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Post by anthony40 on Mar 8, 2017 9:08:42 GMT
And of course Send in the Clowns was a huge hit for both Judy Collins
and Frank Sinatra
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 9:25:33 GMT
I wonder if we can actually pin down the most recent U.K. Top 40 chart single that was lifted from a musical? I would say it could well be 'Love Changes Everything' It got to no.2 in 1989.
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Post by richey on Mar 8, 2017 9:29:28 GMT
I wonder if we can actually pin down the most recent U.K. Top 40 chart single that was lifted from a musical? I would say it could well be 'Love Changes Everything' It got to no.2 in 1989. "I believe my heart" from Woman in White got to number two in 2004 for Duncan James
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 8, 2017 9:31:42 GMT
I wonder if we can actually pin down the most recent U.K. Top 40 chart single that was lifted from a musical? I would say it could well be 'Love Changes Everything' It got to no.2 in 1989. Nope, Whistle Down The Wind was 90's and we got Tina Arena's title song and No Matter What by Boyzone.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 11:35:30 GMT
I've never heard of the Duncan James song. Don't even remember it from the show. Will have to check it out.
Another 2 songs from Time were chart singles. 'She's So Beautiful' for Cliff Richard and 'in My Defence' for Freddie Mercury.
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 8, 2017 11:43:46 GMT
Other hits I can think of were "Only He" from "Starlight Express," "Tahiti," "Friends" and "Fallen Angels Rising" from "Mutiny," and the 1982 World Cup theme "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" (yes, really!). Perhaps the most recent was that (I found, horrible and highly offensive) re-working "If I Were A Rich Girl." Can't remember the group, don't care. Should never have happened. Rant over. That was Gwen Stefani
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 12:30:08 GMT
I'm amazed no one has mentioned Glee. That show has taken several musical songs into the Top 100 on the charts in the UK and even higher globally! Maybe not huge hits, but in the UK, on doing a little research:
On My Own (73), Defying Gravity (38), And I Am Telling You (93), Don't Rain On My Parade (80), I Dreamed A Dream (36), Listen (51), Singin' In The Rain (22), Don't Cry For Me Argentina (67), For Good (65)... and thats just the first two Seasons!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 12:43:14 GMT
Oh and one for the ladies of a certain age , don't forget David Essex's toe-tapping classic 'Oh What A Circus'. This one is just so funky that I'm always disappointed when I see 'Evita' and it isn't this version:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 12:45:30 GMT
I've had 'I know him so well' stuck in my head all morning.
I hate you all.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 12:47:01 GMT
Oh I'm on a roll now! I always LOVED this version of 'Our Kind Of Love' from 'The Beautiful Game' by Hannah Waddingham. Just missed the UK top 40 (#41) but it's fabulous. Much better than the version in the show:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 12:56:51 GMT
I bought that single!! Didn't that tune then go into another of his shows or am I making that up?
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Post by theatremadness on Mar 8, 2017 12:57:23 GMT
I bought that single!! Didn't that tune then go into another of his shows or am I making that up? Love Never Dies!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 13:02:07 GMT
Good Morning Starshine from Hair played for quite a while on the radio (then known as a wireless!) in the late 60s.
Aquarius was also a hit from the same show with The Fifth Dimension about the same time. I bought the four version CD single by Sinitta which was released when the John Barrowman production played at the Old Vic in 1992.
Wasn't Sammy Davis Jr's Rhythm of Life from Sweet Charity a hit single?
Oh, and Shirley Bassey's version of Hey Big Spender...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 13:02:55 GMT
Oooh, and going all français, Daniel Lévi had a HUGE French hit (#2) with 'L'envie d'aimer' from the musical 'Les Dix Commandements' in 2000. Here he is singing it with Celine Dion who went on to record an English version of it on her 'A New Day Has Come' album, called 'The Greatest Reward':
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 13:07:20 GMT
I bought that single!! Didn't that tune then go into another of his shows or am I making that up? Love Never Dies! But it was 'The Heart Is Slow To Learn' first, sung by Dame Kikki Tiki Wawa at The Lord's 50th Birthday Gala:
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Post by theatremadness on Mar 8, 2017 13:09:21 GMT
Not forgetting Gerry & the Pacemakers doing You'll Never Walk Alone which is obviously still sung to this very day by Liverpool fans!
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Post by northernhomo on Mar 8, 2017 13:11:39 GMT
Oooh, and going all français, Daniel Lévi had a HUGE French hit (#2) with 'L'envie d'aimer' from the musical 'Les Dix Commandements' in 2000. Here he is singing it with Celine Dion who went on to record an English version of it on her 'A New Day Has Come' album, called 'The Greatest Reward': It was also released in Greek in 2007 and was a hit for Helena Paparizou and Nokia Agalis under the name Zillia Monaxia
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 13:12:07 GMT
Oh I'm on a roll now! I always LOVED this version of 'Our Kind Of Love' from 'The Beautiful Game' by Hannah Waddingham. Just missed the UK top 40 (#41) but it's fabulous. Much better than the version in the show: Me too! Have it on CD single lol Loved it. Was disappointed when it was removed from The Beautiful Game.
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Post by richey on Mar 8, 2017 13:23:52 GMT
If we're mentioning Celene Dion then there is also her version of Live (for the One I Love) from Notre Dame de Paris which was charted in several European countries and was also recorded by Tina Arena making number 63 in UK
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 13:25:05 GMT
And Dame Elton with LeAnn Rimes with 'Written In The Stars' from the concept album for 'Aida', prior to the show opening on Broadway:
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Post by richey on Mar 8, 2017 13:28:30 GMT
Surprised no-one's mentioned the gems of the Joseph Megamix and Philip Scofield's Close Every Door!
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 8, 2017 13:44:27 GMT
Everyone's forgetting how huge West Side Story was, not only as a stage show, movie and recording and how long it stayed in the charts at the time.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 13:49:27 GMT
We also can't forget Rent and If/Then both being in the Top 10, as well as Dear Evan Hansen!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 13:59:33 GMT
They didn't chart, but Frances Ruffelle released 'Stranger To The Rain from Children Of Eden which i had on a cassette single and who could forget 'Who Are You' from 'the people's musical 'Bernadette'.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 15:27:51 GMT
She also released an slightly more percussive version of On My Own. Had that on 45rpm too!
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Post by kathryn on Mar 8, 2017 15:47:29 GMT
I was just about to say that 'Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)' by Jay-Z was a more recent hit, and then checked when it actually came out - 1998!!
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Post by kathryn on Mar 8, 2017 16:09:47 GMT
Even successful stuff like "No matter what" had to be changed to the typical boyband sound of the 90s to become a chart success. That was actually a bit of an accidental hit. There was a misunderstanding - ALW thought he was getting Boyzone when he was actually only getting Stephen Gately. The original version Gately recorded was much more traditionally musical theatre. But Boyzone were doing a charity gig - IIRC it was for Capital, it was definitely broadcast on the radio - and they ended up doing a group version of it. Not sure how it came about - it might have just been that the performance was meant to promote the musical - Tina Arena was on too I think - and they'd booked Boyzone, not Stephen Gately, or it might have been down to ALW's misunderstanding. It was meant to be a one-off thing - the song wasn't on their current album at all, and it was pretty obvious what album track was meant to be the next single. But Capital loved it and started playing the version they'd recorded at the gig, calling it 'Boyzone's next single' - which of course no-one else was playing, because no-one else had a copy of it. They were playing it pretty much every hour. The band realised pretty sharpish they had a hit on their hands and decided they should record and release it, and re-issue the album with it on.
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Post by johartuk on Mar 8, 2017 16:17:09 GMT
Surprised no-one's mentioned the gems of the Joseph Megamix and Philip Scofield's Close Every Door! Any Dream Will Do also had a re-release in 2007, by Lee Mead. What I Did For Love from A Chorus Line and This Is The Moment from Jekyll & Hyde seem to have been covered quite a few times by quite a few people.
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Post by viserys on Mar 8, 2017 16:48:26 GMT
Even successful stuff like "No matter what" had to be changed to the typical boyband sound of the 90s to become a chart success. That was actually a bit of an accidental hit. There was a misunderstanding - ALW thought he was getting Boyzone when he was actually only getting Stephen Gately. The original version Gately recorded was much more traditionally musical theatre. Ah, interesting. I had no idea. I do have the CD single though (and the CD single of Hannah Waddingham's "Our kind of love". And the maxi vinyl of Frances Ruffelle's "Stranger to the rain" ... and other stuff that was meant to chart, like Barbra Streisand's "With One Look" before Sunset Boulevard came out. I think that today's musical producers have perhaps given up trying to get a "hit song" to chart by creating an extra version with a famous singer/band, even when it would be easy/obvious like Gary Barlow releasing a single with a big song from The Girls...
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Post by musicallady on Mar 8, 2017 19:56:43 GMT
Frances Ruffelle released 'Stranger To The Rain from Children Of Eden which i had on a cassette single I have that on 45 vinyl. Memories! I have it on CDS.
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