Playlist For November 8, 2020: International Toddies And Fudge Day!

Okay, Auntie Em, where the hell is that root cellar? Winds are presently roaring around my little stoney-brook-farm like a freight train, blowing my un-raked leaves to another zip code, bowling my leftover/left out pumpkins like bocci balls,... and my lawn flamingos are taking flight (and losing their jewelry!)(of course, MINE have jewelry). I guess as long as my half-dead trees stay vertical, I should count myself lucky. But man, it sounds like deepest, darkest February out there, not the 1st of November!

So I've lit my pumpkin spice candles and put on my fleecy pjs early tonight. Which is what YOU deserve to do, too. Because it's that inbetweentime. Between Halloween and Thanksgiving, between Thanksgiving and Christmas...the 3 best holidays all clotted together on THIS side of the year, but not one of them occurring NOW, tomorrow, no eves in sight! Can we make up a marking-time limbo tradition, like Hot Toddies and Fudge Day??? Especially if this year we can't have those rousing bacchanalias and cornucopias and flocculations?  At least we can roll out the comfort food and comfort Irish Cream and comfort MUSIC!  

But what to play? There are about 2.5 Thanksgiving songs from Broadway, and I refuse to Christmas song "dabble" for a good 5 weeks! And nobody's written any Toddies and Fudge tunes. YET. So maybe another theme...? Like YOU. You Deserve It. It's You. It Never Was You. Why Can't YOU Behave? Hey, You Would If You Could!  And there you go.

 

Well, maybe not THAT much comfort.

 And there are thousands of YOU songs on Broadway, and in movies. So we'll have time to stick our figurative toes in the by-now icey water of You-Dom. While we await the frostbite. And fudge.  :)

 

You Deserve It (Corey Cott, Laura Osnes, Bandstand)

I Believe In You (Robert Morse, How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying)

It's You (The Buffalo Bills Quartet, The Music Man)

You Would If You Could (Robert Lindsay, Jane Summerhays, Me And My Girl)

With You On My Arm (George Hearn, Gene Barry, La Cage Aux Folles)

Are You Having Any Fun? (Elaine Stritch, Stritch)

Let Yourself Go (Ginger Rogers, Follow The Fleet)

Let Me Entertain You (Karen Moore, Jacqueline Mayro, Gypsy)

You Should See Yourself (Gwen Verdon, Sweet Charity)

Before I Gaze At You Again (Julie Andrews, Camelot)

Why Can't You Behave? (Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Kiss Me Kate)

You Could Drive A Person Crazy (Susan Browning, Donna McKechnie, Pamela Myers, Company)

The Beast In You (Elaine Stritch, Goldilocks)

Can't Take You Nowhere (Jessica Molaskey, Dave Frishberg, At The Algonquin)

You And Me (Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, Victor/Victoria)

You And Me (But Mostly Me)(Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad, The Book Of Mormon)

You Love I (Redhead) 

Long As I'm Here With You (Sheryl Lee Ralph, Thoroughly Modern Millie)

It Never was You (Judy Garland, I Could Go On Singing)

I Don't Remember You (Robert Goulet, The Happy Time)

When You're Alone (Amber Scott, Hook)

You Don't Know This Man (Audra McDonald, Way Back To Paradise)

Without You (Julie Andrews, My Fair Lady)

And I Am Telling You (Jennifer Holliday, Dream Girls)

Now You Know (Leslie Kritzer, Sondheim On Sondheim)

You'll Be Back (Jonathan Groff, Hamilton)

You Gotta Get A Gimmick (Maria Karnilova, Chotzi Foley, Faith Dane, Gypsy)

I Wanna Be Like You (Louis Prima, Phil Harris, The Jungle Book)

You Do Something To Me (Louis Jourdan, Can-Can)

Do What You Do (Bobby Short, Bobby Short Is K-RA-ZY For Gershwin)

You Wonder How These Things Begin (Jerry Orbach, The Fantasticks)

They Were You (Rita Gardner, Kenneth Nelson, The Fantastiks)

I'll Be Seeing You (Ann Hampton-Callaway, Swing!)

First You Dream (Karen Ziemba, Daniel MacDonald, Steel Pier)

How About You? (Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Babes In Arms

Would You? (Betty Noyes, Jean Hagen, Singin' In The Rain)

Anything You Can Do (Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Annie Get Your Gun)

You Made Me Love You (George S. Irving, Patsy Kelly, Irene)