Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
#1Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:53pm
Intentional or not, they're everywhere.
I can't hear the song "Closed For Renovation" from Little Shop without lapsing into "There Is Nothing Like A Dame." And there's one bit in "Oldest Established" from Guys and Dolls that sounds a lot like "We Need A Little Christmas."
Anyone else have any examples? Songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber are INELIGIBLE. 
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#2re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:57pmdamn, I was going to say "Every song Andrew Lloyd Webber ever wrote".
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#2re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:02pmI think that there's a part of "Say it Somehow" that sounds like "Loving You" from Passion.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#3re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:08pmThe beginning of "Send me Someone" from YF sounds like the music of "Little Lamb" from GYPSY.
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#4re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:21pm
The beginning of "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Side Show always reminds me of "For Good" from Wicked.
Updated On: 12/15/08 at 10:21 PM
#5re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:58pmI always thought the Ballad of Czolgosz from Assassins sounded like something out of Ragtime.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#6re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:00pm^ I thought that was kind of the point?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#7re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:01pm
Umm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S3fpgrZ9ys
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MURkHIVGwsI
#8re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:02pm
"Part of Your World" and "Somewhere That's Green"
"Comfort and Joy" and "Legally Blonde (Remix)"
... oh, wait ...
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
#9re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:10pmOh, and part of Les Liz appears in Seussical: "Now I'm caught between a dust speck / And an incubating egg!" and Little Women.
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#10re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:15pmI think that ALW ripped part of "Love Changes Everything" out of "Oh Happy We" from Candide.
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#11re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:37pmIt has been said before but "Going, Going, Gone" from LOLITA, MY LOVE sounds exactly like "All You Have to Do is Wait" from CITY OF ANGELS.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#12re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:57pm
The beginning of "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Side Show always reinds me of "For Good" from Wicked.
Well, Side Show was written before Wicked so technically For Good reminds you of Who Will Love Me As I Am. But they do sound similar.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#13re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:09amAnnas_Priest, that's what makes me laugh about ALW. not only do his songs sound like songs written by other artists, but his songs all then sound alike. I mean, leitmotifs are way cool and all that, but get some new melodies in there occasionally, buddy.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#14re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:13amNow, maybe it's just me, but I *always* hear the same friggin' thing during the vamp for "All That Jazz" as I do for the vamp during Sweeney's verses in "Johanna (Act II Sequence)". Please, tell me I'm not alone in thinking this, as I've thought it for YEARS. LoL
TheaterBoy7777
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/06
#16re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 1:42am
This Place is Mine-Phantom
Mob Song- Beauty and The Beast
#17re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 1:54amThere is a song from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" that sounds very similar at times to a Sondheim song. I don't remember what the pair was though, can anyone help me out :P?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
geekgirl06
Featured Actor Joined: 11/9/06
#18re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 3:07amKT Tunstall's "Black Horse and a Cherry Tree" always reminded me of "That's What He Said" from Parade.
Dancing through life...
For the next ten minutes
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#19re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 3:21am
"Bobo's"--THE ACT
and
"It's A Business"--CURTAINS
"Why, God, Why"--MISS SAIGON
and
"There's A Small Hotel"--ON YOUR TOES
#20re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 3:23am
maybe its just me.. but i dont hear how For Good and Who Will Love Me As I Am sound similar at all
*EDIT*
ok never mind I was listening to the beginnings... my bad
but yeah, I see how it sounds similar
Updated On: 12/15/08 at 03:23 AM
geekgirl06
Featured Actor Joined: 11/9/06
#21re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 4:06amOn the note of For Good and Who Will Love Me As I Am? I would like to add The Color Purple to that list.
Dancing through life...
For the next ten minutes
Fan123
Broadway Star Joined: 8/30/08
#22re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 4:47am
"There is a song from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" that sounds very similar at times to a Sondheim song. I don't remember what the pair was though, can anyone help me out :P?"
'Candyman' and 'No One Is Alone'? "Who can take a sunrise..." = "Mother cannot guide you..."
There's a little da-da-da-da-da in 'Say it Somehow' from 'The Light in the Piazza' which always makes me think of the title song of 'Beauty and the Beast'. I think it comes just before Fabrizio sings "something something there you go".
#23re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 6:40am
Oh my gosh, LimelightMike, I NEVER noticed that "All That Jazz"/Johanna thing before. I won't be able to stop thinking that now.
Les Poissons from Little Mermaid is basically the same song as "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast-- and they actually CHANGED Les Poissons for Broadway to make it sound *less* like Be Our Guest.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#24re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 6:51amSome songs from legally blonde sound like songs from bat boy...but then again, same composer so it makes sense.
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
