Playlist For Sunday, March 12, 2023: LIZA, with 77 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzs!

Well, it sure was fun getting back behind the control board at Jazz 90.1 this past Sunday (and managing to push most of the right buttons!). Spending the last month in Philly, away from "the farm", my sticker-festooned, rarely washed car and that drafty cobblestone I call home was lovely indeed... and if it wasn't for my Sunday afternoons "on Broadway" with YOU, I'd be depressed as heck to return to this gulag. But sharing merry musicals does lift the spirits (and the many chins), right?

Too many cheese steaks ...

Rocky steps! (There are actually only 82 steps here...OCD much?)

And a pastry shop just 1.5 blocks away...

and P.S. Potatoes have nothing to do with these!

 

But depression aside (which is a great place for it), let's talk good timing: This coming Sunday, March 12th, is Liza's Birthday! Yup, Ms. Minnnnnnelli turns 77 that day, so what else can we do but salute this dame who's spent almost every year since the age of 3 performing for us. Broadway-wise, she's won 4 Tonys...for Flora The Red Menace, The Act, Liza At The Palace, and Liza At The Wintergarden. Oscars? 1 for Cabaret. Has she won a Grammy? Yuppers, a Grammy Legend Award in 1990. And finally to complete that EGOT set, an Emmy for Liza With A Z. Plus another dozen nominations for said awards. Add it up: 23 movies, over 50 television appearances, more than a score of Broadway productions, and 20 albums. (Plus 4 marriages and 4 divorces. That alone should qualify as another Tony or 7.)

 

So we'll hear from Flora and The Act, Cabaret and New York, New York. We'll hear from Best Foot Forward, an Off-Broadway show done when Liza was just 19. We'll hear her with real-life mom Judy and stage-life mom Chita (in The Rink). Liza blasting out an anthem, then a "Quiet Thing" ballad to make us ball into our burgundy. The full spectrum.

But you'll have to love LIZA, cuz that's all I'm playing, for 2 hours. Are you ready for that? Just say...YES!

 

Yes (Liza Minnelli, Liza With A Z) 

Say Liza (Liza With A Z)(Liza Minnelli, Liza With A Z) 

Bye Bye Blackbird (Liza Minnelli, Liza With A Z) 

It Was A Good Time (Liza Minnelli, Liza With A Z) 

Medley: Wilkommen/Married/Money, Money/Maybe This Time (Liza Minnelli, Liza With A Z) 

The Three Bs (Liza Minnelli, Kay Cole, Paula Wayne, Best Foot Forward)

Sing Happy (Liza Minnelli, Flora The Red Menace) 

You Are For Loving (Liza Minnelli, Ensemble, Best Foot Forward) 

I'm The Greatest Star (Lea Michele, Funny Girl)

You Are Woman (Ramin Karimloo, Lea Michele, Funny Girl)

Don't Rain On My Parade (Lea Michele, Funny Girl)

Don't Rain On My Parade (Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)

The Man I Love (Liza Minnelli, New York, New York) 

Mein Herr (Liza Minnelli, Cabaret)

Under The Roller Coaster (Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, The Rink) 

The Apple Doesn't Fall (Very Far From The Tree) (Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, The Rink) 

Together Wherever We Go (Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland)

All I Need Is One Good Break (Liza Minnelli, Flora The Red Menace) 

Not Every Day Of The Week (Bob Dishy, Liza Minnelli, Flora The Red Menace) 

A Quiet Thing (Liza Minnelli, Flora The Red Menace) 

Shine On Harvest Moon  (Liza Minnelli, Live At The Winter Garden) 

You Stepped Out Of A Dream  (Liza Minnelli, Gently)

You've Let Yourself Go (Liza Minnelli, Liza With A Z) 

But The World Goes 'Round (Liza Minnelli, New York, New York)

Some People (Liza Minnelli, Liza In Concert)

New York, New York (Liza Minnelli)