ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1915
Composers: Louis A.
Hirsch; Dave Stamper
Lyricists: Channing Pollock; Dave Stamper; Rennold Wolf
Opened: June 21, 1915, New Amsterdam Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 104
1. Midnight Frolic: The
Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records
80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
(part of overture)
A Girl For Each Month In The Year (M:
Louis A. Hirsh; L: Channing Pollock; Rennold Wolf):
1. Ziegfeld, First Night
(S) CAST 14 (Len Cariou, “Goldie” and “Struggling Writer” with
orchestra conducted by Paul Bateman)
2. Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A.
Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
directed by Rick Benjamin) (part of overture)
Hello, Frisco! (I Called You Up To Say
Hello) (M: Louis A. Hirsch; L: Gene Buck) (also interpolated
into the 1976 Broadway revival of GOING UP):
1. 78/Columbia A-1801
(Elida Morris and Sam Ash)
2. 78/Victor 35478 (Victor Military Band)
3. 78/Victor 17837 (Alice Green and Edward Hamilton with
orchestra) [reissued on 1915: They’d Sooner Sleep On Thistles,
CD/Archeophone 9011]
4. 78/Hirsch 80256 R (Harvey Hindermeyer and Helen Clark with
orchestra)
5. 78/Columbia A 1801 (Elida Morris and Sam Ash)
6. 78/Decca 2471 (The Merry Macs with instrumental
accompaniment)
7. 78/Edison 80302 (Armand Vecsey and His Hungarian Orchestra)
8. 78/Victor 26778 (The Tune Twisters with the Victor Salon
Orchestra directed by Nathaniel Shilkret)
9. The Follies Girl, Decca (M) DL-8495 (Bill Snyder Orchestra)
10. Vivian Blaine Sings Songs From The Ziegfeld Follies, Mercury
(M) MG 20233 (Vivian Blaine with orchestra conducted by Glenn
Osser) [reissued on Songs From The Ziegfeld Follies & The
Great White Way, CD/Sepia 1106]
11. Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A.
Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
directed by Rick Benjamin) (part of overture)
12. Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A.
Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Colte Julian and
Bernadette Boerckel with the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed
by Rick Benjamin)
13. Memories Of Old Broadway, CD/Take Two TT510CD (Olive Kline
and Reinald Werrenrath)
14.Musicals Lost And Found Broadway Sampler: 1915, CD/Operetta
Archives OA 1040 (Ryan Reithmeier and Elyse Willis with Adam
Aceto and Jan Roper, pianos)
Hold Me In Your Loving Arms (M: Louis
A. Hirsch; L: Gene Buck):
1. 78/Victor 17831
(Lillian Davis)
2. 78/Victor 35478 (Victor Military Band)
3. The Follies Girl, Decca (M) DL-8495 (Bill Snyder Orchestra)
4. Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A.
Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
directed by Rick Benjamin) (part of overture)
I Can’t Do Without Girls:
1. Midnight Frolic: The
Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records
80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
(part of overture)
I’ll Be A Santa Claus To You (M: Louis
A. Hirsch; L: Gene Buck):
1. Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records 80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin) (part of overture)
I’ll Build A Home In The U.S.A. (We’ll
Build A Little Home In The U.S.A.) (M: Charles Elbert; L:
Ward Wesley):
1. 78/Columbia A-1924
(James Reed and James F. Harrison)
2. 78/Edison 80256 R (Harvey Hindermeyer and Helen Clark with
orchestra)
I’m Neutral (M/L: Bert Williams) (not
in programs):
1. 78/Columbia A-1817
(Bert Williams with orchestra) [reissued on Music From The New
York Stage Vol. 3: 1913-1917, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9056-8]
Indoor Sports (M/L: Seymour Furth;
unknown):
1. 78/Columbia A-1817
(Bert Williams with orchestra) [The Middle Years 1910-1918,
CD/Archeophone ARCH 5003]
Marie Odile (M: Louis A. Hirsch; L:
Channing Pollock; Rennold Wolf):
1. Midnight Frolic: The
Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records
80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
(part of overture)
My Radium Girl (M: Louis A. Hirsch; L:
Gene Buck):
1. Midnight Frolic: The
Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records
80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
(part of overture)
Old Bill Baker (Undertaker) (M: Jerome Kern; L: Ring
Lardner) (not in program):
1. 78/Victor 18125 (M.J.
O'Connell with orchestra)
2. Very Good Eddie, CDr/Comic Opera Guild CVE05P-2C (Greg
Wakefield with Adam Aceto and Patrick Johnson, pianos)
Overture:
1. Midnight Frolic: The
Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A. Hirsch, CD/New World Records
80707-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
Unrecorded Material:
Arabia My Land Of Sweet
Romance (M: J. Frederick Hanley; L: Bernard Granville) (sheet
music only)
The Bird Of A Chicken (dance)
Bowling (sheet music only)
Everybody Dance (M: Dave Stamper; L: Gene Buck) (sheet music
only)
Go To Sleep, My Baby (M/L: Irving Berlin)
I Love To Be Loved (M: Dave Stamper; L: Gene Buck) (sheet music
only)
If The Girlies Could Be Soliders (M: Dave Stamper; L: Gene Buck)
(cut after opening)
I’m A Nurse For Aching Hearts (M: Louis A. Hirsch; L: Gene Buck)
(not in programs)
In The Evening (not in programs)
The Midnight Frolic Glide (M: Dave Stamper; Will Vodery)
My Little Submarine (M: Dave Stamper; L: Louis A. Hirsch) (sheet
music only)
My Zebra Lady Fair (Zebra Girl_ (M: Dave Stamper; L: Gene Buck)
Oriental Love (not in programs)
They’re In The Junk Pile Now (M: Dave Stamper; L: Gene Buck)
(sheet music only)
Trilby (M: Dave Stamper; L: Gene Buck) (sheet music only)
Twenty Years Ago
Under The Sea