Playlist For September 12, 2021: Always You. Never Me. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off.

Oy! Summer, I miss you already! Well, that is I miss my summer work hours, with afternoons OFF.  Plus I have a ton of summer dresses I haven't even WORN yet. Summer cocktails I've yet to concoct. Summer sunrises at 5:35am I can bike in. And Summer sunsets, late and long, if buggy and muggy. Otherwise...I can happily fall into Fall.

It's also my birthday season, so...presents. And cake. :) Plus I have a lot of autumnal outfits (matching purses), so...this season ain't so bad.

Not to be-LABOR the point, but last Sunday's Labor Day Edition was a fun one, with all the "workin' it out" songs (I know, you were too bbq-busy to listen in, that's OKAY, I know you still like me), so I'm launching us into another theme-y show: Never and Always! (Or does Always and Never sound better?). I really wanted to do a Sometimes/Always/Never theme, but there seems to be a dearth of Sometime Songs. A plethora of nevers, a passel of always, but sometimes? Nada. Broadway (with the exception of Sondheim) seems less than ambivalent. It's either "You'll Never Get Away From Me" or "You Can Always Count On Me". Or both, with added emphasis ("Always A Bridesmaid, Never A Bride")(thank you, God!)...classic Broadway is rarely wishy-washy, if you don't take into account Stephen's "Sorry - Grateful" attitudes, and this century's push-me-pull-you hair yanking ballads.

 

This takes me back to a wedding I was in, in 1977. We had to make our own "peasant" dresses. I burned mine 3 days later.

 

So the usual suspects will be showing up, nevering and alwaysing (a Bob Fosse dance step? Or is that more Tommy Tune?) into our hearts, and hopefully clad in beautiful fall fashions. With matching purses, of course. :)

 

Never Never Land (Mary Martin, Peter Pan)

I'll Never Be Jealous Again (Michael McKean, Roz Ryan, The Pajama Game)

You'll Never Get Away From Me (Ethel Merman, Jack Klugman, Gypsy)

You Never Had It So Good (Donna McKechnie, The Fair Tones, State Fair)

I'll Never Fall In Love Again (Jerry Orbach, Jill O'Hara, Promises, Promises)

Never Gonna Dance (Fred Astaire, Swing Time)

Never Again/Sail Away (Christine Ebersole, Christine Ebersole Sings Noel Coward)

Never Will I Marry (Judy Garland)

You're Never Fully Dressed (Donald Craig, The Boylan Sisters, Annie)

I'll Never Have To Dream Again (Connie Boswell)

It Never Entered My Mind (Shirley Ross, Higher And Higher)

I'll Never Stop Loving You (Doris Day, Love Me Or Leave Me)

He'll Never Know (Mark Linn-Baker, Jay Goede, A Year With Frog And Toad)

There Never Was A Baby Like My Baby (Dolores Grey, Two On the Aisle)

Never (Madeline Kahn, Georg Coe, Dean Dittman, On The Twentieth Century)

It Never Was You (Judy Garland)

I Never Know When (Elaine Stritch, Goldilocks)

I Never Do Anything Twice (Millicent Martin, Side By Side By Sondheim)

Always True To You (Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Kiss Me Kate)

The Passenger's Always Right (Charles Braswell, Sail Away)

The Customer's Always Right (Charles Braswell, Sail Away)

I Always Stay At The Ritz (Tommy Tune, Sherry!)

You Can Always Count On Me (Randy Graff, City Of Angels)

What I've Always Wanted (Patricia Marand, It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman)

Always, Always You (Kaye Ballard, James Mitchell, Carnival)

You Always Hurt The One You Love (Spike Jones and His City Slickers)

I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (Debbie Reynolds, Irene)

Always A Bridesmaid (Melissa Weil, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change)

Always (Judy Garland)

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Company, Spamalot)