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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).
Language:
English
Website:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/AX
Episodes
How can they see with sequins in their eyes? from Aug 15, 2025
8/15/2025
Keds - "You're Gonna Have It Better Than You've Ever Had It Before" - The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals - The 1970s, Vol. 1 [Music & Lyrics: Unknown] [0:00:00]
Susan Johnson & Oh Captain Ensemble - "The Morning Music of Montmartre" - Oh Captain! [Music & Lyrics: Jay Livingston & Ray Evans] [0:13:08]
Tim Flavin - "Someone to Dance With" - Divorce Me, Darling! (Original Cast Recording) - Chichester Festival Theatre [Music & Lyrics: Sandy Wilson] [0:14:44]
Rebecca Luker & Danny Burstein - "Early in the Morning" - Kitty's Kisses (The Bright New Summer Musical Delight) [Music: Con Conrad
Lyrics: Gus Kahn] [0:16:55]
Elaine Stritch & the Original Cast of Sail Away - "Come To Me" - Sail Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Noël Coward] [0:18:41]
Tania Elg & Debbie Shapiro Gravitte - "It'll Come to You" - Louisiana Purchase (Original New York Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Irving Berlin] [0:25:07]
Ted Lewis and His Band - "Happiness Ahead" - Pop! Goes Your Heart/Happiness Ahead [Music: Allie Wrubel
Lyrics: Mort Dixon] [0:34:28]
The Dizzy Gillespie - Stan Getz Sextet - "Exactly Like You" - Exactly Like You/I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart [Music: Jimmy McHugh] [0:36:17]
Stewart Figa & New Budapest Orpheum Society - "Cafe Brasil" - As Dreams Fall Apart - The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music, 1925-1955 [Music & Lyrics: Hermann Leopoldi] [0:39:41]
Mathias Hausmann, Ingeborg Schopf & Marco Jentzsch - "Mein Liebeslied muss ein Walzer sein" - Im Weissen Rössl [Music: Robert Stolz
Lyrics: Robert Gilbert] [0:42:54]
Norman Wisdom, Louise Troy & Original Broadway Cast of Walking Happy - "Walking Happy" - Walking Happy (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Jimmy Van Heusen
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn] [0:47:05]
John Raitt - "Amapola" - Mediterranean Magic [Music & Lyrics: Joseph Lacalle] [0:57:35]
Bob Graybo and the Petticoats - "Sweet World" - Looka Me/Sweet World [Music: Jerry Livingston
Lyrics: Helen Deutsch] [1:00:46]
Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and his Orchestra - "I Take to You" - I Take to You/Where You Are [Music: Harry Warren
Lyrics: Mack Gordon] [1:05:48]
Ozzie Bailey with Billy Strayhorn - "Your Love Has Faded" - lush life [Music & Lyrics: Billy Strayhorn] [1:08:09]
Bea Wain & Larry Clinton - "(I've Been) Saving Myself for You" - The Transcription Sessions 1937-1938 Vol. 2 [Music: Saul Chaplin
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn] [1:09:48]
Shelley Winters - "They Give Me Love" - Minnie's Boys (bootleg) [Music: Larry Grossman
Lyrics: Hal Hackady] [1:18:48]
Alice Cannon - "Once You've Had a Little Taste" - Man With a Load of Mischief (Live Recording) [Music: John Clifton
Lyrics: Ben Tarver & John Clifton] [1:21:04]
Tammy Grimes - "Georgie and I" - Mademoiselle Colombe (Live Recording) [Music: Michael Valenti
Lyrics: Edwin Dulchin] [1:24:21]
Stephen Elliott & Louis Beachner - "sweet memory" - Georgy (bootleg) [Music: George Fischoff
Lyrics: Carole Bayer] [1:28:15]
Betty Buckley - "What about me?" - The Ballad of Johnny Pot (bootleg) [Music: Clinton Ballard
Lyrics: Carolyn Richter] [1:34:24]
Matthew Deming, Chris Newcomer & Tom Nelis - "Eunuch's Testimony" - The Visit: A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: John Kander
Lyrics: Fred Ebb] [1:40:31]
John Lithgow, Brian d'Arcy James & Kelli O'Hara - "For Susan" - Sweet Smell of Success (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics: Craig Carnelia] [1:42:16]
Carmen Cusack, Kanisha Marie Feliciano & Michelle Ragusa - "A Sapphire Dragonfly" - Flying Over Sunset Original Broadway Cast Recording [Music: Tom Kitt
Lyrics: Michael Korie] [1:46:40]
Clive Revill - "The Man's a Bastard" - Tom Jones [Music & Lyrics: Ruth Batchelor & Bob Roberts] [1:50:04]
King of Hearts Ensemble - "Going Home Tomorrow" - King of Hearts: A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast) [Music: Peter Link
Lyrics: Jacob Brackman] [1:52:14]
Lee Roy Reams & Karen Morrow - "The Best of Times Is Now" - An Evening...
Duration:02:06:15
Acid Jazz Menagerie from Aug 8, 2025
8/8/2025
Nathan Lane & Roger Bart - "The Frogs" - The Frogs: Original Broadway Cast Recording [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [0:00:00]
Nancy Dussault & Do Re Mi Ensemble - "What's New at the Zoo" - Do Re Mi (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Jule Styne
Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green] [0:17:06]
Alan Alda - "It's a Fish" - The Apple Tree (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Jerry Bock
Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick] [0:19:01]
Joy Woods - "little lamb" - Gypsy Starring Audra McDonald (2024 Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Jule Styne
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [0:20:49]
Alison Fraser & Daisy Eagan - "If I Had a Fine White Horse" - The Secret Garden (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Lucy Simon
Lyrics: Marsha Norman] [0:22:32]
Michael West & When Pigs Fly Ensemble - "When Pigs Fly" - Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly [Music: Dick Gallagher
Lyrics: Mark Waldrop] [0:24:28]
Cole Porter - "Be Like the Bluebird" - Porter and Arlen Play Their Classics [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [0:35:03]
Mark Murphy - "Little Jazz Bird" - Let Yourself go [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:36:52]
Johnny Hartman - "Sleepin' Bee" - I Just Dropped By to Say Hello [Music: Harold Arlen
Lyrics: Harold Arlen & Truman Capote] [0:38:56]
Mary Hopkin - "Lion Tamer" - Recollections [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz] [0:40:36]
Christian Borle - "My Dogs" - Elegies - A Song Cycle [Music & Lyrics: William Finn] [0:43:37]
[title of show] Original Cast - "Monkeys and Playbills" - [title of show] [Music & Lyrics: Jeff Bowen] [0:48:13]
Barbara Lea - "Baltimore Oriole" - Barbara Lea with the Johnny Windhurst Quintets [Music: Hoagy Carmichael
Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster & Hoagy Carmichael] [1:01:08]
Howard Keel - "Higher Than a Hawk (Deeper Than a Well)" - Calamity Jane [Music: Sammy Fain
Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster] [1:03:12]
Judy Collins - "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" - Running For My Life [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:05:37]
Harry Theyard & the Muleteers - "Little Bird, Little Bird" - Man of La Mancha [Music: Mitch Leigh
Lyrics: Joe Darion] [1:07:29]
The Brothers Four - "Feed the Birds" - Feed the Birds/Mr Tambourine Man [Music & Lyrics: Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman] [1:09:41]
Liza Minnelli - "Bye Bye Blackbird" - Liza With A "Z" (A Concert For Television) [Music: Ray Henderson
Lyrics: Mort Dixon] [1:11:48]
John Cullum, Jennifer Laura Thompson & Urinetown Ensemble - "Don't Be the Bunny" - Urinetown (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Mark Hollmann
Lyrics: Mark Hollmann & Greg Kotis] [1:22:44]
Gregory Jbara - "Chimp in a Suit" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Original Broadway Cast Recording [Music & Lyrics: David Yazbek] [1:24:30]
Bat Boy Ensemble - "Another Dead Cow" - Bat Boy: The Musical (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Laurence O'Keefe] [1:26:04]
Terrence Mann, Carolee Carmello & Ancestors - "In the Arms" - The Addams Family (Original Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lippa] [1:28:22]
Lynne Wintersteller - "The Bear, the Tiger, the Hamster and the Mole" - Closer Than Ever (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: David Shire
Lyrics: Richard Maltby, Jr.] [1:29:54]
Jae Woo Lee, Mark Hsu Syers & Mako - "Four Black Dragons" - Pacific Overtures (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:40:03]
Billy Porter, Lynette DuPre & Audra McDonald - "Pegasus" - Myths and Hymns [Music & Lyrics: Adam Guettel] [1:42:59]
O'Brien Party of 7 - "Hand for the Hog" - Reincarnation [Music & Lyrics: Roger Miller] [1:46:39]
John & Spencer Booze Explosion - "The Girls and the Dogs" - John & Spencer Booze Explosion [Music: Gérard Jouannest
Lyrics: Jacques Brel (translated into English by Eric Blau & Mort Shuman)] [1:49:33]
Flanders & Swann - "A Gnu" - A Gnu [Music: Donald Swann
Lyrics: Michael Flanders] [1:52:38]
Gilda Radner - "Let's Talk Dirty to the Animals" - Live from New York [Music & Lyrics: Michael...
Duration:02:05:48
These are a few of the things that I like from Aug 1, 2025
8/1/2025
Melvin Van Peebles - "Come on Feet Do Your Thing" - Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death [Music & Lyrics: Melvin Van Peebles] [0:00:00]
Joe Iconis & Family - "Album" - Album [Music & Lyrics: Joe Iconis] [0:13:12]
Douglas Bernstein - "I Want To Be The Mayor" - Mayor (The Original Cast Album) [Music & Lyrics: Charles Strouse] [0:16:32]
Alison Fraser & Scott Bakula - "I'll Always Remember the Song" - Romance Romance: Two New Musicals [Music: Keith Herrmann
Lyrics: Barry Harman] [0:20:03]
Carol Channing - "The Girl in the Show" - Show Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Charles Gaynor] [0:23:58]
George M! Ensemble - "Twentieth Century Love" - George M! (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: George M. Cohan] [0:27:11]
Jason Alexander & Faith Prince - "I Still Get Jealous" - Jerome Robbins' Broadway (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Jule Styne
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn] [0:28:43]
Alice Babs - "Said the Willow Tree" - Alice in Israel [Music & Lyrics: Reinhold Svensson & Signe Hasso] [0:43:10]
Woody Herman & His Orchestra - "Misirlou" - Blue Flame/Misirlou [Music: Unknown
Lyrics: Fred Wise, Chaim Tauber & Milton Leeds] [0:45:32]
Rudy Vallee - "Makin' Whoopee!" - If I Had You/Makin' Whoopee! [Music: Walter Donaldson
Lyrics: Gus Kahn] [0:47:49]
George Formby - "They Can't Fool Me" - They Can't Fool Me/It's in the Air [Music & Lyrics: George Formby, Harry Gifford & Fred E. Cliffe] [0:50:23]
Earl Bostic - "Time On My Hands" - Time On My Hands [Music: Vincent Youmans] [0:52:22]
Laura Ellis - "Tea for Two" - Here Lies Love [Music: Vincent Youmans
Lyrics: Irving Caesar] [0:57:11]
Lynn Roberts - "He Never Looks My Way" - I'm Gonna Love Ya 'Til I Die/He Never Looks My Way [Music: Jerry Livingston
Lyrics: Helen Deutsch] [1:05:15]
Jill Corey - "Love Will Find Out the Way" - Love Will Find Out the Way/Dream Boy [Music & Lyrics: George Weiss, Bo Goldman & Glenn Paxton] [1:07:17]
Anita Ellis with the Loomis McGlohon Trio - "Moments Like This" - Look To The Rainbow [Music: Burton Lane
Lyrics: Frank Loesser] [1:09:42]
Martha Wright - "Thine Alone" - Kiss Me Again/Thine Alone [Music: Victor Herbert
Lyrics: Henry Blossom] [1:11:44]
the J's With Jamie - "Here's Love" - Here's Love/Au Revoir [Music & Lyrics: Meredith Willson] [1:15:05]
Stephen Sondheim - "All Things Bright and Beautiful" - Follies (demo) [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:24:08]
Kathy Andrini - "The Mystery of the Moon" - Trixie True, Teen Detective (Live Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Kelly Hamilton] [1:26:30]
Liz Sheridan & Chorus Boys - "Hurry Harry" - Hurry Harry (bootleg) [Music: Bill Weeden
Lyrics: David Finkle] [1:29:10]
Melina Mercouri - "A Woman's Hands" - Lysistrata (bootleg) [Music & Lyrics: Peter Link] [1:33:42]
Jeanie Carson - "Song of Greater Britain" - Blood Red Roses (bootleg) [Music: Michael Valenti
Lyrics: John Lewin] [1:37:07]
Jefferson Mays & A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Original Cast - "I Don't Understand the Poor" - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Steven Lutvak
Lyrics: Robert L. Freedman & Steven Lutvak] [1:47:23]
Jose Ferrer - "How Do You Do, Middle Age?" - The Girl Who Came to Supper (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Noel Coward] [1:49:11]
Jonathan Adams - "We Will All Go Together When We Go" - Tomfoolery [Music & Lyrics: Tom Lehrer] [1:56:33] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154739
Duration:02:05:41
They Love to SInga from Jul 25, 2025
7/25/2025
The Hi-Lo's - "The Desert Song" - Suddenly It's the Hi-Lo's [Music: Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics: Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II] [0:00:00]
Thurl Ravenscroft & the Mellomen - "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean" - Barbershop Melodies Volume 3 [Music: Al Shean
Lyrics: Bryan Foy] [0:12:48]
The Rhythm Boys with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - "You Took Advantage of Me" - You Took Advantage of Me/Do I Hear You Saying (I Love You) [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [0:17:31]
The Rondoliers - "Happy Days Are Here Again" - Happy Days Are Here Again/You Can't Stop Me from Falling in Love With You [Music: Milton Ager
Lyrics: Jack Yellen] [0:18:59]
The Boswell Sisters - "Shine On, Harvest Moon" - Shine On, Harvest Moon/Heebie Jeebie [Music & Lyrics: disputed] [0:20:26]
Bing Crosby With The Mills Brothers - "Dinah" - Shine/Dinah [Music: Harry Akst
Lyrics: Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young] [0:22:12]
The King's Jesters - "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" - Some of These Days/I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby [Music: Jimmy McHugh
Lyrics: Dorothy Fields] [0:25:12]
The Ink Spots - "Slap That Bass" - Let's Call the Whole Thing Off/Slap That Bass [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:28:07]
The Pied Pipers - "What Is This Thing Called Love?" - What Is This Thing Called Love?/In a Little Spanish Town [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [0:30:14]
The Cats & the Fiddle - "Blue Skies" - I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire/Blue Skies [Music & Lyrics: Irving Berlin] [0:40:41]
The Charioteers - "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" - I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) [Music: Duke Ellington
Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster] [0:42:42]
Perry Como & the Satisfiers - "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" - You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)/I'm Always Chasing Rainbows [Music: Frederic Chopin (adapted by Harry Carroll)
Lyrics: Joseph McCarthy] [0:45:21]
The Spirits of Rhythm - "Honeysuckle Rose" - Honeysuckle Rose/Last Call Blues [Music: Fats Waller
Lyrics: Andy Razaf] [0:48:25]
The Four Vagabonds - "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans" - Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans/The Pleasure's All Mine [Music: Louis Alter
Lyrics: Eddie de Lange] [0:51:26]
The Ravens - "Ol' Man River" - Ol' Man River/Would You Believe Me [Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [0:54:04]
The Dinning Sisters - "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now/Lolita Lopez [Music: Harold Orlob
Lyrics: Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams] [0:57:02]
The Starlighters - "Fun and Fancy Free" - Kate/Fun and Fancy Free [Music: George David Weiss
Lyrics: Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss] [0:59:55]
The Jubalaires - "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" - A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes [Music & Lyrics: Mack David, Al Hoffman & Jerry Livingston] [1:10:53]
The Mariners - "They Call the Wind Maria" - They Call the Wind Maria/The Tinkle Song [Music: Frederick Loewe
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner] [1:12:52]
the swallows - "I Only Have Eyes for You" - I Only Have Eyes for You/You Walked In [Music: Harry Warren
Lyrics: Al Dubin] [1:14:59]
The Hilltoppers - "Love Walked In" - Love Walked In/To Be Alone [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [1:16:24]
The Peters Sisters with Billy Moore Jr. & His Orchestra - "'S Wonderful" - ' S Wonderful/Basin Street Blues [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [1:18:58]
The Four Freshmen - "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" - Four Freshmen And 5 Trombones [Music: James V. Monaco
Lyrics: Joseph McCarthy] [1:21:12]
Delta Rhythm Boys w/Andrew Burman's Band - "Lover Come Back to Me" - They Didn't Believe Me [Music: Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [1:23:24]
The Ray Charles Singers - "Mountain Greenery" - Mountain Greenery [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [1:33:40]
The Ames Brothers - "Exactly Like You" - Exactly Like You [Music: Jimmy McHugh
Lyrics: Dorothy...
Duration:02:06:19