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Something For The Boys is a 1943 musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields. It opened at Broadway's Alvin Theatre on January 7, 1943 and closed on January 8, 1944 after playing 422 performances. It starred Ethel Merman, Bill Johnson, Betty Garrett, and Paula Laurence, was directed by Hassard Short, and choreographed by Jack Cole. In 1985, the Original Cast Recording was released on the AEI Records label derived from long lost transcriptions made for shortwave radio transmission.

Songs

Act I

See That You're Born in Texas - Ensemble
When My Baby Goes to Town - Staff Sgt. Rocky Fulton
Something for the Boys - Blossom Hart and Boys
When We're Home on the Range - Blossom Hart, Chiquita Hart and Harry Hart
Could It Be You? - Staff Sgt. Rocky Fulton and Boys
Hey, Good Lookin' - Blossom Hart and Staff Sgt. Rocky Fulton
Hey, Good Lookin' (Reprise) - Betty-Jean, Corp. Burns, Girls and Boys
He's a Right Guy - Blossom Hart
The Leader of a Big Time Band - Blossom Hart
Act II
I'm in Love with a Soldier Boy - Mary-Frances, Girls and Boys
There's a Happy Land in the Sky - Blossom Hart, Chiquita Hart, Harry Hart, Mr. Tobias Twitch and Staff Sgt. Rocky Fulton
He's a Right Guy (Reprise) - Blossom Hart
Could It Be You? (Reprise) - Staff Sgt. Rocky Fulton and Ensemble
By the Mississinewa - Blossom Hart and Chiquita Hart

Trivia

A version of the title song was recorded by Ethel Merman for her infamous Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

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