Know any good cheer-up songs?

#1

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 3:45am

I need some songs that would lighten a mood. I have already "Always look on the bright side of life" from SPAMALOT , "I got rhythm" and "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" From LES MIS. (Kidding!)

#2

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 5:03am

"I Read" - Passion.


But really, if you take "Everything's Coming up Roses" out of context and look it as a genuine hopeful song, it could be uplifting?

Or the Sound of Music etc.

or Light from N2N?


"For Now" - Avenue Q?

Idk, there are probably uplifting songs in every 0.8 musicals because the nature of theatre etc..

---

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

Updated On: 9/19/10 at 05:03 AM

#3

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 5:18am

Put on a Happy Face -- gotta be the ultimate in cheer ups!

---

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

#4

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 6:11am

Happy Talk ~ South Pacific
Individuality ~ Billy Elliot
Forget About the Boy ~ Thoroughly Modern Millie
Look to the Rainbow ~ Finian's Rainbow

#5

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 7:03am

In context, how happy is "happy talk" meant to be? At least as presented in the revival PBS broadcast it seemed a little depressing.

---

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

#6

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 7:08am

I presumed this was all fairly out of context.

#7

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 8:34am

Choose to Be Happy ~ Grey Gardens
Nothing Bad's Ever Gonna Happen Again ~ Cry Baby (good luck getting to listen to that one!)

---

"The price of love is loss, but still we pay; We love anyway."

#8

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 9:17am

Turkey Lurkey Time works wonders

#9

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 10:45am

Great Big Stuff from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
We Need A Little Christmas from Mame
I Put A Little More Mascara On from La Cage
I Believe In You from H2$
The title song from They're Playin' Our Song
Sing Happy from Flora

---

"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

#10

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 11:05am

"Dancing Queen" in "Mamma Mia!." The purpose of the song in the show is to cheer up Donna.

#11

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 11:24am

If Happy talk isn't happy enough for you, check out the pop version from the eighties. It's pure bubblegum.

#12

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 11:31am

"As We Stumble Along" from The Drowsy Chaperone

#13

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 11:33am

"Get Happy"

#14

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 11:41am

"Lucky To Be Me" - On the Town
"I'm a Brass Band"- Sweet Charity
"Die, Vampire, Die"- [title of show]
"Free"- ...Forum
"When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love"- Finian's Rainbow
"I Can Do That"- A Chorus Line

#15

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 11:41am

When I'm upset and I listen to next to normal and "There's a World" comes on I feel even worse. All I can think about is Diana crying....But "Light" is a hopeful song.

#16

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 11:48am

Spamalot is my go to for cheering up too.

I also like:
Mack and Mabel
The Act
Charlie Girl
Hairspray
Hallelujah Baby!
Tap Dance Kid
Parade (Jerry Heramn's - good lord avoid JRB's if you're blue!)
Rags
Purlie
Ruthless
Little Me
The Apple Tree
Two Gentlemen Of Verona

---

....but the world goes 'round

#17

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 11:49am

"Wig In A Box" from Hedwig is uplifting in an eccentric way if you listen to the lyrics. It makes me happy.

"I'm A Brass Band" from Sweet Charity.

---

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

#18

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 12:43pm

"Shine Like the Sun" from 9 to 5

---

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

#19

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 1:08pm

Backhanded: "Now You Know" from MERRILY...

Pastoral: "Wick" from THE SECRET GARDEN

For the foodies: "Be Our Guest" from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Old Skewl: "There's No Business Like Show Business" from ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

---

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

#20

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 1:16pm

"Stiff Upper Lip" by Gershwin (it's in "Crazy for You")
"You're NEver Fully Dressed Without a Smile" - Annie
"Smile, Smile" - Hallelujah, Baby!
"I Like Ev'rybody" - The Most Happy Fella

#21

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 1:32pm

"I Have Confidence" from the Sound of Music
"Carnaval del Barrio" - In the Heights

---

http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!) I chose, and my world was shaken- So what?
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda "And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler

#22

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 2:32pm

"Something Sort of Grandish" from Finian's Rainbow. It definitely cheers me up.

---

"I never think of the classic musicals as old-fashioned; I think of them as timeless."--Kate Baldwin

Updated On: 9/19/10 at 02:32 PM

#23

Know any good cheer-up songs?

Posted: 9/19/10 at 3:26pm

thanks everyone! Now I have a whole army of songs for cheering myself/others up :)