Seasons of the Ukulele

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Season 694 - "P'ZAZZ!!!"

LimousinLil

Good morning (afternoon/evening/middle of the night), One and All! We are off to a fine start … thanks to Wendy, John, Paul, Alan and Kev! I think the Playlist is up-to-date … please let me know if you are seething with indignation that your fine contribution has been ignored. It is a grey day here in deepest France; I need some glitz and glamour to cheer me up; so, come on, People ….

LimousinLil

One from your host - on account of I watched a documentary about Liza Minnelli the other evening - brought to you from the undoubted glamour of my kitchen …

Ila

Hi, Val. Cool theme for a Season! Here's me in my tiara. Enjoy.

Joko

Blond wig hidden in a cupboard?

johnpoole

How to squeeze a cowboy song into PZAZZ week. From 1951 Broadway Musical "Paint Your Wagon" written by Lerner and Loewe. "They Call the Wind Mariah". Also the 1969 movie.

UkeCan1

Continuing my sub-theme of show tunes about a show, here's "Comedy Tonight" from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum:

LimousinLil

Good morning (and etc.), Dear Seasonistas! I'm sorry, I'm a bit late checking in this morning, but I had to take "the Dawg" out for a walk before it started raining - we have storms promised for all day here! Many thanks to John and Wendy, who have appeared since my "yesterday evening." The Playlist is up-to-date. At the risk of being pedantic, regarding songs from films, I am really asking for songs from musicals that have been turned into films … or original film musicals; NOT theme songs from non-musical films. So, Ila's lovely cover of "As Time Goes By" shouldn't really be here, because "Casablanca" wasn't a musical, although we all "still have Paris!" It IS on the Playlist, though, because she did such a splendid version and, moreover, she was wearing a tiara! John's "They Call The Wind Mariah" DOES qualify, because it came from the film version of "Paint Your Wagon." Oh, dear … that WAS pedantic; my apologies! Please keep those songs coming today … with all the bad weather promised - quite apart from anything else - I really DO need cheering up!

YorkSteve

It's raining here too Val, and despite her normal reluctance to go outside in bad weather, my "dawg" insisted that she wanted to inspect the local lamposts as normal. But now I'm back, and here's the opening song from "Evita". I'm not a huge fan of the Lloyd Webber musicals, but I think I have seen this one three times and always been impressed.

LimousinLil

YorkSteve We're a bit lacking in lamposts here, Steve, but, to make up for it, there are absolutely HUNDREDS of trees!

dr_mitch

Time for another jazz standard which began life as a show tune - Ain't Misbehavin' by Fats Waller and others, from 1929. It was written for the Broadway musical Connie's Hot Chocolate.

There's perhaps a bit more than pure sweetness to the song - Fats Waller wrote it while in jail due to missed alimony payments.

AlanDP

This is from the 1935 Broadway musical Anything Goes. It starred Ethel Merman. I should have looked that up before I recorded it so I could have done my Ethel Merman impression.

UkeFoote

"Night and Day" by Cole Porter, from the 1932 musical, "Gay Divorce", for concert ukulele with singing and whistling.

Thanks for hosting, Val!

UkeCan1

Continuing show tunes about shows, here's "That's Entertainment" from 1953 musical film "The Band Wagon" - music by Arthur Schwartz, lyrics by Howard Dietz.

These kind of songs tend to be quite wordy!

LimousinLil

Good morning (& etc.), Everyone! I have updated the Playlist … you're producing some lovely, cheering, uplifting songs; thank you, All! It is even greyer here today than it was yesterday - I am not impressed - so it would be wonderful if you could bring some more of that showbiz p'zazz; I NEED uplifting!

UkeCan1

More show tunes about shows - "There's No Business Like Show Business", by Irving Berlin, from Annie Get Your Gun.

More wordy words.

DelGriff

Thanks for hosting again, Val! 🙂

As some of you already know, I’m not a huge fan of musicals. Especially the ones that go from normal dialogue straight into apparently spontaneous song and dance, then back into normal dialogue like it’s the most natural thing to happen. It just doesn’t work for me - the acting kills the music and the music kills the acting. That’s not to say that there aren’t some wonderful songs from musicals - just that they usually work better out of context for me.

Anyway - here’s a song that I’ve always loved - though thankfully I’ve never seen the musical! 😆 I know it’s supposed to be sung by a female, so ignore the beard and use your imagination! 😁

Baritone uke with all the usual additions.

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina - cover of a song written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (SOTU 694)

Barbablanca

"P'zazz" is definitely outside my comfort zone. But I hope this sung tribute to friendship has enough of a "life affirming show-tune" about it to qualify. More in the description.

CanadaJim

Here you go Val. Thanks for being our host this week.

IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN from The Wizard Of Oz

UkeCan1

Here's a show tune about shows - specifically strip shows.

"Let Me Entertain You" from Gypsy

I'm not a very good Gypsy Rose Lee

LimousinLil

Good morning (or whatever), Dear Seasonistas! Here in France, it is not only grey … it's really positively BLACK! I am feeling victorious, though, because I've just managed to fit a dog walk in while it wasn't raining. The Playlist is up-to-date … thank you, All! Please keep those songs coming … it is SO nice in this increasingly scary and distracting World to have something that raises a smile! (P.S. I just had to edit some of that because Merlin jumped on the keyboard and turned a whole sentence into symbol-filled gibberish! Or, on the other hand, perhaps HE'S the one making sense!)

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