I decided to go ahead and do a special show for Oscar Sunday. And now that I've started planning it, I'm getting excited! I'm going to play 30 years of Best Song winners, starting with the very first, "The Continental" in 1934 and going through to "The Shadow of Your Smile" in 1965.
I already have almost all the songs I need. Though there are a few that I want to play the version from the movie, so I'll be getting a lot of Netflix in the next ten days. (Audio Hijack Pro, how I love you.) I'm trying to play the movie version wherever possible, and if not -- sometimes the movie version is really long and full of tap dancing, or is just a bad version of the song, or what have you -- then a hit version that was recorded in the same year, so at least it sounds similar.
I was concerned that I'd end up playing the same singers over and over again, but that ended up happening much less than I expected. Frank Sinatra four times, Bing Crosby three times (that was a surprise, I thought there would be much more Bing), and several singers twice: Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Bob Hope and Doris Day.
Anyway I think the show is going to be fun!
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