Worth pointing out, even if it's not a song per se, that the Book of Mormon cast album reached the top three on the album chart… I believe a feat not done since Hair.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
Did the Pet Shop Boys version of "Losing My Mind" ever chart?
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.
Oh and while he PSB sang backup and produced it, it was creditied to vocalist Liza Minnelli. The PSB version was a b-side to one of their singles and was actually the demo they had originally cut for her.
I remember hearing "Electricity" from Billy Elliot on the radio-the Elton John version, not the cast version. Not sure if it was a hit but our adult contemporary station played it a lot. Also, an EP of "With You" from Ghost was released in the UK. Not sure how it did on the charts.
"Oh and while he PSB sang backup and produced it, it was creditied to vocalist Liza Minnelli."
Yes, but I liked their cut better than hers. Theirs seemed natural, hers seemed too hyper.
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.
In Australia "I know him so well" was the bigger of the two hits from chess.
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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If we are talking about top 40 type hits, I think it is One Night In Bangkock. I think Total Eclipse of the Heart from a little earlier became more universally popular.
"Jackson 5 did "Corner of the Sky" I believe. Don't know how popular it was though."
It peaked at Number 13.
As far as I know, the last single from a Broadway original cast album to reach the Top 10 was Streisand's PEOPLE in 1964 (and even that is debatable, because I'm not sure if that single was cut from the OBC or from Streisand's PEOPLE album). She did win the Best Female Vocalist Grammy in 1965 for the song.
That same year, Louis Armstrong had a number 1 hit single for his cover of "Hello, Dolly" which also won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
In 1969, Dionne Warwick's cover of "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" from PROMISES, PROMISES peaked at number 6. She won the Grammy for Best Female Vocalist for that song in 1970.
I'm surprised no has mentioned the Top Ten radio success of songs from Hair, including Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In by the 5th Dimension, and the title song, as sung by the Cowsills.