What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?

[Theater_gal18]

What are the most iconic, well known, Broadway songs of all time? 

[blaxx]

Wicked

[Hairspray0901]

Seasons of Love comes to mind. 

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Memory, You're The Top, What I Did For Love, Do Re Mi, On My Own, All That Jazz

[PatrickDC]

"Memory" is so well known I almost don't even want to enter it, it's a given, right? 

The other that comes to mind is "Hello, Dolly!" 

[Zamedy154]

Hello, Dolly

There's No Business Like Show Business 

I've Got Rythm

 

[BakerWilliams]

The answer to this is probably one of the many jazz standards that Broadway has spat out in its time.

My money is on "Lady is a Tramp"

[JudyDenmark]

A laundry list of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs come to mind.

Do-Re-Mi, Edelweiss, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, The Sound of Music, Oh What a Beautiful Mornin', Oklahoma, Some Enchanted Evening, Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair, Nothing Like a Dame, I Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You, Shall We Dance, You'll Never Walk Alone...

Add Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Lerner & Loewe... the list of "songs everyone knows" could go on forever.

[BrodyFosse123]

"Tomorrow" from ANNIE

"America" from WEST SIDE STORY

"Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" from EVITA

"One" from A CHORUS LINE"

"Put On a Happy Face" from BYE BYE BIRDIE

"Ease On Down the Road" from THE WIZ

"Don't Rain on My Parade" from FUNNY GIRL

[nonstopmachine]

Maybe "Over the rainbow"?

[BrodyFosse123]

Maybe "Over the rainbow"?

That isn't a Broadway showtune.  It was written for and appears in MGM's 1939 cinematic masterpiece THE WIZARD OF OZ.  

[rosscoe(au)]

Send in the clowns 

[MyFavoriteBrunette]

Before I ever went to theater, I just remember the music I'd hear from shows.  They were familiar to me, so maybe they are most well known to others.  My list:

Cabaret

It's a Hard Knock Life

All That Jazz

And I Am Telling You

If I Were a Rich Man

Matchmaker

Shall We Dance?

Music of The Night

42nd Street

Into The Woods

And many mentioned already! =)

 

[mrmushnik]

Oh what a beautiful morning

I dreamed a dream

Memory

Music of the night

Some enchanted evening

 

[jbird5]

I'm Just Wild About Harry

The Impossible Dream

[Alexander Lamar]

My Funny Valentine

[trpguyy]

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/06/25/from-broadway-to-billboard-nine-stage-songs-that-made-it-big/

[green waver]

It largely depends on the era. "Mammy", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", and "Someone To Watch Over Me", for instance, were universally known 75 years ago, but very few under 35 know them today. To someone who is, say 45(I'm not talking about our select little group of experts), you'd have to go with "Tomorrow", "Memory", and "Send in the Clowns." "Defying Gravity", and "I Dreamed a Dream" are not far behind.

[yankeefan7]

Alexander Hamilton.

[Emmaloucbway]

"Tomorrow" from Annie. 

[luvcaroline]

Great question. 

I think that right now, if you asked any random person to hum the first Broadway tune that popped into his/her head, the majority would hum "One."

[henrikegerman]

Far too many to name from before 1970.

From 1970 on (some of these songs are from shows/scores that were first seen/heard before they arrived on Broadway):

Day by Day
I Don't Know How to Love Him
Superstar
Everything's Alright
Send in the Clowns
Ease on Down the Road
Home
All that Jazz
One
What I Did for Love
Memory
Tomorrow
I Am What I Am
Don't Cry for Me Argentina
One Night in Bangkok
I Know Him So Well
Seasons of Love
Defying Gravity





 

[green waver]

yankeefan7 said: "Alexander Hamilton.

Seriously? That's like putting Gary Sanchez in the Hall of Fame, Yankee Fan. A bit premature.

"

 

[The Glenbuck Laird]

You'll Never Walk Alone

[yankeefan7]

"Seriously? That's like putting Gary Sanchez in the Hall of Fame, Yankee Fan. A bit premature."

lol. I did that on purpose to get a reaction . You mean to tell me Gary Sanchez is not in the HOF yet - ha ha.