Playlist for Sunday, January 5, 2013: Too Bad, You Can't Go Back to Moscow!

2 on the Aisle experiences a slight list to the Movie Musical side this Sunday, what with selections from Cabaret (the film), Singin' in the Rain, Silk Stockings, etc., but they're just so good!  Not to fear, however, because there are still some iconic Broadway items in the line up, from the likes of The Pajama Game and Bells are Ringing, plus a few quirky also-rans, like My Ol' Kentucky Rock N' Roll Home from Oil City Symphony. 

That latter one was co-written by Mark Hardwick, an incredible musician (keyboards, accordian, composer and lyricist) who also wrote Pump Boys, and Radio Gals...he had a cameo in Woody Allen's Danny Rose (he played the blind accordianist) and was in a few other movies, before he died at the age of 39. So we're playing 3 of his songs this Sunday...a great talent. 

And to top it off, two comedic "Russian" perspectives...whatta country! 


Sunrise Melody (Ensemble, Radio Gals)
My Ol' Kentucky Rock N' Roll Home (Mark Hardwick, Oil City Symphony)
Drinkin' Shoes (Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, Pump Boys and
                                   Dinettes)
Bells Are Ringing (Ensemble, Bells Are Ringing)
Seven and a Half Cents (Ensemble, The Pajama Game)
Mein Herr (Liza Minelli, Cabaret)
Maybe this Time (Liza Minelli, Cabaret)
All I Do Is Dream Of You (Ensemble, Singin' in the Rain)
Obrien to Ryan to Goldberg (Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin, Take Me
                                   Out to the Ball Game)
Well, Did You Evah? (Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, High Society)
Coffee Shop Nights (David Hyde Pierce, Karen Ziemba, Curtains)
When You Meet a Man from Chicago (Sheila Smith, Sugar)
Nitchevo (Ensemble, Tovarich)
Too Bad (Fred Astaire, Jules, Munshin, Peter Lorre, Silk Stockings)

So in Love!

Patricia Morrison and Alfred Drake, in Kiss Me Kate, 1949.

Carol Channing, as Lorelei Lee

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1949.  Carol's debut on Broadway, back when she had her own hair.

Puttin' on the Ritz...

Shuler Hensley as the Monster, and Roger Bart as Dr. Frankenstein....Mel Brook's Broadway take on Young Frankenstein. 

Merry Christmas! Annnnnd a new playlist: Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013

As I write this, the living room is awash with ribbons, wrapping paper, visiting cats dangerously close to the Christmas tree, and dinner preparations guilting me from the kitchen...BUT time, tide and playlists wait for no man!!

This Sunday, the last one of 2013, we'll begin with Puttin' on the Ritz, that Irving Berlin steal, mano a monster, from Young Frankenstein, the Musical.  Other favorites from Kiss Me Kate, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gigi, and Good News...and we have a couple of "new to show" items, like The Man I Used to Be, from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, one of their few disasters...based on John Steinbeck's Cannery Row (he even wrote the book for the show). John Steinbeck...musicals...a weird juxtaposition in my book!

And Mandy Patinkin makes an appearance (oh, how I wish IN PERSON!!), from the concert version of Follies, in which he sings a trio as a solo...Buddy's Blues. Bring on the schizophrenia!

Merry merry to you all...and see you on the flip side of this holiday!


Puttin' on the Ritz (Roger Bart, Shuler Hensley, Young Frankenstein)
Use What You Got (Sam Harris, The Life)
Purlie (Melba Moore, Purlie)
Were Thine That Special Face (Alfred Drake, Kiss Me Kate)
It's All Right With Me (Peter Cookson, Can Can)
That's Him (Mary Martin, One Touch of Venus)
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend (Carol Channing, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
Dance With Me/Tonight at the Mardi Gras (Louisiana Purchase, The New York
                                                         Voices)
By The Sea (Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd)
Buddy's Blues (Mandy Patinkin, Follies)
The Man I Used To Be (William Johnson, Pipe Dream)
I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore (Alfred Drake, Gigi)
You're the Cream in my Coffee (Wayne Bryan, Claire Gerig, Good News)
Naughty Baby (Michele Pawk, John Hillner, Crazy for You)

Angela, doing her MAME thing.

Hard to imagine that under all that mink is our Mrs. Lovett! 

Turkey Lurkey Irritating-ness

Okay, it does have Donna McKechnie, but I still find this Promises, Promises number annoying!