Bombo (musical)

• Setting: Genoa, Italy; Cordova, Spain; and San Salvador, El Salvador Gus (played by Jolson in blackface) is a man living in Genoa, Italy in 1921 who finds himself transported back in time to Spain in 1492. Adopting the name "Bombo", Gus meets the explorer Christopher Columbus and becomes a slave whom Columbus brings along on his first voyage to the New World. as Gus between Queen Isabella and Christopher Columbus in a scene from Bombo. ==Songs==

• Any Place Will Do With You • April Showers (words by B. G. de Sylva; music by Louis Silvers) • Arcady (words & music by Jolson & DeSylva) • The Barber In Seville (words and music by DeSylva and Jolson) • Barefoot Days (by Al Wilson & Jas. A. Brennan) • California, Here I Come (by Jolson, DeSylva & Joseph Meyer) • Coo-Coo Song (words by Jolson and DeSylva) • Dirty Hands, Dirty Face (lyric by Jolson, Grant Clarke & Edgar Leslie; music by James V. Monaco) • Don't Cry, Swanee (by Jolson, DeSylva & Con Conrad) • Don't Send Your Wife to the Country (words by DeSylva; music by Silvers) • Down South (words by DeSylva; music by Walter Donaldson) • Give Me My Mammy (words by DeSylva; music by Donaldson) • I'm Goin’ South (words and music by Abner Silver and Harry Woods) • In Old Granada • In the Way Off There • It's You (words by DeSylva; music by Silvers) • Jazzadadadoo • Koo-Kee-Koo (words by Kiang Zaney; music by Nacio Herb Brown) • Last Night on the Back Porch (by Lew Brown & Carl Schraubstader) • Morning Will Come (by Jolson, DeSylva & Conrad) • Oh, Oh, Columbus • Old Fashioned Girl (words and music by Jolson) • Tallahassee (words by DeSylva; music by Silvers) • Tell Me With Smiles (by Cliff Friend and Walter Hirsch) • Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo’ Bye) (Words and music by Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman & Dan Russo) • The Very Next Girl I See • Wetona • Who Cares? (words by Jack Yellen; music by Milton Ager) • Yoo-Hoo (lyrics by DeSylva; melody by Jolson) ==References==