Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song

[Craig]

Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#1

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:00pm

Here's a thread to recommend your favorite cover version of a broadway show tune. Do not post your favorite cast recording/version of a cast recording..

I'll start..

Judy Kuhn's "You'll Never Get Away From Me"
Placido Domingo's "Sometimes A Day Goes By"
"Corner of the Sky" and "Morning Glow" from the Jackson 5

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#2

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:02pm

That DISCO SWEENEY TODD rocked!

[Craig]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#2

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:03pm

Indeed it did

I also enjoy the entire Trotter Trio Sondheim shows in jazz series as well...

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[husk_charmer]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#3

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:06pm

Ella Fitzgerald - "Roxie" and "My Own Best Friend"
Sammy Davis, Jr. - "I'll Begin Again"

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[Craig]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#4

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:07pm

Barbra Streisand's "He Touched Me"
Sammy Davis Jr.s "Talk to the Animals"

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#5

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:08pm

I have all the Trotter recordings, I recommend them to any Sondheim fan.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#6

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:10pm

Bernadette Peters- "There Is Nothing Like a Dame"
"Later"
"Not a Day Goes By"
Megan Mullally- "Surabaya Johnny"
Ute Lemper- "I'm A Stranger Here Myself"
Kim Criswell- "Rainbow High"
Joely Fisher- "Welcome to Holiday Inn"
Nina Simone- "Pirate Jenny"

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[alliez92092]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#7

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:14pm

I'm Not That Girl-Julia Murney
Also, Bea Arthur's "Don't Rain on My Parade" for the sole purpose of Seth Rudetsky's commentary.

[wickedfan]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#8

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:18pm

Liz Callaway's "Meadowlark". Can't get ANY better than that.

"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

[professor]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#9

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:19pm

The Beatles-- "Till There was You"
Murray Head-- "One Night in Bangkok"

"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

[Fenchurch]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#10

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:43pm

Coltrane's My Favorite Things

Simply the best.

"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." -Keen on Kean
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl

[Kelly2]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#11

Posted: 3/26/07 at 7:45pm

I loved the way Jesse Nager sings "Feed The Birds" from Mary Poppins.

"Get mad, then get over it." - Colin Powell

[Jellylorum]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#12

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:20pm

Liza Minnelli - Losing My Mind

I think I played that song on my computer 15 times in a row once.

"It's a goddamn beautiful day, shut up!"

[Rathnait62]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#13

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:26pm

Barbra Streisand - I Loves You Porgy into Porgy I's Your Woman Now

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[StickToPriest]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#14

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:26pm

Well, Sinatra's "Luck Be a Lady" is classic.

Jellylorum, are you talking about her disco version? If so, love it!

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[BroadwayGirl107]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#15

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:28pm

I think THE best cover of any Broadway song I've heard is Idina Menzel's acoustic "I'll Cover You." It absolutely kills me.

[luvliza89]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#16

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:30pm

Streisand - "Down With Love"
Renee Olstead - "If You Is, Or Is You Ain't My Baby"
Caroline O'Connor - "All That Jazz"
Audra McDonald - "A Sleepin' Bee"
Rufus Wainwright - "Origin of Love" and "My Funny Valentine"

[Jellylorum]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#17

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:34pm

Yes, the disco one! It's one of the best cross-genre cover songs I've heard.

"It's a goddamn beautiful day, shut up!"

[madbrian]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#18

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:35pm

Heather Headley's cover of He Touched Me from My Favorite Broadway: Leading ladies.

"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

[NathanLaneStalker]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#19

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:44pm

Nathan Lane and Kristin Chenoweth's "You're Just In Love"
Nathan Lane's Doo Wop version of "Sue Me"
Bernadette Peters - "I'm Flying" and "You Could Drive A Person Crazy"
Rosie O'Donnell's "Liza With A Z"
and Anytime Jim Brochu sings a song that Ethel Merman has sung.

"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey

[AC126748]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#20

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:49pm

Christiane Noll's "Good Thing Going"
Emily Skinner's "Is It Really Me?"
Jason Danieley's "I Won't Send Roses"

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[NCGuy]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#21

Posted: 3/26/07 at 11:04pm

Jack Jones – “Real Live Girl”
Tom Waits – “Somewhere”
Audra McDonald – “Any Place I Hang My Hat...”
Sinatra – “Once Upon a Time”
Charlie Rich – “Ol’ Man River”

And I think it’s actually a cover of someone else’s version, but Emmylou Harris does a fantastic country/rock “Diamond’s Are a Girl’s Best Friend” on one of her eighties albums.

[ashbash1990]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#22

Posted: 3/26/07 at 11:07pm

I love all those re-mixed/Techno/dance club versions of "One Night in Bangkok"

What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#23

Posted: 3/26/07 at 11:11pm

Does Merman's Disco Album count?
Yes. Album!

[Jordan Catalano]

re: Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song#24

Posted: 3/26/07 at 11:15pm

Bernadette Peters - "Being Alive"
Barbra Streisand - "Send in the Clowns"