SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...

[Jamie Hat]

SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#0

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:33pm

Anyone have any favorite songs that are great when sung by the opposite sex?
I really like "Unusual Way" and "I Cannot Hear the City"

[munkustrap178]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#1

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:35pm

Billy Joel's "(s)He's Got A Way" sung by Bernadette Peters.

And "Being Alive" and "Not a Day goes By" also by her.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[melissa errico fan]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#2

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:35pm

D you mean a song originally intended for one sex but sung by another?

Example: "Send in the Clowns" sung by a man.

[Rathnait62]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#3

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:36pm

Yes to She's Got A Way. She puts a beauty and poignancy into that song that was never there before.

I also love her rendition of Johanna from SWEENEY TODD.

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

[Jamie Hat]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#4

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:37pm

MEF -- Indeed I do.

[munkustrap178]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#5

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:39pm

I forgot about Johanna....she's just amazing.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[Rathnait62]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#6

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:39pm

McG does a fabulous rendition of By Strauss, a song that I was recently informed had up until then been a "male" song.

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

[melissa errico fan]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#7

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:40pm

In that case, I've heard several males sing "Loving You", and it always sounded lovely.

Bernadette also does a killer version of "Not A Day Goes By". She's really into singing men's songs.

[Jwei123]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#8

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:41pm

I love hearing women (who have talent) sing "Corner of the Sky"

...but PLEASE...only one at a time. That song is overused.

awkward.

"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912

[umgeoboy]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#9

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:43pm

I love when Linda Eder Sings The Impossible Dream and Man of La Mancha.

"Judy Garland, Jimmy Dean, You tragedy Queen" ~ Taboo

"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q

"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical

[sidwich]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#10

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:47pm

I really liked when Jason Graae did R&H's "Maria" in "A Grand Night for Singing." A completely different spin on the song.

I think Jules Styne also was a big fan of male vocalists doing "People."

[BSoBW2]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#11

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:48pm

"Do you love me?" - Zero and Harvey

[CATSNYrevival]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#12

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:58pm

I've heard tons of songs sung by the oposite sex on the show tune channel. umm... most I don't remember who sang them. I know Michael Ball sang "Memory" and that was... interesting. ummm... favorites include "More I Cannot Wish You", "Try To Remember", and "The Music of the Night" sung by women... pretty cool.

[Derech2]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#13

Posted: 2/16/05 at 6:22pm

I liked Barbra Streisand's Music of the Night, and Michael Ball's Tell Me on a Sunday was absolutely incredible (don't know much about the original show though ... I'm pretty sure it was a first a female solo correct?).

I also heard a clip of Stephen Schwartz (I'm fairly sure) singing Defying Gravity. Wow! What a voice! The song was thrown up quite a number of steps and made it really high. And sadly the clip was horrible quality and wasn't the entire song.

Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde.

[BWAYboi_yes]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#14

Posted: 2/16/05 at 6:25pm

"I'm flying" sung by Cathy Rigby.

[spiderdj82]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#15

Posted: 2/16/05 at 6:33pm

Anthony Warlow's version of "Unexpected Song" from TELL ME ON A SUNDAY. It is the best version of it out there, especially because of the glory note at the end.

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

[Ebonic_Singer]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#17

Posted: 2/16/05 at 6:38pm

I second that shneb!

[ElTico68]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#18

Posted: 2/16/05 at 6:45pm

Ok. I hope someone can refresh my memory. There's that song from Follies... I can't remember the name... ugh... "Leave You" or something like that. A woman sings it to her husband when he thinks she won't leave him? Anyway, in the British cast of a Sondheim revue (Putting it Together) a male sings it... and he keeps the line about frolicking with a boy in the fields or something. God... where is my memory today. Anyway... it works fantastic.

Happy, smile! Sad, frown! Use the corresponding face with the corresponding emotion! - Kate (Meg Ryan), French Kiss

[dotmarie]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#19

Posted: 2/16/05 at 7:46pm

I think the song is called "Could I Leave You" or something along those lines.

How about "Being Alive" from Company... another one Bernadette sings oh so well!!

[adamized88]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#20

Posted: 2/16/05 at 8:45pm

john tartaglia singing "taylor the latte boy" was totally awesome

"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died

[zippyjen]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#21

Posted: 2/16/05 at 8:51pm

I know it is not a theater song but bjorks version of leaving on a jet plane is just perfection.

"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!

[melissa errico fan]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#22

Posted: 2/16/05 at 8:54pm

What man did "Could I Leave You?" That is such a woman's song.

[show2n2]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#23

Posted: 2/16/05 at 8:54pm

I once heard Barrett Foa sing "BILL" from Show Boat and it was stunning.

:)

[melissa errico fan]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#24

Posted: 2/16/05 at 8:58pm

The song "Bill" has brought me to climax so many times...especially Lonnette McKee's version. Must check that out. PS, love the avatar!

[wildcat]

re: SONGS that are great when sung by the opposite sex...#25

Posted: 2/16/05 at 9:50pm

I KNOW HIM SO WELL (Chess) is most interesting as a duet between a man and a woman