Wait: there was a f'ing DANCE MIX for Defying Gravity?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Did it really play on the radio? Bwahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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The only "recent" one I remember was the techno remix of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" that was released around the time of the Evita movie adaptation. Not sure if it was a hit, but they sure played it on the radio a lot.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
"You Are My Home" from the Scarlet Pimpernel by Linda Eder and Peabo Bryson was a Top 40 Adult Contemporary Hit.. but Peabo Bryson also recorded "A Whole New World" (released a few weeks later) and the recording really never took off on the charts after that.
I don't recall that any of the songs mentioned so far were "a hit" regarding radio play or charts. I do remember that "One Night in Bangkok" was pretty popular for a while.
Jennifer Holliday's And I Am Telling You, I'm Not Going reached #1 on Billboard's Hot R&B chart (U.S.) in 1982. The song reached #1 for a second time with Jennifer Hudson's version on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart (U.S.) during the winter of 2006/2007. I *do* recall actually hearing that song on the radio (in the 80s).
The Boyzone song peaked at 35 on the Billboard chart. And I Am Telling You hit #22 (#1 on the R&B chart). One Night in Bangkok hit #3. Memory only hit #32.
Would anybody disagree that I Will Always Love You (first counted as 'from a musical' in the movie version of Best Little Whorehouse...) has had the most popular and longest life of any?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
I Will Always Love You was NOT written for the stage or even a film- it was a country hit written by Dolly Parton YEARS earlier and was re-recorded for he film of Whorehouse, then recorded by Whitney for Bodyguard.
And I'd argue against "Hard Knock Life" as Jay Z's song is a new work that incorporates a sample of the Broadway song.
The Boyzone song peaked at 35 on the Billboard chart.
But that was just the extent of its U.S. success. On other shores, it went to #1 in 18 countries, and was at one point ranked as the biggest-selling single from a musical in history.
Because the THREAD TITLE quite plainly says ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR THE THEATER, so you are WRONG for mentioning that SONG and he wanted to punch up how WRONG you ARE. So YOU can just SIT THERE and be WRONG in your WRONGNESS.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
Well if you are looking at songs that were hits in other countries, I know him So Well and Music of the Night were BBC hits and in Japan, tons of "remixes" of Broadway hits do quite well.