Not necessarily for the obvious reason(s) but for one that may surprise her longtime and vociferous followers. And does she! She’s going to last long there. Oh, no? Etheridge gives the impression she includes the hot number because, a fan of Broadway musicals since childhood, she’s ready to disprove the tune’s sentiment. It contains the lyric, “They say that I won’t last too long on Broadway.” It’s “On Broadway,” which was top 40 charted by the Drifters and written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber. Towards the first-act end of Melissa Etheridge: My Window, the woman whom Island Records founder Chris Blackwell called the “new face of rock ‘n’ roll” in 1988 reprises one of only two songs she didn’t write.
Melissa Etheridge in Melissa Etheridge: My Window.
