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#8

What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?

A laundry list of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs come to mind.

Do-Re-Mi, Edelweiss, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, The Sound of Music, Oh What a Beautiful Mornin', Oklahoma, Some Enchanted Evening, Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair, Nothing Like a Dame, I Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You, Shall We Dance, You'll Never Walk Alone...

Add Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Lerner & Loewe... the list of "songs everyone knows" could go on forever.

#9

What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?

"Tomorrow" from ANNIE

"America" from WEST SIDE STORY

"Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" from EVITA

"One" from A CHORUS LINE"

"Put On a Happy Face" from BYE BYE BIRDIE

"Ease On Down the Road" from THE WIZ

"Don't Rain on My Parade" from FUNNY GIRL

#12

What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?

Send in the clowns


Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
#13

What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?

Before I ever went to theater, I just remember the music I'd hear from shows. They were familiar to me, so maybe they are most well known to others. My list:

Cabaret

It's a Hard Knock Life

All That Jazz

And I Am Telling You

If I Were a Rich Man

Matchmaker

Shall We Dance?

Music of The Night

42nd Street

Into The Woods

And many mentioned already! =)

Updated On: 2/11/17 at 02:48 AM

#18

What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?

It largely depends on the era. "Mammy", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", and "Someone To Watch Over Me", for instance, were universally known 75 years ago, but very few under 35 know them today. To someone who is, say 45(I'm not talking about our select little group of experts), you'd have to go with "Tomorrow", "Memory", and "Send in the Clowns." "Defying Gravity", and "I Dreamed a Dream" are not far behind.

#21

What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?

Great question.

I think that right now, if you asked any random person to hum the first Broadway tune that popped into his/her head, the majority would hum "One."

#22

What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?

Far too many to name from before 1970.

From 1970 on (some of these songs are from shows/scores that were first seen/heard before they arrived on Broadway):

Day by Day
I Don't Know How to Love Him
Superstar
Everything's Alright
Send in the Clowns
Ease on Down the Road
Home
All that Jazz
One
What I Did for Love
Memory
Tomorrow
I Am What I Am
Don't Cry for Me Argentina
One Night in Bangkok
I Know Him So Well
Seasons of Love
Defying Gravity





Updated On: 2/11/17 at 05:01 PM

#25

What are the most well known Broadway songs of all time?

"Seriously? That's like putting Gary Sanchez in the Hall of Fame, Yankee Fan. A bit premature."

lol. I did that on purpose to get a reaction . You mean to tell me Gary Sanchez is not in the HOF yet - ha ha.

Updated On: 2/12/17 at 02:33 PM

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