Blackbirds of 1928 - 1933 Recordings

1933 Recordings

In February, 1933, Jack Kapp of Brunswick Records assembled an all-star group of Brunswick artists to record the entire score. Issued on 6 10" 78's (6516 through 6521), available in an album set (the first such set of popular music from a Broadway show) and also sold individually:

  • 6516 Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra-Blackbirds Medley, parts 1 and 2
  • 6518 Adelaide Hall with Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra- I Must have That Man & b/w Baby. Brunswick. 7 January 1933
  • 6519 Mills Brothers-I Can't Give You Anything But Love b/w Mills Brothers with Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra-Diga Diga Doo
  • 6520 Bill Robinson with Don Redman & His Orchestra-Doin' The New Lowdown b/w Don Redman & His Orchestra with Harry and Donald Mills-Shuffle Your Feet (And Just Roll Along) and Bandana Babies
  • 6517 Ethel Waters with Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra-I Can't Give You Anything But Love b/w Mills Brothers with Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra-Doin' The New Lowdown
  • 6521 Ethel Waters with Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra-Porgy b/w Cecil Mack Choir with Ethel Waters-St. Louis Blues
Jimmy McHugh
  • Blackbirds of 1928
  • Hello, Daddy
  • International Revue
  • The Streets of Paris
  • Keep Off The Grass
  • As the Girls Go
Dorothy Fields
Song lyrics
  • "Big Spender"
  • "Don't Blame Me"
  • "Exactly Like You"
  • "A Fine Romance"
  • "Hooray for Love"
  • "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby"
  • "I'm in the Mood for Love"
  • "If My Friends Could See Me Now"
  • "Never Gonna Dance"
  • "On the Sunny Side of the Street"
  • "Pick Yourself Up"
  • "Remind Me"
  • "The Way You Look Tonight"
  • "You Couldn't Be Cuter"
Musicals
Books
  • Let's Face It! (1941)
  • Something for the Boys (1943)
  • Mexican Hayride (1944)
  • Up in Central Park (1945)
  • Annie Get Your Gun (1946)
  • Arms and the Girl (1950)
  • By the Beautiful Sea (1954)
  • Redhead (1959)
Lyrics
  • Blackbirds of 1928 (1928)
  • Hello, Daddy (1928)
  • Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic (1929)
  • The International Review (1930)
  • The Vanderbilt Revue (1930)
  • Shoot the Works (1931)
  • Singin' the Blues (1931)
  • Stars in Your Eyes (1939)
  • Up in Central Park (1945)
  • Arms and the Girl (1950)
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951)
  • By the Beautiful Sea (1954)
  • Redhead (1959)
  • Sweet Charity (1966)
  • Seesaw (1973)
  • Shirley MacLaine (1976)
  • Sugar Babies (1979)
Music
  • The International Review (1930)
  • The Vanderbilt Revue (1930)
Family
  • Lew Fields (father)
  • Herbert Fields (brother)
  • Joseph Fields (brother)

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