worst songs from musicals

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: Mickey191
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 01:52 AM

Anyone remember "Milk & Honey"? NO? Good! The worst musical I ever saw on Broadway. Pure unadulterated crap.

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 01:13 AM

Anything from Cats!. I must be a dog person.Seemed like one lame song after another,except for Midnight,which was ok.

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: WyoWoman
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:32 PM

Of course in Sweeney Todd, we're talking human mincemeat ...

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: DonMeixner
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:28 PM

Everything from "Southern Pathetic" most of "Oklahoma" and "Carousel"

Don

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:19 PM

Clinton,
We thought you knew. It doesn't hurt when someone loves you and hits you. Makes me want to smack that smarmy smile off her face everytime.
Mbo, "Carrie" was attempted in the mid-80s. It featured a lasar light show and there in was the rub. They could never get it to synchronize with the music. Believe it or not, the The Royal Shakespearean Society was behind the whole mess. They needed money and would do almost anything for it at the time. I will have to dredge up some more on this for you.

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:07 PM

"Indian Love Call" made infamous by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald.

"When I'm calling you, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oooo ..."

Johnny in OKC

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: celticblues5
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:10 PM

Well, Wyo, we all have our crosses to bear. At least "Oklahoma!" is a better song than the one we had growing up in Iowa - "that's where the tall corn grows!" is a sample of the lyrics.:-) And, of course, when you tell anyone, anywhere where you're from, you hear, "Oh, that's where they have corn & pigs, right?"

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: WyoWoman
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 07:59 PM

Ooh, I love Sweeney Todd as well. I'd love to sing in that one, only absolutely no one is brave enough to attempt it -- and probably shouldn't -- in non-professional theaters.

As a native Oklahoman, I've mostly disliked just about everything about that musical, since it has nothing to do with anything I grew up with and makes us all look like a bnnch of hayseeds. Yee-haw ... The title song might be the exception, but as you might imagine, I heard it a good bit growing up.

ww

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 04:23 PM

I gotta agree above... Carousel, the whole thing is hopless dreck... with the message that spouse abuse is o.k. provided you do it with love, I'm surprised that any theatre company does it anymore... I had to work followspot on it in University because I refused to be cast in it!

Sweeny Todd is still the only musical for me... Everything in minor keys and dissonent!!

{~`

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 04:14 PM

Kinda hard when I've never even heard of it!

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: celticblues5
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 03:53 PM

Sinsull, that is sooooo funny! See, Mbo, surely you're not going to defend that one! ;-)

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 03:43 PM

The absolute worst was the prom scene from the musical "Carrie"

"Pig, pig, pig
Blood, blood, blood"

One reviewer stated that he expected to see a chorus line of Nazi women in black leather and high heel boots singing "Springtime for Hitler" What were they thinking? It closed in previews.

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: celticblues5
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:27 PM

I think a lot of us change the gender to suit the singer. Even though, traditionally, the gender of the singer is not supposed to matter, the singer being a vehicle & not necessarily telling a first-person story, a lot of audience members don't understand that. Particularly in today's gender-polarized & often homophobic situations.

Sometimes it's pretty difficult - there are a number of songs using gender-specific words that don't have an easy-to-rhyme alternative. For example, "man" can usually be bent into "woman" despite the extra beat it inserts, but if the lyrics do something like rhyme "girl" with "whirl" or "world" it's more difficult to alter the words.

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:16 PM

So do I! Am I one of the few guys to change the words so if fits a male perspective? E.g. "On my own, pretending SHE'S beside me"? Back to the original question, I swear I can't honestly think of anything I hate...

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: celticblues5
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:03 PM

yup, Bernard, "Smarmy, Maudlin, Spazzy, & Zeppo," I believe.

c'mon, Mbo - this is a FUN category! We're not sitting here in gloom & depression - it's like movies that are so bad you have to howl with delight at the awfulness of them!
and, btw, I LOVE "On My Own!"

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: P05139
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:48 PM

Sorry Mbo!

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:46 PM

Awww FC, those are my favorite from Les Mis! :( Absolutely GORGEOUS songs, but not the one that makes me cry. It's at the very end where they say "And now here the truth that once was spoken, to love another person is to see the face of God". I always lose it right about there...

As for bad songs from musicals, I don't really know any! Not sure if I should come back to this thread...I'm getting tired of all this negative "Worst" this and "I hate" that.

--M

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: P05139
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:25 PM

I don't like "On My Own" or "Bring Him Home" from Les Mis because they were the ones that drove me out of choir at school (I kept on crying instead of singing!)

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:18 PM

Weren't they Rodgers & Hammersteins solicitors?

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: celticblues5
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:16 PM

Oops - a line got left out -

the You'll Never Walk Alone category was supposed to be the "smarmy & maudlin" category ;-)

Subject: RE: worst songs from musicals
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:14 PM

'You'll Never Walk Alone' - I have to agree with that one!

Especially as it was adopted as a soccer anthem, and sung so often, so badly...

Now the words have been altered to 'You'll Never Walk - Again!'.

And what about the 'Sound of Music' - 'The Lonely Goat's Turd', and other gems?

Subject: worst songs from musicals
From: celticblues5
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:09 PM

Well, now that we've gone over our faves, what about the WORST songs from musicals? Yup, there've been plenty...

for example there is the silly and mealy-mouthed category -

from "110 in the Shade" (and how a duo who did the "Fantastiks" & "Celebration" could come up with this clunker still amazes me) -
"fix a basket of food for the hungry men
find a place in the shade for the hungry men
"
from "Carousel" -
"when you walk through a storm, keep your head up high
and don't be afraid of the dark
at the end of the storm is a golden sky
and the sweet silver song of a lark"

or the simply horrid -

from "Carousel" -
"it was a real nice clambake
we're mighty glad we came
th' vittles we et were good, you bet
the company was the same"

oy, what dreck!


OK - let's see some more awful lyrics! What are your personal most-hated songs? ;-)