Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
#1Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 5:21pmPLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. I need some serious help. I have a benefit on Saturday for the Harvey Milk Postage Stamp. We are raising money to help get the stamp in his name. We are doing a "Please, Mr. Postman" Benefit and all of our songs are to be about the mail, letters, or postman etc etc. Anyone know of any fabulous songs (broadway or otherwize) about the industry? I prefer Broadway songs and are sung by woman. I already have Vanilla Ice Cream from Shel Loves me. Any suggestions?
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
Orangesaretuesdays
Stand-by Joined: 10/8/10
#2Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 5:24pm
"The Letter" from a year with frog and Toad.
#2Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 5:30pm
Well, a large portion of the story in PASSION is told through letters, but I think you mean songs the subject of which is mail/post specifically, so this suggestion is probably of no help whatsoever.
I'll keep thinking.
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#3Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 5:35pmit is for a talent/drag show benefit. And the songs and be done as Letters. Like one of the people is doing the song DEAR ME by Lorrie Morgan.
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#4Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 5:41pm
Oh! Well, "I Wish I Could Forget You" is a dictation of a letter, though that context is only really provided rather late in the song, methinks.
Also, not a showtune, but Leonard Cohen's amazing "Famous Blue Raincoat" is an epistelary song, if not exactly "fabulous" in the traditional sense.
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americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#5Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 5:43pm
"The Letter" from BILLY ELLIOT.
"Vanilla Ice Cream" from SHE LOVES ME.
#6Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 5:43pm
OP's got the second one already.
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FunnyGirl617
Chorus Member Joined: 4/23/10
#7Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 6:34pm
"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" (jazz standard)-great song-Michael Feinstein sang it in his "Power of Two" show with Cheyenne Jackson
Ones that most likely wouldn't work out of context:
"The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie. Not sure this would work for a concert...you kind of need a chorus of tap dancers.
"Letter Song" from The Secret Garden
Oh what's that song from SMILE..."Dear Mom" I think...that might be funny if you're doing a drag show
"Dear Mr. Gable: You Made Me Love You"-sung by Judy Garland...also funny for a drag show
Updated On: 11/18/10 at 06:34 PM
#8Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 6:40pm
Hells, yeah... a Fats Waller tune, also featured on the soundtrack of AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'.
Excellent.
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ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#9Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 6:43pm
PS, I Love You - Various artists
Return to Sender - Elvis
Mailman, Bring me no More Blues - Buddy Holly
the letter - box tops
Stan - eminem (probably not a good choice, but hey...)
Love letters - Young/Heymen, sung by Bonnie Raitt
The Proposal - Titanic (not technically a letter, it;s dictation of a telegram)
Updated On: 11/18/10 at 06:43 PM
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#10Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 7:01pm
"Here Alone" - Little Women
"How I Am" - Little Women
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#11Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 7:07pmSigned, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
#12Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 7:15pmAlso from She Loves Me, I Don't Know His Name could work.
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
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#13Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 7:23pm
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah - Alan Sherman
Dear Landlord - Dylan
Dear Abby - John Prine
Dear Mrs Roosevelt - Woody Guthrie
Xmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis - Tom Waits
Updated On: 11/18/10 at 07:23 PM
#14Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 7:49pmYou could sing the mail song from Blue's Clues.
-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#16Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 8:25pmSince that's the name of the benefit, I'm guessing they may already have that one :)
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#17Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 10:34pmWell, there's always "A Weekend in the Country" from A Little Night Music.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#18Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/18/10 at 11:31pm"Letters" from "Baker Street."
JMVR
Featured Actor Joined: 3/26/04
#19Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/19/10 at 6:59am
"The Most Happy Fella" (the song itself) starts with a postman singing about delivering the mail.
Maybe "the wells Frago Wagon" from The Music Man?
"Tell Me on a Sunday" has a lot of letter-writing songs.
Billy Eliott has a letter song as well.
The meat is always leaner on somebody else's dinner plate!
#20Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/19/10 at 8:09amI was gonna say Unexpected Song from Song and Dance/Tell me on a Sunday.
grandpianoalex
Stand-by Joined: 2/15/10
#21Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/19/10 at 11:00amDear Daddy from BRATT Camp by Bobby Cronin
#22Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/19/10 at 11:01am
Oh! DUH! "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh."
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Updated On: 11/19/10 at 11:01 AM
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#23Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/19/10 at 12:41pm
Funny, I had the exact same reaction when I posted that song yesterday (as in "how did I not think of that sooner?").
Dunno how well it would go over with a drag queen singing it though. That was the problem with most of the songs I listed - likely inappropriate for the benefit.
Hope OP gets back to us to tell us what they used.
Eponine3
Understudy Joined: 12/7/06
#24Songs about the Mail/Post Office/Letters
Posted: 11/19/10 at 4:57pmHi! Good luck with your benefit! I would suggest the song "Summer in Ohio" from THE LAST 5 Years.
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