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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).

Location:

United States

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WFMU

Description:

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).

Language:

English


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Take me to a zoo that's got chimpanzees from Feb 14, 2025

2/14/2025
Suno - "Acid Jazz Hands Theme" - no album [Music & Lyrics: Webhamster Henry] [0:00:00] Andrea McArdle - "Wherever He Ain't" - Jerry's Girls (Original Cast) [Music & Lyrics: Jerry Herman] [0:16:21] Carol Channing - "So Long Dearie" - Hello, Dolly! (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Jerry Herman] [0:17:26] Chita Rivera, Susan Watson & Original Broadway Cast of Bye Bye Birdie - "What Did I Ever See In Him" - Bye Bye Birdie [Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Lee Adams] [0:19:21] Barbara Baxley - "I Resolve" - She Loves Me (Original Broadway Cast) [Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick] [0:20:59] Kristin Chenoweth, Michael McGrath & Mark Linn-Baker - "Never" - On the 20th Century - New Broadway Cast Recording [Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green] [0:23:02] Daniel Massey - "She Is Not Thinking of Me" - Gigi (The Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner] [0:33:47] Herbert Banke, George Irving & Florence Henderson - "Geraniums in the Winter/Stonecutters Cut It on Stone" - Carousel [Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [0:35:54] yvonne printemps - "Goodbye Little Dream Goodbye" - 1919-1940 [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [0:38:46] The Flamingos - "But Not For Me" - Flamingo Serenade [Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:42:03] Jack Jones - "I Don't Care Much" - Jack Jones Sings [Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb] [0:44:29] Veronica Swift - "Forget About the Boy" - Confessions [Music: Jeanine Tesori Lyrics: Dick Scanlan] [0:46:58] Rebecca Naomi Jones, Mary Testa & Ali Stroker - "Many a New Day" - Oklahoma! (2019 Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [0:59:00] Steve Kazee - "Leave" - Once - A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová] [1:01:06] Stephen Trask - "The Long Grift" - Hedwig And The Angry Inch [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Trask] [1:03:13] Smoke City - "They Can't Take That Away From Me" - Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove [Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [1:05:56] Billy Porter & Todrick Hall - "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" - Billy Porter Presents: The Soul of Richard Rodgers [Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [1:08:33] Elaine Paige - "Be On Your Own" - Be On Your Own [Music & Lyrics: Maury Yeston] [1:12:33] Chita Rivera - "Winter" - The Visit: A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb] [1:22:09] Denee Benton - "No One Else" - Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Dave Malloy] [1:23:14] Marti Webb & London Symphony Orchestra - "Tell Me on a Sunday" - Tell Me on a Sunday [Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Don Black] [1:25:51] Carly Simon - "Not A Day Goes By" - torch [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:29:19] Andrew Rannells - "The Games I Play" - Falsettos (2016 Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: William Finn] [1:31:58] Santino Fontana & Brynn O'Malley - "Eliot/Sylvia" - Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Premiere Cast Recording) [Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman] [1:39:32] Sherie Rene Scott - "Still Hurting" - The Last 5 Years [Music & Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown] [1:42:58] Tim Curry - "Anyone Who Had a Heart" - Read My Lips [Music: Burt Bacharach Lyrics: Hal David] [1:45:27] Bette Midler - "Stay With Me" - The Rose [Music & Lyrics: Jerry Ragovoy & George David Weiss] [1:49:08] Dorothy Collins - "Losing My Mind" - Follies (Original Broadway Cast) [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:58:05] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/149177

Duration:02:06:26

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Radio Daze from Feb 7, 2025

2/7/2025
Bunny Berigan - "Program Introduction/Back In Your Own Backyard" - 1938 Broadcasts from the Paradise Restaurant [Music: Dave Dreyer] [0:00:00] jan savitt - "I Married an Angel" - 1938 Live in Hi-Fi [Music: Richard Rodgers] [0:04:16] Ray Noble & His All-American Orchestra - "lullaby of broadway" - 1935/6 Vol. 1 [Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Al Dubin] [0:06:39] Jimmy Dorsey - "Shine on Harvest Moon" - 1938-39 Broadcasts in Hi-Fi [Music: disputed] [0:11:43] Russ Columbo - "Lover" - The Best of the Radio Broadcasts 1933-1934 [Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [0:14:27] Glen Gray - "my blue heaven" - Live at the Rainbow Room NYC March/April 1936 [Music: Walter Donaldson] [0:17:38] Nita Bradley with the Artie Shaw Rhythm Makers - "It's Wonderful" - Original 1938 Radio Transcriptions [Music: Cameron Salter Wells & Stuff Smith Lyrics: Mitchell Parish] [0:21:29] Benny Goodman and His Rhythm Makers - "I Get a Kick Out of You" - Original 1935 Radio Transcriptions [Music: Cole Porter] [0:23:44] Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - "Medley: This Can't Be Love/Simple and Sweet" - CBS Radio Shows 1939 [Music: Richard Rodgers ("This Can't Be Love")/Abel Baer ("Simple and Sweet")] [0:26:41] Conrad Nagel - "Introduction to George Gershwin Memorial" - Radio Tributes & Memorials to George Gershwin: Historical Live Broadcasts, July 1937 [0:29:04] KHJ Orchestra - "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin/Summertime/It Ain't Necessarily So" - Radio Tributes & Memorials to George Gershwin: Historical Live Broadcasts, July 1937 [Music: George Gershwin] [0:32:09] George White & Harold Arlen - "Remarks" - Radio Tributes & Memorials to George Gershwin: Historical Live Broadcasts, July 1937 [0:37:11] Ethel Merman & WHN Radio Orchestra - "I Got Rhythm" - Radio Tributes & Memorials to George Gershwin: Historical Live Broadcasts, July 1937 [Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:40:04] Charlie Christian - "Dinah" - The Radio Broadcasts 1939-1941 [Music: Harry Akst] [0:44:00] Bunny Berigan - "They All Laughed" - Swingin' & Jumpin', 1937-39 [Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:47:03] Jimmie Lunceford - "Honeysuckle Rose" - 1936-43 Live Broadcasts [Music: Fats Waller] [0:49:50] Donald Novis with Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra - "Bon Voyage to Your Ship of Dreams" - radio broadcast [Music & Lyrics: Jimmie Grier & Hal Chanslor] [0:54:49] Ruby Elzy - "Summertime" - Town Hall Tonight broadcast [Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Dubose Heyward] [0:57:02] Ethel Merman - "Heat Wave" - Rudy Vallee Royal Gelatin Hour broadcast [Music & Lyrics: Irving Berlin] [1:00:19] Archie Gottler - "Big City Blues/Walking with Susie/That's You Baby" - radio broadcast [Music & Lyrics: Con Conrad, Archie Gottler & Sidney D. Mitchell] [1:05:46] Judy Garland - "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" - The Shell Chateau Hour broadcast [Music & Lyrics: James F. Hanley] [1:08:32] Louis Armstrong Orchestra - "Harlem Stomp" - Live Broadcast from the Cotton Club [Music: J.C. Higginbotham] [1:15:27] Billie Holiday - "God Bless The Child" - Harlem Nocturne: Jazz After Hours [Music & Lyrics: Billie Holiday & Arthur Herzog Jr.] [1:18:44] Fats Waller - "Hold My Hand" - Saturday Night Swing Club broadcast [Music & Lyrics: J.C. Johnson & Fats Waller] [1:22:20] Mary Jane Walsh - "I Can't Give You Anything But Love/A Man Has Got a Right to Change His Mind/Rhythm at the Rainbow Room" - Rudy Vallee Royal Gelatin Hour broadcast [Music: Jimmy McHugh ("I Can't Give You Anything But Love")/Arthur Swanstrom & Michael Cleary ("Rhythm at the Rainbow Room") Lyrics: Dorothy Fields ("I Can't Give You Anything But Love")/Arthur Swanstrom & Michael Cleary ("Rhythm at the Rainbow Room") The songwriters of the mysterious "A Man Has Got a Right to Change His Mind" are unknown] [1:27:19] Ethel Waters & Eleanor Powell - "Got a Bran' New Suit" - radio broadcast [Music: Arthur Schwartz Lyrics: Howard Dietz] [1:30:45] Don Ameche (with Richard Rodgers on piano) - "A...

Duration:02:06:16

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Tales from the Fill-In Files from Feb 4, 2025

2/4/2025
Hollins and Starr - "Digress" - Sidewalks Talking [Music: Chuck Hollins Lyrics: David Starr] [0:00:00] MI-Sex - "Computer Games" - Computer Games [Music & Lyrics: Murray Burns, Steve Gilpin & Kevin Stanton] [0:11:16] Free Refills - "Eternity Or Something" - Raw Steak Black Coffee [Music & Lyrics: SPF Liz] [0:13:34] Conan Gray - "Never Ending Song" - Never Ending Song [Music & Lyrics: Conan Gray, Ilya Salmanzadeh & Max Martin] [0:16:01] Thelma Plum - "Nobody's Baby" - I'm Sorry, Now Say It Back [Music & Lyrics: Thelma Plum & Alex Burnett] [0:18:38] Death's Dynamic Shroud - "Everything Is Easy!" - Everything Is Easy! [Music & Lyrics: Tech Honors] [0:20:37] The Blue Aeroplanes - "Winter Sun" - Spitting Out Miracles [Music & Lyrics: Nick Jacobs] [0:31:56] Les avions - "Nuit Sauvage" - Nuit Sauvage [Music & Lyrics: Jean Nakache, Jean-Pierre Morgand & Pierre-André D'Ornano] [0:34:22] Mark Lint & the Fake - "Fall Away" - So Whaddaya Think? [Music & Lyrics: Mark Linsenmayer] [0:37:23] The Jam Messengers - "Better the Devil" - Dictionary of Cool [Music & Lyrics: Unknown] [0:39:28] Sanctuary - "Future Tense" - Into the Mirror Black [Music & Lyrics: Jim Sheppard, Lenny Rutledge, Sean Blosl & Warrel Dane] [0:43:00] Belle Epoque - "Black Is Black" - Black Is Black [Music & Lyrics: Michelle Grainger, Tony Hayes & Steve Wadey] [0:54:05] 給愛麗絲 - "台視大樂隊" - It won't let me copy/paste the name of the album [Music: Ludwig van Beethoven] [0:56:54] C.C. Catch - "'Cause You Are Young" - 'Cause You Are Young [Music & Lyrics: Dieter Bohlen] [0:58:35] Captain Apollo - "Lonely Planet - Extended Vocal Lost Mix" - New Generation Italo Disco - The Lost Files Vol. 17 [Music & Lyrics: Ken Martina] [1:02:25] rufus & chaka khan - "Ain't Nobody" - Ain't Nobody [Music & Lyrics: Hawk Wolinski] [1:09:08] Akina Nakamori - "十戒" - 十戒 [Music: Masayoshi Takanaka Lyrics: Masao Urino] [1:13:39] Holly Johnson - "Americanos" - Americanos [Music & Lyrics: Holly Johnson] [1:23:42] Alberto Fortis - "Riso" - La Grande Grotta [Music: Alberto Fortis & Dean Parks Lyrics: Alberto Fortis] [1:25:49] Mary Black - "Another Day" - Another Day/I Just Wanna Dance With You [Music & Lyrics: Jimmy MacCarthy] [1:29:47] Graham Central Station - "Love (Covers a Multitude of Sin)" - Love (Covers a Multitude of Sin) [Music & Lyrics: Larry Graham] [1:33:49] The Brothers Johnson - "Daydreamer Dream" - Winners [Music & Lyrics: Annie Herring] [1:37:34] David Courtney - "Don't Look Now" - Don't Look Now [Music & Lyrics: David Courtney] [1:41:23] Kate Bush - "Under Ice" - Hounds of Love [Music & Lyrics: Kate Bush] [1:51:51] Blaine L. Reininger - "Uptown" - Broken Fingers [Music & Lyrics: Blaine L. Reininger] [1:53:42] Kyle Bauder - "Conciliation" - Caution!Curve [Music & Lyrics: presumably Kyle Bauder] [1:58:02] Daniel Higgs - "Track 6" - Beyond & Between [Music & Lyrics: presumably Daniel Higgs] [2:01:23] Eddie Kendricks - "My People...Hold On" - people...hold on [Music & Lyrics: Anita Poree & Leonard Caston] [2:16:19] Cobla Combo-Gili de Perpignan - "La Placa de Montseny" - Catalogne Éternelle - Sardanas [Music: Unknown] [2:28:02] Orchestra of the Golden Light - "Prelude XVI" - Johann Sebastian Bach. 20 Golden Melodies in Modern Processing [Music: Johann Sebastian Bach] [2:32:05] Pierre Cochereau - "IV. O Filii et Filiae: Introd., Choral & Variation I" - L'Organiste De Notre-Dame [Music: attributed to Jean Tisserand] [2:36:59] Lingua Ignota - "I Who Bend The Tall Grasses" - Sinner Get Ready [Music & Lyrics: Kristin Hayter] [2:39:08] The Fisk Jubilee Singers - "The Angels Done Bowed Down" - The Gold and Blue Album [Music & Lyrics: Traditional] [2:42:36] Guy Carawan - "Come and Go with Me to That Land" - Sings Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue [Music & Lyrics: Traditional] [2:52:03] Kris Kristofferson - "Duvalier's Dream - Live from RCA Studios 1972" - The Complete Monument & Columbia Albums Collection [Music & Lyrics: Kris Kristofferson]...
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Moonlight and music and orchids and wine from Jan 31, 2025

1/31/2025
Marianne Faithfull - "Alabama Song" - 20th Century Blues [Music: Kurt Weill Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht (translated into English by Elisabeth Hauptmann)] [0:00:00] Lata Mangeshkar - "Mere Khwabon Mein" - Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge [Music: Jatin Pandit & Lalit Pandit Lyrics: Anand Bakshi] [0:15:48] Noor Jehan - "Achre Di Nehr" - Husn Da Chor/Daulat De Pujari [Music: M. Ashraf Lyrics: Khwaja Pervez] [0:18:28] Alan Titus, the Norman Scribner Choir & the Berkshire Boy Choir - "Prefatory Prayers" - Mass [Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Leonard Bernsten & Stephen Schwartz] [0:23:31] Daniel Ligorio - "3 Preludes, No. 2: Andante con moto "Blue Lullaby"" - Rhapsody In Blue [Music: George Gershwin] [0:28:21] ola & the janglers - "Time Will Go By" - Pictures & Sounds (Original Soundtrack from the SF Production Ola & Julia) [Music & Lyrics: Claes af Geijerstam] [0:32:01] Linda Ronstadt - "You Took Advantage of Me" - lush life [Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [0:44:02] Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers - "Personality" - Personality/If I Knew Then [Music: Jimmy Van Heusen Lyrics: Johnny Burke] [0:46:29] Chet Baker - "My Buddy" - Chet Baker Sings [Music: Walter Donaldson Lyrics: Gus Kahn] [0:48:35] Tony Bavaar - "I Talk to the Trees" - I Talk to the Trees/Carino Mio [Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner] [0:51:32] Bobby Short - "You've Got That Thing" - Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [0:54:04] Blayne Barrington & Sheila White - "It's You" - Dames at Sea (Original London Cast) [Music: Jim Wise Lyrics: George Haimsohn & Robin Miller] [0:57:24] David Wayne & Steve Sanders - "Someday I'm Gonna Fly" - The Yearling (bootleg) [Music: Michael Leonard Lyrics: Herbert Martin] [1:06:48] Allen Swift - "A Man Has To Do What He Thinks Is Right" - A Month of Sundays (bootleg) [Music: Maury Laws Lyrics: Jules Bass] [1:09:19] Bert Lahr - "Money Isn’t Everything" - Foxy (bootleg) [Music: Robert Emmett Dolan Lyrics: Johnny Mercer] [1:10:55] Bill Callaway - "They Won't Regret It" - A Mother's Kisses (bootleg) [Music & Lyrics: Richard Adler] [1:13:20] Dick Shawn - "In Someone Else's Sandals" - I'm Solomon (bootleg) [Music: Ernest Gold Lyrics: Anne Croswell] [1:17:52] Unidentified Singer with Elliott Everett and His Orchestra - "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" - The Songs from My Fair Lady [Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner] [1:30:26] Bonnie King with Bob Crosby & His Orchestra - "Down Argentina Way" - Two Dreams Met/Down Argentina Way [Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Mack Gordon] [1:33:02] Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol Orchestra - "Sing Me A Song Of The Islands" - Moonlight Cocktail/Sing Me A Song Of The Islands [Music & Lyrics: Harr Owens & Mack Gordon] [1:35:48] Eileen Wilson with Albert Sack and His Orchestra - "I Can't Remember When" - I Can't Remember When/The Daughter of Mrs. O'Dare [Music & Lyrics: Robert Scherman] [1:39:52] Carlos Ramirez - "Begin the Beguine" - Begin the Beguine [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [1:41:19] Phil Dewey with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - "You Are the Song" - I'd Write a Song/You Are the Song [Music: Sigmund Romberg Lyrics: Irving Caesar] [1:48:22] Bill Hayes - "Lazy Countryside" - Bill Hayes Sings the Best of Disney [Music & Lyrics: Bobby Worth] [1:50:15] Portia Nelson - "You're All the World to Me" - Sunday in New York [Music: Burton Lane Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner] [1:52:52] frankie laine - "That Lucky Old Sun" - That Lucky Old Sun/I Get Sentimental Over Nothing [Music: Beasley Smith Lyrics: Haven Gillespie] [1:58:21] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/148696

Duration:02:06:22