Playlist For Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023: There WILL Be Sun!

This should be a pajama day. A ghoul-haunted, dank tarn (Edgar Allan's creativity, not mine) has settled in, weather-wise and brain-wise. Like that amontillado bricked-up cavern (which this old stone house of mine sometimes reminds me of), the mitre is growing (good for brandy, rotten for the psyche). Ugh. Can't we have a few more Honey Crisp days, with cider donuts and blue skies and pretty foliage ON the trees??? Guess not. Another Ugh.

Maybe if he'd actually tried cider donuts, 

things would have gone differently for him.

 

BUT we can have sun in the studio! So I've chosen a Sunny Side of Broadway theme for this coming SUNday. A Sun's Gonna Shine edition. A Spread A Little Sunshine ode. Because I'm in favor of total denial (on many fronts) and we can always make believe sunglasses, sandals sans socks, and SPF 40 are still required. The sun's at my window (and love's at my door) and all that sort of thing. 

 

 

Sunglasses in the rain...

and sunglasses that come with their OWN rain.

 

So that means sunbeams from Good News, Pippin, The Fantasticks, Big River, In The Heights, Radio Gals...I mean, we'll toss a few rainy selections in the mix, just for a reality check, but they'll be the light showery versions. No downpours. Gentle drips only. :)

 

Carmen Cusack, sun worshiper, in Bright Star.

 

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Sun's Gonna Shine (Carmen Cusack, Dee Hoty, Ensemble, Bright Star)

Sunrise Melody (Carole Cook, Ensemble, Radio Gals)

Sunny Side Of Every Situation (Karen Prunczik, Ensemble, 42nd Street)

I Got The Sun In The Morning (Bernadette Peters, Annie Get Your Gun)

Little Mary Sunshine (Eileen Brennan, Little Mary Sunshine)

Keep Your Sunny Side Up (Steve Frazier, Good News)

Spread A Little Sunshine (Charlotte D'Amboise, Pippin)

Sunday In The Park With George (Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, Sunday In The Park With George)

I'm Sailing On A Sunbeam (Fred Coughlin and His Orchestra, Des Tooley on vocals)

Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon (Dawn Upshaw, A Connecticut Yankee)

'Livin' In The Sunshine (Maurice Chevalier, The Big Pond)

Little April Shower (Instrumental, Bambi)

Little Drops Of Rain (Judy Garland, Gay Purr-ee)

Rain On The Roof (Adolph Green, Phyllis Newman, Follies)

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

There Will Be Sun (Ensemble, Groundhog Day)

Let The Sunshine In (Company, Hair)

Sun On My Face (Robert Morse, Tony Roberts, Sugar)

Sun In My Window (Ricardo Montalban, Seventh Heaven)

The Sun Has Got His Hat On (Nick Ullett, Jane Summerhays, Me & My Girl)

When The Sun Goes Down In The South (Rene Auberjonois, Bob Gunton, Ron Richardson, Daniel Jenkins, Big River)

Sunrise (Mandy Gonzalez, Christopher Jackson, In The Heights)

Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying (Ensemble, Five Guys Named Moe)

Pleasant Valley Sunday (Sara King, Jake Epstein, Beautiful - The Carol King Musical)

Out Of The Sun (Tony Danza, Honeymoon In Vegas)

Singin' In The Rain (Gene Kelly, Singin' In The Rain)

Walking In The Rain (Anika Larsen, Jarrod Spector, Beautiful - The Carol King Musical)

Raining (Margo Seibert, Rocky)

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

The Clouds Will Soon Roll By (Elsie Carlisle)

The Sunny Side Of The Street (Judy Garland)

Sunrise, Sunset (Zero Mostel, Maria Karnilova, Bert Convy, Julia Migenes, Fiddler On The Roof)

Playlist For Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023: Home, Sweet (Musical) Home!

Okay, we're into our last full week of October, folks, but I'm here to tell you: This will not be a Halloween playlist/blog/edition. There just isn't enough Halloween Broadway, though there ARE plenty of scary musicals out there, if you know what I mean. I know October 31st is a favorite holiday for some, but it's just a so so one for me. To me, it just means the end of my birthday month (damn!), and one month closer to snow and cold and sunsets at 4:45pm. I'm fine with Thanksgiving, fine with Christmas, but then...I need Aruba. 

But not to get ahead of ourselves! Those trees are still sporting some rather technicolor foliage, cider vibes and PSLs are rampant, and my gulag wear remains closeted. My favorite time of the year, so let's not rev up the snow blowers yet!

 

Only somewhat photo-shopped.

 

And on tap for 2 On The Aisle is a Home Sweet Home edition: Broadway songs of Home and Hearth, from Promises Promises, Hairspray, Once Upon A Mattress, The Wiz...plus mini odes to Doors and Windows (who'd want a home without those?), which means ditties from Shoe String Revue, Dear Evan, A Class Act, and Joseph and that amazing TECHNICOLOR dreamcoat of his (what a great Halloween costume that would make!). 

Well, this is a little TOO sweet. Don't expect this.

My teeth are gonna fall out.

This will also be the LAST Sunday of Jazz90.1's Fall Pledge Drive, so if you haven't had a chance to donate to our coffers yet, this will be your chance to donate to our coffers! :) THANKS to all who've done so already...YOU ROCK! 

 

 

My Ol' Kentucky Rock And Roll Home (Mark Hardwick, Mike Craver, Debra Monk, Mary Murfitt, Oil City Symphony)

The House We Live In (Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens) 

Come On-A My House (Rosemary Clooney)

The Big Dollhouse (Harvey Fierstein, Ensemble, Hairspray)

We're In The Money (Karen Prunczik, Ginny King, Jeri Kansas, 42nd Street)

Can You Use Any Money Today? (Tyne Daly, Call Me Madam)

Money, Money (The Money Song) (Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Cabaret) 

My House (Lauren Ward, Matilda)

A House Is Not A Home (Kristin Chenoweth, Promises, Promises)

Just A Housewife (Susan Bigelow, Working)

The Boy Next Door (Judy Garland, Meet Me In St. Louis)

Doors (Sally Mayes, Richard Muenz, Lynne Wintersteller, Brent Barrett, Closer Than Ever)

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

Paris Through A Window (Lonny Price, Randy Graff, Ensemble,  A Class Act)

A Million Windows And I (Ann Hampton Callaway, Shoe String Revue)

Waving Through A Window (Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen)

Open A New Window (Angela Lansbury, Mame)

The Swamps Of Home (Carol Burnett, Once Upon A Mattress)

My Home Town (Tom Lehrer, Tom Lehrer Revisited)

I Want To Go Home (Daniel H. Jenkins, Big)

I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean (Jimmy Thompson, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Brigadoon)

I Feel At Home With You (Chester Stratton, Vera Ellen, A Connecticut Yankee)

Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home (Vanessa Williams, St. Louis Woman)

Home Sweet Home (Dogs!, Lady And The Tramp)

Home Before You Know It (Daniel H. Jenkins, The Bridges Of Madison County) 

Everybody's Got A Home But Me (Laura Osnes, Pipe Dream)

Home (Stephanie Mills, The Wiz)

When My Ship Comes Home (Christine Ebersole, Christine Ebersole Sings Noel Coward))

Go Back Home (Audra McDonald, Go Back Home)

Anatevka (Zero Mostel, Company, Fiddler On The Roof)

Home On The Range (Roy Rogers and The Sons Of The Pioneers)

 

Playlist For Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023: Damn October, You Crazy!

My demon child, Bellisant, is still here, under-foot, so this will be pithy and damn short, because I'm socializing, celebrating many birthdays, baking cakes (eating cakes), and enjoying general foo-fah-rah. Yay, October! 

 

We had a great time co-hosting last Sunday, larkin' about with Broadway on Jazz90.1... and taking your calls of donation (THANK YOU so much to all who donated!). It's much more fun to drive that pledge car when you have the energy of a co-host to banter with AND appreciative listeners who connect (and contribute). 

 

So that puts us mid-month, and mid-Pledge Drive...and we're gettin' there, folks! I've picked out some goodies for this week, hopefully to please the likes of you Broadwayphiles, like an Uptown/Downtown (but no Downton!) set, some Henry Mancini themes, a Sondheim "flight" or two, especially a hefty bit of Forum. In fact, our opener will be the same one I used to launch the very first 2 On The Aisle 11 years ago, Forum's Overture. The exact date of that new born 2OTA, I believe, was Oct. 28th, 2012, but hey, close enough. I pushed a button, the CD managed to start, I took several deep breaths (into a paper bag), and the rest is sorta "radio history." (DO note the quotes.)

 

 If you haven't dropped anything into the Jazz90.1 coffers yet, please consider it. We promise to put whatever the amount you give to good use: No croissants for me and Otto on Sundays, no earring bonus at the end of the year, no cruises to Timbuktoo (sp?) or Atlantis. We'll behave.

And we'll just keeping playing! :)

 

Overture (Instrumental, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)

Downtown (Skidrow)(Ensemble, Little Shop Of Horrors)

Uptown (Alysha Deslorieux, Beautiful The Carol King Musical)

Uptown, Downtown (Craig Lucas, Marry Me A Little)

Downtown (Petula Clark)

Love Betsy (Rob McClure, Honeymoon In Vegas)

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

Shiksa Goddess (Norbert Leo Butz, The Last Five Years)

But Alive (Lauren Bacall, Applause)

Gooch's Song (Jane Connell, Mame)

I Wanna Live Each Day (Christine Baranski, Miss Spectacular)

The Pink Panther (Instrumental, The Pink Panther)

Meglio Stasera (Fran Jeffries, The Pink Panther)

Moon River (Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast At Tiffany's)

Theme From Peter Gunn (Instrumental, Peter Gunn)

Big Spender (Ensemble, Fosse)

Hey, Bob Fosse (Company, Forbidden Broadway)

Comedy Tonight (Zero Mostel, Company, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)

Impossible (David Burns, Brian Davies, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)

Bring Me My Bride (Ron Holgate, Zero Mostel, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)

I Remember (Charmian Carr, Evening Primrose)

Anyone Can Whistle (Tom Wopat, Barbara Cook, Ensemble, Sondheim On Sondheim)

Johanna (Bernadette Peters)

Show Off (Sutton Foster, The Drowsy Chaperone)

You Deserve It (Corey Cott, Laura Osnes, Bandstand)

Bottom's Gonna Be On Top (Bryan d'Arcy James, Christian Borle, Something Rotten!)

Mame (Company, Mame)

 

 

Playlist For Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023: Driving that Pledge Car!

It's brrrr-ish, blustery, and blah! What the hell? We turned a corner and suddenly it's November. My heat is on high-ish, as well as my wrath. No more biking? No more G&Ts on the patio? No more larking about on my mower? Okay, so it actually hasn't frozen any pipes (and I rarely lark), but this can't be "it", can it? Perhaps we'll luck out with an Indian Summer (Indian? What's the PC form of this?), and hopefully we can all get another shot at a fall tan and autumn "crisp". "Crisp" is fine, that I don't mind; I just want blue skies and foliage ON the trees, not blown to bits below them. Ahhhh well...guess I'll have to make potato soup, find my hot water bottle, and settle in for the Gulag that is Winter.

 

B & Me.

Larking about.

 

HOWEVER, warming up the week will be the Jazz90.1 Fall Pledge Drive! And that means this coming Sunday I'll be spinning mucho Broadway Favorites, plus we have the exciting addition of a co-host: Demon Child Bellisant, who deigns to visit us for double birthday celebrations and fresh-er air and few-er cheese steaks (yes, they live in Philly now). So huzzah! It's always fun-er when they're HERE! :)

 

 

Sooooo, do call us and donate (585 966 5299)! Because it's Jazz90.1's birthday as well: Our 50th year! Impossible, you say? A station made up of volunteers, hanging together, committing, showing UP on time, for that many years? Yup, it's pretty unbelievable, but yes...50 years of herding cats (jazz cats, of course), getting bigger and better. Not without your financial support, though, year after year. That blows my mind.

 

Blow out the candles, Robert...and make a wish.

 

So please tune US in on Sunday, connect and contribute (by phone or online), and here's to another half century, for ALL of us! :) 

 

Overture (Instrumental, Gypsy)

Let Me Entertain You (Jacqueline Mayro, Karen Moore, Gypsy)

Some People (Patti LuPone, Gypsy)

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

Beautiful Girl (Jimmy Thompson, Singin' In The Rain)

Be A Clown (Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, The Pirate)

Take Me Back To Manhattan (Eileen Rodgers, Anything Goes)

Take Back Your Mink (Vivian Blaine, Guys And Dolls)

Can't Take You Nowhere (Dave Frishberg, Jessica Molaskey, At The Algonquin)

Road To Hell (Chris Sullivan, Company, Hadestown)

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

Road To Hell 2 (Chris Sullivan, Company, Hadestown)

At The Club Savoy (Virginia O'Brien, Panama Hattie)

The Elements (Tom Lehrer, Tom Lehrer In Concert)

Civilization (Danny Kaye, The Andrews Sisters) 

Big Spender (Ensemble, Sweet Charity)

Waiting, Waiting (Nancy Walker, Do Re Mi)

Waiting (Katrina Lenk, Ensemble, The Band's Visit)

Hawaii/Waiting For You (Raymond J. Lee, Brynn O'Malley, Rob McClure, Honeymoon In Vegas) 

You Could Drive A Person Crazy (Susan Browning, Donna McKechnie, Pamela Myers, Company)

Being Alive (Dean Jones, Ensemble, Company)

The Ladies Who Lunch (Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch At Liberty)

I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Judy Garland)

Give My Regards To Broadway (Jimmy Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy)

Something's Got To Give (Frank Sinatra)

I'm Still Here (Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch At Liberty) 

Playlist For Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023: Broadway at its Good. No, Better! Wait...Best!

Social whirl month. I have 17 friends with birthdays in October. Man, everybody must be copulating in February, because I have it on the best authority that October has the MOST birthdays of all the months (Valentine's Day? Let's talk Valentine's Night.). So a plethora of Libras (like moi) demanding dinners, soirees, and raves. :)

 

Is this a rave? Google says so.

So if YOU'RE one of them, best wishes and huzzahs... and requests (for future shows, not minks. You'd only "Take them back")??

 

 

Alert: NEXT WEEK, I hope you can tune it...because October 15th we'll have a guest co-host, Bellisant, aka my demon child. Fresh from Filadelphia, where they were performing in that fair city's Fringe Festival. That'll be the first Sunday of Jazz90.1's Fall Pledge Drive, so I'm hoping their presence will bring in contributions in DROVES, whatever droves are. CALL in and talk to B or me (or snub us entirely and do it online, all good).

 

Robert Morse singing in his socks on Mad Men.

Note Roladex. I miss my Roladex.

 

But THIS Sunday, it is indeed ALL Good...or Better...or Best. That's our theme. Because speaking of plethoras and droves, there are certainly a huge-ish number of Goods, Betters, and Bests in the pantheon of Broadway. The Good Times will indeed roll, the Best Things (in life) will be free, and it's sometimes/always/never Better with a Man. Just please don't make me be good, fie on all that goodness, and diamond (earrings) are always a broad's best friend. Stuff like that. 

Tune in. Like a couple of my listeners who watch Sunday Bills' games on mute, while listening to 2 On The Aisle. Tackles tumble, passes fumble, but Broadway taps on! :)

 

Let The Good Times Roll (Ron Taylor, Ensemble, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues)

Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You (Vincent Pastore, Helene Yorke, Zach Braff, Betsey Wolfe, Bullets Over Broadway)

Those Were The Good Ole Days (Ray Walston, Damn Yankees)

God, That's Good (Ken Jennings, Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, Sweeney Todd)

Please Don't Make Me Be Good (Robyn Hurder, The New Yorkers)

Fie On Goodness (Ensemble, Camelot)

It Was Good Enough For Grandma (Celeste Holm, Bloomer Girl)

Being Good (Leslie Uggams, Hallelujah, Baby!)

Doing Good (Bob Holiday, It's A Bird...It's A Plane...It's Superman)

Be Good To Me (Peggy Lee, Black Coffee)

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

When You're Good To Mamma (Mary McCarty, Chicago)

There Must Be Something Better Than This (Pearl Bailey, Arms And The Girl)

Rich Is Better (Company, How Now, Dow Jones)

High Is Better Than Low (Mary Martin, George Wallace, Jennie)

Better With A Man (Jefferson Mayes, A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder)

Life Could Not Better Be (Danny Kaye, The Court Jester)

You Better Love Me (Tammy Grimes, High Spirits)

Better Luck Next Time (Judy Garland, Easter Parade)

Isn't This Better? (Karen Mason, Ensemble, And The World Goes 'Round)

Better (Lonny Price, Ensemble, A Class Act)

The Best Thing For You (Ethel Merman, Call Me Madam)

My Best Girl (Frankie Michaels, Angela Lansbury, Mame)

Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend (Carol Channing, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing (Danny Kaye, The Skylarks)

The Best Things In Life Are Free (Kim Huber, Michael Gruber, Good News)

The Country's In The Very Best Of Hands (Peter Palmer, Stubby Kaye, Lil' Abner)

The Best In The World (Kate Draper, A Day In Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine)

The Best Things In Life Are Free (Robert Morse, Mad Men)

The Best Of Times (George Hearn, Company, La Cage Aux Folles)