A Broadway Songlist to Beat The Warmth – New York Theater

Let’s present our President
We’re glad he’s the White Home resident.

Step on the gasoline
And dance to a rhythm that’s class-A,
Hey, hey,
That is the way in which
We’re keepin’ cool with Coolidge.

The tune “Keepin’ Cool With Coolidge” is from the 1949 musical “Gents Want Blondes,” with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Leo Robin. If the sentiment is dated — in additional methods than one! — it’s one of many songs all through Broadway historical past sampled beneath to assist us suppose cool ideas.

Simply Maintain Cool

a tune from the 1900 musical, The Burgomaster, with music by Gustav Luders, ebook and lyrics by Frank S.Pisley:

Peter Stuyvesant sings:

Any man who seems for bother all the time finds it in a trice.
However ice is reasonable. Refrigerate, bear in mind Pete’s recommendation.
By no means let your self be frightened, or hurried, or flurried.
When you do, you’ll quickly be buried.
Care will solely kill a idiot.
If the trials of life beset you, or fret you, I’ll wager you
That the hoo-doo by no means get you
When you simply maintain cool.

I Want Some Cooling Off

from “She’s My Child,” 1928, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart

I would like some cooling off
How I would like cooling off
Can’t cease my toes from going to expend
I do know I’ll go insane…

You’ll discover it’s by no means time to retire
I’m shoutin’ now my temperature’s increased,
Fireplace,
I’ll hear that music crash
Till I burn to ash
Oh how I would like some cooling off.

Cool

from West Facet Story, 1957

Boy, boy, loopy boy,
Get cool, boy.
Acquired a rocket
In your pocket,
Maintain coolly cool, boy.

Don’t get sizzling,
‘Trigger man, you bought
Some excessive occasions forward.
Take it gradual,
And Daddy-o,
You may reside it up and die in mattress.

In The Cool, Cool Cool of the Night

A tune utilized in “Dream” a 1997 Broadway musical Based mostly on the lyrics of Johnny Mercer, with music by Hoagy Carmichael 

Within the cool, cool, cool of the night
Inform ’em we’ll be there
When you want a pair of freeloaders
To fracture your affair
I’ll even give them Pagliacci
Now stand again and provides him air
If one can loosen up and we’ll have just a few yaks
And you may inform them we’ll be there

Right here’s an earlier use of the tune

“Cool Jerk” from the 2018 Go-Go’s musical “Head Over Heels”

“Cool, Cool, Thoughtful Males” from “1776” (Warning: The scene is of the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia sweating)

“Colder by the MInute” from “Frozen,” 2018

Colder by the MInute
Colder by the MInute

…And the north wind howled
And so they have been trapped throughout the partitions of white
Don’t give into the ice
Don’t give into the chilly

Different titles:

“Cool Off” from the 1928 Marx Brothers musical ‘Animal Crackers”

“Coolest Place in City” from 1971 Melvin Van Peebles musical “Ain’t Imagined to Die a Pure Loss of life”