Me at 4am.
Not really, but I definitely need pjs like this. :)
I am up waaaaay too early. I've beaten the farmers, the snow plowers, the Dunkin bakers...no one on the planet is awake but me. And there is no good reason to be. It's President's Day, and by rights, I could legitimately get away with sleeping til noon (if my cat had an automatic feeder not named Kim, but of course then he really WOULD be OBESE). But no, I have to wake up at 4am, rev my brain, and go vertical. I may pass out by 10am and take a nap. Cuz otherwise, my name will be Chopped Liver, good for nonce but taking up space (and not worth an aisle seat)!
Yup, that's me at present.
On a cracker.
Zzzzzzzzzzz...
Okay...back from a power nap! Much better. How I am able to drink an entire POT of coffee and then manage to go back to sleep for 2 hours at 7:30am, when I couldn't at 4am, is beyond me.
This is boring. Let's get exciting. And drink more coffee.
So Jazz 90.1 has been doing a great thing this month, as it does EVERY February, and that's saluting African American Jazz Musicians. So I'm jumping on the bandwagon and doing pretty much the same this Sunday: African American Broadway...and I have 17 bunches of performers and musicals to pick from. So much so that I'm just now realizing how many got left off this playlist! (So many shows, so little air time.) Again, we fall short!
But still: Nell Carter, Sheryl Lee Ralph, 2 Leslies (Odom AND Uggams), Ron Taylor, Andre DeShields, Lena, Pearl, Diahann, and Ethel. Five Guys all named Moe, a Dolly, a Sarah with brown eyes, and absolutely No Bad News! All together, they add up to 2 smashing hours.
And I promise to stay awake. Once we push PLAY on Sunday, Broadway'll provide those metaphorical toothpicks for my eyelids and I'll be fine! Tune in, Broadwayphiles. :)
Odun De (Ron Taylor, Company, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues)
Blood Done Signed My Name (Ron Taylor, Gretha Boston, It Ain't Nothin'
But The Blues)
Blues Man (Ron Taylor, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues)
Fever (Carter Calvert, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues)
Ain't Misbehavin'/T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Armelia McQueen,
Andre DeShields, Ken Page, Nell Carter, Charlayne Woodward, Ain't
Misbehavin')
I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling (Nell Carter, Ain't Misbehavin')
Your Feet's Too Big (Ken Page, Ain't Misbehavin')
One Man (Pearl Bailey, Flower Drum Song)
Honey In The Honeycomb (Lena Horne, Cabin In The Sky)
Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe (Ethel Waters, Cabin In The Sky)
I Wants To Stay Here (Lena Horne, Porgy And Bess)
Legalize My Name (Pearl Bailey, St. Louis Woman)
Early In The Mornin' (Jerry Dixon, Five Guys Named Moe)
Azure Te (Jerry Dixon, Doug Eskew, Milton Craig Nealy,
Kevin Ramsey, Jeffrey D. Sams, Glenn Turner, Five Guys Named Moe)
Saturday Night Fish Fry (Jerry Dixon, Doug Eskew, Milton Craig Nealy,
Kevin Ramsey, Jeffrey D. Sams, Glenn Turner, Five Guys Named Moe)
I Don't Know Where She Got It (Lillian Hayman, Hallelujah, Baby!)
My Own Morning (Leslie Uggams, Hallelujah, Baby!)
We Are Gentlemen Of Japan (Ensemble, Hot Mikado)
Three Little Maids From School (Paulette Ivory, Veronica Hart, Alison
Jiear, Hot Mikado)
It Takes A Woman (Cab Calloway, Hello, Dolly!)
Elegance (Jack Crowder, Emily Yancy, Winston Dewitt Hemsley,
Chris Calloway, Hello, Dolly!)
So Long Dearie (Pearl Bailey, Hello, Dolly!)
The Sweetest Sounds (Diahann Carroll, Richard Kiley, No Strings)
What About Love? (LaChanze, Elisabeth Withers, The Color Purple)
Strange Fruit (Audra McDonald, Lady Day At Emerson's
Bar And Grill)
Long As I'm Here With You (Sheryl Lee Ralph, Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Sarah Brown Eyes (Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Ragtime)
Dear Theodosia (Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton)
Our Lady Of The Underground (Amber Gray, Hadestown)
Dreamgirls (Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Jennifer Holliday, Dreamgirls)
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (Jennifer Holliday, Dreamgirls)
Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News (Mabel King, The Wiz)
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