Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

#1

Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 1:35am

What are some awful, terrible songs from classic, amazing, beloved musicals. I thought this would be interesting. The first ones that come to mind for me are:

You Won't be an Orphan for Long - ANNIE
Motherhood March - HELLO, DOLLY!
Henry Street - FUNNY GIRL
My Name - OLIVER!
Meeksite - CABARET

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#2

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 1:37am

I love Meeskite!

42nd St - Shadow Waltz

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Updated On: 12/9/04 at 01:37 AM

#3

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 1:38am

I love Shadow Waltz!

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#4

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 1:39am

Fine.

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#5

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 1:43am

I love My Name! I love You Won't Be an Orphan for Long! I love the Motherhood Martch!

#6

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 1:43am

It's not me, it's him...

Oh, look who's here!

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#7

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 1:48am

who? me?

#8

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 1:48am

yes

you

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#9

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 1:50am

Little People from Les Miz

My ears!

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#10

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 1:50am

oh, well, yes, I'm here!!! whoo hoo!

#11

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 2:02am

I thought about Little People....the melody and usually the kid singing is IS terrible - but I love the lyrics. I'm also torn with "Carefully Taught" from SOUTH PACIFIC. Great message and lyrics, terrible melody.

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#12

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 2:04am

Sorry, but

"Tomorrow" from "ANNIE" drives me nuts!!

#13

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 2:09am

I think the music from Jekyll and Hyde is pretty bad.

#14

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 2:10am

Right, but that's not what I'm talking about. TOMORROW drives people nuts because everyone knows it. EVERYONE knows the lyrics. And why? Because it's a great song with great lyrics. If that song came out today, people would love it. Don't confuse classic with terrible!

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#15

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 2:20am

Which Little People?

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#16

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 2:26am

Sorry, again!

"Right, but that's not what I'm talking about. TOMORROW drives people nuts because everyone knows it. EVERYONE knows the lyrics. And why? Because it's a great song with great lyrics. If that song came out today, people would love it. Don't confuse classic with terrible! "

I don't believe this should be considered a "classic"! I dislike the song itself, and have never heard a good version of it.

I realize what you mean, though, about "bad" songs.

Guess I'll add "Into the Woods" as one of those horrors (who would sing this one, anyhow?).

#17

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 2:53am

Wait, now you confused me even more!

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#18

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 3:37am

Stupid "Clambake" from pro-spousal abuse "Carousel."
"Ribbons Down my Back" is SCARY!!!
"Castle on a Cloud" bugs the livin' poop outta me. "Little People" is my LOVE!
"My Mother's Wedding Day" from "Brigadoon," although fun, does little besides show us that Meg is a hussy, but we knew that already.
"We Have All Been Blind's" melody and harmonizing is horrid in "POTO."

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#19

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 12:00pm

Clambake - Carousel (nauseating)
Point of No Return - Phantom of the Opera
Doin' What Comes Nat'rally - Annie Get Your Gun (ew)
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face - My Fair Lady (the most dull and anticlimactic 11 o'clock number ever written)

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#20

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 12:02pm

"All I Need Is The Girl" - GYPSY

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#21

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 12:05pm

Some of these songs seem to me to be throwaway songs, one's not crucial to the plot. Not horrible, just not completely necessary or plot driven.

#22

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 2:06pm

I was in a production of Carousel early in my career and I really liked singing the "Clambake" song. It certainly beat singing, "June is Bustin' Out All Over".

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#23

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 2:14pm

Not classic, but since it's going to get a mention EVENTUALLY:
90% of Wicked

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#24

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 2:16pm

"Not classic, but since it's going to get a mention EVENTUALLY:
90% of Wicked"

That must mean you feel Wicked is "amazing".

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#25

re: Classic amazing shows - TERRIBLE songs

Posted: 12/9/04 at 2:27pm

Oh dear God- I've listened to it a bunch, and I think I can only stand four songs now.

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"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled." (Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)