Simular tunes in different musicals- Page 2

Posted: 9/3/04 at 8:47pm

Sometimes I think that "Somewhere that's Green" sounds like "Santa Fe" from Newsies

Posted: 9/3/04 at 8:53pm

ya

[musicalfandukie]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 8:55pm

i think the last minute from into the woods and could i leave you from follies sound alot alike.

oops spelling correction i ment last midnight...lol Updated On: 9/5/04 at 08:55 PM

[xluckystar2107x]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 8:57pm

im not kidding about the following....
the speed test sounds SO SO SOOOO much like this song from pirates of penzance that if it were karaeoke i think that either set of lyrics could be sung with one of the melodies.

Posted: 9/3/04 at 9:03pm

lol, did you not read the rest of the responses?? It's intentional!

Posted: 9/3/04 at 9:20pm

I'm sure many of you have noticed this before, but "For Good" is shockingly similar in parts to "Who Will Love Me as I Am?" from Side Show.

Also, one day my friend and I were listening to "Don't Be the Bunny" from Urinetown and he started singing "We'd Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover" from Annie. It fit perfectly!

[wickedwitchofthechest]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 9:25pm

The opening notes of Memory are unfortunately similar to those in Un Bel Di from Puccinni's Madame Butterfly. My poor sister almost failed a voice jury after being reminded of this unfortunate...coincidence?

[lullabyofbroadway28]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 9:34pm

I always hear Schwartz songs in his musicals all the time, like Working can sound like Pippin, and Pippin sounds like Godspell. Just little parts and chords.

[futurewinnerbud]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 9:38pm

The 2 most similar songs in the history fo musical theater that ISNT intentional...

"english girls" from the original broadway cast of song and dance
"tire tracks and broken hearts" from whistle down the wind

Almost exactly the same... and quincidentally the music for both songs are by... is it any suprise... Andrew Lloyd Webber

Posted: 9/3/04 at 10:24pm

wow, good one!

[Jon]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 10:44pm

Read the damn thread, people. The whole SPEED TEST thing was explained. I even typed out the damn lyrics!!!

Why do people refuse to understand that THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE CONTAINS SEVERAL PIECED OF NON-ORIGINAL MUSIC.

IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE.
IT'S NOT PLAGIARISM.
THEY CHOSE TO MIX OLD SONGS WITH NEW ONES.


Next I suppose some genius will tell everyone that parts of "How I Saved Roosevelt" from ASSASSINS sound like John Philllip Sousa marches!

Posted: 9/3/04 at 11:20pm

I know, I agree Jon.. read the other posts before you post your own..

Posted: 9/3/04 at 11:25pm

okay.. anymore?

Posted: 9/3/04 at 11:34pm

Ya actually--parts of "How I Saved Roosevelt" from ASSASSINS sound like John Philllip Sousa marches.

Just kidding.

Whoever said that thing about BA in English and the Rainbow Connection is totally right! hehe!! I never noticed that before!!

[krolockskid]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 11:34pm

I think "Chanson D'Efance" (sp?) from Aspects of Love and "If Only" from Whistle Down the Wind are the same song. I was listening to both the other day and they are VERY similar.

[Jon]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 11:37pm

I'm sure the composer of AVENUE Q was deliberately trying ot evoke The Rainbow Connection. The whole score does a nice job of capturing that Muppet ambiance.

[Jon]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 11:37pm

I'm sure the composer of AVENUE Q was deliberately trying ot evoke The Rainbow Connection. The whole score does a nice job of capturing that Muppet ambiance.

[MusicMan]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 11:45pm

My favorite description of Lloyd Webber's music is by critic Michael Feingold (Village Voice) who wrote, "...listening to a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber is like walking down the hall of a music conservatory with all its doors open."
Perfect! Updated On: 9/3/04 at 11:45 PM

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 11:50pm

I have always found

"Finishing the hat..." from Finishing the Hat (SITPWG)

to sound similar to

"I'm leaving you alone" from Last Midnight (INTO THE WOODS)

Despite both of those songs being extremely different.

Updated On: 9/3/04 at 11:50 PM

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 9/4/04 at 1:05am

Oh my God Jon!!! YOU'RE RIGHT!!! SONDHEIM TOTALLY RIPPED OFF SOUSA!!!

[wildparty20]

Posted: 9/4/04 at 1:57am

Parts of "Is This What You Call Love" from Passion sound remarkably like parts of "Last Midnight" from Into The Woods...

"Call it what you will/This is not love/This is the reverse/Like a curse/Something out of control/I've begun to fear for my soul"

"All right, Mother, when?/Lost the beans again!/Punish me the way you did then/Give me claws and a hunch/Just away from this bunch/And the gloom/And the doom/And the boom...

[wildparty20]

Posted: 9/4/04 at 2:04am

And answering TMCara "Ah Sweet Mystery of Life" that is used in TMM is a Victor Herbert song from a 1910 show called Naughty Marietta. The song was also used in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. Madelene Kahn sings it when the monster "ravishes" her.

[bronxboundexpress]

Posted: 9/4/04 at 2:13am

KuhnKrazy, the 3 notes from There's Me and Think of Me that you think are the same are actually different. Listen to them agian. The songs are NOT the same and only SIMILAR for those 3 notes. Don't mess with me when it come to STARLIGHT EXPRESS.

Posted: 9/4/04 at 2:52am

yup

[Jon]

Posted: 9/4/04 at 8:24am

Two more from the "Duh - I'm a moron" club:

In the title song of HAIR, when they sing:
"Oh say, can you see my eyes - if you can then my hair's to short!"

and in "1776" duing "Cool Considerate Men" when Dickinson sings:
"Oh say do yoo see what I see?"

Those both sound like the beginning of the national anthem. Boy I'm so smart to figure that out!