Art of Comedy 20250125 Recital - Novel Songs - Yiddish Theater, Orig. Element (processed by youtube)

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Theater for the New City and The Yip Harburg Lyrics Foundation present
THE ART OF COMEDY WORKSHOP RECITAL SING-A-LONG!
Noon Saturday, January 25, 2025
Novel Origin Songs from Yiddish Theater to Vaudeville to Early Musical Theater
Workshop Leader Mark Marcante – Music Director/Pianist: Peter Dizozza
Choreography by Elizabeth Ruf
with Lenin Alevante, Vinny DeLeo, Ben Harburg, Susan Goodstein,
Paul Korzinski, Larry Litt, Lola Lukas, Cheryl Siporin, Elizabeth Ruf & Lei Zhou

Last semester we began with a procession from Abduction from Seraglio, by a great comedy composer, Mozart

1) Mozart Praeludium: LA CI DAREM LA MANO – w/ Elizabeth & Lenin, from “Don Giovanni.” Lyrics by Elizabeth Ruf after Lorenzo Da Ponte (Columbia University Prof. of Italian Literature). Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1787

2) ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND – Ben Harburg. The #1 song of 1911 Musicologist Peter Stampfel suggests that Irving Berlin wrote it to highlight the sound of the band of James Reece Europe.
And if you want to hear the Swanee River played in ragtime,
Come on and hear, Come on and hear, Alexander's Ragtime Band!

3) I'VE GOT RINGS ON MY FINGERS – Cheryl Siporin
1909 R. P. Weston and Fred J. Barnes, and music by Maurice Scott
So come to your Nabob, and next Patrick's Day be
Mistress Mumbo Jumbo Jij ji boo J. O'Shea
speaking for itself is a song by Irving Berlin:

4) COHEN OWES ME NINETY-SEVEN DOLLARS – Larry Litt
1915 Irving Berlin

If you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with.
6) WHEN I AM NOT NEAR THE GIRL THAT I LOVE (I LOVE THE GIRL I'M NEAR) – Ben Harburg, by Yip Harburg and Burton Lane (1947)

Skit with Jokes into
7) Two by Shalom Secunda: OIB S'IZ BASHERT (Lyric: Molly Picon) &
BAY MIR BISTU SHEYN (Lyric: Sammy Cahn/Saul Chaplin) 1932
Susan Goodstein and Lola Lukas
I could say bella, bella, even sehr wunderbar, Each language
Only helps me tell you how grand you are.
I've tried to explain, Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn,
So kiss me and say you understand

also heard in the WB Cartoon One Froggy Night, and in the alien out of the diner patron in Spaceballs!
8) HELLO MY BABY Peter 1899 Ida Emerson and Joseph E. Howard
If you refuse me, Honey, you'll lose me, Then you'll be left alone; oh baby,
Telephone and tell me I'm your own.

And we are nearby to...
9) THE BOWERY – Paul Korzinski 1891 music by Percy Gaunt and lyrics by Charles H. Hoyt, from A Trip to Chinatown
The Bow'ry, the Bow'ry! They say such things, And they do such things
On the Bow'ry! The Bow'ry! I'll never go there anymore!

The original singing credit to this song goes to Sophie Tucker!
10) SOME OF THESE DAYS – Lola, Susan, Elizabeth 1910 Shelton Brooks
And when you leave me, you know t'will grieve me
You'll miss your little red hot mama, yes some of these days.

Also sung by Ada Jones and Barbara Perkins
11) I JUST CAN'T MAKE MY EYES BEHAVE – Lei Zhou. 1906
Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards

also from the Ziegfield Follies, also performed by Britney Spears, it's
12) I DON'T CARE – Elizabeth Ruf (Novel Song by Jean Lenox & Harry O. Sutton) 1905

and now from Charlot's revue of 1926 with Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence and Jack Buchanan, it's.
13) A CUP OF COFFEE, A SANDWICH AND YOU Elizabeth, Lei and Cast
1925 Joseph Meyer, Al Dubin and Billy Rose
The things I long for are simple and few:
A cup of coffee, a sandwich, and you!

She's tough, here she is. Lenin and Larry bring her to life.
14) HARD HEARTED HANNAH, The vamp of Savannah GA, Lenin & Larry
1924 Jack Yellen, Milton Ager, Bob Bigelow and Charles Bates

What follows Hard Hearted Hannah, is the #2 song of 1911, 2nd only to Alexander's Ragtime Band
15) a) I WANT A GIRL JUST LIKE THE GIRL THAT MARRIED DEAR OLD DAD – Ben Harburg. The #2 song of 1911 by William Dillon & Harry Von Tilzer
A good old fashioned girl with heart so true,
One who'll love nobody else but you,

And now from Georgia to Alabama, rounding out the recital with another Berlin song.
16) WHEN THAT MIDNIGHT CHOO CHOO LEAVES FOR ALABAM' Lenin 1912 Irving Berlin
That's where You'll
stop your train that brings me back again, down home where
I'll remain Where my honey lamb am!
I will be right there with bells When that old conductor yells,
"All aboard, all aboard, all aboard for Alabam!"

Bringing us to the culminating work of Yip Harburg, writing with Sammy Fain of Disney's Alice and Peter Pan.
17) THE WORLD IS YOUR BALLOON – Ben Harburg and Chorus. Revisit from “Flahooley,” by Yip Harburg and Sammy Fain 1951
Glowworms are footlights in the clover for they know
Life's a bang-up show. Why should it irk us? Ain't it a circus?

For when girl loves boy The world is a toy balloon.

MUSIC NOTE:
The original sheet music versions of songs published more than 95 years ago are in the “public domain.”
Changes made to that public domain sheet music can be copyrighted.
The original sheet music versions are usually better.