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Nonsense songs!

Elaine presents the latest stage and screen news, a look at the 2022 Tony Award nominations and Popcorn Point. Plus an hour of musical and film songs that feature made-up words.

Elaine presents the latest news from stage and screen, a look at the 2022 Tony Award nominations, and an intergalactic cinema-going story in Popcorn Point.

She also devotes the second hour to musical and film songs that feature made-up words in their lyrics, such as Supercalifragilistic, Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo, Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery Pokery, and Flash Bang Wallop.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 15 May 202213:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Ensemble of 9 to 5 The Musical

    Nine To Five

    • 9 To 5 The Musical.
    • Dolly Records/A2M Distribution.
    • 1.

  • Matthew Seadon-Young

    Run Freedom Run

    • Urinetown.
    • 1.

  • The Oompa Loompas

    Oompa Loompa

    • Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.
    • MCA Records.
    • 8.

  • The Music Man Orchestra

    Overture from The Music Man

    • Meredith Willson's the Music Man (Original Broadway Cast 1957).
    • Sharp Edge Records.
    • 1.

  • Sharon D. Clarke

    Lot's Wife

  • The Original Cast of The Strange Loop

    A Strange Loop

    • A Strange Loop (Original Cast Recording).
    • Yellow Sound Label.
    • 17.

  • Judy Garland

    Over the Rainbow

    Orchestra: Unnamed orchestra.
    • Musical Wonderland (Various Artists).
    • Warner Strategic Marketi.

  • Members of the Cast

    No One Mourns The Wicked

  • Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel

    For Good

    • Wicked: Original Broadway Cast Recording.
    • Decca Broadway.
    • 18.

  • Aileen Quinn, Ann Reinking & Albert Finney

    Let's Go To The Movies

    • Annie: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Columbia.
    • 9.

  • Berlin

    Take My Breath Away

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Lady Gaga

    Hold My Hand

    • Top Gun: Maverick O.S.T..
    • Interscope.

  • Maurice Chevalier & Louis Jourdan

    It's A Bore

    • Gigi.
    • MGM Records.
    • 8.

  • RDM Band

    Butter That Popcorn

    • Virtue Recording Studios.
    • Tramp Records.
    • 16.

  • Gary Barlow & The Original Leeds Cast

    Dare

    • Calendar Girls The Musical: Original London Recording.
    • Decca Records.
    • 13.

  • Original Broadway Ensemble Of The Lion King

    Hakuna Matata

    • The Lion King: Original Broadway Cast Recording.
    • Disney.
    • 11.

  • Doris Day

    Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee

    • Day In Hollywood.
    • Columbia.
    • 18.

  • Dick Van Dyke & Julie Andrews

    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

    • BMG.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Louis Armstrong

    Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo

    • The Very Best Of Disney 2.
    • Pickwick.

  • Topol

    If I Were A Rich Man

    • Fiddler On The Roof (The Original London Cast Recording).
    • Sony Classical.

  • Brenton Wood

    The Oogum Boogum Song

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • John Travolta & Olivia Newton‐John

    We Go Together

    • Grease (Original Movie Soundtrack).
    • Polydor.

  • Gwen Verdon

    Erbie Fitch's Twitch

    • Redhead (Original Broadway Cast Recording).
    • Masterworks Broadway.
    • 7.

  • The Original Company of Tarzan

    Trashin' The Camp

    • Tarzan: The Broadway Musical.
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 10.

  • Original London Cast of Hair

    Good Morning Starshine

    • Hair: Original London Cast.
    • Polydor.
    • 28.

  • Charlie Stemp & Zizi Strallen

    Chim Chim Cher-ee (Live)

    • Mary Poppins (The Definitive Supercalifragilistic 2020 Cast Recording).
    • Arts Music/First Night.
    • 11.

  • Cilla Black

    La La La Lu

    • Completely Cilla (1963-1973).
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 12.

  • The Company of Bumblescratch

    Jiggery Pokery

    • Bumblescratch (London Concert Cast Recording).
    • SimG Records.
    • 9.

  • Tommy Steele

    Flash Bang Wallop

    • Tommy Steele's Greatest Hits.
    • Deram.

  • The Film Cast of Bedknobs and Broomsticks

    Substitutionary Locomotion

    • Bedknobs And Broomsticks (Original Soundtrack).
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 9.

  • We Will Rock You Original London Cast

    Radio Ga Ga

    • We Will Rock You: Original London Cast Recording.
    • Parlophone.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Sun 15 May 202213:00
    BBC Radio 2