how about anything you can do i can do better from annie get your gun?? that used to be in some sports drink add. or even there's no business like show business also from annie get your gun.
Hey There (Pajama Game) - Rosemary Clooney Standin' on the Corner (Most Happy Fella) - The Four Lads Santa Baby (New Faces of 1952) - Eartha Kitt Just in Time (Bells Are Ringing) - Dean Martin
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Actually, you would be surprised at how many people know seasons of love and let me give you some examples. I was at more than a couple Bar Mitzvah's and this was one of the songs they played at the end. Next, I went to this club in Brooklyn and heard the dance remix of Seasons of Love. Also - the movie has made this song more mainstream, and went I handforced by friends into the Rent theatre they kept saying, "wait a second I know this song."
It's mainstream. Please do not judge me by this screen name. It is my screen name because it was the first show I ever saw back in 96' since than I have seen plenty...well tons. Trust me those this is mainstream.
I made a list of all your faults, it was quite detailed and lengthy too and when I read it through I missed you. Your like a classic Eagles song, you just cant help but sing along even though it sometimes gets annoying too. I just know I want to be wherever I can wake and see you there next to me. **High Fidelity**
Love is what I do **The Wedding Singer**
Xanadu - Best NEW Musical of the Season!
Maybe the song is recongnizable. But mainstream? I really don't think so.
Mainstream means that a vast majority of the public knows it. Mainstream is Beyonce. Not one guy friend I know, knows "Seasons of Love". Not one. But I know they all know Beyonce.
It's true, many of the show tunes from the 40's and 50's were big radio hits. Sinatra alone must have covered a few dozen. I'm not pickin' on you renthead2, but you mentioned Bar Mitzvas and a club in Brooklyn. The age of the Bar Mitzvah is 13 ( I think), so the dj played it for the "young, teen group" and again the club is in NY. Mainsteam means most of the country. Most of my friends don't know this song, and I'm 35 and from NYC. I don't even think the movie helped people know the score more. I. personally liked the film, Chris Columbus was fairly faithful to the show, but box office money wise, the movie was a flop. Compared to mainstream movies, and even Chicago (which got alot of people to see it because of the "Oscar buzz"), Rent did terrible at the box office.
my choices: I get a kick out of you , Anything Goes De Lovely, AG Friendship, AG
Sound of music, SOM Favorite things, SOM Do Re Mi, SOM Climb Every Mountain, were all popular..I remember listening to them in the car..before tapes!
I'm in Love ,SP Some Enchanted Evening, SP Honey Bun, SP
The Street where you live, MFL I could have Danced all night, MFL I'm Gettin' Married in the Mornin', MFL
How are things in Gloccamorra (Finian's Rainbow)
Getting to Know you, The King and I Shall We Dance? K&I
Big Spender, SC
People will Say we're in Love, Oklahoma Oklahoma!
What's the Use of Wondering You'll Never Walk Alone June is Busting out all Over Carousel
Cabaret
76 Trombones, Music Man
Hello, Dolly! HD It Only Takes a Moment, HD
Day By Day, Godspell
You've Got to Have Heart, Damn Yankees
Almost Like Being in Love, Brigadoon
Somewhere, WSS Tonight, WSS I Feel Pretty, WSS
Hopelessly Devoted to you, Grease
One, ACL What I did for Love, ACL (probably not quite as well known)
All That Jazz, Chicago
Am trying to think of ones that are more recent, but not having much luck..there just aren't alot that are popular unless you know theatre and the show.
I think "hopelesly devoted to you" was from the movie. I don't think it's from the show. Correct me if I'm wrong, cause I'm not 100% on that. PS....another big hit..."that old devil moon" = finian's rainbow.
Noonfreak, you are correct. It was from the movie. I've seen stage productions since then that have put that song in, but in the original Broadway version, nada!
Anybody who was in junior high or older in 1985 knew One Night In Bancock.
"Everything's Coming Up Roses" from Gypsy "Luck Be A Lady" from Guys and Dolls A ton of Rodgers and Hammerstein "Maria", "Tonight", and "America" from West Side Story
The most recent songs to cross over into mainstream pop radio were "Memory" (which was popularized by Barbra Streisand) and (yes) "One Night in Bangkok" (which I remember hearing incessently on the radio when I was kid, before I knew anything about B'way-- although I don't consider my self middle-aged (LOL))
"Inside every actor there is a Tiger, a Pig, an Ass, and a Nightingale. You never know which one is going to show up."
-John Michael Higgins in FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Ditto: "Everything's Coming Up Roses" (GYPSY) Also: " New York, New York" (ON THE TOWN) "Young and Foolish" (PLAIN & FANCY) "The Party's Over" (BELLS ARE RINGING) "Make Someone Happy" (DO RE MI)
