In the Columbia recording studio with Yvonne Arnaud, Leslie Henson, Tom Walls and George Grossmith about to record ‘I Like It’ under the baton of Willie Redstone.
Discography
Original London cast recordings
The original London cast members of Kissing Time recorded the following songs from the score for Columbia Records in June 1919:
- Selections —The Winter Garden Theatre Orchestra conducted by Willie Redstone (catalogue no. 76476/7)
- Motoring—Leslie Henson (cat. no. 76489)
- A Happy Family—Yvonne Arnaud, George Grossmith & Leslie Henson (cat. no. 76478)
- Someday Waiting Will End—Phyllis Dare (cat. no. 76481)
- Desertion—George Grossmith (cat. no. 76479)
- I Like It—Yvonne Arnaud, Tom Walls, Leslie Henson & George Grossmith (cat. no. 76480)
- Women Haven’t Any Mercy on a Man—Leslie Henson (cat. no. 76490)
- Joan and Peter—Phyllis Dare & George Grossmith (cat. no. 76483)
- Thousands of Years Ago—Phyllis Dare (cat. no. 76482)
- A Little Touch of Spring*—Leslie Henson & Tom Walls (cat. no. 76485)
- Chiquita*—Yvonne Arnaud (cat. no. 76487)
- Cherie, Oh, ma Cherie!—Yvonne Arnaud (cat. no. 76488)
- There’s a Light in Your Eyes—Phyllis Dare & George Grossmith (cat. no. 76484)
*(Additional songs added to the score during the London run.)
The above acoustic recordings have been restored and reissued on CD on Palaeophonics 82 by Dominic Combe.
Leslie Henson singing ‘Motoring’ (aka ‘My Motors’) (Columbia MC9) (1919)
Cover versions
The following 'cover versions' have been posted on the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive
Title: The girl behind the gun—one-step
Performers: Jaudas' Society Orchestra
Issue Number: Edison Blue Amberol: 3650
Release Year: 1919
Title: I'm true to them all
Performers: Arthur Fields
Issue Number: Edison Blue Amberol: 3855
Release Year: 1919
Title: Some day waiting will end
Performers: Leola Lucey and Chorus of Girls
Issue Number: Edison Blue Amberol: 3676
Release Year: 1919
Score
The complete score of Kissing Time may also be heard in MIDI file arrangements (prepared by Colin Johnston) posted on the Gilbert & Sullivan Archive website
Sheet Music
National Library of Australia, Canberra
Digital Special Collections, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Vocal score, University of Rochester
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Images
National Library of Australia, Canberra
New York Public Library, New York
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
J.C. Williamson Scene Books, Theatre Heritage Australia
Wikimedia Commons
The Broadway cast for The Girl Behind the Gun, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, 1919. Photo by White, New York.
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
Further reading
Mel Atkey, A Million Miles from Broadway, revised and expanded, Friendlysong Company, 2019
Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern: The men who made musical comedy, James H. Heineman, 1993
Barry Day (ed), The Complete Lyrics of P.G. Wodehouse, Scarecrow Press, 2004
Dan Dietz, The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021
Denny Martin Flinn, Musical!: A grand tour: The rise, glory, and fall of an American institution, Schirmer Books, 1997
Kurt Gänzl, The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, second edition, 3 vols, Schirmer Books, 2001
David A. Jasen, P.G. Wodehouse: A portrait of a master, Mason & Lipscomb, 1974
David A. Jasen, The Theatre of P.G. Wodehouse, B.T. Batford Ltd., 1979
Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A life, W.W. Norton & Co., 2004
Michael M. Miller, The Kern-Wodehouse-Bolton Musical "Have a Heart" (1917) | Operetta Research Center (operetta-research-center.org)
P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton, Bring On the Girls!: The improbable story of our life in musical comedy, with pictures to prove it, Limelight Editions, 1984 (originally published in 1953)
Programs
J.C. Williamson Theatres General Theatre Programs, National Library of Australia, Canberra
