Here are some showtunes I keep returning to with hardly any bad conscience:
- Anything you can do I can do better (Annie Get Your Gun)
- The Waltz Must Be Strauss (An American in Paris)
- I Got Rhythm (An American in Paris)
- Rock Island (Music Man)
- Wells Fargo Wagon (Music Man)
- Style (Robin and the Seven Hoods)
- Well, Did You Ever (High Society)
- Hello (Book of Mormon)
- Hasa Diga Eebowai (Book of Mormon)
- Jubilation T. Cornpone (Lil Abner)
- Office Krupke (West Side Story)
- Men In Tights (Robin Hood)
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[…] I like old showtunes because they’re joyful and uncomplicated. At least on the surface. After listening to them a few times, I pick up on the double entendre – yet another reason I like them. The 1940s and 1950s were a supposedly more innocent time, but judging them by theirs songs, that’s an illusion. […]
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