Great Day

• Original Broadway Production (1929)
  New York, NY

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Opening
• Does It Pay to Be a Lady?
• I Like What You Like
• Happy Because I'm in Love
• Great Day
• One Love
• Si, Si, Senor
• Spanish Dance
• Open Up Your Heart
• Wedding Bells Ring On, The
• More Than You Know
• Play the Game
• Levee Scene and Hymn
• Sweet as Sugar Cane
• Specialty (Trainor Brothers)
• Without a Song
• Scarecrows
• Dance

Cut after Philadelphia tryout

• Before I Go
• Right Off the Board
• I Wish You'd Never Grow Up at All
• Do We Understand Each Other
• Mardi Gras
• Sweet Emmy Lou
• Specialty (Moiret and Fredi)
• Specialty (Two Black Dots)
• Specialty (The Girls)
• Sweet Sunshine
• Bismark Is a Herring, Napoleon Is a Cake
• Doo, Dah, Deh
• Mean Man
• Poor Little Orphans
  • aka Sixteen of 'Em [no note]
• Dancing in the Moonlight
• Flood, The
• Help Us Tonight
• Homestead Must Be Sold, The
• Meet the Boy Friend
• River Song

Harold Arlen was rehearsal pianist for this show as well as a bit player for a short time in the tryout version. For HOORAY FOR WHAT (1937) and JAMAICA (1957) he wrote the similar, but different songs, 'Napoleon's a Pastry' and 'Napoleon' (lyrics for both by E. Y. Harburg). It's likely that the idea for these may have come from the discarded number, 'Bismark Is a Herring, Napoleon Is a Cake', from this show!

• Louisiana Lou (working title)