Songs That Could Pass For 'Non-Show Tunes' — Page 3

Yes, Millie, Smokey Joe's is a revue. It's also one of the first jukebox musicals. The earliest ones were "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" and the Tony winning "Ain't Misbehavin'." So frankly, I don't think jukebox musicals count for this thread. I also think that Dreamgirls and Tarzan have great songs too. God, so many shows provide excellent songs that would have great airtime on the radio. Maybe they could do some pop versions of songs from The Light in the Piazza. God, imagine Christina Aguilera's cover of The Beauty Is. Saints preserve us.

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There's No Business like Show Business
42nd Street
Anything Goes
I Hope I Get It

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Sant: Whitney Houston recorded "I Know Him So Well" from Chess, so you were right about it having a more mainstream appeal.

Mamma Mia and Movin' Out's songs were both famous before those musicals were written. Jukebox musicals don't count for this because all of those songs are non-show tunes.

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check out lauren kennedy's songs of jason robert brown CD. it's very acoustic and what non-theatre people call "normal" music. my dad even listens to it. haha

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"Maybe the soundtrack from Mamma Mia! Or perhaps Movin' Out. Any takers? None? "

*GASP*

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About Aida:

Before the musical hit Broadway, there was a concept recording of many songs recorded by popular artists. Though I don't own the album, I heard it several times and I think each artist suited their song well. The Spice Girls did "My Strongest Suit" I think, and Boyz II Men did "Not Me", James Taylor might have been on there too. Here's the link to the details.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000IFTH/ref=pd_sim_m_6/102-7789051-4701748?ie=UTF8

Since Tim Rice was the lyricist, maybe he helped give Elton the idea to create this concept album first with the pop artists to create buzz and interest, similar to what was done with JCS. (Correct me if I'm wrong about this.)

From this album, Elton John recorded "Written in the Stars" with Leann Rimes, and I don't know if it hit Top 40, but it was played on the radio a lot at the time. Also, this may be hard to believe, but back then I heard on the radio the "pop" version of "A Step too Far" as a trio with Elton, Heather Headley and Sherie Scott. Those of you who were radio listeners at the time know that this was definitely not a hit and vanished quickly from the airwaves.

-Jennifer

"The thing I hate about online communication is that sarcasm is so gosh darn hard to translate into something you can write."

No kidding.

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'No matter what' from Whistle down the Wind was recoreded by Irish Boyband Boyzone a few years ago, sometime in the late 90's. I was then in a show for a competition, where each group does an hour long show, two each night for a week, and at the end of the week the judge releases his comments and so on. Well, we did a whole montage thing from Whistle down the wind, and one of the songs we did was No matter what. The Judge later said that it didn't fit in and that we shouldn't have tried to put a boyband's pop song into a musical. Idiot.

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ZANNA DON'T - "I Think We Got Love", "Sometime, Do You Think We Could Fall In Love? "

TABOO - "Love Is A Question Mark"

They're duety and would probably never get radio play, but I think they'd do nicely alongside Rent et al as "passable showtunes".