What are Your Favorite Rodgers & Hammerstein Lesser Known Songs?

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 11:05am

Just listening through the Rodgers and Hammerstein catalog and enjoying songs from Me & Juliet, Allegro, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song, Cinderella, 1962 State Fair, and others.

What are your favorite Rodgers & Hammerstein gems that ARE NOT from their big 5 musicals (Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I , or Sound of Music) and are not as well known?

 

Updated On: 11/8/15 at 11:05 AM

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 11:34am

I love "The Next Time It Happens" from Pipe Dream, 

"The Gentleman Is a Dope" from Allegro, and 

"It Might As Well Be Spring" from State Fair, 

although the latter is a pretty well-known jazz standard (better-known than the film perhaps).

[jo]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 11:47am

It Might As Well Be Spring!

[The Other One]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 12:11pm

"Everybody's Got A Home But Me,"  "The Next Time It Happens" and most of Pipe Dream

"It Might As Well Be Spring" sounds better and better all the time, but it's an Oscar winner that's been covered by many, many people so it's hard to consider it obscure.

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 12:28pm

holy cow...how have i missed this gem before

" I Haven't Got a Worry in the World" R&H from

"Happy Birthday" a show R&H produced.

sung by Bernadette Peters

totally amazed this isn't a standard in the Great American Song Book.....only one other artist recording of this on itunes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZArwUZfiqs

 

Updated On: 11/8/15 at 12:28 PM

[After Eight]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 2:37pm

I have a definite fondness for The Other Generation and its reprise in Flower Drum Song.

[Fantod]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 2:56pm

I suppose You Are Beautiful from Flower Drum Song isn't as well known

[Skip2]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 3:07pm

No Way To Stop It - The Sound Of Music

 

 

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 3:16pm

Have you guys ever heard of this song "Climb Ev'ry Mountain"?

[Tom5]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 3:22pm

I guess "Isn't It Kinda Fun".  Dick Haymes/State Fair

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:15pm

 

 

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:52pm

hi Pal Joey was waiting for your contribution...did not even know this song existed....

thanks

 

Its a rainy sunday in sf and a perfect day to explore the R&H catalog, followed by an evening screening

of the Carousel PBS special.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[mamaleh]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:53pm

"How Can Love Survive?" - a generally lesser known song from THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and ""You Are Beautiful" from FLOWER DRUM SONG.

[Thparkaly]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:55pm

"So Far" from Allegro just melts me every time I hear it.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 11/8/15 at 7:44pm

"So Far" from Allegro and "It Might As Well Be Spring" from State Fair are my favorites of the lesser known songs. 

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 2:13am

The Other One said: ""Everybody's Got A Home But Me,"  "The Next Time It Happens" and most of Pipe Dream

 

thanks the other one!!!   I had not heard the 2012 encores of Pipe Dream and its a fantastic production and really gives these great songs a vibrant new life. 

For any RH fans, this is a wonderful cast live recording!!!!

 

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 8:19am

 

Here's another lovely version of R&H's "Boys and Girls Like You and Me," sung by Judy's little girl, who tells a bit of the song's history.

 

 

[fgreene1938]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 8:27am

"Like a God" from Flower Drum Song

"Stepsisters' Lament" from Cinderella

"When the Children are Asleep" from Carousel

"The Loneliness of Evening" cut from South Pacific and later added to Cinderella

[aj88]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 9:27am

One thing I always loved about the revue A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING was that it included some of the best unknown songs from the R&H repertoire.

Someone already mentioned So Far from ALLEGRO...I also love I Know It Can Happen Again from ALLEGRO.

I also really love All At Once You Love Her from PIPE DREAM and The Man I Used to Be which was used in PIPE DREAM and in the 1996 production of STATE FAIR.

 

[hushpuppy]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 10:20am

I've always liked the bouncy syncopation of 'Sweet Thursday' from PIPE DREAM, but I am not fond of the OCR recording with Helen Traubel. I much prefer Susan Johnson's version (but then I love just about anything sung by Susan Johnson)

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 10:49am

Could we start one of these threads for Rodgers and Hart?

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 10:50am

"So Far" and "The Gentleman is a Dope"  I love "It Might as Well be Spring," of course, but think of it as fairly well known.  
Oh, and, "Love Look Away" 
 

Updated On: 11/9/15 at 10:50 AM

[Soaring29]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 10:58am

You're Never Away from Allegro!  I also like Loneliness Of Evening. 

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 11:19am

From Allegro: A Fellow Needs a Girl, So Far, You Are Never Away, Come Home

Pipe Dream: Everybody's Got a Home But Me, All At Once You Love Her, Next Time It Happens (also in State Fair), The Man I Used to Be (Also in State Fair)

Cinderella: When You're Driving Through the Moonlight, Me, Who Am I? (also cut from Me & Juliet)

Updated On: 11/9/15 at 11:19 AM

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 11:51am

wow, fantastic additions!

"Love Look Away"  from the flower drum song revival with Lea Salonga got several well deserved listens last night... really like the revival OCR much more than the OBC....