Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar- Page 7

[Timmer]

Posted: 7/10/09 at 9:52am

Neither of these is a thatre song, but "You Riase Me Up" IS "Danny Boy" with different lyrics.

[Timmer]

Posted: 7/10/09 at 9:58am

"The funny thing about it is that Marc Shaiman seemed to deliberately lift exact chord progressions and grooves from various 60's hits for his Hairspray score, yet he still created completely new and original pieces."

I forget who the composers of "Over Here!" were, but they did the same thing for the Big Band songs, perhaps consciously. As an example, listen to Duke Ellington's "Take the A Train" (actually, Billy Strayhorn wrote it)and "Over Here1"'s "Dream Drumming". The similarities are scary!

[Timmer]

Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:58pm

"Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie sounds remarkably like "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" from The Pirates of Penzance.

[dramadude2]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:07am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bLR35ftc6s

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:43am

I've always thought that when Mrs. Lovett sings "I know why nobody cares to take them, I should know, I make them, but good? No!" it sounds like "Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya Tomorrow!"

[claudioislove]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:45am

I think Speed Test was intentionally similar.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:57pm

No, Speed Test acutally IS ANOTHER Gilbert & Sullivan song (with different lyrics). It is "My Eyes are Fully Opened" from RUDDIGORE (which was also interpolated into the Joe Papp production of Pirates of Penzance in the early 1980's.)

My Eyes are fully opened to my awful situation
I should go at once to Roderick and make him a oration
I shall tell him I've recovered my forgotten moral senses
And I do not give a damn about the pending consequences
Now I do not want to perish by the sword or by the dagger
But a martyr may indulge a little pardonable swagger
And a word or two of compliment my vanity would flatter
But I've got to die tomorrow so it really doesn't matter

No it really doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter
et cetera

Stage Manager - The Worst Pies/Tomorrow thing was an intentional musical in-joke by Sondheim. ANNIE was the biggest hit on Broadway when he was writing Sweeney.

Timmer - every song in KISMET is based on a theme by Borodin. Updated On: 7/19/09 at 01:57 PM

[dramadude2]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:10pm

Stars and Love Changes Everything.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:38pm

Hmmm... really? Those are two of my favorite songs. I've never really listened for a similarity between them before... Whoa, I think I do see what you mean.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:49pm

"I'll Never Have That Chance" from LESTAT reminds me of "I Know The Truth" from AIDA, and I have no idea why...because they sound nothing alike.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:56pm

Which parts of Stars and Love Changes Everything sound similar? I don't hear it.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:02pm

This is pretty off-topic, but has anyone else noticed the suspicious similarities between Passing Strange's set and Spring Awakening's set?

[GoodbyeLoveRENT]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:56pm

The music in Shine Like the Sun between Doralee's verse and Judy's verse reminds me SO, so much of some of the music from High Fidelity, but I can't for the life of me think of what song.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:07pm

Which parts of Stars and Love Changes Everything sound similar? I don't hear it.

I think it's just the structure. "There... out in the darkness/A fugitive running, fallen from grace." "Love... love changes everything/Hands and faces, earth and sky." The way the first syllable is extended and the way both grow higher toward the middle of the line and lower at the end.

[dramadude2]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:13pm

Yup. Not the exact same melodies, but they are very similar structurally.

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:17pm

One of The Boys from 9 to 5 reminds me of a mix between When Violet Takes the Stand and Roxie from Chicago.

[RogerBartFan78]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 10:41pm

"Little Shop of Horrors" = "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus" from HAMLET 2

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 10:43pm

Oh, my, god RogerBat. I never even realized that till now, and now I can't stop thinking about it.

[broadway122]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 11:00pm

RogerBart the only reason I realized it was because during a dress rehearsal the girls changed their lyric to "Rock Me Sexy Jesus." It was hysterical

I think the Bali Ha'i (Just the words Bali Ha'i in the frist line of the chorus) sounds like the beginning "Ahs" of the Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin.

Also I think the part of "A Boy Like That" where Anita says "A boy who kills cannot love, A boy who kills has no heart. And he's the boy who gets your love And gets your heart" sound like the "Ahs" Ariel singing in The Little Mermaid when she is singing into Ursula's shell.

I know these aren't entire songs but these parts get me everytime. And I always change the lyrics.

[Jamie Pierce]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 11:05pm

"NYC" from ANNIE and "Edelweiss" from SOM

Sirius XM Broadway channel uses the instrumental NYC as part of their promo and I always start sining Edelweiss

[moowithme85]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 11:07pm

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

YES!! They sound very similar.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 11:25pm

I know we're not talking about Andrew Lloyd Webber stealing from himself, but if we were there are a few bars in "Song & Dance" that are ripped right out of "Cats".

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 1:13am

I always assumed the Rock me Sexy Jesus was intentionally exactly like Little Shop of Horrors.

[faithzilla]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:02am

Serious and Positive from Legally Blonde.
Only the part where they sing the words "Serious" and "Positive." It's SO similar. I was always like, "How did they get away with that??"

[stuckinoz]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 9:52am

when doing children of eden, the director and i noticed that the beginning of "the wasteland" is exactly the same as "do you hear the people sing" from les mis.