Sunday Gardeners

The Crooning Troubadour,

Nick Lucas,

introduced "Tip Toe Through The Tulips"

in the "musical talkie", Gold Diggers of  Broadway.

It was written back in 1929 by Al Dubin 

and Joe Burke.

Nick topped the charts with "Tip Toe"

for 10 solid weeks;

it had a good beat, and you can dance to it, Dick!

 Andy Rooney,

above with Ann Miller in Sugar Babies,

a very successful 1980s look-back at Burlesque sorta thing.

Mickey's Broadway debut, at the age of 59,

(Ann, 56 btw)!

It ran for 3 years...Carol Channing and Robert Morse

did a short-lived national tour.

We'll hear "Immigration Rose",

a song from 1923 by

Irwin Dash, Jimmy McHugh, and Eugene West.

 From The Shoe String Revue, 1955:

Dodi Goodman, above,

with "Someone Is Sending Me Flowers"

(and chocolates by the look of it),

a song that would stop the show every night she sang it.

Written by a young Sheldon Harnick and David Baker.

 Walter Chiari, Barbara Cook and Jules Munshin in

The Gay Life, from 1961...

but by the look and sound,

it didn't stray far from the 1910 play it was based on.

It's been re-christened since then as The High Life!

We'll hear Jules (who played Anatole) with 

"The Bloom Is Off The Rose".

 That "Spanish Rose"

from Allentown, PA,

Chita Rivera who said yes to the role of Rosie

(when Edie Gorme and Carol Haney both nixed it)

in Bye Bye Birdie.

 Merwin Goldsmith (above)
joined Jason Graae and Judy Blazer in 

a studio cast recording of Jerome Kern's

Sitting Pretty from 1924,

with the delightful lyrics of P.G. Wodehouse.

Merwin warbles "Tulip Time In Sing Sing" on Sunday.

 Lee Wilkof as Seymore 

and Ellen Green as Audrey I

in Little Shop of Horrors.

We'll hear "Grow For Me"...and it does!

Below the lady who made Audrey II lithe

and the man who made Audrey II damn ferocious. 

The original voice of A2 was Ron Taylor.