Mother's Day

This show is a collection of show tunes to demonstrate this effect on us.

And we would like to dedicate this show to those who Dedicate their lives to making US feel better, to be happy.   A dedication to our first ‘Best Friends’ — our Moms.

So put on your Sunday clothes and join us today for a trip aboard the “Broadway    Express” and a joyride of songs.

All Aboard...

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:15

You are listening to Acoustic Avenue. This is Ted Crouch, your host for the next hour on today's program that has been co-produced with Joe Little in Calgary, Alberta. On Acoustic Avenue, we recognize with respect and gratitude that in the shoeswap, the land on which we live, work, and play our music is the unceded traditional territory of this equipment people. In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Satina, Elias and the Coda Nation, the Meting Nation of Region III, and all the people who make their homes in the Treaty Seven region of Southern Alberta. Over the years, Joe and I have had numerous conversations with all kinds of people, all with different musical taste. We wanted to know what kind of music they like to listen to, and where they may say that they prefer this or that type of music or genre. But Joe noticed that every once in a while, here and there, there was a common exception to those preferences. They would say something like, I'm really into such and such type of music, unless I'm feeling down. And then I need a pick me up to make me feel happy. And then I listen to show tunes from musicals. Makes sense. For the most part, people like musicals because they do make them feel good. An escape from the real world, to a world where everyone spontaneously breaks into song and dance. It doesn't matter whether it's a Broadway show turned into a movie or a movie musical that's been turned into a stage production. They just want to feel happier and to sing along with the performers. Today's show is a collection of show tunes to demonstrate this effect on us. And we would like to dedicate this show to those who dedicate their lives to making us feel better and to be happy. A dedication to our first and best friends, our moms. So put on your Sunday clothes and join us today for a trip aboard the Broadway Express and a joyride of songs. All aboard? First up is Barbara Streisand and Michael Crawford with Put On Your Sunday Clothes from the 1969 musical romantic comedy Hello Dolly. Following that, we'll hear a song about getting things done with the Paul Masters Orchestra and I'm on my way from the Broadway musical comedy to Paint Your Wagon. And our first set ends with Come Alive, written by Benji Pasik and Justin Paul for the greatest showman in 2017 and performed by Zendaya, Hugh Jackman, Kiala Settle, and Daniel Everidge. This original music celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary, P. T. Barnum, who rose from nothing after create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation, featuring catchy musical numbers, exotic performers and daring acrobatic feats, and Barnum's mesmerizing spectacle took the world by storm to become the greatest show on earth. Here is Barbara Streisand, Michael Crawford with the Paul Masters Orchestra and Hugh Jackman and Zendea with the cast of the greatest showman.

SPEAKER_13 3:54

Out there, there's a world outside of youngkers. Way out there beyond this hick town, Barnaby. There's a slick town, Barnaby. Out there, full of shine and full of sparkle. Close your eyes and sit. Listen, Barnaby. Listen, Barnaby. Put on your Sunday clothes. There's lots of world out there. Get out the brilliant teen and dime cigars. We're gonna find adventure in the evening. Air Girls in white in a perfume night with the lights as bright as the stars. Put on your Sunday clothes, we're gonna ride through town. In one of those new horse-drawn open cars. We'll see the shows of Demonicles. And we'll close the town in a whirl. And we won't come home until we kiss the girl.

SPEAKER_16 5:08

Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and die. Strut down the street and have your picture too. Dressed like a dream, your spirits seem to turn above. That Sundayshine is a certain sign that you feel as fine as your neck. We need your parasol, the world is all small. That makes you feel brand new down to your toes. Get out your feathers, your pattern levels, your beats and buckles and balls.

SPEAKER_04 5:43

Of snowblue Monday in your Sunday. No Monday in your Sunday.

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No Monday Put up on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and dull. Switch down the street and have your picture took. Just like a dream, your spirits seem to turn up on.

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That sunday shine is the sunset.

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That you feel as mine as you parasol the world is all as smart. That makes you feel brand new down to your toes. Get out your feathers, your hat, your bits and bottles and balls. For there's no blue Monday in no Sunday holds But on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and doubt Switch out the street and have your picture done. I love the milk that makes you chill to know.

SPEAKER_15 7:40

Ermine got keep smiling. No man wants a little mini. Ambrose to return, let me see. Mr. Hackle, Mr. Tucker, don't forget Irene and Minnie. Just forget you haven't heard a word from me.

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Where will I go when I don't know? Where will I get a light set?

SPEAKER_04 10:46

All I know is I am on my way. When will the beat there, I don't know? When will I get there? All I know is I am on my way. Got a tree, all I got a soul. When gonna be there, I am so gonna get I ain't it. Who gives it? Where on my way Where gonna go when I don't know? Where wanna hit when I answer? Oh my god I am on my way. All I know is I am on my way.

SPEAKER_08 13:03

Like the world we need to find. Never be staying.

SPEAKER_07 13:12

Go like your light. So bright. And it's over white. You're a letter square fire. For the world that comes up fantasy.

SPEAKER_06 13:27

You're more than could ever be. But you're dreamin' with your eyes wide open. Go back again to the world that you were living. But you're dreamin' with your eyes wide open. Don't come alive.

SPEAKER_05 13:46

I see it in your eyes. You believe that alive. That you need to have your witness. Upgrade to step outside. Don't you lock the door?

SPEAKER_00 16:03

You are listening to Acoustic Avenue. In this second set of our show dedicated to mothers around the world, we open with Doray Me featuring Julie Andrews from the 1965 classic The Sound of Music. Following that is 76 trombones, a show tune, and the signature song from the 1957 musical The Music Man, written by Meredith Wilson. The pieces commonly played by marching bands, military bands, and orchestras, and the full ensemble from the movie performed as a tune for you today. Welcome to the singing and dancing world of Greece, the most successful movie musical of all time. Grease was written by Barry Gibbon and Frankie Valley. Valley sings the lead with Gibbon back vocals, and Peter Frampton also joins in on electric guitar on this recording. This is Julie Andrews, the music man ensemble, and Frankie Valley.

SPEAKER_03 17:17

Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start. When you read, you begin with A B. When you sing, you begin with Do Ray. Do Ray Me. The first three notes just happen to be Joe Raimi. Do Ray Me. Do Ray Me for so lucky. Oh, let's see if I can make it easier. Joe, a dear, a female deer, rain, a drop of golden sun. Me, a name I call myself. A long, long way to run. So a needle pulling thread. La, a note to follow. So tea, a drink with jam and bread. That will bring us back to Do Gell, a dear, a female dear. A drop of golden sun. Me, a name I call myself. A long, long way to run. So an eagle pulling strain. La, a note to follow, so tea, a drink of gem and bread. That will bring us back to dough. A dear, a female deer, rain, a drop of golden sun.

SPEAKER_12 19:01

Me, a name, I call myself, and on a way to die. So I need your calling bread.

SPEAKER_03 19:18

That will bring us back to do. Now, children, the remi, fasso, and so on are only the tools we use to build a song. Once you have these notes in your head, you can sing a million different tunes by mixing them up like this. Now put it all together. Good. But it doesn't mean anything. So we put in words, one word for every note, like this. When you know the notes to sing. You can sing most anything together. When you know the notes to sing. You can sing most anything. I got the bullshit. And then I hold myself. I need to pull me bread. I'm not sure about a soul tea. I drink a can of bread.

SPEAKER_12 21:17

That will bring us back to dawn. Don't raise me, paw, so blah tea. Don't don't teach.

SPEAKER_03 21:45

You can sing me.

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A female deer.

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I need my self. I love the soul, I need a bowling face.

SPEAKER_04 25:34

I saw my problems and I see the light. We gotta love a thing, we gotta feed it right. There ain't no danger we can go too far. We start to leave it now that we can be who we are. They think our love is just a cry and theme. Why don't they understand? It's just a cry and shame. That it's a lie, and only real it's real. We stop the fight right now. We got to be what we feel. Greece is the word It's gotta prove, it's gonna mean Greece is the time, it's a place, it's the motion. Greece is the way we are feeling. We take the pressure and we throw away conventionality, belongs to yesterday. There is a chance we can make it so far. We start believing now we can be who we are. Greece is the worst. It's got a proof, it's got meaning. This is the time, it's the place, it's the motion. Greece is the way we are feeling. This is a life of illusion. Life of control, stop the last week of you. What are we doing today? We take pressure and we throw away. Conventionality belongs to yesterday. There's a chance we can make it so long. Stop me to leaving now. But we can be who we are. Greece is the word is the way that you have. It's gonna move, it's gonna mean Greece is the time, is the place, is the motion. Now Greece is the way we are feeling. It's baboo, it's baby.

SPEAKER_00 30:01

Here is Robin Lamont, Ham Topo, and Queen Lative.

SPEAKER_02 30:16

Day by day, day by day, oh dear love things I pray to see thee my fear, love the my dearly, all of the day by default is a free day by day, dead by day, oh dear love, three things I pray to see the more we are leaving, love the more we are leaving, follow the mod be a lead, dead by day, dead by day, dead by day, oh dear, be more be a beautiful beat, we want the beat, it was dead, and by death, we got to do that, I do not like the light, the bottom of the light, the bottom, I didn't like me. I don't be on the day by day, day by day, by day, by day, by day you made many, many books.

SPEAKER_14 34:05

If I were a wealthy man, I would have to wear it out. If I were a bit a bit, a rich, idle, little, idled, idle man, I built a big tall house with a roof, spite a dozen, right in the middle of the town, a fighting roof with the real wooden floors below. There would be one long staircase just going up, and one even longer coming down, and one more leading nowhere just for show. I'd fill my yard with the chicks and turkeys and geese and ducks for the town to see and hear, squawking just as noisily as they can And each lobby, yah-kah Will land like a trumpet on the ear As if to say here lives a wealthy man-cut-cut If I were a rich man, yabbe dibbid, dibbid, nibbid, ibbid-dibbid-dibbid dum All day long I bit a bit dum. If I were a wealthy man, I wouldn't have to back on. Yabba dippy, dibb, dibb, dibb, dibbity, dibb, dum. If I were a bit a bit a rich, idle, idle, idle man. I see my wife, my goat, looking like a rich man's wife, with a proper double chin, supervising appeals to her heart's delight. I see her putting on airs and strutting like a peacock. Oh, what a happy mooch is in, screaming at the sermon's the night. The most important man in town will come to dawn on me. They will ask me to advise them like a solemn of the wise, if you please, Rabatavia, pardon me, Rabatavia, posing problems that would cross her rabbis eyes, here and he dead, hear it, hear it. And it won't make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong. When you're rich, they think you really know. I'm rich, I'd have the time that I like to sit in the synagogue and pray, and maybe have a seat by the eastern wall, and I discuss the holy books with a learned man seven hours every day And that would be the sweetest thing of all If I were a rich man, yab it, Oh, hey, bitabum If I were a wealthy man, I you wouldn't have to work hard. Lord who made the lion and the lamb, you decreed I show me what I am, would it spoil some vast eternal flam?

SPEAKER_18 38:37

If I were a worthy man Once upon a time, girl, I was just like you. Never let my extra large, large chest shine through. Hair was brown and nappy, never had no fun. I hid under a bushel, which is easier said than done. And one day my grandma, who was big and stout, she said you gotta love yourself from inside out. And just as soon as I learned how to struck my funky stuff, I found out that the world at large can't get it up. So Bring all that he can hide, tore some sugar on the sugar, don't be shy. Scoot me up a mess of that chocolate world. Don't be stingy, I'm a growing girl. Big luck, no apology. How can I deny the world the most of me? I am not afraid to throw my weight around. Ound by pound by pound. Because I'm big, polite, and beautiful. There's nothing about me that's unsuitable. No one wants a meal that only offers the least. When girl, we're serving up the whole damn feast. I saw a piece of man, hawkhead cheese. Then take a look inside my book of recipes. Now don't just dip around for something fluffy and light. I need a man who brings a man's high. Here's your sugar and a dash of ice. I'll let you lick the spoon because it tastes so nice. I'll keep it in my oven till it's good and hot. Keep on stirring till it hits the spot. Hit it, baby, hit it! Because I'm big alive and beautiful. And Enderpear, you're looking so recruitable. Why sit in the bleachers? Timid and afraid. When Ender you can be your own parade. So how about it, mama?

SPEAKER_10 41:21

Well, I am big. I am blonde-ish. And if you say I'm beautiful, I guess I'm beautiful. Alright, I'll do it. Look out! Oh box and more! We're marching in and we each comfort through that old back door. And casey, I will try to find if I can't keep up this paste. And girl dumping right at your side if I can find some space.

SPEAKER_18 41:51

Now you can hold your head just as big as you please. You know they'll hear me knocking with the two of these. Tomorrow, side by side, we'll show the world what's right. I'm touching up my roots tonight. Talking girl, it will be polite and beautiful. It's time they taste the fact it's eary beautiful. Can't you hear that rumbling that are hunger to be free? It's time to finally taste quality.

SPEAKER_04 42:29

On Mother-daughter day where Finn is in, we're white as wall.

SPEAKER_18 42:34

Well, ladies, wig is back and ask for black. It's beautiful! All shapes and sizes follow me. Let's bust that tack. Wait for the cup! We're gonna dance away to me!

SPEAKER_04 43:01

You better be this blonde is red. Tracy, this was beautiful! The blonde and beautiful leaves the way!

SPEAKER_00 43:23

This brings us to the final set for today's program on Acoustic Avenue. Thank you to the songwriters and musicians who wrote the lyrics and composed the music. And I hope that you enjoyed the love and ultimate joy they share when recording their music for you to listen to. And of course, a special thank you to Joe Little for co-producing our very special tribute today. Mother's Day is celebrated in more than forty countries around the world, honoring the mother of the family or an individual, as well as motherhood, and maternal bond and the influence of motherhood in society. Michael Jackson from the nineteen seventy-five Broadway musical Julie Andrews and Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.

SPEAKER_03 45:09

Twenty years ago, we don't knew a group of fellows found a new kind of music. Before they knew it, it was risen around the world. The world was ready for a new kind of music. And now they played from Steve Spring Oh, baby, won't you play me the jazz hot? Maybe and don't ever let it end. I tell your friend it's really something to hear. I can't sit still when there's that river near me. Oh so baby the jazz. Maybe what's holding my soul together? Don't know whether it's morning or night. Only no it's turning right. So come on in and play me the jazz hot, baby, cause I love my boss with it. One must make it on a new kind of music. And now they play it from Steve Box brings to love as When you play me leg! Baby, all my soul is together.

SPEAKER_02 48:09

Don't know whether it's morning or not.

SPEAKER_03 48:14

Oh, let's know it's a lot, it's a bad and baby leg. Baby.

SPEAKER_09 49:34

That might be a bow. Come on.

SPEAKER_04 49:41

Come on down, get on down, it's on down the road, get on down, it's on down the road, put up, it's not, it's on down, it's on down the roll, it's on down, put up down the roll, it's on down, it don't down, it's up, put the roll put down, put down just on the phone.

SPEAKER_00 53:03

This is Ted Crouch signing off, and on behalf of Joe Little, from our hearts to yours, stay safe and love the ones you're with. Peace.