POOR LITTLE RITZ GIRL



Composer: Herbert Stothart
Lyricists: Oscar Hammerstein II; Otto Harbach

Opened: August 17, 1920, Selwyn Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 207


If A Wish Could Make It So:

1. 78/Victor 18714 (Six Brown Brothers) [reissued on Those Moaning Saxophones, CD/Archeophone ARCH 6002]
2. 78/Columbia A 3301 (Art Hickman’s Orchestra) [reissued on The San Francisco Sound, Vol. 2, CD/Archeophone ARCH 6005]
3. 78/Okeh 4217 (Joseph Knecht’s Waldorf Astoria Dance Orchestra)
4. 78/Edison 50713 (Lenzberg’s Riverside Orchestra)


Play A Little Hindoo (Little Hindoo Man):

1. Oscar Hammerstein Revisited, Painted Smiles PS-1365 (Dorothy Loudon and the Patios) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-136]


Tickle Me:

1. 78/Victor 18714 (Six Brown Brothers) [reissued on Those Moaning Saxophones, CD/Archeophone ARCH 6002]


Until You Say Goodbye (aka “You Never Know What A Kiss Can Mean”):

1. 78/Columbia A 3863 (Jan Garber and His Garber-Davis Orchestra)


We’ve Got Something:

1. 78/Columbia A 3301 (Art Hickman’s Orchestra) [reissued on The San Francisco Sound, Vol. 2, CD/Archeophone ARCH 6005]
2. Oscar Hammerstein Revisited, Painted Smiles PS-1365 (Gloria Swanson, Dorothy Loudon and the Patios) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-136]


Unrecorded Material:

Adagio (lyric missing, likely an instrumental number)
Bones (cut; lyric missing)
Broadway Swell And Bowery Bum (lyric missing)
Ceremony Of The Sacred Bath (aka “Act One Finale” and “Tears Of Love”)
Come Across (cut)
Didja Ever See The Like (cut; lyric missing)
Famous You And Simple Me (cut)
Finale (Act 2)
Finaletto Act I (including “Globe Trot” and “Big Old World”)
He Doesn’t Want To Play (unused)
I Don’t Laugh At Love Any More (lyric missing)
India Rubber (cut)
The Log Of The Ship (cut)
Opening (Act 1) (lyric missing)
A Perfect Lover
Safe In The Arms Of Bill Hart
The Sun Is Nigh
Temptation (lyric missing)
Then Love Began
Tragedy And Comedy (cut)
Valse Du Salon (lyric missing, likely an instrumental number)
You’re The Type