WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from February 2, 2024

Listener comments!
	🎭 7:01pm TonyR: Been waiting for a non-English show.....
	🎭 7:03pm WR: Of course, you could probably fill two hours with just productions of RHPS. Wonder what other contender for world wide production? Les Miserable, perhaps.
	7:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Bronwyn! All foreign tongues tonight? This is a good one!
	7:03pm arlo: diggin THIS
	🎭 7:03pm TonyR: Oh the places wew'll go! Oh the keyboard tricks we'll need!
	7:03pm arlo: diggin THIS
	7:04pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hello darlings!!!! Yes it's all translations tonight!
	🎭 7:05pm TonyR: Unicode for everybody!!!
	7:06pm Webhamster Henry: I can help you pronounce the credits if I can, if need be!
	🎭 7:06pm diciassette: ¡Ahøy! I'm réady fôr thìs!
	🎭 7:06pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @7:06 A little TOO ready.
	🎭 7:08pm TonyR: Do it faux-netically.
	🎭 7:10pm TonyR: Inuit showtunes?
	🎭 7:10pm Listener Gregory: Wait, so no more Finnish??? Awww.
	🎭 7:11pm TonyR: Hey-a big spendero!
	7:11pm Webhamster Henry: The finest song about West Virginia: There's A Girl In The Heart Of Wheeling, West Virginia by Kalmar & Ruby, sung by Zero Mostel on the amazing Songs My Mother Never Sang record.
	🎭 7:13pm Dan S: Hi Bronwyn. Speaking of Hoof & Mouth, another DJ earlier this week played a funny version of the song "Spill the Wine" from an H&M and you were credited for playing flute on it! You sounded pretty good to me. My memory being what it is these days, I can't remember which DJ played the song this week (or which DJ did the singing in the performance) but I do remember that you were the flutist. (Maybe it was Mary Wing who played it. Don't quote me on that.)
	🎭 7:13pm diciassette: 47 Songs About Snow?
	7:13pm Webhamster Henry: I was hopping you'd do the Brel La Mancha..he LOVED IT and did the translation.
	🎭 7:14pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:13 Wow, did not know this existed.
	🎭 7:15pm diciassette: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:13 I wait to pounce in the clicky-star
	7:15pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:14 I got it for my father years ago. Fun note: he had 3/4 of a share of La Mancha and it paid for grocery bills for many years.
	🎭 7:15pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @7:13 The overture gets me every time.
	🎭 7:16pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "La Quete" by "Jacques Brel" boop
	🎭 7:18pm TonyR: After "Il niege." I'm lost.
	🎭 7:19pm Listener Gregory: It must be super daunting to try to translate lyrics by the great witty lyricists, your Gershwins, Porters, Sondheims, etc. I would imagine it's best not to try and just write your own lyrics.
	🎭 7:20pm TonyR: Took a sleep test last week. I apparently enjoy zero seconds of Stage 3 (pre-REM) sleep in an evening.
	7:20pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:19 S'Wonderful - French already slurs so many words, it's not witty there!
	🎭 7:21pm TonyR: Really didn't think anyone would try a Sondheim. Cheers for Jiří
	🎭 7:23pm TonyR: Portuguese Sondheim?! I'm in.
	🎭 7:23pm Listener Gregory: If there's an actual play (and not just a recording), you can write lyrics that accomplish the same thing without trying to translate them, and at least it will work dramatically. Of course, there must be a Czech Cole Porter or a Mali Ira Gershwin who can make a great song without translating per se.
	🎭 7:23pm diciassette: ↳ TonyR @7:23 3 martinis and I'm under the piano
	7:26pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:23 That's kind of how Jacque Brel Is Alive and Well... worked. Mort Shuman and Eric Blau adapted the songs, some of which change metaphors other major parts of the songs, while others are quite close!
	🎭 7:28pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @7:23 You wake up 20 times and just don't know it. Here. Let me wire you up.
	🎭 7:29pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Ven Ikh Bin a Rotshild" by "Steven Skybell" I love this performance.
	7:29pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dan S @7:13 haha yes that was me! I got really bad stage fright and could barely make sounds come out of my flute lol
	🎭 7:29pm TonyR: Hate it when grownups are right about bedtime.
	🎭 7:29pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Ven Ikh Bin a Rotshild" by "Steven Skybell" Well, that's an appropriate language for this song and this show.
	🎭 7:29pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:26 Yes, but there's very little plot in that, no? So, they didn't have too many constraints.
	7:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:29 They had to get it past Brel!
	🎭 7:31pm Listener Gregory: ↳ TonyR @7:28 You need to hook up with a narcoleptic who falls asleep 20 times without knowing it. Then what a musical we could write about you!
	🎭 7:31pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:29 Really? I thought it sounded OK. I've heard worse. On Hoof & Mouth, I've heard MUCH worse.
	🎭 7:32pm diciassette: ↳ TonyR @7:28 Do you know the song Nineteen Forever by Joe Jackson? What you said reminded me of it "I've got something to keep me wired..."
	7:36pm Webhamster Henry: Kinda quiet, BB!
	🎭 7:36pm diciassette: uh oh, bump the gain?
	🎭 7:37pm diciassette: It's hard with all these different files
	🎭 7:37pm diciassette: np I'll do it on my end!
	🎭 7:38pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @7:36 Then the washing machine will overflow!!
	🎭 7:41pm TonyR: Internet es para el porno!
	🎭 7:42pm diciassette: It's like an Almodóvar movie!
	7:43pm Webhamster Henry: Is there a Japanese Pacific Overtures track you play?
	7:51pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Cop Song" by "Urinetown Korean Cast" Good and lively in Korean!
	🎭 7:51pm Dan S: I wonder how many of these songs I could guess the language of without looking at the playlist. Probably not many of them.
	🎭 7:53pm diciassette: I was just noticing for the first time that Korean seems (to my ears) to have similar phonemes to Mandarin (while being totally and unmistakably Korean). Korean also reminds me of Japanese (while being totally and unmistakably Korean), so I appreciate this continuum!
	7:55pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:29 I (illegally) gave it a plot in college! I later learned that because I wrote the book for our adaptation, for years afterward some people at Ithaca College thought I wrote the songs, too...
	🎭 7:59pm Dan S: ↳ diciassette @7:53 I'd guess that Korean, Mandarin, and Japanese are from the same language family. Perhaps to an East Asian, English, Spanish, and German all sound pretty similar.
	🎭 8:00pm diciassette: ↳ Dan S @7:59 Yes, but certainly on different ends!
	8:04pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Internet es para el porno" by "Avenue Q Spanish C... I actually saw the German dubbed of Cabaret (the Movie)
	8:05pm Big Splenda: Catalan is also the official language of Andorra!
	🎭 8:06pm diciassette: "Your sins are a highway the innocent have to walk down" - Mamma Roma (from memory)
	🎭 8:07pm Listener Gregory: ↳ diciassette @8:06 Hmm, I should have made my highway wider by sinning more, I guess.
	🎭 8:10pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Al Die Jazz" by "Pia Douwes" I think this one sounds pretty good in Dutch.
	8:11pm Charles: This is awesome
	🎭 8:13pm diciassette: uh oh, here we go
	🎭 8:14pm diciassette: I love Dutch, and if I could choose I'd put Annie in Dutch, but I am not complaining.
	8:14pm Webhamster Henry: It's a hard Norse life.
	🎭 8:16pm diciassette: Close!
	🎭 8:17pm diciassette: soldi soldi soldi, always foldy!
	🎭 8:23pm Listener Gregory: Iceland is full of trolls and fairies, so why not murderous plants? They probably live on the edge of the lava and catch tourists who get too close.
	🎭 8:23pm Dan S: Based on the names they give to their volcanoes, I consider Icelandic unpronounceable.
	🎭 8:24pm diciassette: There is practically no crime on Iceland, so naturally (I've heard) they are obsessed with crime novels.
	🎭 8:24pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dan S @8:23 Did you know that Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth takes place in an inactive volcano?
	🎭 8:26pm Listener Gregory: ↳ diciassette @8:24 May I recommend the work of Arnaldur Indridason? Excellent crime series. Of course, we know that Sweden has more crime than any other country in the world, as measured by the number of murders in its novels.
	🎭 8:27pm Dan S: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:24 I sort of vaguely remember that. Was the volcano identified in the story?
	🎭 8:27pm diciassette: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:26 Yes you may! Let the Right One In, I always say.
	8:29pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Litla hryllingsbúðin" by "Leikarar úr Litlu hryll... Litla hrill-lings-boothin
	🎭 8:29pm Dan S: I noticed that every song in this show has been in a different language. No double-dipping, at least not yet. I like that.
	🎭 8:30pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "Öölaps" by "Tanz der Vampire Estonian Cast" that was beeyooteeful
	🎭 8:35pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Toe toe toe Joazef" by "Joazef, Master Dreamer Cast" Frisian. That one I had to look up. So many languages out there. A real Tower of Babel, LOL.
	🎭 8:37pm diciassette: We haven't had any Gaelic languages yet, and I cannae help but wonder if BB is waiting to uncork one.
	8:37pm Listener Gregory: @Dan S, yes it’s a real volcano. The trip to it takes up a few chapters of the book. Verne describes Reykjavik as have only two streets, which he describes in some detail.
	🎭 8:38pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Az ej zeneje" by "Sandor Sasvari" Ah yes, I could tell that he was born...Hungarian! And not just Hungarian but of royal blood!
	8:38pm Webhamster Henry: We want the Welsh "The Rain In Spain."
	🎭 8:40pm diciassette: Gotta have some Penna Dutch, of course!
	🎭 8:41pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "Erinnerung" by "Hartwig Rudolz, Pauline Cooke & A... melty
	🎭 8:44pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Toe toe toe Joazef" by "Joazef, Master Dreamer Cast" If there is a Frisian cast album of your musical, you have definitely penetrated the entire market.
	🎭 8:45pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "Erinnerung" by "Hartwig Rudolz, Pauline Cooke & A... I'd rather be crying and stuffing my face with spaghetti right now. Ah!
	8:47pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Toe toe toe Joazef" by "Joazef, Master Dreamer Cast" Ken plays Frisian hits on his show...
	🎭 8:48pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Erinnerung" by "Hartwig Rudolz, Pauline Cooke & A... This is a relief. I was afraid the German number would be a certain song from The Producers that I will not name That would have been creepy. (I'm just kidding, folks.)
	🎭 8:48pm diciassette: Yay!
	8:49pm Webhamster Henry: There was a really great YouTube composite of about a dozen languages of "Let It Go"
	8:51pm Rich in Washington: Brilliant show tonight, Bronwyn! BTW: I have the French cast recording of Hair, should you ever want it.
	8:52pm Webhamster Henry: Now this one is Actually Norse!
	8:52pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:51 We had the Hebrew Hair and it was groovy!
	8:52pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:52 Nice!
	🎭 8:55pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn!
	🎭 8:55pm TonyR: TY, BB!!!!!
	8:56pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:49 Here it is: www.youtube.com...
	8:56pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, Bronwyn! Hey folks! I'll be breaking your radio next and taking you all the way to Midnight! wfmu.org...
	🎭 8:56pm diciassette: My washing machine overflows! Thank you BB!
	8:56pm Mark Hurst: Great show tonight, Bronwyn! I vote for Norwegian.
	🎭 8:57pm Listener Gregory: This was one of your most fun shows, Ms. Bishop. Thanks a lot. Of course, a little disappointed there was no song in pig-Latin, but maybe next time?
	8:57pm Rich in Washington: Not just Polish but DISCO as well!
	8:57pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:57 Ext-nay ime-tay!
	8:58pm Rich in Washington: PLEASE play this whole song even if it means going over!
	🎭 8:58pm Dan S: Well, this show has been different, and fun. I also imagine it was a lot of work to put together. Thanks, Bronwyn! OK, my favorite song here was "If I Were a Rich Man" in Yiddish, but perhaps I'm biased, being of that ethnic persuasion.
	🎭 8:58pm TonyR: A Polish "Singin' in the Rain". THere's gotta be an inappropriate joke in there somehow.
	🎭 9:00pm TonyR: BB works hard every week and we just put our cigarettes out on the carpet and spill our drinks.
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Hey another great foreign Disney song : The Work Song from Cinderella in Italian samba disco! www.echo.net...

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from February 2, 2024

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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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February 2, 2024: Found in Translation

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Minna Kangas	Myöhäisillan Täydellinen Näytelmä	The Rocky Horror Show (Finnish Cast)	Poko Records	1995	Music & Lyrics: Richard O'Brien (lyrics translated into Finnish by Mauri "Moog" Konttinen)	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Ellie Lambeti	I Glikia Irma "I Glikia Irma" by "Ellie Lambeti"	I Glikia Irma	Minos - EMI SA	2005	Music: Marguerite Monnot Lyrics: Alexandre Breffort (translated into Greek by Lefteris Papadopolous)	0:13:26 (Pop-up)
Jacques Brel	La Quete "La Quete" by "Jacques Brel"	L'Homme De La Mancha	Barclay	1968	Music: Mitch Leigh Lyrics: Joe Darion (translated into French by Jacques Brel)	0:16:06 (Pop-up)
Karel Gott	Maria "Maria" by "Karel Gott"	Maria/Dnes V Noci	Supraphon	1963	Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim (translated into Czech by Jiří Aplt)	0:19:01 (Pop-up)
Ivana Domenico	I'm Still Here "I'm Still Here" by "Ivana Domenico"	Lado a Lado com Sondheim (Live Recording)	No Label	2005	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim (lyrics translated into Portuguese by Claudio Botelho)	0:21:53 (Pop-up)
Steven Skybell	Ven Ikh Bin a Rotshild	Fiddler on the Roof 2018 Cast Recording (in Yiddish)	Direct Holdings Americas Inc	2019	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick (translated into Yiddish by Shraga Friedman)	0:24:34 (Pop-up)

Avenue Q Spanish Cast	Internet es para el porno	Avenue Q in Spanish (Live Recording)	No Album	Unknown	Music & Lyrics: Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx (lyrics translated into Spanish)	0:39:33 (Pop-up)
Amants Catalan Cast	Perque "Perque" by "Amants Catalan Cast"	Amants	Discmedi S.A.	2003	Music: Jimmy Roberts Lyrics: Joe DiPietro (translated into Catalan by Pere Bargadi & Paco Mir)	0:41:57 (Pop-up)
Zhu Fu, Zhao YuJun & Shu Yang	You Don't Know/I Am the One	Next to Normal in Mandarin (Live Recording)	No Label	2018	Music: Tom Kitt Lyrics: Brian Yorkey (translated into Mandarin by Cheng He)	0:44:34 (Pop-up)
Urinetown Korean Cast	Cop Song "Cop Song" by "Urinetown Korean Cast"	Urinetown in Korean (Live Recording)	No Label	Unknown	Music: Mark Hollmann Lyrics: Mark Hollmann & Greg Kotis (translated into Korean)	0:47:30 (Pop-up)
Shiki Theatre Company	Dancing Through Life	Wicked (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	The Verve Music Group	2013	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz (lyrics translated into Japanese)	0:50:53 (Pop-up)

Adelaide Di Bitonto & Crescenza Guarnieri	Big Spender	Sweet Charity - Il Musical	Triangle Production	2006	Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Dorothy Fields (translated into Italian by Silvio Testi)	1:06:42 (Pop-up)
Pia Douwes	Al Die Jazz "Al Die Jazz" by "Pia Douwes"	Chicago (Dutch Cast)	Endemol	1999	Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb (translated into Dutch by Seth Gaaikema)	1:08:39 (Pop-up)
Dudu Fisher & Elior Yeini	The Confrontation	Les Miserables - עלובי החיים	Hed-Arzi	1987	Music: Claude-Michel Schönberg Lyrics: Alain Boublil & Jean-Marc Natel (translated into Hebrew)	1:13:17 (Pop-up)
Annie Danish Cast	Hard Knock Life	Annie	Polydor	1982	Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Martin Charnin (translated into Danish)	1:15:55 (Pop-up)
Mamma Mia! Swedish Cast	Money, Money, Money	Mamma Mia! På Svenska	Universal	2005	Music & Lyrics: Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus (lyrics translated into Swedish by Björn Ulvaeus & Niklas Strömstedt)	1:18:34 (Pop-up)

Leikarar úr Litlu hryllingsbúðinni	Litla hryllingsbúðin	Litla hryllingsbúðin (Original Soundtrack)	Alda Music	1999	Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman (translated into Icelandic by Magnús Þór Jónsson)	1:23:55 (Pop-up)
Tanz der Vampire Estonian Cast	Öölaps	Ehk Vampiiride Tants (Estonian Demo)	Smithbridge Productions	2004	Music & Lyrics: Jim Steinman (lyrics translated into Estonian)	1:26:55 (Pop-up)
Joazef, Master Dreamer Cast	Toe toe toe Joazef	Joazef, Master Dreamer (Frisian Cast)	Face Records	1988	Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice (translated into Frisian)	1:31:22 (Pop-up)
Sandor Sasvari	Az ej zeneje "Az ej zeneje" by "Sandor Sasvari"	The Phantom of the Opera: Global Edition	The Really Useful Group Ltd.	2022	Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Charles Hart & Richard Stilgoe (translated into Hungarian)	1:35:31 (Pop-up)
Hartwig Rudolz, Pauline Cooke & Andrea Bogel	Erinnerung	Cats (Deutsche Originalaufnahme)	Polydor	1983	Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Trevor Nunn (translated into German by Michael Kunze)	1:39:35 (Pop-up)

Peter Pan Cantonese Cast	You Can Fly	Peter Pan	No Label	Unknown	Music: Sammy Fain Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (translated into Cantonese)	1:50:20 (Pop-up)
Sissel Kyrkjebø	Det Er Min Drøm	Disneys Storste Norske Hits	Walt Disney Records	2008	Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman (translated into Norwegian)	1:53:11 (Pop-up)

Zbigniew Wodecki	Deszczowa Piosenka	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Music: Nacio Herb Brown Lyrics: Arthur Freed (translated into Polish by Zbiegniew Wodecki)	1:59:00 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎭 7:01pm TonyR: Been waiting for a non-English show.....
	🎭 7:03pm WR: Of course, you could probably fill two hours with just productions of RHPS. Wonder what other contender for world wide production? Les Miserable, perhaps.
	7:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Bronwyn! All foreign tongues tonight? This is a good one!
	7:03pm arlo: diggin THIS
	🎭 7:03pm TonyR: Oh the places wew'll go! Oh the keyboard tricks we'll need!
	7:03pm arlo: diggin THIS
	7:04pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hello darlings!!!! Yes it's all translations tonight!
	🎭 7:05pm TonyR: Unicode for everybody!!!
	7:06pm Webhamster Henry: I can help you pronounce the credits if I can, if need be!
	🎭 7:06pm diciassette: ¡Ahøy! I'm réady fôr thìs!
	🎭 7:06pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @7:06 A little TOO ready.
	🎭 7:08pm TonyR: Do it faux-netically.
	🎭 7:10pm TonyR: Inuit showtunes?
	🎭 7:10pm Listener Gregory: Wait, so no more Finnish??? Awww.
	🎭 7:11pm TonyR: Hey-a big spendero!
	7:11pm Webhamster Henry: The finest song about West Virginia: There's A Girl In The Heart Of Wheeling, West Virginia by Kalmar & Ruby, sung by Zero Mostel on the amazing Songs My Mother Never Sang record.
	🎭 7:13pm Dan S: Hi Bronwyn. Speaking of Hoof & Mouth, another DJ earlier this week played a funny version of the song "Spill the Wine" from an H&M and you were credited for playing flute on it! You sounded pretty good to me. My memory being what it is these days, I can't remember which DJ played the song this week (or which DJ did the singing in the performance) but I do remember that you were the flutist. (Maybe it was Mary Wing who played it. Don't quote me on that.)
	🎭 7:13pm diciassette: 47 Songs About Snow?
	7:13pm Webhamster Henry: I was hopping you'd do the Brel La Mancha..he LOVED IT and did the translation.
	🎭 7:14pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:13 Wow, did not know this existed.
	🎭 7:15pm diciassette: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:13 I wait to pounce in the clicky-star
	7:15pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:14 I got it for my father years ago. Fun note: he had 3/4 of a share of La Mancha and it paid for grocery bills for many years.
	🎭 7:15pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @7:13 The overture gets me every time.
	🎭 7:16pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "La Quete" by "Jacques Brel" boop
	🎭 7:18pm TonyR: After "Il niege." I'm lost.
	🎭 7:19pm Listener Gregory: It must be super daunting to try to translate lyrics by the great witty lyricists, your Gershwins, Porters, Sondheims, etc. I would imagine it's best not to try and just write your own lyrics.
	🎭 7:20pm TonyR: Took a sleep test last week. I apparently enjoy zero seconds of Stage 3 (pre-REM) sleep in an evening.
	7:20pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:19 S'Wonderful - French already slurs so many words, it's not witty there!
	🎭 7:21pm TonyR: Really didn't think anyone would try a Sondheim. Cheers for Jiří
	🎭 7:23pm TonyR: Portuguese Sondheim?! I'm in.
	🎭 7:23pm Listener Gregory: If there's an actual play (and not just a recording), you can write lyrics that accomplish the same thing without trying to translate them, and at least it will work dramatically. Of course, there must be a Czech Cole Porter or a Mali Ira Gershwin who can make a great song without translating per se.
	🎭 7:23pm diciassette: ↳ TonyR @7:23 3 martinis and I'm under the piano
	7:26pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:23 That's kind of how Jacque Brel Is Alive and Well... worked. Mort Shuman and Eric Blau adapted the songs, some of which change metaphors other major parts of the songs, while others are quite close!
	🎭 7:28pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @7:23 You wake up 20 times and just don't know it. Here. Let me wire you up.
	🎭 7:29pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Ven Ikh Bin a Rotshild" by "Steven Skybell" I love this performance.
	7:29pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dan S @7:13 haha yes that was me! I got really bad stage fright and could barely make sounds come out of my flute lol
	🎭 7:29pm TonyR: Hate it when grownups are right about bedtime.
	🎭 7:29pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Ven Ikh Bin a Rotshild" by "Steven Skybell" Well, that's an appropriate language for this song and this show.
	🎭 7:29pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:26 Yes, but there's very little plot in that, no? So, they didn't have too many constraints.
	7:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:29 They had to get it past Brel!
	🎭 7:31pm Listener Gregory: ↳ TonyR @7:28 You need to hook up with a narcoleptic who falls asleep 20 times without knowing it. Then what a musical we could write about you!
	🎭 7:31pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:29 Really? I thought it sounded OK. I've heard worse. On Hoof & Mouth, I've heard MUCH worse.
	🎭 7:32pm diciassette: ↳ TonyR @7:28 Do you know the song Nineteen Forever by Joe Jackson? What you said reminded me of it "I've got something to keep me wired..."
	7:36pm Webhamster Henry: Kinda quiet, BB!
	🎭 7:36pm diciassette: uh oh, bump the gain?
	🎭 7:37pm diciassette: It's hard with all these different files
	🎭 7:37pm diciassette: np I'll do it on my end!
	🎭 7:38pm TonyR: ↳ diciassette @7:36 Then the washing machine will overflow!!
	🎭 7:41pm TonyR: Internet es para el porno!
	🎭 7:42pm diciassette: It's like an Almodóvar movie!
	7:43pm Webhamster Henry: Is there a Japanese Pacific Overtures track you play?
	7:51pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Cop Song" by "Urinetown Korean Cast" Good and lively in Korean!
	🎭 7:51pm Dan S: I wonder how many of these songs I could guess the language of without looking at the playlist. Probably not many of them.
	🎭 7:53pm diciassette: I was just noticing for the first time that Korean seems (to my ears) to have similar phonemes to Mandarin (while being totally and unmistakably Korean). Korean also reminds me of Japanese (while being totally and unmistakably Korean), so I appreciate this continuum!
	7:55pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:29 I (illegally) gave it a plot in college! I later learned that because I wrote the book for our adaptation, for years afterward some people at Ithaca College thought I wrote the songs, too...
	🎭 7:59pm Dan S: ↳ diciassette @7:53 I'd guess that Korean, Mandarin, and Japanese are from the same language family. Perhaps to an East Asian, English, Spanish, and German all sound pretty similar.
	🎭 8:00pm diciassette: ↳ Dan S @7:59 Yes, but certainly on different ends!
	8:04pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Internet es para el porno" by "Avenue Q Spanish C... I actually saw the German dubbed of Cabaret (the Movie)
	8:05pm Big Splenda: Catalan is also the official language of Andorra!
	🎭 8:06pm diciassette: "Your sins are a highway the innocent have to walk down" - Mamma Roma (from memory)
	🎭 8:07pm Listener Gregory: ↳ diciassette @8:06 Hmm, I should have made my highway wider by sinning more, I guess.
	🎭 8:10pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Al Die Jazz" by "Pia Douwes" I think this one sounds pretty good in Dutch.
	8:11pm Charles: This is awesome
	🎭 8:13pm diciassette: uh oh, here we go
	🎭 8:14pm diciassette: I love Dutch, and if I could choose I'd put Annie in Dutch, but I am not complaining.
	8:14pm Webhamster Henry: It's a hard Norse life.
	🎭 8:16pm diciassette: Close!
	🎭 8:17pm diciassette: soldi soldi soldi, always foldy!
	🎭 8:23pm Listener Gregory: Iceland is full of trolls and fairies, so why not murderous plants? They probably live on the edge of the lava and catch tourists who get too close.
	🎭 8:23pm Dan S: Based on the names they give to their volcanoes, I consider Icelandic unpronounceable.
	🎭 8:24pm diciassette: There is practically no crime on Iceland, so naturally (I've heard) they are obsessed with crime novels.
	🎭 8:24pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dan S @8:23 Did you know that Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth takes place in an inactive volcano?
	🎭 8:26pm Listener Gregory: ↳ diciassette @8:24 May I recommend the work of Arnaldur Indridason? Excellent crime series. Of course, we know that Sweden has more crime than any other country in the world, as measured by the number of murders in its novels.
	🎭 8:27pm Dan S: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:24 I sort of vaguely remember that. Was the volcano identified in the story?
	🎭 8:27pm diciassette: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:26 Yes you may! Let the Right One In, I always say.
	8:29pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Litla hryllingsbúðin" by "Leikarar úr Litlu hryll... Litla hrill-lings-boothin
	🎭 8:29pm Dan S: I noticed that every song in this show has been in a different language. No double-dipping, at least not yet. I like that.
	🎭 8:30pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "Öölaps" by "Tanz der Vampire Estonian Cast" that was beeyooteeful
	🎭 8:35pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Toe toe toe Joazef" by "Joazef, Master Dreamer Cast" Frisian. That one I had to look up. So many languages out there. A real Tower of Babel, LOL.
	🎭 8:37pm diciassette: We haven't had any Gaelic languages yet, and I cannae help but wonder if BB is waiting to uncork one.
	8:37pm Listener Gregory: @Dan S, yes it’s a real volcano. The trip to it takes up a few chapters of the book. Verne describes Reykjavik as have only two streets, which he describes in some detail.
	🎭 8:38pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Az ej zeneje" by "Sandor Sasvari" Ah yes, I could tell that he was born...Hungarian! And not just Hungarian but of royal blood!
	8:38pm Webhamster Henry: We want the Welsh "The Rain In Spain."
	🎭 8:40pm diciassette: Gotta have some Penna Dutch, of course!
	🎭 8:41pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "Erinnerung" by "Hartwig Rudolz, Pauline Cooke & A... melty
	🎭 8:44pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Toe toe toe Joazef" by "Joazef, Master Dreamer Cast" If there is a Frisian cast album of your musical, you have definitely penetrated the entire market.
	🎭 8:45pm diciassette: ↳ Song: "Erinnerung" by "Hartwig Rudolz, Pauline Cooke & A... I'd rather be crying and stuffing my face with spaghetti right now. Ah!
	8:47pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Toe toe toe Joazef" by "Joazef, Master Dreamer Cast" Ken plays Frisian hits on his show...
	🎭 8:48pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Erinnerung" by "Hartwig Rudolz, Pauline Cooke & A... This is a relief. I was afraid the German number would be a certain song from The Producers that I will not name That would have been creepy. (I'm just kidding, folks.)
	🎭 8:48pm diciassette: Yay!
	8:49pm Webhamster Henry: There was a really great YouTube composite of about a dozen languages of "Let It Go"
	8:51pm Rich in Washington: Brilliant show tonight, Bronwyn! BTW: I have the French cast recording of Hair, should you ever want it.
	8:52pm Webhamster Henry: Now this one is Actually Norse!
	8:52pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:51 We had the Hebrew Hair and it was groovy!
	8:52pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:52 Nice!
	🎭 8:55pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn!
	🎭 8:55pm TonyR: TY, BB!!!!!
	8:56pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:49 Here it is: www.youtube.com...
	8:56pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, Bronwyn! Hey folks! I'll be breaking your radio next and taking you all the way to Midnight! wfmu.org...
	🎭 8:56pm diciassette: My washing machine overflows! Thank you BB!
	8:56pm Mark Hurst: Great show tonight, Bronwyn! I vote for Norwegian.
	🎭 8:57pm Listener Gregory: This was one of your most fun shows, Ms. Bishop. Thanks a lot. Of course, a little disappointed there was no song in pig-Latin, but maybe next time?
	8:57pm Rich in Washington: Not just Polish but DISCO as well!
	8:57pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:57 Ext-nay ime-tay!
	8:58pm Rich in Washington: PLEASE play this whole song even if it means going over!
	🎭 8:58pm Dan S: Well, this show has been different, and fun. I also imagine it was a lot of work to put together. Thanks, Bronwyn! OK, my favorite song here was "If I Were a Rich Man" in Yiddish, but perhaps I'm biased, being of that ethnic persuasion.
	🎭 8:58pm TonyR: A Polish "Singin' in the Rain". THere's gotta be an inappropriate joke in there somehow.
	🎭 9:00pm TonyR: BB works hard every week and we just put our cigarettes out on the carpet and spill our drinks.
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Hey another great foreign Disney song : The Work Song from Cinderella in Italian samba disco! www.echo.net...

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from February 2, 2024

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