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#1

Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 2:26pm

I searched the board, but didn't find this particular flavor of love as a thread of its own... so, what are your favorite songs about unrequited love, or further, a love that was not meant to be - I need to compile a playlist to aurally drown my sorrows in.

My current loop:

1 - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Pal Joey)
2 - As Long as He Needs Me (Oliver!)
3 - I Dreamed a Dream (Les Miserables)
4 - Losing My Mind (Follies)

Thanks for your help.
#2

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 2:32pm

'On My Own' is more specific than 'I Dreamed A Dream'; the former is nothing but unrequited love, the latter is more a shattered life.

Last time I had an unrequited love angst fest, I stuck 'This Nearly Was Mine' on repeat for about three weeks. Both Paulo Szot and Philip Quast. ^_^
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#3

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 2:38pm

In addition to On My Own and As Long As He Needs Me, I would add:

My Man
The Man That Got Away
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson
#4

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 2:38pm

i am partial to the Carpenters-style folk duet from ASSASSINS...."Unworthy of Your Love".
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."
#5

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 2:49pm

Technically not exactly unrequited love, but "If I Can't Love Her," from Beauty and the Beast. It's really about the Beast wishing he knew HOW to love, but it's the same general feeling.

Also, "Where's The Girl" from Scarlet Pimpernel, which is technically about EX-love.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#7

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 3:03pm

EDIT: double post of doom
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

Updated On: 9/22/08 at 03:03 PM

#8

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 3:35pm

Well an off-line friend just suggested "Easy to Love" from Anything Goes... but that is unfortunately at the wrong end of the emotional spectrum I'm currently overwhelmed by. It's plainly clear... he would not be so easy to love...

Ugh. Why can't I fall for available guys.
#10

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 3:53pm

Loving You - Passion
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going - Dreamgirls
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#11

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 3:56pm

Does it have to be romantic love? If not, Little Lamb from Gypsy would fit the bill.

And I might as well say it and get it out of the way of the rest of the thread: I'm Not That Girl.
I know you. I know you. I know you.
#12

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 4:09pm

"Love Look Away" from FLOWER DRUM SONG, especially as sung by Marilyn Horne (dubbing for Reiko Sato) to Alfred Newman's gorgeous arrangement in the 1961 film version.
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#13

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 4:14pm

"As Long As He Needs Me" from Oliver is my favorite, but an interesting one is "Lonely Room" from Oklahoma.
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#14

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 4:15pm

That's a good one. A lot of people forget about the darker aspects of that show.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#15

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 4:22pm

Well, considering all my faves were mentioned in the first post, here's some more:

Not That Girl - Wicked
Are You There? - Bare

And a bit on the upbeat side:
You Could Drive A Person Crazy - Company
Dancing through life... For the next ten minutes
#16

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 4:25pm

It's not strictly about unrequited love, but 'Nothing like you've every known' from Tell me on a Sunday/Song & Dance...
#17

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 4:31pm

"You Should Be Loved" from Side Show, by far!
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#18

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 4:34pm

spork goddess beat me to it. Definitly You Should Be Loved.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#19

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 4:59pm

the LA (Taper Forum)/B'way/tour version of LOVE LOOK AWAY from the FLOWER DRUM revival was also beautifully orchestrated and sung.....that is a fine, fine chart.

And so is FINE FINE LINE from AVENUE Q.
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."
#20

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 6:12pm

You Can Always Count on Me from City of Angels just came to mind
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#21

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 6:51pm

Well I found a treasure trove with Rodgers and Hart... Falling In Love With Love (The Boys from Syracuse), Can't You Do a Friend a Favor? (Connecticut Yankee...)...
#22

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 6:57pm

On My Own -- Les Miz
You Should Be Loved -- Side Show
Unusual Way -- Nine
A Fine, Fine Line -- Avenue Q
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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#25

re: Favorite songs about unrequited love

Posted: 9/22/08 at 8:16pm

Wow TulitaPepsi... thank you. Between that clip and the soundtrack of Pal Joey, I may not have any more tears to give up tonight. Thanks.

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