Broadway songs you like

"Sit down you're rocking the boat."

It's good advice to live by.

The Riddle. All about trust and why you should not.

My favorite is "How Much is that Used Textbook in the Window?" followed by "He's a Hard Knock Thai."

I've seen four different Broadway shows where they sang a number called "Slap That Bass", so by now....I like it.

I always thought High Flying, Adored from Evita turned phrases well and told a real story.

Not a Day Goes By - from Merrily We Roll Along

Because not a day goes by.

I just can't get enough of that Annie song!

"Her face" from Carnival because it was my first high school musical and the guy who sang it was so good ... He gave me the feels.

Memory from CATS sung by La Buckley or La Beechman. Haunting and best bridge ever.

"My Name is Chita and not Rita". It's about life.

I have this CD by the NYC Gay Men's Chorus that's mostly show tunes. My favorite is "Imagining You," from "Birds of Paradise." There are no videos on youtube from the album, I guess because it's from 1992. Also notable: "No One Is Alone," "Not a Day Goes By," and "Another Hundred People." I just love this album.

Okay, I love a lot of Broadway songs , but there's one that stands out and that I listen to over and over because it's just so THEATAH! - Tunnel of Love from the ORIGINAL production of Side Show (the actual title is "The Texas Centennial: Tunnel of Love"). Siamese twins Daisy and Violet enter a carnival ride with two men. Violet is with her fiance, Buddy. Daisy is with their manager, Terry. Buddy feels no passion for Violet because of the ever present sister, but Daisy and manager Terry are heating the place up. Violet can feel the passion on her sister's side while she feels nothing in her own body. It all culminates with the most thrilling 'dueling voices' moment between the sisters:

Violet: I want what she's got. What I'm feeling she's got. Everything he's not yet feeling with me. Daisy (to Terry): I am yours, you are mine. It's a sin....it's divine. Violet: I want mine Daisy: So divine.... Violet: Where is mine!

It's thrilling and beautiful and it makes me go all over with the gooseflesh (MARY!)

That moment starts at 4:34 in the clip. But the whole song is divoon and worth a listen because it's one of those Broadway songs that is integral to the plot while providing character development as well.

Sweet transvestite

'On Broadway' because George Benson has the tastiest corns in the bidnizz

All the queens love Hello Dolly

Beautiful Girls

R12, yo---that was AWFUL!

I've always liked "Being Alive" even though I always get a little choked up when I hear it.

Being Alive:

I like for good from wicked... It describes a lot of my friendships .. I like the title song to Phantom, mainly because seeing it live , the staging is cool I find myself quoting from a lot of the songs from Les miserables

I dislike the show and all the other songs, but " you will never walk alone " from Carrousel is very beautiful and haunting

"Make Our Garden Grow" from "Candide"

"For Good" from "Wicked"

"Will I Lose My Dignity" from "Rent"

I also like Memory from cats. My mom used to play that on the piano all the time when I was growing up...with the "girl named maria" song too. I guess all those show tunes turned me gay.

From Oklahoma: "Out of My Dreams"/"Dream Ballet" – Laurey & Dream Figures

From Hello, Dolly: "It Only Takes a Moment" but Hugh Panaro's version.

From The Music Man: "Til There Was You" performed by Barbara Cook and Robert Preston

From Camelot: "If Ever I Would Leave You" performed by Bob Goulet

I'm on a Mack and Mabel kick right now, so how about:

"Time Heals Everything" -- Bernadette "Tap Your Troubles Away" -- Lisa Kirk (I've been humming this all morning since reading the thread on the vapours)

Y'all need to get out more. These are pretty low-brow selections!

And R24, you are an especially withering case.

Judi Dench's version of Send in the Clowns, recorded in London.

That was lovely, R28.

R28 gets a gold star .

I Dreamed A Dream.

I start crying before the words...

"Beautiful" from Sunday in the Park with George.

Simple, elegant and lovely.

Of course "How Can Love Survive?' from "The Sound of Music." The greatest omission in history was keeping out of the movie.

"Not While I'm Around" & "Pretty Women" - Sweeney Todd

"All I Ask of You" - Phantom of the Opera

"As If We Never Said Goodbye" - Sunset Boulevard

And "Being Alive" makes me cry, too!

OMG R11......I'm singing on that NYC Gay Men's Chorus CD you speak of! And I agree......"Imagining You" is a beautiful song.

"Some Other Time" - On The Town

"Losing My Mind" from "Follies."

Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered

I Am What I Am

And if you have to ask why you weren't there.

Shall We Dance? -- The King and I It's Not Where You Start -- Seesaw (because I can still see that great production number in my head) Broadway, All I Need Is The Girl, You Gotta Get a Gimmick -- Gypsy A Little Priest -- Sweeney Todd Pretty much all of A Little Night Music

Losing My Mind.

Not only are the lyrics biographical, the chords and orchestrations are gorgeous.

Till There Was You -- The Music Man

One of my favorite of all Broadway love songs--it's also one of Paul McCartney's favorite songs. Rapturous and lovely, and it exactly expresses what the main characters would be feeling.

Waltz for Eva and Che -- Evita

One of the first times I realized a song from a musical could both be beautiful and also be about intelligent political ideas

I don't know why but I get choked up every time I hear this.

Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind - Spring Awakening

Finale B - Rent

"I, Don Quixote" ("Man of la Mancha")---I love the lyrics and the dynamic ending!

"Bali Hai" ("South Pacific")---Both lyrics and melody evoke the ebb and flow of the ocean in paradise.

"America" ("West Side Story")---I just love to sing it! Smoke on your pipe and put THAT in!

In Buddy's Eyes - heartbreaking

"Hey There Good Times" from I Love My Wife- - a fun, happy little song;

"The Best Of Times" - love the build to everyone in the house singing along

"A Phone Call From The Vatican" - because Anita Morris

"Meadowlark" - one of the most perfect songs ever written

For multiple reasons:

"Losing My Mind"

"Could I Leave You?"

"Rose's Turn"

"Some People"

"We Do Not Belong Together"

"Another Hundred People"

"The Ladies Who Lunch"

"A Call From the Vatican"

"Growing Tall"

"My Husband Makes Movies"

"Lowdown-Down"

"Maybe This Time"

"Cabaret"

"You Must Meet My Wife"

"Send in the Clowns"

"Every Day A Little Death"

"Stay With Me"

"On the Steps of the Palace"

"Moments in the Woods"

"Steam Heat" from The Pajama Game

"Where or When" from Babes in Arms (my all-time favorite, along with "These Foolish Things")

R35, Love Lives On is my cryingest album. My best friend died right before it came out, and, well, you know.

Do you know how to put some videos from it on youtube?

'River in the Rain' and 'Muddy Water' from BIG RIVER

Some pop singer should record corner of the sky from Pippin That would be a great song to get out there commercially.

From "Chess".

Recent songs I fell in love with the moment I heard them:

"Go Back Home" from The Scottsboro Boys

Almost the entire score from A Christmas Story: The Musical

"Higher" from Allegiance

"If Only You Would Listen" from School of Rock

"Try to Remember" from "The Fantasticks." It's such a cornball song with silly mellow-yellow-callow fellow lyrics, but it manages to evoke such misty-eyed nostalgia in me that it has surprising resonance.

R55, "Try To Remember" was performed at a tribute concert soon after 9/11; the lyrics took on a poignant new meaning afterwards:

"Try to remember the kind of September/ When no one wept except the willow.."

"No Time at All" from Pippin made me realize that nobody was going to make my life happen for me; I had to find my own happiness.

My favorite song from Fantasticks

R52 You mean like the Jackson Five?

Rainbow High. Patti's version. I love the lyrics, the unusual melody and of course Patti's glorious belt.

I also love Betty Buckley's rendition of As If We Never Said Goodbye. It's one of the most perfect songs for the perfect moment from a show.

"Fie on Goodness" from Camelot:

"To love another person is to see the face of god."

There is more schmaltz in this thread than a Liberace impersonator festival.

Anyone Can Whistle from...Anyone Can Whistle

Did you read the title of the thread, R63?

Hint: "Broadway songs you like"

R65. If only people don't pick the obvious schmaltzy and popular ones eg Andrew Lloyd Webber

"Nobody Else But Me" from the 1940s revival of Show Boat

"My Ship" from Lady in the Dark

"Anywhere I Hang My Hat is Home" from St. Louis Woman

"Comes Once in a Lifetime" from Subways are for Sleeping

Most of Rodgers and Hart, but in particular "It Never Entered My Mind," from (I just found out) "Higher and Higher" (1940). Such a sad, schmaltzy and beautiful song.

Here's Frankie's version:

I like R44's songs. My favorite is Left Behind from Spring Awakening. I've seen the play about 10 times and always cry when it is sung.

MARY!

For R25...

Millennial here... I recently discovered this awesome musical about cute Mormons...

[quote]if only people don't pick the obvious schmaltzy and popular ones eg Andrew Lloyd Webber

Then what? Does it really bother you that I like the song "Love Changes Everything" from "Aspects of Love"?

R73 That song been done to death my dear

R73 and R74 I prefer Anything But Lonely by Sarah Brightman from AOL. Dull score and story, but ABL is great. Must be a difficult song to sing. Ann Crumb fails to perform it on cast recording.

I like Seeing is Believing and this one below

La LuPone singing Rainbow High.

Some very nice selections here ....

[quote]Almost the entire score from A Christmas Story: The Musical

[quote]"Higher" from Allegiance

Not to sound rude, but you have terrible taste.

The Queen of Soul

[quote]Of course "How Can Love Survive?' from "The Sound of Music." The greatest omission in history was keeping out of the movie.

Then go watch that terrible Carrie Underwood thing that actually has it.

Wow, R80, Aretha's soulful "I Dreamed a Dream" is beyond incredible. I wish we could see her singing it.

And here we are...

Aretha? Please.

It's Today from Mame. Not sure why, I just do.

r 75 ANYTHING BUT LONELY with that amazing belt ending was only added when Sarah Brightman went into the show. It's not that Ann Crumb couldn't sing it. It didn't exist yet. ALW added it. And I was lucky enough to see a swing play the role that day. What a voice. Anne Marie Runolfsson!!!

[quote]Aretha? Please.

Yes, Aretha, because she reinterprets that song and makes it her own.

It doesn't want to be Aretha's "own," R87.

I never liked the song until she sang it, R88. Respectfully reminding you of your words....

[quote]Did you read the title of the thread, R63? Hint: "Broadway songs you like"

Let's not make this thread about who's right or wrong.

Don't use my words to segue into "who's right or wrong," R89. It was you, not I, who brought the most unBroadwaylike Aretha Franklin into this conversation.

Some people can't read.

Actually, it was someone else who first posted Aretha's version. I merely commended them. Thanks, R80.

Someone posted the Jackson 5 earlier without repercussions.

Gotta Have a Gimmick from Gypsy

The Jackson 5 aren't annoying.

RnB is part of Broadway too. Look at the Wiz and Dreamgirls

"No More"

My favourite is Once Upon A Time from a show called All American. Bobby Darin, Vic Damone, Mabel Mercer and Tony Bennett have all recorded good versions. It's terribly sentimental and I am not as old as the song.

Here is Betty Buckley singing Memory on the Tonight Show. It does have a beautiful bridge and I am a sucker for a singer who can handle the darker tones AND hit that E5 so well in this song. It really is a mezzo soprano's song and Buckley (inconsistently) sang it best.

For you, r98. Betty Buckley sang Norma better than anyone else in Sunset Boulevard. Wait til the bridge in "As If We Never Said Goodbye" when she sings the word "home" for what seems like a glorious eternity. I know, Mary!

For the record, I love ALW and Sondheim equally.

[italic]Les Miserables[/italic] is not R&B.

Ariadne from The Frogs is a hidden Sondheim gem that chokes me up every time.

Thanks R99. I may be too young for CATS but I did see Betty Buckley in Sunset Blvd. The whole damn triumph of that show really should have been hers. A stunning voice and spellbinding performance, better than the show deserved, ha. I was in the orchestra for the run of the Toronto/Vancouver production with Diahann Carroll. I am a musician, you see. Thanks for share. Back at you.

I like the one that goes "Bum-bum da-da, ba-dum dum da-da."

Thank you R102. Magnificent. First time I've heard it. I keep picturing her, though, as the gym teacher in Carrie with menstrural blood on her white gym shorts.

Fuck all of you Aretha lovers. I won a goddamn OSCAR for singing that piece of shit. And I suffered for it, too!

My fave too, r105.

From Sweeney Todd, jazz take

"Springtime For Hitler."

"Rain" ~ Once on This Island "Lily's Eyes" ~ Secret Garden "Not a Day Goes By" ~ Merrily We Roll Along "Not While I'm Around" ~ Sweeney Todd Most of the songs from the London version of Chess

When I was young, I fell in love with the song 'She Touched Me' from Drat! The Cat! I seem to remember it was used as the background music for a Chanel commercial back in the 70's, or maybe it was for a feminine hygiene product. The gender was changed depending on the singer.

Since 'The Wiz' is coming up soon on TV, who can honestly say they don't love HOME?

From Sondheim's Passion

Tell Me It's Not True

"The Small House of Uncle Thomas." Puhraise to Buddha!

Just an excuse to post this video, but Mack the Knife from The Three Penny Opera is actually a great song, done to death.

r113 Stephanie Lawrence was wonderful! Favorite musical theatre voice after La Buckley.

I got to see Stephanie Lawrence in Blood Brothers sometime in the 90s; "Easy Terms" always gets me sobbing like a little girl.

r117 Her performance in Blood Brothers was one of the best I ever witnessed. She had a tragic end but was a wonderful performer

R77 Wow, that voice. Unparalleled. No wonder she thought the Madonna version was a piece of shit.

"To Keep My Love Alive."

Do You Hear the People Sing?

"Defatto Rides Again," from [italic]If the OP is from 2015, it's Defatto Defucking Datalounge in the Ass Again[/italic].

R122 for the thousandth time, I’m a total bottom. I’m not fucking anything or anybody in the ass.

The Life of the Party, from The Wild Party, by idina Mendel. It gives me goosebumps.

Not a Day Goes By

Sung by Bernadette Peters

Because it's melancholy and imbued with heartbreak.

Anyone Can Whistle from Anyone Can Whistle, because that's how I felt in high school.

The reprise of "I Don't Know How To Love Him" sung by Judas Iscariot (Murray Head) in the concept album version (my favorite of that musical) Jesus Christ Superstar, it's heartbreaking in the context of the story whether you believe in it or not (personally, I don't).

She Used To Be Mine from Waitress, a true eleven o clock number which doesn't happen much in today's musicals. It Only Takes A Taste from Waitress

Stick It To The Man from School of Rock because I love the rebellious spirit of it and don't we all love sticking it to the man?

Small World from Gypsy

Not My Father's Son From Kinky Boots

"She Works Hard for the Money" from Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.

Even though "Unusual Way" got all the raves, I have always found "My Husband Makes Movies" the most beautiful and moving song in the score.

And now, for something completely different.

Doesn't get much better than this one.

"The Journey Home" | "Bombay Dreams" because it's fucking gorgeous.

"Miss Marmelstein"