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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:43 AM
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What are you top three songs from musicals.
Edited on Tue Feb-17-09 01:00 AM by ccharles000
1-Take me or leave me from Rent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlNzpl3vz5Y

2-What is this feeling from Wicked

3-Funny honey from Chicago
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:49 AM
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1. My dear ccharles000!
My top three songs from musicals...hmmm...

1. Maria from West Side Story

2. A duet from West Side Story, by two women, and I don't know the name of it...When love comes so strong, there is no right or wrong, blended with "a boy like that, he'll kill your brother...Stick to your own kind"

3. Several songs from Brigadoon...

I'm stuck in the past!

:P
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:19 AM
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6. Me too.
I love songs from the 50s and 60s musicals like My Fair Lady, South Pacific, West Side Story, The King and I (Hello Young Lovers, I could Have Danced All Night, Tonight, Maria, etc)

You're thinking of A Boy Like That/I Have A Love
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:25 AM
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7. Oh, that's the name of it! Thank you...
It gives me chills every time I hear it.

:hi:
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:40 AM
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12. It's a great duet. That movie has such great dancing and music.
It was on a few weeks ago adn I watched it for about the 50th time. :) Hi back!!!!
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 02:15 AM
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15. FYI: The original Broadway soundtrack is MUCH better than the movie version.
Natalie Wood had her voice dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed Deborah Kerr in The King and I, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.

The original soundtrack with Carol Lawrence is much better. Musical direction by famous conductor Max Goberman, whose nephew is a guy I went to law school with.

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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 02:24 AM
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16. Hmmm, I never heard it.
I have the movie soundtrack. Thank you.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:26 AM
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9. Try this,
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:54 AM
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14. Beginning of Brigadoon;
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:57 AM
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2. This is a tough one since I LOVE show tunes but off the top of
my head:

Herod's Song from JCSS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb_9uH-ELJE

Heaven on Their Minds (also from JCSS) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytNoiQ8LkS8

Dance Ten, Looks Three from A Chorus Line: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-yjj6_LBCs
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:03 AM
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3. "The Girl With The Vagina Made of Glass" (The American Astronaut)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLhQcwx3Vb0

Umm, that's the only none I can think of. I don't really care for musicals usually.
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soleiri Donating Member (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:04 AM
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4. Goodness
I couldn’t possibly pick.
Right now, I’m on a Chess Kick, so “Pity the Child.”
I love Wicked, “What is this feeling?” always makes me laugh. really anything from Wicked. I wrote my senior paper on Wicked and community.
FInally, I can’t decide between “A little fall of rain” and “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” from Les Miserables.
Then there’s a thousand other songs from musicals that I love.
It’s my favorite musical genre. I can’t decide.
This list WILL change tomorrow.
There’s a fine fine line from Avenue Q!
The I love you song from Spelling bee!
Everything Sondheim (especially Into the woods!)!!!!!!

argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:13 AM
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5. Well its not as relevant now as then, but it has a good message.
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stewartcolbert08 Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:25 AM
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8. Hmm just three.......
How about..

Pirelli's Miracle Elixir-Sweeny Todd

Cell Block Tango/He had it coming-Chicago

Summer Nights-Grease
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:28 AM
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10. I couldn't pick just three, so here's more than three, sorry!
1. "Another Hundred People" from Company. I LOVE this song. It's fundamentally depressing when you think about it, but it sounds so...uplifting. I love songs like that.

2. "Johanna" from Sweeney Todd. The Act 2 version. A sweet, mournful song that is set to the sound of throats being slashed. Creepily beautiful.

3. "Solomon Song" from Threepenny Opera. Brief, spare, mournful...heh, my tastes are obvious, yes?

4. "Something Just Broke" from Assassins. Assassins is majorly underrated. It's a really stark and interesting look at America from a perspective you wouldn't expect. This song comes towards the end, and humanizes the overall theme. Guess what? It's mournful. :P

5. "Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George. This one is actually beautiful and uplifting. It ends as the play ends...a blank canvas with infinite possibilities.

As you may be able to tell...I love Sondheim. :D
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:33 AM
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11. My absolute fave is Feed the Birds
Edited on Tue Feb-17-09 01:41 AM by Inchworm
1. Feed the Birds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VwU_oS2ErQ

2. I feel pretty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7BQRGXFLJs

3. Tommorow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnjkb4q6FKU

I love many. These 3 came fastest.

:P

EDIT: adding stuffs
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:44 AM
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13. they call the wind maria from 'paint your wagon'
Edited on Tue Feb-17-09 01:49 AM by dysfunctional press
cell block tango from chicago...
and i'll have to think about a third. maybe something from the fantasticks hernando's hideaway from the pajama game.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 02:25 AM
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17. I'll wander all over the musical map here.
Since operas are musicals. They may be in English or not.

Don Giovanni. The best opera ever written. Too much good stuff to pick out one.

The Marriage of Figaro. Right behind Don Giovanni.

La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot (that's pronounced with a hard "T" at the end). :D
Those are all by Giacomo Puccini. He was the Hit Parade guy of his day, from 1890 to 1924.


Anything by Mozart or Puccini is good stuff. They can keep Wagner and Strauss. Too heavy.


The Elixir of Love by Donizetti. A delightful comic opera.

Lost in the Stars from Lost in the Stars, by Kurt Weill. Great stuff.

A CD called "The Unknown Kurt Weill" sung by Teresa Stratas. A bunch of obscure stuff she dug up and performed in recital. Was put on a CD. Absolutely stunning.

=============

Rock musical: Preservation Act II by The Kinks. Not to be confused with Village Green Preservation Society.

How can you not like "Shepherds of the Nation" by Ray and Dave Davies???

(Anemic horns like a Salvation Army Band.)

Down with sex and sin
Down with vice
Heroin
Down with pornography
Down with lust
Lechery
And debauchery!

Put all the pervs in jail
Bring back the birch and the cat o'nine tails
We're here to cleanse humanity
From the man in the raincoat's
Palefaced glare
Let Sodomites beware!

We are the New Centurions
Shepherds of the Nation
We'll be on our guard
From sin and degradation
We are the National Guard
Against filth and depravity
Perversion and vulgarity
Homosexuality
Keep it clean
Keep it clean
Keep it clean

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And people thought Tommy was so much better than this???? :wtf:



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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 02:50 AM
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18. "Uncle Fucka" from South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut.
"Finland/Fisch Schlapping Dance" from Spamalot

"Yankee Doodle Dandy" from Yankee Doodle Dandy
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:11 PM
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25. South park is so funny
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 02:54 AM
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19. hoo boy
"Someone To Watch Over Me" by George and Ira Gershwin from the musical "Oh Kay"

"Crazy World" from Blake Edwards' "Victor Victoria"

"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" by Cole Porter from "Seven Lively Hearts"


AND...

Anything from Gilbert & Sullivan

AND....

Anything by the Gershwins, by Lorenz Hart, by Cole Porter

AND............
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 02:56 AM
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20. I can only think of two and what opposites they are!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 03:14 AM
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21. Somewhere from West Side Story
Ol' Man River from Showboat

I Got Rhythm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPyszM6MbY&feature=related
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 03:25 AM
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22. must see this
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murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 03:38 AM
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23. I don't know.
My favorite musicals are Evita, Hair and West Side Story. It's too hard to pick one song from each.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 03:49 AM
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24. South Pacific
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:18 PM
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26. Not too much into musicals...too much singing and dancing, but...
Favorite would probably be "I'm Free" from Tommy (The Who)

"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from Evita (Whatsherface)

"Sparks" from Tommy (The Who)
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