Fascinatin' Rhythm; Counting Down to the Millennium; Part 2

I remember the day and the place I packed my boys center to be ready, whether I win or fall flat on my face, I still remember. I love the thrill of the chase. Show me that Lion's Den. Kaye Ballard, when you're listening to fascinating rhythm songs from the Golden Age of American Song, I'm Michael Lasser and. To sum up the century, you may need to find two songs rather than one each

with its own point of view, one optimistic and rambunctious, the other troubled and dark. The first is from the more innocent years, just after the last century turned, and the second is from the second year of the Great Depression. Joel Gray sings Twentieth Century Love and Noel Coward sings his own 20th century blues. No time to pitch one now for centuries, and you now I'm singing my love songs in my ragtime. One minute I make sure my 10 put up three shots and all of those wedding bells for Gyamfi. I you know, I don't want to go slow. Can't wait for that phone about forever to die. So kiss me and run kiss each night. You know, one kid can be my 20th century love.

It's day now going down, but straight up and juncos and. Now, at this time, you'll find lady. And kind of three.

Thanks for getting me to. This case, those with 20th century. His father got in Washington, he ran half of the 20th century, and the strange illusion of chaos and confusion, people seem to move the way what is to strive for love or keep alive for the call?

It ought to be took when all it's getting me down down to 20th century. Joel Gray, 20th Century Love, and Noel Coward, 20th Century Blues. When friends and admirers gave poet Robert Frost a birthday party, when he reached 80, he remarked in his typically flinty way that he hoped they weren't honoring him just because he'd survived. There may be more to mere survival than Frost was willing to grant, especially if it means you've kept your wits and your balance, or at least when you lose them, you fight to get them back. The next song is A Tale of Survival from one who's seen more than her share. This is Yvonne DeCarlo from Follies.

I'm still here. Good times and bum times, I've seen them all, and my dear, I'm still here. Velvet sometimes, sometimes just pretzels and beer, but I'm here. I've stopped the Daleys in my shoes, strummed ukuleles, sung the blues scene. All my dreams disappear. But I'm here. I've slept in Shanti's guest, stopped the WPA. But I'm here. Danced in Muskan Tees three bucks, the night was the pay. But I'm here. I stood on bread lines with Bob.

Watched while the headlines depressed and the depression was depressed nowhere near. I met a big financier, and I'm his. I've gotten word that was. When you've been through a weapon and war one. I've been to Reno. I've been through Beverly Hills. And I'm here reefers and vino, rescuer's religion and pill, but I've never been called a pinko commie.

Got instinct from my, my. I should have gone to an acting school that seems. Still, someone said to be sincere. So I'm. Yes, one day that goes into hock and I'm his top billing Monday, Tuesday, you're touring in Stockholm, I'm going first. You're on the other side then was my boss was in your camp, then you career from Korea to career. I'm almost through my memoirs and I'm a big. I've gotten through many of you know

what I wow, what are you worse or better yet? Sorry, I thought you were bootless. Times and one time I've seen them all in, my dear. But sometimes sometimes just pretzels and beer, but I'm here. I run the gamut. Three children have the same. I got over last year and I. A song like I'm Still Here makes the future look much more inviting than the past,

survival may be about courage and luck, but you just as soon have things a little easier. Here's a cautionary message not to be too quick to leap into the future. What may matter most of all is now, at least in your personal life, no matter what you do, it won't mean a lot at the turn of the next century. Maxine Sullivan, 100 years from today. Don't save your kisses, just pass them around, you'll find my reason to be logically sound. Who's going to know that you pass them around? How yards you do that? Why else that's fit for a queen.

You need to have it on my own screen. If you had millions, why put me on me on the round today? So laugh and sing and make love and be happy while you may. There's only one beneath the sun that's bound to make you feel that way. Lebanese, Shiite, and that's a good sign, claim to me closer and say you'll be my. Darling, we won't see it shine on you from today.

How about that, Mr.. Sulawesi. Make love again. Be happy while you wait. There's only one.

We need the sun that bound to make it feel that way. Cling to me closer and say, you'll be my. Remember, darling, we won't see you shine on the road to day. From. Moving ahead may be frightening, but Maxine Sullivan's practical advice is no reason to stand pat. The trick is not to go alone. Here's a song of reassurance for that. Winding down to the millennium that's been behind today's songs.

Stephen Sondheim doesn't have a reputation for melody yet. He has written some exquisite songs, none more beautiful than this ballad, a song of comfort and reassurance. No one is alone from into the woods. Mother cannot go. You know, you're on your own. Only me besides. No one is a more truly. Halfway through the world, others

may deceive you. You decide what's going. You decide. No one no one is alone. I wish. Mother isn't here at all things, right, but who knows what she'll say? She wants to run things quite so clear now. I feel you've lost your wedding, you decide, but you are not. Oh, believe me, no one and no one is going to believe me truly, you will just think.

Say the slightest. So there's bound to be word No one, Axum. Careful, no one is a lot more people who make mistakes. So many people make mistakes holding to their own thinking the more. I heard devastating everybody makes one another's terrible mistakes, which is right. Sure, I can be good. You decide what's right, you decide what's good. Just remember, just remember someone is on your SARSHAR side, someone else who's not.

Why we're seeing more homicides, maybe more guns. No one is. Hard to see the light. Just don't let it go. Things will come up right now, which it so. Someone is on your. No one is more. Kim Crosby, Ben Wright, Chip Zeine and Daniel Ferland, no one is alone

if the reassuring message is true at last. At the end, you'll find satisfaction, fulfillment and rest. The journey ends with peace, with the passing of wondrous excitement and the coming on of serenity. Robert White with Karrie Jacobs Bonds. A perfect day. When you come to the end of our. Today and you sit all alone with your. Short while the times are reaching out with our call. All good for joy to the day husband Ron. Coming to our top.

When the sun goes down and rays of light rain on. Paul. Well, this. You brought it to me, so I thought about who's got the strong, who

is on resources, corn and. With and. We find out in the end. No. Today also. Do we? Robert White, a perfect day, this hasn't exactly been a happy go lucky our there's been some wit and some courage along with a trace of optimism. But if we've had more skepticism than romanticism, at least we've also had more

skepticism than cynicism. Skepticism may not make you sleep any better, but it keeps the door open to hope. It lets the future happen. It lets those who have a rosier view of things keep on what follows borders on the messianic and the clarity of its message. We've been through a lot in the last 95 years, but at least we can still sing along. Caselli, a new world coming. Are coming in.

He's coming in, enjoy. Handpiece. Cass Elliot is right, we can all sit back and relax, don't count on it. Look forward to a mix of the wonderful and the terrible, the joyful and the

desperate. And most days spent somewhere in between, thank goodness. But as you move down the road to the turn of the century and millennium alike, you may find it comforting to take along some popular songs. I've tried to start your list today. I've been counting down to the millennium. Destler Baskis, the technical director. I'm Michael Lasser. The show's fascinating rhythm and it would drive me insane comes in the morning without anyone hanging around me all day. I'll have to sneak into it someday. I'll speak to the whole. But listen, when I say something written about me on the last night, what a mess you're making. The neighbors want to know about Shagan. Each morning, I get up with the sun, start to find new work. Oh, but I know what doesn't matter, but now you don't want to start patter. I'm so unhappy. We'll take a day off that run a long time before we all make it snappy. Oh, I love to be the man.

I used to be a fascinating rhythm. You got stuff big enough for. And. Oh, I love the man I used to be a fascinating rhythm. Stop making me. Oh. Fascinatin' rhythm is a production of WXXI in Rochester, New York, for a playlist of this week's show, send us stamped self-addressed envelope to WXXI fem care of fascinating

rhythm box. Twenty one Rochester, New York, one four six oh one. But the planet spins and the world goes right back from. It does indeed still go round five years before the year 2000. I'm Michael Lasser. Join me for a fascinating rhythm as we begin counting down to the millennium.