List of songs composed by Burton Lane

Burton Lane (1912–1997) was an American composer and lyricist. He chiefly composed songs for musical theater and films.

Songs are listed under the work for which they were written, if any.

For revues and films to which other composers also contributed, a lyricist given once for the entire work refers only to Lane's compositions for that work. That is, those other composers may have written songs for that work with different lyricists.

Songs

Artists and Models (revue, 1930)[1]

Three's a Crowd (revue, 1930)[2]

  • "Forget All Your Books" (lyrics by Howard Dietz and Sammy Lerner)
  • "Out in the Open Air" (lyrics by Howard Dietz and Ted Pola)

The Third Little Show (revue, 1931)[3]

Earl Carroll's Vanities (revue, 1931, lyrics by Harold Adamson)[4]

  • "Going to Town With Me"
  • "Have a Heart"
  • "Heigh Ho the Gang's All Here"
  • "Love Came into My Heart" (cut after opening)
  • "The Mahoneyphone"
  • "Masks and Hands"[5]
  • "Oh My Yes" (cut after opening)
  • "Cute Peekin' Knees (not in program)

Singin' the Blues (play with music, 1931)[6]

  • "Crazy Street" (lyrics by Harold Adamson)

Americana (revue, 1932)[7]

  • "You're Not Pretty but You're Mine" (lyrics by Yip Harburg)

Dancing Lady (film, 1933, lyrics by Harold Adamson)[8]

Swing High, Swing Low (film, 1937)[9]

Cocoanut Grove (film, 1938)[10]

  • "Says My Heart" (lyrics by Frank Loesser)
  • "Ten Easy Lessons" (lyrics by "Jock" and Frank Loesser)
  • "Swami Song" (lyrics by Alfred Santell and Frank Loesser)

College Swing (film, 1938, lyrics by Frank Loesser)[10]

Some Like It Hot (film, 1939)[11]

Hold On to Your Hats (musical, 1940, lyrics by Yip Harburg)[12]

  • "Don't Let It Get You Down"
  • "Down on the Dude Ranch"
  • "Hold Onto Your Hats"
  • "Life Was Pie for the Pioneer"
  • "Old-Timer"
  • "She Came, She Saw, She Can-Canned"
  • "Then You Were Never in Love"
  • "There's a Great Day Coming, Manana"
  • "Walking Along Mindin' My Business"
  • "Way Out West Where the East Begins"
  • "The World Is In My Arms"
  • "Would You be So Kindly"
  • "Bedtime on the Prairie" (cut)
  • "Looks Like I'm Off O' Ya" (cut)
  • "Swing Your Calico" (cut)
  • "Crispy, Crunch Crackers" (never used)

Dancing on a Dime (film, 1940, lyrics by Frank Loesser)[13]

Babes on Broadway (film, 1941)[14]

  • "Babes on Broadway" (lyrics by Ralph Freed)
  • "Anything Can Happen in New York" (lyrics by Ralph Freed)
  • "Chin Up, Cheerio, Carry On" (lyrics by Yip Harburg)
  • "How About You?" (lyrics by Ralph Freed)

Ship Ahoy (film, 1942)[15]

  • "I'll Take Tallulah" (lyrics by Yip Harburg)
  • "The Last Call for Love" (lyrics by Margery Cummings and Yip Harburg)
  • "Poor You" (lyrics by Yip Harburg)

Du Barry Was a Lady (film, 1943)[16]

  • "Du Barry Was a Lady" (lyrics by Ralph Freed)
  • "Madam, I Love Your Crepe Suzette" (lyrics by Lew Brown and Ralph Freed)
  • "Salome" (lyrics by Yip Harburg and Ralph Freed)

Laffing Room Only (revue, 1944, lyrics by Burton Lane)[17]

  • "The Doolittle Hop" (cut out of town)
  • "Feudin' and Fightin'" (lyrics by Burton Lane and Frank Loesser)
  • "Go Down to Boston Harbor"
  • "Got That Good Time Feelin'"
  • "Gotta Get Joy" (lyrics by Al Dubin)
  • "The Hellzapoppin Polka"
  • "Hooray for Anywhere"
  • "Mother Mississippi"
  • "The Steps of the Capitol"
  • "Stop That Dancing"
  • "Sunny California"
  • "This Is As Far As I Go"
  • "Two on an Island"
  • "You Excite Me"

Finian's Rainbow (musical, 1947, lyrics by Yip Harburg)[18]

Royal Wedding (film, 1951, lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner)[19]

  • "Ev'ry Night At Seven"
  • "Open Your Eyes"
  • "The Happiest Day of My Life"
  • "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life?"
  • "Too Late Now"
  • "You're All the World to Me"
  • "I Left My Hat in Haiti"
  • "What a Lovely Day for a Wedding"
  • "Sunday Jumps" (cut)
  • "I Got Me a Baby" (cut)

Jollyanna and The Little Doll Laughed (revisions of Flahooley, 1952, lyrics by Yip Harburg)[20][21]

  • "Little Bit of Magic"
  • "What's Gonna Happen?"

Give a Girl a Break (film, 1953, lyrics by Ira Gershwin)[22]

  • "Applause! Applause!"
  • "Nothing Is Impossible"
  • "Give a Girl a Break"
  • "In Our United State"
  • "It Happens Ev'ry Time"

Jupiter's Darling (film, 1955, lyrics by Harold Adamson)[23]

  • "I Never Trust a Woman"
  • "I Have a Dream"
  • "The Life of an Elephant"
  • "Horatio's Narration"
  • "If This Be Slav'ry"
  • "Don't Let This Night Get Away"
  • "Hannibal's Victory March"

Junior Miss (made-for-television musical, 1957, lyrics by Dorothy Fields)[24]

  • "Happy Heart"
  • "Have Feet Will Dance"
  • "I'll Buy It"
  • "It's Just What I Wanted"
  • "Junior Miss"
  • "Let's Make It Christmas All Year 'Round"
  • "A Male Is an Animal"

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (musical, 1965, lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner)[25]

  • "Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here"
  • "Ring Out the Bells" (cut for the national tour)
  • "I'll Not Marry" (cut soon after opening)
  • "Tosy and Cosh" (replaced the previous song)
  • "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)"
  • "On the S.S. Bernard Cohn"
  • "At the Hellrakers" (dance)[26]
  • "Don't Tamper With My Sister on a Publick Walke" (cut from production)
  • "She Wasn't You"
  • "Melinda"
  • "When I'm Being Born Again"
  • "When I Come Around Again" (rewrite of the previous song for the national tour)
  • "What Did I Have That I Don't Have?"
  • "Wait 'Til We're Sixty-Five"
  • "Come Back to Me"
  • "The Solicitor's Song" (cut before opening, then reinstated for the national tour)
  • "The Normal Thing to Do" (cut before opening)
  • "The Domestic Champagne Waltz" (cut before opening)
  • "Mom" (cut before opening)

We Bombed in New Haven (play, 1968)[27]

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (film, 1970, lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner)[28]

  • "Love With All the Trimmings"
  • "Go to Sleep"
  • "People Like Me (E.S.P.)" (cut from the final print)
  • "Who Is There Among Us Who Knows?" (cut from the final print)

Carmelina (musical, 1979, lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner)[29]

  • "It's Time for a Love Song"
  • "Why Him?
  • "I Must Have Her"
  • "Someone in April"
  • "Signora Campbell"
  • "Love Before Breakfast"
  • "Yankee Doodles"
  • "I Wonder How She Looks"
  • "One More Walk Around the Garden"
  • "All That He Wants Me to Be"
  • "Carmelina"
  • "The Image of Me"
  • "I'm a Woman"
  • "Prologue" (cut)
  • "Prayer" (cut)

Heidi's Song (animated musical, 1982, lyrics by Sammy Cahn)[30]

  • "Good at Making Friends"
  • "Wunderhorn"
  • "A Christmas-y Day"
  • "An Armful of Sunshine"
  • "Heidi"
  • "She's a Nothing"
  • "Imagine"
  • "An Un-kind Word"
  • "That's What Friends Are For"
  • "Ode to a Rat"

See also Musicals by Burton Lane, Films with songs by Burton Lane and Songs with music by Burton Lane.

References

  1. ^ Bloom, Ken (1996). American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion (2nd ed.). New York: Schirmer Books. p. 53. ISBN 0-02-870484-3.
  2. ^ Bloom 1996, p. 1122.
  3. ^ Bloom 1996, p. 1114.
  4. ^ Bloom 1996, p. 282.
  5. ^ "Earl Carroll's Vanities [1931]". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  6. ^ Bloom 1996, p. 1026.
  7. ^ Bloom 1996, p. 31.
  8. ^ Burton, Jack (1953). The Blue Book of Hollywood Musicals. Watkins Glen, N.Y.: Century House. p. 49. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
  9. ^ Burton 1953, pp. 97–98.
  10. ^ a b Burton 1953, p. 108.
  11. ^ Burton 1953, p. 126.
  12. ^ Bloom 1996, p. 492.
  13. ^ Burton 1953, p. 153.
  14. ^ Burton 1953, p. 152.
  15. ^ Burton 1953, p. 170.
  16. ^ Burton 1953, p. 181.
  17. ^ Bloom 1996, p. 614.
  18. ^ Bloom 1996, p. 317.
  19. ^ McHugh, Dominic; Asch, Amy (2018). The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 129–139. ISBN 978-0-19-064673-8.
  20. ^ Meyerson, Harold; Harburg, Ernie (1993). Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz?. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. p. 289. ISBN 0-472-10482-9.
  21. ^ Bloom 1996, p. 568.
  22. ^ "Give a Girl a Break". gershwin.com. Gershwin Enterprises. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  23. ^ Craig, Warren (1980). The Great Songwriters of Hollywood. San Diego: A.S. Barnes. pp. 142, 164. ISBN 0498024393. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
  24. ^ Bloom 1996, p. 577.
  25. ^ McHugh & Asch 2018, p. 323-352.
  26. ^ "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever". playbill.com. Playbill. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  27. ^ "We Bombed in New Haven". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  28. ^ McHugh & Asch 2018, p. 352-356.
  29. ^ McHugh & Asch 2018, p. 529-550.
  30. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 183. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
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