Playlist For October 31, 2021: Uh...

 Okay...so the sun will come out tomorrow, right? Annie promised. But I think that tomorrow was yesterday. Becuz that star seems to be on hiatus this morning and the understudy hasn't shown up! (What are we paying them for??? UGH.)

It's a pros and cons sorta week. In the con "pile" we have:

1.) Cat is pre-diabetic and may have the kidneys of an octogenarian kid-ney-chall-enged type person. Well, that could be true of me as well. Treatment: A change in diet? Sacrifices to the gods? Film at 11.

Still imperious. Long may he reign!

 2.) Rain. Cold weather. Time change looming. Limited biking, and (surprise!) I did NOT reach my mileage goal (yet) for the year. If only I could fit in another 1,000 miles before Jan 1!!! (Who am I kidding?) 

 

Me at a cool bike shop. Writing down Huge Mileage Goals. Keep dreaming.

 Pro-wise:

1.) I have a HOME.

2.) I have food, heat, a car that runs, 2 bikes, a shed to pile crap in, 60 pairs of salt & pepper shakers, and thousands of earrings.

3.) I still have a live cat. Who still has an attitude. (My daughter calls him P.O.S., Piece Of Shit.)

4.) I'm seeing my daughter this weekend (yes, even with HER attitude, I still like her), and my son the following week (he turns 33, so I'm definitely feeling as old as dirt).

Which leads me to the Big Excuse: this Sunday's show will AGAIN be a recorded one. Because I'm running off to rendezvous with my Philly-based Progeny for the weekend. Then I promise to stick around, mend my cat, write new playlists, plan for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years...and then 2022! (New bike trip plans for next year are also afoot that will make those GOALS a reality. Dream on, McDuff.)

No clue what show will be aired this Sunday, but THANKS for giving it a try, and SPECIAL THANKS if you've donated to Jazz90.1's fall pledge drive. We're almost there, just need a smidge more, and then we can stop bugging/begging you for dinero. "See you" on Nov. 7th, for what I think will be a French Edition...ooh lah lah! :) 

Playlist For October 24, 2021: The Dough Also Rises (hopefully!)

Man, that was fun! A nice escape from Reality, if only for 48 hours. Civilized restaurants, a cozy hotel (my room actually had a fireplace in it...that worked!), lake views and lots of shopping potential. I love towns with shops that you can actually walk to. Stick the bumper-sticker-emblazoned Impreza hatchback in a lot, and walk into the boutique-laden village! Just my style. Plus pasta birthday dinners and Malbec and banana budino and very respectable onion rings. Win win.

 

In case the Budino reference puzzled you, see above. Insanely good.

 

 Requisite lake view pic. 7am today!

But hey, while I was away, our pledge drive did NOT end. Sad face. We're close to our $70,000 goal, but no cigar. Yet. So this is another Blockbuster Broadway Edition, with a lot of selections I usually play to egg you on to donate. Goodies from Gwen and Bob and Angela and Elaine. Big Spenders, Fruging Richies, Sondheims and Kanders and Adlers and Ebbs. PLUS that matching deal will be back on, so you can Double Donation Dough (referred to henceforth as DDD) by calling (or going online) during that 3-5pm 2OTA time slot on Oct. 24. And that day (talk about birthdays!) is actually my anniversary of being on-air at Jazz90.1! Ten years of Broadway Broadway Broadway (plus movie musicals and errant novelty additions when the mood strikes). Holy moly. You'd think I'd be better (and less terrified) by now, right? :) 

So tune in, call me (don't be afraid, you can...call me) or jump on Jazz901.org and give a whopping (or petite whopping) contribution, and then we can get back to JUST musicals, not me annoyingly begging for moola.

 

Me and Otto. :)

 

 Wilkommen (Joel Grey, Cabaret)

That's Entertainment (Jack Buchanan, Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant, The Band Wagon)

A Musical (Brad Oscar, Brian d'Arcy James, Something Rotten)

Who's Got The Pain? (Gwen Verdon, Eddie Philips, Damn Yankees)

Rich Man's Frug (Instrumental, Sweet Charity)

Steam Heat (Joyce Chittick, Ensemble, The Pajama Game)

Raining In My Heart (Bernadette Peters, Dames At Sea)

It's Raining On Prom Night (Carole Demas, Kathi Moss, Grease)

Soon It's Gonna Rain (Rita Gardner, Kenneth Nelson, The Fantasticks)

All I've Ever Known (Nabiyah Be, Damon Daunno, Hadestown)

Everything Changes (Jessie Mueller, Waitress) 

Stars And The Moon (Jessica Molaskey, Songs For A New World)

Pure Imagination (Barbra Streisand, Seth MacFarlane, Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway)

Johanna (Bernadette Peters)

Someone To Fall Back On (Jason Robert Brown, Wearing Someone Else's Clothes)

In The Heights (Lin-Manuel Miranda, In The Heights)

For Forever (Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen)

The Worst Pies In London (Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd)

Losing My Mind (Barbara Cook, Follies)

The Ladies Who Lunch (Elaine Stritch, Company)

Send In The Clowns (Glynis Johns, A Little Night Music)

Big Spender (Ann Reinking, Ensemble, Fosse)

He Had It Coming (Ensemble, Chicago)

I'm Off!

I've decreed that this entire week (hell, entire month!) is for celebrating my birthday. One day is simply not enough. So I'm launching out of my zip code for, at the very least, a long weekend, which may or may not be a bike-able one (weather-wise), but c'est la effing vie!

If left to my own devices...(well, I'm sure this tastes just fine).

 

So that's my excuse. I won't be LIVE on air this coming Sunday (the 17th), and The Boss will be playing a pre-recorded 2OTA for your listening enjoyment. Not like I don't love spinnin' the Broadway platters for ya, but I just sorta wanted to reward myself with free time (in a hotel, by a lake, near creme brulee), and celebrate the fact that I am still vertical and above ground, having eked another year out this whole Life Thing. 

 

 I'll be back with a LIVE edition on October 24th, our last Sunday of the Fall Pledge Drive. Meanwhile, you can always do me a FAVOR and jump online to contribute while I'm away. What a great present that would be! :))))) Just go to Jazz901.org and make a small/medium/large contribution to a great station. THANKS and "see" you when I'm OLDER!

Playlist For October 10, 2021: Pumpkins and Piggy Banks

 

 Even tho the frost isn't on the pumpkin. Even tho the leaves are merely muted on the old sugar maple out in my backyard (I'd give foliage color a 4.5 out of 10 this year, unless it goes to 11). Even tho my sweaters remain firmly smushed and wrinkly (the opposite of irony!) in my dresser drawer, and I've yet to buy (and sample) that stale bag of candy corn. Even tho alllll those sure-fire signs are missing, it's Fall and time for the Jazz 90.1 Fall Pledge Drive! Whoo-hoo! (Note pushy enthusiasm. Note party-esque attitude. Note note.)

 

Ginger, flashing the coins!

So time to fling aside the composer/lyricist series we've got going, and play the comedic, the silly, the popular, and the blockbuster kinda Broadway, which will in turn enthuse and exhort you to join up, become a member, and/or just plain DONATE to a station that plays everything from Big Band to Fusion, Blues Old, Blues New, Blues Funky, and Blues Blue...to Computer talk, Sinatra, Standards, Jazz (both Smooth AND Chunky varieties!) and Broadway. 

Rob Linton (our infamous station manager) told us just recently (at our semi-annual meeting...appropriately zoomed, but mandatory) that something like 86% of the money we operate Jazz 90.1 on comes from listeners. Not the cruise along the Nile event. Not the underwriters. Not the concert gigs (when they CAN happen). Nope. LISTENERS do it, with their faithful donations. Incredible. Almost 50 years of running on contributions from people like you. It's a miracle, right? A virgin birth. From little nickel and dime supporters to an occasional "big fish", it's enough to keep the wolf from the (stage) door. 

 

More Ginger, this time with Lucy and Ann in Stage Door.

(And who knew she could play the uke? Ginger could do it ALL.)

 

So here's the deal: Call me on Sunday with that nickel! OR OR OR make an online donation during 2 On The Aisle, and make me feel all warm and fuzzy. That's how I'll know you think Broadway at its Best and Jazz 90.1 warms YOUR cockles, too. I'll be on with Otto and his Festa from noon to 2 (doing the Otto and Kim Show), take a break for a latte or 7, then come back strong, if alone, from 3 to 5 with 2OTA. Show us some love, and onward we'll go into another year of Musical Merriment. I promise. :))))

 

Comedy Tonight (Nathan Lane, Company, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)

I'm All Alone (Tim Curry, Michael McGrath, Spamalot)

Alone At A Drive-In Movie (Barry Bostwick, Grease)

I Can't Do It Alone (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago)

Back On Top (Patti LuPone, War Paint)

Opening Number (Santino Fontana, Company, Tootsie)

Alto's Lament (Megan Hilty)

Broadway Boogie Woogie (Carolee Carmello, A Class Act)

What's Gonna Happen (Sarah Stiles, Tootsie)

Omar Sharif (Katrina Lenk, The Band's Visit)

Answer Me (Adam Kantor, Company, The Band's Visit)

Positively Absolutely (The Six Jumping Jacks)

Sweepin' The Clouds Away (Maurice Chevalier, Paramount On Parade)

A Cigarette And A Silhouette (Mildred Bailey)

Haben Sie Gehort Das Deutsche Band? (Brad Oscar, The Producers)

Her Is (Carol Haney, Stanley Prager, The Pajama Game

Gee, Officer Krupke (Ensemble, West Side Story)

Miss Marmelstein (Barbra Streisand, I Can Get It For You Wholesale)

Don't Monkey With Broadway (Fred Astaire, George Murphy, Broadway Melody Of 1940)

Lullaby Of Broadway (Jerry Orbach, Wanda Richert, 42nd Street)

Give My Regards To Broadway (Patti LuPone, Don't Monkey With Broadway)

I'm Flying (Mary Martin, Peter Pan)

Let's Fly Away (Scarlett Strallen, Tam Mutu, The New Yorkers)

Jet Set (Aaron Tveit, Ensemble, Catch Me If You Can)

Running Wild (Company, Bullets Over Broadway)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie)

Prisoners Of Love (Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, The Producers)

Goodbye! (Ensemble, The Producers)