Another good recording day: Valerian Ruminski did "Belle O'Brien" with a brogue, "The Song of the Bagpipes" with a Scottish burr, and was quite touching on "Wild Oats," an unpublished somg about a rich old man wanting to be young to sow some more wild oats. Its lyric is by Glen MacDonough, who wrote BABES IN TOYLAND and I thought it might have been intended for Barnaby, but I think the song's too sad for such an evil character. Maybe it's a reject from WONDERLAND or THE ROSE OF ALGIERS.
Margaret Jane Wray recorded her last three German lieder; tomorrow morning we'll record her and Zak Stains on the Spanish American War anthem "Columbia," along with two of Zak's ZIEGFELD FOLLIES numbers and Korliss Uecker's group.
I need a nap.