Recommend Your Favorite Broadway Cover Song

[Craig]

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

[CurtainPullDowner]

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

That DISCO SWEENEY TODD rocked!

[Craig]

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

Indeed it did

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

[husk_charmer]

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

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

[Craig]

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

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

[CurtainPullDowner]

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

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

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

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"

[alliez92092]

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]

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

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

[professor]

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

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

[Fenchurch]

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

Coltrane's My Favorite Things

Simply the best.

[Kelly2]

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

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

[Jellylorum]

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.

[Rathnait62]

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

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

[StickToPriest]

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!

[BroadwayGirl107]

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]

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]

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

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

[madbrian]

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

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

[NathanLaneStalker]

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.

[AC126748]

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"

[NCGuy]

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]

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

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

[CurtainPullDowner]

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

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

[Jordan Catalano]

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

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