How to celebrate March as National Women’s Month? I had two choices. Choice A: Play a whole song by a male singer and then play a woman singing 77% of her song. Choice B: Demonstrate how far we’ve come by ironically playing a dozen politically incorrect songs which maybe still hit the mark musically, but certainly miss the point of the celebration by a mile. Of course, I pretended to chose B. In truth I don’t find any of these songs, except maybe the Godfrey song, to be politically incorrect, but period pieces and some favorite songs I’ve enjoyed for years.
SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title
- WIVES AND LOVERS / Jack Jones / “Greatest Hits”
- GIRL TALK / Giacomo Gates / “Fly Right”
- I ENJOY BEING A GIRL / Peggy Lee / “Latin A la Lee”
- TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS / Frank Sinatra / “Nice ‘N’ Easy”
- MY MAN / Billie Holiday / “The Complete 1952-1957 Small Group Sessions”
- YOU’RE NOBODY TILL SOMEBODY LOVES YOU / Sammy Davis Jr. / “Here’s Sammy Davis Jr.”
- TOO FAT POLKA / (Mystery Vocalist) / Arthur Godfrey / “Too Fat Polka”
- TEA FOR TWO / Blossom Dearie / “Once Upon A Summer Time”
- I WANNA GET MARRIED / Nellie McKay / “Get Away From Me”
- NINA NEVER KNEW / John Pizzarelli / “Our Love Is Here To Stay”
- IT’S A MAN / Duchess / “Duchess”
- SLEEPY TIME GAL / Tony Bennett / “A Time For Love”
- WHAT THE USE OF WOND’RIN’ / Daryl Sherman / “A Hundred Million Miracles”
- MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY / Jamie Cullum / “Interlude”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine
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