Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
#1Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/4/07 at 11:35pmMy favorite of theirs . . . and one of my all time favorite songs . . . is "It Might As Well Be Spring" from STATE FAIR. What a gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous song.
LoringsGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/04
#2re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 12:19am
Hmm...don't know if I could pick just one.
Some favorites:
This Nearly Was Mine
Twin Soliloquies (mostly the instrumental part)
Something Wonderful
I Have Dreamed
Love Look Away
Out of My Dreams
sidjones09
Leading Actor Joined: 1/4/07
#2re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 12:27am'If I Loved You'
#3re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 12:33am
I cannot pick one and I have phases, right now the top choices are:
1. "Shall I Tell You What I Think of You"-Donna Murphy.
2. "Younger than Springtime"-Jason Danieley.
3. "Shall We Dance?"-Any version, song is too perfect.
4. "Something Wonderful"
5. "People Will Say We're in Love"
6. "Surrey with the Fringe on Top"-Laurence Guittard.
#4re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 12:39am
"They Can't Take That Away From Me"
Updated On: 4/5/07 at 12:39 AM
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#5re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 12:49amWe Kiss In A Shadow/I Have Dreamed
#6re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 1:27amMarquise--What's your favorite rendition of that song? Mine is from the 1992 Studio cast where Lea Salonga and Pebo Bryson sing it. GORGEOUS!
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#7re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:26am
Although "They Can't Take That Away from Me" is wonderful, it's not R&H, but the Gershwins.
Their scores for SOUTH PACIFIC and KING AND I rank as truly great, start to finish.
#8re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:29amImpossible to pick, but "Younger Than Springtime" is definitely up there for me.
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
#9re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:32amYou Have To Be Taught from Soth Pacific
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
MimiJudith
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#11re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:48am"Many a New Day" from Oklahoma. Sung by Shirley Jones. Just beautiful.
#12re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:07am
Shall I Tell You What I Think of You, Donna Murphy
People Will Say We're In Love, Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae
You've Got to be Carefully Taught, original
Solilaquy- John Raitt
Just to add my two cents on the "I Have Dreamed" preferance, although I think Lea Salonga is beautiful on the recording she just does not reach the “vocal heights” that Doretta Morrow accomplishes on the OBC recording.
Updated On: 4/5/07 at 09:07 AM
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#13re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:12am
I like You'll never walk alone as an anthem, power, but it wouldn't be my favourite.
I HAVE DREAMED
SOMETHING WONDERFUL
CLIMB EV'RY MOUNTAIN
EDELWEISS
THIS NEARLY WAS MINE
Hard Decision.
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#14re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:33am
Something Wonderful
Honeybun
We Kiss in a Shadow
I Have Dreamed
No Other Love
So Far
I Have Confidence
#15re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 10:21am
Soliloquy. Absolutely spectacular.
A close second would be Lonely Room.
#16re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 10:48am
I love the way Barbara Cook sings both A Wonderful Guy and The Gentleman is a Dope.
My favorite score is South Pacific, but my favorite R & H musical is The King and I. I was in Cinderella when I was in High School, and I really would love to see both Allegro and Flower Drum Song onstage.
AudreyTwoTwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/06
#17re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 10:51am
Honey Bun
Far From the Home I Love
#18re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 10:59amThey didn't write Far From the Home I Love.
#19re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 11:09am
yes, "Far from the home I love" is Bock and Harnick from "Fiddler"
I love Bernadette's rendition of "What's the use of wonderin'" form Carousel
and "you'll never walk alone"
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#20re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 11:19amIt's an easy answer, but You'll Never Walk Alone. It's actually a *great* song to listen to when you're going through a ****ty time.
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#21re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 11:25am
Some Enchanted Evening is one of my faves.
I also must admit that I love Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch's rendition of "Surrey with the Fringe on the Top". (it's very well-done and jazzes the piece up beautifully.)
#22re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 12:24pmIf I loved you
#23re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 12:52pm
"Love Look Away" as sung on the OBCR of FLOWER DRUM SONG which I saw and loved back in 1959.
"This Nearly Was Mine" as sung by the wonderful Ezio Pinza, from SOUTH PACIFIC.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#24re: Favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein Song
Posted: 4/5/07 at 1:35pm
I think Something Wonderful is the best (see, didn't do the easy joke of something wonderful is something wonderful)
but, my "favorite" is "I Caint Say No"
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