Playlist For October 31, 2021: Uh...

 Okay...so the sun will come out tomorrow, right? Annie promised. But I think that tomorrow was yesterday. Becuz that star seems to be on hiatus this morning and the understudy hasn't shown up! (What are we paying them for??? UGH.)

It's a pros and cons sorta week. In the con "pile" we have:

1.) Cat is pre-diabetic and may have the kidneys of an octogenarian kid-ney-chall-enged type person. Well, that could be true of me as well. Treatment: A change in diet? Sacrifices to the gods? Film at 11.

Still imperious. Long may he reign!

 2.) Rain. Cold weather. Time change looming. Limited biking, and (surprise!) I did NOT reach my mileage goal (yet) for the year. If only I could fit in another 1,000 miles before Jan 1!!! (Who am I kidding?) 

 

Me at a cool bike shop. Writing down Huge Mileage Goals. Keep dreaming.

 Pro-wise:

1.) I have a HOME.

2.) I have food, heat, a car that runs, 2 bikes, a shed to pile crap in, 60 pairs of salt & pepper shakers, and thousands of earrings.

3.) I still have a live cat. Who still has an attitude. (My daughter calls him P.O.S., Piece Of Shit.)

4.) I'm seeing my daughter this weekend (yes, even with HER attitude, I still like her), and my son the following week (he turns 33, so I'm definitely feeling as old as dirt).

Which leads me to the Big Excuse: this Sunday's show will AGAIN be a recorded one. Because I'm running off to rendezvous with my Philly-based Progeny for the weekend. Then I promise to stick around, mend my cat, write new playlists, plan for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years...and then 2022! (New bike trip plans for next year are also afoot that will make those GOALS a reality. Dream on, McDuff.)

No clue what show will be aired this Sunday, but THANKS for giving it a try, and SPECIAL THANKS if you've donated to Jazz90.1's fall pledge drive. We're almost there, just need a smidge more, and then we can stop bugging/begging you for dinero. "See you" on Nov. 7th, for what I think will be a French Edition...ooh lah lah! :) 

Playlist For October 24, 2021: The Dough Also Rises (hopefully!)

Man, that was fun! A nice escape from Reality, if only for 48 hours. Civilized restaurants, a cozy hotel (my room actually had a fireplace in it...that worked!), lake views and lots of shopping potential. I love towns with shops that you can actually walk to. Stick the bumper-sticker-emblazoned Impreza hatchback in a lot, and walk into the boutique-laden village! Just my style. Plus pasta birthday dinners and Malbec and banana budino and very respectable onion rings. Win win.

 

In case the Budino reference puzzled you, see above. Insanely good.

 

 Requisite lake view pic. 7am today!

But hey, while I was away, our pledge drive did NOT end. Sad face. We're close to our $70,000 goal, but no cigar. Yet. So this is another Blockbuster Broadway Edition, with a lot of selections I usually play to egg you on to donate. Goodies from Gwen and Bob and Angela and Elaine. Big Spenders, Fruging Richies, Sondheims and Kanders and Adlers and Ebbs. PLUS that matching deal will be back on, so you can Double Donation Dough (referred to henceforth as DDD) by calling (or going online) during that 3-5pm 2OTA time slot on Oct. 24. And that day (talk about birthdays!) is actually my anniversary of being on-air at Jazz90.1! Ten years of Broadway Broadway Broadway (plus movie musicals and errant novelty additions when the mood strikes). Holy moly. You'd think I'd be better (and less terrified) by now, right? :) 

So tune in, call me (don't be afraid, you can...call me) or jump on Jazz901.org and give a whopping (or petite whopping) contribution, and then we can get back to JUST musicals, not me annoyingly begging for moola.

 

Me and Otto. :)

 

 Wilkommen (Joel Grey, Cabaret)

That's Entertainment (Jack Buchanan, Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant, The Band Wagon)

A Musical (Brad Oscar, Brian d'Arcy James, Something Rotten)

Who's Got The Pain? (Gwen Verdon, Eddie Philips, Damn Yankees)

Rich Man's Frug (Instrumental, Sweet Charity)

Steam Heat (Joyce Chittick, Ensemble, The Pajama Game)

Raining In My Heart (Bernadette Peters, Dames At Sea)

It's Raining On Prom Night (Carole Demas, Kathi Moss, Grease)

Soon It's Gonna Rain (Rita Gardner, Kenneth Nelson, The Fantasticks)

All I've Ever Known (Nabiyah Be, Damon Daunno, Hadestown)

Everything Changes (Jessie Mueller, Waitress) 

Stars And The Moon (Jessica Molaskey, Songs For A New World)

Pure Imagination (Barbra Streisand, Seth MacFarlane, Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway)

Johanna (Bernadette Peters)

Someone To Fall Back On (Jason Robert Brown, Wearing Someone Else's Clothes)

In The Heights (Lin-Manuel Miranda, In The Heights)

For Forever (Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen)

The Worst Pies In London (Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd)

Losing My Mind (Barbara Cook, Follies)

The Ladies Who Lunch (Elaine Stritch, Company)

Send In The Clowns (Glynis Johns, A Little Night Music)

Big Spender (Ann Reinking, Ensemble, Fosse)

He Had It Coming (Ensemble, Chicago)

I'm Off!

I've decreed that this entire week (hell, entire month!) is for celebrating my birthday. One day is simply not enough. So I'm launching out of my zip code for, at the very least, a long weekend, which may or may not be a bike-able one (weather-wise), but c'est la effing vie!

If left to my own devices...(well, I'm sure this tastes just fine).

 

So that's my excuse. I won't be LIVE on air this coming Sunday (the 17th), and The Boss will be playing a pre-recorded 2OTA for your listening enjoyment. Not like I don't love spinnin' the Broadway platters for ya, but I just sorta wanted to reward myself with free time (in a hotel, by a lake, near creme brulee), and celebrate the fact that I am still vertical and above ground, having eked another year out this whole Life Thing. 

 

 I'll be back with a LIVE edition on October 24th, our last Sunday of the Fall Pledge Drive. Meanwhile, you can always do me a FAVOR and jump online to contribute while I'm away. What a great present that would be! :))))) Just go to Jazz901.org and make a small/medium/large contribution to a great station. THANKS and "see" you when I'm OLDER!

Playlist For October 10, 2021: Pumpkins and Piggy Banks

 

 Even tho the frost isn't on the pumpkin. Even tho the leaves are merely muted on the old sugar maple out in my backyard (I'd give foliage color a 4.5 out of 10 this year, unless it goes to 11). Even tho my sweaters remain firmly smushed and wrinkly (the opposite of irony!) in my dresser drawer, and I've yet to buy (and sample) that stale bag of candy corn. Even tho alllll those sure-fire signs are missing, it's Fall and time for the Jazz 90.1 Fall Pledge Drive! Whoo-hoo! (Note pushy enthusiasm. Note party-esque attitude. Note note.)

 

Ginger, flashing the coins!

So time to fling aside the composer/lyricist series we've got going, and play the comedic, the silly, the popular, and the blockbuster kinda Broadway, which will in turn enthuse and exhort you to join up, become a member, and/or just plain DONATE to a station that plays everything from Big Band to Fusion, Blues Old, Blues New, Blues Funky, and Blues Blue...to Computer talk, Sinatra, Standards, Jazz (both Smooth AND Chunky varieties!) and Broadway. 

Rob Linton (our infamous station manager) told us just recently (at our semi-annual meeting...appropriately zoomed, but mandatory) that something like 86% of the money we operate Jazz 90.1 on comes from listeners. Not the cruise along the Nile event. Not the underwriters. Not the concert gigs (when they CAN happen). Nope. LISTENERS do it, with their faithful donations. Incredible. Almost 50 years of running on contributions from people like you. It's a miracle, right? A virgin birth. From little nickel and dime supporters to an occasional "big fish", it's enough to keep the wolf from the (stage) door. 

 

More Ginger, this time with Lucy and Ann in Stage Door.

(And who knew she could play the uke? Ginger could do it ALL.)

 

So here's the deal: Call me on Sunday with that nickel! OR OR OR make an online donation during 2 On The Aisle, and make me feel all warm and fuzzy. That's how I'll know you think Broadway at its Best and Jazz 90.1 warms YOUR cockles, too. I'll be on with Otto and his Festa from noon to 2 (doing the Otto and Kim Show), take a break for a latte or 7, then come back strong, if alone, from 3 to 5 with 2OTA. Show us some love, and onward we'll go into another year of Musical Merriment. I promise. :))))

 

Comedy Tonight (Nathan Lane, Company, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)

I'm All Alone (Tim Curry, Michael McGrath, Spamalot)

Alone At A Drive-In Movie (Barry Bostwick, Grease)

I Can't Do It Alone (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago)

Back On Top (Patti LuPone, War Paint)

Opening Number (Santino Fontana, Company, Tootsie)

Alto's Lament (Megan Hilty)

Broadway Boogie Woogie (Carolee Carmello, A Class Act)

What's Gonna Happen (Sarah Stiles, Tootsie)

Omar Sharif (Katrina Lenk, The Band's Visit)

Answer Me (Adam Kantor, Company, The Band's Visit)

Positively Absolutely (The Six Jumping Jacks)

Sweepin' The Clouds Away (Maurice Chevalier, Paramount On Parade)

A Cigarette And A Silhouette (Mildred Bailey)

Haben Sie Gehort Das Deutsche Band? (Brad Oscar, The Producers)

Her Is (Carol Haney, Stanley Prager, The Pajama Game

Gee, Officer Krupke (Ensemble, West Side Story)

Miss Marmelstein (Barbra Streisand, I Can Get It For You Wholesale)

Don't Monkey With Broadway (Fred Astaire, George Murphy, Broadway Melody Of 1940)

Lullaby Of Broadway (Jerry Orbach, Wanda Richert, 42nd Street)

Give My Regards To Broadway (Patti LuPone, Don't Monkey With Broadway)

I'm Flying (Mary Martin, Peter Pan)

Let's Fly Away (Scarlett Strallen, Tam Mutu, The New Yorkers)

Jet Set (Aaron Tveit, Ensemble, Catch Me If You Can)

Running Wild (Company, Bullets Over Broadway)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie)

Prisoners Of Love (Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, The Producers)

Goodbye! (Ensemble, The Producers)

 

Playlist For Oct. 3, 2021: The Good, The Better...and the 3rd one!

Well, Epi 1 (the pilot?) was so successful last week, we're now contracted to do the entire series! Hopefully, ratings will continue "off the charts" and syndication/re-runs will keep me in filthy lucre for years to come. 2OTA will become synonymous with Star Trek or I Love Lucy, for longevity and money making potential. Maybe I'll even get a museum in Jamestown. Or a space station. Or a PREQUEL!!! :)

Nah, I'm not this funny.

A girl can always dream, right? Meanwhile, Epi 2 is on the horizon, with Irving, Richard (now paired with Oscar), and Lerner mit Loewe under the microscope this time 'round. The following Sunday (October 10) begins our (drummmmm rolllllll) Fall Pledge Drive, so we'll take that day off from the series just to put the focus on Raising Dough, to persuade/coax/coerce/beg of you to add your filthy lucre to our coffers. But otherwise, I'll jump right back on the Songwriter Bandwagon after that!

 

Very serious composer/lyricists. If this is an audition, I pity the poor soul on stage.

 

Which reminds me: I'll be one half (some would say the better half...some wouldn't) of the Otto and Kim show that first pledge drive-y Sunday, from noon to 2pm. He will no doubt wear a mask AND a visor, I'll wear the entire wind-screen, but we'll still safely exhortcha to Give Give Give in a jocular, endearing way. I really don't know why Rob (manager par excellence) doesn't give the two of us the morning drive-time slot. We are frickin' hilarious, even raising dough! Even if Otto doesn't drink coffee (weirdo), and even if my laugh is a little annoying. We could reenact scenes from old TV shows (Barney Miller? The Mary Tyler Moore Show? I've got a hat!), and take turns being Doctor Johnny Fever (WKRP in Cincinnati, remember?), who tended to "over-medicate". 

 

 

Enough falderall. See ya Sunday. I'll bring the "medicated" Pumpkin Spice Latte. With a double shot.

 

There's No Business Like Show Business (Tom Wopat, Company, Annie, Get Your Gun)

I'm On My Way (Company, Paint Your Wagon)

They Call The Wind Maria (Rufus Smith, Paint Your Wagon)

Brigadoon (Ensemble, Brigadoon)

Almost Like Being In Love (Gene Kelly, Brigadoon)

Camelot (Richard Burton, Camelot)

She Is Not Thinking Of Me (Daniel Massey, Gigi)

If Ever I Would Leave You (Robert Goulet, Camelot)

I Remember It Well (Alfred Drake, Maria Karnilova, Gigi)

The Rain In Spain (Lauren Ambrose, Harry Hadden-Paton, My Fair Lady)

Ascot Gavotte (Ensemble, My Fair Lady)

I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (Harry Hadden-Paton, My Fair Lady)

Anything You Can Do (Bernadette Peters, Tom Wopat, Annie, Get Your Gun)

The Hostess With The Mostes' On The Ball (Ethel Merman, Call Me Madam)

After You Get What You Want (You Don't Want It) (Marilyn Monroe)

Sisters (Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens, White Christmas)

Steppin' Out With My Baby (Fred Astaire, Easter Parade)

Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee (Judy Kuhn, Howard McGillin, Kevin Chamberlain, As Thousands Cheer)

How About Me? (Judy Holliday, Trouble Is A Man)

Vaudeville Medley (Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Easter Parade)

The Surrey With The Fringe On Top (Alfred Drake, Oklahoma)

In My Own Little Corner (Julie Andrews, Cinderella) 

Shall We Dance? (Kellie O'Hara, Ken Watanabe, The King And I)

Bali Hai (Juanita Hall, South Pacific)

There Is Nothin' Like A Dame (Ensemble, South Pacific)

The Man I Used To Be (Will Chase, Pipe Dream)

All Er Nuthin' (Gene Nelson, Gloria Graham, Oklahoma)

The Sound Of Music (Mary Martin, The Sound Of Music)

You'll Never Walk Alone (Renee Fleming, Carousel)

Something Good (Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch At Liberty)

Some Enchanted Evening (Ezio Pinza, South Pacific)

Playlist For Sunday, September 26, 2021: You can schmear HERE!

 

Well, if I want to see Hugh and Sutton in The Music Man, I think I've jumped on that Wells Fargo Wagon too late! Earliest ticket I can grab now is well past Groundhog Day. (The actual day, not the show.) And Six? Or Doubtfire? I doubt it. However, I realize I'm not in that much of a rush to "do" NYC just yet. Part of me is terrified that some of the places I loved and frequented every visit may well be gone. And that's just depressing. Little Poland? John's Italian Restaurant? Little mom and pops that had trouble thriving even during the best of times? Plus having to jump on a packed plane makes me sort of ...shudder. Hmmmm...

 

Visions of Steve Martin and John Candy, cozy on a plane/train/automobile.

Which is a real pain, because who wouldn't want to spend a birthday or 7 back on Broadway? 

 

Little Poland (across from my old apartment on 2nd Ave.)

and an interior shot of John's Restaurant, around the corner

(SOMEBODY had to have been shot here).

 Instead I've planned a Skaneateles road trip come mid-October, for antiquing and round-the-lake bike riding. Only thing to decide is do I bike clockwise OR counter-clockwise aroung that B Team Finger Lake ? Since it's in THIS hemisphere, I guess I should go with counter, but then I've always been a bit of counter-tarian. :)

One thing hasn't changed: Classic Broadway. And I thought it might be nifty to do a "series!" (Hey if Jeff Harris can do it, "Let's Do It!") A composer/lyricist series of the Greats (later we'll do the Not-So-Greats, I promise). Three at a time, so no one gets to hog the spotlight for long, and this week it's Cole, Richard and Larry, and George and Ira. If you need last names, it's evident that you really aren't listening to me. Harrumph. Well, a silent harrumph. I still like you.

 

 

 

Even tho I do play these ICONS on almost every 2OTA, I'll gang 'em up and chat a bit about their beginnings or their eccentricities (which is always more fun), and next week I'll pick ANOTHER 3, but I'm not telling who YET. So hope you enjoy. No need to bus, train, or plane to those big expensive Bway theatres right now; just pull out your radio (or ask Alexa to), whirl up an egg cream (or schmear up a bagel), pull the lever on that Lazy Boy, and let 2OTA rip. We can definitely "Take Manhattan" soon enough!

Anything Goes (Sutton Foster, Anything Goes)

It's De-Lovely (Hal Linden, Barbara Lang, Anything Goes)

Make It Another Old Fashioned (Ethel Merman, Panama Hattie)

Take Me Back to Manhattan (Eileen Rodgers, Anything Goes)

I Love Paris (Frank Sinatra, Maurice Chevalier, Can-Can)

After You, Who? (Fred Astaire, Gay Divorce)

Let's Misbehave (Helene York, Brooks Ashmanskas, Bullets Over Broadway)

Tom, Dick or Harry (Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Ensemble, Kiss Me, Kate)

Too Darn Hot (Stanley Wayne Mathis, Ensemble, Kiss Me, Kate)

Johnny One Note (Judy Garland, Babes In Arms)

My Funny Valentine (Trudy Stevens, Pal Joey)

You Took Advantage Of Me (Elaine Stritch, On Your Toes)

Ev'rything I've Got Belongs To You (Bob Dishy, Jacqueline Alloway, By Jupiter)

There's A Small Hotel (Bobby Van, Kay Coulter, On Your Toes)

This Can't Be Love (Jack Cassidy, Portia Nelson, The Boys From Syracuse)

Ten Cents A Dance (Doris Day, Love Me Or Leave Me)

Zip (Vivienne Segal, Pal Joey)

That Terrific Rainbow (Chorus Girls, Pal Joey)

Manhattan (Lee Wiley)

Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered (Marin Mazzie)

Isn't It Romantic (Michael Feinstein, Romance On Film, Romance On Broadway)

S'Wonderful (Gene Kelly, Georges Guittary, Oscar Levant, An American In Paris)

Funny Face (Fred Astaire, Funny Face)

They Can't Take That Away From Me (Robert Fairchild, Max Von Essen, Brandon Uranowitz, An American In Paris)

Embraceable You (Harry Groener, Jodi Benson, Crazy For You)

Do It Again (Marilyn Monroe)

Sam And Delilah (Louise Carlyle, Girl Crazy)

K-RA-ZY For You (Bobby Short, I'm K-RA-ZY For Gershwin)

Dear Mr. Gershwin (Klea Blackhurst, Radio Gals)

I Got Rhythm (Robert Fairchild, Brandon Uranowitz, Max Von Essen, An American In Paris)

 

 

Playlist For Sunday, September 19, 2021: Biking Binary on Broadway

Visualize: 

A beautiful, crisp, corn-flower-blue-skied  Saturday morning. About 200 bikers (the silent pedaling kinds, tho I did notice a couple of batteries!). Lycra. Blinky lights. Bagels. Gatorade. A bit of a mist lingering on Keuka Lake hills. A slow start, and off.

Well, THIS wasn't the ride I did. But one can dream.

 Yeah, I've been trying a few group rides. Me, the slow and solo rider, who stops to take pics of barns and to munch on dates (and date pits...yup, broke a tooth on one of those last month), in a group ride? Suffice it to type, I get passed A LOT. If I hear "on your left" one more time (and I heard it dozens of times last Saturday), I'll go mad. So I'm not a swifty. But if one can manage the somewhat demoralizing emotions that go with being left behind, rides like this DO make you go faster and dig deeper than you would on your own. And then there's the free lunch at the end, and your group waiting for you (well, I didn't NOTICE any impatient foot tapping), and the good feelings when you swing into the finish, still strong and breathing and smiling at the cheering volunteers. Huzzah!

Fire pit AND fountain. This is not my patio. Mine is humble.

 

Hopefully, there'll be a few more long rides filling up the fall, but the biggies are now over. I can sit on my patio and luxuriate in one more season biked and in the record books.

Hell, no! Let's plan for next year! :)

Meanwhile, another week, another 2OTA theme, right? This is kind of a BINARY Broadway edition...Boys and Girls, Men and Women, a gaggle of Gentleman, and one damn Guy. Classic musical yens (The Boy Next Door), vendettas (I Hate Men), lovey-dovey ballads (The Girl That I Marry), declarations (Les Girls), and denials (Forget About The Boy!)...it's a Broadway Way Back Machine.

Patricia Morison. Seething.

 

So let's have fun with it, take it in context, which means put on your old-timey specs for non-now musicals. Sit on your "patio", dream of a warm, colorful fall, and listen in on Sunday. :)

Boys And Girls Like You And Me (Judy Garland, Meet Me In St. Louis)

Les Girls (Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Les Girls)

Beautiful Girl (Jimmy Thompson, Singin' In The Rain)

Hundreds Of Girls (Robert Preston, Mack And Mabel)

I Hate Men (Patricia Morison, Kiss Me Kate)

Men (Loni Ackerman, So Long, 174th Street)

Why? 'Cause I'm A Guy (Jordan Leeds, Robert Roznowski, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change)

Pretty Women (Len Cariou, Edmund Lyndeck, Sweeney Todd)

You Are Women (Sydney Chaplin, Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)

In Praise Of Women (Laurence Guittard, A Little Night Music)

Real Live Girl (Sid Caesar, Little Me)

My Best Girl (Frankie Michaels, Mame)

The Girl That I Marry (Ray Middleton, Annie Get Your Gun)

The Boy Next Door (Judy Garland, Meet Me In St. Louis)

One Boy (Susan Watson, Bye, Bye Birdie)

Golden Boy (Paula Wayne, Golden Boy)

Forget About The Boy (Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie)

One Of The Boys (Lauren Bacall, Woman Of The Year)

Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now (Marissa Jaret Winokur, Harvey Fierstein, Hairspray)

Big Girls Don't Cry (The Four Seasons)

She's My Girl (Tom Lehrer, The Remains Of Tom Lehrer)

Everybody's Girl (Debra Monk, Steel Pier)

A Girl Worth Fighting For (Harvey Fierstein, Jerry Tondo, Gedde Watanabe, Ming Na Wen, Mulan)

A Quiet Girl (George Gaynes, Wonderful Town)

Have I Got A Girl For You (Dean Jones, Charles Braswell, Charles Kimbrough, George Coe, Company) 

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Carol Channing, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) 

Gentleman Jimmy (Eileen Rodgers, Fiorello!)

Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love (Scarlett Strallen, The New Yorkers) 

We Are Gentlemen Of Japan (Ensemble, Hot Mikado)

Walk Like A Man (John Lloyd Young, Ensemble, Jersey Boys)

Little Girls (Dorothy Loudon, Annie)

All I Need Is The Girl (Paul Wallace, Gypsy)

Me And My Girl (Robert Lindsay, Emma Thompson, Me And My Girl)