Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar- Page 7
Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#150
Posted: 7/10/09 at 9:52amNeither of these is a thatre song, but "You Riase Me Up" IS "Danny Boy" with different lyrics.
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#151
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!
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#152
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.
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/07
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#153
Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:07amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bLR35ftc6s
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#154
Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:43amI'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!"
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#155
Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:45amI think Speed Test was intentionally similar.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#156
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
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/07
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#157
Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:10pmStars and Love Changes Everything.
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#158
Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:38pmHmmm... 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.
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#159
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.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#160
Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:56pmWhich parts of Stars and Love Changes Everything sound similar? I don't hear it.
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#161
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?
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
Chorus Member Joined: 9/16/08
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#162
Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:56pmThe 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.
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#163
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.
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/07
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#164
Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:13pmYup. Not the exact same melodies, but they are very similar structurally.
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#165
Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:17pmOne of The Boys from 9 to 5 reminds me of a mix between When Violet Takes the Stand and Roxie from Chicago.
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#166
Posted: 7/19/09 at 10:41pm"Little Shop of Horrors" = "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus" from HAMLET 2
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#167
Posted: 7/19/09 at 10:43pmOh, my, god RogerBat. I never even realized that till now, and now I can't stop thinking about it.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#168
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.
Leading Actor Joined: 5/11/04
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#169
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
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#170
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.
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#171
Posted: 7/19/09 at 11:25pmI 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".
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#172
Posted: 7/20/09 at 1:13amI always assumed the Rock me Sexy Jesus was intentionally exactly like Little Shop of Horrors.
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#173
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??"
Swing Joined: 6/30/09
re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar#174
Posted: 7/20/09 at 9:52amwhen 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.
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