Playlist For Sunday, April 21, 2019: Easter Beaster

Stand back! It's the Easter Beaster: The Easter Sunday Edition of 2 On The Aisle. Which I've sorta combined with a spring "thing", because guess what? There aren't that many Easter songs from Le Broadway Catalog. Unless you go all Hollywood and do 17 repeats of "Easter Parade." So Rain. So Sun. So blue skies, green grass, putting all your eggs in one basket, and "Don't Be The Bunny!"

Interesting Bway Trivia, that you may or may not know:
Irving Berlin could not read (or write) music. When he plunked out tunes, he'd do it on the black keys, often in the key of F#. ("The black keys are right there, under your fingers. The key of C is for people who study music.”) AND he used a transposing piano, which at the turn of a wheel, changed the key you were playing in. Supposedly, like a great pair of earrings, Berlin took his "trick piano" everywhere...even on cruises. Plus he had plenty of assistants like Cliff Hess and Hal Borne (George Gershwin interviewed for the job, but Irving turned him away..."too talented!") to dictate his songs to, working for a HOT salary of 50 cents a page. The result of NOT knowing how to write music were maybe some of the best Broadway and Hollywood tunes ever.

So to recap, last week was Broadway Death...this week Broadway rises, grows, turns peepy, changes key and springs. Hope you enjoy!


Easter Parade (Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Easter Parade)
I Got The Sun In The Morning (Betty Hutton, Annie Get Your Gun)
Keep Your Sunny Side Up (Ensemble, Good News)
Sunny Side To Every Situation (Karen Prunczik, Ensemble, 42nd Street)
Sun's Gonna Shine (Carmen Cusack, Bright Star)
There Will Be Sun (Ensemble, Groundhog Day)
Isn't This A Lovely Day (To Be Caught In The Rain)? (Fred Astaire, Top Hat)
Singin' In The Rain (Judy Garland, Little Nellie Kelly)
The Rain In Spain (Lauren Ambrose, Harry Hadden-Paton, Allan Corduner,
       My Fair Lady)
I Want To Go Back To Michigan (Judy Garland, Easter Parade)
A Fella With An Umbrella (Peter Lawford, Judy Garland, Easter Parade)
We're A Couple Of Swells (Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Easter Parade)
Rain On The Roof (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Follies)
Right As The Rain (Jessica Molaskey, Make Believe)
Ride On A Rainbow (Judy Holliday, Trouble Is A Man)
Over The Rainbow (Judy Garland, The Wizard Of Oz)
Look For A Sky Of Blue (Eileen Brennan, Little Mary Sunshine)
Blue Skies (Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer)
Ribbons Down My Back (Eileen Brennan, Hello Dolly!)
sssssSnake In The Grasssss (Bob Fosse, The Little Prince)
The Grass Is Always Greener (Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Cooper, Woman Of
      The Year)
Feed The Birds (Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins)
Green Finch And Linnet Bird (Sarah Rice, Sweeney Todd)
Little Bird, Little Bird (Ted Forlow, Ensemble, Man Of La Mancha)
Bye Bye Blackbird (Liza Minnelli, Liza With A Z)
Spring, Spring, Spring (Johnny Mercer, Gene de Paul, Seven Brides For Seven
      Brothers)
The Spring Of Next Year (William Larsen, Ensemble, Dear World)
You Must Believe In Spring (Liz & Ann Hampton Callaway, Sibling Revelry)
Later Than Spring (Elaine Stritch, Sail Away)
It Might As Well Be Spring (Audra McDonald, Sing Happy)
Our Garden (Jane Connell, Shoe String Revue)
I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket (Fred Astaire, Follow The Fleet)
Don't Be The Bunny (John Cullum, Urinetown)
Springtime For Hitler (Ensemble, The Producers)