" The Old-School Father's Day Spectacular Spectacular "
Rather than playing an hour of songs directly about fathers, I played mostly cheery, catchy and almost entirely old-school songs from musicals from the 30s, 40s and 50s, dedicated to all the fathers out there.
I played...
" Big rock candy mountain " performed by Harry McClintock from the soundtrack of O Brother Where Art Thou?
" My heart belongs to Daddy " performed by Mary Martin
" You're just in love " performed by Ethel Merman and Donald O'Conner from the soundtrack of Call me Madam
" Opening: New York, New York " performed by Michael Kermoyan, Cris Alexander, Adolph Green and John Reardon from On The Town
" In a graveyard " performed by Rufus Wainwright from his album Poses
" You can't get a man with a gun " performed by Ethel Merman from Annie Get Your Gun
" Eleanor Rigby " performed by The Beatles
" The begat " from the Original Broadway Recording of Finian's Rainbow
" Those lazy hazy crazy days of summer " performed by Nat King Cole
" June is bustin' out all over " performed by Claramae Turner, Barbara Ruick and the men's chorus from the soundtrack of Carousel
" I'll go home with bonnie Jean " performed by Lee Sullivan from Brigadoon
" Let's go fly a kite " performed by David Tomlinson from the soundtrack of Mary Poppins
" Plant a radish " performed by William Larsen and Hugh Thomas from The Fantasticks
" Softly, as I leave you " performed by Doris Day
" Thank you, North America " performed by Carmen Miranda
" We're having a baby (my baby and me) " performed by Eddie Cantor and June Clyde
" If I were a rich man " performed by Zero Mostel from Fiddler on the Roof