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Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar

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Schmerg_The_Impaler
#1Songs 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. Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar


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

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givesmevoice
#2re: 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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SporkGoddess
#2re: 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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TimeSquare3
#3re: 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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#4re: 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

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GlindatheGood22
#5re: 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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givesmevoice
#6re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:00pm

^ I thought that was kind of the point?


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

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defyingravity11
#8re: 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 ... re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar


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defyingravity11
#9re: 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.


"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott

husk_charmer
#10re: 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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ray-andallthatjazz86
#11re: 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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ashley0139
#12re: 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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givesmevoice
#13re: 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.


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

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LimelightMike
#14re: 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

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LimelightMike
#15re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 1:10am

Bumping in Progress.

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#16re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Posted: 12/15/08 at 1:42am

This Place is Mine-Phantom

Mob Song- Beauty and The Beast

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binau
#17re: 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?


"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022) "Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009) "Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000

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geekgirl06
#18re: 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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wildcat
#19re: 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

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Pianolin717
#20re: 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

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geekgirl06
#21re: 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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#22re: 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".

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Schmerg_The_Impaler
#23re: 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.


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

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oohshizz146
#24re: 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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