Sure, I promised my audience a special April 1st show with a new recording of Rod Stewart singing “Nessun Dorma,” a YouTube video of The Boy’s Choir of Galway Cathedral singing in Gaelic, “99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall,” plus a bootleg from a Joni Mitchell recording session where Joni is aiming a profanity-lace rant at her assistant who gave her the wrong bottle of spring water. Okay, that stuff I couldn’t deliver. But a couple hours of songs about fools and foolishness was a foolproof formula for a great April Fools Day show.
SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title
- FOOLIN’ MYSELF / Shirley Horn / “You Won’t Forget Me”
- WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE / Kenny Rankin / “Haven’t We Met?”
- BABY I’M A FOOL / Melody Gardot / “My One & Only Love”
- A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FOOL / Frank Sinatra / “My Way”
- FOOLS RUSH IN / Harold Mabern w/ Norah Jones / “Afro Blues”
- MY FOOLISH HEART / Bill Evans / “The Last Waltz”
- FOOLS PARADISE / Mose Allison / “Allison Wonderland”
- I’M A FOOL TO WANT YOU (Take 3) / Billie Holiday / “Lady In Satin”
- APRIL FOOL / (Mystery Vocalist) / Matt Monro / “Portrait Of My Love”
- THE FOOL ON THE HILL / Artemis / “Artemis”
- ORDINARY FOOL / Ray Brown Jr. & Paul Williams / “Friends & Family”
- I FEEL FOOLISH / Caity György / “Featuring”
- THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT / Tony Bennett / “Rarities, Outtakes, & Other Delights”
- THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY / Judy Garland / “Judy At Carnegie”
- I WAS A FOOL TO LET YOU GO / Frank Sinatra Jr. / “That Face”
- FOOL THAT I AM / Etta James / “The Second Time Around”
- WHAT KIND OF FOOL AM I / Sammy Davis Jr. / “At The Coconut Grove”
- SO LONG YOU FOOL / Sophie Milman / “Make Someone Happy”
- GET YOURSELF ANOTHER FOOL / Paul McCartney / “Kisses On The Bottom”
- EVERYODY’S SOMEBODY’S FOOL / Dexter Gordon / “Gettin’ Around”
- FUN TO BE FOOLED / Marlene VerPlanck w. Hank Jones / “My Impetuous Heart”
- THESE FOOLISH THINGS / Aaron Neville / “The Grand Tour”
- YOU ARE TOO BEAUTIFUL / Sarah Vaughan / “Crazy & Mixed Up”
- APRIL FOOLED ME / Mark Murphy / “Sings Mostly Dorothy Fields”
- YOUNG AND FOOLISH / Trish Hatley / “I Remember”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine
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