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Post by richey on Mar 9, 2017 10:38:23 GMT
Coincidently on this morning's Popmaster on Radio 2 there's been a bonus round "hits from the Musicals" and there were a few more to add to the list. Kenny Ball performing March of the Siamese Children, Harry Secombe singing If I Ruled the World and Shirley Bassey with a lovely rendition of Climb Ev'ry Mountain
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Post by ukpuppetboy on Mar 9, 2017 11:45:13 GMT
Seems like this is predominantly an ALW marketing tool which has been replaced by numerous reality tv casting shows. The man is not daft.
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Post by madsonmelo on Mar 10, 2017 0:43:50 GMT
Mika and Ariana Grande with Popular Song
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Post by groupbooker on Mar 11, 2017 0:11:37 GMT
Love the musical Finding Neverland but the "Album" that was brought out before the cast album is DIRE!!
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Post by joem on Mar 11, 2017 0:14:52 GMT
These days hits spawn musicals, rather than the opposite.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 7, 2023 18:34:15 GMT
Was just watching Linda Lewis singing the Evita song on YouTube which reminded me of this thread. Six years later…. Have we seen any more songs from musicals get into the charts? Or did we miss any the first time around?
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 7, 2023 18:46:05 GMT
Blimey! Even I don't remember this thread.
We Don't Talk About Bruno is sort of from a musical. It did very well in the hit parade.
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Post by saral on Mar 7, 2023 21:21:22 GMT
Taylor Swift's Beautiful Ghosts from the Cats film, not sure if that counts?
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Post by WireHangers on Mar 7, 2023 22:36:16 GMT
Was just watching Linda Lewis singing the Evita song on YouTube which reminded me of this thread. Six years later…. Have we seen any more songs from musicals get into the charts? Or did we miss any the first time around? Mika and Ariana Grande’s version of Popular?
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Post by marob on Mar 7, 2023 22:45:29 GMT
Would we include The Greatest Showman in this? Hugely popular musical, but not theatre.
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Post by viserys on Mar 8, 2023 6:58:35 GMT
Would we include The Greatest Showman in this? Hugely popular musical, but not theatre. But did it spawn a single "big" hit that topped the charts and was known to everyone, not just theatre circles? I think the chart-topping stuff died off in the 90s. For me this was also the decade when musical theatre disassociated itself from mainstream music with a flood of subpar Les Mis-style weepies, while pop music became more beat driven and indie rock had a revival with the Britpop wave. If anything, shows like Hamilton and Six have bridged the widening gap between pop(ular) music and musical theatre again, but not with single outstanding songs, just as a whole that reaches a younger generation beyond the typical theatregoer. Even massive stars can't really help when the product doesn't reach the masses, see Taylor Swift and Beautiful Ghosts (which wasn't a great song to begin with). And while some of the movie adaptations of popular musicals have been moderately successful, none were REAL smash hits at the box office. Some of the movie musicals like The Greatest Showman and A Star Is Born did better, but have they really made a lingering impact? I loved the songs from A Star Is Born like "Shallow" and have them in my playlists to this day, but I don't think they came anywhere near the long lasting success of either the big classics from the Golden Age or the big ALW chart toppers.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 8, 2023 7:38:54 GMT
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 8, 2023 7:39:48 GMT
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Post by danb on Mar 8, 2023 8:26:17 GMT
The whole chart system has been totally overhauled since the nineties though, so songs don’t ‘behave’ like they used to. Thats how we get random songs that have been sung on ‘BGT’ dipping into the chart for a week.
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Post by WireHangers on Mar 8, 2023 17:54:58 GMT
Would we include The Greatest Showman in this? Hugely popular musical, but not theatre. But did it spawn a single "big" hit that topped the charts and was known to everyone, not just theatre circles? I think the chart-topping stuff died off in the 90s. For me this was also the decade when musical theatre disassociated itself from mainstream music with a flood of subpar Les Mis-style weepies, while pop music became more beat driven and indie rock had a revival with the Britpop wave. If anything, shows like Hamilton and Six have bridged the widening gap between pop(ular) music and musical theatre again, but not with single outstanding songs, just as a whole that reaches a younger generation beyond the typical theatregoer. Even massive stars can't really help when the product doesn't reach the masses, see Taylor Swift and Beautiful Ghosts (which wasn't a great song to begin with). And while some of the movie adaptations of popular musicals have been moderately successful, none were REAL smash hits at the box office. Some of the movie musicals like The Greatest Showman and A Star Is Born did better, but have they really made a lingering impact? I loved the songs from A Star Is Born like "Shallow" and have them in my playlists to this day, but I don't think they came anywhere near the long lasting success of either the big classics from the Golden Age or the big ALW chart toppers. This Is Me went to #3 on the UK charts and was easily one of the biggest songs on the year.
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