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If you have a YouTube link, please remember to put the name of the song as Muriel is too cheap to fix the bug that prevents a YouTube preview pic from being displayed.
I’ll start with “Since You Stayed Here” from Brownstone. Bette Midler beautifully covered this in a mashup with “He Was Too Good To Me” on one of her albums. I’m linking to Liz Callaway’s version below.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 8, 2024 3:09 AM |
Here is Shirley Booth singing "He Had Refinement" from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", which was a great book, but a crummy Broadway play. (They focused on the parents and practically left the main character from the book, Francie, out.)
Elaine Stritch also does a fun version of this, but I thought I'd link to the original. The sound is a little muffled but not too bad if you turn it up. It's a slight, but clever and charming little number that deserved a better play to show it off.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 5, 2024 1:41 AM |
OP, I forgot to add that I really enjoyed the song you posted!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 5, 2024 1:43 AM |
"First You Dream" from Steel Pier. I would sing this at an audition.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 5, 2024 4:03 AM |
The late, great Alice Playten singing the show-stopping "Nobody Steps on Kafritz" from HENRY, SWEET HENRY
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 5, 2024 4:28 AM |
The long since cut “Belle the Sleeping Car” from the original Starlight Express. Back when the production had some innocence and charm.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 5, 2024 4:38 AM |
Op, that song is pretty enough, but it's like so many songs today with that wandering Disney-esque melody.
This is one of the greatest standards of all time, from the forgotten flop "Carnival in Flanders."
"Here's That Rainy Day",
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 5, 2024 4:47 AM |
“This Bulging River” from the off-off Broadway show Red, White & Blaine.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 5, 2024 4:48 AM |
From the flop "All American"
One of my all time favorite songs, sung here by one of my all time favorite singers.
"Once Upon A Time"
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 5, 2024 4:49 AM |
Did You Close Your Eyes? from New Girl in Town
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 5, 2024 5:32 AM |
R9 You beat me to it. This is one of my favorite songs too.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 5, 2024 11:55 AM |
“I Have a Noble Cock” from Canterbury Tales
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 5, 2024 1:01 PM |
Love this thread, thanks.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 8, 2024 12:06 AM |
No one remembers "Golden Boy", but it gave us this nice little number:
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 8, 2024 12:20 AM |
And then there was "Golden Rainbow"....it was a failure but it did give us this big hit:
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 8, 2024 12:41 AM |
It also gave us this freewheeling patio number, r18...
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 8, 2024 12:44 AM |
"The Baker's Wife" was such a flop it closed out of town. But the score developed a cult following and there have been a number of revivals. I love this number:
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 8, 2024 12:48 AM |
R20 OMG that was wrenching.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 8, 2024 12:59 AM |
R21 After the death of my partner, I played that over and over.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 8, 2024 1:09 AM |
R22❤️
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 8, 2024 1:31 AM |
Linda Lavin’s showstopper “You’ve Got Possibilities” from the 1966 flopperoo ‘It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…’
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 8, 2024 1:31 AM |
"Greenwillow" lasted only a couple of months but it gave us this great Frank Loesser number.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 8, 2024 1:46 AM |
That is a fabulous number but the orchestration is overpowering. I like this version:
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 8, 2024 2:25 AM |
" Meadowlark" is the most popular and beautiful number from "The Baker's Wife," but not bellowed by Patti or this "singer."
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 8, 2024 2:26 AM |
"Mack and Mabel" lasted only two months. The show featured this achingly beautiful Jerry Herman tune.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 8, 2024 2:35 AM |
Where is the Warmth is the bookend song to Meadowlark.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 8, 2024 2:49 AM |
This is also from Mack&Mabel.
"Time Heals Everything"
It's shame B'way doesn't produce real songs anymore.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 8, 2024 2:56 AM |
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