last Billboard hit from a Broadway show?- Page 2

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 5:39pm

"I Don't Know How To Love Him" charted twice in 1971:

-- Helen Reddy's peaked at #13 on the Pop Charts (her first charted hit)
-- Yvonne Elliman's peaked at #28 on the Pop Charts

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 5:42pm

Didn't Sheryl Lee Ralph and Ben Harney's "When I First Saw You" make the top 40 of the R&B chart in the 80s?

Updated On: 1/19/07 at 05:42 PM

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 5:45pm

"When I First Saw You" peaked at #50 during its 6 weeks on the R&B charts in 1983.

[DWalk]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 7:12pm

I might have missed this if it was posted earlier but didn't Send in the Clowns hit the Top 40 once or twice?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 7:41pm

Judy Collins' rendition of "Send in the Clowns" hit the Top 40 twice:

-- #36 in 1975
-- #19 in 1977

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 7:47pm

Liza Minnelli's version of "Losing My Mind" with the Pet Shop Boys hit #11 on the US Dance Charts (and #6 on the UK Pop Charts) in 1989.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 10:07pm

And I believe the original cast recording of HAIR is the last Broadway recording to actually reach #1 on the Billboard top 200.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 12:08am

Thanks guys. I had a hunch there'd been several. So I guess I owe numerous pints for:

Easy As Life - written for Aida, dance hit in 2004
No Matter What - written for Whistle Down the Wind, UK hit in 1998
Losing My Mind - written for Follies, dance hit in 1989
This is the Moment - written for Jekyll & Hyde, Olympics hit
Till I Loved You - written for Goya, never produced onstage

Calvin, here's how the bet started: the other night, my friend predicted that "The Bitch of Living" would become the first hit song to come from a musical since "One Night in Bangkok," and I said there must have been others in the past 20 years. He said no.

We never really defined how big a hit it had to be, nor did we restrict it to the pop chart. But he said remixes, samples, and film soundtracks didn't count. Had to be a hit directly from a cast recording or a cover version of a song written for a musical. So that disqualified Jay-Z, Gwen, Dreamgirls, Rent, and Evita.

Who had a recent hit with Gershwin?

[NCGuy]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 12:16am

Broadway Local, since you didn’t restrict it to the pop charts, you can add Streisand’s “All I Ask of You” (#15, AC Charts in ‘89) and Neil Diamond’s “I Dreamed a Dream” (#13, AC Charts in ‘87) to your list.

[mikem]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 12:23am

The British charts have had a LOT more hits from stage musicals than the US has, including The Phantom of the Opera title song and All I Ask of You, Love Changes Everything from Aspects of Love, I Know Him So Well from Chess, and Whistle Down the Wind. Most recently, I believe that Electricity from Billy Elliott (sung by Elton John) hit No 4 and I Believe My Heart from The Woman in White (sung by pop singers, not by the original cast) hit No 2. (I believe No Matter What was the last No 1 hit from a stage musical in the UK.)

Also, the French charts have had a lot of hits, too. Belle from Notre Dame de Paris is one of the biggest selling singles of the past 10 years there, and Les Rois du Monde from Romeo et Juliette was also a No 1 hit.

[mpw607]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 3:00pm

As the UK has been brought into the debate, "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Gerry & The Pacemakers was a No 1 hit in the UK in 1963. It's still the crowd anthem at Liverpool Football Club (soccer to you guys over the pond)

[OCUSummerMusic]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 5:24pm

And let's not forget "Written In the Stars" By Elton John and LeeAnn Rhimes in the late 1990's from "Aida"

[OCUSummerMusic]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 5:26pm

And the Beatles had a Music Man hit in the 1960's with "Till There Was You"

[Annas_Priest]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 6:16pm

I KNOW the Song "Superstat" From JCS Must have Charted, Before/During the Realse of the Concept Album!

[kdogg36]

Posted: 11/18/21 at 11:40pm

I apologize for dredging up an old thread, but can anyone confirm that “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine,” as performed by the Fifth Dimension, is the last Billboard Hot 100 number one hit from a Broadway musical?

[SoCalDirector]

Posted: 11/19/21 at 12:27am

Streisand's recording of People went to #5.   That was all the way back in 1964. At that time she was better known as a recording artist than a Broadway star.