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There is a station in my area that basically calls itself "community radio." One of my favorite programs is a guy who does a lot of soundtrack cuts, big band songs, 40's and 50's vocalists, etc. Just the other day he was playing some cuts off West Side Story and Paint Your Wagon. And mixed it up with some Les Brown, Duke Ellington, Paul Whitman, Count Basie. He closed out the hour with Johnny Western's "Paladin" and Frankie Laine's "Theme From O.K.Corral". Great stuff!
Just going to go watch Showboat! mmmmmm Howard Keel.
Haa haa I read that and went straight to your profile wanting to see how old you were...then I realised you were watching the movie when he was younger
My current favorite is Dean Martin's rendition of Cole Porter's Song "True Love" (http://ezinearticles.com/?Cole-Porters-Song-True-Love&id=159268 - broken link)
...I LOVED that movie where Doris Day played Calamity Jane to Howard Keel's character...I can't remember the name of it. That song... "I just got back from the Windy City, the Windy City is mighty pretty, but it ain't got what we got". And of course, "Secret Love".
20yrsinBranson
Don't forget the Black Hills of Dakota.
Calamity Jane is probably my favorite musical. It's got everything really. Great songs, fantastic cast, the magnificent Doris Day and the very lovely Howard Keel and some of the best lines! We quote from that movie alot around here!
Haa haa I read that and went straight to your profile wanting to see how old you were...then I realised you were watching the movie when he was younger
Yeah, but he was still dishy as an older guy too!
When he went on to do westerns after the musical died I still loved watching him and don't forget he was in Dallas.
We also watched Doris Day and Gordon McRae in By The Light of The Silvery Moon this week.
I remember Linda Ronstadt's comment in an interview about singing standards. She said it was such a pleasure because those songs were, in her words, "so well-crafted." It was an era in American music that, sadly, was all too brief.
Well, it's hard to go wrong with Johnny Mercer. "Laura" is a particular favorite of mine.
And, then, there was Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Strayhorn's "Lush Life" is a classic. Here, by Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane YouTube - Lush Life - Hartman & Coltrane .
There are so many greats--I'd better go out and dig up some CD's.
Rondstadt was so right, what those guys did with words. I'm listening to Sophisticated Lady right now.
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Love show tunes. 
We quote from that movie alot around here! 
