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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Shirley Bassey  Everything's Coming Up Roses   Favoriting Shirley Stops the Shows  Columbia  1965  Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Audra McDonald  Dividing Day   Favoriting Build a Bridge  Nonesuch  2006  Music & Lyrics: Adam Guettel 
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Lyambiko  They All Laughed   Favoriting Lyambiko Sings Gershwin  Sony Music  2012  Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin 
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Peggy Lee with Keith Ingham and his Octet  Love's No Stranger to Me   Favoriting Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen  Angel Records  1993  Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Johnny Mercer 
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Marlene VerPlanck  Highly Emotional State   Favoriting I Like to Sing!  Audiophile  1998  Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Dorothy Fields 
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Jeri Southern  Nothing at All   Favoriting Come By Sunday/Nothing at All  Decca  1955  Music: Sammy Fain Lyrics: Dan Shapiro 
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Jonathan and Darlene Edwards  I Love Paris   Favoriting Jonathan and Darlene Edwards In Paris  Philips  1960  Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter 
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John Cullum  Molasses to Rum   Favoriting Live on the Ed Sullivan Show  No Label  1970  Music & Lyrics: Sherman Edwards 
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Zero Mostel & A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Cast  Comedy Tonight   Favoriting A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Live Recording)  No Label  1962  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Julie Andrews & Richard Burton  What Do the Simple Folk Do?   Favoriting Live on the Ed Sullivan Show  No Label  1961  Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner 
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Carol Channing & Charles Nelson Reilly  Put On Your Sunday Clothes   Favoriting Hello, Dolly! (Rehearsal Recording)  No Label  1964  Music & Lyrics: Jerry Herman 
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Purlie Ensemble  Walk Him Up the Stairs   Favoriting Live on the Ed Sullivan Show  No Label  1970  Music: Gary Geld Lyrics: Peter Udell 
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  Moose Murders TV Reviews       1983   
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Art Carney & Barbara Cook  Cheeks for Your Roses   Favoriting O'Halloran's Luck (Live Broadcast)  No Label  1961  Music: David Saxon Lyrics: Diane Lampert & Peter Farrow    1:30:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Men About Town  It's Not a Secret Anymore   Favoriting radio broadcast  No Label  1934  Music: Al Hoffman Lyrics: Ralph Freed    1:34:34 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Al Hibbler  Wish   Favoriting Wish/The Crying Wind (And I)  Decca  1957  Music: Ernest G. Schweikert Lyrics: Frank Reardon 
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Betty Comden & Adolph Green with Jule Styne  Hey Charlie, Let's Talk   Favoriting Subways Are for Sleeping (Demo)  Stratford  1961  Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green 
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Disney Studio Chorus  Minnie's Yoo Hoo   Favoriting Minnie's Yoo Hoo/The Mickey Mouse March  Disneyland Records  1973  Music: Carl Stalling Lyrics: Walt Disney & Carl Stalling 
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Gwen Verdon  The Saga of Jenny   Favoriting The Girl I Left Home For  RCA Victor  1956  Music: Kurt Weill Lyrics: Ira Gershwin 
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Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney with Bob Thompson and His Orchestra and Chorus  Shenandoah/Extract from Carl Sandburg/Bound for the Promised Land   Favoriting How the West Was Won  RCA Victor  1960  Music & Lyrics: Traditional (and a Carl Sandburg poem) 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
TonyR:

Opening with a show-stopper. Genius!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Dan S:

Welcome back, Bronwyn! Were you in Newfoundland last week? Wherever you were, I hope it was good.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Webhamster Henry:

Bassey Jazz Hands!
Avatar 7:03pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

hello darlings!!!
Avatar 7:03pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Dan S @7:02
no I was in Pennsylvania lol. Newfoundland is in may
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
WR:

Hello Bronwyn and folks.
Avatar 7:03pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

hello wr!!!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Everything's Coming Up Roses" by "Shirley Bassey"
A great song to start a show!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Webhamster Henry:

I saw the Tyne Daly Gypsy.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
Dan S:

Hey, congrats, Bronwyn, on your Broadway debut!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Dan S:

↳ Dan S @7:11
Of sorts. :-)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
TonyR:

↳ Dan S @7:12
Hey, it beats her charging her phone with a set outlet mid-performance.
Avatar 🎭 7:15pm
Listener Gregory:

Bronwyn!!! NEVER read the comments! Never!! (On the Times. Of course, read *our* comments. That goes without saying.)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
Webhamster Henry:

IS there a Bollywood Gypsy cover you could play?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
Dan S:

Your enthusiasm and theater knowledge came through in that review of "Gypsy," so I don't mind at all.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
TonyR:

Loved hearing BB's joy.
Avatar 🎭 7:23pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "They All Laughed" by "Lyambiko"
This song debuted in the Astaire-Rogers film Shall We Dance, which Ms. B stimulated me to watch the last time she was on the air. A number of the awesome songs seemed to be shorted by a verse or two, presumably to keep the plot moving along. Well, the songs were a lot more convincing than the plot, so that was a mistake. But nonetheless, great musical film. This performance is noticeably slower than the usual.
  7:28pm
DJ Peter via app:

Great review thanks!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
WR:

Appreciate the review. Are you (or have you) adding to your blog? You covered so much info so quickly, a written review would aid in following up on the many people and references. As a start you could feed your verbal into a text to speech app and then clean it up and expand appropriately.
  7:33pm
DJ Peter via app:

Was that “highly emotional” song cut from Seasaw??
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Rich in Washington:

Jonathan and Darlene! Love them so much!
Avatar 7:35pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Webhamster Henry @7:16
omg that sounds incredible
Avatar 7:35pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ TonyR @7:17
aww thanks!! <3
Avatar 7:35pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ DJ Peter via app @7:33
yes!!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "I Love Paris" by "Jonathan and Darlene Edwards"
Her voice sounds a bit off-key. Or is it just me?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "I Love Paris" by "Jonathan and Darlene Edwards"
It's so hard to sing perfect quartertones when not notated.
Avatar 7:35pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ WR @7:29
I will admit I gave up on having a blog pretty quickly but maybe I could try again!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Webhamster Henry:

You need to show this album cover with two right hands onthe piano: en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
WR:

Your comments on public opinion on Audra McDonald nudged me to read her Wikipedia page. Eye and ear opening on her range of accomplishments.

I know her mostly for her collaborations with composer Michael John LaChiusa (based on your introduction of us to his work).
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
TonyR:

Bootleg-palooza!!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Webhamster Henry:

The Tonys also had good musical excerpts!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Webhamster Henry:

All your tracks need an Ed Sullivan Intro. I'll see if I can clone his voice.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Webhamster Henry:

There was plenty of slavery up here in NY. (I live in Soujourner Truth country)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Molasses to Rum" by "John Cullum"
It's a powerful song—probably the most provocative one in the show. I'm glad the cast chose to perform it on national TV.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Comedy Tonight" by "Zero Mostel & A Funny Thing H...
Yes, after that last song, we need something lighter.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Dan S @7:51
And yet also about slavery!
Avatar 🎭 7:52pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Molasses to Rum" by "John Cullum"
Bronwyn, I saw the Broadway show on a matinee as part of a school trip (8th grade? 7th?), which was a pretty common thing for this show. I can confirm that the performance sent chills down my spine. The stage was darkened, and the actor took over the entire theater. It was pretty incredible.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Dan S:

↳ DJ Peter @7:52
You have a point there.
Avatar 7:55pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ WR @7:37
their collaborations are the best, she's his muse!
Avatar 7:56pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ DJ Peter @7:52
whoops, not intentional!!
Avatar 7:56pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:52
ugh im jealous
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Comedy Tonight" by "Zero Mostel & A Funny Thing H...
I am hearing props.
Avatar 🎭 7:57pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:52
Equally memorable was that we had lunch in a Scandinavian smorgasbord place, where you could go back over and over to eat the foods most guaranteed to make you sick in the Lincoln Tunnel on the bus ride home.
Avatar 7:58pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

again, jealous
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" by "Julie Andrews & ...
The great challenge was to get an audience to show up.
Avatar 8:02pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

this was also the case for the recent revival!

which I saw, because I love Camelot...but I don't think Aaron sorkin does
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" by "Julie Andrews & ...
I has an idea for a segue. Pair this song with "Common People." (Not a show tune.) :-)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
WR:

↳ Song: "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" by "Julie Andrews & ...
I vaguely remember seeing this on TV. I remember wondering what "surmise" means.
Avatar 🎭 8:03pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" by "Julie Andrews & ...
Does anyone else think that Julie Andrews is a little too Mary Poppins for this part? (I haven't seen the play; just going by the music.)
Avatar 8:03pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Dan S @8:03
I love common people!!!

I unironically think William Shatner's version is better than the original
Avatar 8:04pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ WR @8:03
musical theater is educational!
Avatar 🎭 8:04pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ WR @8:03
I remember seeing Richard Burton sing the title song on TV... unless it is a memory hallucination.
Avatar 8:04pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:03
I can see that, but she is amazing on the cast album!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
WR:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:03
Shatner's version is definitive!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" by "Carol Channing & ...
A much more "smuggled in under my coat" kind of recording.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Dan S:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:03
The Pulp original and the Shatner cover both have their virtues. :)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Dan S:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:05
Yes, it sure sounds that way. Did they catch the smuggler, I wonder? :-)
Avatar 8:08pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

it's a rehearsal recording so the smuggler worked for the show, lol
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
TonyR:

↳ Song: "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" by "Carol Channing & ...
My heart jumped into my mouth the first time I heard my child nephew singing this. His parents explained that it figured heavily in the film "Wall-E"
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" by "Carol Channing & ...
I was in the chorus for my 5th grade production of "Hello, Dolly!"
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Walk Him Up the Stairs" by "Purlie Ensemble"
I'd love to give that eulogy for the Orange Horror in the White House. LOL
Avatar 8:12pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ TonyR @8:10
wall-e was my fav pixar film growing up! (despite the fact that I was, in fact, 14 when it was released lol). that's the first time I heard the music from hello dolly and I was just amazed that anyone would use a show tune in a non-diegetic way like that
Avatar 8:12pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Dan S @8:12
he'll be walking DOWN the stairs
Avatar 🎭 8:14pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:12
By coincidence, the meal I am heating up is non-diegetic.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Dan S:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:12
True. From the spoken words, though, it sounded clear that he knows the deceased would be heading in that direction. However, I'm not too familiar with this show.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Dan S:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:14
Ha! I just looked up the meaning of diegetic. Not a word I knew before.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

I have poisoned your mind about AI musicals.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Dan S:

Belated Happy Birthday wishes to your grandad, BB!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Webhamster Henry:

Ken has been playing "And Eve Was Weak" from Carrie.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
TonyR:

Saw "Dracula" at the Walnut!!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Dan S:

I now have to know: Is a moose the murder victim or the murderer?
Avatar 8:28pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ TonyR @8:26
you literally saw my mom!!!! amazing
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Cheeks for Your Roses" by "Art Carney & Barbara C...
That's Art Carney (Ed Norton) singing??
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Dan S @8:33
I know, sounds good!
  8:36pm
Listener Gregory:

@DanS, I had to look it up too. I can’t keep up with Bronwyn’s vocabulary. It’s humbling.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Sweet Corn Lizzie:

I was listening while coloring my hair and kept hearing it as "Moe's Murders". Probably because we have a cat named Moe.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Dan S:

BTW, Bronwyn, I was perusing the DJ tag team lineup for the marathon, and I noticed that you will be on next Wednesday 8-9 PM, co-hosting with Becky (the Honky Tonk Radio Girl).
  8:49pm
KWilde:

You’ll be missed at the Hoof n Mouth
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Dan S:

↳ KWilde @8:49
I agree.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Webhamster Henry:

I didn't know of any songs by Carl Stalling!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Dan S:

↳ KWilde @8:49
Well, that leaves the field wide open for the title of Best Dressed at the H&M, a category Bronwyn had sewed up.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
Webhamster Henry:

The Saga of Jenny was a real show stopper back then.
  8:54pm
Listener Gregory:

I don’t think the Mickey Mouse song coming into public domain will be as consequential as, say, The Sun Also Rises.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Dan S:

Another fun show, Bronwyn! Until next week, be well, everyone!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
WR:

Thank you! Bronwyn!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
ironybread:

#America #FreshWiped
  8:59pm
Listener Gregory:

Thanks a million, Ms B!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Shenandoah/Extract from Carl Sandburg/Bound for t...
Wow, this one is over the top. Well, time for me to ride off into the sunset. :-)
Avatar 9:00pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

a version of this is my favorite song to do at sacred harp btw. I call it constantly
  9:02pm
Listener Gregory:

Correction: It is A Farewell to Arms that is coming into the PD.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks for the " 
one night flops,
Distorted tapes from the sound board ops." as it's sung in my theme song.
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