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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 February 24, 2023: Got Tu Go Disco

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Luther Henderson  Turned-On Broadway No. 1   Favoriting Turned-On Broadway  RCA Victor  1982  Music & Lyrics: various 
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Le Jeté  La Cage Aux Folles   Favoriting La Cage Aux Folles  Megatone Records  1983  Music & Lyrics: Jerry Herman 
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Claudja Barry  Summertime   Favoriting Dancing Fever/Summertime  Philips  1977  Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin    0:11:08 (Pop-up)
Gloria Gaynor  Tonight   Favoriting Tonight  Polydor  1979  Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim    0:13:33 (Pop-up)
Pattie Brooks  got tu go disco   Favoriting Party Girl  Casablanca  1979  Music & Lyrics: John Davis 
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Deborah Cox  Easy as Life   Favoriting Easy as Life  Disney Theatrical Productions Ltd  2004  Music: Elton John Lyrics: Tim Rice 
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Harajuku  Beauty and the Beast   Favoriting Beauty and the Beast  ZYX Music  1996  Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman    0:39:30 (Pop-up)
Vicki Shepard  All I Ask of You   Favoriting All I Ask of You  Polydor  1991  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Charles Hart & Richard Stilgoe 
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Liza Minnelli  Losing My Mind   Favoriting Results  Sony Music Entertainment  1989  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Earl Jordan  Engine of Love   Favoriting Music & Songs from Starlight Express  MCA Records  1987  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Peter Reeves 
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Linda Clifford  If My Friends Could See Me Now   Favoriting If My Friends Could See Me Now  Curtom  1978  Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Dorothy Fields 
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Sweetness  Memory   Favoriting Memory  Rams Horn Records  1983  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Trevor Nunn 
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Donna Summer  Don't Cry for Me Argentina   Favoriting Don't Cry for Me Argentina  Casablanca  1993  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice 
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Grace Jones  Send in the Clowns   Favoriting Portfolio  Island Records  1977  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Gordon Grody  The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd   Favoriting The Ballad of Sweeney Todd  RCA  1979  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Ethel Merman  I Got Rhythm   Favoriting The Ethel Merman Disco Album  A&M Records  1979  Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin 
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Disco Spectacular  Where Do I Go   Favoriting Disco Spectacular Inspired by the Film "Hair"  RCA  1979  Music: Galt MacDermot Lyrics: Gerome Ragni & James Rado 
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Sarava  You Do   Favoriting Sarava/You Do  Roadshow  1978  Music: Mitch Leigh Lyrics: N. Richard Leigh 
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Festival  High Flying, Adored   Favoriting Evita  RSO  1979  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice 
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The Weather Girls  I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair   Favoriting Success  Columbia Records  1983  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II 
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Listener comments!

  7:01pm
Chittering Squirrel:

SHOWTIME LET'S GO!!!!
Avatar 🎭 7:01pm
Listener Gregory:

Since we've interrupted Don Cherry, may I suggest that a Don Cherry musical bio would be a fantastic idea?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hooked on Acid Jazz Hands
Avatar 🎭 7:04pm
Listener Gregory:

That's EnterJazz Hands!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hello darlings!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Are we considering a bio-musical about Don Cherry the trumpeter or the hockey player? Or perhaps both simultaneously?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Webhamster Henry:

When Got Tu Go Disco came out, disco was already dead.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Broadway showing its usual flair for timing
  7:10pm
Listener Gregory:

I was thinking the trumpet player, cuz he is the only one to appear on the GTD stream. A disco bio musical of him would be amazing! I’m sure @doctorj will back me up on this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I will look into this after my musicals about Ashman & Menken, Bernie the killer undertaker and Michael Cimino
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:10
Clearly, this is the take on the material Steven Spielberg should have used.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

WSS 2021 would have been way less redundant if it had been a disco version
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:20
My only Disco record is the 12" single of I Love New York.
  7:38pm
Listener Gregory:

My only disco record is… the one I won from Bronwyn in last year’s pledge drive!!!
  7:39pm
Listener Gregory:

Given the theme of the show, I have decided to drink fake beer.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

You're gonna work in deep cuts from the Ethel Merman disco record, right?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:39
I tried to drink a real beer here at the station earlier and the foam spilled all over the t-shirt folding table
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Webhamster Henry @7:42
OF COURSE
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
WR:

quick hello, busy with work tonight but have drummer stream playing in background. TIA.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Have a work dance party!!!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
doctorjazz:

Hello Dahlings!
Disco Show!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:10
Just arrived, but a Don Cherry musical would be great (and if he played hockey with his trumpet, even better!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

the doctor is in!!!
Avatar 🎭 7:53pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @7:52
Here's the current plan: I'll work out a story, Bronwyn will write the lyrics and most of the book, Webhamster Henry will direct, and your daughter will be a featured performer. Are you in?
Avatar 🎭 7:54pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Losing My Mind" by "Liza Minnelli"
I have to say that I don't find this an improvement on the versions I know.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
doctorjazz:

RebeccaJazz informs me there's an Ethel Merman Disco Album out there...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:53
Neneh Cherry stars.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ doctorjazz @7:54
which we will definitely be hearing from ;)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @7:54
And here it is (for any who NEED to have an Ethel Merman Disco album...)
www.discogs.com...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:53
I'm in! 9have to consult RebeccaJazz, of course...)
Avatar 🎭 7:58pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Webhamster Henry @7:54
If we can get her!
Ambrose Akinmusire will play the trumpet parts. Or else Chris Botti.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

This will surely unseat the Lion King as Broadway's biggest hit
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
doctorjazz:

Short stay, gotta run, will be going this archive.
Great weekend all!
  8:25pm
Listener Gregory:

Start thinking of words that rhyme with “harmelodic.”
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ doctorjazz @8:24
byeeeee!!!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:25
sondheim could have rhymed it
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Webhamster Henry:

Good research coming up with disco Sondheims that was not on the Losing My Mind record.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I feel like this is the most infamous sondheim disco moment lol
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
diciassette:

Oh gosh, I've missed some things!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

hey diciassette!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

this is a funny example of a show that got a billion late 60s pop/rock covers when it was on broadway and then got discofied 10 years later when it became a film...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

im sad that there were no trap covers of west side story when the new movie came out 2 years ago
Avatar 🎭 8:44pm
Listener Gregory:

I had never seen the cover of the Ethel Mermen disco album. That is something special.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
diciassette:

I wonder what they *forgot* to discofy by 1979? Was there anything?
  8:49pm
Chittering Squirrel:

↳ diciassette @8:46
Sweet Jane?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:44
I love the random dude offering her his hat
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ diciassette @8:46
Annie
Avatar 8:51pm
northguineahills:

now, that i'm comfortably late, hello, Bronwyn!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

And Ain't Misbehavin'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

They DID discofy On the Twentieth Century though
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

And They're Playing Our Song had disco written into it (by Marvin Hamlisch!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ northguineahills @8:51
helloooo ngh!!!
  8:53pm
Chittering Squirrel:

Oh *musicals* not discofied. What about State Fair? Did they get that one? (Yeah I know it was a movie first)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I'm as restless as a disco in a windstorm
Avatar 8:57pm
northguineahills:

↳ diciassette @8:46
discofy it by 40%, rastafy it by 25%... (pretty soon we'll be in poochie territory....)

thanks, Bronwyn!
  8:57pm
Listener Gregory:

I’m as jumpy as a mirror ball on a string!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
WR:

OK, customer call ended, volume up, my partner looking quizzically at me, "I thought you say you don't like mainstream pop music?"

I ask you all, is this mainstream?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ northguineahills @8:57
thank YOU NGH
  8:58pm
Chittering Squirrel:

Our dance floor is a great dance floor
  8:58pm
Listener Gregory:

Thanks for a unique show, Ms B!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ WR @8:57
I wish lol
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:58
thank YOU Gregory
  8:59pm
Chittering Squirrel:

↳ WR @8:57
No, it's Give the Drummer stream
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
WR:

I think I'm going to check to see if early Weather Girls music vids are available online. Nostalgia time.
Avatar 9:00pm
northguineahills:

↳ WR @8:59
good idea!
  9:00pm
Chittering Squirrel:

You have to wash the men out of your hair if you've been outside during a severe manstorm without an umbrella
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
WR:

↳ Song: "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" by "T...
Did not realize this was Rogers / Hammerstein song.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
diciassette:

↳ Chittering Squirrel @9:00
It rains men! Then they want to wash them out of their hair! Mamma mia
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
WR:

↳ diciassette @9:01
exactly!

Thank you Bronwyn!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
diciassette:

doilch bb! hasta pasta a tutti!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks Bronwyn! Great research!
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