WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from August 9, 2024

Listener comments!
	7:00pm Listener Gregory: Listening far under the rainbow and a lot of rain.
	7:03pm adamdoesit: - Knock knock. - Who's there? - Arlen. - Arlen who? - Arlen you glad I didn't say banana?
	7:06pm TonyR: Yay, Craig!
	7:07pm Soule: Hi, DJ Bronwyn and all listeners!
	7:08pm Dan S: Settling in for Arlen. Hi, Bronwyn and fellow AJH listeners.
	7:11pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "My Gal, My Pal" by "Blue Ribbon Syncopators" Rare bass saxophone solo! For some reason this instrument disappeared by the 30s... maybe because it was so large?
	7:12pm TonyR: ↳ Song: "My Gal, My Pal" by "Blue Ribbon Syncopators" Did I miss the lyrics completely?
	7:14pm TonyR: Viva-tonal Foxtrot!
	7:17pm diciassette: gettin' there!
	7:19pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Out of a Clear Blue Sky" by "Bob Crosby & the Bob... Not as famous as his brother Bing.
	7:19pm Dean: Any Kiri this evening?
	7:20pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Get Happy" by "Judy Garland & MGM Studio Chorus" I'm pretty ready for that judgment day. :)
	7:20pm TonyR: Beatle George??
	7:21pm Soule: ↳ Song: "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by "Geor... Love this!
	7:21pm Dean: George makes me think of Ian Whitcomb (RIP), who penned this about HA: https://www.picklehead.com/ian/ian_txt_arlen.html
	7:22pm Dan S: ↳ TonyR @7:20 Yes. I think this was released posthumously.
	7:22pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by "Geor... Wow. No idea this existed.
	7:22pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by "Geor... I like what George does with this song!
	7:22pm TonyR: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:22 Same here.
	7:23pm TonyR: Disco Oz reserved for bed music.
	7:26pm TonyR: There's basically nothing surviving from the cutting room floor of the 1939 "Wizard". Makes "Jitterbug" a small miracle.
	7:26pm diciassette: Ella Ella Ella!
	7:27pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @7:26 Be quiet, Stanley!
	7:31pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues" by "Ella Fitzger... Basically, every human being has the right to sing the blues about something or another.
	7:32pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues" by "Ella Fitzger... I love this arrangement! And Ella is perfect, as always. Who is the arranger? Maybe Billy May (from discogs, though this particular record isn't listed).
	7:32pm Holland Oatzier Holland: 💕
	7:33pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:32 Ella did a two-record Harold Arlen Songbook album.
	7:34pm Dan S: ↳ Dan S @7:31 BTW, the Hudson River Park Blues BBQ Festival is tomorrow, at Pier 76 (W. 36th St.) In case anyone is interested.
	7:35pm Dean: California law prohibits singing the blues when you have the world on a string.
	7:36pm TonyR: ↳ Dean @7:35 Nanny State!
	7:37pm Dean: Here's Kiri singing lyrics by Truman Capote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZNLH7gh2es&t=7s
	7:38pm Dean: I'll never mistake Ethel Merman for Kiri Te Kanawa, that's for sure.
	7:40pm Dean: He said, "muslin," right? Speaking of which, here's Jaylen Brown speaking at Cal about Michel Foucault. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhrH-S8pGpY
	7:42pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "It's Only a Paper Moon" by "Nat King Cole" Cole did at least a few versions of this -- changed it up.
	7:42pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @7:40 Yes, as in "a cotton fabric of plain weave."
	7:42pm Listener Gregory: Beginning to think that Arlen had quite a few hits.
	7:44pm Dan S: ↳ still b/p @7:42 The song's so good that I wouldn't mind hearing a second version of it tonight, by Cole or someone else—time permitting, of course.
	7:45pm TonyR: H.A. passed at age of 81.
	7:46pm Dean: Was it also performed in the movie with Ryan O'Neal and Tatum?
	7:51pm diciassette: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:32 I can't find any evidence of a Verve release entitled "Ella Sings the Blues"
	7:52pm Dean: For torch songs, don't miss this Eileen Farrell record: https://www.discogs.com/release/5878320-Eileen-Farrell-Sings-Torch-Songs
	7:53pm diciassette: This lady has l'air de Miss Hannigan!
	7:54pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "I Couldn't Hold My Man" by "Faith Prince" woo!
	7:54pm Karl: Hello Bronwyn! Great to meet you on the boat!
	7:55pm Dean: Ella did an entire double album of Arlen tunes.
	7:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ diciassette @7:51 Bronwyn has the only copy.
	7:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ diciassette @7:51 But that song IS on the Harold Arlen Songbook record.
	7:58pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @7:55 We are way ahead of you!
	8:00pm Dean: Thanks, LG. In case you haven't figured it out, by the way, this show is dedicated to songs by Harold Arlen.
	8:02pm northguineahills: heyas browyn and jazzer hands!
	8:02pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Shake It Off with Rhythm" by "Ethel Merman" I see Parkyakarkus on the movie poster, so I looks him up, having heard of him but not recalling any details, and learn he's dad of Albert Brooks and Bob Einstein.
	8:02pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Shake It Off with Rhythm" by "Ethel Merman" Good song, and that's quite a poster that went with it.
	8:03pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Karl @7:54 great to meet you too!! :D
	8:05pm Karl: ↳ northguineahills @8:02 What is HAPPENING to my hands?
	8:06pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:00 I think you may be right.
	8:06pm northguineahills: ↳ Karl @8:05 why do they call them fingers.... oh wait, one of them just finged!
	8:06pm diciassette: ↳ Karl @8:05 THESE ARE NOT MY HANDS!
	8:07pm adamdoesit: "Don't know if we're in Brooklyn / Or Mandalay" <checks forecast> Me neither.
	8:07pm diciassette: ↳ diciassette @8:06 ok false alarm, I guess they are
	8:08pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "Blues In The Night" by "Benny Goodman and His Sex... Peggy Lee, it says
	8:08pm Listener Gregory: ↳ diciassette @8:07 Check your pockets for extras.
	8:12pm Dean: I'll also associate "My mama done told me..." with Bugs Bunny.
	8:12pm Dean: "also" s/b "always"
	8:13pm Roberto: I've met Eddie Cantor's grandson. A handsome lad like his grandpappy!
	8:13pm Dean: Oh, yeah! The Pike!
	8:14pm Dean: The Pike is now a retail outlet. Lovely.
	8:14pm Dean: More like d'stang-GAY, maybe?
	8:15pm Listener Gregory: I strongly recommend people check out the Fred Astaire dance routing for One For My Baby in the film. It is an incredible example of nihilism in dance. (The movie is a bit annoying, but worth a viewing I guess.)
	8:17pm diciassette: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:08 I am now inspired to re-watch "I pugni in tasca" (or a Marx Bros movie)
	8:19pm Dean: It bums me that Billie Holiday could have made it into the 21st century. Not likely, but plausible. She died days after I was born.
	8:20pm Dean: I heard her live once, but in utero.
	8:20pm Dean: Coltrane died on the same day of the year.
	8:21pm Dean: By the way, in utero is the best seat in the house. Open bar.
	8:22pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" by "... Of course, Frank Sinatra also did a celebrated version of this song. Someone told me recently that Frank said he owed much of what he knew about singing to Billie Holiday. I can't vouch for the truth of that, but I like the story.
	8:23pm diciassette: ↳ Dan S @8:22 That seems plausible to me.
	8:26pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" by "Aretha Franklin" Aretha channeling Dinah Washington here.
	8:26pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:20 I think we'll have to see your ticket stub before you get credit for that, Dean.
	8:27pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" by "Aretha Franklin" The thing is, in between is mostly where I live! :)
	8:27pm Roberto: ↳ Dean @8:21 And in 1959, free second-hand smoke, no doubt.
	8:27pm Dean: Although Holiday had limited popular appeal during her lifetime, her impact on other singers was profound. In 1958 Frank Sinatra cited Holiday as “the greatest single musical influence on me” and “the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.” Oxford African American Studies Center "Billie Holiday is the singer who influenced more aspiring singers, both male and female, than any other vocalist in history. Even Frank Sinatra attributes listening to Billie as the major influence in developing his legendary phrasing." Bogle, Dick. 1994. "Dick's Picks: "Billie Holiday"." The Skanner, Sep 21, 13.
	8:28pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @8:27 OK, thanks for looking that up!
	8:28pm Dean: Nice, Leontyne Price. The pianist for Kiri, too, was Previn in my link above.
	8:31pm Dean: Truly, if (understandably) Bronwyn doesn't play Kiri, take a few minutes to hear her delivery. Her Kern album is gorgeous.
	8:34pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "come rain or come shine" by "Ray Charles" Ray Charles's vocal timbre turns almost every note into a blue note. Incredible.
	8:36pm Dean: "Accentuate the Positive" really lost ground during pandemic.
	8:38pm WR: Hello central, get me doctorjazz. What? He's out of town, man he is missing an episode that is right up his alley and probably all the rest of the jazz family would enjoy it too.
	8:38pm Dan S: Hey Bronwyn, here's an idea I have for a future AJH program theme: "You Can't Keep a Good Show Down - Music From Musicals That Have Enjoyed Revivals." It would give you a chance to talk about the history of each musical. I'll credit this idea to a recent radio story I heard about a radical redo of "Cats" called "The Jellicle Ball." It's currently at PAC-NYC through Sep. 8th. Here's a link: pacnyc.org...
	8:47pm Bronwyn Bishop: just a warning that since there's no radio is broken tonight we are going to go into OT!!! Harold deserves it
	8:47pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:47 Fine by me!
	8:47pm Dean: The Radio Is Broken is broken?!
	8:49pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @8:47 Yes. That news comes from the WFMU Department of Redundancy Department.
	8:49pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:47 No, it got fixed. Show therefore canceled.
	8:50pm still b/p: Substitute poster...? Has it any connection to the musical...?
	8:50pm Dan S: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:49 A puzzling paradox there.
	8:52pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dan S @8:50 Yes, kind of a catch-22: When the radio is broken, the show is on, but you can't hear it; when the radio is working, the show is off. If this were broadcast radio, the FTC would be investigating.
	8:53pm Dean: Whew. Good to know Rich will be up and running and broadcasting as usual. Therefore, I won't hear the show. Because if he hadn't gotten things in order, the radio would have remained broken and I would have been able to tune in. But he didn't. The show is in perfect operating order, which means I have to find other means of entertainment.
	8:54pm northguineahills: thanks a doodle!, bronwyn! /play until dawn!
	8:55pm northguineahills: ↳ adamdoesit @8:07 ha!
	8:55pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @8:53 Schrodinger's radio show? It both is and isn't.
	8:55pm TonyR: Bonus Arlen Party!!!!!
	8:55pm still b/p: ↳ Dean @8:53 Abbot and Costello called and said "Thanks for clearing it up."
	8:55pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:15 i haven't seen that since I was in uni!
	8:55pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:52 jejeje!
	8:56pm Dean: "The cat is dead" is lightyears removed from "the radio is broken."
	8:56pm northguineahills: ↳ Dan S @8:55 yes?
	8:57pm Dean: Oh, nice, a Capote tune.
	8:57pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @8:56 i once went as the popular misconception of schrodinger's cat for halloween....
	8:58pm Dean: Great idea, ngh. I went as "Occupy the Couch" during the Occupy year.
	8:59pm Dean: Held a sign, but mostly sat on my fat ass and asked for more beer. "Trick or treat or, no, never mind, beer."
	9:01pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @8:59 excellent!
	9:01pm TonyR: What did that atom ever do to you?
	9:02pm Dean: I keep wanting to touch one or two of my atoms.
	9:02pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Leave De Atom Alone" by "Josephine Premice & Jama... I see Ricardo Montalban co-starred. It is great how he could stand in for any ethnic group.
	9:02pm TonyR: Thought this was Eartha Kitt before the playlist refreshed.
	9:02pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Leave De Atom Alone" by "Josephine Premice & Jama... Hmm. An Arlen/Harburg anti-nuke protest song.
	9:02pm northguineahills: ↳ TonyR @9:01 i mean, when talking about uwe schmidt....
	9:04pm TonyR: I was stumped on singer of "Got Away".
	9:05pm TonyR: It takes gumption to cover Frances Gumm.
	9:07pm Dean: Okay, no playing around. This show, Bronwyn, satisfies a demand that few people even realize they have. I have spent my life mostly poo-poo'ing musicals, though I am a huge fan of early recordings from the stage. But your work is so entertaining, instructive, and bursting with enthusiasm and knowledge! I listen despite myself. I have stuff to do, girl!
	9:09pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @9:07 Word!
	9:09pm TonyR: ↳ Dean @9:07 Yeah, my fridge is running, but I'm all, "Let it go."
	9:12pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Paris Is a Lonely Town" by "Harold Arlen" He actually sings pretty well.
	9:13pm diciassette: ↳ TonyR @9:09 Yeah... hey wait it's got the beer!
	9:13pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @9:13 Good point.
	9:15pm TonyR: Everybody Calypso!
	9:16pm Dean: So many great renditions of OTR. So many.
	9:17pm TonyR: Nilsson. I approve.
	9:17pm diciassette: Thanks Bronwyn! G'nite 'hands!
	9:17pm Listener Gregory: Thanks a lot, Ms. B! Hopefully a rainbow will appear shortly for those of us being rained out. This show's one for the ages.
	9:19pm TonyR: Acid Jazz Hands After Dark seems like a great idea, but my portable would get killed on the storage downloading the archive.
	9:20pm Dean: I heard of a land once in a lullaby, and I set aside time to visit. But wouldn't you know it? There was road work for several miles before the offramp to the land, and I had to detour around it.
	9:20pm Dan S: Great show, Bronwyn! Until next time, have a good week!
	9:21pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn!

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from August 9, 2024

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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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August 9, 2024: An Evening with Harold Arlen

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Sammy Davis Jr	That Old Black Magic	That Old Black Magic	Brunswick	1955	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Johnny Mercer	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Blue Ribbon Syncopators	My Gal, My Pal	My Gal, My Pal	Okeh	1925	Music: Harold Arlen	0:10:53 (Pop-up)
Ben Selvin & His Orchestra	You Said It	You Said It	Columbia	1931	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Jack Yellen	0:12:48 (Pop-up)
Bob Crosby & the Bob Cats	Out of a Clear Blue Sky	The Complete Standard Transcriptions	Soundies	2000	Music: Harold Arlen	0:15:51 (Pop-up)
Judy Garland & MGM Studio Chorus	Get Happy	That's Entertainment (The Ultimate Soundtrack Anthology of MGM Musicals)	WaterTower	2006	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ted Koehler	0:18:17 (Pop-up)
George Harrison	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	brainwashed	Dark Horse/EMI/Parlophone	2002	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ted Koehler	0:20:15 (Pop-up)

Ella Fitzgerald	I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook	Verve Label Group	1961	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ted Koehler	0:28:24 (Pop-up)
Bing Crosby	i've got the world on a string	Linger a Little Longer in the Twilight/I've Got the World on a String	Brunswick	1933	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ted Koehler	0:31:13 (Pop-up)
Ethel Merman	Satan's Li'l Lamb "Satan's Li'l Lamb" by "Ethel Merman"	Satan's Li'l Lamb	Victor	1932	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Yip Harburg & Johnny Mercer	0:34:36 (Pop-up)
Nat King Cole	It's Only a Paper Moon	It's Only a Paper Moon/Embraceable You	Capitol Records	1950	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Yip Harburg & Billy Rose	0:37:59 (Pop-up)
Ethel Waters	Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)	Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)/Love Is the Thing	Brunswick	1933	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ted Koehler	0:41:06 (Pop-up)

Faith Prince	I Couldn't Hold My Man	Life Begins at 8:40	PS Classics	2012	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ira Gershwin & Yip Harburg	0:53:04 (Pop-up)
Audra McDonald	Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)	Happy Songs	Nonesuch	2002	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ted Koehler	0:55:19 (Pop-up)
Ethel Merman	Shake It Off with Rhythm	Strike Me Pink	No Label	1936	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Lew Brown	0:58:20 (Pop-up)
Kitty Kallen with Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra	Two Blind Loves	Band Singer	Collectors' Choice Music	2001	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Yip Harburg	1:03:37 (Pop-up)
Benny Goodman and His Sextet	Blues In The Night	Blues In The Night/Where or When	Okeh	1942	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Yip Harburg	1:06:40 (Pop-up)

Billie Holiday	One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)	Songs for Distingue Lovers	The Verve Music Group	1957	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Johnny Mercer	1:16:51 (Pop-up)
john coltrane	My Shining Hour "My Shining Hour" by "john coltrane"	Coltrane Jazz	Atlantic Records	1961	Music: Harold Arlen	1:19:26 (Pop-up)
Aretha Franklin	Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive	The Electrifying Aretha Franklin	Columbia	1962	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Johnny Mercer	1:24:16 (Pop-up)
Leontyne Price with Andre Previn	Right as the Rain	Right as the Rain	RCA Victor Red Seal	1967	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Yip Harburg	1:27:03 (Pop-up)
Ray Charles	come rain or come shine	The Genius of Ray Charles	Atlantic	1959	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Johnny Mercer	1:29:51 (Pop-up)

St. Louis Woman Ensemble	Prelude/Leavin' Time	St. Louis Woman (Concert Revival Cast)	Mercury	1998	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Johnny Mercer	1:40:00 (Pop-up)
Chris Connor	Fancy Free "Fancy Free" by "Chris Connor"	A Jazz Date With Chris Connor	rhino entertainment	1958	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Johnny Mercer	1:42:35 (Pop-up)
Betty Grable & Dan Dailey	I Love a New Yorker	My Blue Heaven	No Label	1950	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ralph Blane	1:45:04 (Pop-up)
Ezio Pinza, Fran Warren & RCA Victor Orchestra	Andiamo	Andiamo/Let Me Look at You	RCA Victor	1951	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Dorothy Fields	1:49:38 (Pop-up)

Ada Moore, Dolores Harper & Enid Mosier	Smellin' of Vanilla (Bamboo Cage)	House of Flowers (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Sony Music Entertainment Inc.	1955	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Harold Arlen & Truman Capote	1:58:57 (Pop-up)
Josephine Premice & Jamaica Ensemble	Leave De Atom Alone	Jamaica (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1957	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Yip Harburg	2:00:31 (Pop-up)
Patti LuPone	the man that got away	A Life in Notes	Center Stage Records	2024	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ira Gershwin	2:02:50 (Pop-up)
Martha Flowers	Flower Vendor "Flower Vendor" by "Martha Flowers"	Live broadcast	No Label	1959	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Johnny Mercer	2:05:26 (Pop-up)
Harold Arlen	Paris Is a Lonely Town	Gay Purr-ee O.S.T.	Warner Records Inc.	1962	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Yip Harburg	2:11:03 (Pop-up)

Harry Nilsson	Over the Rainbow "Over the Rainbow" by "Harry Nilsson"	A Touch More Schmilsson in the Night	Rca	1988	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Yip Harburg	2:18:09 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:00pm Listener Gregory: Listening far under the rainbow and a lot of rain.
	7:03pm adamdoesit: - Knock knock. - Who's there? - Arlen. - Arlen who? - Arlen you glad I didn't say banana?
	7:06pm TonyR: Yay, Craig!
	7:07pm Soule: Hi, DJ Bronwyn and all listeners!
	7:08pm Dan S: Settling in for Arlen. Hi, Bronwyn and fellow AJH listeners.
	7:11pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "My Gal, My Pal" by "Blue Ribbon Syncopators" Rare bass saxophone solo! For some reason this instrument disappeared by the 30s... maybe because it was so large?
	7:12pm TonyR: ↳ Song: "My Gal, My Pal" by "Blue Ribbon Syncopators" Did I miss the lyrics completely?
	7:14pm TonyR: Viva-tonal Foxtrot!
	7:17pm diciassette: gettin' there!
	7:19pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Out of a Clear Blue Sky" by "Bob Crosby & the Bob... Not as famous as his brother Bing.
	7:19pm Dean: Any Kiri this evening?
	7:20pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Get Happy" by "Judy Garland & MGM Studio Chorus" I'm pretty ready for that judgment day. :)
	7:20pm TonyR: Beatle George??
	7:21pm Soule: ↳ Song: "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by "Geor... Love this!
	7:21pm Dean: George makes me think of Ian Whitcomb (RIP), who penned this about HA: https://www.picklehead.com/ian/ian_txt_arlen.html
	7:22pm Dan S: ↳ TonyR @7:20 Yes. I think this was released posthumously.
	7:22pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by "Geor... Wow. No idea this existed.
	7:22pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by "Geor... I like what George does with this song!
	7:22pm TonyR: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:22 Same here.
	7:23pm TonyR: Disco Oz reserved for bed music.
	7:26pm TonyR: There's basically nothing surviving from the cutting room floor of the 1939 "Wizard". Makes "Jitterbug" a small miracle.
	7:26pm diciassette: Ella Ella Ella!
	7:27pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @7:26 Be quiet, Stanley!
	7:31pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues" by "Ella Fitzger... Basically, every human being has the right to sing the blues about something or another.
	7:32pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues" by "Ella Fitzger... I love this arrangement! And Ella is perfect, as always. Who is the arranger? Maybe Billy May (from discogs, though this particular record isn't listed).
	7:32pm Holland Oatzier Holland: 💕
	7:33pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:32 Ella did a two-record Harold Arlen Songbook album.
	7:34pm Dan S: ↳ Dan S @7:31 BTW, the Hudson River Park Blues BBQ Festival is tomorrow, at Pier 76 (W. 36th St.) In case anyone is interested.
	7:35pm Dean: California law prohibits singing the blues when you have the world on a string.
	7:36pm TonyR: ↳ Dean @7:35 Nanny State!
	7:37pm Dean: Here's Kiri singing lyrics by Truman Capote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZNLH7gh2es&t=7s
	7:38pm Dean: I'll never mistake Ethel Merman for Kiri Te Kanawa, that's for sure.
	7:40pm Dean: He said, "muslin," right? Speaking of which, here's Jaylen Brown speaking at Cal about Michel Foucault. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhrH-S8pGpY
	7:42pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "It's Only a Paper Moon" by "Nat King Cole" Cole did at least a few versions of this -- changed it up.
	7:42pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @7:40 Yes, as in "a cotton fabric of plain weave."
	7:42pm Listener Gregory: Beginning to think that Arlen had quite a few hits.
	7:44pm Dan S: ↳ still b/p @7:42 The song's so good that I wouldn't mind hearing a second version of it tonight, by Cole or someone else—time permitting, of course.
	7:45pm TonyR: H.A. passed at age of 81.
	7:46pm Dean: Was it also performed in the movie with Ryan O'Neal and Tatum?
	7:51pm diciassette: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:32 I can't find any evidence of a Verve release entitled "Ella Sings the Blues"
	7:52pm Dean: For torch songs, don't miss this Eileen Farrell record: https://www.discogs.com/release/5878320-Eileen-Farrell-Sings-Torch-Songs
	7:53pm diciassette: This lady has l'air de Miss Hannigan!
	7:54pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "I Couldn't Hold My Man" by "Faith Prince" woo!
	7:54pm Karl: Hello Bronwyn! Great to meet you on the boat!
	7:55pm Dean: Ella did an entire double album of Arlen tunes.
	7:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ diciassette @7:51 Bronwyn has the only copy.
	7:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ diciassette @7:51 But that song IS on the Harold Arlen Songbook record.
	7:58pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @7:55 We are way ahead of you!
	8:00pm Dean: Thanks, LG. In case you haven't figured it out, by the way, this show is dedicated to songs by Harold Arlen.
	8:02pm northguineahills: heyas browyn and jazzer hands!
	8:02pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Shake It Off with Rhythm" by "Ethel Merman" I see Parkyakarkus on the movie poster, so I looks him up, having heard of him but not recalling any details, and learn he's dad of Albert Brooks and Bob Einstein.
	8:02pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Shake It Off with Rhythm" by "Ethel Merman" Good song, and that's quite a poster that went with it.
	8:03pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Karl @7:54 great to meet you too!! :D
	8:05pm Karl: ↳ northguineahills @8:02 What is HAPPENING to my hands?
	8:06pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:00 I think you may be right.
	8:06pm northguineahills: ↳ Karl @8:05 why do they call them fingers.... oh wait, one of them just finged!
	8:06pm diciassette: ↳ Karl @8:05 THESE ARE NOT MY HANDS!
	8:07pm adamdoesit: "Don't know if we're in Brooklyn / Or Mandalay" <checks forecast> Me neither.
	8:07pm diciassette: ↳ diciassette @8:06 ok false alarm, I guess they are
	8:08pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "Blues In The Night" by "Benny Goodman and His Sex... Peggy Lee, it says
	8:08pm Listener Gregory: ↳ diciassette @8:07 Check your pockets for extras.
	8:12pm Dean: I'll also associate "My mama done told me..." with Bugs Bunny.
	8:12pm Dean: "also" s/b "always"
	8:13pm Roberto: I've met Eddie Cantor's grandson. A handsome lad like his grandpappy!
	8:13pm Dean: Oh, yeah! The Pike!
	8:14pm Dean: The Pike is now a retail outlet. Lovely.
	8:14pm Dean: More like d'stang-GAY, maybe?
	8:15pm Listener Gregory: I strongly recommend people check out the Fred Astaire dance routing for One For My Baby in the film. It is an incredible example of nihilism in dance. (The movie is a bit annoying, but worth a viewing I guess.)
	8:17pm diciassette: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:08 I am now inspired to re-watch "I pugni in tasca" (or a Marx Bros movie)
	8:19pm Dean: It bums me that Billie Holiday could have made it into the 21st century. Not likely, but plausible. She died days after I was born.
	8:20pm Dean: I heard her live once, but in utero.
	8:20pm Dean: Coltrane died on the same day of the year.
	8:21pm Dean: By the way, in utero is the best seat in the house. Open bar.
	8:22pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" by "... Of course, Frank Sinatra also did a celebrated version of this song. Someone told me recently that Frank said he owed much of what he knew about singing to Billie Holiday. I can't vouch for the truth of that, but I like the story.
	8:23pm diciassette: ↳ Dan S @8:22 That seems plausible to me.
	8:26pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" by "Aretha Franklin" Aretha channeling Dinah Washington here.
	8:26pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:20 I think we'll have to see your ticket stub before you get credit for that, Dean.
	8:27pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" by "Aretha Franklin" The thing is, in between is mostly where I live! :)
	8:27pm Roberto: ↳ Dean @8:21 And in 1959, free second-hand smoke, no doubt.
	8:27pm Dean: Although Holiday had limited popular appeal during her lifetime, her impact on other singers was profound. In 1958 Frank Sinatra cited Holiday as “the greatest single musical influence on me” and “the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.” Oxford African American Studies Center "Billie Holiday is the singer who influenced more aspiring singers, both male and female, than any other vocalist in history. Even Frank Sinatra attributes listening to Billie as the major influence in developing his legendary phrasing." Bogle, Dick. 1994. "Dick's Picks: "Billie Holiday"." The Skanner, Sep 21, 13.
	8:28pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @8:27 OK, thanks for looking that up!
	8:28pm Dean: Nice, Leontyne Price. The pianist for Kiri, too, was Previn in my link above.
	8:31pm Dean: Truly, if (understandably) Bronwyn doesn't play Kiri, take a few minutes to hear her delivery. Her Kern album is gorgeous.
	8:34pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "come rain or come shine" by "Ray Charles" Ray Charles's vocal timbre turns almost every note into a blue note. Incredible.
	8:36pm Dean: "Accentuate the Positive" really lost ground during pandemic.
	8:38pm WR: Hello central, get me doctorjazz. What? He's out of town, man he is missing an episode that is right up his alley and probably all the rest of the jazz family would enjoy it too.
	8:38pm Dan S: Hey Bronwyn, here's an idea I have for a future AJH program theme: "You Can't Keep a Good Show Down - Music From Musicals That Have Enjoyed Revivals." It would give you a chance to talk about the history of each musical. I'll credit this idea to a recent radio story I heard about a radical redo of "Cats" called "The Jellicle Ball." It's currently at PAC-NYC through Sep. 8th. Here's a link: pacnyc.org...
	8:47pm Bronwyn Bishop: just a warning that since there's no radio is broken tonight we are going to go into OT!!! Harold deserves it
	8:47pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:47 Fine by me!
	8:47pm Dean: The Radio Is Broken is broken?!
	8:49pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @8:47 Yes. That news comes from the WFMU Department of Redundancy Department.
	8:49pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @8:47 No, it got fixed. Show therefore canceled.
	8:50pm still b/p: Substitute poster...? Has it any connection to the musical...?
	8:50pm Dan S: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:49 A puzzling paradox there.
	8:52pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dan S @8:50 Yes, kind of a catch-22: When the radio is broken, the show is on, but you can't hear it; when the radio is working, the show is off. If this were broadcast radio, the FTC would be investigating.
	8:53pm Dean: Whew. Good to know Rich will be up and running and broadcasting as usual. Therefore, I won't hear the show. Because if he hadn't gotten things in order, the radio would have remained broken and I would have been able to tune in. But he didn't. The show is in perfect operating order, which means I have to find other means of entertainment.
	8:54pm northguineahills: thanks a doodle!, bronwyn! /play until dawn!
	8:55pm northguineahills: ↳ adamdoesit @8:07 ha!
	8:55pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @8:53 Schrodinger's radio show? It both is and isn't.
	8:55pm TonyR: Bonus Arlen Party!!!!!
	8:55pm still b/p: ↳ Dean @8:53 Abbot and Costello called and said "Thanks for clearing it up."
	8:55pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:15 i haven't seen that since I was in uni!
	8:55pm northguineahills: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:52 jejeje!
	8:56pm Dean: "The cat is dead" is lightyears removed from "the radio is broken."
	8:56pm northguineahills: ↳ Dan S @8:55 yes?
	8:57pm Dean: Oh, nice, a Capote tune.
	8:57pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @8:56 i once went as the popular misconception of schrodinger's cat for halloween....
	8:58pm Dean: Great idea, ngh. I went as "Occupy the Couch" during the Occupy year.
	8:59pm Dean: Held a sign, but mostly sat on my fat ass and asked for more beer. "Trick or treat or, no, never mind, beer."
	9:01pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @8:59 excellent!
	9:01pm TonyR: What did that atom ever do to you?
	9:02pm Dean: I keep wanting to touch one or two of my atoms.
	9:02pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Leave De Atom Alone" by "Josephine Premice & Jama... I see Ricardo Montalban co-starred. It is great how he could stand in for any ethnic group.
	9:02pm TonyR: Thought this was Eartha Kitt before the playlist refreshed.
	9:02pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Leave De Atom Alone" by "Josephine Premice & Jama... Hmm. An Arlen/Harburg anti-nuke protest song.
	9:02pm northguineahills: ↳ TonyR @9:01 i mean, when talking about uwe schmidt....
	9:04pm TonyR: I was stumped on singer of "Got Away".
	9:05pm TonyR: It takes gumption to cover Frances Gumm.
	9:07pm Dean: Okay, no playing around. This show, Bronwyn, satisfies a demand that few people even realize they have. I have spent my life mostly poo-poo'ing musicals, though I am a huge fan of early recordings from the stage. But your work is so entertaining, instructive, and bursting with enthusiasm and knowledge! I listen despite myself. I have stuff to do, girl!
	9:09pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dean @9:07 Word!
	9:09pm TonyR: ↳ Dean @9:07 Yeah, my fridge is running, but I'm all, "Let it go."
	9:12pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Paris Is a Lonely Town" by "Harold Arlen" He actually sings pretty well.
	9:13pm diciassette: ↳ TonyR @9:09 Yeah... hey wait it's got the beer!
	9:13pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @9:13 Good point.
	9:15pm TonyR: Everybody Calypso!
	9:16pm Dean: So many great renditions of OTR. So many.
	9:17pm TonyR: Nilsson. I approve.
	9:17pm diciassette: Thanks Bronwyn! G'nite 'hands!
	9:17pm Listener Gregory: Thanks a lot, Ms. B! Hopefully a rainbow will appear shortly for those of us being rained out. This show's one for the ages.
	9:19pm TonyR: Acid Jazz Hands After Dark seems like a great idea, but my portable would get killed on the storage downloading the archive.
	9:20pm Dean: I heard of a land once in a lullaby, and I set aside time to visit. But wouldn't you know it? There was road work for several miles before the offramp to the land, and I had to detour around it.
	9:20pm Dan S: Great show, Bronwyn! Until next time, have a good week!
	9:21pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn!

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from August 9, 2024

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