Playlist For Sunday, April 30, 2023: Hello, I Gotta Get Out of Here!

Well, April (that cruelest of months, saith Shakey) is finally wrapping itself up in a rain coat (with a blossom boutonniere?) to leave, and the Lusty Month of May is tapping its sandaled foot in the wings, waiting to make its green-gowned appearance.

Enough of that poetic folderol. I'm tired of damp and drippy. Let the sweet smell of sweat pour forth! Gimme bike weather. Also gimme some semi-okay weather to mow my lawn in. Its length is getting a bit embarrassing. 

 

 So with all this April Goodbye-ing and May Hello-ing, I'm stealing this edition's title from a Harry Ruby/Bert Kalmar song that Groucho warbled in Animal Crackers before breaking into his Captain Spaulding dance: "Hello, I Must Be Going". Groucho must have had a place in his heart for that song, because he used it as the title of his memoir AND opened his Carnegie Hall gig (1972) with it. Groucho at Carnegie must have been a real kick. Too bad I was but a mere infant at the time. :)

It makes me think of another song, sung by Jimmy Durante in The Man Who Came To Dinner...I'll Stay, I'll Go...what IS the name of that "song" which is hardly a song at all? "Did You Ever Have The Feeling That You Wanted To Stay...." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY-zmJ1VCQI

 

Anyway we'll Hello, Good Bye, So Long, Farewell, Good Morning, Good Night, and Leave Now Cuz It's Over! for 2 hours. The whole last half is one very extended Midwestern Goodbye. But don't leave. Let me say goodbye (and Bye Bye!) over and over again. With Into The Woods, Flora, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and a Mormon. Pearl, Judy, Carol, Mickey, Liza, and natch, Fred. People should just sing their hellos and goodbyes, right? How heart warming it would be! Well, maybe not. They'd either make you want to stick around for 4 encores, or rush madly to the door. Depending on their timbre, timing, and pitch capabilities. Ah well. Only in a Musical World, I guess. 

 

But before I say goodbye (!), I do want to thank everyone for contributing to Jazz90.1 during this Spring Pledge Drive. As I type this, we're winding down our last week of it all, and you've been extremely generous...so thank you for those financial "pats on the back". We'll do our best to keep you entertained, energized, nostalgic, wistful, whistling along and/or walking happy. To great music.

Thank you again, and see ya Sunday!

 

Hello, Dolly! (Carol Channing, Ensemble, Hello, Dolly!)

Good Morning, Good Day (Zachary Levi, Jane Krakowski, Nicholas Barasch, She Loves Me)

Good Morning (Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Babes In Arms) 

Your Good Morning (Lester Young, Fia Karin, Parade)

Good Morning Baltimore (Marissa Jaret Winokur, Hairspray)

Hello, Little Girl (Robert Westenberg, Into The Woods)

Hello, Waves (Bob Dishy, Liza Minnelli, Flora The Red Menace)

Hello, Young Lovers (Kelli O'Hara, The King And I)

Hello, Bluebird (Judy Garland)

Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love (Company, A Chorus Line)

Hello, Hello There! (Ensemble, Bells Are Ringing)

Please Hello (Mako, Yuki Shimoda, Ensemble, Pacific Overtures)

Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye (Fred Astaire and The Delta Rhythm Boys, You'll Never Get Rich)

We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye (Annette Hanshaw)

Kiss The Boys Goodbye/I Don't Want To Walk Without You (Andrea Marcovicci, If I Were A Bell)

Bye Bye Baby (Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

Hello, I Must Be Going (Groucho Marx, Animal Crackers)

Goodbye (The Prince's Farewell) (Sid Caesar, Little Me)

The First Goodbye (Company, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)

Bye Bye Baby (Baby Goodbye) (Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons)

The Last Goodbye (Company, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)

Don't Like Goodbyes (Pearl Bailey, House Of Flowers)

Goodbye, Old Girl (Robert Shafer, Stephen Douglass, Damn Yankees)

Goodnight My Someone (Barbara Cook, The Music Man)

Every Time We Say Goodbye (The Ball State Cabaret Class Singers, Take Me To The World)

How Can You Kiss Those Good Times Goodbye? (Nathan Lane, Bernadette Peters, Sherry!)

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

So Long Dearie (Carol Channing, Hello, Dolly!)

So Long, Farewell (Ensemble, The Sound Of Music)

So Long, 174th Street (Robert Morse, So Long, 174th Street)

Goodbye! (Ensemble, The Producers) 

Goodnight, My Love (Shirley Temple, Stowaway)