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Random reflections / Alice Hammerstein Mathias -- Introduction / Ted Chapin -- Editor's note / Amy Asch -- Songs of 1916-1919. The peace pirates. Shakespeare up-to-date -- Home, James. Act one opening chorus ; Marion ; Plankety plank ; Poor Armand ; Home, James ; Cartoons ; Act one finale ; Annie McGinnis Pavlova ; The eternal triangle ; Another Hawaiian song -- Furs and frills. Make yourselves at home -- Ten for five. Opening chorus ; That's the dope ; How to win a boy ; If you don't get caught ; Where are my children? ; When I dance with you ; I'll always think of you ; In the South sea isles ; Beans ; Jazz misleading legends ; The song that goes ; I simply can't do without boys -- Early songs with Richard Rodgers. There's always room for one more ; Weaknesses ; Can it -- Songs of 1920. Always you. Always you ; A wonderful war ; I never miss ; Syncopated heart ; Same old places ; Some big something ; Pousse-cafe ; I'll say so ; Don't you remember ; Drifting on ; A string of girls ; Misterioso -- Tickle me. Safe in the arms of Bill Hart ; You're the type ; A perfect lover ; Finaletto, act one, scene 1, including globe trot and big old world ; The sun is nigh ; Then love began ; Play a little Hindoo (little hindoo man) ; Ceremony of the sacred bath ; Until you say goodbye ; We've got something ; Tickle me ; If a wish could make it so ; Act two finale -- Cut and unused songs. Come across ; Famous you and simple me ; The log of the ship ; Indian rubber ; He doesn't want to play -- Jimmie. An aria ; Baby dreams ; Below the Macy-Gimbel line ; Cute little two-by-four ; All that I want ; Carlotti's ; Jimmie ; She alone could understand ; Don' yo' wanna see the moon? ; It isn't hard to do ; Just a smile ; Rickety crickety ; That's as far as I can go ; Some people make me sick ; I wish'd I was a queen ; Toodle-oodle-um ; Ming Poo -- Songs of 1921-1922. No one will care -- Dafy dill. Let's play hooky ; Kindergarten blues ; Prince Charming ; Two little ruby rings ; My boy friend ; I'm fresh from the country ; I'll build a bungalow ; A coachman's heart ; Fair enough ; My little Redskin ; Captain Kidd's kids -- Cut and unused songs. One flower that blooms for you ; Tartar ; You can't lose me -- Queen o'hearts. Dreaming alone ; You need someone, someone needs you ; Tom-tom -- Cut and unused songs. Ding dong ding ; Some fine day ; Ev'ry silver lining has a cloud -- Miscellaneous songs. I've changed all my ideas ; The first time ; One little word ; You were so sweet -- Songs of 1923. Wildflower. I love you, I love you, I love you ; Some like to hunt ; Wildflower ; Bambalina ; I'll collaborate with you ; April blossoms ; Act one finale ; The best dance I've had tonight ; Course I will ; The girl from Casimo ; If I told you ; Goodbye, little rosebud ; Act two finale ; The world's worse women ; You can always find another partner -- Added songs. Come let us dance through the night ; You can never blame a girl for dreaming -- Hammerstein's nine o'clock revue. Flanell petticoat gal ; I wonder why the glow worm winks his eye at me -- Mary Jane McKane. The rumble of the subway ; Speed ; Not in business hours ; Stick to your knitting ; My boy and I ; You're never too old to love ; Toodle-oo ; Down where the mortgages grow ; Time-clock saves ; Laugh it off ; Just look around ; Thistledown ; Mary Jane McKane -- Cut and unused songs. All for charity ; Come on and pet me -- Rose-Marie: 1924. Prelude and opening choruse (Vive la Canadienne) ; Hard-boiled herman ; Rose-marie ; The mounties ; Lak Jeem ; Indian love call ; Pretty things ; Why shouldn't we? ; Totem tom-tom ; Act one finale ; Only a kiss ; Finaletto, act two, scene 1: I love him ; Minuet of the minute ; Door of her dreams (bridal procession) ; Bridal finale ; Finale ultimo -- Added song. One-man woman -- Songs of 1925. Sunny. Here we are together again (act one opening) ; Sunny ; Who? ; So's your old man ; Let's say good night till it's morning ; D'ye love me? ; The wedding knell ; Two little bluebirds ; Act one finale ; We're gymnastic (act two opening) ; When we get our divorce ; Sunshine ; Sunshine #2 ; All these people I have wronged ; The chase ; The hunt ball -- Added and restored songs. It won't mean a thing ; I was alone -- Cut and unused songs. Dream a dream ; Under the sky ; Rig jig jigging away ; Act one opening chorus -- Song of the flame. Far away ; Song of the flame ; Woman's work is never done ; Great big bear ; The signal ; Cossack love song ; Tartar ; Wander away ; Vodka ; Act one finale ; Midnight bells -- Cut song. You are you -- Miscellaneous song. I love you, Leah -- Songs of 1926-1927. The wild rose. Love me, don't you? ; Wild rose ; One golden hour -- The desert song. Feasting song ; Riff song (Ho!) ; Margot ; I'll be a buoyant gal ; Why did we marry soldiers? ; French military marching song ; Romance ; Then you will know ; I want a kiss ; It ; The desert song ; Act one finale, including oh, lucky paul and Morocco dance of marriage and soft as a pigeon and French military marching song reprise and the desert song reprise ; My little castagnette ; Song of the brass key ; One good boy gone wrong ; Eastern and western love, including let love go and one flower grows alone in your garden and one alone ; Sabre song ; Finaletto, act two, scene 3 ; Farewell ; All hail the general -- Cut and unused songs. Let's have a love affair ; Love's dear yearning (dreaming in paradise) ; Flame of love denying ; Captive maids of war -- Golden dawn. Opening: play on, piper ; The whip ; Africa ; My bwanna ; Johanna's entrance and it is war ; We two ; Dawn ; When you're young ; Lullaby ; I stand before the moon ; Here in the dark ; Act one finale including Mulunghu Thabu ; Chant spiritual: make it black ; It's always the way ; Consolation ; Rain invocation ; Just to test my love for you ; Jungle shadows -- Miscellaneous songs. In Araby with you ; True love -- Show Boat: 1927. Act one opening, including Captain Andy's Ballyhoo ; Where's the mate for me? ; Make believe ; Ol' man river ; Can't help lovin' dat man ; Life upon the wicked stage ; Till good luck comes my way ; I might fall back on you ; C'mon folks (queenie's ballyhoo) ; You are love ; Act one finale ; Act two opening, including when we tell them about it all and dandies on parade ; Why do I love you? ; In dahomey ; Bill ; Hey, fellah -- Added songs. Dance away the night ; Ah still suits me ; Gallivantin' aroun' ; Got my eye on you ; I have the room above her ; Nobody else but me -- Cut and unused songs. I looked down at him (pantry scene) ; The Creole love song ; Mis'ry's comin' aroun' ; Yes ma'am ; I would like to play a lover's part (box-office scene) ; World's fair opening chorus ; Be happy too ; Trocadero opeining chorus ; It's gettin' hotter in the north ; Me an' my boss -- Rainbow: 1928, The New Moon: 1928. Rainbow. Opening chorus: on the golden trail ; My mother told me not to trust a soldier ; Virginia ; I want a man ; Star soliloquy ; I like you as you are ; The one girl ; Let me give all my love to thee (hymn) ; Diamond in the rough ; Who wants to love Spanish ladies? ; Hey, straw ; The bride was dressed in white -- Cut and unused songs. Get a horse, get a mule ; How to win a man (primping number) ; I look for love ; Sunrise -- The new moon. Act one opening ; Marianne ; The girl on the prow ; Marianne ; Gorgeous Alexander ; An interrupted love song ; Tavern song ; Softly, as in a morning sunrise ; Stouthearted men ; Tango ; One kiss ; Ladies of the jury (the trial) ; Act one finale, including gentle airs, courtly manners and wanting you ; Act two opening: chanty ; Funny little sailor men ; Lover, come back to me ; Love is quite a simple thing ; Try her out at dances ; Never for you ; Act two finale (cabin scene) ; Finale ultimo -- Cut and unused songs. Musical pantomime ; One kiss is waiting for one man ; Kiss waltz ; Liar ; Awake, my lad ; I'm just a sentimental fool ; Act one opening sequence (1927 verseion), including back at the court of France and carnival ensemble and in a little French cafe and the voice of dark and 'neath a new moon ; One day ; When I close my eyes ; Act one finale (1927 version) ; Introduction to try her out at dances (1927 version) ; Marriage hymn ; Marianne (1927 version) ; Act two finale (1927 version) ; You lie ; Finaletto, act two, scene 3 (1927 version) -- Sweet Adeline: 1929. Play us a polka dot ; 'Twas not so long ago (es war schon damals so) ; Here am I ; First mate Martin ; Spring is here ; Out of the blue ; Naughty, naughty boy ; Oriental moon ; Molly O'Donahue ; Why was I born? ; Adeline Belmont ; The sun about to rise ; Some girl is on your mind ; Don't ever leave me ; Act two finale -- Cut and unused song. I've got a new idea -- Added songs. We were so young -- Songs of 1930. Viennese nights. Overture ; Opening ; You will remember vienna ; Goodbye, my love ; Regimental march ; Prater ensemble ; Here we are ; When you have no man to love ; I bring a love song (Liebeslied) ; Ja, ja, ja! (Yes, yes, yes!) ; Part one finale ; Part two opening (waiting) ; I'm lonely -- Cut and unused song. If you want to kiss a girl -- Ballyhoo. I'm one of God's children (who hasn't got wings) ; No wonder I'm blue -- Songs of 1931. Children of dreams. Fruit pickers' song ; Oh, couldn't I love that girl ; Herr Professor Schnigglefritz ; Children of dreams ; Rolling home after dark ; Sleeping beauty ; If I had a girl (I'd be happy) ; That rare romance ; Yes, sir ; A scene from Antonia -- |
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Free for all. I love him, the rat ; Free for all ; You're only the girl next door ; Living in sin ; Just eighteen ; Not that I care ; Slumber song (good night) ; When your boy becomes a man ; Tonight ; Nevada moonlight -- Cut and unused songs. Wherever you are I'm looking at you ; Psychoanalyze me ; Open your eyes ; The carefree miners ; If that isn't love, what is? -- East wind. Act one opening ; It's a wonderful world ; Musical interlude ; East wind ; I saw your eyes ; Congai ; These tropics ; Wedding scene ; Are you love? ; You are my woman ; Minnie, ther's nothing like live ; Embrace me and act one finale ; The Americans are coming ; I'd be a fool ; Finaletto act two, scene 1: I'm drunk and I'm glad you are my woman (reprise) ; Regardez-moi ; When you are young ; Act two, scene 5 opening ; Finale -- Cut and unused songs. A man of my type ; Young man in love ; Not "the volga boatman" ; Voulez-vous ; Bearded stranger ; Tu comprends l'amour -- Music in the air: 1932. Melodies of May ; I've told ev'ry little star ; Prayer ; There's a hill beyond a hill ; At stony brook, including when you're young and love was born ; Excerpts from Tingle-Tangle, including letter song and I'm alone and I am so eager ; Play on ; Zoo scene ; One more dance ; Episode of the swing ; Night flies by ; When the spring is in the air ; In Egern on the Tegern see ; The song is you ; We belong together -- Cut and unused song. Good girl -- Ball at the savoy: 1933. The moon will ride away ; This lovely dream ; Le Marquis de faublas ; I think I'm in love with my wife ; On the bosphorus ; Up and down ; I dreamed what a girl likes to dream of (Madeline's soliloquy) ; I'll show you off ; Act one finale, including the night is young ; A girl like Nina ; All I want is a home ; I live for love ; I always keep my girl out late in the night ; Act two finale, including ball at the savoy and oh, why, oh why, oh why? ; If it's good enough for gentlemen -- Cut and unused song. Baby, wait till it happens to you -- Three sisters: 1934. Roll on, rolling road ; Now that I have springtime ; My beautiful circus girl ; What's in the air tonight? ; There's a joy that steals upon you ; Hand in hand ; Somebody wants to go to sleep ; Mary's dream ; Are you doing very well ; Lonely feet ; What good are words? ; A funny old house ; The wedding ; Keep smiling ; I won't dance ; Gaiety chorus girls -- Cut and unused songs. Comical songs and a comical dance ; Dorrie describes ; Here it comes ; Round (if a gentleman must wed) -- Songs of 1935. The night is young. Dancing master's drill ; My old mare ; Though I am a noble duchess ; Vienna will sing ; Wiener schnitzel ; When I grow too old do dream ; There's a riot in Havana ; The night is young -- Cut and unused songs. Gossip recitative ; Lena, I love you -- Reckless -- May wine. Something in the air of May ; Interlude in a barber shop ; Sweet Wilhelmina ; A chanson in the prater (I'm only me) ; A doll fantasy ; You wait and wait and wait ; I built a dream one day ; Dance, my darlings ; Always be a gentleman ; Dearest little wife (Volk's letter to Marie) ; Somebody ought to be told ; Something new is in my heart ; Just once around the clock -- Champagne and orchids. Banjo song (when I've got the moon) ; Champagne and orchids ; Dance like a fool ; Singing a song in your arms -- Miscellaneous songs. To Alice on her birthday ; A kiss to build a dream on ; The mist was on the meadow -- Songs of 1936-1937. Give us this night. Sorrento song ; Fisherman song ; Softly through the heart of night ; Hymn ; Sweet melody of night ; My love and I ; I mean to say "I love you" ; Music in the night (and laughter in the air) -- Cut and unused songs. Romeo's entrance ; Was there ever a voice ; Balcony speech -- High, wide, and handsome. High, wide, and handsome ; To fool a simple maiden (operetta fragment) ; Can I forget you? ; Will you marry me tomorrow, Maria? ; The folks who live on the hill ; Jenny dear ; The things I want ; Allegheny Al ; Doctor Watterson's Indian wizard oil -- I'll take romance -- Songs of 1938. Gentlemen unafraid. Act one opening: sweet young candidate ; Virginia hoedown ; Our last dance ; Gentlemen unafraid ; What kind of soldier are you? ; Your dream is the same as my dream ; De land o' good times ; Abe Lincoln has just one country ; Mister man ; I wish dat dere wasn' no war ; Little Zouave -- Cut and unused song. Sweet as a rose -- Added songs. Little Willy miss ; The kissing rock -- The lady objects. When you're in the room ; A mist is over the moon ; That week in Paris ; Home in your arms -- The great waltz. Polka ; I'm in love with Vienna ; There'll come a time ; Revolutionary march ; Tales from the Vienna woods ; One day when we were young ; You and you ; The bat ; Voices of spring -- Very warm for may and other songs of 1939. Very warm for May. In other words, seventeen ; Characterization ; All the things you are ; May tells all ; Heaven in my arms (music in my heart) ; Finaletto, act one, scene 2: in other words, seventeen (reprise) ; That lucky fellow (that lucky lady) ; L'Histoire de madame de la tour (gavotte) ; In the heart of the dark ; All in fun -- Cut and unused songs. Me and the roll and you ; Quartet ; High up in Harlem ; Arm of the law ; Where the weeping willows hide the brook ; Contrary Mary -- Other songs of 1939. Havana for anight (Vereda tropical) ; Sour puss ; The sweetest sight that I have seen -- American jubilee: 1940 and war songs of 1940-1945. American jubilee. Another new day ; We like it over here ; enny Lind ; How can I ever be alone? ; By the people ; My bicycle girl ; Tennessee fish fry ; One in a million -- Cut and unused songs. Gathered in the square ; All the songs in the world -- War songs of 1940-1945. The last time I saw Paris ; This is London ; Forever and a day ; Buddy on the night shift ; The good earth ; Navy day poem ; The PT boat song (steady as you go) ; A three-day pass ; Dear friend ; We're on our way (infantry song) ; Ol' man Author -- Sunny river: 1941 and other songs of the early 1940s. Sunny river. My girl and I ; Call it a dream ; It can happen to anyone ; The butterflies and bees ; Along the winding road ; Finaletto ; It can happen to anyone (reprise) ; Bundling ; Can you sing? ; Making conversation ; Poem ; Let me live today ; Bow-legged Sal ; Sunny river ; The duello ; She got him ; Time is standing still -- Cut and unused songs. Eleven levee street ; Lordy ; When a lark learns to fly ; Induction into the Louisiana lawyers club ; The men are in the dining room ; This night will seem long ago ; Let's play we're having fun ; Us is going to have us a time ; What makes you the best? ; Nature studies ; Her name was May ; For me ; I don't think of you as an angel ; Part of me ; Y' better not ; I'm in love with you -- Other songs of the early 1940s. Serenade to a Pullman Porter -- Songs with William Hammerstein. Fascinating people ; A tree outside my window ; Friendly little farm -- Oklahoma!: 1943. Oh, what a beautiful mornin' ; The surrey with the fringe on top ; Kansas city ; I Cain't say no ; Many a new day ; It's a scandal! It's a outrage! ; People will say we're in love ; Pore Jud is daid ; Lonely room ; Out of my dreams ; The farmer and the cowman ; All er nuthin' ; Oklahoma -- Cut and unused songs. Boys and girls like you and me ; Someone will teach you ; We will be together ; When ah go out walkin' with mah baby ; Why, oh why ; You are a girl -- Carmen Jones: 1943. Send along anudder load ; Cain' let you go ; I like your eyes ; Lift 'em up and put 'em down ; Honey gal o' mine ; Good luck, mister flyin' man ; Dat's love ; Lead-in to you talk jus' like my maw ; You talk jus' like my maw ; Murder, murder ; You ain't a police'm ; Carmen Jones is goin' to jail ; Dere's a cafe on de corner ; Beat out dat rhythm on a drum ; Stan' up an' fight ; Whizzin' away along de track ; Scene for Carmen and Joe ; Dis flower ; If you would only come away ; Act one finale ; De cards don' lie and dat ol' boy ; Poncho de panther from Brazil ; My Joe ; Act two, scene 1 finale ; Git yer program for de big fight ; Dat's our man ; Scene for Joe and Carmen -- Cut and unused songs. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy ; Uh-un, Mn-hmn ; What a nerve! ; Yo' Maw's okay ; Sally took a cigarette ; Is dat true? ; Git hep, git hep wid de hepcat ; Open de door, de ban' is gettin' hot ; C'm yere toots ; You git your cut no matter what ; Who dat? Who dere? ; Is dat you, Joe? ; I'll do a dance ; Beat out dat rhythm (reprise) ; High on a hill we'd hide away ; Oh, sargin' Brown ; Dere's my home down below ; I is hepcat Miller ; All de swells in town are dere, kids ; Wave dat stick ; Won't you say dat you love me? ; Hey, Carmen, look over dere -- Carousel: 1945. You're a queer one, Julie Jordan ; Mister Snow ; The bench scene, including if I loved you ; Give it to 'em good, Carrie ; June is bustin' out all over ; Mister snow (reprise) ; When the ghildren are asleep ; Blow high, blow low ; Soliloquy ; A real nice clambake ; Geraniums in the winder and stonecutters cut it on stone ; What's the use of wond'rin ; You'll never walk alone ; The highest judge of all ; Carrie's incidental -- State fair: 1945 and songs of 1946. State fair. Our state fair ; It might as well be spring ; That's for me ; It's a grand night for singing ; Isn't it kinda fun? ; All I owe Ioway -- Cut and unused song. Kiss me and go your way -- Songs of 1946. All through the day ; I haven't got a worry in the world -- |
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Allegro: 1947. Opening (Joseph Taylor, junior) ; I know it can happen again ; One foot, other foot ; Winters go by ; Poor Joe ; Diploma ; A fellow needs a girl ; A darn nice campus ; Wildcats ; So far ; You are never away ; What a lovely day for a wedding ; It may be a good idea ; Act one finale ; Wish them well ; Money isn't everything ; Yatata, yatata, yatata ; The gentleman is a dope ; Allegro ; Come home ; Finale Ultimo -- Cut and unused songs. Sitting on a porch in the moonlight ; What a lovely day for a wedding (pantoum version) ; I have let the time run on ; Two short years ; Reprise ; Joseph Taylor, junior (parody) -- South Pacific: 1949. Dites-moi ; A cockeyed optimist ; Twin soliloquies ; Some enchanted evening ; Bloody Mary ; There is nothing like a dame ; Bali Ha'i ; I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair ; A wonderful guy ; Younger than springtime ; Happy talk ; Honey bun ; You've got to be carefully taught ; You've got to be carefully taught (continued) ; This was nearly mine -- Cut and unused songs. Bright canary yellow ; Loneliness of evening ; My girl back home ; Now is the time ; Suddenly lucky ; Suddenly lovely ; My friend ; Bright young executive of today ; In a slender beam -- The king and I: 1951 and other songs of the early 1950s. The king and I. I whistle a happy tune ; My lord and master ; Hello, young lovers ; A puzzlement ; Royal bangkok academy ; Getting to know you ; We kiss in a shadow ; Shall I tell you what I think of you? ; Something wonderful ; Western people funny ; I have dreamed ; The small house of Uncle Thomas (Ballet) ; Song of the king ; Shall we dance? -- Cut and unused songs. Waiting ; Anna and Son Klin ; Who would refuse? ; Why? Why? Why? ; Now you leave -- Other songs of the early 1950s. Happy Christmas, little friend ; Merry Christmas, Terry ; There's music in you -- Me and Juliet: 1953. A very special day ; That's the way it happens ; Opening of "Me & Juliet" ; Marriage-type love ; Keep it gay ; The big black giant ; No other love ; It's me ; Intermission talk ; It feels good ; Sequence in act two of "Me & Juliet," including, we deserve each other ; I'm your girl -- Cut and unused songs. Marriage-type love finale (reprise) ; Opening of "Me & Juliet" (early version) ; Sequence from act two of "Me & Juliet," including Marriage-type love (reprise) and boss, may I have a raise? and the baby you love and meat and potatoes ; You never had it so good ; Wake up, little theater -- Pipe dream: 1955. All kinds of people ; The tide pool ; Everybody's got a home but me ; A lopsided bus ; Bum's opera ; Fauna's song ; The man I used to be ; Sweet Thursday ; Suzy is a good thing ; All at once you love her ; The happiest house on the block ; The party that we're gonna have tomorrow night ; We're a gang of witches ; Will you marry me? ; Thinkin' ; How long? ; The next time it happens -- Cut and unused songs. Nobody's fool ; He's a funny kind of guy ; Cannery row ; A man of some intelligence -- Cinderella: 1957. The prince is giving a ball ; In my own little corner ; Your majesties (a list of the bare necessities) ; Impossible/it's possible ; Ten minutes ago ; Stepsisters' lament ; Do I love you because you're beautiful? ; When you're driving through the moonlight ; A lovely night -- Cut and unused song. If I weren't king -- Flower drum song: 1958. You are beautiful ; A hundred million miracles ; I enjoy being a girl ; I am going to like it here ; Like a god ; Chop suey ; You be the rock ; Don't marry me ; Grant avenue ; Love, look away ; Fan tan fannie ; Gliding through my memoree ; The other generation ; Sunday -- Cut and unused songs. My best love ; My arms are not being used -- The sound of music: 1959. The sound of music ; Maria ; My favorite things ; Do-re-mi ; Sixteen going on seventeen ; The lonely goatherd ; How can love survive? ; So long, farewell ; Climb ev'ry mountain ; No way to stop it ; An ordinary couple ; Edelweiss -- Cut and unused songs. Love is not blind ; I have loved and I've learned -- Undated lyrics. Am I too optimistic, Miss O'Day? ; As lovely as you seem ; The Dutch treat club ; I found you in April ; I have seen the starlight ; I'm glad I am young ; I'm so young ; In the summer ; Inertia ; The stars in the window ; Thank you for loving me ; A typical American family ; We were once little girls and boys ; What's a little kiss (waltz fragment) ; Another dance. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 2008009549 |
| ISBN | 9780375413582 |
| ISBN | 0375413588 |
