Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Magenta02
Chorus Member Joined: 6/30/03
#0Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 11:02amAny ideas for a ballad about either cars, traveling, or saying goodbye? A music teacher friend of mine is trying to piece together her show choir set for the upcoming season.
#1re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 11:11amIn Fiddler, the song "Far From The Home I Love" might be suitable. It's sung to Tevye by his daughter Hodl just before she gets on a train to join her fiance in Siberia.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#2re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:49pmHm, maybe Sante Fe from Newsies? He's talking about getting on a train to go to Sante Fe and leaving the city, soo possibly.
somebody hold me too close...
#3re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:51pm
These probably wouldn't work but, Santa Fe 
and Goodbye Love from Rent.
#4re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:52pmOoo I second Goodbye Love, that's perfect.
somebody hold me too close...
Amneris
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#5re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 4:06pmNew York New York =)
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#6re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 4:21pm
Bus from Amarillo, from Whorehouse, I actually think has all those three, except there is a bus instead of a car. 
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 4:43pm
Does it have to be Broadway?
Leaving on a Jet Plane
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#8re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 4:46pmIf it doesn't have to be Broadway, Thunder Road by Springsteen is EXACTLY that.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#9re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 4:50pm
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (from CCBB)
*Greased Lightning (from Grease, obviously)
*My Boyfriend's Back (from Jersey Boys, including pre-monologue)
Rock Island (from Music Man)
Healthy Normal American Boy (from Bye Bye Birdie... err, it takes place in a train station)
*Leavin's Not The Only Way To Go (from Big River)
I Do, I Do In The Sky (from Drowsy Chaperone)
They're about cars, or traveling, really... I think the best choice up there is "Leavin's Not The Only Way To Go." Every choir showcase needs a couple solo songs, and this can showcase your 3+ best singers.
mijofly19
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/05
#10re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 5:09pm"Toll" by Jeff Blumenkrantz.
#11re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 5:13pm
Goodbye - Elegies
You'll Go Away With Me - See What I Wanna See
I'm Going Home - Rocky Horror
Learning to Let Go - Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Travel - Starting Here, Starting Now
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#12re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:16pm
David Hasselhoff has a new song out called "Jump In My Car".
I highly doubt sheet music for it will ever be released, so I guess I can't help you out.
#13re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:27pmGoodby Until Tommorow - Last 5 Years
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#14re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:29pm"On the Atchitson, Topika and the Santa Fe." It's not from a stage musical, but it's from a screen musical. It's not a ballad, as you've requested, but it could be a good choir piece.
#15re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:53pmI second "Goodbye Until Tomorrow."
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#16re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 8:04pmAs If We Never Said Goodbye - Sunset Blvd
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#17re: Songs about cars, traveling, saying goodbye, etc...
Posted: 8/11/06 at 8:10pm
Goodbye, My Love/Journey On - Ragtime
(not a ballad:)
"Travel" from Starting Here, Starting Now (great song!)
P.S. --- Did anybody ever write a BALLAD about a car???
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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