“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 15
May and repeated at 11pm on Monday 16 May.
The show is produced and narrated by Len Power, Canberra theatre critic,
music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1930
The shows of 1930 produced many song standards still popular with cabaret singers today. There was the title song from ‘Strike Up The Band’ by the Gershwins as well as ‘I Got Rhythm’ and ‘Embraceable You’ from a second Gershwin show in that year, ‘Girl Crazy’. Cole Porter’s show, ‘The New Yorkers’, produced the song, ‘Love For Sale’ and ‘Ten Cents A Dance’ by Rodgers And Hart was first heard in ‘Simple Simon’.
You’ll hear those songs from these shows as well as other well-known songs including ‘On The Sunny Side Of the Street’ (from ‘Lew Leslie’s International Revue’), ‘Memories Of You’ (‘Blackbirds Of 1930’), ‘Get Happy!’ (‘The Nine Fifteen Revue’) and ‘Body And Soul’ (‘Three’s A Crowd’).
Performers include Barbara Cook, Jason Graae, Ruth Etting, David Carroll, Libby Holman, Judy Garland, Michael Winther, Ethel Merman and Rosemary Clooney.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
