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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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Favoriting September 20, 2024: Best of the Versed

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Robert Goulet  White Christmas   Favoriting This Christmas I Spend With You  Columbia  1963  Music & Lyrics: Irving Berlin 
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Michael Feinstein  Let's Call the Whole Thing Off   Favoriting Pure Gershwin  Asylum  1987  Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: George Gershwin 
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Liza Minnelli  The Man I Love   Favoriting New York, New York (Original Motion Picture Score)  Mgm  1977  Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin 
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Kelli O'Hara  Someone to Watch Over Me   Favoriting Nice Work If You Can Get It (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Shout! Factory  2012  Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin 
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Ella Fitzgerald  A Foggy Day   Favoriting Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book  Verve Label Group  1959  Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin 
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Ruthie Henshall, Kirby Ward & the Crazy for You Ensemble  I Got Rhythm   Favoriting Crazy for You (Original London Cast Recording)  Exallshow Ltd  1993  Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin 
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Nat King Cole  Stardust   Favoriting Love Is the Thing (And More)  capitol records, llc  1957  Music: Hoagy Carmichael Lyrics: Mitchell Parish 
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Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane  lush life   Favoriting John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman  Impulse!  1963  Music & Lyrics: Billy Strayhorn 
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Patti Page  I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine   Favoriting I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine/I'm Gonna Paper All My Walls with Love Letters  Mercury  1950  Music & Lyrics: Mack David 
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Mildred Bailey With The Delta Rhythm Boys  Georgia on My Mind   Favoriting Georgia on My Mind/I'm Afraid of Myself  Decca  1941  Music: Hoagy Carmichael Lyrics: Stuart Gorrell    0:45:50 (Pop-up)
bessie smith  After You've Gone   Favoriting After You've Gone/Muddy Water  Columbia  1927  Music: Turner Layton Lyrics: Henry Creamer 
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frank sinatra  I Can't Get Started   Favoriting No One Cares  Capitol Records  1959  Music: Vernon Duke Lyrics: Ira Gershwin 
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Jane Froman  Home (When Shadows Fall)   Favoriting Songs at Sunset  Capitol Records  1957  Music & Lyrics: Harry Clarkson, Geoffrey Clarkson & Peter van Steven 
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Rudy Vallee  As Time Goes By   Favoriting As Time Goes By/Two in One Blues  Victor  1943  Music & Lyrics: Herman Hupfeld 
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Sarah Vaughan  It Never Entered My Mind   Favoriting The Rodgers and Hart Songbook  Verve Label Group  1958  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart 
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Leon Redbone  Shine on Harvest Moon   Favoriting Double Time  Warner Bros.  1977  Music & Lyrics: disputed 
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Brian Stokes Mitchell & Heather Headley  Make Someone Happy   Favoriting Do Re Mi (New York Concert Cast)  DRG  1999  Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green 
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Stubby Kaye & Johnny Silver  Guys And Dolls   Favoriting Guys & Dolls  Verve Label Group  2000  Music & Lyrics: Frank Loesser 
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Kurt Peterson, Marti Rolph, Virginia Sandifur & Harvey Evans  You're Gonna Love Tomorrow/Love Will See Us Through   Favoriting Follies (Original Broadway Cast)  capitol records, llc  1971  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Barbra Streisand  My Funny Valentine   Favoriting Simply Streisand  Columbia  1967  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart 
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Linda Purl  Blue Moon   Favoriting This Could Be the Start  Reaching Records  2023  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart 
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Jane Froman  Bewitched   Favoriting Pal Joey (1952 Broadway Revival Cast)  Capitol Records  1952  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart 
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Ethel Merman  It's De-Lovely   Favoriting Down in the Depths/It's De-Lovely  Liberty Music Shop  1936  Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter    1:45:35 (Pop-up)
Fred Astaire  Night and Day   Favoriting Mr. Top Hat  UMG Recordings, Inc.  1957  Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter 
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Noel Coward  Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)   Favoriting Noel Coward At Las Vegas  Sony Music Entertainment  1955  Music: Cole Porter Lyrics: Noel Coward & Cole Porter 
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Judy Garland & MGM Studio Chorus  Easter Parade   Favoriting Easter Parade (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)  watertower music  1948  Music & Lyrics: Irving Berlin 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
WR:

Verse and Scripture?
Avatar 7:01pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

not quite lol
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
doctorjazz:

Hello BB, Acidophyles!
Avatar 7:06pm
still b/p:

You played it so your audience would get all "Goulet gous coucher avec moi."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Bronwyn! I like the verse! I have lots of them in my good ol' Rogers & Hart songbook. And for our wedding, we used Tiptoe Through the Tulips including the verse so the audience would get a surprise!
  7:08pm
Listener Gregory:

Good evening, Ms B and acid heads. Tea For Two has a great verse that I believe Thelonious Monk used to play. The verse of Someone to Watch Over Me is often sung, no?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
TonyR:

Yeah! F*ck choruses.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

There's an intro verse that was added to Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
TonyR:

Gershwin After Dark.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Webhamster Henry:

'S Gershwin!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
TonyR:

Never would have called the 1st Gershwin.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
TonyR:

"I Caaaan't stand 'im"
"Round vowels, Miss Lamont."
Avatar 7:12pm
still b/p:

I remember a couple of radio hosts going bananas when they asked if anyone in the listening audience knew the intro verse for "Tangerine," and EVERY responder would call up and sing the familiar, "Tangerine, she is all they claim."
"No, NO," they'd say, "BEFORE those words, there are OTHER words you usually don't get to hear." And someone else would call and....same thing.
  7:12pm
Listener Gregory:

Pro tip: If your prospective love says “potahto,” get the hell out of there!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
TonyR:

I'm 61, still can't bring myself to say "ahnt" in referring to my grandparents' other children.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
TonyR:

I'm doomed like Eliza.
  7:14pm
Listener Gregory:

Music historians out there: Is the verse a leftover of the recitative before an aria in opera?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
Dan S:

Hi Bronwyn and fellow AJH listeners. I'm coming in a bit late again due to subway delays getting home. What else is new.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
TonyR:

Liza on the Actors' Studio is a must-see. She wasn't a punchline. She was doling out solid advice to showbiz hopefuls.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
TonyR:

↳ Song: "Someone to Watch Over Me" by "Kelli O'Hara"
My first correct call of the show.
Avatar 🎭 7:18pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Someone to Watch Over Me" by "Kelli O'Hara"
I hear this one often.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Someone to Watch Over Me" by "Kelli O'Hara"
I could use someone to watch over me. Any volunteers? :-)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
TonyR:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:18
Oh, sure. Crap all over my first point.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
TonyR:

I only know open of "Foggy Day" because Bowie covered it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
doctorjazz:

Ella (on her albums, and the sublime Ella and Louis albums) usually songs the verses.
Avatar 🎭 7:21pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ TonyR @7:19
I have confidence that you will get most of them!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @7:21
*sings the verses...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
TonyR:

If BB digs into the "Dumbo" soundtrack, I'm in like Flynn.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
TonyR:

Like normal AJH, but with cutthroat competitiom. Interesting.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
TonyR:

I'm sitting out the Bollywood round.
Avatar 7:28pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:21
funny that you should say that because I Have Confidence from the Sound of Music (which I played last week) has a verse which was parodied in hilarious fashion in the Book of Mormon of all things (the show, not the religious text)
Avatar 7:29pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ TonyR @7:27
I would have a hard time determining whether Bollywood songs have verses lol
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Webhamster Henry:

insert Stan Freberg "Tap Dance on the Radio" joke...
  7:33pm
Listener Gregory:

The London fog was related to everyone burning coal, which is now illegal.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Webhamster Henry:

Jukebox musicals, just older jukeboxes.
  7:35pm
Listener Gregory:

@doctorj, on one of her live records, Ella complains that no one sings the verse of some song, which she thinks is beautiful. That was my introduction to this term.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
TonyR:

I worked in a restaurant in the mid-80s and came to despise Feinstein and (sorry!) Blossom Dearie.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Stardust" by "Nat King Cole"
A lovely version of a beautiful song. Anyone who would record this song without the intro part is doing it a grave disservice.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
TonyR:

"Come what May" places.
Avatar 🎭 7:39pm
Listener Gregory:

I would say Lush Life is sung ONLY with the verse. @doctorj, do you concur?
Also, let's give credit to McCoy Tyner's piano accompaniment here.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
diciassette:

↳ TonyR @7:35
You *could* possible get sick of tiramisu, if you've had enough of it..
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
diciassette:

↳ diciassette @7:46
†possibly
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Georgia on My Mind" by "Mildred Bailey With The D...
Don't know this verse...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Georgia on My Mind" by "Mildred Bailey With The D...
A topical song for the 2024 election? Just kidding.
Avatar 🎭 7:52pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "After You've Gone" by "bessie smith"
Can you imagine Bessie Smith appearing on Broadway? She would have brought the house down every night. It's a shame that it never happened (shame in both senses).
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "I Can't Get Started" by "frank sinatra"
If y'all will forgive a stupid question: Does "the verse" refer only to the intro part of a song? At least here? I'd have thought that "verse" refers to all the lyrics of a song EXCEPT the repeated "chorus." But what do I know?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Dan S:

↳ Dan S @7:59
In any case, I'm enjoying tonight's selection of tunes, as usual.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
doctorjazz:

Sassy! (Not up on the playlist yet, bit couldn'tbe Anyone else)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
doctorjazz:

(Got to see Sarah Vaughan once)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
WR:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:14
I wish someone had answered. I've got serious studying to do.
  8:13pm
Listener Gregory:

@WR, the truly deep questions are never answered.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Shine on Harvest Moon" by "Leon Redbone"
Have this album (saw him once too)
Avatar 8:18pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Dan S @7:59
yes, in a musical theater/great American songbook context "verse" refers to the intro
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Dan S:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:18
Thanks for that info, Bronwyn.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
WR:

The Hour of Crap is on the Sheena Stream right now. 6PM ET to 9PM ET on Fridays.
Avatar 8:24pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

amazing! *waves at the hour of crap*
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Dan S:

"The Hour of Crap," LOL. It's sometimes hard to tell what WFMU program titles are meant ironically and which are just truth in advertising.
Avatar 8:24pm
northguineahills:

happy hellozing bronwyn!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Dan S @8:24
It's a bit of both (lots of crap)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Dan S:

↳ doctorjazz @8:25
I just looked up that program title. Amusingly enough, it's on right now, on a different alternate stream. I'm sticking with AJH!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
diciassette:

If we want crap we'll listen to Spotify!
Avatar 8:29pm
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Guys And Dolls" by "Stubby Kaye & Johnny Silver"
i remember when my friends did a production of guys and dolls in hs. top notch, it t'was!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Dan S:

↳ WR @8:23
Sorry, I didn't notice this earlier comment until AFTER I posted something similar. My bad. You could even say my crap, LOL.
Avatar 🎭 8:32pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @8:25
@doctrj, did you see my question about Lush Life? That the verse is almost always performed ("I used to visit all those gay places...")? The world is waiting for your input!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Dan S:

BTW, I noticed that my supporter icons have disappeared from my posts. I presume that's WFMU's subtle way of telling me it's time to pledge again. I was planning to do so during the October Hellraiser but, hell, it's not even October yet!

Maybe next time I'll up my pledge to the Swag For Life level. If I can swing it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:32
I missed the question (was listening, but picking up my grandma pizza dinner, yum)great album, the Hartman/Coltrane!
And I've also always heard the tune with the "verse". (The verse, unusually, it's more interesting than the lovely chorus on it).
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
diciassette:

I'm skipping out the door with AJH. Thanks Brownyn! (while I still have all my fingers)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @8:45
And tells most of the story of the tune
Avatar 8:49pm
northguineahills:

i need to put stuff down my pie-hole (unfortunately, not pie). not sure what to call it, tex-mex-hidalgense frijoles?
Avatar 8:49pm
northguineahills:

oh, so, thanks bronwyn,

/always forgets....
Avatar 🎭 8:49pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @8:47
Exactly. I knew you would not leave us in the lurch.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @8:47
And I haven't timed it, but I think the verse Is longer than the chorus
(And this answer was longer than anyone could possibly have wanted...)
Avatar 🎭 8:51pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Night and Day" by "Fred Astaire"
Interesting. I have a collection of early Astaire which contains this song, but it a much simpler and less jazzy arrangement. I like this! Note how the verse comes back at the end here.
Avatar 🎭 8:52pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @8:50
I think they're about equal, if you do each one straight, no solos, etc.
  8:53pm
finger of diciassette:

!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
ironybread:

Noel! Oh, you. ;)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Noel Coward"
Noel and his alternate lyrics...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks, BB, fun AND interesting show!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Dan S:

Thanks for another very fine show, Bronwyn. Also, thanks for being so well-versed in musical theater and the Great American Songbook!
  8:57pm
finger of diciassette:

Noel busts up Vegas!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Noel Coward"
Yes, Bronwyn, you should write some WFMU-related lyrics for this song! I know you can write song lyrics, quite well. Do it!
Avatar 9:00pm
still b/p:

↳ finger of diciassette @8:57
You-know-who and you-know-which go
Out in the Vegas
Out in the Vegas
Out in the Vegas sun.
Avatar 🎭 9:00pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Noel Coward"
Given all the different versions of Let's Do It, it seems that Porter and his estate were not too fussy about differing versions. Pianist George Shearing did a very funny version called You're the Pits, taking the opposite perspective. (I heard that live; not sure if it's recorded... the Porter estate might have found it a step too far.)
Avatar 🎭 9:00pm
Listener Gregory:

Truly excellent show, Ms. Bishop! Thanks a million.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
WR:

Thank you! Bronwyn! An epic episode. Will be listening to it many times over.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thati was fun! I like a thematic show! I guess the most recent versed tune was from Follies!
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