Playlist For Sunday, April 7, 2019: Those Old Cowhands

 Sometimes I feel like The Countess De Lave in The Women. She was the one Mary met "on the train to Reno," she of 4 or 5 rich husbands, she who slathered over Buck Winston, the new "cowboy" on the ranch, the new "cowboy" of her dreams. Whatta life. Whether he was a real cowpoke or just dressed like one, we never found out (the cast was all-Women), but isn't that always the case? On the screen or in real life, do we ever really know?

 Paulette Goddard on the left,

who played Miriam Aarons

and Mary Boland as

The Countess De Lave.

 And for no reason whatsover,

I couldn't resist this gif of

Roz Russell going crazy in the same movie!

She must have the Reno jumpy wumps.

The romance of the West...on Broadway! Now there's a concept! Seems like I have a lot of leaning-west-of-the-Mississippi musicals, with a country feel, with a Hand Me Down That Can O'Beans attitude, and they rarely match up with City of Angels or 42nd Street or Hamilton, right? I mean, they need their own show (or shows)! So I figured it was high time for a COWBOY Edition, from the old banjo twangs of Paint Your Wagon and Oklahoma!, to the Farmer Tans of Pump Boys and the 4x4 trucks of Hands On A Hardbody.

 So if you're some sorta city slicker, you will just have to hush up, cuz it's cactus time in Arizona (aka 2 On The Aisle), and we'll be doin' what comes naturally (and droppin' those ings!) on Sunday. Help yourself to some pie, put on your Old Straw Hat, and Welcome to the West (or West End Ave., whatever's closer, Countess)!


I'm On My Way (Ensemble, Paint Your Wagon)
The Farmer And The Cowman (Ensemble, Oklahoma?)
Bidin' My Time (Cowboy Trio, Crazy For You)
Doin' What Comes Naturally (Ethel Merman, Annie Get Your Gun)
Kansas City (Lee Dixon, Oklahoma!)
All Er Nuthin' (Lee Dixon, Celeste Holm, Oklahoma!)
Pore Jud Is Daid (Gordon MacRae, Rod Steiger, Oklahoma!)
When It's Cactus Time In Arizona (Louise Carlyle, Ensemble, Girl Crazy)
Joey, Joey, Joey (Art Lund, The Most Happy Fella)
Big "D" (Susan Johnson, Shorty Long, The Most Happy Fella)
The Country's In The Very Best Of Hands (Peter Palmer, Stubby Kaye, Li'l Abner)
Next To Lovin' (I Like Fightin' Best) (Ensemble, Shenandoah)
When The Sun Goes Down In The South (Rene Auberjonois, Daniel H. Jenkins,
      Bob Gunton, Ron Richardson, Big River)
Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Howard Keel, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers)
Barn Dance (Instrumental, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers)
Lonesome Polecat (Tommy Rall, Russ Tamblyn, Jacques d'Amboise,
      Jeff Richards, Marc Platt, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers)
Wand'rin' Star (James Barton, Paint Your Wagon)
There's A Coach Comin' In (Company, Paint Your Wagon)
I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande) (Harry Connick, Jr., 25)
Way Out West (Judy Blazer, Babes In Arms)
I'm An Old Cowhand (Bing Crosby, Louis Prima, Martha Raye, Leonid
      Kinskey, The Sons Of The Pioneers, Rhythm On The Range)
The Ballad Of Johnny Blood (Company, Desperate Measures)
It's Gettin' Hot In Here (Lauren Molina, Desperate Measures)
In The Dark (Company, Desperate Measures) 
If I Had This Truck (Company, Hands On A Hardbody)
My Problem Right There (Jacob Ming-Trent, Hands On A Hardbody)
Farmer Tan (Mark Hardwick, Pump Boys And Dinettes)
Vacation (Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, Pump Boys And Dinettes)
No Holds Barred (Company, Pump Boys And Dinettes)
Louisana Hayride (Nanette Fabray, Ensemble, The Band Wagon)
An Old Straw Hat (Shirley Temple, Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm)
The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be (Tom Lehrer, The Songs Of Tom
      Lehrer)
Happy Trails (Roy Rogers)