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Looking for old Cole Porter recording hitchy koo
Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 2:24 pm
by dan
Hi
I'm trying to track down recordings of the soundtrack for "hitchy koo"
If anyone has any ideas/know where I could locate such a thing, lemme know
Thanks!
Re: Looking for old Cole Porter recording hitchy koo
Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 6:00 pm
by Haydn
dan wrote:I'm trying to track down recordings of the soundtrack for "hitchy koo"
Do you mean the 1919 Stage Musical ? ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchy-Koo
Was it ever made into a film?
Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 6:23 pm
by dan
Yep that's the one!
I don't think it was, but since it is Cole Porter I'm thinking there may be audio recordings somewhere...
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 12:18 am
by lipi
That Wikipedia article is confusing. It says the 1919 had music and lyrics by Porter in one place, but in another it says it didn't (and only the 1922 one did). Anyway, going by the list of tunes in the article:
I have three recordings of "Peter Piper" (which is credited to Mercer & Whiting, not Porter). I think the Crosby is pretty good, the Goodman so-so, and the Bailey has poor sound quality:
Bob Crosby, 1936, Associated Transcriptions Vol. 2
Benny Goodman, 1936, The Birth of Swing
Mildred Bailey, ?, Complete Columbia Recordings Vol. 1
Well, O.K., I have four. There's the Run-DMC one. :o)
I also have a track by Joe Venuti called "Venuti's Pagliacci No. 2", but Pagliacci is the name of a famous opera, so it may not be related to the Hitchy Koo revue. (In any case, it's awful.)
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 7:15 am
by Haydn
dan wrote:Yep that's the one!
I don't think it was, but since it is Cole Porter I'm thinking there may be audio recordings somewhere...
A Helen Clark recording of the song 'Old Fashioned Garden' from Hitchy Koo is on this page (Porter's first hit apparently) -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bl ... ol_Records
As these recordings are probably all from around 1920, I think you are better off finding a specialist early Cole Porter, or early Jazz forum and asking there
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 7:40 am
by dan
you have a link you could send me to the peter piper recordings?
thanks!
I thought maybe there have been recordings of the musical at least from some point tho
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 12:24 pm
by lipi
dan wrote:you have a link you could send me to the peter piper recordings?
You can find the albums on amazon using the names I gave.