"Home Sweet Heaven" Tammy Grimes "High Spirits" Rare single version Bea Lillie

The rare single version Tammy Grimes recorded of "Home Sweet Heaven" from "High Spirits", score by Timothy Gray and Hugh Martin. Though she doesn't sing any of the extra verses (which were more daring), she and the band are a bit looser than on the OC recording. Recently she revealed that out of town after she expressed dissatisfaction with the level of wit in the original lyrics she found a revised set by Coward slipped under her hotel door. He never took credit for it. There was another single recorded (by someone else) with more lyrics and Coward recorded it with yet more. Like Porter's list songs, it really does invite having a go and I've had one too. I wonder how many more Coward wrote. I did clean and remaster this recording some, normal 45 disk noise removed. My verse :

Durante's soothing
Garbo is chatty
And Alexander Woolcott's clawing's much less catty
Charles Laughton handles
Chuck Heston's sandals
Here in his home sweet heaven.

Monty and Tony
Take turns when perkin'.
And Cary Grant and Randy Scott shun gawkers lurkin'.
Ed Poe is ravin'
Fats's misbehavin'
Here in his home sweet heaven.

Miss Ethel Waters gets the vapors
At Bojangles' capers
They're hot 'n trotting potentates.
Cole Porter eschews polo
For a beaut beau so low
He's dumb when he articulates.
What a gas, yes a gas, it's a gas, it's a gas, it's a gas, it's a gas.

Nijinsky partners
Nureyev's mission
Attending angels all on point take fifth position
It's one big orgy
Gershwin plays Porgy
He plunks those keys on his knees
Noel Coward may roll over hearing this
But then that was his path to earth shaking bliss
When he would tryst in this abyss
Before he found his home sweet -
it's a gas, it's a gas, it's a gas, it's a gas, it's a gas, it's a gas!
When he would tryst in this abyss
Before he found his home sweet heaven!