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Theme Music |
World War I (OS 196?) |
Morton Gould and His Orchestra |
For the 1960s television series |
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Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning |
The Vintage Irving Berlin (LP 1977) |
Irving Berlin, Chorus/ Milton Rosenstock |
Recorded 7/1942, probably in connection with the show This is the Army (1942), in which Berlin re-used the song; originally from Yip-Yip-Yaphank (1918) |
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There is Nothin' Like a Dame |
South Pacific (OC 1949) |
Myron McCormick, Company |
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We Saw the Sea |
Starring Fred Astaire (LP 1973) |
Fred Astaire, Johnny Green Orchestra |
From Follow the Fleet (OS 1936) |
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Some Other Time |
On the Town (CD 1960) |
Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Nancy Walker, Cris Alexander |
Goddard Liberson studio recording with members of the original b'way cast (the four singers in this number, in fact) |
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Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land |
Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition (LP 1977) |
Al Jolson |
From Sinbad (1918); Jolson toured extensively during this phase of his career; in contemporary terms, he was a Superstar, often referred to as The World's Greatest Entertainer |
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There's a Vacant Chair in Every Home Tonight |
Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition (LP 1977) |
Shannon Quartet |
The quartet was founded by Victor records in 1917; lead tenor, Charles Hart, also had an active career in musical and non-musical theater and opera, including appearances at the Muny in St. Louis |
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Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers |
Al Jolson, Volume I (CD 1991) |
Al Jolson |
From Dancing Around (1914); popular audience-participation number originally introduced in England by Jack Norworth (husband of Norah Bayes) that same year |
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He's 1-A in the Army and He's A-1 in My Heart |
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition (LP 1977) |
Betty Bonney, Les Brown Orchestra |
Recorded 10/15/1941 |
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Over Here |
Over Here (OC 1974) |
Patty Andrews, Maxine Andrews, Company |
Richard & Robert B. Sherman, best-known for Disney film music; features Andrews sisters as singing act during WW II; closed after a year when Andrews Sisters had to leave due to prior commitments |
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I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now |
Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 (LP 1977) |
Eddie Cantor |
Reconstruction of original cast recording with recording from the period by Follies stars. Rec. 11/1919; Jolson originally recorded it two months earlier |
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My Dream of the Big Parade |
Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition (LP 1977) |
Peerless Quartet |
Recorded 6/30/1926, inspired by King Vidor's anti-war film The Big Parade. The Peerless Quartet had been active on the vaudeville stage but their popularity was waning when the recorded this, and they made their last record 2 years later |
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Remember My Forgotten Man |
The Busby Berkeley Album (CD 1994) |
Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, London Sinfonietta Orch. & Chorus/ John McGlinn |
Gold Diggers of 1933; music by Harry Warren & Al Dubin |
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The Lughnasa Fires |
Dancing at Lughnasa (OS 1998) |
Bill Whelan, Irish Film Orchestra/ Prionnsias O'Duinn |
Music composed by Whelan for film version of Brian Friel's play; accompanied a taped interview with Whelan. |
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Louison/Welcome Home |
Martin Guerre (OC 1995) |
Iain Glen, Michael Matus, Company |
British cast; yet to appear in America. Music by Claude-Michel Schonberg, lyrics by Edward Hardy & Stephen Clark, book by Schonberg & Alain Boublil; based on same story as 1982 film The Return of Martin Guerre |
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Bui Doi |
Miss Saigon (OC 1989) |
Peter Polycarpou, Chorus |
About the aftermath of war |
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There's Something About a War |
A Stephen Sondheim Evening (1983) |
Cris Groenendaal, Chorus |
Originally from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum, cut from the show |
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It Makes a Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier |
An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer (CD 1959) |
Tom Lehrer |
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Kannonsong |
Kurt Weill - from Berlin to Broadway (CD 1995) |
Willi Trenk-Trebitch, Kurt Gerron, Lewis Ruth Band/ Theo Mackeben |
Rec. 11/12/1930; Mackeben conducted the opening night of Dreigroschenoper. This recording issued to coincide w/film version dir. By G.W. Pabst |
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The Cannon Song |
Lost in the Stars - the Music of Kurt Weill (CD 1985) |
The Fowler Brothers w/Standard Ridgway |
Weill's music performed by various pop/rock/etc. artists; translation by Ralph Manheim & John Willet |
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The Soldiers of Our Queen |
Patience (CD 1962) |
John Shaw, Chorus, Glyndebourne Festival Orch./ Sir Malcom Sargent |
Typical glorification of military life from Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience (1881) |
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When I First Put This Uniform On |
Patience (CD 1962) |
John Shaw, Chorus, Glyndebourne Festival Orch./ Sir Malcom Sargent |
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