The landmark Broadway musical Show Boat – music by Jerome Kern,
lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II – opened in New York on December 27, 1927
and remains to this day one of the most popular musicals ever written.
Show Boat
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Playlist:
12:00 pm
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Overture (excerpt)
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
- CD/Album: Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80544
- Release Year: 2000
12:06 pm
- Show Boat: "Cotton Blossom"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Ensemble: Merrill Staton Choir
- Conductor: Franz Allers
- CD/Album: Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 61877
- Release Year: 2000
12:09 pm
- Show Boat: "Where's the Mate for Me?"; "Make Believe"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Soloists: John Raitt, baritone ; Barbara Cook, soprano
- Conductor: Franz Allers
- CD/Album: Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 61877
- Release Year: 2000
12:14 pm
- Show Boat: "Ol' Man River"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Soloists: William Warfield, bass
- Conductor: Franz Allers
- CD/Album: Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 61877
- Release Year: 2000
12:17 pm
- Show Boat: "Can't Help Lovin' dat Man"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Soloists: Helen Morgan
- CD/Album: A Collector's Show Boat
- Record co./Cat #: RCA AVM-1741 [vinyl]
- Release Year: 1976
12:21 pm
- Show Boat: "Till Good Luck Comes My Way"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Soloists: Robert Merrill, baritone
- Conductor: Lehman Engel
- CD/Album: A Collector's Show Boat
- Record co./Cat #: RCA AVM-1741 [vinyl]
- Release Year: 1976
12:24 pm
- Show Boat: "Life Upon the Wicked Stage"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Ensemble: Merrill Staton Choir
- Soloists: Fay DeWitt
- Conductor: Franz Allers
- CD/Album: Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 61877
- Release Year: 2000
12:27 pm
- Show Boat: "I Might Fall Back on You"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Soloists: Janet Pavek, soprtano ; Kevin Scott, baritone
- Conductor: Lehman Engel
- CD/Album: A Collector's Show Boat
- Record co./Cat #: RCA AVM-1741 [vinyl]
- Release Year: 1976
12:30 pm
- Show Boat: "I Have the Room Above"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Soloists: Howard Keel, baritone
- Conductor: Henri René
- CD/Album: A Collector's Show Boat
- Record co./Cat #: RCA AVM-1741 [vinyl]
- Release Year: 1976
12:34 pm
- Show Boat: "Nobody Else but Me"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Ensemble: Cast of 1946 Broadway Revival
- Soloists: Jan Clayton
- CD/Album: Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 61877
- Release Year: 2000
12:38 pm
- Show Boat: "You Are Love"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Soloists: John Raitt, baritone ; Barbara Cook, soprano
- Conductor: Franz Allers
- CD/Album: Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 61877
- Release Year: 2000
12:43 pm
- Show Boat: "Why Do I Love You?"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Soloists: John Raitt, baritone ; Barbara Cook, soprano
- Conductor: Franz Allers
- CD/Album: Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 61877
- Release Year: 2000
12:47 pm
- Show Boat: "Bill"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Soloists: Helen Morgan
- CD/Album: A Collector's Show Boat
- Record co./Cat #: RCA AVM-1741 [vinyl]
- Release Year: 1976
12:51 pm
- Show Boat: "Dance Away the Night"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Soloists: Risë Stevens, mezzo-soprano
- Conductor: Lehman Engel
- CD/Album: A Collector's Show Boat
- Record co./Cat #: RCA AVM-1741 [vinyl]
- Release Year: 1976
12:54 pm
- Show Boat: "Ol' Man River"
- Composer: Jerome Kern
- Ensemble: Paul Whiteman's Concert Orchestra
- Soloists: Paul Robeson, bass
- Conductor: Paul Whiteman
- CD/Album: A Collector's Show Boat
- Record co./Cat #: RCA AVM-1741 [vinyl]
- Release Year: 1976