Playlist for Sunday, January 15, 2023: City Gritty!

Urban Gorilla Kim reporting in from Philadelphia, the home of Mummers, cheese steaks, Septa, tattoos, vintage, and Gritty!

I just spent almost a month being a Phaux Phillian, taking the "47", the "57" and more Ubers than I should have (and definitely got "my steps" in, pounding pavement), and made it all work. Especially when it came to pronouncing Passyunk and Schuylkill properly, jay walking, not making eye contact, and all that shopping/eating. Seven vintage blazers, shoes, pants, earrings in a pear tree (of course), used books...plus after 27 days of incredible food, I feel like a proper sack of custard. 

But I've now returned to the farm, the gym, vegetables, and...Jazz90.1, so expect a LIVE broadcast on the 15th. It's January, that gulag of a time in that gulag of an upstate, so what else is there to do but a comical edition? We've got 82 days to get through (as I type this, anyway) til April 1st, which is my landmark to fling off winter coats, mufflers, and all things thermal. This doesn't always work, but I've used this as a fling off-able date since time immemorial, and I ain't changing it now. 

 

Sara Lee...nobody doesn't like it.

 

But 82 days is 82 L O N G days, and to last it we need a little laughter! So we've got Bloop Bleep, Shipoopi, Stepsisters, Sara Lee (that love song to frozen pastry), Ulla from The Producers, Michael in the Bathroom...plus mini birthday salutes to Gwen and Ethel...and a 42nd Street anthem or 7 to rouse us from our January doldrums. 

 

Thanks to Getty, we have Gwen AND Ethel...

perhaps celebrating their birthdays together?

So "mum" along with me on Sunday; I'll bring the cheese steaks, and we'll reminisce about all that city grit I enjoy so much! :) 

 

Make 'Em Laugh (Donald O'Connor, Singin' In The Rain)

If My Friends Could See Me Now (Gwen Verdon, Sweet Charity)

A Little Brains, A Little Talent (Ray Walston, Gwen Verdon, Damn Yankees)

Erbie Fitch's Twitch (Gwen Verdon, Redhead)

Whatever Lola Wants (Gwen Verdon, Damn Yankees)

Stepsisters' Lament (Alice Ghostley, Kaye Ballard, Cinderella)

Sara Lee (Robert Cucioli, And The World Goes 'Round)

I Can't Be In Love (Don Ameeche, Goldilocks)

Bloop Bleep (Danny Kaye)

Shipoopi (Iggie Wolfington, The Music Man)

Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop (Little Anthony And The Imperials)

Good Morning Star Shine (Caissie Levy, Hair)

The Hostess With The Mostess (Ethel Merman, Call Me Madam)

Anything Goes (Ethel Merman, Anything Goes)

Make It Another Old Fashioned (Ethel Merman, Panama Hattie)

Heat Wave (Ethel Merman, Alexander's Ragtime Band)

Paducah (John Bartis, Shoestring Revue)

Rhode Island Is Famous For You (Jack Haley, Inside USA)

Chapter 54, Number 1909 (Tommy Tune, Ken Howard, Michele Lee, Seesaw)

I'm Calm (Jack Gilford, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)

Michael In The Bathroom (George Salazar, Be More Chill)

I Could Be Jewish For You (Alysha Umphress)

When You Got It, Flaunt It (Cady Huffman, The Producers)

Sexy (Kate Rockwell, Mean Girls)

There! Right There! (Laura Bell Bundy, Christian Borle, Michael Rupert, Legally Blonde)

Natasha (David Garrison, Peggy Hewitt,  A Day In Hollywood, A Night In The Ukraine) 

I Don't Know What I'd Do Without You (Lisa O'Hare, A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder)

You'll Be Back (Jonathon Groff, Hamilton)

The Song That Goes Like This (Sara Ramirez, Christopher Sieber, Spamalot)

Shuffle Off To Buffalo (Joseph Bova, Carole Cook, Karen Prunczik, 42nd Street

You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me (Tammy Grimes, 42nd Street)

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