Playlist For Sunday, April 9, 2023: "We need the eggs" ...celebrating Easter annnnd the PLEDGE DRIVE!

Upstate Easter, circa 1962, The Scenario:

1.) Brand new PINK, flowery, flouncy Easter dress. A light blue polyester coat with big white buttons. Patent leather PINK purse. White gloves. An appropriately beribboned hat . New shoes. White frilly ankle socks. READY for Easter! I am 6.5 years old, with a page boy haircut, clear skin, no glasses (cuz no one had figured out I needed them yet)(I would have to wait 1 more year to unfuzz my vision), and looking forward to eating my Easter Candy after church. 

 

Not me (above), and not me (below).

None of these are me.

But you get the idea.

2.) My mother handing me my old, bulky, shapeless winter coat, snow pants, and "galoshes". To wear over, and effectively hide, all that new lovely stuff. Because it's snowing or raining or both, muddy or icy, hailing frogs or locusts, and there's no way I can walk to the car, walk into the church (and repeat the process), let alone hunt for eggs, with my spring parphenalia on, without dying. Even at 6.5 years of age, I knew what winter did to "outfits" and I've abhored this ruination ever since.

 

 

3.) Later, in my teens, being part of the BYF (Baptist Youth Fellowship)(man, I really drank THAT Koolaid), trooping down to the shores of Lake Ontario, where we teens conducted a Sunrise Service at the crack o' dawn...Kum Ba Yah and mediocre guitar playing, that kinda thing. To be followed by working the church's Easter breakfast. That meant yawning thru egg scrambling, bacon flipping, biscuit dealing, and bad coffee. AND THEN the actual church service. No outfits to speak of, unless you want to count parkas lakeside and later aprons and egg stains church-side.  And one heck of a long wait to sample those chocolate bunnies.

And I wonder why Easter doesn't light my fire. 

But now I'm all grown up and I can PICK where I put my Easter Energy: I can play MUSIC! Like Judy and Fred mixin' it up at the "parade", "putting all his eggs in one basket", and Ella's tisket tasketing. Like Blossom Dearie and "They Say It's Spring", but "Spring May Be A Little Late This Year", and yet "You Must Believe In Spring" because Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway say so. On top of all that seasonally seasoned stuff, I'll toss in some goodies from The Producers, The Band's Visit, and Tootsie.

 

Because it's a holiday ANNNND it's the first Sunday of our Jazz 90.1 Spring Pledge Drive...Lucky me, I'll have a guest host to help me rake in (or shovel in, depending on the amount AND the weather) all the cold hard cash we hopefully get during that 2 On The Aisle time slot. Joe Stockslader, loyal listener and past WGMC volunteer, will be manning the phones, and making with the Broadway banter. What's not to like?

 

So amidst your Easter egging and hamming and family-ing, tune in and sing along, and if possible CALL US UP or GO ONLINE and make a DONATION to Jazz90.1. You want your weekly Broadway Dose to continue, doncha? Keep that music playing with a contribution. (And thank you so much, as always.:))

 

Easter Parade (Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Easter Parade)

Shaking The Blues Away (Ann Miller, Easter Parade)

Mr. Monotony (Judy Garland, Easter Parade) 

Steppin' Out With My Baby (Fred Astaire, Easter Parade)

A-Tisket, A-Tasket (Ella Fitzgerald)

I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket (Fred Astaire, Follow The Fleet)

It's Eggs! (Ensemble, Something Rotten!)

Eggs And Sausage (Tom Waits, Night Hawks At The Diner)

They Say It's Spring (Blossom Dearie, Give Him The Ooh-La-La)

Younger Than Spring Time (Matthew Morrison, South Pacific)

Later Than Spring (Elaine Stritch, Sail Away)

Opening Number (Santino Fontana, Tootsie)

Gone, Gone, Gone (Lilli Cooper, Tootsie)

Vaudeville Medley (Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Easter Parade)

Easter Parade (Clifton Webb, Leo Reisman And His Orchestra)

Spring Is Here (Carly Simon, Torch)

I Don't Know How To Love Him (Sara Bareilles, Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Close Every Door (Ensemble, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat) 

Everything's Alright (Ensemble, Jesus Christ Superstar)

Waiting (Ensemble, The Band's Visit)

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

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

It Might As Well Be Spring (Andrea McArdle, State Fair)

Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year (Andrea Marcovicci, If I Were A Bell)

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

Springtime For Hitler (Ensemble, The Producers)