Playlist For Sunday, December 22, 2019: The Christmas Pudding Edition

 Okay, so it is NOW TIME to put on the Santa suit and make merry! And the way the parties and punch have been flowing around here lately, that Santa suit will fit. Gotta start dancing along to all this BROADWAY holiday music while I spin the platters...if that's all the workout time I get! Otherwise the eggnog wins.

Yup, that's me...in front.

Like the belt?

All this to announce that this Sunday (12/22/19) is The Christmas Pudding Edition of 2 On The Aisle! And I say this every year, but there's not as much Broadway Christmas music as one might wish for. You got White Christmas, of course (yup, they staged it on Broadway, a bit on the treacly side), and a song from Mame, and other errant tunes from She Loves Me and Subways and Gypsy...but for the most part, musicals aren't over the moon about tree trimming or sock stuffing. I mean, come on, most of the "Golden Age" composers and lyricists were Jewish; they didn't avoid the holiday, but why make popcorn strings and snow your focal point? Hmmmm...

No worries. I'm here with plenty of filler, like weird candied fruit in the Christmas pudding of life --- The Novelty Song, which can provide Zing! Well, that's my excuse anyway. So along with "We Need A Little Christmas" from Mame (the pudding), we'll sample "I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus" (the mysterious green cherry??). Enuf with the metaphor. Now I need cake.

 Don't break a tooth.

So enjoy! Tune in for some fa la la-ing frivolity this Sunday, raise a nog (or 7) to Broadway, and "Count Your Blessings." I'm just gonna "Be A Santa." XO



Happy Holiday/Let Yourself Go (Brian d'Arcy Jeffry Denman, White Christmas
Overture (Instrumental, Irving Berlin's White Christmas)
We Need A Little Christmas (Angela Lansbury, Mame)
Twelve Days To Christmas (Zachary Levi, Laura Benanti, Ensemble,
      She Loves Me)
Three Wishes For Christmas (Tony Yazbek, Ensemble, Gypsy)
Lovers On Christmas Eve (Joanna Gleason, James Naughton, I Love My Wife)
Be A Santa (Sydney Chaplin, Subways Are For Sleeping)
Five Pound Box Of Money (Pearl Bailey)
Surabaya Santa (Jessica Molaskey, Songs For A New World)
(I'm Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica (Tom Lehrer, The Remains Of Tom
      Lehrer)
Sisters (Rosemary Clooney, White Christmas)
The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing (Danny Kaye, White Christmas)
Snow (Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Trudy Stevens, White
      Christmas)
Count Your Blessings (Instead Of Sheep)(Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney,
      White Christmas)
White Christmas (Company, White Christmas)
Merry Christmas (Ensemble, Plaid Tidings)
Christmas Is My Favorite Time Of Year (Norbert Leo Butz, Aaron, Tveit,
      Catch Me If You Can)
Hard Candy Christmas (Pamela Blaire, Delores Hall, Ensemble,
      Best Little Whorehouse In Texas)
Christmas Day (Ensemble, Promises Promises)
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Karen Morrow, Bryan d'Arcy James,
      Jeffry Denman, Meredith Patterson, White Christmas)
Holiday Season (Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Home For Christmas)
A Christmas Carol (Tom Lehrer, More Of Tom Lehrer)
The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas (Allan Sherman, For Swinging Livers Only)
Talk Christmas, Cool Yule (Ensemble, Plaid Tidings/Holiday In Plaid)
Nothin' For Christmas (Eartha Kitt)
Turkey Lurkey Time (Donna McKechnie, Margo Sappington, Baayork
      Lee, Promises Promises)
I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Clause (Kip Addotta, Dr. Demento Presents
      The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time)
Pine Cones And Holly Berries (Laurence Naismith, Janis Paige, Fred
      Gwynne, Here's Love)
Catered Holiday (Ensemble, Plaid Tidings/Holiday In Plaid)
Christmas Dragnet (Stan Freberg, Daws Butler, Dr. Demento Presents
      The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time))
I'll Be Home For Christmas (Leslie Odom, Jr., Simply Christmas)
Christmas Mem'ries (Barbra Streisand, Christmas Memories)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Bernadette Peters, Sondheim, Etc.,
      Etc. Live At Carnegie Hall, The Rest Of It)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland, Meet Me In St. Louis)