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 Great Vocal Gems of two Broadway Hits of 1925 in one of the first electric recordings

With all the stars of the Victor studio as supporting chorus

Romberg's The student prince gave us the famous drinking song:

"Come Boys, Let's all be gay, boys"

Gems from The student prince in Heidelberg
Student's marching song ; Golden days ; Serenade ; Deep in my heart ; Drinking song (Medley contents) 
Dorothy Donnelly (lyricist) 
Sigmund Romberg (composer) 
4/17/1925 Camden, New Jersey 

Eduard Künneke's Hit Musical "The love song" based on motifs by Jaques Offenbach, which premiered in New York in 1925

Century Theatre
(Jan 13, 1925 - Jun 06, 1925)
Description An operetta in three acts
Setting In the Pyrenees in the 1840s, the Tuileries in the 1860s, and Offenbach's studio in the 1870s
 
Music by Jacques Offenbach and Edward Künneke; Selected and arranged by Edward Künneke; Lyrics by Harry B. Smith; From the Hungarian of Michael Nador and Eugene Ferago; From the German adaptation by James Klein and Carl Bretschneider; Musical Director: Alfred Goodman

Gems from The love song
Yes or no ; Only a dream ; He writes a song ; Love song (Remember me) (Medley contents) Disc label

Harry B. Smith (lyricist) 
Jacques Offenbach (composer) 
Eduard Künneke (composer) 

Victor Light Opera Company (Vocal group) 
Della Baker (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Olive Kline (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Lucy Isabelle Marsh (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Elsie Baker (vocalist : contralto) 
Richard Crooks (vocalist : tenor vocal) 
Lambert Murphy (vocalist : tenor vocal) 
Royal Dadmun (vocalist : baritone vocal) 
Clifford Cairns (vocalist : baritone vocal) 
Helen Clark (vocalist : soprano vocal) Takes 4- 7.
Rosario Bourdon (director) 
Description: Vocal chorus and soloists, with orchestra

4/16/1925 Camden, New Jersey  Victor 35757

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The Student Prince is an operetta in four acts with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. It is based on Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's play Old Heidelberg. The piece has a score with some of Romberg's most enduring and beautiful tunes, including "Golden Days", "Drinking Song", "Deep in My Heart, Dear", "Just We Two" and "Serenade" ("Overhead the moon is beaming").[1] The plot has elements of melodrama but lacks the swashbuckling style common to Romberg's other works.

It opened on December 2, 1924, at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre on Broadway and became the most successful of Romberg's works, running for 608 performances.[1] It was staged by J. C. Huffman and was the longest-running Broadway show of the 1920s.[2] Even the classic Show Boat, the most enduring musical of the 1920s, did not play as long – it ran for 572 performances.[3] "Drinking Song", with its rousing chorus of "Drink! Drink! Drink!" was especially popular with theatergoers in 1924, as the United States was in the midst of Prohibition.

Ernst Lubitsch made a silent film also based on Förster's work, titled The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer. Its orchestral score did not use any of Romberg's score, although it did include Gaudeamus Igitur. The operetta was revived twice on Broadway – once in 1931 and again in 1943. Mario Lanza's performance on the soundtrack of the 1954 MGM film The Student Prince, renewed the popularity of many of the songs. Composer Nicholas Brodszky and lyricist Paul Francis Webster wrote three new songs for the film. Two of these songs – "I'll Walk with God" and "Beloved", as well as "Serenade" – became closely associated with Lanza, although the role was played on screen by British actor Edmund Purdom, who mimed to Lanza's recordings.