I will start it off with one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite musicals.


William Daniels as John Adams in 1776. (Is Anybody There)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fq4H4SAb6s


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I will start it off with one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite musicals.


William Daniels as John Adams in 1776. (Is Anybody There)


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I saw "1776" in a movie theater early in 1973!  :)

I saw "1776" in a movie theater early in 1973!  :)


I saw it on stage with Dean Jones in 1972 in Massachusetts. Seeing that play inspired me to study history-especially to study about John Adams.


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Opening number of Hamilton. If you haven't seen this on Disney+ I HIGHLY recommend it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_y_oa0iMo4


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My Favorite Things
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IagRZBvLtw

My Favorite Things



Good choice, but, what I want to know is...how did this song go from being a song in "The Sound of Music", a play and movie that has nothing whatsoever to do with Christmas, to being a perennial Christmas favorite? At Christmastime, you cannot turn on a radio playing Christmas music without hearing multiple and myriad versions of this song. What gives? This same thing happened with Joni Mitchell's "River", an extremely personal and melancholy (way TOO melancholy) song from her classic 1971 album "Blue". It has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas, save the opening piano bars which, I guess one could say, IRONICALLY play a few bars of "Jingle Bells" in a discordant minor key. And the first verse "It's coming on Christmas/they're cutting down trees/they're putting up reindeer/ and singing songs of joy and peace". From then on it has nothing whatsoever to do with being about Christmas as she goes on to detail the sad dissolution of a relationship. I guess that opening line and the inversion of the "Jingle Bells" melody are enough to make it a "Christmas" song in the minds of people who don't pay attention too much. These must be the same people who think Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is a "religious" song to be played at solemn occasions and funerals.

Maybe this should be in the "rants" section. But you gave me such an opening.  ;D

My Favorite Things
I'll start at the very beginning, my son hates it when I quote lyrics from this song (and the other songs) in everyday conversation

Cell Block Tango from Chicago. This version, the choreography is AMAZING!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1VVB_9nCmg


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A wonderful song from The Greatest Showman "A Million Dreams".

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BTW, the movie is on television tonight

Grovel, Grovel from Joseph & the Amazing Techocolor Dreamcoat-starring Donny Osmond.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9yd3chhfI

I was never really a Donny Osmond fan but he did an outstanding performance in this. (Not to mention he was pretty buff.) If you haven't seen this, I highly recommend it.


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El Tango De Roxanne-Moulin Rouge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn0xXo1gwGY


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Two of them today from Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan. Both from the 1983 movie.

The Pirate King (Kevin Kline)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05AHp8MgSjk


Poor Wandering One (Linda Ronstadt)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfjAJn4SC-w


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Two of them today from Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan. Both from the 1983 movie.

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Ever see "The Pirate Movie" starring Kristy McNichol and Christopher Atkins also from circa 1983?  It's loosely based on "Pirates of Penzance". I saw it in a theater back then. It's not too great.

Ever see "The Pirate Movie" starring Kristy McNichol and Christopher Atkins also from circa 1983?  It's loosely based on "Pirates of Penzance". I saw it in a theater back then. It's not too great.


Unfortunately, I did see that. It was pretty  8-P


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From Sweet Charity

Rhythm of Life-Sammy Davis Jr. (Shirley MacLaine is in there, too) 1969


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKSA049xkiU


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From Once Upon a Mattress

Shy- Carol Burnett (1964)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouL9ZMzEZ4k


Here it is with Tracey Ullman & Carol Burnette as the queen (2005)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=650qT7e12YY


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I'm not getting too much feedback in this thread. I certainly hope that people are enjoying these.


From Oliver. Reviewing the Situation-Ron Moody (1968)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAUfaRQk_rs


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I'm not getting too much feedback in this thread. I certainly hope that people are enjoying these.


From Oliver. Reviewing the Situation-Ron Moody (1968)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAUfaRQk_rs


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Great song, from a great Oscar winning movie, never seen on stage as yet, and in my hey day, I used to play a ropy version of this song on the piano.

Great song, from a great Oscar winning movie, never seen on stage as yet, and in my hey day, I used to play a ropy version of this song on the piano.


I saw this movie in the theatre when it first came out.

I saw it on stage twice-once when my brother & oldest sister were in high school and their school put it on. Not too sure if one or the other was in it-or both.

The second time was a few years ago when our granddaughter was in it. I have to say for a 6th grade production-they were OUTSTANDING!!! Unfortunately, the day we went to see it, our granddaughter was sick so we didn't get to see her on stage.


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I saw this movie in the theatre when it first came out.

I saw it on stage twice-once when my brother & oldest sister were in high school and their school put it on. Not too sure if one or the other was in it-or both.

The second time was a few years ago when our granddaughter was in it. I have to say for a 6th grade production-they were OUTSTANDING!!! Unfortunately, the day we went to see it, our granddaughter was sick so we didn't get to see her on stage.


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I have seen it many a time on television, and have the DVD, but my chance of seeing it on it's general release was ruin for I was sick and absent from school that day and missed the school trip to the cinema.

I have seen it many a time on television, and have the DVD, but my chance of seeing it on it's general release was ruin for I was sick and absent from school that day and missed the school trip to the cinema.


I had it on VHS but recently, got rid of all my VHS tapes.


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Original Broadway Cast of "Hair" (including Ben Vereen and Melba Moore)

"Three-Five-Zero-Zero", "What a Piece of Work Is Man", & "The Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In""

Live on the 1969 Tony Awards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlCilKlqrvI

Original Broadway Cast of "Hair" (including Ben Vereen and Melba Moore)

"Three-Five-Zero-Zero", "What a Piece of Work Is Man", & "The Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In""

Live on the 1969 Tony Awards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlCilKlqrvI


Diane Keaton was also in it.

The Flesh Failures is probably my favorite from the play and it ALWAYS brings tears to my eyes. We went to see the play at the local college. The place was packed and we sat next to a friend (well, he is now a former friend but that is another story) who we weren't expecting to see there. That song came on and of course I was so moved by the performance and the song that I was bawling my eyes out and he started laughing at me. I just thought that was...I'm not too sure what the word I'm looking for. At least when I start crying during a movie/play and I look over at Carlos. He is usually crying, too.  :)


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From Mame Angela Landsbury & Bea Arthur-Bosom Buddies.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilV5K8tw_6o

I had the privilege to see Angela in Mame on stage back in '72. Bea Arthur was not in the performance but Jane Connell was.

Here is Jane doing the Gooch's Song. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upQ33NY8hn4

*edited to add that the Gooch's Song was about taking Mame's advice and going out in the world-and coming back pregnant-which is why she sings "What do I do now?"


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From Evita, the Waltz for Eva and Che, sung by Madonna and Antonio Banderas.

There is always one part of this song that sends a shiver down my back.

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From Evita, the Waltz for Eva and Che, sung by Madonna and Antonio Banderas.

There is always one part of this song that sends a shiver down my back.

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Madonna did ok in the movie-not outstanding. It really was a stretch for her. (Of course she is no Patti LuPone.) But what I really hated about the movie was the fact that they change "Another Suitcase in Another Hall". It was SUPPOSED to be sung by Juan's mistress but in the movie they had Eva sing it-I'm sure just to showcase Madonna.

This is from the original cast on Broadway: Patti LuPone, Bob Gunton & Mandy Patinkin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9m4SfNHWVg


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Madonna did ok in the movie-not outstanding. It really was a stretch for her. (Of course she is no Patti LuPone.) But what I really hated about the movie was the fact that they change "Another Suitcase in Another Hall". It was SUPPOSED to be sung by Juan's mistress but in the movie they had Eva sing it-I'm sure just to showcase Madonna.

This is from the original cast on Broadway: Patti LuPone, Bob Gunton & Mandy Patinkin.

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I still yet to see Evita live on stage. I was in London when it was in it's original run, I was doing other things, and it did have a brief run in London when I was in the Philippines.

I still yet to see Evita live on stage. I was in London when it was in it's original run, I was doing other things, and it did have a brief run in London when I was in the Philippines.


I had tickets to go see it on Broadway when I was in high school (class trip). Unfortunately, my uncle passed away and that was the day of the funeral.

I did see a local production of it. The song, "I'll Be Surprising Good For You" reminds me of when Carlos & I were dating (which was also the time I saw that local production-even though I didn't see it WITH him).


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I had tickets to go see it on Broadway when I was in high school (class trip). Unfortunately, my uncle passed away and that was the day of the funeral.

I did see a local production of it. The song, "I'll Be Surprising Good For You" reminds me of when Carlos & I were dating (which was also the time I saw that local production-even though I didn't see it WITH him).


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I was thinking of this song today when I was getting my teeth clean.

From Little Shop Of Horrors

The Dentist Song-Steve Martin (1986)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoWom0CCRKM


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From Anastasia (1997) Once Upon A December-Liz Callaway


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gZrYyi-XRQ


I remember the VERY first time I heard this song. I was visiting my sister who was at work. I watched her video of the movie and when this song came on, I was just blown away-it just touch me in a way that I wasn't expecting.

Little did I know that a few years later, I would be dancing to that song in my own fairy tale when Carlos & I got married-which was 18 years ago today. Every year, we celebrate by dancing to this song once again.


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In honor of (the late  :\'( :\'( :\'() Leslie Bricusse


From Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)-Pure Imagination. I LOVE how (the late  :\'( :\'( :\'() Gene Wilder sings this songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVi3-PrQ0pY


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From Wicked-Defying Gravity. Tony winner Idina Menzel (who voiced Elsa in Frozen) & Kristin Chenoweth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKTKPW_ZJTg

Saw this play a few years ago with Mary Kate Morrissey & Ginna Claire Mason. This song was sang at the end of Act 1 and as the curtain came down for intermission I was bawling my eyes out-it was THAT powerful!


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From the 1980 film, Xanadu. Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly - Whenever your away from me. I love this scene!

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Have to do it. From Rocky Horror Picture Show-There's A Light (Over At The Frankenstein Place). Susan Sarandon, Barry Boswick, & Richard O'Brien.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T22XVzoCLA



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From Nightmare Before Christmas-This Is Halloween.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGiYxCUAhks


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Another one from the film Xanadu. "I'm alive" performed by ELO. This is my favorite part of the movie!

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I have to jump in as well...with the title song from "Phantom Of The Opera."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w9g8x4BVbE

From Annie Get Your Gun (Betty Hutton)

Doin' What Comes Naturally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og_hAsXXDIA


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Eric Carmen with "Hungry Eyes" from the movie Dirty Dancing.

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From the 1968 Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David musical Promises, Promises "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", here sung by Bobbie Gentry.

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I know the answer to the question 'What do you get when you fall in love?' and this song contains my favourite rhyme in a song,

"What do you get when you kiss a guy?
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia
After you do he'll never phone ya"

Looking forward to Steven Spielberg's remake of "West Side Story", due for release next month.

"Somewhere" conducted by the composer Leonard Bernstein, singer Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano).

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From The Music Man-Madam Librarian (Robert Preston & Shirley Jones-1962)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHAbJGItAa4


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From "Wildcat" (1961).

Lucille Ball
"Hey Look Me Over"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaYjVHEB5bs

From "Wildcat" (1961).

Lucille Ball
"Hey Look Me Over"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaYjVHEB5bs


I didn't think anyone else remembered that one. We had this album in our library. (I think my mother had the album to EVERY musical from the '50s & '60s. I was going to post one of the lesser known today but opted for the Music Man instead. I'll be posting some lesser known from time to time.)


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The Apple Tree. For those who don't know, this play had 3 plays in one: The Lady or the Tiger, Adam & Eve (based on Mark Twain's Diary of Adam & Eve) and Passionella. This is from Passionella.

Barbara Harris singing Gorgeous (1967) Her transformation is incredible. After watching this several times I THINK I know how she does it but I'm not going to spoil it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sTYt18NgDI


BTW, Alan Alda was also in this production. He was Adam & Prince Charming.


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In honor of Stephen Sondheim.  :\'( :\'(  From Company-Not Getting Married Today.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRsdEcybJL0


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Another wonderful Sondheim show.


From A Funny Happened On The Way To The Forum starring Whoopi Goldberg as Pseudolus.


Comedy Tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syF10SAWXZo


I know most of you know, as a kid, I had two dogs named Pseudolus & Hysterium which were named from two characters from the play after my mother worked on the show.


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It has been a while. Today's song will be from Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. I know Leslie Warren had a popular version in 1965 and Brandi did it in 1997 but this was the original 1957 with Julie Andrews.

A Lovely Night-also in this video with Julie is Alice Ghostley, Kaye Ballard, and Ilka Chase.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQhJCFgpzAI


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From Annie: New Deal For Christmas

I was looking for a good version of this (like from Broadway). This is a half way decent version. Don't know where it was preformed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO_3atz1guc


I saw this show on Broadway in 1981-actually around Christmas which was appropriate. I did get a pic of the tree at Rockefeller Center but it still had scuffling on it.  And even though she wasn't SUPPOSED to take the pic, before we left the theatre, the dog who placed Sandy came out on the stage and my sister took a pic.


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From Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. Hard Candy Christmas song by the wonderful Dolly Parton.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcPY3RIvtCw


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In honor of losing Sally Ann Howes.  :\'( :\'(  From Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Doll on a Music Box. (With Dick Van Dyke-and Benny Hill is the toy maker.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_l2ii_25tc


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From Scrooge (with Albert Finney) :  December the 25th.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgPlz67L-LI

And I have to play my favorite from this one: Thank You Very Much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8MWjFO9NCc


This is my favorite version of A Christmas Carol.


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From Scrooge (with Albert Finney) :  December the 25th.



And I have to play my favorite from this one: Thank You Very Much.



This is my favorite version of A Christmas Carol.


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Good choices. I have seen this version as well, and I liked it too. O0

This is the title song from the play Celebration. There isn't much in the way of videos with this one so this is from the original soundtrack.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYlNa57XRLo

This was written by the same people who wrote The Fantasticks. Unfortunately it is not preformed too much which is a shame. It is an EXCELLENT play. It is an allegory that takes place on New Year's Eve.

Spoiler Alert:

At the end, you realize that it a battle between the old year and the new-the young and the old.

I found this production of it by some secondary school. It is not the best performance but it is not bad either. If you are interested in watching it, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k6oOU3O6q0&t=2007s



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From Scrooge (with Albert Finney) :  December the 25th.



And I have to play my favorite from this one: Thank You Very Much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8MWjFO9NCc


This is my favorite version of A Christmas Carol.


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Have you notice the anachronism in this clip?

With the film set around 1835, after Scrooge repents, he wears a modern day Father Christmas suit. The famous red and white Father Christmas suit did not exist in its current form until about the 1900s.

From How To Success In Business Without Really Trying- It's Been A Long Day (Robert Morse, Michelle Lee, & Kathryn Reynolds)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLMfoIop9M

I was trying to find a clip with Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) but only found the audio.


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From Cabaret-Wilkommen (Joel Grey 1966)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kghMESXA9HU


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Elaine Stritch
"Ladies Who Lunch"
from "Company"

This performance from "Elaine Stritch At Liberty"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXLpg5vSGwc

Elaine Stritch
"Ladies Who Lunch"
from "Company"

This performance from "Elaine Stritch At Liberty"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXLpg5vSGwc



I have said this before and I'll say it again, I will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart for Company because of when I was 17 and working Summer Stock. That was one of our shows.

This song (Ladies Who Lunch) is one of the songs I usually sing when I am in the shower. lol. Not to toot my own horn but I think I can do a half way decent job of singing it. (No, it is NOT "perfect" but not bad.)


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I have said this before and I'll say it again, I will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart for Company because of when I was 17 and working Summer Stock. That was one of our shows.

This song (Ladies Who Lunch) is one of the songs I usually sing when I am in the shower. lol. Not to toot my own horn but I think I can do a half way decent job of singing it. (No, it is NOT "perfect" but not bad.)


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That entire "Elaine Stritch at Liberty" show is worth watching. It can be found in it's entirety on YouTube for free. It's also streaming for free on the Tubi channel. That woman was a force of nature!

Raquel Welch
"Aquarius"/"Let the Sunshine In" (from "Hair")

from her 1970 TV special "Raquel!" Apparently the network was skittish about Raquel's singing, so her vocal was dubbed in by Tina Cole of "My Three Sons" and the singing King Family fame. Turns out Raquel wasn't a bad singer at all, and went on to singing engagements in in Las Vegas, etc. where she got to use her own voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APVw8323XOk

Raquel Welch
"Aquarius"/"Let the Sunshine In" (from "Hair")

from her 1970 TV special "Raquel!" Apparently the network was skittish about Raquel's singing, so her vocal was dubbed in by Tina Cole of "My Three Sons" and the singing King Family fame. Turns out Raquel wasn't a bad singer at all, and went on to singing engagements in in Las Vegas, etc. where she got to use her own voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APVw8323XOk


I remember Tina Cole (both from "My Three Sons" & the King Family. She was one of the "King Cousins." Someone I know was JUST talking about her a couple of weeks ago.)


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I remember Tina Cole (both from "My Three Sons" & the King Family. She was one of the "King Cousins." Someone I know was JUST talking about her a couple of weeks ago.)


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Every once in a while a King Family album shows up when I am rooting through albums in thrift shops. There were millions of them! (The singers, that is). I always look to see if I can find Katie.

Every once in a while a King Family album shows up when I am rooting through albums in thrift shops. There were millions of them! (The singers, that is). I always look to see if I can find Katie.


When I was a kid, I remember having a dream about the King Family. (Yes, I remember this dream like I had it last night). They had a promotion where your family can be with the King Family. I guess my family won but I couldn't join them. I remember I was tending a gas station and I had a shotgun across my lap as I was watching my family dancing with the King Family on t.v. The next year, they had the same thing but most of my family didn't go, only one of my sisters and I went and we rode the train. We were actually sitting straddled on top of the train because it wasn't a full size train. That was when I woke up.

That was a dream that I had thought about most of my life never knowing what it meant. The dream came back to me when I was in the service. My sister (the same one who was in the dream) was getting married. Unfortunately, I couldn't get leave because I was taking a specialty class. I was upset because my entire family was going to be there except me. I was with a bunch of my co-workers/classmates. I can't remember where we were going but we pulled into a gas station and that dream hit me like a brick wall. (The shotgun could have represented the military-being "on duty.") Is it possible that a dream I had when I was about 6 or 7 was foreshadowing something that took place about 20 +/- years later?

Ok, one of my tangents. Sorry.


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When I was a kid, I remember having a dream about the King Family. (Yes, I remember this dream like I had it last night). They had a promotion where your family can be with the King Family. I guess my family won but I couldn't join them. I remember I was tending a gas station and I had a shotgun across my lap as I was watching my family dancing with the King Family on t.v. The next year, they had the same thing but most of my family didn't go, only one of my sisters and I went and we rode the train. We were actually sitting straddled on top of the train because it wasn't a full size train. That was when I woke up.

That was a dream that I had thought about most of my life never knowing what it meant. The dream came back to me when I was in the service. My sister (the same one who was in the dream) was getting married. Unfortunately, I couldn't get leave because I was taking a specialty class. I was upset because my entire family was going to be there except me. I was with a bunch of my co-workers/classmates. I can't remember where we were going but we pulled into a gas station and that dream hit me like a brick wall. (The shotgun could have represented the military-being "on duty.") Is it possible that a dream I had when I was about 6 or 7 was foreshadowing something that took place about 20 +/- years later?

Ok, one of my tangents. Sorry.


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That's a wild story!  :o

From Lost Horizon -Reflection (music by Burt Bacharach lyrics by Hal David) Sung by by Sally Kellerman in the 1973 movie. (Yes, that is George Kennedy in the video.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46stUnjT71c


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Watched this for the first time on Saturday. The second time yesterday. Will probably watch it a third time sometime soon.  :D ;D ;D

From Encanto-We Don't Talk About Bruno.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvWRMAU6V-c


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In honor of the anniversary of the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.

From Bye Bye Birdie (1963) Hymn For A Sunday Evening (Paul Lynde, Mary LaRoche, Ann-Margret, Bryan Russell)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRLe6MfGsDo

I saw this done where they updated it. Rather than Ed Sullivan, they were singing Dave Letterman. lol.


I was in this play in junior high. I played a teeny bopper. I almost lost my voice because I did a lot of screaming. lol.


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This was from the first Broadway show I ever saw: A Chorus Line-The Music & the Mirror (Donna McKechnie)

(Sorry quality of the video is not too good but Donna McKechnie is OUTSTANDING! I didn't see her on Broadway. She already left the show by the time I saw it.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI7CgQOIlgo

FYI: This part was written for Donna. She was in the original cast of Company and she also spent some time on Dark Shadows.

As a teen, I SOOOO wanted to do this dance. I would put on the soundtrack and did my own choreography to it. My voice was never as strong for this but that didn't stop me from belting out the lyrics.  ;D ;D  Between dancing up a storm and belting it out, I became very winded. Yeah, I couldn't do it. If I just sang the song or just did the dance, I may have been able to pull it off-but both? Nope!


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From Finian's Rainbow-Look To The Rainbow (Petula Clark)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxqRDFOFcZ4


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Just curious. Is anyone checking these out or am I only doing this thread for my own enjoyment?



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From Spring Awakening: Those You've Known (Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, & John Gallagher)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTmleNK9fTQ


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Just curious. Is anyone checking these out or am I only doing this thread for my own enjoyment?



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I would be replying here
On this board regalia
For my endeavours to purchase speakers
Has been a substantial failure

I would be replying here
On this board regalia
For my endeavours to purchase speakers
Has been a substantial failure



At least you have ventured into this thread. I was wondering.


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Just curious. Is anyone checking these out or am I only doing this thread for my own enjoyment?



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I check it out and have posted a few things, but showtunes are not really this rock and roller's cup of tea.

"Hair", of course, is an exception.  ;)

I check it out and have posted a few things, but showtunes are not really this rock and roller's cup of tea.

"Hair", of course, is an exception.  ;)

I occasionally check out this thread as well...and so far I have made one contribution. Guess I don't think of show tunes as often as I'd like to. And there are a number of them that I do like. :)

From Fiddler on the Roof- Anatevka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu_QQLM4biQ



I thought this is appropriate as to what is going on in Ukraine. History repeats itself-only this time is Czar Vladimir who is driving them out instead of Czar Nicholas. And yes, Anatevka was supposed to be in Ukraine. There is a town called that about 20 miles outside of Kyiv but the town was named AFTER Fiddler.


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Unfortunately there isn't a video to this clip. (You are just going to have to use your imagination.)

From Fade Out Fade In. Carol Burnett & Tiger Haynes as Shirley Temple & Bill Bojangles Robinson doing "You Mustn't Be Discourage". And yes, you can laugh. You are SUPPOSED to laugh at this one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oJs-a8Z1MA

Other notables in this show were Tina Louise (of Gilligan's Island fame) & Jack Cassidy (David & Sean's father & Shirley Jones' ex).

I really like this song (and I sing it a lot-usually in the shower lol).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t3wHeIUjyI

(That's Jack Cassidy singing with Carol.)


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From (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's) Jesus Christ Superstar-Gethsemane (Ted Neeley-1973)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM6utSAHdss



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From (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's) Jesus Christ Superstar-Gethsemane (Ted Neeley-1973)

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Appropriate for the season. I'm still wondering though, if JCS is technically a musical. I know I'm hardcore, but when the original album came out in 1970 it was called a "rock opera" (remember, this was a year after the huge success of "Tommy") and there was no show to go along with it.  It was strictly an aural phenomenon. And the first few live performance of it (to capitalize on the success of the album) were staged as rock concerts. If I recall, one of them was at  Madison Square Garden. The performers wore modern clothes and sang into microphones like any concert. There was very little, if anything, in the way of staging or scenery. Then, of course, came the movie...
---I guess with all the theatrical versions that have since ensued, it has BECOME a musical.  :D

Appropriate for the season. I'm still wondering though, if JCS is technically a musical. I know I'm hardcore, but when the original album came out in 1970 it was called a "rock opera" (remember, this was a year after the huge success of "Tommy") and there was no show to go along with it.  It was strictly an aural phenomenon. And the first few live performance of it (to capitalize on the success of the album) were staged as rock concerts. If I recall, one of them was at  Madison Square Garden. The performers wore modern clothes and sang into microphones like any concert. There was very little, if anything, in the way of staging or scenery. Then, of course, came the movie...
---I guess with all the theatrical versions that have since ensued, it has BECOME a musical.  :D



Appropriate for the season? Hmmm. What a coincidence.  ;) :D ;D ;D  Naaahh! I did it purposely.  ;D ;D ;D


There is a fine line between rock opera and musical. Technically, there are shows that COULD be concerned opera (rock or not) but is under the "musical" label-Les Miz, Hamilton, Miss Saigon and almost all of Webber/Rice (including JCS) could be considered opera since they are sung all the way through.



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From Camelot The Lusty Month of May-Julie Andrews


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pljyjiIMH9o


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Yeah, I have to do this one today.

From Carousel: June Is Busting Out All Over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khL3AVmPj24

Every time I hear this song, I think of a girl named June hitting puberty.  :D ;D ;D


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Broadway Legend Elaine Stritch in what turned out to be her last Broadway role. As Mme. Armfeldt in "A Little Night Music".

Elaine Stritch
"Liaisons"
(partial)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amqdk8ta-3g

Broadway Legend Elaine Stritch in what turned out to be her last Broadway role. As Mme. Armfeldt in "A Little Night Music".

Elaine Stritch
"Liaisons"
(partial)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amqdk8ta-3g



I LOVE A Little Night Music but this song is actually my least favorite from the play. In fact, I usually skip over it when I listen to the CD.


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"Heat Wave" the popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1933 musical As Thousands Cheer.

Here sung by Miss Piggy from The Muppets Go to the Movies (1981).

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... also featuring penguins!

"Heat Wave" the popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1933 musical As Thousands Cheer.

Here sung by Miss Piggy from The Muppets Go to the Movies (1981).

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... also featuring penguins!



I have yet to find the complete recording of this song (and I even have the CD from the show and it is NOT on it)

From Menopause: The Musical-I'm Having A Hot Flash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1WgFIQXwF8


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I have yet to find the complete recording of this song (and I even have the CD from the show and it is NOT on it)

From Menopause: The Musical-I'm Having A Hot Flash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1WgFIQXwF8


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Does Marilyn Monroe singing this song in "There's No Business Like Show Business" count for you, she does sing it in a 'sexier' variant.

Does Marilyn Monroe singing this song in "There's No Business Like Show Business" count for you, she does sing it in a 'sexier' variant.


I would say it counts-it was part of the movie right? Not just the soundtrack? (I don't recall ever seeing that movie.) Yeah, this song has been sung in so many movies. But the one I posted was a parody and NOT the same song-just the same tune.


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Haven't done one of these in a while. This is from Half a Sixpence (1967). Tommy Steele & Julia Foster.


I Don't Believe A Word Of It.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV8GC0r207w

FYI: Half A Sixpence was based on a novel called Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul written by H.G.Wells.



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In honor of Olivia Newton John.

From Grease-Hopelessly Devoted to You. (1978)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU_pcU6AFPQ

This song wasn't in the original play.

I went to see this movie at the drive-in with my then (older) boyfriend and my sister in the backseat as a chaperone. When we went in, they didn't see Sis in the backseat so she got in for free. I said to her that I will try not to sing if she tries not to sing. Probably the wrong thing to say because during this song, she starts singing at the top of her lungs, "BUT NOW I'M OUT OF MY HEAD..." I kept telling her to shut up but that didn't help. I'm sure the people in the next car was wondering what was going on. And yeah, my boyfriend thought my sister was a bit...um...weird.


It was a double feature. American Hot Wax was the other movie (that sucked). During intermission, Sis went to the snack bar and my boyfriend gave me my FIRST kiss-not just the first kiss from him but my first kiss-EVER!


When it first came out, yeah, I loved it like everyone else. Loved the music but as an adult, I really hate the message it tells. A woman has to change and be "slutty" to get the guy she wants instead of being herself.


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Yeah, it has been awhile.

This first piece is really a poem from The Fantasticks recited by Jerry Orbach (from 1960). I have yet to hear anyone recite this better than he did. The song follows the poem but I couldn't find the two on a single video so it is broken up-which is a shame. The poem just sets the mood for the song. Even if you don't listen to the song, PLEASE listen to the poem. It is SOOOO beautiful.

You Wonder How These Things Begin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nSaxXh6J_o

Soon It's Gonna Rain (Rita Gardner, Kenneth Nelson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJfxWtsYrKQ



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The opening number of the play Ragtime. This is from the 1998 Tony Awards.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17wP55Dqlbg


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From Dear World -the late Great Angela Lansbury  :\'( :\'( :\'(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQMRhBNr2g



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In honor of Charles M. "Sparky" Schultz's 100th birthday.

From You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown-Happiness. This was the original 1967 soundtrack starring Bob Balaban, Bill Hinnant, Skip Hinnant, Reva Rose, Karen Johnson & Gary Burghoff as Charlie Brown (Radar from M*A*S*H).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu6ljRUdZiE

I confess, this song always brings a tear to my eye.


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