Showtune Sunday: The music of “Here’s Lucy”

Yes, you read correctly – the music of Here’s Lucy.

I had not realized how much music Lucille Ball’s third hit sitcom (1968-74) had until reading a recent interview with her daughter, Lucie Arnaz, in Playbill.

Lucie, currently on Broadway in Pippin, starred with her mother (and for awhile her brother Desi Arnaz Jr. too) in the sitcom before going on to a great career on Broadway (They’re Playing Our Song, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and movies (The Jazz Singer, Billy Jack Goes to Washington) and television (The Lucie Arnaz Show, Sons and Daughters).

Of herHere’s Lucy years, Lucie says: ‘I love watching it. I love watching it. It was so long ago, and I was so young; some of those things, I barely remember doing. … I’m very proud, again, of the fact that we did so many musicals. We did six seasons, and every season we did something like five to seven full-fledged musicals as part of the show. That just didn’t happen in those days. We were way ahead of the curb. We were the Glee of our time. [Laughs.] I think it’s great. You kind of laugh at the wardrobe because it was the seventies. It was a great time in my life, great training.”

Here are some of the musical numbers that I was able to find on YouTube: