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A virtual supermarket sweep of recorded history, with an emphasis on processed cheese.

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Sandahl Bergman and dancers, in All That Jazz

Artist Track Album Label Comments Approx. start time
Xerox Corporation  Take It From Here   Favoriting Take It From Here  Xerox Corporation  Music & Lyrics: Wilson Stone  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Nancy Wilson  Don't Rain on My Parade (from "Funny Girl")   Favoriting The Best of Nancy Wilson  Capitol  Music: Jule Styne; Lyrics: Bob Merrill  0:03:12 (Pop-up)
Charlotte Cornwell, Julie Covington, Rula Lenska  Good Behaviour   Favoriting Rock Follies  Island  Music: Andy Mackay, Words: Howard Schuman  0:05:28 (Pop-up)
Gary Burghoff & cast, including Bob Balaban and Reva Rose  You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown   Favoriting You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown  Decca  Words & Music: Clark Gesner  0:07:54 (Pop-up)
Sandahl Bergman and chorus  Take Off With Us   Favoriting All That Jazz - Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  Casablanca  Music: Stanley Lebowsky: Lyrics: Fred Tobias  0:11:47 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Nino Rota 
Guido e Luisa - Nostalgico Swing   Favoriting
Otto e Mezzo 
Cam 
 
0:14:48 (Pop-up)
Pamela Myers  Another Hundred People   Favoriting Company (Original Broadway Cast)  Columbia  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim  0:20:12 (Pop-up)
Harry Shearer (as Mr. Burns and Smithers)  Look at All Those Idiots   Favoriting The Simpsons Sing the Blues  Geffen  Written by Jai Winding, Jeff Martin, John Boylan, Sam Simon  0:22:42 (Pop-up)
Priscilla Lopez  Nothing   Favoriting A Chorus Line (Original Cast Recording)  Columbia  Music: Marvin Hamlisch, Lyrics: Edward Kleban  0:26:31 (Pop-up)
The Roches  Mr. Sellack   Favoriting The Roches  Warner Bros.  Music & Lyrics: Terre Roche  0:30:51 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits  I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (and See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)   Favoriting Small Change  Asylum    0:34:50 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Neil Hefti 
Home Movies   Favoriting
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad 
RCA 
 
0:37:57 (Pop-up)
Mabel Mercer  Experiment (from "Nymph Errant")   Favoriting Sings Cole Porter  Atlantic  Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter  0:41:33 (Pop-up)
Joel Grey  Two Ladies   Favoriting Cabaret (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)  ABC  Music: John Kander; Lyrics: Fred Ebb  0:44:39 (Pop-up)
Lenny Baker & James Naughton  By Threes   Favoriting I Love My Wife (Original Broadway Cast)  Atlantic  Music: Cy Coleman; Lyrics: Michael Stewart  0:48:00 (Pop-up)
Patricia Routledge, Teddy Green, Marc Jordan & company  Four   Favoriting Promenade (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording)  RCA Victor  Music: Al Carmines; Lyrics: Maria Irene Fornes  0:51:00 (Pop-up)
Aimee Mann  One   Favoriting Magnolia (Music From The Motion Picture)  Reprise  Music & Lyrics: Harry Nilsson  0:52:21 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Neil Hefti 
Morticia's Theme   Favoriting
The Addams Family (TV soundtrack) 
RCA 
 
0:55:00 (Pop-up)
Fred Astaire with Johnny Green & His Orchestra  Isn't This a Lovely Day? (from "Top Hat")   Favoriting Starring Fred Astaire  Columbia  Music & Lyrics: Irving Berlin  0:59:57 (Pop-up)
Peggy Lee  Love Story   Favoriting Is That All There Is?  Capitol  Music & Lyrics: Randy Newma  1:03:16 (Pop-up)
Phyllis Diller  I Enjoy Being a Girl (from "Flower Drum Song")   Favoriting Born to Sing  Columbia  Music: Richard Rodgers; Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II  1:06:43 (Pop-up)
Zero Mostel & Jack Guilford  Lovely (reprise)   Favoriting A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (soundtrack)  United Artists  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim  1:09:20 (Pop-up)
Rose Marie Jun  Sing Me a Song with Social Significance   Favoriting Pins and Needles (25th Anniversary Studio Cast Recording)  Columbia  Music & Lyrics: Harold Rome  1:11:39 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
H. Chappell 
The Gonk   Favoriting
Dawn of the Dead: Unreleased Soundtrack Music 
Trunk 
 
1:14:33 (Pop-up)
Shirley Bassey  What About Today? (from "Starting Here, Starting Now")   Favoriting Shirley Bassey Is Really "Something"  United Artists  Music: David Shire; Lyrics: Richard Maltby Jr.  1:18:19 (Pop-up)
James Rado and company  Where Do I Go?   Favoriting Hair (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  RCA  Music: Galt MacDermot, Lyrics: Gerome Ragni & James Rado  1:21:22 (Pop-up)
Shirley MacLaine  Where Am I Going?   Favoriting Sweet Charity  Decca  Music: Cy Coleman; Lyrics: Dorothy Fields  1:23:53 (Pop-up)
Dionne Warwick  California   Favoriting Very Dionne (bonus track)  Rhino Handmade  Music: Burt Bacharach; Lyrics: Hal David  1:26:29 (Pop-up)
Julie Dawn Cole (with Roy Kinnear)  I Want It Now   Favoriting Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (film soundtrack)  Hip-O/MCA  Music & Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley  1:28:48 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone  Ain't Got No/I Got Life (from "Hair")   Favoriting Bittersweet: The Very Best of Nina Simone  7N/BMG  Music: Galt MacDermot, Lyrics: Gerome Ragni & James Rado  1:30:42 (Pop-up)
Betty Hutton & Chorus  I've Got the Sun in the Morning   Favoriting Annie Get Your Gun (film soundtrack)  MGM; Turner Classic Movies  Words & Music: Irving Berlin  1:32:57 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Jerry Goldsmith 
Where the Bad Guys Are Gals (from "In Like Flint")   Favoriting
In Like Flint/Our Man Flint (soundtracks) 
Varèse Sarabande 
 
1:35:26 (Pop-up)
Sarah Michelle Gellar & James Marsters  Something to Sing About   Favoriting Once More, With Feeling (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 6, episode 7)  Rounder  Music & Lyrics: Joss Whedon  1:40:00 (Pop-up)
Irene Ryan and The Gang  No Time at All   Favoriting Pippin (Original Cast Album)  Motown  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz  1:44:41 (Pop-up)
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem  Can You Picture That?   Favoriting The Muppet Movie  Atlantic  Music & Lyrics: Paul Williams & Kenny Ascher  1:49:12 (Pop-up)
Nancy Sinatra  Your Groovy Self   Favoriting Speedway  RCA  Music & Lyrics: Lee Hazelwood  1:51:53 (Pop-up)
Don Potter and company  Just One Person   Favoriting Snoopy!!! (original cast recording)  DRG  Music: Larry Grossman; Lyrics: Hal Hackady  1:54:35 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Johnny Beecher 
Sax Fifth Avenue   Favoriting
45 played at 33 
Warner Bros. 
 
1:57:20 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Webhamster Henry:

Hey! one of may faves! I put it in the 365 Days project!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
listener james from westwood:

How do, Charlie and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

I don't even have this record anyore (sniff).
Avatar 7:03pm
northguineahills:

eating edamame while absorbing PTNOTR....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
schmutz:

Charlie!💘🙌
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
listener james from westwood:

The original title, "Springtime for Xerox," somehow didn't test well.
Avatar 7:05pm
Roberto:

So this is what it sounds like at regular speed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Charlie:

Hi Henry, James, NGH, schmutz, Roberto!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Charlie:

Roberto - heh heh!
  7:09pm
Doug Schulkind:

Acid Chazz Hands!
Avatar 7:10pm
Roberto:

Radar!
Avatar 7:10pm
Jeff Moore:

O hai, Charlie and Busy Doing Jazzhands company!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
Webhamster Henry:

Here's where you get to put on your Jazz Hands Gloves and do a little Bob Fosse dance.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Charlie:

Hey Jeff!
Doug -- haha! Acid Chaz Hands!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Charlie:

Henry, btw, there's a link to your 365 days page in the playlist:)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
doctorjazz:

We're sticking to the theme, hi Charlie!
Avatar 7:16pm
Roberto:

ACID CHAZ HANDS!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Webhamster Henry:

Once again, Charlie is doing a show so I don't have to.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Webhamster Henry:

If you are on Criterion Channel, here's the Company Cast Album doc by D.A. Pennebaker: www.criterionchannel.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Charlie:

Henry is inserting links so I don't have to:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Charlie:

Watching Elaine Stritch in that doc is wonderful
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Webhamster Henry:

You can play "Dance 10 Looks 3" on the FCC unimpeded Drummer Stream! But you did get a "Bullshit" in!
Avatar 7:31pm
another old man:

There’s a nice take on Company from the show Documentary Now if you can find it. Here’s a bit:
bit.ly...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
doctorjazz:

Love this Roches!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
diciassette:

Hello Charlie & reglers. Sounding great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
diciassette:

Me toooo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Charlie:

thanks, another old man!
hi doctorjazz!
diciassette - hi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Webhamster Henry:

Of course there's a whole musical WORKING based on Studs Terkel's interviews.en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
Charlie:

Henry, I did not know that! I'll have to check that out.
  7:45pm
wendy del formaggio:

Oh no! I missed Mr. Burns and Smithers. But I didn’t miss Charlie. Hi!
Avatar 7:46pm
Listener Gregory:

Checking in. I hope this will be appropriate dinner music.
  7:46pm
Meghan:

You played the Simpsons! Haha I missed this!!
Avatar 7:47pm
Michael:

Hello Charlie. Lovely Friday music.
  7:50pm
wendy del formaggio:

Charlie, are you going to play anything from “The Odd Couple Sings” album? Enquiring minds want to know!
Avatar 7:51pm
Roberto:

Funny, I was just thinking about the time I went to a fundraiser in 1990 where James Naughton and his son performed together.
Avatar 7:51pm
Roberto:

Paul Newman was in the audience.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Charlie:

Hi Wendy!
Gregory - haha!
hi Michael!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
diciassette:

There are some really fantastic links in this one!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
doctorjazz:

Aimee, like her version (and most everything else she does)!
Avatar 7:54pm
Michael:

I think you’d get a kick out of that Documentary Now show. It lovingly recreates the documentary of the recording of the cast album. I don’t know who that old man above is. 🙂
Avatar 7:54pm
Listener Gregory:

The kids are asking me to explain these songs to them. Help!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
melinda:

Hi everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
melinda:

Love the photo from All That Jazz, I just re-watched it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
diciassette:

My parents took my to my uncle's house when I was a 4 or 5 and I got into their 3 Dog Night records not realizing that most people don't let toddlers operate the record machine.
Avatar 7:59pm
Roberto:

I saw PT Anderson (and partner Maya Rudolph and their four kids) at a health food store in Montauk a few years ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Charlie:

hi melinda!
uh-oh, gregory!
Avatar 8:06pm
Listener Gregory:

I think Randy's version of this song has more verve. Yes, I said verve! But love the Fred Astaire.
Avatar 8:11pm
Jeff Moore:

I was going to say that it's fascinating to hear Phyllis Diller playing a role which isn't her regular self-deprecating schtick... but then there it was in the patter. Huh.
Avatar 8:12pm
Michael:

Zero was quite the unique actor.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Webhamster Henry:

Harold Rome makes plenty of appearances on the Acid Jazz Hands Show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Charlie:

Michael - that's an understatement
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Charlie:

I missed Meghan's entrance. Hi, Meghan:) if you're still here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
melinda:

One of my favorite Hair songs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Charlie:

melinda, me too. but I love a lot of Hair songs:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Charlie:

"What's in this grab-bag that I call my mind?"
  8:26pm
judy from croton:

Takes you, Charlie, for pointing the beacon on that wonderful Hair song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
melinda:

I don't think I've heard Shirley MacLaine sing before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Charlie:

hi Judy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Charlie:

melinda - this is a terrific movie! worth checking out
Avatar 8:30pm
Listener Gregory:

@melinda, I think Shirley MacLaine started out as a song-and-dance performer more than an actor. Maybe.
Avatar 8:30pm
Jeff Moore:

Gooses! Geeses! Beware!
  8:30pm
wendy del formaggio:

Veruca, darling!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
diciassette:

Also Nights of Cabiria! (not sure in which order, though)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
melinda:

@Gregory she did, I remember that from reading her autobiographies a long time ago.
Avatar 8:32pm
DL in LA:

Doing Bronwyn proud in Busy Doing Nothing style. Loving it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Charlie:

Hey, even James Cagney started out as a song-and-dance man
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Charlie:

Hi DL! thanks:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Webhamster Henry:

The Nina Simone Pirate Jenny is also a good Acid Jazz Hands pick.
Avatar 8:38pm
Listener Gregory:

I also started out as a song-and-dance man. Now I'm down to just a man, and even that has been questioned.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Charlie:

I'm down to just a song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Charlie:

Nina Simone's Pirate Jenny is the most chilling recording ever
Avatar 8:48pm
Jeff Moore:

I think I heard you mention someone named "Flint" and for a fleeting moment I thought you were going to talk about the immortal classic musical spy thriller film "The Man Called Flintstone"

www.imdb.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Charlie:

lol, Jeff!
Avatar 8:50pm
Michael:

Well doggy
  8:50pm
wendy del formaggio:

Dr. Teeth!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
melinda:

haven't heard this in ages
  8:51pm
listener James from Westwood:

Hell yeah Electric Mayhem!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
melinda:

I always liked Floyd and Janice
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Charlie:

rilly!
  8:52pm
wendy del formaggio:

I love the line, “Even Santa Claus believes in you.”
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Charlie:

yes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Webhamster Henry:

I like how Paul Williams is Paul Williams whether the singer is Jodie Foster or Dr. Teeth.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
doctorjazz:

Great show, thanks, Charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Charlie:

Thanks everyone! Catch you next time:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks Charlie! Very Acid Jazz tonight!
  9:00pm
wendy del formaggio:

Aww, you ended with Snoopy. ❤️
Thanks, good ol’ Charlie Lewis!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
diciassette:

Thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
diciassette:

I remember Paul Williams being the kid who sang "I won't take no for an answer/I was born to be a dancer"
Avatar 9:01pm
Listener Gregory:

Great job, Sir Charles. Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
schmutz:

funtimes thanks Charlie!
Avatar 9:02pm
Michael:

Thanks Charlie. Be well!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
WR:

thank you Charlie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Charlie:

You too, stay well, all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
listener james from westwood:

Thanks, Charlie!
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