Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

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Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:53pm

Intentional or not, they're everywhere.

I can't hear the song "Closed For Renovation" from Little Shop without lapsing into "There Is Nothing Like A Dame." And there's one bit in "Oldest Established" from Guys and Dolls that sounds a lot like "We Need A Little Christmas."

Anyone else have any examples? Songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber are INELIGIBLE.

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#2

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:57pm

damn, I was going to say "Every song Andrew Lloyd Webber ever wrote".

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#3

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:02pm

I think that there's a part of "Say it Somehow" that sounds like "Loving You" from Passion.

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#4

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:08pm

The beginning of "Send me Someone" from YF sounds like the music of "Little Lamb" from GYPSY.

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#5

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:21pm

The beginning of "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Side Show always reminds me of "For Good" from Wicked.

Updated On: 12/15/08 at 10:21 PM

#6

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:58pm

I always thought the Ballad of Czolgosz from Assassins sounded like something out of Ragtime.

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#7

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:00pm

^ I thought that was kind of the point?

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When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

#8

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:01pm

Umm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S3fpgrZ9ys

and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MURkHIVGwsI

#9

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:02pm

"Part of Your World" and "Somewhere That's Green"
"Comfort and Joy" and "Legally Blonde (Remix)"

... oh, wait ...

#10

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:10pm

Oh, and part of Les Liz appears in Seussical: "Now I'm caught between a dust speck / And an incubating egg!" and Little Women.

#11

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:15pm

I think that ALW ripped part of "Love Changes Everything" out of "Oh Happy We" from Candide.

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#12

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:37pm

It has been said before but "Going, Going, Gone" from LOLITA, MY LOVE sounds exactly like "All You Have to Do is Wait" from CITY OF ANGELS.

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#13

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:57pm

The beginning of "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Side Show always reinds me of "For Good" from Wicked.

Well, Side Show was written before Wicked so technically For Good reminds you of Who Will Love Me As I Am. But they do sound similar.

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#14

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:09am

Annas_Priest, that's what makes me laugh about ALW. not only do his songs sound like songs written by other artists, but his songs all then sound alike. I mean, leitmotifs are way cool and all that, but get some new melodies in there occasionally, buddy.

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When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

#15

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:13am

Now, maybe it's just me, but I *always* hear the same friggin' thing during the vamp for "All That Jazz" as I do for the vamp during Sweeney's verses in "Johanna (Act II Sequence)". Please, tell me I'm not alone in thinking this, as I've thought it for YEARS. LoL

#16

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 1:10am

Bumping in Progress.

#17

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 1:42am

This Place is Mine-Phantom

Mob Song- Beauty and The Beast

#18

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 1:54am

There is a song from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" that sounds very similar at times to a Sondheim song. I don't remember what the pair was though, can anyone help me out :P?

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#19

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 3:07am

KT Tunstall's "Black Horse and a Cherry Tree" always reminded me of "That's What He Said" from Parade.

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#20

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 3:21am

"Bobo's"--THE ACT
and
"It's A Business"--CURTAINS

"Why, God, Why"--MISS SAIGON
and
"There's A Small Hotel"--ON YOUR TOES

#21

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 3:23am

maybe its just me.. but i dont hear how For Good and Who Will Love Me As I Am sound similar at all


*EDIT*

ok never mind I was listening to the beginnings... my bad
but yeah, I see how it sounds similar

Updated On: 12/15/08 at 03:23 AM

#22

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 4:06am

On the note of For Good and Who Will Love Me As I Am? I would like to add The Color Purple to that list.

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#23

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 4:47am

"There is a song from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" that sounds very similar at times to a Sondheim song. I don't remember what the pair was though, can anyone help me out :P?"

'Candyman' and 'No One Is Alone'? "Who can take a sunrise..." = "Mother cannot guide you..."

There's a little da-da-da-da-da in 'Say it Somehow' from 'The Light in the Piazza' which always makes me think of the title song of 'Beauty and the Beast'. I think it comes just before Fabrizio sings "something something there you go".

#24

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 6:40am

Oh my gosh, LimelightMike, I NEVER noticed that "All That Jazz"/Johanna thing before. I won't be able to stop thinking that now.

Les Poissons from Little Mermaid is basically the same song as "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast-- and they actually CHANGED Les Poissons for Broadway to make it sound *less* like Be Our Guest.

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In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

#25

re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Posted: 12/15/08 at 6:51am

Some songs from legally blonde sound like songs from bat boy...but then again, same composer so it makes sense.

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