I think the show today went well! Surprisingly so considering how ill-prepared I was. All I did beforehand was make a list of all the theme shows & events from 2009, then made sure I had all the CDRs I'd made for those shows in my case. During the show today I just pulled up the flowsheets for all those shows, and picked out the songs I wanted to play. These were the theme shows I covered this afternoon:
- January: memorial tribute to Eartha Kitt
- January: interview with Sammy Davis impersonator
- January: "Latin a la Lounge" all Latin music
- February: memorial tribute to Blossom Dearie
- February: birthday tribute to Harold Arlen
- April: "Jungle Madness" all lounge/exotica
- May: birthday tribute to Bing Crosby
- May: Memorial Day
- June: birthday tribute to Richard Rodgers
- August: memorial tribute to Les Paul
- September: birthday tribute to Mel Torme
- October: "Let's Misbehave" all sweet dance band music
- November: birthday tribute to Hoagy Carmichael
- November: birthday tribute to Billy Strayhorn
The only themes I skipped today were the July 4th and Christmas shows, which I do every year. Ahh! I just remembered that I was going to promote 2010 and mention all the great theme shows I have planned for the upcoming year, and I totally forgot. Dang.
It's going to be a good year too, with theme shows for Valentine's Day, July 4, Halloween, and Christmas, plus birthday tributes to Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Dinah Washington, George Gershwin and Frank Sinatra. Plus I'm working on an interview with a lady who attended Duke in the 1940s and sang with Perry Como in the Duke Chapel. I hope that works out!
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