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A Ship without a Sail

Written: 1929

Music by: Richard Rodgers

Words by: Lorenz Hart

Written originally for
the show Me for You—
which never opened in New York
but became Heads Up! (1929)
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Other songs written for Heads Up! currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook: none.

 

For a complete listing of songs used in the original production of Heads Up!, see IBDB song list.

"A Ship without a Sail was written for the the show Me Without You, which opened and closed in Detroit in September, 1929. In that foreshortened run, it was sung by Madeline Gibson and Jack Whiting. After the closing, Me Without You was given a new book, some new songs and quite a few new performers and transformed into Heads Up!, which tried out in Philadelphia in Oct./Nov. 1929 and opened in New York at the Alvin Theater for a run of 144 performances from Nov. 11, 1929, through March 15, 1930. In it "A Ship without a Sail" was performed by Betty Starbuck and Whiting.
(The Complete Lyrics Of Lorenz Hart. Dorothy Hart and Robert Kimball (Eds.), New York: Knoph, 1986 (Da Capo Press expanded, paper bound edition 1995), pp. 140-144, Knoph edition.)

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