your favorite harmonies
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#50re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:00pm
- SPELLING BEE: Near the ending of "The I Love You Song"; I don't even have to specify, because I know you all know what I'm talking about. That one haunting note. You know it.
- SPAMALOT: The very end of "Not Yet Dead", when they say, well... "Not yet dead!" Haha, I just love it. Really nice.
- URINETOWN: The acapella part of "I See A River". Very nice.
- AVENUE Q: "I Wish I Could Go Back To College." If you really listen to it, it's got a great harmony.
- SECRET GARDEN: The end of "Lily's Eyes." Gives me chills.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton, though.
#51re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:29pm
That last part in "Follow Your Heart" from Urinetown
..."No meaness or sadness, just laughter and gladness" SO GOOD.
Jwaa
Broadway Star Joined: 11/28/04
#52re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:30pm
Heart and Music -New Brain
I Love you Song -Spelling bee
Two Households -Bare
Bring Me To Light -Violet
Scrubby Dubby Dubby - In Trousers
RENT has some amazing ones
Most William Finn tunes have awesome harmonies
hell yeah!
there are looads more btw that i love just cant think of many offthe top of my noggin
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rent1988
Featured Actor Joined: 11/22/04
#54re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:46pmagony from ITW.
NYC PART III: 24 sleeps!
Andre:I'll miss you.
Muriel: You will?
Andre: Only if you leave.
#55re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/26/06 at 8:01pm
Tonight Quintet-West Side Story
A Boy Like That-West Side Story
New Music-Ragtime
Finale-Rent
Seasons of Love-Rent
Take Me As I Am-Jekyll & Hyde
Tradition-Fiddler on the Roof
Aquarius-Hair
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#56re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/26/06 at 8:54pm
Say it Somehow from the Light in the Piazza
I Know from Children's Letters to God
Questions for the Rain from Children's Letters to God
What Was A Woman to Do from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
For Now from Avenue Q
I Love You Song from Spelling Bee
HELLZ YEAAA!
bigwill121
Chorus Member Joined: 2/21/06
#57re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/26/06 at 9:11pmDef the harmony during Our Prayer, in the color purple
#58re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/26/06 at 9:30pmThe harmony in the NYTW Rent version of "Goodbye Love" ("I can't believe this is goodbye") gives me chills. It's such a hauntingly cool transition into the rest of the song.
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#59re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/26/06 at 9:40pmThere are endless lists of absolutely incredible ones, most of them listed on here. But currently, listening to the D'Armano brothers from The Wild Party, they are a great duo! I love their songs and Nathan Lee Graham and Michael McElroy are so talented.
#62re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/27/06 at 12:44am
I second "Follow Your Heart" from Urinetown.
"No anger or badness, just laughter and GLADNESS!"
My friend and I always belt it out on the street. haha.
#63re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/27/06 at 12:50am
A lot of good ones have been said.
I love harmony and one of my favorites is during those 2 lines of close harmony in "Some Things Are Meant to Be" in Little Women! LOVE it!!
Updated On: 2/27/06 at 12:50 AM
Ebonic_Singer
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#64re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/27/06 at 1:08am
ANYTHING disonant.
The Meek Shall Inherit--You know the meek they're gonna get what's coming to 'em BYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" (the last time on the OBC--earGASMic).
The finale in All Shook Up, but only when it was live.
I also like it when there is a lot of harmony and everyone uses vibrato, ie "Joyful, Joful" from sister act--basically anything gospel choir-y. Mmmmmmmmm, harmony.
#65re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/27/06 at 1:15am
what a great thread, harmonies are the best!
I think my favorite right now would be at the end of 'way back to paradise' from Marie Christine. I'm also in love with the harmonies in The Color Purple (Our Prayer, What About Love, & Brown Betty... "DOOOON'T matter if she")
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#66re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/27/06 at 1:21am
Cant Help Fallin In Love- All Shook Up.
All Shook Up- All Shook Up.
No Mourns The Wicked- Wicked.
Seasons of Love- Rent.
Finale B- Rent.
#67re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/27/06 at 1:28am
From Les Mis, the harmony at the very end with Eponine and Fantine..."Take my hand and lead me to salvation..." oh my gosh, the best.
Also:
"Prologue" from Ragtime
"I wish i could go back to college"- Avenue Q (computer lab section!)
"Make Him Mine" from Witches of Eastwick
"Without You" from Rent- specifically the section that they sing "blue..only blue...lonely blue" oh MAN love it.
#68re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/27/06 at 2:53am
"So strong" w/ ensemble from Wicked's What Is This Feeling
during "Miss Baltimore Crabs", there's a cool one when the sensemble joins in.
Little Shop has some crazy harmonies for Crystal, Ronette, and Chiffon, that I LOVE.
The final "No day but doay" form RENT rocks too.
#69re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/27/06 at 9:10amMISS SAIGON - "A sooong played on a solo saxaphone" - essence of romance, and I don't even love the show.
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#70re: your favorite harmonies
Posted: 2/27/06 at 9:18am
Two songs from movies that have great harmonies:
"I Will Follow Him" the Sister Act version that starts out all slow and ballady and then picks up in the middle.
and "I Say a Little Prayer": the dinner table singalong from My Best Friend's Wedding. Sure, it's mostly in unison, but some of them if you listen hard enough are going "Forever (ever) and ever (ever) you've stayed in my heart and I will love you/Forever (ever) and ever (ever)..." So fun! I wish I could've been at that shoot.
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