Music to put a SMILE on your face and a song in your HEART!
As a Minneapolis women’s singing group, we are proud each year to present a musical program featuring television and Broadway Show Tunes, Female Singer/Songwriters, Patriotic Songs, and Standards. Each performance is presented free of charge.
LeagueAires 2024 Program
Opening Song
We Go Together Warren Casey + Jim Jacobs; arr. Ed Lojeski
Announcer: American Female Singer-Songwriters
Nine to Five Dolly Parton; arr. Ed Lojeski
Jolene Dolly Parton; arr. Mark Brymer
True Colors Billy Steinberg + Tom Kelly; arr. Tim Brent [as performed by Cyndi Lauper]
Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell; arr. John Leavitt
A Natural Woman Gerry Goffin + Carole King + Jerry Wexler; arr. Kirby Shaw
Think Aretha Franklin + Ted White; arr. Mark Brymer
I Feel the Earth Move Carole King; arr. Roger Emerson
You’ve Got a Friend Carole King; arr. Mac Huff
Announcer: Memories Medley
Wanting Memories Ysaye M. Barnwell
Memories Michael Pollak/Jordan Kendall Johnson/ Vincent Ford/ Stefan Johnson/Jonathan
Bellion/Jacob Hindlin/Adam Levine; arr. Andy Beck/J.W. Tambor
Announcer: Americana
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Don Rice + Hughie Prince; arr. Ed Lojeski
A Tribute to the Armed Forces arr. Lloyd Larson
The Army Goes Rolling Along Edmund L. Gruber
Marine Corps Hymn Jacques Offenbach
Semper Paratus Capt. Francis S. Van Boskerck
Anchors Aweigh! Alfred H. Miles + Charles A. Zimmerman
The U.S. Air Force Robert Crawford
America the Beautiful Katherine L. Bates + Samuel Ward
Singalongs
Sentimental Journey Bud Green + Les Brown + Ben Homer
Close to You Burt Bacharach + Hal David
Do-Re-Mi Richard Rodgers + Oscar Hammerstein II
Irish Poem
Blessing Katie Moran Bart
Announcer: Going on a Road Trip
Route 66 Bobby Troup; arr. Roger Emerson
Carolina in the Morning Gus Kahn + Walter Donaldson; arr. Hawley Ades
Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town) Fred Fisher; arr. J.W. Tambor
Aloha ‘Oe Queen Lili’uokalani arr. J.W. Tambor
California Here I Come Al Jolson + Bud de Sylva + Joseph Meyer; arr. J.W. Tambor
I Left My Heart in San Francisco Douglass Cross + George Cory; arr. J.W. Tambor
Country Roads Bill Danoff + Taffy Nivert + John Denver; arr Mac Huff
Gary, Indiana Meredith Willson
Deep in the Heart of Texas June Hershey + Don Swander
Oklahoma! Richard Rodgers + Oscar Hammerstein II; arr. Clay Warnick
Georgia on My Mind Stuart Gorrell + Hoagy Carmichael; arr. Kirby Shaw
New York, New York John Kander + Fred Ebb; arr. Mark Hayes
Announcer: Exit Song
Smile, Smile, Smile Hugo Peretti + Luigi Creatore +George D. Weiss; arr. M. Gold (Lyrics adapted by Norma Pierson)