Playlist For Sunday, November 19, 2023: May I Have This Mu-Cha-Cha?

Just back from a short, if shivery, bike ride...ride-able weather due to Sun! No Wind! And my Usual Obsessive Behavior! Which will be known henceforth as UOB. New Mantra. I've also been made aware of EOG, Early Onset Grumpy-ness. Both appropriate labels pour moi.

 

Tell me this isn't ONE big family! OBF

 

So here we are, pre-Thanksgiving, readying for The Holiday Season to descend, exponentially invading our social lives, in (mostly) a good way. It sorta began this week, with 4 social outings (1 of which I cancelled in favor of a PJ night at home with cocoa and That GBBO) (Great British Bake Off), appointments, gift shopping, and planning (Hope Less, Plan More)(shall we call it HLPM??). I really have to up my Holiday Game. Is more caffeine the answer? I mean, I should be able to handle galas and dinners and liquid lunches and shopaholic sprees on a daily basis, right? This may require training wheels. 

See? Even Fred needs a dance "break".

 

But Dancing! There's always energy for dancing. Well, in this case, no there wasn't. The event I cancelled last week was attendance at a Silent Disco. Could not seem to froth up the required FOAM to disco the night away. Sad face. So to perhaps amend that no-show, this week's 2 On The Aisle Does Dance. Conga, Tango, Waltz, Swing... I just hope our energy (and our dance cards) can handle it all. 

 

Hopefully, this edition will waltz you right into Turkey Day, keep you moving thru all 17 courses, and onward into Fa La La Land. We must muster and steel and vanquish (we dance at dawn!) and finish 2023 with aplomb. Huzzah. :)

 

Overture (Ensemble, Jerome Robbins' Broadway)

Shall We Dance (Harry Groener, Crazy For You)

Shall We Dance (Gertrude Lawrence, Yul Brynner, The King And I)

Come Dance With Me (Jay And The Americans)

Do I Hear A Waltz? (Elizabeth Allen, Do I Hear A Waltz?)

Shadow Waltz (Tammy Grimes, 42nd Street)

The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz (Tom Lehrer, Tom Lehrer Revisited)

The Echo Waltz (Tamara Long, Sally Stark, Bernadette Peters, Dames At Sea)

A Bushel And A Peck (Vivian Blaine, Ensemble, Guys And Dolls)

Adelaide's Lament (Vivian Blaine, Guys And Dolls)

I Won't Dance (Kaye Ballard, Jack Cassidy)

Maybe This Time (Kaye Ballard)

Hook's Tango (Cyril Ritchard, Peter Pan)

The Great Lover Tango (Monte Markham, Carmen Alvarez, Janie Sel, Irene)

Pick-Pocket Tango (Instrumental, Redhead)

The Gypsy In Me (Adam Godley, Anything Goes)

I Got Rhythm (Ethel Merman, Girl Crazy)

Crazy Rhythm (Doris Day, Tea For Two)

Spreadin' Rhythm Around (Nell Carter, Ensemble, Ain't Misbehavin')

The Rhythm Of Life (Arnold Soboloff, Sweet Charity)

The Continental (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, The Gay Divorcee)

Temptation (Instrumental, Singin' In The Rain)

Conga! (Rosalind Russell, Wonderful Town)

Wunderbar (Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Kiss Me, Kate)

Fever (Ann Hampton Callaway, Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration!)

From This Moment On (Ann Hampton Callaway, Jazz Goes To The Movies)

Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes (Ann Hampton Callaway, Liz Callaway, Sibling Revelry)

Mu-Cha-Cha (Judy Holiday, Peter Gennaro, Bells Are Ringing)

Mambo Java (Carol Channing, Les Quat' Jeudis, Show Girl)

Gopher Mambo (Yma Sumac)

The Beguine (Tamara Long, Steve Elmore, Dames At Sea)

Tango De Amor (Instrumental, The Addams Family)

Swing! Brother, Swing! (Ensemble, Swing!)

Dance At The Gym (Instrumental, West Side Story)