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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...
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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).
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English
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http://wfmu.org/playlists/AX
Episodes
Rockin n rollin from May 1, 2026
5/1/2026
Les Paul with Mary Ford - "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" - Josephine/I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles [Music: John William Kellette
Lyrics: James Kendis, James Brockman & Nat Vincent] [0:00:00]
Chuck Berry - "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" - Fresh Berry's [Music: Harold Arlen
Lyrics: Johnny Mercer] [0:03:34]
Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps - "Summertime" - Summertime [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: DuBose Heyward] [0:05:36]
Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group - "Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable to Lunch Today)" - Lonnie Rides Again [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [0:08:25]
The Flamingos - "Love Walked In" - Love Walked In [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:11:09]
fats domino - "I'm in the Mood for Love" - I'm Walkin'/I'm in the Mood for Love [Music: Jimmy McHugh
Lyrics: Dorothy Fields] [0:26:36]
Lloyd Price - "A Foggy Day" - The Exciting Lloyd Price [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:28:07]
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" - At Home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins [Music: James V. Monaco
Lyrics: Joseph McCarthy] [0:30:20]
chubby checker - "I Could Have Danced All Night" - I Could Have Danced All Night [Music: Frederick Loewe
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner] [0:33:02]
Little Richard - "By The Light of the Silvery Moon" - By the Light of the Silvery Moon [Music: Gus Edwards
Lyrics: Edward Madden] [0:34:37]
The Everly Brothers - "Theme from Carnival (Love Makes the World Go Round)" - Instant Party [Music & Lyrics: Bob Merrill] [0:41:57]
ricky nelson - "True Love" - Ricky (True Love) [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [0:43:15]
Brenda Lee - "Pennies From Heaven" - Grandma What Great Songs You Sang! [Music: Arthur Johnston
Lyrics: Johnny Burke] [0:45:04]
Dion & The Belmonts - "Where or When" - Where or When [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [0:47:33]
The Coasters - "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" - Yakety Yak/Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart [Music & Lyrics: James F. Hanley] [0:50:02]
Jerry Lee Lewis - "my blue heaven" - Ole Tyme Country Music [Music: Walter Donaldson
Lyrics: George A. Whiting] [0:59:43]
Freddy Cannon - "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" - Way Down Yonder in New Orleans [Music: Turner Layton
Lyrics: Henry Creamer] [1:01:09]
Bill Haley & His Comets - "Dinah" - Calling All Chicks [Music: Harry Akst
Lyrics: Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young] [1:03:15]
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - "Change Partners" - So Young (And So in Love)/Change Partners [Music & Lyrics: Irving Berlin] [1:04:55]
Tommy Steele - "What Is This Thing Called Love" - Stage Show [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [1:06:33]
the platters - "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" - Encore of Broadway Golden Hits [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [1:15:31]
Billy Ward & the Dominoes - "September Song" - September Song [Music: Kurt Weill
Lyrics: Maxwell Anderson] [1:17:12]
The Drifters - "On the Street Where You Live" - The Good Life With The Drifters [Music: Frederick Loewe
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner] [1:19:09]
Elvis Presley - "Make Believe/If I Loved You" - The Home Recordings [Music: Jerome Kern ("Make Believe")/Richard Rodgers ("If I Loved You")
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [1:23:39]
Bo Diddley - "Old Man River" - Surfin' With Bo Diddley [Music: Jerome Kern] [1:30:23]
Gary Lambert & Eddie Cochran - "Tea for Two" - Guitar Pickin Rarities [Music: Vincent Youmans] [1:31:45]
Duane Eddy - "Bali Ha'i" - Twangy Guitar - Silky Strings [Music: Richard Rodgers] [1:33:27]
Link Wray and the Raymen - "Begin the Beguine" - Mr. Guitar [Music: Cole Porter] [1:36:15]
The Shadows - "tonight" - The Early Years 1959-1966 [Music: Leonard Bernstein] [1:40:26]
The Ventures - "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" - Slaughter on Tenth Avenue [Music: Richard Rodgers] [1:47:07]
Ruth Brown - "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" - Late Date with Ruth Brown [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [1:48:32]
Sam Cooke - "Hey There" - Hey There [Music & Lyrics: Richard...
Duration:02:06:34
Share my empire and be my vampire from Apr 24, 2026
4/24/2026
Kay Coulter, Bobby Van & Joshua Shelley - "On Your Toes" - On Your Toes (Broadway Revival Cast 1954) [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [0:00:00]
Todd Duncan & Eva Jessye Choir - "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin" - Porgy and Bess: Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Opera [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Dubose Heyward] [0:14:23]
Sara Ann Mitchell - "If I Were on the Stage (Kiss Me Again)" - Mlle. Modiste [Music: Victor Herbert
Lyrics: Henry Blossom] [0:19:46]
Ohio Light Opera - "Finale: Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" - Naughty Marietta [Music: Victor Herbert
Lyrics: Rida Johnson Young] [0:21:47]
Maria Jette & Dan Chouinard - "I'm the Old Man in the Moon" - The Siren's Song: Wodehouse and Kern on Broadway [Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: P.G. Wodehouse] [0:25:00]
Noel Coward with Ray Noble & His Orchestra - "Mad About the Boy" - Mad About the Boy: Complete Recordings vol. 3 [Music & Lyrics: Nöel Coward] [0:28:07]
Ella Fitzgerald - "oh, lady be good" - Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:30:23]
Julia Shore & Piccadilly Dance Orchestra - "Manhattan" - I Won't Dance [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [0:42:25]
Avon Long & Thelma Carpenter - "I'm Just Wild About Harry" - Songs from Shuffle Along [Music: Eubie Blake
Lyrics: Noble Sissle] [0:44:00]
Barbara Ruick & Oh, Kay! Ensemble - "Oh, Kay!" - Oh, Kay! (Studio Cast Recording) [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:45:22]
Jason Graae & Orchestra New England - "You've Got That Thing" - Fifty Million Frenchmen [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [0:47:44]
Carolee Carmello & Mario Cantone - "Fine And Dandy" - Fine And Dandy [Music: Kay Swift
Lyrics: Paul James] [0:50:53]
Bert Williams - "Here It Comes Again" - Here It Comes Again [Music: Will Marion Cook & Bert Williams
Lyrics: Jesse A. Shipp & Alex Rogers] [1:03:59]
Harry MacDonough - "Sammy" - Sammy [Music: Edward Hutchison
Lyrics: James O'Dea] [1:05:44]
Louis Levy and His Gamount British Symphony - "Firefly - Selection" - Firefly - Selection [Music: Rudolf Friml
Lyrics: Otto Harbach] [1:07:57]
The Arcadians Chorus - "Arcadians We Are" - The Arcadians [Music: Lionel Monckton & Howard Talbot
Lyrics: Arthur Wimperis] [1:12:38]
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra - "Finale to Act II (Opera Medley)" - "This Is the Life!": The Breakthrough Years: 1909-1921 [Music & Lyrics: irving Berlin] [1:17:42]
Steve Ross - "I've a Shooting Box in Scotland" - Close [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [1:31:00]
Anne Sciolla with Brian Kovach - "The Edinboro Wriggle" - Jerome Kern: Lost Treasures [Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: M. E. Rourke] [1:33:40]
Julie Hill - "Nobody But You" - The George Gershwin Songbook [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: B.G. DeSylva] [1:36:25]
Ben Bernie & His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra - "Wild Flower" - Who's Sorry Now/Wild Flower [Music: Herbert Stothart & Vincent Youmans] [1:38:53]
Ben Selvin and His Orchestra - "Dancing In The Dark" - High and Low/Dancing in the Dark [Music: Arthur Schwartz
Lyrics: Howard Dietz] [1:40:39]
Christopher Fitzgerald & Jessica Stone - "You're A Builder-Upper" - Life Begins at 8:40 [Music: Harold Arlen
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin & Yip Harburg] [1:48:37]
Fisk University Choir - "Run Lil Chillun" - live recording [Music & Lyrics: Hall Johnson] [1:52:02]
Judy Holliday - "I'm One of God's Children" - Trouble Is a Man [Music: Louis Alter
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II & Harry Ruskin] [1:55:03]
Honky-Tonk Highway Ensemble - "Music in This Mountain" - Honky-Tonk Highway: A Mountain Musical (Studio Cast) [Music & Lyrics: Robert Lindsey Nassif] [2:04:29] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163590
Duration:02:06:41
Jellicles Can and Jellicles Do from Apr 10, 2026
4/10/2026
Reed Jones & Cats Broadway Cast - "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat" - Cats: Complete Original Broadway Cast Recording [Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics: T.S. Eliot] [0:00:00]
André DeShields & Ken Page - "The Ladies Who Sing with the Band" - Ain't Misbehavin' Original Broadway Cast Recording [Music: Fats Waller
Lyrics: George Marion, Jr.] [0:23:21]
juanita hall - "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" - The Original Bloody Mary Sings the Blues [Music & Lyrics: Jimmie Cox] [0:24:54]
Sandy Stewart & Dick Hyman - "Nobody else but me" - Sings the Songs of Jerome Kern [Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [0:26:49]
Barbara Lea - "the spider and the fly" - Songs from the Original Broadway Production of Pousse-Cafe [Music: Duke Ellington
Lyrics: Marshall Barer] [0:29:59]
Chuck Berry - "Havana Moon" - You Can't Catch Me / Havana Moon [Music & Lyrics: Chuck Berry] [0:33:26]
Susannah McCorkle - "The Girlfriend Of The Whirling Dervish" - The Music of Harry Warren (There Will Never Be Another You) [Music: Harry Warren
Lyrics: Al Dubin & Johnny Mercer] [0:44:40]
Banu Gibson - "Ten Cents A Dance" - Oh, Jazz Me [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [0:46:02]
Roberto Faz y Su Conjunto - "Mi Corazonada" - Latinismo: Famous Cuba [Music & Lyrics: Unknown] [0:49:25]
Arthur Lyman - "midnight sun" - Call of the Midnight Sun [Music: Lionel Hampton & Sonny Burke] [0:51:55]
Glenn Miller - "The Booglie Wooglie Piggy" - Boulder Buff/The Booglie Wooglie Piggy [Music & Lyrics: Roy Jacobs] [0:56:20]
Linda Ormiston - "Cheerily Carols the Lark" - Ruddigore [Music: Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics: W.S. Gilbert] [1:05:06]
Rosalind Elias, John Hauxvell & Lehman Engel Orchestra - "I'll See You Again" - Glorious Songs, Golden Memories [Music & Lyrics: Noel Coward] [1:08:52]
Robert Nagy, Lee Cass, William Lewis & Peter Palmer - "Serenade" - Treasury of Great Operettas [Music: Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics: Dorothy Donnelly] [1:13:36]
Burke Moses & Christiane Noll - "An Interrupted Love Song" - The New Moon (2004 Encores! Cast Recording) [Music: Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [1:16:34]
Eric Idle & Felicity Palmer - "There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast" - The Mikado [Music: Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics: W.S. Gilbert] [1:20:18]
Rosemary Hardy, Mary King & London Sinfonietta - "Max Alone" - Where The Wild Things Are [Music: Oliver Knussen
Lyrics: Maurice Sendak] [1:29:39]
Carol Brice - "Night Could Be Time to Sleep, Night Could Be Time to Weep" - Regina [Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein] [1:31:45]
Grace Chang - "Habanera" - The Wild, Wild Rose [Music: Georges Bizet
Lyrics: Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy (translated into Mandarin by Lee Tsin-chin)] [1:35:11]
Central Broadcasting Folk Orchestra - "Danse Boheme" - Plays Popular Western Classics [Music: Georges Bizet] [1:38:48]
Li Wei - "Ode to the Litchi" - Classical Chinese Folk Songs & Opera [Music & Lyrics: Anonymous] [1:43:18]
Ezio Pinza & William Tabbert - "I Like You" - Fanny (Original Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Harold Rome] [1:54:03]
Lucille Ball & Keith Andes - "You're a Liar" - Wildcat (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Cy Coleman
Lyrics: Carolyn Leigh] [1:55:35]
Marie Christine Ensemble - "Before the Morning" - Marie Christine (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Michael John LaChiusa] [1:59:24] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163103
Duration:02:00:16