Come on babe, why don't we paint the town?

Gosh. The effervescent child prodigy, Opportunity Knocks-winner and teen sensation of British telly in the 1970s and 80s - whose life was tragically cut short, like Karen Carpenter's, by anorexia - Miss Lena Zavaroni would have been 60 years old today!

Here she is, being somewhat upstaged by our Patron Saint of Vodka Stingers, Miss Elaine Stritch - and that pocket-sized gayer and star ballerina Wayne Sleep. What a combo!

Lena Zavaroni, Elaine Stritch, Wayne Sleep and George Chisolm - All That Jazz

How camp was that?!

Lena Zavaroni (4th November 1963 – 1st October 1999)

Oh, she's gonna shimmy till her garters break

There has been a slew of birthdays of interest lately - yesterday we tipped our hats to Carol Channing who has reached the grand young age of 95 (and whose special day was shared with Franz Schubert, Tallulah Bankhead, Anna Pavlova, Jean Simmons and Derek Jarman).

Today's birthdays include such odd bed-fellows as Dame Clara Butt, Clark Gable, Renata Tebaldi, Peter Sallis (Wallace & Gromit), Hildegarde and Lisa-Marie Presley.

But, regardless, it is to tomorrow's birthday girl we turn for for our wake-up call on this Tacky Music Monday - to get us on our way to the delights of work is our much-missed Patron Saint of bellowing Miss Elaine Stritch!

Here, she steals the limelight (of course) on the Lena Zavaroni Show, even in the company of the effervescent hostess, ballerina Wayne Sleep and the uber-talented George Chisolm - it's All that Jazz!

Lena Zavaroni, Elaine Stritch and Wayne Sleep - All That Jazz

Oh, how we miss Miss Stritch (2nd February 1925 – 17th July 2014)

More Stritchy

Duet of the day

It's Miss Lena Zavaroni and Miss Bonnie Langford!

Lena Zavaroni and Bonnie Langford - The Brightest Star

Enjoy..?