THE
VOICE OF MCCONNELL
(Play
with Songs)
Composer: George
M. Cohan
Lyricist: George M. Cohan
Opened: December 25, 1918, Manhattan Opera House, N.Y.C.
Performances: 30
I’m True To Them All, And They’re Just As True To Me (ASCAP/Library of Congress only; originally used in THE GIRL BEHIND THE GUN):
1. George M. Cohan
Tonight!, CD/Ghostlight 7915584410124 (Jon Peterson with music
direction by Sterling Price-McKinney)
Ireland, My Land Of Dreams:
1. George M. Cohan
Tonight!, CD/Ghostlight 7915584410124 (Jon Peterson with music
direction by Sterling Price-McKinney)
I Want To Hear A Yankee Doodle Tune
(M/L: George M. Cohan) (sheet music only):
1. 78/Victor 60045 (George
M. Cohan) [reissued on Music From The New York Stage, 1890-1920,
CD/Pearl CD-9050/9061]
2. George M. Cohan Tonight!, CD/Ghostlight 7915584410124 (Jon
Peterson with music direction by Sterling Price-McKinney)
3. Over There, CD/Angel Records 49768 (Michael Feinstein)
Mother Machree (M: Ernest R. Ball;
Chauncey Olcott; L: Rida Johnson Young) (originally used
in BARRY OF BALLYMORE and ISLE O’ DREAMS):
I have not attempted to
compile discographical information for this standard beyond
original cast member performances.
1. 78/Columbia A 1337 (Chauncey Olcott
with orchestra) [reissued on Music From The New York Stage Vol.
2: 1908-1913, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9053-5]
That Tumble Down Shack In Athlone (M:
Monte Carlo; Alma Sanders; L: Richard W. Pascoe):
1. 78/Columbia A 2698
(Sterling Trio with orchestral accompaniment)
2. 78/Gramophone 216060 (W. Eckstein’s Strand Trio)
3. 78/Perfect 12836 (Dennis Olcott with orchestra)
4. 78/Decca 28048 (Bing Crosby with orchestra directed by John
Scott Trotter) [also 45/Decca 9-28048; reissued on Top O’ The
Morning: His Irish Collection, CD/MCA MCD 11406]
5. 78/Victor 18545 (Sterling Trio) with orchestral
accompaniment)
6. 78/Victor 64837 (John McCormack with orchestra) [reissued on
Come Back To Erin, CD/Naxos Nostalgia 8120748]
7. 78/Brunswick 3711 (Frank Munn with orchestra) [reissued on A
Little Bit Of Heaven, CD/ASV/Living Era 5202]
8. 78/Columbia 6104 A (Columbia Orchestra directed by Charles A.
Prince)
9. 78/Victor 21013 (Colin O’More with orchestra)
10. 78/Edison 50586 (Will Oakland and Chorus with orchestra)
11. A Little Bit Of Heaven: Three Tenors Sing Songs Of Erin,
CD/Flare ROYCD 273 (Felix Knight)
12. Mother Ireland, CD/Memoir Classics 530 (Cavan O’Connor with
Fred Hartley’s Quintet)
13. The Girl From Donegal, CD/Sharpe RBCD 503 (Bridie Gallagher)
14. A Man And His Guitar: Selected Sides
1927, CD/JSP 77158 (Bradley Kincaid)
15. A Night At The Fair, CD/Two Tap (The
Two Tap Trio)
16. Galway Bay, CD/Rosanne Halloran (Rosanne Halloran)
Unrecorded Material:
When I Look Into Your
Eyes, Mavourneen
You Can’t Deny You’re Irish