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Happiness |
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Revival Cast 1999) |
Company |
Tribute to Charles Schultz, who died yesterday, the day before his final original script ran in the Sunday papers |
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Someone to Watch Over Me |
Ella Fitzgerald: Pure Ella |
Ella Fitzgerald |
From Gershwin’s Oh, Kay!, originally sung by Gertrude Lawrence; later by Julie Andrews in biopic Star! |
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Goodnight, My Someone |
The Music Man (OC 1957) |
Barbara Cook |
Book, music & lyrics by Meredith Wilson; Shirley Jones sang this in the movie version |
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Somewhere (There’s a Place for Us) |
Blue Valentine |
Tom Waits |
Song from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s West Side Story; Waits’s gritty voice gives this song a new plaintiveness |
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Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) |
The Noel Coward Album |
Noel Coward |
Coward adds a few scurrilous verses of his own to Cole Porter’s classic, introduced by Irene Borodoni in Paris (1927), and also sung in Night & Day, the 1946 biopic starring Cary Grant, and the 1960 Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLain film, Can-Can. |
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Falling in Love Again |
20th Century Blues |
Marianne Faithfull |
Originally sung by Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg’s 1930 film, The Blue Angel |
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Real Live Girl |
Little Me (OC 1962) |
Sid Caesar |
Original Broadway cast recording (1962); book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh and music by Cy Coleman |
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Anything for Him |
Kiss of the Spiderwoman - The Musical (OC 1995) |
Vanessa Williams, Howard McGillin, Brian Mitchell |
from the new Broadway cast recording, 1995 (Vanessa Williams replaced Chita Rivera); book by Terrence McNally, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb |
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Married |
Cabaret (Revival Cast 1999) |
Ron Rifkin, Mary Louise Wilson and Michelle Pawk |
from the cast recording of the revival, directed by Rob Marshall. Music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb. |
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My Funny Valentine |
Armed Forces |
Elvis Costello |
Song from Pal Joey (Rodgers & Hart).This version is both tender and heartfelt. |
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Your Feet’s Too Big |
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (OC 1978) |
Ken Page |
Original Broadway cast recording of Fats Waller tribute, starring St. Louis native Ken Page and Nell Carter |
| *Acronyms and other mysteries defined:
OC: unless otherwise indicated, the Original Cast recording of a Broadway show, along with the date. OS: unless otherwise indicated, the Original Soundtrack recording of a film, TV show, etc. |
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