ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1927

Composer: Irving Berlin
Lyricist: Irving Berlin

Opened: August 16, 1927, New Amsterdam Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 167

(Here I Am) Broken-Hearted (M: Ray Henderson; L: Lew Brown; Buddy G. DeSylva) (originally used in ARTISTS AND MODELS OF 1927):

1. Click here for recordings of "(Here I Am) Broken-Hearted."


Everybody Loves My Girl (M: Maurice Abrahams; L: Sam M. Lewis; Joe Young) (sheet music only):

1. 78/Brunswick 3722 (Bernie Cummins and His Orchestra) [reissued on Bernie Cummins And His Orchestra 1924-1930, CD/Timeless CBC 1058]
2. 78/Diva 2503 G (The Harmonians)
3. 78/Columbia 1150 D (Seger Ellis and The Radiolites)
4. 78/Jewel 5131 (Syd Clayton with Lou Connor and His Collegiates) [also 78/Oriole 1045]
5. 78/Harmony 530 H (The Harmony Brothers with piano accompaniment)
6. 78/Victor 21104 (Four Aristocrats)
7. 78/Victor 21173 (Ted Weems and His Orchestra) [reissued on Marvelous: 1926-1929, CD/ASV/Living Era 5029-2]
8. 78/Banner 6100 (Tom Stacks with Harry Reser’s Dance Orchestra)
9. 78/Columbia A 1523 (Peerless Quartette with orchestral accompaniment)
10. Sunny Side Up, CD/Rivermont 2208 (West End Jazz Band)


It All Belongs To Me (cut after opening):

1. 78/Columbia 1113D (Ruth Etting with piano accompaniment by Rube Bloom) [reissued on Flappers, Vamps & Sweet Young Things, CD/ASV/Living Era CD AJA 5015]
2. 78/Victor 20893 (Johnny Marvin with clarinet)
3. 78/Victor 20900 (Franklyn Baur with Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders)
4. 78/Victor 35845 (Franklyn Baur and The Brox Sisters with Edgar Fairchild and Ralph Rainger, pianos) [reissued on The Ziegfeld Follies, CD/Living Era 5619]
5. Irving Berlin: All By Myself: Vol. 2 – Puttin’ On The Ritz: The Years 1926-1930, Monmouth Evergreen (S) MRX/6810 (Steve Clayton with the Rusty Dedrick Orchestra) [reissued as All By Myself, CD/Audiophile 21/22]
6. Country Carnival Classics, CAS/Country Carnival CM 1534 (Country Carnival Classics)
7. Reaching For The Moon: Songs Of Irving Berlin 1925-1935, CD/Oakton Recordings ORCD 0008 (Benjamin Sears with Bradford Conner, piano)
8. Broadway Baby, CD/DRG CDSL 5203 (Dorothy Loudon with music conducted by Buddy Barnes)


It’s Up To The Band:

1. 78/Victor 35845 (The Brox Sisters) [reissued on The Ziegfeld Follies, CD/Living Era 5619]
2. Irving Berlin: All By Myself: Vol. 2 – Puttin’ On The Ritz: The Years 1926-1930, Monmouth Evergreen (S) MRX/6810 (Annette Sanders with the Rusty Dedrick Orchestra) [reissued as All By Myself, CD/Audiophile 21/22]


Jimmy:

1. Reaching For The Moon: Songs Of Irving Berlin 1925-1935, CD/Oakton Recordings ORCD 0008 (Benjamin Sears, Peter Miller, Leigh Barrett, and Cynthia Mork with Bradford Conner, piano)


The Jungle Jingle:

1. 78/Victor 35845 (Edgar Fairchild and Ralph Rainger, pianos) [reissued on The Ziegfeld Follies, CD/Living Era 5619]


My Blue Heaven (M: Walter Donaldson; L: George Whiting) (not in program):

I have not attempted to compile discological information for this standard beyond composer renditions.
1. Ariel (M) CAM-11 (Walter Donaldson, piano) [reissued on Carousel Of American Music, CD/Music & Arts 971]


My New York (added after opening):

1. 78/Diva 2535 (The Harmonians) [also 78/Velvet Tone 1535 V; 78/Harmony 535 H]
2. 78/Okeh 40937 (Sam Lanin and His Famous Players)
3. Mal Hallet And His Orchestra 1926-1941, CD/Swing Time 2004 (Mal Hallet and His Orchestra) (unverified)
4. The Ideal Home Music Library, Vol. 1: Show Songs, CD/Hush 41 (Reclinerland) (unverified)
5. Hot & Rare, CD/Diamond Cut 203 (unknown performer) (unverified)
6. Reaching For The Moon: Songs Of Irving Berlin 1925-1935, CD/Oakton Recordings ORCD 0008 (Benjamin Sears with Bradford Conner, piano)


My Old Girl’s My New Girl Now (M: Cliff Friend; L: Irving Caesar):

1. 78/Columbia 1639 D (Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards)) [also 78/Columbia 5200; reissued on The Vintage Recordings Of Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike), CD/Take Two TT 419]
2. 78/Columbia 1636 D (Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians)
3. 78/Gramophone 216539 (Willie Eckstein, piano) [also 78/Victor 216549]
4. 78/Velvet Tone 1760 V (Irving Kaufman with the Golden Gate Orchestra) [also 78/Harmony 760 H]
5. 78/Broadway 1230 (H. Greenwood with The Black Pirates) [reissued on Paramount Hot Dance Obscurities, 1927-28, CD/Jazz Oracle 8039]
6. 78/Brunswick 4112 (Eddy Thomas with Meyer Davis’ Swanee Syncopators)


Ooh, Maybe It’s You:

1. 78/Victor 35845 (Franklyn Baur and The Brox Sisters with Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra) [reissued on The Ziegfeld Follies, CD/Living Era 5619]
2. 78/Diva 2483 G (Frank Farrell & His Greenwich Village Inn Orchestra with vocal chorus) [also 78/Harmony 479; 78/Harmony 483]
3. 78/Brunswick 3639 (Franklyn Baur with Ben Selvin and His Orchestra) [also 78/Vocalion 15628]
4. 78/Banner 6071 (Leroy Montesanto with Al Friedman’s Dance Orchestra)
5. 78/Victor 20885 (Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord and Austin Young with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra) [reissued on Original 1927 Recordings, CD/Storyville 3006]
6. The Follies Girl, Decca (M) DL-8495 (Bill Snyder Orchestra)
7. Edison Hot Dance Obscurities, Vol. 1, CD/Jazz Oracle BDW 8040 (Frank Winegar’s Pennsylvania Boys)


Prisoner’s Song (If I Had The Wings Of An Angel) (M/L: Guy Massey):

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


Rainbow Of Girls:

1. 78/Victor 35845 (Franklyn Baur with Edgar Fairchild and Ralph Rainger, pianos, and Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra) [reissued on The Ziegfeld Follies, CD/Living Era 5619]
2. Irving Berlin: All By Myself: Vol. 2 – Puttin’ On The Ritz: The Years 1926-1930, Monmouth Evergreen (S) MRX/6810 (The Jack Manno Singers with the Rusty Dedrick Orchestra) [reissued as All By Myself, CD/Audiophile 21/22]
3. She’s So Beautiful: Irving Berlin Songs For Florenz Ziegfeld 1910-1927 And Other Songs From 1919-1921, CD/Oakton ORCD0007 (Benjamin Sears with Bradford Conner, piano)


Shaking The Blues Away:

1. Click here for recordings of "Shaking The Blues Away."


She Don’t Wanna (M: Milton Ager; L: Jack Yellen) (sheet music only):

1. 78/Diva 2436 (Bill Zimmer with Julie Wintz and His Hofbrau Orchestra) [also 78/Harmony 436 H]
2. 78/Decca 4294 (Dick Robertson, vocal, with Dick Robertson and His Orchestra)
3. 78/Columbia 1185 D (Ed Lowry)
4. 78/Okeh 40908 (The Jazz Pilots with vocal refrain)
5. 78/Victor 20753 (California Humming Birds)
6. 78/Columbia 4703 (Ed. Collins with The Kit-Cat Band directed by Al Starita)
7. 78/Perfect 12378 (The Happiness Boys (Billy Jones and Ernest Hare))
8. 78/Mercury 1013 (Sunny Skylar with the Dianaze Orchestra)
9. 78/Columbia 36490 (Eddie Rice with Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra)
10. 78/Grey Gull 1459 A (Bostonian Syncopators with vocal chorus)
11. 78/V Disc 241 (Chuck Foster, vocal, with Chuck Foster and His Orchestra)
12. Ziegfeld, First Night (S) CAST 14 (Len Cariou and chorus with orchestra conducted by Paul Bateman) (as “He Didn’t Wanna”)


St. Louis Blues (M/L: W.C. Handy):

I have not attempted to compile discological information for this standard beyond composer renditions.
1. Carousel Of American Music, CD/Music & Arts CD-971 (W.C. Handy with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra)
2. Legends & Songwriters In Concert 1941, CD/Original Cast 9839 (W.C. Handy)


Tickling The Ivories (lyrics missing):

1. 78/Victor 35845 (Franklyn Baur and The Brox Sisers with Edgar Fairchild and Ralph Rainger, pianos) [reissued on The Ziegfeld Follies, CD/Living Era 5619]

Walker Glorified New York:

1. Reaching For The Moon: Songs Of Irving Berlin 1925-1935, CD/Oakton Recordings ORCD 0008 (Bradford Conner and Benjamin Sears with Bradford Conner, piano)

When My Baby Smiles At Me (M: Bill Munro; L: Andrew B. Sterling; Ted Lewis) (originally used in the GREENWICH FOLLIES OF 1919):

1. Click here for recordings of "When My Baby Smiles At Me."


Unrecorded Material: