concert idea YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW:Songs From The Year Your Mother Was Bo- Page 2

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 12:25pm

Hmmmm, my mama, "Dutchie" Varley was born in 1932, I "googled" the year and this is a few of the musicals that set the footlights of Broadway ablaze that year..

"Irving Berlin returns to Broadway to write "Face the Music"; the spoof contains the upbeat tune "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee."

"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" by E. Y. Harburg and Jay Gorney appears in a revue called "New Americana"; it becomes the anthem of the depression.

Ziegfeld revives "Show Boat" on Broadway, featuring Paul Robeson as Joe; Ziegfeld dies in Hollywood later in the year, several million dollars in debt."

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 12:27pm

Oh Eddie, I'd swoon to hear you sing Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man O' Mine...

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 12:27pm

1 The King and I [Original, Musical, Comedy, Drama]
2 Top Banana [Original, Musical, Comedy]
3 Paint Your Wagon [Original, Musical, Comedy]
4 Two on the Aisle [Original, Musical, Revue]
5 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [Original, Musical]
6 Bagels and Yox [Original, Musical, Revue]
7 Seventeen [Original, Musical, Comedy]
8 Make a Wish [Original, Musical]
9 Borscht Capades [Original, Musical, Revue]
10 Where's Charley? [Original, Musical, Comedy]
11 Flahooley [Original, Musical, Comedy,Puppets]
12 Courtin' Time [Original, Musical, Comedy]
13 Razzle Dazzle [Original, Musical, Revue]

I know The King and I, and some songs from Paint Your Wagon. I've always wanted to hear a recording of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 12:30pm

TOP BANANA has a fabulous number "If You Wanna Be A Top Banana, You Got To Start At The Bottom Of The Bunch"

I think some of us "experienced" will sing this to a young "up 'n comer"

[beacon1]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 12:32pm

I think for the next concert you should actually have the moms come and sing too...

Eddie and Dutchie Varley--One Night Only

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 12:32pm

NO NO NO NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR MY MOM SING!!!!

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 12:46pm

I LOVE it!!! Intro's by the Mom's!!!

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 12:48pm

AMAZING!

I smell a hit!
I just spoke to Andrea McArdle, she's in!

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 12:56pm

Does that mean she's gonna sing "Tomorrow" - AGAIN?!

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:04pm

No, THAT she won't be singing!

Speaking of singing...this little ditty is from the 1932 Irvin Berlin musical, FACE THE MUSIC-

How Can I Change My Luck
[Apparently written for, but not used in, the show.]

I've looked 'round for a lucky charm of the popular kind
That would keep me away from harm, they're not easy to find
Four leaf clover and rabbit's feet lucky as they may be
May help others, but I repeat, they have never helped me

The rabbit's foot that I found one day
Was on a rabbit that ran away
Ooh, ooh, what'll I do?
How can I change my luck?

The four leaf clover I stooped to pick
Was poison ivy and made me sick
Ooh, ooh, what'll I do?
How can I change my luck?

I hung a horseshoe right over my bed
Down came the horseshoe on top of my head

The lucky star that I long to see
Is shining somewhere, but not for me
Ooh, ooh, what'll I do?
How can I change my luck?
How can I change my luck?

I think I've found my song!

[JamieMcG]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:06pm

I will be singing "Wick" From The Secret Garden...

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:08pm

um, unless there was an early production of The Secret Garden in the 1940's, FORGET IT!

[Craig]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:12pm

My options are:

Coco
Oh Calcutta
The Fig Leaves Are Falling
Dear World
1776

So perhaps "Sit Down, John"
or perhaps "The World Belongs to the Young"

You just never know...

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:15pm

Andrea's Mother was born in 1941, lot's of songs that year! Updated On: 12/1/04 at 01:15 PM

[JamieMcG]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:20pm

Marc? The 40s? C'mon! Give me some credit...there is just no way I'm only thirty years younger than you!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:21pm

And she sings that era so well, Eddie. Awesome.

[timote316]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:23pm

If we go with my birth year ('86), I'd be out of luck, I don't know a single song from any shows that opened that year! But, since we are going with mother years, I'd probably sing something from Fiddler (thanks, Mom, for being a youngin'!). Any of the guy songs would be fine with me, all are in my range (except the last note of 'Now I Have Everything')

[beacon1]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:53pm

Eddie...can you get my fave performer to participate, too. His mom sings, too. C'mon Eddie...pretty please!

[PennyLou]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 2:29pm

My mom was born in 1954
so out of ones I have heard of
Threepenny Opera
The Pajama Game *
On Your Toes
Peter Pan *

the 2 with stars I can do songs from right now becasue I know them already.. grew up watching Mary Martin Peter Pan and I did The Pajama Game my Frosh year in high school...

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 4:15pm

Songs my mother should know~* (She loves this topic, by the way)

1955:
Plain & Fancy
Silk Stockings
Damn Yankees
Finians Rainbow

Oh yeah, she's totally singing "Whatever Lola Wants." Though she'd fight me for "How are things in Glocca Mora?"

Fun topic.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:14am

Why did this thread sink to the depths! It was so much fun and it got youngins to research back to the good old days!

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 12/30/04 at 7:47am

so glad this thread
is rising from the dead

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/30/04 at 8:13am

1959 baby here.... so perhaps a medly of some of the greats from that year...

[TheGaIsSilent]

Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:02am

My mom was born in 1955: I'd have to go with Damn Yankees, as it's the only one on the list I could sing from.

I was born in 1980: ooh! 42nd Street, Camelot, Music Man,

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:13am

Pulling this back from the BWW grave because it's STILL a fun idea for a concert!