Favorite Rodgers&Hammerstein Music

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If I Loved You

People Will Say We're In Love

This Nearly Was Mine It Might As Well Be Spring Something Wonderful We Kiss In A Shadow Edelweiss Some Enchanted Evening I’m in Love With A Wonderful Guy I Enjoy Being A Girl Oh What A Beautiful Mornin’ The Surrey With The Fringe On Top Oklahoma!

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"He will not always say

What you would have him say

But now and then he'll say

Something wonderful.

He has a thousand dreams

That won't come true

You know that he believes in them

And that's enough for you."

I was introduced to this song via Barbra Streisand's Broadway Album in 1985, the year one of my dearest friends was dying. Every now and then, he'd say something wonderful.

Tee-hee! This one, of course!

I'm just a girl who cain't say no

I'm in a terrible fix

I always say 'come on, let's go'

Just when I oughta say 'nix'

I Have Dreamed.

Climb Every Mountain

Something Wonderful from the King & I, We Kiss in a Shadow, I Have Dreamed. King & I had some great songs. From Carousel I always like If I Loved You. Sound of Music: Edelweiss, Something Good, How Do we Solve a Problem Like Maria. My Favorite Things. Climb Every Mountain. You know when I see all this and then I think of Andrew Lloyd Webber, I just shake my head at how easily we're satisfied with a lot of mediocre crap, today.

If I Loved You

The Carousel Waltz

You'll Never Walk Alone - It's popular to hate this song. It's been sung (and oversung) for over 70 years so much that people got sick of it, call it maudlin, sappy, etc. I maintain that it's a beautiful song with a wonderful message if you can get to a place where you can feel you're hearing it for the first time.

Carefully Taught

Really, they wrote so many great songs....

You Are Beautiful

Something Wonderful

You'll Never Walk Alone

How Can Love Survive?

Shall We Dance?

The March of the Siamese Children

What a Lovely Day for a Wedding

Oh What a Beautiful Morning

Not really a fan except for Cinderella with Lesley Ann Warren - "Ten Minutes Ago" as sung by Alan Quartermaine and "in my own little corner" by Lesley. Couple of things from "Sound of Music" maybe. I'm more of a "Guys and Dolls" type.

Cinderella see below for link

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[quote] This is gay.

I think you mean Keep It Gay from Me And Juliet.

I love A Lovely Night and Ten Minutes Ago from Cinderella.

[quote] This is gay.

Well then: it's on the right website, isn't it?

If you're complaining, maybe you're the one who doesn't belong here.

[quote]I'm more of a "Guys and Dolls" type.

So you're bi?

R10 I agree with your selections but I read a book about Rodgers and Hammerstein and I think " Something Good", as well " I Have Confidence ", were written by another arranger with the understanding that Rodgers would take the credit.

I wish I could find a link, but I remember reading an interview where Sondheim said "What's The Use of Wondrin'" was his favourite showtune. Joanna Riding, who played Cinderella's Mother in the Into The Woods film, did the best version in the Hytner National Theatre revival. Her chest to head voice transition is gorgeous.

Something Wonderful is just sublime.

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Sondheim snob.

This one, sung by actual Asians.

carousel waltz

r24 What am I -- chopped suey?

Some Enchanted Evening

Sam & Janet Evening

1. “Climb Every Mountain”

2. “You’ll Never Walk Alone”

3. “If I Loved You”

4. “What’s the Use of Wondering”

5. “Something Wonderful”

6. “I Have Dreamed”

R21 I can understand why Sondheim praised that. If you're able to listen to it without the problematic context (of abuse) it's quite beautiful.

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Nothing tops Some Enchanted Evening sung by Ezio Pinza on the OBC recording.

Utterly spine-tingling. Rapturous.

[quote][R24] What am I -- chopped suey? —Miss Ponytail Pat Suzuki at R6

No Pat, you are the queen.

When I was auditioning for the college choir age 18 the Director asked me if I knew 'If I Loved You'. I said I did. He said 'good'. If you can sing that competently it makes things easier.

Younger Than Springtime

Gavin Creel did a music video for "Something Wonderful" about three years before he died.

I have wished before.

I shall wish no more.

"Some Enchanted Evening" was beamed down from heaven.

A lovely night...

r28 Jane Olivor's phrasing, and the sound of her voice—she owns this song. Once I had found it, I could never let it go. She was the queen of Reno Sweeney.

Oh...what's the use?

r33 Is there some reason you posted the video that was already posted at R24?

Recently saw Bernadette in concert (at a benefit) and she sang I delightful When I Marry Mr. Snow.

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It's truly fascinating how different Rodgers' music with Hart was from his music with Hammerstein. Obviously, there was also entirely different subject material. Though I'm not a musician - is what I said true?

R41 Bless her heart.

R45 One thing I’ve noticed about Rodgers’s music in the songs from the Hart shows is that they had more musical repetition. Two or three musical phrases were sometimes repeated many, many times. It didn’t take long to remember the melodies because of the repetition.

The extreme example of this is “Johnny One-Note” from “Babes in Arms.” Of course, here the repetition was probably deliberate to represent the monotony of Johnny One-Note’s singing. There is a ballet in the show in which the melody is repeated for over 5 minutes (listen to the link). It’s tolerable because the orchestrator for the original production was the great Hans Spialek, whose orchestration was used in the recording that I’ve linked.

Another example of highly repetitious music is the title song from “On Your Toes.” When you went to an R&H show, you didn’t have to have musical ability to leave the theater humming the melodies.

[quote][R33] Is there some reason you posted the video that was already posted at [R24]?

Yes.

Very interesting, r47. Thanks for the thoughtful and perceptive reply.