Jump for Joy

• World Premiere (1941)
  Los Angeles, CA
• Regional Production (1958)
  Miami Beach, FL

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Sun-Tanned Tenth of the Nation
• Stomp Caprice
• Brown-Skinned Gal in the Calico Gown
  • aka The Brownskin Gal in the Calico Gown [no note]
• Human Interest (sketch)
• Bli-Blip
• I Got It Bad
  • aka I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good [no note]
• Hello, Mr. President (monologue)
• Cindy with the Two Left Feet
  • aka Two Left Feet [no note]
• Bugle Break
• Subtle Slough
• Flame Indigo
• Mad Scene from Woolworth's (sketch)
• Shhh! He's on the Beat
• I've Got a Passport from Georgia (and I'm Going to
  • aka I've Got a Passport from Georgia [no note]
• Garbo and Hepburn (sketch)
• Emperor's Bones, The
• Cymbal Sockin' Sam
• Uncle Tom's Cabin Is a Drive-In Now
• Giddybug Gallop
  • aka The Giddy-Bug Galop [no note]
• Jump for Joy
• Vignettes (sketch)
• Old Fashioned Waltz
  • aka Give Me an Old-Fashioned Waltz [no note]
• We Aim to Please (sketch)
• If Life Were All Peaches and Cream
• Rent Party (sketch)
• Concerto for Clinkers
• Finished Symphony, The (sketch)
• Chocolate Shake
• Hickory Stick
  • aka The Tune of the Hickory Stick [no note]
• Resigned to Living (sketch)
• Nothin'
• Made to Order (sketch)
• Sharp Easter

Used in the after-show

• Flamingo
• Take the 'A' Train
  • aka Take the 'A' Train [no note]
  • aka Take the A Train [no note]
• Boy Meets Horn
• Bessie--Whoa Babe
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (sketch)
• Nostalgia
• Tailor Sketch (sketch)
• Rocks in My Bed
• Things Ain't What They Used to Be
• Just A-Settin' and A-Rockin'
• Clementine
• Just Squeeze Me
• Natives Are Restless Tonight, The
• Nerves, Nerves, Nerves
• Resigned to Living
• Strictly for Tourists
• Within Me I Know
• Three Shows Nightly
• Don't Believe Everything You Hear
• So the Good Book Says
• Walk It Off
• If We Were Anymore British (We Couldn't Talk About
  • aka If We Were Anymore British [no note]

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Archival Reconstruction (not listed yet)
  

  • Ivie Anderson
  • Herb Jeffries
  • Joe Turner
  • Marie Bryant
  • Paul White

Following the usual finale of Jump for Joy, there was an after-show show which became a nightly concert/jam sesion lasting over an hour. There would have been many more songs done in the after-show but only the titles indicated above have been traced.