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#1

The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 10:19pm

What's thesong you can't get out of your head after months even years...

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#2

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 10:23pm

"Seventy-Six Trombones" is one of the catchiest songs ever. It never leaves your head. Especially when you want it to.

~Steven
#3

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 10:25pm

money money money-cabaret
shakalaka baby-bombay dreams
salaam bombay-bombay dreams
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#4

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 10:28pm

You Can't Stop the Beat - Hairspray
What Is This Feeling? - Wicked


Not much of a selection, but I can NEVER get these songs out of my head.
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#5

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 10:34pm

footloose - footloose
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#7

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 10:48pm

We both reached for the Gun- Chicago

just did a tap number to this last Saturday and we had to sing too, so it has been stuck in my head all year. haha. just starting to leave my head now
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#9

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:07pm

I think I'm going to have to second 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang;' once I hear it, it takes days to stop humming it.
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#11

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:15pm

I second "you can't stop the beat", gotta love it!
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#14

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:22pm

a wild, wild party for lippa's wild party is rather catchy although its technically off broadway
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#16

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:28pm

I cannot get Say It Somehow out of my head. From Piazza.
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#17

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:30pm

"Everyone's a Little Bit Racist"--Avenue Q...yeah it's not the best song to be singing when you're walking down the aisle at the grocery store...but I always hum it anyways.
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#18

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:31pm

I never heard or saw Chitty until today, when I watched my DVD which I owned for a year but never opened.

"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" got stuck in my head and has been in there all day - and I don't know the damned lyrics!

I think the Sherman brothers are the song-writing teams best known for stuck-in-your-head showtunes.

"Supercalifragulisticexpealidious" or however its spelled, and "Chitty."
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#19

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:53pm

I still have 'Merrily We Roll Along (1980)/ Rich and Happy' stuck in my head. Also 'Pandemonium' and 'I Speak Six Languages' is quite catchy as well. Avenue Q has a catchy score.
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#20

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/30/05 at 12:12am

As far as my personal experience, "Master of the House" is unbelievably catchy. I was singing that song for weeks after the show and I still don't even know the words...but the tune...whoa. That sticks.

Also, on behalf of my friend, I second "Shakalaka Baby." She was singing it for months and we never even saw the show. Just walked past the theatre where they blared it during the day.
#21

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/30/05 at 12:32am

Ugh. I almost always have a showtune stuck in my head.

"Lonely Goatherd" from 'The Sound of Music' is one of those that stays for days...
"Wrong Note Rag" from 'Wonderful Town'... always. Ugh.
Most of 'Avenue Q' is pretty catchy.
"Popular" is one of those that you can listen to once, and three hours later you're banging your head against the wall, trying to get the "Laaa laa, laaa laaa"s out. Or is that just me?

There's gotta be more...
#22

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/30/05 at 12:46am

I was originally thinking "Popular" from Wicked until I saw that someone had said "Seventy-Six Trombones" and it imediately started running through my head. That song stays in my head for days and days and days. I constantly find myself singing the words out loud, despite the fact that I don't know what comes after the coronet part.
#23

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/30/05 at 12:59am

I third 'You Can't Stop The Beat.'

I would hum that thing for days after hearing it. It was much more fun when I finally learned the words. Damn, I love that show.




OOO. 'Shakalakakakalakalkaalkalka Baby' sticks around, unfortunately, really easily too. Oh, Miss Tamyra Gray. Lordy.
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#25

re: The most catchy broadway song ever...

Posted: 6/30/05 at 1:13am

You Can't Stop The Beat and What Is This Feeling? were the first two I thought of, but I agree with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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