News on your favorite shows, specials & more!
pixeltracker

Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs

Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs

MadAboutTheBoy Profile Photo
MadAboutTheBoy
#1Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 2:54pm

Sometimes I hear song from a musical that reminds me so much of another song. This morning on Sirius XM's Broadway channel, I heard for the first time the song "Doctor's Orders" from "Catch Me if You Can." It struck me as very similar to the number "Do Me a Favor" from the original "Carrie" musical:

"Doctor's Orders"

"Do Me a Favor"

Are there any songs from different musicals you think sound very similar or remind you of one another in some way??

 

JudyDenmark Profile Photo
JudyDenmark
#2Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 3:01pm

"Somewhere That's Green" and "Part of Your World" for a variety of reasons, though it doesn't totally shock me since they're both Menken. ("Out of the sea / wish I could be / part of that world" is nearly identical to "far from Skid Row / I dream I'll go / somewhere that's green"Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs

Kitsune Profile Photo
Kitsune
#3Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 3:04pm

For some reason I get "Motherhood" from Hello Dolly! and "We Need a Little Christmas" from Mame mixed up in my head. I mean, they're obviously different, but there are enough similarities.

NightMusic3
#4Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 3:07pm

Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown's "Make 'Em Laugh" from Singin' in the Rain is straight plagiarised from Porter's "Be a Clown". Also, Jerry Herman's "It Takes a Woman" and "We Need a Little Christmas" have pretty similar melodies. 

Wick3 Profile Photo
Wick3
#5Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 3:08pm

When I first saw Dear Evan Hansen (before the cast album was released) I thought "you will be found" sounded a lot like the "flashlight" song from Pitch Perfect 2.

 

goodlead
#6Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 3:09pm

"Be a  Clown" and "Make 'Em Laugh," the latter from "Singin' in the Rain" the former from (perhaps) "The Pirate."
 

 

ABitOnTheSide Profile Photo
ABitOnTheSide
#7Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 3:10pm

"Superstar" from Jesus Christ Superstar is the exact same as "Rosemary" from How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

Kitsune Profile Photo
Kitsune
#8Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 3:13pm

NightMusic3 said: "Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown's "Make 'Em Laugh" from Singin' in the Rain is straight plagiarised from Porter's "Be a Clown". Also, Jerry Herman's "It Takes a Woman" and "We Need a Little Christmas" have pretty similar melodies."

Thank you, that was it - I don't know why I said Motherhood before! (I saw the Hello Dolly tour recently and remembered one of the songs sounding a lot like "We Need a Little Christmas"

QueenAlice Profile Photo
QueenAlice
#9Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 3:49pm

MISS SAIGON had so many songs that sounded familiar The NY Times wrote a piece on it.https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/19/theater/recordings-view-playing-name-that-tune-with-miss-saigon.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=6B1519E0310A96665FE826136E362073&gwt=pay

The biggest culprit is “Why God” which sounds an awful lot like”There’s a small Hotel”


“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”

Wick3 Profile Photo
Wick3
#10Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 4:01pm

I miss that game show "Name That Tune"!!!!!!

Alex Kulak2
#11Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 4:03pm

The piano at the beginnings of "Mr Witherspoon's Friday Night" from Lucky Stiff and "Counting Down to Christmas" from A Christmas Story: The Musical are the same

 

DoTheDood Profile Photo
DoTheDood
#12Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 4:06pm

I know the point of Book of Mormon is meant to poke fun at Broadway, but man is "You and Me (But Mostly Me)" spot on with "The Wizard and I". I listened to BoM first so everytime I hear 
Wicked, I think of BoM, which is the opposite intent probably.

aj88
#13Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 4:08pm

Even though the rest of the songs are different from one another, the same notes are used for the title lyrics IF ONLY YOU WOULD LISTEN from School of Rock and SOMEONE ELSE’S STORY from CHESS

MollyJeanneMusic
#14Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 4:33pm

I would love for one performance of "Popular" in Wicked for them to take the musical tag of "Watch What Happens" from Newsies and put it at the end of the song and see if anyone notices.  I've always thought it would sound really cool.

Also, the musical tags of "Being Alive" from Company, "Out There" from Hunchback, and "Evermore" from the live-action Beauty and the Beast all could pretty easily be swapped out for each other.

ALSO also, I can see the song "Brooklyn's Here" from Newsies going pretty well into the titular song of Little Shop of Horrors.


"I think that when a movie says it was 'based on a true story,' oh, it happened - just with uglier people." - Peanut Walker, Shucked

bwaylyric Profile Photo
bwaylyric
#15Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 5:07pm

Whenever I listen to "Come to Me, Bend to Me" from Brigadoon, I'm reminded of "Music of the Night" from Phantom.

BeukyBaby
#16Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 5:35pm

I've always thought Moonfall from Drood and With Every Breath I Take from City of Angels sounded very similar. Does anyone else hear it?

davidbrian81
#17Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 5:40pm

Every time I hear "We Do Not Belong Together" from SITPWG, I can't stop hearing "Chariots of Fire"

kdogg36 Profile Photo
kdogg36
#18Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 9:28pm

The "God, you are so beautiful" section of "Happiness" from Passion has, since the very first time I heard it, put me in mind of the tune of "Unexpected Song" from Song and Dance.

In the other direction, "Other Pleasures" from Aspects of Love sounds an awful lot like the discarded version of "With So Little To Be Sure Of" that can be heard on the remastered recording of Anyone Can Whistle.

Updated On: 3/21/19 at 09:28 PM

Someone in a Tree2 Profile Photo
Someone in a Tree2
#19Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 9:32pm

I can't listen to the opening phrase in "No-one is Alone" without hearing "Who can take a sunrise...?" from "The Candy man Can".

Edited to correct the Into The Woods song I really meant.

Updated On: 3/21/19 at 09:32 PM

bwayrose7 Profile Photo
bwayrose7
#20Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 9:42pm

A bit of Pasek and Paul nearly self-plagiarizing: DEH's "Only Us" and "Rewrite the Stars" from Greatest Showman. 

DEH: "What if it's you / And what if it's me / And what if that's all that we need it to be"

Greatest Showman: "It's up to you / It's up to me / No one can say what we get to be"

youwillbefound2 Profile Photo
youwillbefound2
#21Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 10:02pm

This is going to sound completely ridiculous and I know BOM did a lot of parodies of other songs, but that one part in Spooky Mormon Hell Dream that goes like "Welcome, welcome to spooky Mormon hell dream" sounds a lot like The American Dream from Miss Saigon.......

two ladies tickets
#22Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 11:10pm

Welcome to the Rock from Come From Away = Pinball Wizard from Tommy.
You Will Be Found from DEH = Unpretty by TLC.

ItsJavert Profile Photo
ItsJavert
#23Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 11:13pm

'If the World Turned Upside Down' from Finding Neverland and 'The World Turned Upside Down' from Hamilton share many similarities.

Frank Wildhorn's songs all sound the same.

henrikegerman Profile Photo
henrikegerman
#24Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/21/19 at 11:24pm

"Come Back to Me" from ON A CLEAR DAY and "Follow Me" from CAMELOT

rattleNwoolypenguin
#25Songs That Sound An Awful Lot Like Other Songs
Posted: 3/22/19 at 1:23am

You Will Be Found has always sounded aggresively derivative of pop songs from the 2000s.

Waste from Road Show, Johanna II from Sweeney, and Everybody's Got the Right start the EXACT same way.

In fact I remember at the beginning of Road Show my friend in the audience turning to me as soon as the show started and whispered sang "Everybody's got the right to be happy..."


Videos