After being admonished by DR Ron for my regid scheduing, I'm pleased to report my evening of viewing did NOT go exactly as planned.
It started as I expected, watching the entirety of GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES. Not a very successful musical even though I have to say the print that TCM showed was pretty much pristine with sharp focus and gorgeous, deeply saturated Technicolor. It's early Cinemascope, so the aspect ratio looked like the 2.55:1 that the earliest films in that process had.
There was one fun number, "Daddy" that Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain (vocal by Anita Ellis) did a kind of striptease to using feathers and some purple curtained mini-screens. The other new songs were totally forgettable, and the score also made use of some standards like "My Funny Valentine," "Ain't Misbehavin'," and "I Wanna Be Loved by You."
It was unusual seeing Scott Brady in a musical (vocal dubbing by Robert Farnon) instead of playing the Dancin' Kid in JOHNNY GUITAR, and Alan Young isn't the best singer in the world either.