Signature Songs

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 10:47am

We all know signature songs as songs that were sung by a person and you always expected to hear them sing it.

Ethel Merman - There's No Business Like Show Business
Elaine Stritch - Ladies Who Lunch
Judy Garland - Over the Rainbow

Can you think of others? Do modern singers have signature songs or has that idea died?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 10:59am

Bob Cuccioli - This Is The Moment

[DofB5]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 11:48am

Michael Crawford -- Music of the Night

Michael Ball -- Love Changes Everything

D

Posted: 10/19/03 at 11:56am

Linda Eder : Vienna
Linda Eder : Someone Like You
Barbra Streisand : People
Patti LuPone : Don't Cry for me Argentina
Betty Buckley : Meadowlark

[Hank]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 11:59am

Sutton Foster: "Gimme Gimme"

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 1:47pm

Another of Betty Buckley's is "Memory."

[robyn525600]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 1:50pm

Adam Pascal - "One Song Glory"

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 1:54pm

Judy Collins -- "Send In The Clowns"
Frank Sinatra -- "New York, New York"
Liza Minelli -- "New York, New York" and "Cabaret"

[BroadwayBaby3]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 6:49pm

Barbra- Don't Rain on My Parade

[Sally]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 7:24pm

" Michael Crawford -- Music of the Night "

Don't mean to be morbid, but he is so identified with this song that his tombstone will probably read, "It's over now, the Music of the Night."

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 7:33pm

TGC: "Hello, Dolly!" AND "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 7:33pm

TGC: "Hello, Dolly!" AND "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"

[StateOfJade]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 7:52pm

Daphne Rubin Vega- Out Tonight

[sharon1]

Posted: 10/19/03 at 8:54pm

Empty Chairs and Empty Tables from Les Miz
Michael Ball

Posted: 10/19/03 at 9:05pm

Judy Dench : Send in the Clowns is the one I think of now.

[Bonnie]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 4:53am

Elaine Paige - Memory
Michael Crawford - Music of the Night
Colm Wilkinson - Bring Him Home

Bonnie in Oz

[sharon1]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 8:38am

I forgot someone
Kate Smith-God Bless America
It is not theatre but it is a signature piece

[ORPHAN]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 12:39am

i think a sig song is the cherry on top of a great show that has all the other bases covered: info songs, showy songs, comedy songs, etc. you must remember that the sig song used to be more important because broadway songs transfered easily to the RADIO. Not since lloyd webber has there been a show song on the radio. thus... producers are less concerned with that category. Hairspray, the producers, urinetown, etc. dont really have sig songs (albeit good songs that some may wish to call sig songs).

[Juliette Capulet]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 1:51am

"Memory" - Elaine Paige
"Aimer" - Damien Sargue and Cécilia Cara

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 4:24pm

Broadway songs don't transfer to the radio because the music styles have changed. Broadway took one path, and popular music took another.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 4:32pm

Another Kate Smith (underrated singer, btw) signature song is "When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain". That was the theme of her radio show.

Here are a few more:

Ray Bolger: "Once In Love With Amy" from WHERE'S CHARLEY?
Nancy LaMott: "Listen To My Heart"
Alice Faye: "You'll Never Know" from HELLO, FRISCO, HELLO
Al Jolson: "Mammy", "Toot, Toot, Tootsie" "Rockabye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody", "April Showers", "Sonny Boy"
Eddie Cantor: "If You Knew Susie", "Makin' Whoopie"
Martha Raye: "Mr. Paganini"
Gene Kelly: "Singin' In The Rain"
Betty Hutton: "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry", "Murder, He Says", "His Rocking Horse Ran Away". I'm sure Suleen can add about a dozen more! :)

Updated On: 10/26/03 at 04:32 PM

Posted: 10/26/03 at 10:34pm

Laurie Beechman also did a wonderful version of "LISTEN TO MY HEART"

Jennifer Holliday "AND I AM TELLING YOU...."

[TEACHEROFTHEATER]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 10:50pm

robert morse, "I belive in You"

doris day "que sera sera"

julie andrews "the sound of music"

paul mccartney "yesterday"

andrea Mcardle "tomorrow"

joel grey "wilkommen"

sammy davis "i gotta be me"

whitney houston "and I will always love you"

mandy patinkin "oh what a circus"

barbara cook "vanilla ice cream"

bette midler "but you've got to have friends"

cher "gypsies, tramps and thieves"

cyndi lauper "girls just want to have fun"

Posted: 10/26/03 at 11:06pm

See, I think of IWALY as Dolly's Song instead of Whitney's Song.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 2:48pm

what about Bob Hope and "Thanks for the Memories"? The Bingster and "White Christmas"? Dinah Shore and "Blues in the Night"? Cab Calloway and "Minnie the Moocher"? and any of several Rosemary Clooney recordings?

Bette is now associated with "The Rose" and also the Johnny Carson farewell song "One for My Baby" which she sang on his last live show. That to me was an unforgettable moment.