and now for something lighter

[chocolatepot]

I know that early twentieth century musicals were often written in part as vehicles for songs, and it was expected/hoped that they would be taken out of context and rerecorded for the radio as pop music. There are a lot of early musicals with love songs that aren't specific to that story or those characters, and songs like "The Lady is a Tramp" that don't even really make sense in the context of the show they're stuck in. And I appreciate that if they hadn't become jazz standards, a lot of these Gershwin, Berlin, Kern, etc. songs would be completely lost to time because nobody but me cares about old show tunes.

But I really, really, really wish the Jerome Kern channel on Accuradio was not 75% swing covers of "The Way You Look Tonight".