TOP SPEED
Composer: Harry
Ruby
Lyricist: Bert Kalmar
Opened: December 25, 1929,
46th Street Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 102
Keep Your Undershirt On (subsequently used in the 1982 revival of ANIMAL CRACKERS):
1. 78/Victor 22267 (Burt Lorin
with Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra) [reissued on Vol. 4,
1929-1930, CD/Jazz Oracle 8026]
2. Keep Your Undershirt On, CD/Rialto
SLRR-9001 (Paige O'Hara and Jason Graae with musical direction by Glenn
Mehrbach)
Looking For The Lovelight In The
Dark (M: Joe Burke; L: Al Dubin) (sheet music only):
1. 78/Victor 22501 (Leigh Harline
with Jackie Taylor and His Orchestra)
Sweeter Than You (also used in TWINKLE
TWINKLE):
1. 78/Victor 20419 (Franklyn Baur
with Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra)
2. 78/Columbia 829 D (Charles
Kaley with the Ipana Troubadours directed by S.C. Lanin)
3. 78/Brunswick
3431 (Park Lane Orchestra with vocal chorus)
What Would I Care?:
1. 78/Victor 22267 (Frank Luther
with The High Hatters)
2. 78/Columbia 2099 D (Fred Rich and His Orchestra
with vocal refrain)
Unrecorded
Material:
Dizzy Feet
Finale (Act 1)
Finale (Act 2)
Finaletto
Fireworks
Goodness Gracious (sheet
music only)
Hot And Bothered
I'd Like To Be Liked
I'll Know And
She'll Know (sheet music only)
In The Summer (Opening)
On The Border
Line (Opening, Act 2)
The Papers
Reaching For The Moon (sheet music
only)
Try Dancing
We Want You
You Couldn't Blame Me For That