Songs Hardly Referred to by their Real Titles- Page 2

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 8:15pm

One of my best friends can never remember the title The Bitch of Living, so she calls it the bitch thing.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 8:43pm

Some I've heard over the years:

"Aida" instead of "Dance of the Robe"
"Ruprecht" instead of "All About Ruprecht" (even I'm guilty of that one...)
"Do No Harm/The Yodel Song/the Doctor song"...anything except "Ruffhousin' mit Shuffhausen"
"Great Big Stuff Reprise" instead of "Son of Great Big Stuff"
"I Got The Horse Right Here" instead of "Fugue for Tinhorns"
"I Only Want To Say," or "What if I Die" leaving out "Gesthemane"
"No Day But Today" instead of "Life Support"
"Art Isn't Easy" instead of "Putting It Together"

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 9:10pm

haha I am sadly guilty of many of these (mainly "He had it coming" and "No Day but Today")

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 9:30pm

"The Flesh Failures/Eyes Look Your Last" from Hair is often referred to as "Let the Sun Shine" or "Let the Sun Shine In." The correct nickname should be "Let the Sunshine In."

I've never heard anyone call the song from Lippa's Wild Party "An Old-Fashioned Love Story." Everyone just calls it "Lesbian Love Story" instead.

~Steven

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 1:33am

It's not from a show but "In Other Words" is usually called by it's opening line "Fly Me To the Moon".

[Broadway Bob*]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 1:39am

"The Way We Were" is often referred to as "Memories" as well. Imagine my consternation when a guy came into my record store and asked for "that Barbra Streisand song 'Memories.'" I had to ask him several questions and finally sing part of both songs ("Memory" and "The Way We Were") to finally figure out which song he wanted. OY!

[jagfkb]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 6:28am

Because the school edition of Les Miz lumps the numbers of different scenes into single songs called by the scene's setting (ie: The Docks rather then Lovely Ladies), our company calls alot of songs by their original names (Little People rather then Javert at the barricades or do You Hear the People Sing? rather then the People's Song

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 8:00am

Well, there's a reason it's called "Dance:10; Looks: 3." The audiences saw "T and A" in the playbill, and didn't laugh as hard.

When we did Spitfire Grill I re-named half the songs, and I still like my names better:
"Shoulder to Shoulder" instead of "Diggin' Stone"
"It's Late in the Day" instead of "Hannah's Act II Song" (The name escapes me...still)
"Light in These Windows" instead of "Come Alive Again"
"Way-ho!" instead of "Ice and Snow"


A fun one, which changes depending on your lyrics:
"The Charles Atlas Song" (Original Lyrics) vs "I Can Make You a Man" (Movie's Lyrics)

[Jon]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 9:51am

In all Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, the "titles" are actually just the first lines of the songs. So there really is no song called "I Am the Pirate King" or "The Pirate King's Song". The proper title is "Oh Better Far to Live and Die". And in Mikado, there is no song called "Titwillow". It's called "On a Tree by a River".

[luceecool]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 1:11pm

With An Old Fashioned Love Story, everyone I know just refers to it as "that lesbian song" as noone's heard of the Wild Party.

[sparkleplenty]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 2:29pm

OK - non-Broadway and therefore off topic, but I hate the way at the school where I teach (and actually have heard this elsewhere)they always call "America the Beautiful", "Oh, Beautiful".