Jumping on the Valentine's Day bandwagon, this Sunday's playlist is all about LOVE. From the sappy to the sublime, the schmaltzy to the splendiferous, so you can just imagine...We'll hear from the iconic musicals, like Oklahoma, Camelot, and Brigadoon, as well as the also-rans, like Sail Away, Goldilocks and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, cuz they all sing about Love.
I'll try to keep the sweetness level down with a good deal of character songs. So along with "So in Love," from Kiss Me Kate, we'll hear "I Can't Be in Love," from Goldilocks to counterbalance the mood! Favorite track has be "My Funny Valentine," sung by Kim Novak in the movie version of Pal Joey...she's breathy, she's smoky, she's not a singer. But she's wonderful. And remember, this song was actually first sung by a child star, Mitzi Green, in Babes in Arms...because it's a "let's put on a show" musical, and she was singing to her crush, a boy named "Valentine!" But you already knew that, right?
OXOX, Me!
Love is a Many Splendored Thing (Ensemble, Forever Plaid)
Love is the Reason for It All (Shirley Booth, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
She Loves Me (Daniel Massey, She Loves Me)
A Little Bit in Love (Edie Adams, Wonderful Town)
I Am in Love (Peter Cookson, Can Can)
I Can't Be in Love (Don Ameche, Goldilocks)
You're Just in Love (Ethel Merman, Russell Nype, Call Me Madam)
People Will Say We're in Love (Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts, Oklahoma)
So In Love (Patricia Morison, Kiss Me Kate)
I Loved You Once in Silence (Julie Andrews, Camelot)
He Loves and She Loves (Fred Astaire, Funny Face)
My Funny Valentine (Kim Novack, Pal Joey)
Almost Like Being in Love (Gene Kelly, Brigadoon)
Beatnik Love Affair (Grover Dale, Sail Away)
Lovesick (Sherie Rene Scott, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)
Love is Here to Stay (Bobby Short, K-RA-ZY about Gershwin)
Love Sneaks In (John Lithgow, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Prisoners of Love (Ensemble, The Producers)
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