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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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Favoriting September 6, 2024: Butterflies all having fun

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The 5th Dimension  Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)   Favoriting The Age Of Aquarius  Soul City  1969  Music: Galt MacDermot Lyrics: James Rado & Gerome Ragni 
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Dinah Shore  Doin' What Comes Natur'lly   Favoriting Doin' What Comes Natur'lly/I Got Lost in His Arms  Columbia  1946  Music & Lyrics: Irving Berlin 
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Perry Como  Some Enchanted Evening   Favoriting Some Enchanted Evening  RCA Victor  1949  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II 
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Rosemary Clooney  Hey There   Favoriting Hey There/This Ole House  Columbia  1954  Music & Lyrics: Richard Adler & Jerry Ross 
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The Four Lads  Standing On The Corner   Favoriting Standing On The Corner  Columbia  1956  Music & Lyrics: Frank Loesser 
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Louis Armstrong  Hello, Dolly!   Favoriting Hello, Dolly!  Kapp  1964  Music & Lyrics: Jerry Herman 
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Dusty Springfield  Who Can I Turn To? (When Nobody Needs Me)   Favoriting Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty  Philips  1965  Music & Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley 
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Shirley Bassey  Big Spender   Favoriting And We Were Lovers  United Artists  1967  Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Dorothy Fields 
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Ed Ames  My Cup Runneth Over   Favoriting My Cup Runneth Over  RCA Victor  1966  Music: Harvey Schmidt Lyrics: Tom Jones 
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The Peddlers  On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)   Favoriting Three in a Cell  Cbs  1968  Music: Burton Lane Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner 
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Scott Walker  Next   Favoriting Scott 2  Philips Records  1968  Music & Lyrics: Jacques Brel (translated into English by Eric Blau & Mort Shuman) 
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SAMMY DAVIS JR.  I've Gotta Be Me   Favoriting I've Gotta Be Me  Reprise  1968  Music & Lyrics: Walter Marks 
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The Dave Pell Singers  Oh Calcutta   Favoriting Mah-Na-Mah-Na  Liberty  1969  Music & Lyrics: Stanley Walden 
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Debbie Taylor and the Hesitations  Momma, Look Sharp   Favoriting Momma, Look Sharp/No Brag Just Fact  GWP Records  1969  Music & Lyrics: Sherman Edwards    0:57:32 (Pop-up)
Dionne Warwick  I'll Never Fall in Love Again   Favoriting I'll Never Fall in Love Again  Scepter  1970  Music: Burt Bacharach Lyrics: Hal David 
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Ronnie Dyson  (If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?   Favoriting (If You Let Me Make Love To You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?  Columbia  1970  Music & Lyrics: Peter Link & C.C. Courtney 
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Helen Reddy  I Don't Know How To Love Him   Favoriting I Don't Know How To Love Him  Capitol  1971  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice 
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Pat Lundy  Thank Heaven for You   Favoriting Only Love Spoken Here  RCA Victor  1973  Music & Lyrics: Micki Grant 
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Michael Jackson  Morning Glow   Favoriting Music & Me  Motown  1973  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz 
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Judy Collins  Send in the Clowns   Favoriting Judith  Elektra  1975  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Grace Jones  What I Did for Love   Favoriting portfolio  Island  1977  Music: Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics: Edward Kleban 
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Sarava  Sarava   Favoriting Sarava  Roadshow  1978  Music: Mitch Leigh Lyrics: N. Richard Nash 
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His Master's Fish featuring Gordon Grody  The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd   Favoriting The Ballad of Sweeney Todd  Rca  1979  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Body Shop  Never   Favoriting Never  Buddah Records  1979  Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green    1:49:12 (Pop-up)
 
Nina Simone  Feeling Good   Favoriting I Put A Spell On You  Philips  1965  Music & Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎭 7:02pm
Listener Gregory:

Love will steer the stars. Too bad it isn't down here. Good evening, Bronwyn.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)...
Hi, Bronwyn. A groovy song to begin this show with!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
doctorjazz:

Harmony and understanding (well, nice harmonies, at least).
Hi Bronwyn, Jazzes!
Avatar 7:04pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hello darlings!!!!!
Avatar 🎭 7:04pm
Listener Gregory:

Bronwyn is bringing the acid back to acid jazz. Hey, @doctorj!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:04
Hey, Gregory, how's everything going?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)...
Got to sing this in a (very) amature show,( (chorus) it's so much fun to sing!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
WR:

Hello Bronwyn and folks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @7:07
*amateur*
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
Dan S:

I remember a 9th-grade teacher of mine describing his seeing of "Hair." Yeah, I'm dating myself. BTW, i thought the movie version was pretty good.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
WR:

A contemporaneous cover show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
doctorjazz:

Show tunes stopped being pop hits soon after Hair, seems to me. In the "Golden Age", these tunes were what pop singers sang (in fact, they mostly did "covers"; performers weren't expected to compose their own material). The 60s brought the opposite attitude-there were few "cover" artists, to be an "artist" you had to write your own material (Linda Rondstat and a few others were exceptions).
Avatar 🎭 7:15pm
Listener Gregory:

I don't really understand why Dinah Shore was popular. I guess she was pretty?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Some Enchanted Evening" by "Perry Como"
Oh! Perry!

I'm not usually a Perry Como fan but seems he here is doing Bing Crosby but with warmer fuller voice. Or maybe I just finally caught up to Como.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
doctorjazz:

↳ WR @7:19
My parents used to watch the Perry Como show, saw him quite a bit back in the day.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
Dan S:

↳ doctorjazz @7:14
I can't think of any show tune covers done by Linda Ronstadt. I think Judy Collins may have done one or more.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Hey There" by "Rosemary Clooney"
Buddy Cole Orchestra credited backing up Clooney (wanted to find the sax soloist, but Discogs didn't give more detail).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
Vinnie:

Mom, Mary Ann, would have loved this, I grew up listening to these tunes - I often imagine us listening to AJHs together today, and smile
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Dan S @7:21
I didn't mean to say she was a Broadway Cover singer-but her whole repertoir was covers of material written by others (as opposed, to, say Neil Young, Jackson Browne, etc...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @7:23
At that time, making a career without writing your own material was the exception
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Dan S:

↳ doctorjazz @7:23
I should have noted that I got your point and agreed with it. I just thought about whether Linda R. had covered any show tunes because you mentioned her name.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Hello, Dolly!" by "Louis Armstrong"
SATCH!!!!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Hello, Dolly!" by "Louis Armstrong"
It's hard to hear Louis singing a song like this and NOT smile at it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Rich in Washington:

I feel like I'm listening to my favorite 'beautiful music' station Sunny 910 AM in the 80s.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Dan S:

A Louis Armstrong bio-show. Let's hope they do it well.
Avatar 🎭 7:31pm
Listener Gregory:

I'm a little worried about a Louis Armstrong musical, because his greatest work was instrumental. He of course did a bunch of vocals too, but without West End Blues and the like, how can they tell his story??
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Dan S:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:31
You have a good point there.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
WR:

Was recently on a Thornton Wilder kick and in reading about Hello Dolly was interested to find out that Armstrong's song success was what triggered the musical to be retitled "Hello Dolly" before it opened on Broadway.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
WR:

They have a role for King Oliver in the Armstrong musical, so seems they are including the early more instrument focused part of Armstrong's career:
www.louisarmstrongmusical.com...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "My Cup Runneth Over" by "Ed Ames"
I'm hearing some singers this evening I haven't heard from (or thought of) in decades. Thanks, Bronwyn!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Next" by "Scott Walker"
Wow, quite a song! Those are such frank lyrics. I don't think I've heard this one before.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
WR:

No Fletcher Henderson, Coleman Hawkins, Luis Russell, Dodds brothers, Earl Hines or any of the other musicians in the bands have cast roles, so yeah, just the lightlights.
Avatar 🎭 7:45pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Next" by "Scott Walker"
Interesting. I don't remember ever hearing this song at the time. "If we only have love" was kind of a hit, but a deviation from the Jacques Brel original, which was more like "When one has nothing except love."
Avatar 🎭 7:47pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ WR @7:44
Hmm, hardly any roles, actually. I'm guessing it's stronger on music and dancing than on storyline.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Dan S:

I once referred to Scott Walker on the WFMU comments board when I meant DJ Scott Williams. :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
doctorjazz:

↳ WR @7:37
Satch definitely was the primary jazz soloist of the time (Sidney Bechet was up there), but from the start he wanted to sing as well (he's supposed to have left the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra because Henderson didn't like his singing and wouldn't give him singing parts in tunes).
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
WR:

↳ WR @7:44
lightlights = highlights
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
doctorjazz:

This show is up MsJazz's alley (she's just hanging and singing all the tunes). Nice birthday present (it was yesterday).
Avatar 🎭 7:56pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "I've Gotta Be Me" by "SAMMY DAVIS JR."
I forgot what a great voice Sammy Davis had. This song was covered a hundred times, but not with as much panache as his version. Yes, I said "panache"!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
WR:

↳ Song: "I've Gotta Be Me" by "SAMMY DAVIS JR."
I liked that Davis recording. I gotta plug the online findable vid of Sammy Davis Jr as Tonight show guest host and his guest is Sarah Vaughn. Yes, some incredible singing and some funny lines too.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Dan S:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:56
And you said it with such dash and flamboyance! :)
Avatar 🎭 8:05pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I...
This song was subject to a lot of ridicule at the time, as well as some adolescent speculation on how love-making without touching might work.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
WR:

↳ WR @7:57
Here tis, Sammy and Sarah, for later. The last 4 or 5 minutes is them dueting, if you have time, the whole 17 minutes is good.
youtu.be...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
WR:

The Helen Reddy "I don't know how to love him" was very successful for a certain audience segment.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Ike:

Hi there!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "I Don't Know How To Love Him" by "Helen Reddy"
That's an interesting historical footnote, that this was the last show tune to make it into the yearly Top 100. This was over 50 years ago now!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Dan S:

We need Taylor Swift or Beyonce or someone like that to cover a show tune and make it a huge hit! Any suggestions for the song/artist? (I'm only semi-serious.)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Send in the Clowns" by "Judy Collins"
This is one of the Judy Collins songs I was thinking of.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Morning Glow" by "Michael Jackson"
according to Wikipedia this was only released as a single in the UK and Australia and a couple of other markets. Just on the album in the US.
Avatar 8:28pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ doctorjazz @7:53
happy birthday MsJazz!!! :D
Avatar 8:29pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Vinnie @7:22
aww I love this so much Vinnie!!! :)
Avatar 🎭 8:29pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ WR @8:12
Interesting. I only remember hearing the Yvonne Elliman version, which perhaps was more popular on rock radio stations.
Avatar 8:29pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Rich in Washington @7:27
I wish those stations were still a thing, I would unironically love to host a show on one of them lol
Avatar 8:29pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Ike @8:12
hi there ike!!!
Avatar 🎭 8:31pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Dan S @8:22
Maybe some country music star could add pedal steel to a show tune and make a country hit out of it.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
WR:

↳ doctorjazz @7:53
Belated Happy Birthday Ms Jazz!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Dan S:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:29
Maybe A show, one show, but then I think you'd find the strict format much too confining.
Avatar 8:42pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:31
now there's an idea!
Avatar 8:42pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Dan S @8:32
haha probably true
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
doctorjazz:

Almost the end (and just finished preparing dinner), thanks BB, Great Weekend All!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Dan S:

↳ doctorjazz @8:46
Thanks! Same to you! Also, a belated happy birthday to Ms. Jazz!
Avatar 8:48pm
northguineahills:

helloing at the buzzer! haze bronwyn and lowered pH digits!
Avatar 8:50pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ doctorjazz @8:46
good night dr!!!
Avatar 8:51pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ northguineahills @8:48
and hello ngh!!!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
TonyR:

Was there ever anything else as beautiful as Disco?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Dan S:

This was a fun show, Bronwyn! A definite crowd-pleaser! Well, I must admit I wasn't crazy about the disco versions of the show tunes, but maybe that's just me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Ike:

"It's the Angel Witch of disco recordings" -- ha ha ha ha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Rich in Washington:

Thanks for a wonderful show this evening, Bronwyn!
Avatar 🎭 8:59pm
Listener Gregory:

Fun idea for a show, Ms. B. Thanks as always for your efforts in putting these shows together.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
ironybread:

AW SHIT YEAH
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
WR:

Thank you! Bronwyn! another great episode! I was finishing up cooking so could not comment for that two track disco set. Probably for the best.
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