WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from April 4, 2025

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from April 4, 2025

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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April 4, 2025: The great big city's a wondrous toy

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Robert Shaw Chorale	New York, New York	On Broadway	RCA Victor Red Seal	1965	Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green	0:00:00 (Pop-up)


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	RCA Victor Red Seal	1961	Music: Victor Herbert Lyrics: Henry Blossom	0:13:47 (Pop-up)
Jeanette MacDonald	Carousel in the Park	Up In Central Park	Victor Red Seal	1945	Music: Sigmund Romberg Lyrics: Dorothy Fields	0:16:00 (Pop-up)
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	Edison Records	1915	Music & Lyrics: Benjamin Hapgood Burt	0:18:13 (Pop-up)
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	Decca	1940	Music: Jimmy McHugh Lyrics: Al Dubin	0:20:57 (Pop-up)
Arthur Godfrey	MY BROOKLYN LOVE SONG	A Visit to New York with Arthur Godfrey and All His Little Godfreys	Columbia	1954	Music & Lyrics: George Tibbles & Ramey Idriss	0:24:21 (Pop-up)

How to Marry a Millionaire Chorus	New York	How To Marry a Millionaire	Film Score Monthly	2001	Music: Alfred Newman Lyrics: Lionel Newman & Ken Darby	0:35:33 (Pop-up)
Two On The Aisle Ensemble	Here She Comes Now (East River Hoe Down)	Two On The Aisle	Decca	1951	Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green	0:36:59 (Pop-up)
Mr. Wonderful Ensemble	1617 Broadway	Mr. Wonderful	Decca	1956	Music & Lyrics: Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener & George David Weiss	0:39:33 (Pop-up)
helen forrest	When Love Beckoned (In 52nd Street)	Do I Love You?/When Love Beckoned (In 52nd Street)	Bluebird	1939	Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter	0:41:38 (Pop-up)
Fred Astaire & the MGM Studio Chorus	Manhattan Downbeat	The Barkleys of Broadway	Sountrak	1981	Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Ira Gershwin	0:44:08 (Pop-up)

Jack DeLon & Jennie Ensemble	When You're Far Away from New York Town	Jennie (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	RCA Victor	1963	Music: Arthur Schwartz Lyrics: Howard Dietz	0:55:13 (Pop-up)
I Had a Ball Ensemble	Coney Island, U.S.A.	I Had a Ball (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Mercury	1964	Music & Lyrics: Jack Lawrence & Stan Freeman	0:57:08 (Pop-up)
Tamara Long	Wall Street "Wall Street" by "Tamara Long"	Dames at Sea (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording)	Sony Broadway	1992	Music: Jim Wise Lyrics: George Haimsohn & Robin Miller	0:59:23 (Pop-up)
Alysha Umphress, London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus	Conquering New York	Wonderful Town	LSO Live	2018	Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green	1:01:30 (Pop-up)
Guys & Dolls Ensemble	Runyonland Music/Fugue for Tinhorns/Follow the Fold	Guys & Dolls: A Musical Fable of Broadway	Decca	1950	Music & Lyrics: Frank Loesser	1:04:54 (Pop-up)

Jimmy Ensemble	The Darlin' of New York	Jimmy (Original Cast Recording)	RCA Victor	1969	Music: Bill Jacob Lyrics: Patti Jacob	1:15:53 (Pop-up)
The McGuire Sisters	Ride Through the Night	Subways Are for Sleeping	Coral	1961	Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green	1:18:12 (Pop-up)
Harlem Song Ensemble	Drop Me Off in Harlem	Harlem Song - Original Apollo Theater Cast Recording	Columbia	2002	Music: Duke Ellington Lyrics: Nick Kenny	1:20:47 (Pop-up)
Bandstand Ensemble	A Band in New York City	Bandstand (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Broadway Records	2017	Music: Richard Oberacker Lyrics: Richard Oberacker & Robert Taylor	1:24:24 (Pop-up)

Mel Torme	Forty Second Street "Forty Second Street" by "Mel Torme"	Forty Second Street/Sunday in New York	Atlantic	1964	Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Al Dubin	1:37:03 (Pop-up)
Rosemary Clooney	Take Me Back to Manhattan	Still on the Road	Concord Jazz	1994	Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter	1:38:33 (Pop-up)
Louise Carlyle	I Love a New Yorker	The Music of Harold Arlen	Walden	1955	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ralph Blane & Harold Arlen	1:42:34 (Pop-up)
Steve Ross	My Town/All Aboard for Broadway/Give My Regards to Broadway/I Happen to Like New York	My Manhattan	Music Manager	2003	Music & Lyrics: various	1:45:25 (Pop-up)
Robert Goulet	New York's My Home "New York's My Home" by "Robert Goulet"	Manhattan Tower/The Man Who Loves Manhattan	Columbia	1964	Music: Gordon Jenkins Lyrics: Tom Adair	1:51:10 (Pop-up)

Pamela Myers	Another Hundred People	Company (Original Broadway Cast)	Columbia Masterworks	1970	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:58:46 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎭 ♥ 7:01pm doctorjazz: Hi BB, show folks!
	🎭 ♥ 7:03pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "New York, New York" by "Robert Shaw Chorale" Hi Acid Jazz Handers! Yeah, they couldn't sing "Helluva" in the movie.
	🎭 ♥ 7:03pm Dan S: Hey Bronwyn, fellow AJH listeners! BTW, Bronwyn, I did enjoy your 'Appalachian Jazz Hands' fill-in show on Tuesday.
	🎭 ♥ 7:04pm WR: Hi Bronwyn and folks. Very much enjoyed the AJH episode on Tuesday. Egad, it's Friday already?
	🎭 ♥ 7:04pm Webhamster Henry: There was a little AJH friendly set on Doug's show this morning. wfmu.org...
	🎭 ♥ 7:05pm doctorjazz: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:04 That was a cool set!
	🎭 ♥ 7:05pm Listener Gregory: Good morning, handy people!
	🎭 ♥ 7:07pm Listener Gregory: Are song titles actually copyrightable? Book titles aren't.
	🎭 ♥ 7:08pm Listener Gregory: Little-known fact: The Appalachian Trail goes through Central Park.
	🎭 ♥ 7:09pm Webhamster Henry: I have the 12" disco record of the "I Love New York" song.
	🎭 ♥ 7:10pm Webhamster Henry: Here's my piano roll of "Do the New York" jhhl.net...
	🎭 ♥ 7:12pm Dan S: Based on the stock market results of the last two days, I have an idea for an AJH show: Broadway responses to the Great Depression of the 1930s. I hope it doesn't come to that now, but who knows? Perhaps we should mentally prepare.
	🎭 ♥ 7:13pm Dan S: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:08 Ah-ha. In a north/south or east/west direction?
	🎭 ♥ 7:14pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dan S @7:13 It's more of a spiral... can be confusing to novices.
	🎭 ♥ 7:18pm Webhamster Henry: Good ol' Billy Murray!
	🎭 ♥ 7:20pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "I'd Rather Be a Lamp-Post on Old Broadway" by "Bi... Than what,-a fire hydrant?
	🎭 ♥ 7:20pm Webhamster Henry: Longacre Square is what Times Square was called before the Times Tower was built.
	🎭 ♥ 7:22pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "I'd Rather Be a Lamp-Post on Old Broadway" by "Bi... That one made me smile.
	🎭 ♥ 7:23pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "A Latin Tune, a Manhattan Moon and You" by "Pee W... I think the record is credited to Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, which was a very successful swing band in its day.
	🎭 ♥ 7:26pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "MY BROOKLYN LOVE SONG" by "Arthur Godfrey" Arthur Godfrey's appeal is about as mysterious as Donald Trumps.
	🎭 ♥ 7:26pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "MY BROOKLYN LOVE SONG" by "Arthur Godfrey" This guy's got an even thicker Bklyn accent than I do!
	🎭 ♥ 7:27pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "MY BROOKLYN LOVE SONG" by "Arthur Godfrey" Hey, he mentioned my old 'hood!
	🎭 ♥ 7:29pm Listener Gregory: Arthur Godfrey fired people on the air??? The public will never accept such behavior!
	🎭 ♥ 7:29pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "MY BROOKLYN LOVE SONG" by "Arthur Godfrey" Wow, I just noticed it was Arthur Godfrey. A very dislikeable guy.
	🎭 ♥ 7:30pm Dan S: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:29 Today he would be co-heading DoGE with Musk.
	🎭 ♥ 7:34pm Listener Gregory: Anyone else hearing echoes of Rhapsody in Blue here?
	🎭 ♥ 7:36pm Webhamster Henry: Are you going to play a little from Gordon Jenkins' Manhattan Tower ?
	🎭 ♥ 7:43pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "When Love Beckoned (In 52nd Street)" by "helen fo... Very 1940s Swing sounding.
	🎭 ♥ 7:45pm WR: ↳ Song: "When Love Beckoned (In 52nd Street)" by "helen fo... check the label, docjazz, Artie Shaw & his orch.
	🎭 ♥ 7:46pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Manhattan Downbeat" by "Fred Astaire & the MGM St... I'm sad to say that the listed label "Sountrak" is not a typo.
	🎭 ♥ 7:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @7:45 About as Swing as it gets! (Though later Shaw got more adventurous).
	🎭 ♥ 7:48pm Webhamster Henry: Bed Music: There's a production on right now of Die Dreigroschenoper that my sister is at.
	7:48pm Dean: Bronwyn: Do you know Joseph Mitchell's Up In the Old Hotel?
	🎭 ♥ 7:50pm Dan S: Yeah, strutting and then stepping in dog/horse/human poop. The New York experience. :-)
	🎭 ♥ 7:51pm Dan S: Have you been to any East River hoe downs, BB? :-)
	🎭 ♥ 7:53pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Dan S @7:50 The Sidewalks of New York!
	7:54pm Dean: "Back in New York City" Genesis
	7:57pm Dean: One of those guys sounded like Handsome Dick Manitoba.
	🎭 ♥ 8:00pm Webhamster Henry: How Now Dow Jones? Rather down, that's how.
	🎭 ♥ 8:01pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Wall Street" by "Tamara Long" At the moment, the Bears are beating the Bulls on Wall Street, big time.
	🎭 ♥ 8:02pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:00 Wall Street was never romantic, but today I think the urge to burst into song may be a bit low.
	8:03pm Dean: I tell ya, Karl Marx's Capital ought to be made into a musical.
	8:05pm Dean: Wow, this Bernstein features Danielle de Niese, who has sung with Les Arts Florissants. Excellent pedigree.
	🎭 ♥ 8:06pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @8:03 A capital idea.
	🎭 ♥ 8:07pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Dean @8:03 Obligatory song: Understanding Marx: ubu.com...
	8:07pm Dean: Capital is a treasure (pun only slightly intended), a wonderful book, replete with portrayals of mid-19th century life.
	🎭 ♥ 8:09pm Dan S: I read the Manifesto, but Capital was a bit too long for me. :-)
	8:09pm Dean: Understanding Marx is also the title of a quite serious study by the late Robert Paul Wolff. We do ourselves a disservice when we marginalize Marx and his work. It's smart stuff.
	🎭 ♥ 8:12pm Dan S: They might just change the access code to something other than "ACCESS" now, BB. :-)
	🎭 ♥ 8:15pm Dan S: One day they might make a very entertaining show about Eric Adams. Not anytime soon, though.
	🎭 ♥ 8:21pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Ride Through the Night" by "The McGuire Sisters" I think the composer is JulIe Styne.
	🎭 ♥ 8:25pm doctorjazz: Fun show, gotta run, thanks, BB!
	🎭 ♥ 8:25pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:21 Actually, there's no 'e' in the middle of Jule Styne.
	🎭 ♥ 8:28pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:25 Oops! I knew that it's pronounced like Julie, so I thought it was spelled that way too. I apologize to Bronwyn, the listeners, and to Mr. Styne. Thanks for catching that, Henry.
	8:30pm Dean: I always confuse Jule Styne with Jules Styne, the ophthalmologist who contributed to UCLA.
	🎭 ♥ 8:32pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "A Band in New York City" by "Bandstand Ensemble" This one's from 2017? It could pass for a mid-century musical, to my ears.
	🎭 ♥ 8:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:28 My outie must be a copy editor.
	🎭 ♥ 8:50pm Dan S: It's been a great show of City show tunes, mostly of the less familiar variety, Bronwyn! Unlike me, you weren't born here, but I'm thrilled to call you a fellow New Yorker!
	🎭 ♥ 8:52pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "New York's My Home" by "Robert Goulet" Aha you DID get to Manhattan Tower!
	8:52pm Dean: San Francisco is not "lovely."
	🎭 ♥ 8:53pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "New York's My Home" by "Robert Goulet" My mom had this album when I was a kid, and she played it a lot. I know it well.
	8:53pm Dean: St. Louis, on the other hand, kicks ass.
	♥ 8:54pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dan S @8:50 this means a lot!! I am a transplant but always hope I count as a real New Yorker!! :)
	🎭 ♥ 8:55pm WR: Thank you for the tunes and talk! Bronwyn!
	🎭 ♥ 8:56pm Listener Gregory: Thanks a lot, Bronwyn. It's a heckuva town.
	🎭 ♥ 8:57pm Dan S: You do sound a bit nasal tonight, BB. Well, the weekend is here. Rest your voice, rest yourself, and get well soon.
	🎭 ♥ 8:57pm WR: I moved to NYC (Manhattan) in '92. To Queens in '98. Still not sure if I'm a New Yorker.
	🎭 ♥ 8:58pm Dan S: ↳ WR @8:57 That's plenty long enough to make you a New Yorker in my book.
	♥ 8:59pm Bronwyn Bishop: thank you darlings!!!!
	🎭 ♥ 9:00pm Webhamster Henry: You avoided "Mayor! The Musical!" about Ed Koch ... clearly there could be many sequels to this theme. Thanks!

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