“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 6
March and repeated at 11pm on Monday 7 March.
The show is produced and narrated by Len Power, Canberra theatre critic,
music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1929
In 1929, Cole Porter produced ‘Fifty Million Frenchmen’. George and Ira Gershwin composed the score for ‘Show Girl’ and Rodgers and Hart came up with ‘Spring Is Here’. Jerome Kern also had a new show on Broadway called ‘Sweet Adeline’.
These and other shows from that year may not be known well today but many of their songs became standards like ‘With A Song In My Heart’ (from ‘Spring Is Here’), ‘Liza, All The Clouds’ll Roll Away’ (‘Show Girl’), ‘You Do Something To Me’ (Fifty Million Frenchmen’) and ‘Why Was I Born’ (‘Sweet Adeline’). You’ll hear all of these and more.
Performers include Rosemary Clooney, Helen Kane, Billie Holiday, Al Jolson, Jane Froman, Helen Morgan and Marlene Dietrich.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
