renditions. Cavalcade Of American Music, Ariel (M) CAM-11 (Mack Gordon with Harry Warren, piano)


You're Driving Me Crazy (M/L: Walter Donaldson) (added after opening):

I have not attempted to compile discological information for this standard.


Unrecorded Material:

Anyway, We've Had Fun (L: Ring Lardner) (added after opening)
Blue Bowery (L: Harold Adamson) (same music as "My Lover" from TAKE A CHANCE)
Clever, These Chinese
Dancing Wedding
Down Where The East River Flows (cut)
Finale (Act 1)
Finale (Act 2)
Here's A Day To Be Happy
Hotcha Ma Chotch (cut after opening)
Keep Smiling And Carry On (M/L: Walter Donaldson) (added after opening)
Madelon (cut)
Rally 'Round Me (L: Ring Lardner) (cut; possibly same song as "Carry On Keep Smiling")
Something To Sing About
What Can I Say? (L: Ring Lardner) (same music as "Time On My Hands, You In My Arms")
Why Ain't I Home? (L: Ring Lardner) (added after opening)