"Your" Versions of the Standards

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 11:18pm

Everybody has their personal favorite versions of the canonical songs. What are some of yours?

Send in the Clowns - Judi Dench
Losing My Mind - Marin Mazzie
Meadowlark - Alice Ripley
I'm Still Here - Dolores Gray

[binau]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 11:29pm

Send in the Clowns - Bernadette Peters

Everything's Coming Up Roses - Patti LuPone

[Skip2]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 11:34pm

Comedy Tonight - Lee J. Cobb
In Buddy's Eyes - Irene Ryan
Liaisons - Victoria Gotti
Pretty Women - Rachel Zoe
I Am My Own Best Friend - Bernie Madoff

Let's see...what else?

[michellek45]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 11:47pm

All the South Pacific Reba/Brian Stokes Mitchell songs
"Lost in the Stars"- Annaleigh Ashford

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 11:50pm

Remembered a few more.

Being Alive - Norm Lewis (But I have not given up hope that Brian Stokes Mitchell will sing it!)
Not a Day Goes By - Bernadette Peters
The Glamorous Life - Audra McDonald

[Starcarolina]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 12:12am

I like Marin Mazzie and Michael Ball singing "Losing My Mind" (YouTube clips) and in both of these clips I find it ironic that Bernadette Peters can be seen on stage in the background watching these two performers. And a very maudlin song cut from ALADDIN, "Proud of Your Boy," as performed by Clay Aiken is very good. The guy CAN sing.

Updated On: 1/11/12 at 12:12 AM

[blaxx]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 1:16am

Not a Day Goes By - Bernadette Peters

Definitely her song.

[pinoyidol2006]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 2:18am

These are the versions of songs I strongly prefer to listen to over the original versions.

"Mister Snow" - Audra McDonald
"Bill" - Audra McDonald
"How Are Things in Glocca Morra" - Kate Baldwin
"Meadowlark" - Liz Callaway
"Ol' Man River" - Judy Garland
"So In Love" - Marrin Mazzie
"Falling in Love With Love" - Bernadette Peters
"So Far" - Judy Kuhn
"C'est Moi" - Nathan Gunn
"It Never Was You" - Patti LuPone
"This Nearly Was Mine" - Paulo Szot
"Everybody Says Don't" - Barbra Streisand
"Parade In Town" - Donna Murphy


This one is British:
"You Are What You Feel" - Laurie Beechman

[theeatah]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 3:41pm

Anything Goes - Kim Criswell
I'm Still Here (Live) - Dolores Gray
The Miller's Son - Cleo Laine
Cabaret - Judi Dench
When You're Good To Mama - Judi Connelli
I Know Where I've Been (Live) - Darlene Love
Buddy's Blues - Danny Burstein, Kiira Schmidt, Jenifer Foote
The Ladies Who Lunch (Live) - Julie Wilson
I'm The Greatest Star - Mimi Hines
Corner Of The Sky - John Farnham
Getting Married Today - Madeline Kahn
But Not For Me - Rosemary Clooney
There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This - Juliet Prowse, Paula Kelly, Josephine Blake
Everything's Coming Up Roses - Ruthie Henshall

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 6:21pm

And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going - Newt Gingrich

[pinoyidol2006]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 6:23pm

^Yes.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 6:59pm

Perhaps I am the only person on the planet whose favorite Cabaret is Gina Gershon's.

(Also, you'd never know it, but Twiggy actually did a great Losing My Mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVrk_x8Lbds)

[After Eight]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 7:40pm

Everything's Coming Up Roses- Ethel Merman

[darquegk]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 10:15pm

I like finding unexpected, genre-changing covers of show tunes, especially ones that are either TOTALLY kitsch, or surprisingly not kitsch at all.

Tom Jones sings a pretty electrifying version of "Cabaret" that is less a cover of the show version (he omits the bridge), than a swinging Tom Jones cover of the Louis Armstrong version.

Several Motown and Seventies adult-contemporary soul artists did "Tomorrow" from Annie. Lou Rawls, Grace Jones and The Manhattans all did very different versions.

Johnny Mathis, the crooner most commonly heard around Christmas with his somewhat eccentric, but classy, vocal takes on holiday tunes, does a very Johnny Mathis "What I Did For Love."

[TotallyJeannius]

Posted: 1/12/12 at 2:41pm

Unexpected Song - Bernadette Peters
Don't Cry for Me Argentina - Patti LuPone
The Little Things You Do Together - Barbara Walsh
Glitter and Be Gay - Kristin Chenoweth
Stars and the Moon, The Glamorous Life - Audra McDonald
I've heard others sing "Stars and the Moon" and nobody else comes close. And I've never heard anyone else's take on it, but I love Beth Leavel's "As We Stumble Along".

[WOSQ]

Posted: 1/12/12 at 4:51pm

Moon River sung by the one and only Nancy Lamott.

Deeply missed.