What Doc's cooking this Sunday!

 Random shots from some of the tunes

we'll be hearing come this Sunday (1/19/20)!

Here's Charles L. (Doc) Cook and his Dreamland Orchestra,

who back in 1926 recorded  

"Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man".

Doc (he was a Doctor of Music, earned from the "Chicago Musical College") started out in that town playing at Paddy Harmon's 

Dreamland Ballroom,

then moved to New York City in 1930,

to write orchestrations for Radio City Music Hall

and Broadway

(The Hot Mikado, The Boy Friend, and Shuffle Along).

 Called "Romeo and Juliet with cheekbones",

this French Romeo premiered in Paris in 2001,

with rock-ish music by Gerard Presgurvic.

Incredibly popular...surprising that it never jumped the pond to 

Broadway!

It's been translated into 20 some languages

and toured extensively.

 From that musical, we'll hear

"Les Rois du Monde"

which was released as a single 

by cast members
Damien Sargue, Phillipe D'Avilla, and Gregori Baquet (below).

 I admit to RARELY playing Les Miserable selections,

but let's try one!

"Bring Him Home" sung by the original Valjean (1985),

Colm Wilkinson.

Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat

in the 1999 revival of Annie, Get Your Gun.

Amazing to think that Rodgers & Hammerstein were originally

asked to write this music,

as was Jerome Kern

(who actually died on his way to the first production meeting!)

(way to avoid!).

Finally they convinced Irving...

and we have that wonderful
 "Doin' What Comes Naturally" score!

(That song was one of the first 3 that Mr. Berlin wrote for the show.)

 What a great shot of Shirley MacLaine

on the set of Can-Can,

a Cole Porter musical revised for Hollywood...

the plot changed, some of Cole's music bit the dust,

and Frank Sinatra was "obliged" to participate

due to the fact that he walked off Carousel!

The film also starred Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.

We'll hear one of those lesser known Porter songs,

"Come Along With Me"

sung by Shirl.

 This is the movie that Nikita Khrushchev paid a visit to,
 while it was being filmed on a 20th Century Fox lot! 

He was supposedly shocked by what he saw, 

calling the dances 

"depraved" and "pornagraphic."

 Well, c'est la can-can!