The landmark Broadway musical Show Boat - music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II - opened in New York on December 27, 1927and remains to this day one of the most popular musicals ever written.
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Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Overture (excerpt)
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ensemble Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
Album Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Record Label Telarc
Show Boat: "Cotton Blossom"
Composer Jerome Kern
Ensemble Merrill Staton Choir
Conductor Franz Allers
Album Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
Record Label Sony
Show Boat: "Where's the Mate for Me?"; "Make Believe"
Composer Jerome Kern
Conductor Franz Allers
Album Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
Record Label Sony
Show Boat: "Ol' Man River"
Composer Jerome Kern
Conductor Franz Allers
Album Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
Record Label Sony
Show Boat: "Can't Help Lovin' dat Man"
Composer Jerome Kern
Album A Collector's Show Boat
Record Label RCA
Show Boat: "Till Good Luck Comes My Way"
Composer Jerome Kern
Conductor Lehman Engel
Album A Collector's Show Boat
Record Label RCA
Show Boat: "Life Upon the Wicked Stage"
Composer Jerome Kern
Ensemble Merrill Staton Choir
Conductor Franz Allers
Album Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
Record Label Sony
Show Boat: "I Might Fall Back on You"
Composer Jerome Kern
Conductor Lehman Engel
Album A Collector's Show Boat
Record Label RCA
Show Boat: "I Have the Room Above"
Composer Jerome Kern
Conductor Henri René
Album A Collector's Show Boat
Record Label RCA
Show Boat: "Nobody Else but Me"
Composer Jerome Kern
Ensemble Cast of 1946 Broadway Revival
Album Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
Record Label Sony
Show Boat: "You Are Love"
Composer Jerome Kern
Conductor Franz Allers
Album Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
Record Label Sony
Show Boat: "Why Do I Love You?"
Composer Jerome Kern
Conductor Franz Allers
Album Show Boat - 1962 Studio Cast Recording
Record Label Sony
Show Boat: "Bill"
Composer Jerome Kern
Album A Collector's Show Boat
Record Label RCA
Show Boat: "Dance Away the Night"
Composer Jerome Kern
Conductor Lehman Engel
Album A Collector's Show Boat
Record Label RCA
Show Boat: "Ol' Man River"
Composer Jerome Kern
Ensemble Paul Whiteman's Concert Orchestra
Conductor Paul Whiteman
Album A Collector's Show Boat
Record Label RCA