What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Theater_gal18
Swing Joined: 12/27/16
#1What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 8:13pm
What are the most iconic, well known, Broadway songs of all time?
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 8:21pm
Wicked
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
Hairspray0901
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/08
#3What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 8:24pm
Seasons of Love comes to mind.
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#4What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 8:30pm
Memory, You're The Top, What I Did For Love, Do Re Mi, On My Own, All That Jazz
#5What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 8:49pm
"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
Featured Actor Joined: 6/26/16
#6What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 8:55pm
Hello, Dolly
There's No Business Like Show Business
I've Got Rythm
BakerWilliams
Leading Actor Joined: 2/1/16
#7What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 9:21pm
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"
#8What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 9:29pm
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#10What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 12:26am
"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
Swing Joined: 11/6/16
#11What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 12:53am
Maybe "Over the rainbow"?
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#12What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 1:12am
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.
#13What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 2:10am
Send in the clowns
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
#14What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 2:48am
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! =)
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#15What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 9:08am
Oh what a beautiful morning
I dreamed a dream
Memory
Music of the night
Some enchanted evening
jbird5
Broadway Star Joined: 12/20/15
#16What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 9:14am
I'm Just Wild About Harry
The Impossible Dream
Alexander Lamar
Broadway Star Joined: 2/16/16
#17What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 9:25am
My Funny Valentine
trpguyy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/05
green waver
Stand-by Joined: 11/3/16
#19What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 10:28am
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#20What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 11:26am
Alexander Hamilton.
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#21What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 12:52pm
"Tomorrow" from Annie.
luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#22What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 12:55pm
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#23What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 5:01pm
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
Stand-by Joined: 11/3/16
#24What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/12/17 at 11:03am
yankeefan7 said: "Alexander Hamilton.
Seriously? That's like putting Gary Sanchez in the Hall of Fame, Yankee Fan. A bit premature.
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#26What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/12/17 at 2:20pm
You'll Never Walk Alone
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#27What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?
Posted: 2/12/17 at 2:33pm
"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.
