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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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United States

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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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English


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The great big city's a wondrous toy from Apr 4, 2025

4/4/2025
Robert Shaw Chorale - "New York, New York" - On Broadway [Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green] [0:00:00] Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra - "The Streets of Old New York (In Old New York)/Every Day Is Ladies Day with Me" - The Immortal Victor Herbert [Music: Victor Herbert Lyrics: Henry Blossom] [0:13:47] Jeanette MacDonald - "Carousel in the Park" - Up In Central Park [Music: Sigmund Romberg Lyrics: Dorothy Fields] [0:16:00] Billy Murray - "I'd Rather Be a Lamp-Post on Old Broadway" - My Fox Trot Wedding Day/I'd Rather Be a Lamp-Post on Old Broadway [Music & Lyrics: Benjamin Hapgood Burt] [0:18:13] Pee Wee Hunt with Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra - "A Latin Tune, a Manhattan Moon and You" - Clear Out of This World/A Latin Tune, a Manhattan Moon and You [Music: Jimmy McHugh Lyrics: Al Dubin] [0:20:57] Arthur Godfrey - "MY BROOKLYN LOVE SONG" - A Visit to New York with Arthur Godfrey and All His Little Godfreys [Music & Lyrics: George Tibbles & Ramey Idriss] [0:24:21] How to Marry a Millionaire Chorus - "New York" - How To Marry a Millionaire [Music: Alfred Newman Lyrics: Lionel Newman & Ken Darby] [0:35:33] Two On The Aisle Ensemble - "Here She Comes Now (East River Hoe Down)" - Two On The Aisle [Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green] [0:36:59] Mr. Wonderful Ensemble - "1617 Broadway" - Mr. Wonderful [Music & Lyrics: Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener & George David Weiss] [0:39:33] helen forrest - "When Love Beckoned (In 52nd Street)" - Do I Love You?/When Love Beckoned (In 52nd Street) [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [0:41:38] Fred Astaire & the MGM Studio Chorus - "Manhattan Downbeat" - The Barkleys of Broadway [Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:44:08] Jack DeLon & Jennie Ensemble - "When You're Far Away from New York Town" - Jennie (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Arthur Schwartz Lyrics: Howard Dietz] [0:55:13] I Had a Ball Ensemble - "Coney Island, U.S.A." - I Had a Ball (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Jack Lawrence & Stan Freeman] [0:57:08] Tamara Long - "Wall Street" - Dames at Sea (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Jim Wise Lyrics: George Haimsohn & Robin Miller] [0:59:23] Alysha Umphress, London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus - "Conquering New York" - Wonderful Town [Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green] [1:01:30] Guys & Dolls Ensemble - "Runyonland Music/Fugue for Tinhorns/Follow the Fold" - Guys & Dolls: A Musical Fable of Broadway [Music & Lyrics: Frank Loesser] [1:04:54] Jimmy Ensemble - "The Darlin' of New York" - Jimmy (Original Cast Recording) [Music: Bill Jacob Lyrics: Patti Jacob] [1:15:53] The McGuire Sisters - "Ride Through the Night" - Subways Are for Sleeping [Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green] [1:18:12] Harlem Song Ensemble - "Drop Me Off in Harlem" - Harlem Song - Original Apollo Theater Cast Recording [Music: Duke Ellington Lyrics: Nick Kenny] [1:20:47] Bandstand Ensemble - "A Band in New York City" - Bandstand (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Richard Oberacker Lyrics: Richard Oberacker & Robert Taylor] [1:24:24] Mel Torme - "Forty Second Street" - Forty Second Street/Sunday in New York [Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Al Dubin] [1:37:03] Rosemary Clooney - "Take Me Back to Manhattan" - Still on the Road [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [1:38:33] Louise Carlyle - "I Love a New Yorker" - The Music of Harold Arlen [Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ralph Blane & Harold Arlen] [1:42:34] Steve Ross - "My Town/All Aboard for Broadway/Give My Regards to Broadway/I Happen to Like New York" - My Manhattan [Music & Lyrics: various] [1:45:25] Robert Goulet - "New York's My Home" - Manhattan Tower/The Man Who Loves Manhattan [Music: Gordon Jenkins Lyrics: Tom Adair] [1:51:10] Pamela Myers - "Another Hundred People" - Company (Original Broadway Cast) [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:58:46]...
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Appalachian Jazz Hands from Apr 1, 2025

4/1/2025
Michael Daves - "The 28th of January" - Orchids and Violence [Music: Traditional] [0:00:00] The Whitetop Mountain Band - "Walking In My Sleep" - Bull Plus 10% [Music & Lyrics: Traditional] [0:04:38] Tim O'Brien & Mollie O'Brien - "When my Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" - Away Out on the Mountain [Music & Lyrics: Wiley Walker & Gene Sullivan] [0:08:05] Carl Rutherford - "Turn Off the Fear" - Turn Off the Fear [Music & Lyrics: Carl Rutherford] [0:11:19] Kathy Mattea - "West Virginia Mine Disaster" - Calling Me Home [Music & Lyrics: Jean Ritchie] [0:14:18] The Carter Family - "No Telephone in Heaven" - On Border Radio, Vol. 1 [Music & Lyrics: A.P. Carter] [0:33:20] Carl Martin - "I'm Gonna Have My Fun (When I Get My Bonus)" - I'm Gonna Have My Fun (When I Get My Bonus) [Music & Lyrics: Carl Martin] [0:35:54] Blind Alfred Reed - "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live" - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live/Money Cravin' Folks [Music & Lyrics: Blind Alfred Reed] [0:38:17] Wade Ward - "June Apple" - Uncle Wade - A Memorial to Wade Ward, Old Time Virginia Banjo Picker 1892-1971 [Music: Traditional] [0:40:56] betty smith - "Omie Wise" - Songs Traditionally Sung In North Carolina [Music & Lyrics: Traditional] [0:42:02] The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover - "Don't Make Me Go to Bed and I'll Be Good" - On the Radio 1952-1953 [Music & Lyrics: Hugh Cross] [0:54:29] The Ritchie Family - "Darby Ram (Ram of Darby)/Dance to Your Daddy/Go Tell Aunt Rhody/Five Ten/London Bridge/Skip to My Lou (Medley)" - The Ritchie Family of Kentucky [Music & Lyrics: Traditional] [0:58:47] Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - "Father's Table Grace" - I Still Miss Someone/Father's Table Grace [Music & Lyrics: Red Henry, Earl Scruggs & Lester Flatt.] [1:01:21] George Davis - "Harlan County Blues" - When Kentucky Had No Union Men [Music & Lyrics: George Davis] [1:04:34] Blind Joe Hill - "She Fool Me" - Boogie in the Dark [Music & Lyrics: presumably Blind Joe Hill] [1:07:12] Bascom Lamar Lunsford - "Mr. Garfield" - Smoky Mountain Ballads [Music & Lyrics: Traditional] [1:21:21] The Watson Family - "The Lone Pilgrim" - The Watson Family [Music & Lyrics: Traditional] [1:26:15] Roscoe Holcomb - "House in New Orleans" - The High Lonesome Sound [Music & Lyrics: Traditional] [1:27:57] Ed Haley & Ella Haley - "Dill Pickle Rag" - Stole from the Throat of a Bird - The Complete Recordings of Ed & Ella Haley [Music: Charles L. Johnson] [1:29:55] Ida Cox - "Wild Women Don't Have The Blues" - Wild Women Don't Have The Blues [Music & Lyrics: Ida Cox] [1:32:30] Johnny Staats & the Delivery Boys - "Never Mind the Mule" - Time Moves on [Music & Lyrics: Johnny Staats] [1:43:20] Melvin Wine - "Moon Behind the Hill" - Vintage Wine [Music: T. Brigham Bishop] [1:45:41] Ginny Hawker - "the butcher boy" - The Harry Smith Connection: A Live Tribute to the Anthology of American Folk Music [Music & Lyrics: Traditional] [1:47:07] Etta Baker - "One-Dime Blues" - One-Dime Blues [Music: Blind Lemon Jefferson] [1:49:55] Hazel Dickens - "The Rebel Girl" - Don't Mourn - Organize! Songs Of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill [Music & Lyrics: Joe Hill] [1:51:26] Hobart Smith - "last chance" - Hobart Smith of Saltville, Virginia [Music: Unknown] [2:06:16] Frank Proffitt - "Cluck old hen" - Frank Proffitt [Music & Lyrics: Unknown] [2:07:37] Josh White - "Baby, Won't You Doodle-Doo-Doo" - First Recording Sessions (Vol. 1 1932-1933) [Music & Lyrics: presumably Josh White] [2:11:04] Howard Armstrong - "When You Feel Down and Out" - Louie Bluie (soundtrack) [Music & Lyrics: presumably Howard Armstrong] [2:14:25] Diamond Teeth Mary - "Keep Your Hands Off Of Him" - Give Me Back My Teeth [Music & Lyrics: Priscilla Bowman & Jay McShann] [2:16:38] Jim Marshall & Artie Marshall - "The Ballad of Fancy Gap" - The Ballad of Fancy Gap [Music & Lyrics: Jim Marshall] [2:25:07] Frank Hutchison - "The West Virginia Rag" - Coney Isle/The West Virginia Rag [Music: Frank Hutchison]...
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We would go bowling if you really cared from Mar 21, 2025

3/21/2025
The Meistersingers of Ursinus College - "Godspell (Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord/By My Side/Day By Day/All Good Gifts/We Beseech Thee/Long Live God)" - The 38th Season: 1975 [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz] [0:00:00] Tolman High School Sophomore Girls Chorus - "If I Loved You" - Tolman '62 [Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [0:11:23] Sally Mayes - "Thanks But No Thanks" - Our Private World - Sally Mayes Sings Comden & Green [Music: Andre Previn Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green] [0:31:06] Debbie Gravitte - "Hero" - Unsung Musicals, Vol. 3 [Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman] [0:33:03] Lynnette Perry & Guy Haines - "Roadside" - Unsung Musicals, Vol. 2 [Music: Harvey Schmidt Lyrics: Tom Jones] [0:36:11] Michelle Nicastro - "There Are Days and There Are Days" - Unsung Musicals [Music: Robert Brush Lyrics: Martin Charnin] [0:40:08] LaChanze - "When Daniel Marries" - Lost in Boston, Vol. 3 [Music: Stephen Flaherty Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens] [0:43:58] Karen Ziemba & Harry Groener - "Throw It Away" - Lost in Boston, Vol. 2 [Music Harvey Schmidt Lyrics: Tom Jones] [0:47:56] Judy Malloy, Richard Roland & Sal Viviano - "Like Everybody Else" - Lost in Boston, Vol. 1 [Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:04:57] Rose Marie Jun - "Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm" - Broadway First Take Vol. 1 [Music & Lyrics: Frank Loesser] [1:07:04] Alfred Drake - "Who Knew My Father?" - On Time (Live Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Charles Burr] [1:08:38] Harvey Evans, Robert Spencer & Sextet Cast - "Hi" - Sextet (bootleg) [Music: Lawrence Hurwit Lyrics: Lee Goldsmith] [1:11:03] Stephen Sondheim - "The Two of You" - Demo [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:13:24] The Honeydreamers - "Sweetheart Semicolon" - Rain/Sweetheart Semicolon [Music: Victor Young Lyrics: Edward Heyman] [1:30:22] Nancy Walker & Harvey Lembeck - "Tomorrow Is Here" - Phoenix '55 (bootleg) [Music: David Baker Lyrics: David Craig] [1:32:16] Robert Morse & EJ Peaker - "We'll Build a Simple House" - That's Life [Music & Lyrics: Walter Marks] [1:34:49] Bill Roberts & Lucille Norman - "With a Song in My Heart" - Live on Hollywood Music Hall [Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [1:36:31] Danny Winchell - "Ohio" - Ohio/I Can't Help Loving You [Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green] [1:38:58] Jennie Smith - "They've Got a Lot to Learn" - Nightly Yours on the Steve Allen Show [Music & Lyrics: Steve Allen] [1:47:02] K.D. Lang - "theme from the valley of the dolls" - Drag [Music & Lyrics: Andre Previn & Dory Previn] [1:48:52] The Drifters - "As Long As She Needs Me" - The Good Life With The Drifters [Music & Lyrics: Lionel Bart] [1:50:42] Chita Rivera & Liza Minnelli - "The Apple Doesn't Fall" - The Rink Original Broadway Cast [Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb] [1:57:16] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150314
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BIG MONEY! from Mar 14, 2025

3/14/2025
Larry Blyden & The Apple Tree Ensemble - "Prelude/I'll Tell You a Truth/Make Way" - The Apple Tree [Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick] [0:00:00] Andrea McArdle - "Wherever He Ain't" - Jerry's Girls (Original Cast) [Music & Lyrics: Jerry Herman] [0:04:18] Shirley MacLaine - "i'm a brass band" - Live at the Palace [Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Dorothy Fields] [0:07:49] Spring Awakening Ensemble - "Totally Fucked" - Spring Awakening: A New Musical [Music: Duncan Sheik Lyrics: Steven Slater] [0:17:01] The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - "Next" - Next [Music & Lyrics: Jacques Brel (lyrics translated into English by Mort Shuman & Eric Blau)] [0:19:07] Amber Iman, Natalie Joy Johnson & Original Broadway Cast of Lempicka - "Don't Bet Your Heart" - Lempicka (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Matt Gold Lyrics: Carson Kreitzer] [0:31:44] Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip - "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper" - I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper [Music & Lyrics: Jeff Calvert & Geraint Hughes] [0:33:48] Tommy Steele, Eleonore Treiber & Half a Sixpence Ensemble - "Money To Burn" - Half a Sixpence - Original Broadway Cast Recording [Music & Lyrics: David Heneker] [0:44:22] Harmony Ensemble - "Harmony" - Harmony: A New Musical (The Cast Recording) [Music: Barry Manilow Lyrics: Bruce Sussman] [0:45:59] Cry-Baby Original Studio Cast - "Squeaky Clean" - Cry-Baby: The Musical (Original Studio Cast Recording) [Music: Adam Schlesinger Lyrics: David Javerbaum] [0:50:16] Charlotte d'Amboise, Gene Anthony Ray & Carrie Ensemble - "Out For Blood" - Carrie the Musical (bootleg) [Music: Michael Gore Lyrics: Dean Pitchford] [1:05:08] Prince - "Take Me With U" - Purple Rain [Music & Lyrics: Prince] [1:07:45] Robert Horton, 110 in the Shade Ensemble - "Rain Song" - 110 in the Shade (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Harvey Schmidt Lyrics: Tom Jones] [1:20:10] burt reynolds - "There's a Slight Misunderstanding Between God and Man" - Ask Me What I Am [Music & Lyrics: Paul Hampton] [1:23:20] Corliss Lamont - "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" - Corliss Lamont Sings for His Family and Friends a Medley of Favorite Hit Songs from American Musicals [Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [1:25:42] Ms. Lauryn Hill - "If You Can Count" - Warriors [Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel & Eisa Davis] [1:36:26] Elaine Paige - "Be On Your Own" - Be On Your Own [Music & Lyrics: Maury Yeston] [1:38:07] Edd Byrnes - "You're the Top" - Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)/You're the Top [Music: Cole Porter Lyrics: Cole Porter, kinda] [1:43:39] Kong Ling & The Fabulous Echoes - "I've Told Every Little Star" - I've Told Every Little Star [Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [1:45:14] Judy Garland - "Hey! Look Me Over" - Live! [Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Carolyn Leigh] [1:48:12] David Hyde Pierce & Here We Are Ensemble - "Bishop's Song" - Here We Are [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:52:11] frankie laine - "That Lucky Old Sun" - That Lucky Old Sun/I Get Sentimental Over Nothing [Music: Beasley Smith Lyrics: Haven Gillespie] [1:58:04] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150090