Welcome to a new Musical Theatre Monday! As you know, I like to celebrate Cole Porter here every June, so this month I’m sharing — with subscribers who comment below to alert me of their private, non-commercial interest — access to a songs-only live audio from the 2013 Musicals Tonight! production of Porter’s seldom-played Mexican Hayride (1944).

I sampled this audio when I first highlighted Mexican Hayride here back in 2014 — it’s a show that features a handful of underrated Cole Porter melodies but lacks both the thematic focus from some of his later scores and the right balance of era-specific social insight with universal humanity as heard in his earlier ones. Recordings from the original cast have kept numbers like “There Must Be Someone For Me” and, the show’s one hit, “I Love You,” in the hearts and minds of all Porter lovers everywhere, but many of the most interesting songs from Mexican Hayride were either cut from the Broadway production, or they made it in but basically died with it, as they were never officially recorded thereafter (and the 1948 film adaptation of the same name featured nothing of the stage show’s score). In the latter category, here’s a track I’ve shared before (from this audio) — the tone-setting “The Good-Will Movement.”

And in the former category — cut from the original production — is “It’s Just Yours,” which has an appealing simplicity, below. Enjoy — and be sure to let me know if you’re interested in a copy of the audio! (This offer will close at the end of June 2024!)

Come back next month for another musical rarity! And stay tuned tomorrow for more Curb!