Best Prostitution Songs

#1

Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:14am

What are the best showtunes about or relating to being a hooker? I'll start:
"Hey Big Spender" from Sweet Charity
and "My Body" from The Life.

Updated On: 8/31/06 at 02:14 AM

#2

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:17am

"Bring on the Men" from Jekyll & Hyde

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#3

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:17am

"The Girls of the Night" from Jekyll and Hyde

#4

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:20am

Lovely Ladies, Les Mis

#5

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:20am

Lovely Ladies, Les Mis

#6

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:23am

Whore's Lament from Amour

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#7

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:27am

What a fun topic!

Miller's Son, from A Little Night Music (Not a true whore, cause she didn't charge...)

The entire score of Tenderloin.

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#8

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:28am

Alms for A Miserable Woman from Sweeney Todd

#9

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:30am

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas has quite a few...(obviously)

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#10

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:35am

Thanks, SweeneyTodd2, I just got back from a performance of the show.

Beggar woman doesn't charge, although the price is still high in the end...

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#11

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:36am

I think The Heat is On in Saigon could work too...

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#12

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:47am

Irma La Douce has some great songs about the subject.

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#13

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 6:15am

How about "Good Night And Thank You" (EVITA)? Eva basically sleeps her way to the top during the course of this number.

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Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

Updated On: 8/31/06 at 06:15 AM

#14

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 6:43am

Sorry, folks, but you have to go back to the 1920's and Cole Porter's LOVE FOR SALE - the first great showtune about prostitution.

#15

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:31am

One I like is "Pretty Lady" from Pacific Overtures.

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#16

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:36am

"My Body" from THE LIFE is good, but I prefer "I'm getting to old for the oldest profession."

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#17

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:45am

"Edie Was a Lady"

#18

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:45am

Pirate Jenny- The Threepenny Opera
Tango Ballad (depending on the translation)- The Threepenny Opera
Black is a Moocher- The Wild Party

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#19

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:15am

"the movie in my mind" from miss saigon.

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#20

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:18am

"Pirate Jenny," indeed.

Also, "Ten Cents a Dance." Rogers and Hart. Can't go wrong with that.

Updated On: 8/31/06 at 08:18 AM

#21

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:19am

Lovely Ladies From Les Miserables! (And Fantine's Arrest!)

#22

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:20am

Rodgers and Hart's "Ten Cents a Dance"

Cole Porter's "Love for Sale"

#23

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:21am

BRING ON THE MEN and THE GIRLS OF THE NIGHT from JEKYLL & HYDE
LOVELY LADIES from LES MIZ

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#24

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:14am

Oh I'll second Tango Ballad and Pirate Jenny.

#25

re: Best Prostitution Songs

Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:24am

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