Whoopee
By: [music and lyrics by Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson, and others]
Contributors: Kahn, Gus, 1886-1941, librettist; Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964, performer; Etting, Ruth, d. 1978, performer; Olsen, George, 1893-1971, conductor; Davis, Owen, 1874-1956
Series: Smithsonian American musical theater series; Smithsonian American musical theater series
Publisher: Smithsonian Collection
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Subjects: Musicals
Work titles: Whoopee
Notes: Musical comedy.

"An archival reconstruction of the original 1928 Ziegfeld production"--Container.

Music by Donaldson, lyrics by Kahn, with interpolations by other songwriters included in the original production.

Based on: The nervous wreck / Owen Davis.

Program notes by Stanley Green on and bound in container.

Featuring performances by Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, and George Olsen and his Music.
Table of contents: title: Prologue, Whoopee medley (Colonial Club Orchestra); title: I'm bringing a red, red rose; title: Making' [sic] whoopee!; title: Until you get somebody else; title: Come west little girl come west; title: Gypsy song (Victor Light Opera Company); title: Hungry women / Yellen, Ager; title: Eddie Cantor's automobile horn song / Gaskill ... [et al.]; title: I faw down an' go boom! / Brockman, Stevens, Berman; title: Love me or leave me; title: My blackbirds are bluebirds now / Friend, Caesar; title: Reprise, Come west little girl come west (the Ritz Quartet); title: Reprise, Makin' whoopee! (Paul Whiteman and his orchestra).