October 14, 1933, John W. Green, solo:
This Is Romance (Vernon Duke-Edward Heyman)
Love Locked Out (Ray Noble-Max Kester)
October 31, 1933, Carrol Gibbons & Johnny Green piano duet, accompanied by their Boy Friends
Who Do You Think You Are? from Mr. Whittington (Green-Heyman) 10/31/33, DB1314
There's a Ring Around the Moon (Johnny Mercer-John W. Green) 10/31/33 DB1297
November 11, 1933, Carrol Gibbons & Johnny Green piano duet, accompanied by their Boy Friends
What a Pleasant Surprise from Mr. Whittington (Green-Heyman) 11/11/33, DB1314
The Way To Love Selections (Leo Robin-Ralph Rainger), 11/11/33 DB1303
In A One Room Flat
It's Oh! It's Ah! It's Wonderful
Footlight Parade Film Medley: 11/11/33 DB1303
Sittin' On a Backyard Fence (Sammy Fain-Irving Kahal)
Shanghai Lil (Al Dubin-Harry Warren)
Ah! The Moon Is Here (Sammy Fain-Irving Kahal) DB1303
November 13, 1933, Carrol Gibbons & Johnny Green piano duet, accompanied by their Boy Friends
Ain't She The Dainty? from Aunt Sally (Harry Woods), 11/13/33, DB1309
I Want a Fair and Square Man from Aunt Sally (Harry Woods) 11/13/33, DB1309
Nymph Errant Selections: (Cole Porter) 11/13/33, DB1297
It's Bad for Me
How Could We Be Wrong
Experiment
The Mr. Whittington medley fits here chronologically (December 20, 1933), but we're placing it at the end of the disc in order to more greatly enhance your listening pleasure.
January 8, 1934, Carroll Gibbons & John W. Green, piano duets, accompanied by their Boy Friends
Sitting Pretty Film medley: (Mack Gordon-Harry Revel), 1/8/34, DB1326
You're Such a Comfort To Me
Good Morning, Glory
Dancing Lady Film Medley: 1/8/34, DB1326
Everything I Have is Yours (Burton Lane-Harold Adamson)
My Dancing Lady(Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields)
Close Your Eyes (Bernice Petkere) 1/8/34, DB1263
You've Got Everything (Gus Kahn-Walter Donaldson) 1/8/34, DB1263
January 14, 1934 "Two Friends In Harmony", piano duets with talking
On The Air (Gibbons-Jimmy Campbell-Reg. Connelly) Dialogue: Gibbons and Green, 1/17/34, DB1333
Living In Dreams (music & lyrics by John W. Green) Vocal: Johnny Green, 1/17/34, DB1333
February 1, 1934, John W. Green, pianoforte solo:
Repeal the Blues (Green-James Dyrenforth) from radio musical Big Business DB1379
An Hour Ago This Minute (Green-James Dyrenforth) from radio musical Big Business DB1379
Gibbons & Green and their Boy Friends, Two British Folk Songs. 2/1/34, DB1442
Terence's Farewell to Kathleen (traditional-arranged by Gibbons)
Kerry Dance (J.H. Molloy)
Not Bad (Green-James Dyrenforth) from radio musical Big Business, 2/1/34, DB1368
Jack Buchanan & Elsie Randolph with Carroll Gibbons and John W. Green at the Pianos, Accompanied by the Boy Friends, December 20, 1933:
Mr. Whittington selections (DX566) [8:46]
(Music: John W. Green; Lyrics by Clifford Grey, Greatrex Newman, Douglas Furber, except when marked by * = lyrics by Edward Heyman)
Part 1: Bow Bells Music
Help a Lame Dog
Oceans of Time
The Sun is Round the Corner
Part 2: What a Pleasant Surprise*
I'm Simply Wild About Horses
Weep No More, My Baby*
Who Do You Think You Are?*
Oceans of Time
You're Mine, You! (Johnny Green-Edward Heyman) GERTRUDE NIESEN, VOCAL, WITH THE COMPOSER JOHNNY GREEN AT THE PIANO WITH BEN SELVIN ORCHESTRA. February 9, 1933. Columbia
PAUL WHITEMAN PRESENTS RAMONA WITH JOHNNY GREEN ("A special interpretation by Ramona, with Johnny Green, the composer").
Who Do You Think You Are? (Edward Heyman - John W. Green) 8/14/33 - [77465-1 / 24384]
Weep No More, Mein Bubbela (Edward Heyman - John W. Green, from Earl Carroll's Murder at the Vanities) 8/24/33 [77466-4 / 24384]
One leftover British recording: February 1, 1934, JOHN W. GREEN, PIANOFORTE SOLO:
What Now (Green-James Dyrenforth) from radio musical Big Business, 2/1/34, DB1368
Band sessions, Part One, 1934-1935
JOHNNY GREEN AND HIS ORCHESTRA : Manny Klein and another-t/tb/Benny Goodman-cl/as/ts/2vn/Johnny Green-p-ldr/g/sb/d/Lee Wiley-Howard Phillips-v. (This is the Rust entry, we sincerely doubt that Goodman is on this date.) New York, March 17, 1934.
B-14962-A Live And Love Tonight - vHP Br 6797, 01799
(Johnston and Coslow, film Murder At The Vanities)
B-14963-A Easy Come, Easy Go - vLW Br 6855, 01757
(Heyman-Green)
B-14964-A Repeal The Blues - vLW Br 6855, 01757
(Dyrenforth-Green)
B-14974-A Cocktails For Two - vHP Br 6797, 01799
(Johnston and Coslow, film Murder At The Vanities)
Note: Peter Mintun dates the following eight transcription selections from "Early 1934," so we're going to include them here with the first Brunswick date. Unfortunately, on Peter's copy of the disc, the volume of the music is low and that of the very-chewy surface noise is high - but we've never heard of anyone else having this material! All titles are instrumental.
New York, Probably early 1934, World Program Service Transcriptions:
200-701 Here Goes (Koehler-Arlen?) from "Cotton Club Parade" 24th edition (1934)
200-702 Goin' to Heaven on a Mule (Al Dubin-Harry Warren) from film "Wonder Bar"
200-703 I Want to Be Happy (Vincent Youmans-Irving Caesar) from "No No Nanette"
200-704 Love Locked Out (Max Kester-Ray Noble)
200-697 Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Harry Warren-Al Dubin) from film "Moulin Rouge"
200-698 Easy Come, Easy Go (Edward Heyman-John W. Green)
200-699 The Champagne Waltz (Ben Oakland, Milton Drake, Con Conrad)
200-700 Everybody Loves My Marguerite (Woods-Campbell-Connelly)
New York, Circa May, 1934: JOHNNY GREEN, Piano solo
Rust : The following personnel is quoted by the late Hilton Schleman in RHYTHM ON RECORD as applying to Johnny Green's 1935 recordings, but it seems reasonable to assume it applies to the majority, if not all the following.
Johnny Green (p) directing: Angie Rattiner and sometimes another - t / tb / Jimm Lytell - cl - as / Charles Dale - cl - as - bar / Ernest White - Murray Cohan - cl - ts / Leo Kruceck - Lou Kosloff - Joe Baum - vn / David Terry (2nd p) / Perry Botkin - g / Kaspar Mahkowitz - sb / Al Lapin - d / Marjory Logan - Peg La Centra - Bernice Park - George Bouler - Allen Curtis - Jimmy Farrell - v.
New York, August 13, 1934.
CO-15618-A Two Cigarettes In The Dark Col 2943-D, CB-794
(Webster - Pollack, From Kill That Story) vGeorge Bouler
CO-15619-A The Fortune Teller Col 2943-D
(Heyman-Green) vPeg La Centra
CO-15620-A A New Moon Is Over My Shoulder Col 2940-D, CB-809
(Freed & Brown, Student Tour) v Bernice Park
CO-15621-A By The Taj Mahal - vGeorge Bouler Col 2940-D
(Freed & Brown, Student Tour, aka "China Seas" in Meet The Baron)
New York, October 8, 1934.
Ethel Merman accompanied by Johnny Green and his Orchestra, first two titles only
New York, October 8, 1934.
B-16117-A An Earful Of Music (Donaldson - Kahn, Kid Millions) vEthel Merman / Br 6995, 01945
B-16118-A You're A Builder-Upper (I Gershwin - Harold Arlen - E Y Harbug, Life Begins at 8:40) vEthel Merman / Br 6995, 01945
CO-16119-1 Were You Foolin' ? (Leslie-Ahlert) vAllan Curtis / Col 2959-D
CO-16120-1 The World Is Mine (Harburg-Green, from The Count Of Monte Cristo) vGeorge Bouler / Col 2959-D, Par F-156
Ethel Merman accompanied by Johnny Green and his Orchestra, December 4, 1934. Two songs introduced by Miss Merman in Anything Goes (Cole Porter). Br 6995
B-16397-A You're The Top
B-16398-A I Get A Kick Out Of You
New York, January 3, 1935.
CO-16609-1 Because Of Once Upon A Time (Young-Stride-Maltin)
vAllan Curtis Col 2999-D, FB-1032
CO-16610-1 Let's Hold Hands (Sillman-Lewin From Fools Rush In)
vMarjorie Logan & Allan Curtis Col 3002-D
CO-16611-1 Tiny Little Finger Prints (Tobias-Newman-Stept)
vMarjorie Logan, Col 2999-D
CO-16612-1 Love Come Take Me (Zeno-Irwin)
vMarjorie Logan Col 3002-D
New York, March 6, 1935.
CO-16977-1-2 I Won't Dance - vML-JF Rejected
CO-16978-1 Lovely To Look At (Kern-Harbach, Roberta)
vJimmy Farrell Col 3022-D
CO-16979-1 Beyond The Shadow Of A Doubt (Adamson-Lane, From Shadow Of Doubt)
vMarjorie Logan Col 3024-D
CO-16980-2 Living On Velvet (Dubin-Warren, From Livng On Velvet)
vJimmy Farrell Col 3024-D
New York, March 11, 1935.
CO-16977-4 I Won't Dance (Kern-Harbach, Roberta)
vMarjorie Logan & Jimmy Farrell Col 3022-D
New York, March 28, 1935. All four songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin from the Warner Bros. Picture, Go Into Your Pants
CO-17206-1 She's A Latin From Manhattan vJimmy Farrell / Col 3029-D, FB-1103
CO-17207-1 Go Into Your Dance vMarjorie Logan / Col 3028-D, FB-1104
CO-17208-1 About A Quarter To Nine vJimmy Farrell / Col 3029-D, FB-1103
CO-17209-1 The Little Things You Used To Do vMarjorie Logan / Col 3028-D
New York, May 8, 1935.
B~17494- How Can I Hold You Close Enough ? (Harburg-Heyman-Green) vMarjorie Logan Br 7455
B-17495- A Mile A Minute (Bernice Petkere) vJimmy Farrell Br 7441
B-17496- Love Me Forever (w) vMarjorie Logan Br 7455
B--17497- Carefree (not quite a waltz, but no less dreary] (Herman-Henderson)
vJimmy Farrell Br 7441
New York, June 27, 1935. Not including the two Fred Astaire features
B-17735-1 Isn't This A Lovely Day ? - vFA Br 7487, RL-297
B-17736-2 Top Hat, White Tie And Tails - vFA - Br 7487, Col DB-1825
B-17737- I Never Saw A Better Night (Mercer-Gensler,
from Ol' Man Rhythm) vMarjorie Logan & Jimmy Farrell / Br 7497
B-17738- Fruitas (Rhumba, "Arranged by Smolen") Rhumba
vocal, of sorts, by band or quartet? / Br 7497
Johnny Green and his Orchestra, The last two Brunswick Band Sessions.
New York, September 4, 1935. All four by Cole Porter from Jubilee.
B-18048- Why Shouldn't I ? vJimmy Farrell / Br 7522
B-18050- Me And Marie (novelty waltz) vJimmy Farrell / Br 7522
B-18051- Wnen Love Comes Your Way vJimmy Farrell / Br 7522
B-18049- A Picture Of Me vMarjorie Logan & Jimmy Farrell / Br 7521
New York, April 30, 1936.
B-19158- I've Got A Heavy Date
(Green-Spina) vJerry Arlen / Br 7661
B-19159- I'm Pixilated Over You
(Heyman-Spina) vMarjorie Logan & Jimmy Farrell / Br 7661
B-19160- A Rendezvous With A Dream
(Robin-Rainger) vMarjorie Logan / Br 7662
THE JOHNNY GREEN COLLECTION
Volume Four: Band Sessions, 1936
Miscellaneous Astaireia and Airchecks, 1935-1937
The Start of the Royale Band Sessions, 1939-1940
New York, April 30, 1936, session concludes, the last Green Orch Brunswick:
B-19161- We'll Rest At The End Of The Trail
(Poulton-Rose) vJerry Farrell / Br 7662
Two airchecks by the Brunswick-era band,1935, from the SOCONY SKETCHBOOK, with Announcer, Harry Von Zell, WABC/ CBS:
program opening, going into A Mile A Minute (Bernice Petkere) June 21, 1935.
The Johnny Green Orchestra, with and without Fred Astaire., Los Angeles, July, 1936. Rust says "Probably an entirely different personnel" (from the 1935 NYC Brunswick sessions), Peter Mintun says "NOT!"
two songs from Nice Goin' (Robin - Rainger) R 1786
WIND UP MY WAZOO vJack Smith [US 1034]
I SHOULDA STOOD IN BED vBeverly (Beverly Maher Jenkins) [US 1035]
two songs from Two For The Show (Hamilton - Lewis) R 1846
A HOUSE WITH A LITTLE RED BARN vCarol Horton [US 1370]
HOW HIGH THE MOON vCarol Horton [US 1371]
two songs from DuBarry Was A Lady (Cole Porter) R 1783
KATIE WENT TO HATIE vBeverly [US 1036]
IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS vJack Smith [US 1033]
two songs from Two Many Girls (Hart-Rodgers) R 1777
GIVE IT BACK TO THE INDIANS vBeverly [30]
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TIME IT WAS vJack Smith [29]
two songs from Very Warm For May (Hammerstein II - Kern) R 1775
HEAVEN IN MY ARMS vJack Smith [31]
ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE vJack Smith [32]
two songs from Higher And Higher (Hart - Rodgers) R 1857
FROM ANOTHER WORLD vJack Smith [US 1446]
EV'RY SUNDAY AFTERNOON [US 1448]
Two songs from 1940 MacDonald-Eddy operetta films, R 1858
ZIGEUNER (Noel Coward, Bittersweet) vCarol Horton [US 1447]
LOVER COME BACK TO ME (Romberg - Hammerstein II, New Moon) vJack Smith [US 1445]
Two songs by Johnny Green R 1836
BODY AND SOUL (Heyman - Sour - Eyton - Green) vLouanne (Hogan) [US 1299]
OUT OF NOWHERE (Heyman - Green) vJack Smith [US 1298]
R 1848
IRENE (McCarthy - Tierney, Irene) vJack Smith [US 1368]
I WALK WITH MUSIC (Mercer-Carmichael, from Three After Three, actually retitled I Walk With Music by the time it reached Broadway) vJack Smith [US 1369]
R 1839 two songs from Road To Singapore (Burke & Monaco)
TOO ROMANTIC vJack Smith
SWEET POTATO PIPER vLouanne (Hogan)
IRVING BERLIN: SONG HITS FROM LOUISIANA PURCHASE Royale Album 36
(We are also including the non-Green items from the album.)
Johnny Green and his Orchestra
I COVER THE WATERFRONT (Green - Heyman) vBarbara Ames [23531 / L 3506]
COQUETTE (Green - Lombardo - Kahn) vKay Thompson Singers [23531 / L 3523]
OUT OF NOWHERE (Green-Heyman) vRalph Blane [23435 / L 3525]
THE STEAM IS ON THE BEAM (Green - George Marion Jr., Beat The Band) vKay Thompson Singers [23435 / L 3574]
BODY AND SOUL vBarbara Ames [23902A / L3509]
I'M YOURS (Green - Heyman) vRalph Blane [23902 / L 3507]
YOU'RE MINE YOU (Green - Heyman) vKay Thompson Singers [24183 / L3575]
EASY COME EASY GO (Green - Heyman) inst [24183B / L3524]
SERENADE TO A NEW BABY (Green) inst [24528 / L 3576]
HELLO, MY LOVER, GOODBYE (Green-Heyman) JG and his Quintet [24528B / L 3572]
5-8 Deanna Durbin, with Johnny Green and his Orchestra, four songs from Something In The Wind (Universal, 1947) by Johnny Green and Leo Robin (Decca Album A-601)
THE TURNTABLE SONG [24168 / L 4473]
YOU WANNA KEEP YOUR BABY LOOKIN' RIGHT [24168 / L 4474]
SOMETHING IN THE WIND [24167 / L 4472]
IT'S ONLY LOVE [24167 / L 4475]
There's just room for one of Mr. Green's late-'40s MGM sides:
HELLO, MY LOVER GOODBYE vTrudy Erwin [MGM 11069A]
EASY COME EASY GO [11069B]
This disc was on some early copies of volume five - we dropped it from the latest edition to make room for the newly-discovered (previously missing) R 1839!
Carol Bruce with orchestra under the direction of Eddie Oliver (Schirmer Records, NL in Rust)
Louisiana Purchase
The Lord Done Fixed Up My Soul
