Hey, I Know That Song!

[Eagle]

Your mission, RATMers, should you decide to accept it, is to identify
a musical theatre song that you first became familiar with in a
different context from the show that it originally came from (not just
someone singing it in a club act or on an album as part of a
collection of songs). Five examples off the top of my head:

"Comedy Tonight" - Was the theme song for a TV comedy show starring
Robert Klein
"Friendship" - Lucy and Ethel sing it in an I LOVE LUCY episode
"I Ain't Down Yet" - Was the theme song for WONDERAMA
"Glitter and Be Gay" -- The theme music for THE DICK CAVETT SHOW
"Big Spender" - an old commercial for (shaving cream?)

[robert armstrong]

Post by Eagle
"Big Spender" - an old commercial for (shaving
cream?)

Muriel Cigars, sung by spokesperson Edie Adams. "Spe-e-e-e-end a little
dime with me."

The famous Noxzema shaving cream commercial starring Scandinavian model
Gunila Knutsen used popular instrumental The Stripper. "Men, take it
off: take it all off with Noxzema."

Not from the movie The Stripper starring Joanne Woodward, though title
of movie appears to exploit popularity of that musical number. There
could be a thread here for songs for movies, etc. that don't have title
songs: A Taste of Honey, The Flim Flam Man, Don't Sleep In the Subway
(not from stage musical Subways Are for Sleeping but inspired by title.
There is a title song by Styne-Comden-Green).

Bob A

"Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy the motorcade?"

[Vince]

Post by robert armstrong

Post by Eagle
"Big Spender" - an old commercial for (shaving
cream?)

Muriel Cigars, sung by spokesperson Edie Adams. "Spe-e-e-e-end a little
dime with me."
The famous Noxzema shaving cream commercial starring Scandinavian model
Gunila Knutsen used popular instrumental The Stripper. "Men, take it
off: take it all off with Noxzema."
Not from the movie The Stripper starring Joanne Woodward, though title
of movie appears to exploit popularity of that musical number. There
could be a thread here for songs for movies, etc. that don't have title
songs: A Taste of Honey, The Flim Flam Man, Don't Sleep In the Subway
(not from stage musical Subways Are for Sleeping but inspired by title.
There is a title song by Styne-Comden-Green).
Bob A
"Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy the motorcade?"

To take it a step further they would (Back in the 1950s and 60s) have a
song from a film that made the charts and yet was never used in the film
at all i.e. "Bonnie & Clide", "Sink the Bismark" "Man who Shot Liberty
Valince" etc

[John W. Kennedy]

Post by Vince

Post by robert armstrong

Post by Eagle
"Big Spender" - an old commercial for (shaving cream?)

Muriel Cigars, sung by spokesperson Edie Adams. "Spe-e-e-e-end a little
dime with me."
The famous Noxzema shaving cream commercial starring Scandinavian model
Gunila Knutsen used popular instrumental The Stripper. "Men, take it
off: take it all off with Noxzema."
Not from the movie The Stripper starring Joanne Woodward, though title
of movie appears to exploit popularity of that musical number. There
could be a thread here for songs for movies, etc. that don't have title
songs: A Taste of Honey, The Flim Flam Man, Don't Sleep In the Subway
(not from stage musical Subways Are for Sleeping but inspired by title.
There is a title song by Styne-Comden-Green).
Bob A
"Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy the motorcade?"

To take it a step further they would (Back in the 1950s and 60s) have a
song from a film that made the charts and yet was never used in the film
at all i.e. "Bonnie & Clide", "Sink the Bismark" "Man who Shot Liberty
Valince" etc

Yes, but the track was a filler number, not connected to the movie
(though the movie /might/ have changed its title -- the original play
was "A Loss of Roses" -- in light of the success of the track).

[Vince]

Post by Eagle
Your mission, RATMers, should you decide to accept it, is to identify
a musical theatre song that you first became familiar with in a
different context from the show that it originally came from (not just
someone singing it in a club act or on an album as part of a
"Comedy Tonight" - Was the theme song for a TV comedy show starring
Robert Klein
"Friendship" - Lucy and Ethel sing it in an I LOVE LUCY episode
"I Ain't Down Yet" - Was the theme song for WONDERAMA
"Glitter and Be Gay" -- The theme music for THE DICK CAVETT SHOW
"Big Spender" - an old commercial for (shaving cream?)

In a recent reversal "you got possibilities" from Its, a bird etc was
used in a Pillsbury spot.

When I told some young folks how the person to whom the song is being
sung is Clark (Superman) Kent, they don't believe me at first.

[LT]

Post by Vince

Post by Eagle
Your mission, RATMers, should you decide to accept it, is to identify
a musical theatre song that you first became familiar with in a
different context from the show that it originally came from (not just
someone singing it in a club act or on an album as part of a
"Comedy Tonight" - Was the theme song for a TV comedy show starring
Robert Klein
"Friendship" - Lucy and Ethel sing it in an I LOVE LUCY episode
"I Ain't Down Yet" - Was the theme song for WONDERAMA
"Glitter and Be Gay" -- The theme music for THE DICK CAVETT SHOW
"Big Spender" - an old commercial for (shaving cream?)

In a recent reversal "you got possibilities" from Its, a bird etc was
used in a Pillsbury spot.
When I told some young folks how the person to whom the song is being
sung is Clark (Superman) Kent, they don't believe me at first.

They might be surprised, too, that the singer/actress was Linda Lavin,
recently seen as a villainous elderly maternal figure on 'Law and
Order'.

Best
LT,
remembering 'It's a Bird, It's a Plane...."

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Post by LT

Post by Vince

Post by Eagle
Your mission, RATMers, should you decide to accept it, is to identify
a musical theatre song that you first became familiar with in a
different context from the show that it originally came from (not just
someone singing it in a club act or on an album as part of a
"Comedy Tonight" - Was the theme song for a TV comedy show starring
Robert Klein
"Friendship" - Lucy and Ethel sing it in an I LOVE LUCY episode
"I Ain't Down Yet" - Was the theme song for WONDERAMA
"Glitter and Be Gay" -- The theme music for THE DICK CAVETT SHOW
"Big Spender" - an old commercial for (shaving cream?)

In a recent reversal "you got possibilities" from Its, a bird etc was
used in a Pillsbury spot.
When I told some young folks how the person to whom the song is being
sung is Clark (Superman) Kent, they don't believe me at first.

They might be surprised, too, that the singer/actress was Linda Lavin,
recently seen as a villainous elderly maternal figure on 'Law and
Order'.

The funny fact is her initals are LL like many of the roles in the
Superman universe. Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor, Lighting Lad Linda
Lee (Supergirl) etc.

[LT]

Post by Eagle
Your mission, RATMers, should you decide to accept it, is to identify
a musical theatre song that you first became familiar with in a
different context from the show that it originally came from (not just
someone singing it in a club act or on an album as part of a
"Comedy Tonight" - Was the theme song for a TV comedy show starring
Robert Klein
"Friendship" - Lucy and Ethel sing it in an I LOVE LUCY episode
"I Ain't Down Yet" - Was the theme song for WONDERAMA
"Glitter and Be Gay" -- The theme music for THE DICK CAVETT SHOW
"Big Spender" - an old commercial for (shaving cream?)

Offhand, I recall the great baritone Robert Weede's 'I'm the Most
Happy Fella (With a White Owl Cigar', from a commercial)', paraphrased
from his own hit in the famous Musical he starred in, after his Opera
career.

[Eagle]

Post by LT
Offhand, I recall the great baritone Robert Weede's 'I'm the Most
Happy Fella (With a White Owl Cigar', from a commercial)', paraphrased
from his own hit in the famous Musical he starred in, after his Opera
career.

I LOVE LUCY was my introduction to TMHF. I assume the original
production had two intermissions, although the plot of the LUCY
episode kind of hinges on it being one intermission Lucy and Desi
would probably have known there were three acts, given that they were
investors in the show, as I understand.

[LT]

Post by LT
Offhand, I recall the great baritone Robert Weede's 'I'm the Most
Happy Fella (With a White Owl Cigar', from a commercial)', paraphrased
from his own hit in the famous Musical he starred in, after his Opera
career.

I LOVE LUCY was my introduction to TMHF.  I assume the original
production had two intermissions, although the plot of the LUCY
episode kind of hinges on it being one intermission Lucy and Desi
would probably have known there were three acts, given that they were
investors in the show, as I understand.

Must've been due to requirements for brevity, on tv; Seems that the
original show, as presented, left out some dialogue, restored decades
later in a 3 CD album starring the late Opera star, Louis Quilico.

Best
LT

[Steve Newport]

The Overture from IT'S SUPERMAN was used by ABC "Action News"
affiliates.

[r***@yahoo.com]

Post by Steve Newport
The Overture from IT'S SUPERMAN was used by ABC "Action News"
affiliates.

I thought it was Cool Hand Luke.

[Vince]

Post by r***@yahoo.com

Post by Steve Newport
The Overture from IT'S SUPERMAN was used by ABC "Action News"
affiliates.

I thought it was Cool Hand Luke.

That was used on NYC's CH 5, now a FOX station, which also used the 007
theme for a while in the early 1960s.

[robert armstrong]

Post by r***@yahoo.com

Post by Steve Newport
The Overture from IT'S SUPERMAN was used
by ABC "Action News" affiliates.

I thought it was Cool Hand Luke.

It was in Chi; there was a syndicated morning movie on that station,
however, for which, according to a TV "answer man" columnist, the theme
music was a number from It's...Superman. Arrangement was very
wallpapery, however, thus impossible to imagine as a song.

Bob A

"Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy the motorcade?"

[Steve Newport]

In Philly, at least, the actual IT'S SUPERMAN Overture was used for
Channel 6 (ABC) "Action News."

[robert armstrong]

Post by Eagle
Your mission, RATMers, should you decide to accept
it, is to identify a musical theatre song that you first
became familiar with in a different context from
the show that it originally came from...

Brotherhood of Man from How to Succeed became Brotherhood of Hamm's for
beer commercial. I had seen movie HtSiB but didn't remember song when
this commercial hit, or should I say clobbered.

Makin' Whoopee from Whoopee was Pepsi jingle for several years.

You Oughta Be in Pictures from Ziegfeld Follies of '34 was jingle for
Kodak and, many years later, Canon.

Those are particularly famous, but more obscure now was Willow,
Titwillow for Folger's coffee before Mrs. Olsen: "Oh why, Captain
Folger, are husbands content with the flavor of mountain-grown coffee?
Captain Folger was controversial for a different reason.

Pretty sure there was a hair color commercial in the 50s that went "I'm
gonna wash that gray right out of my hair."

Bob A

"Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy the motorcade?"

[Andy on Long Island]

That's the one for me, the Hamm's beer jingle: I did not know that the song
in that commercial was from a musical until I saw the How To Succeed musical
on TV. The commercial featured an animated bear. Try as I might, I don't
recall the jingle's words at this moment.

Post by robert armstrong

Post by Eagle
Your mission, RATMers, should you decide to accept
it, is to identify a musical theatre song that you first
became familiar with in a different context from
the show that it originally came from...

Brotherhood of Man from How to Succeed became Brotherhood of Hamm's for
beer commercial. I had seen movie HtSiB but didn't remember song when
this commercial hit, or should I say clobbered.
Makin' Whoopee from Whoopee was Pepsi jingle for several years.
You Oughta Be in Pictures from Ziegfeld Follies of '34 was jingle for
Kodak and, many years later, Canon.
Those are particularly famous, but more obscure now was Willow,
Titwillow for Folger's coffee before Mrs. Olsen: "Oh why, Captain
Folger, are husbands content with the flavor of mountain-grown coffee?
Captain Folger was controversial for a different reason.
Pretty sure there was a hair color commercial in the 50s that went "I'm
gonna wash that gray right out of my hair."

[Barbara Bailey]

Post by Andy on Long Island

Post by robert armstrong

Post by Eagle
Your mission, RATMers, should you decide to accept
it, is to identify a musical theatre song that you first
became familiar with in a different context from
the show that it originally came from...

Brotherhood of Man from How to Succeed became Brotherhood of Hamm's
for beer commercial. I had seen movie HtSiB but didn't remember song
when this commercial hit, or should I say clobbered.
Makin' Whoopee from Whoopee was Pepsi jingle for several years.
You Oughta Be in Pictures from Ziegfeld Follies of '34 was jingle for
Kodak and, many years later, Canon.
Those are particularly famous, but more obscure now was Willow,
Titwillow for Folger's coffee before Mrs. Olsen: "Oh why, Captain
Folger, are husbands content with the flavor of mountain-grown
coffee? Captain Folger was controversial for a different reason.
Pretty sure there was a hair color commercial in the 50s that went
"I'm gonna wash that gray right out of my hair."

That's the one for me, the Hamm's beer jingle: I did not know that the
song in that commercial was from a musical until I saw the How To
Succeed musical on TV. The commercial featured an animated bear. Try
as I might, I don't recall the jingle's words at this moment.

I'm pretty sure that "Wash that grey..." was Lady Clairol... Ooops, no,
according to one blogger's memory it was Miss Clairol's Loving Care.

I first heard "Step to the Rear" from _How Now, Dow Jones_ as Hubert
Humphrey's campaign song in '68. Chevy used it again in about 1980. And
"Anything Goes" also from _HN,DJ_ was a pop song as far as I knew until
the early 80's -- I'd only ever heard the Harper's Bizarre version.

[Steve Newport]

Bobby Darrin's "Artificial Flowers" and "Mack the Knife."

[r***@yahoo.com]

Post by Steve Newport
Bobby Darrin's "Artificial Flowers" and "Mack the Knife."

Where does AF come from? That was one of the first tunes I learned
swing dancing to.

[r***@yahoo.com]

The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees

"Hernando's Hideaway" became that classic tango for ballroom and
figure skating/ice dancing.

"Whatever Lola Wants" became a red carpet commercial (jewels, perfume,
etc.) with a remix.

"Heart" was used by the Detroit Institute of Arts as "You Gotta Have
Art".

Ally McBeal introduced me to "Lida Rose".

Not to mention when a show tune would get spoofed on The Simpsons--
"Monorail" .

And doesn't Bye Bye Birdie have something like:

We love you, Birdie
Oh yes we do
We love you, Birdie
I may be true
When you're not mean to us
We're blue
Oh Birdie we love you

Well, J-Pop group Pizzicato Five opens their album "The Sound of
Music" with a version subbing in P-5, and every freshman has to sing
something like that to a senior first week of high school.

[David Lawver]

Post by r***@yahoo.com

Post by Steve Newport
Bobby Darrin's "Artificial Flowers" and "Mack the Knife."

Where does AF come from? That was one of the first tunes I learned
swing dancing to.

Tenderloin - Bock and Harnick. Terrific cast album, by rumor not so
great a show.

[Robert Bouton]

"Artificial Flowers"

Post by David Lawver
Tenderloin - Bock and Harnick. Terrific cast album, by rumor not so
great a show.

I did it (with Wedding Singer's Merrit David Janes) last spring and
can confirm.

Loved folk music as a kid. Pete Seeger did Be Kind To Your Parents
(Fanny) and The Limelighters, as humorous a singing group as there
ever was, did Hey Jimmy Joe John Jim Jack (Let It Ride). And of
course, Wonderama's theme I Ain't Down Yet (The Unsinkable Molly
Brown). When I was a little older, I got to meet host Sonny Fox.

[Eagle]

Post by Robert Bouton
And of
course, Wonderama's theme I Ain't Down Yet (The Unsinkable Molly
Brown). When I was a little older, I got to meet host Sonny Fox.

I remember him going through the audience asking them for presents.
Maybe I'm overblowing it in my mind now, and he really didn't do it
that often, but for some reason I know he rubbed me the wrong way as a
kid. I remember Bob McAllister better, and liked him, though some kid
I knew had been on the show and reported that he was nasty, but, you
know, I don't remember what that was based on, if I ever knew.

I'd hoped to find on YouTube the Richard Rodgers appearance with Maria
Von Trapp when they were on WONDERAMA together, but sadly it ain't
there.

Speaking of favorite TV programs and performers as a kid, I've become
intrigued lately learning about the incredible life of Paul Winchell.
Not a lot of people know he invented the artificial heart, contrary to
the current potentially misleading TV ads with Robert Jarvik, who, the
ad is careful to say, invented the *Jarvik* artificial heart. Check
out this whole site for more info about a fascinating Renaissance man,
and particularly his own account of how he came to invent the
artificial heart. I do hope they make a movie about him, and
apparently there's already an effort underway:

http://www.paulwinchell.com/artificialheart.htm

[robert armstrong]

Post by Eagle
Speaking of favorite TV programs and performers
as a kid, I've become intrigued lately learning about
the incredible life of Paul Winchell. Not a lot of people
know he invented the artificial heart, contrary to
the current potentially misleading TV ads with Robert
Jarvik, who, the ad is careful to say, invented the
*Jarvik* artificial heart.

I don't know if Jarvik is the one against whom Winchell had contention,
but Winchell alleged that the only difference beween his "heart" and the
one getting attention is that Wichell's is electric and the ripoff one
is pneumatic or hydraulic. Winchell did get a patent.

I don't see what glory there is in Jarvik's artificial heart anyway; the
commercial implies that he invented something people actually use. The
one guy who had an artificial heart installed died in severe discomfort
a few days later. If that experiment is the reason Jarvik stands there
in that commercial with that grim smile, then I know why he frightens
me.

The patent for a heart glorifies Winchell because it shows the
versatility of his mind and talent. Tigger too.

Bob A

"Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy the motorcade?"

[EricV]

Hubert Humphrey used "Step to the Rear" from "How Now, Dow Jones" as a
campaign song in 1968. I remember hearing it on the radio.

[John W. Kennedy]

Post by robert armstrong
I don't know if Jarvik is the one against whom Winchell had contention,
but Winchell alleged that the only difference beween his "heart" and the
one getting attention is that Wichell's is electric and the ripoff one
is pneumatic or hydraulic. Winchell did get a patent.

It has several improvements, made by Jarvik and others, that go beyond
Winchell's. His work was a useful contribution, but no actual Winchell
heart, as such, was ever implanted.

Post by robert armstrong
I don't see what glory there is in Jarvik's artificial heart anyway; the
commercial implies that he invented something people actually use. The
one guy who had an artificial heart installed died in severe discomfort
a few days later. If that experiment is the reason Jarvik stands there
in that commercial with that grim smile, then I know why he frightens
me.

Actually, the first patient to receive a Jarvik heart survived 112 days,
and it was used in some 90 patients before it was decided that it was
never going to be good for more than about six months. It is no longer
approved for (attempted) permanent use, but continued to be used in
emergencies when no permanent donor heart is available.

Post by robert armstrong
The patent for a heart glorifies Winchell because it shows the
versatility of his mind and talent.

True enough.

[Steve Newport]

***@yahoo.com (Eagle)
I've become intrigued lately learning about the incredible life of Paul
Winchell. Not a lot of people know he invented the artificial
heart.....I do hope they make a movie about him, and apparently there's
already an effort underway:

http://www.paulwinchell.com/artificialheart.htm
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I still have my 1954 Jerry Mahoney.

[Steve Newport]

***@charter.net (David=A0Lawver)
"Artificial Flowers" comes from
Tenderloin - Bock and Harnick. Terrific cast album...
---------------------------------
Out of print? The Encores! version is okay, too. I directed a community
theatre production (when I was 26) that featured Jane Krakowski's
mother, Barbara.

[S. Porty]

Post by Steve Newport
"Artificial Flowers" comes from
Tenderloin - Bock and Harnick. Terrific cast album...
---------------------------------
Out of print? The Encores! version is okay, too. I directed a community
theatre production (when I was 26) that featured Jane Krakowski's
mother, Barbara.

I saw Krakowski in ALLY MCBEAL.

[S. Porty]

Post by Steve Newport
Bobby Darrin's "Artificial Flowers" and "Mack the Knife."

I saw Bobby Darin in TOO LATE BLUES. Never heard of Bobby Darrin.

[Steve Newport]

I saw Bobby Darin in TOO LATE BLUES.
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I like his rendition of "This Isn't Heaven" in the STATE FAIR remake.

[Christopher Jahn]

Post by robert armstrong
Pretty sure there was a hair color commercial in the 50s that
went "I'm gonna wash that gray right out of my hair."

It was certainly being used in the 1970's.

[John W. Kennedy]

Post by robert armstrong
Brotherhood of Man from How to Succeed became Brotherhood of Hamm's for
beer commercial.

An old habit of theirs -- back in 1905, they had a print ad reading,
"The Wogglebug said 'Drink Hamm's Beer'".

[Ed(NY)]

Well, the old Friday night NBC "Jack Paar Show" (NOT his stewardship of the
Tonight Show) used "Everything's Coming Up Roses" as its theme song. I
think I first became aware of it that way.

Post by Eagle
Your mission, RATMers, should you decide to accept it, is to identify
a musical theatre song that you first became familiar with in a
different context from the show that it originally came from (not just
someone singing it in a club act or on an album as part of a
"Comedy Tonight" - Was the theme song for a TV comedy show starring
Robert Klein
"Friendship" - Lucy and Ethel sing it in an I LOVE LUCY episode
"I Ain't Down Yet" - Was the theme song for WONDERAMA
"Glitter and Be Gay" -- The theme music for THE DICK CAVETT SHOW
"Big Spender" - an old commercial for (shaving cream?)

[Ed(NY)]

This really got me thinking.
Back in the 60's, the Ed Sullivan Show used composite theme music that
played melodies from these songs, about 5-10 seconds each, in this order:

There's No Business Like Show Business
(circus theme music - not sure where from)
When You're Smiling
Shall We Dance?
It's a Grand Night for Singing
That's Entertainment
Hooray for Hollywood
Lullaby of Broadway
brief theme from I Pagliacci
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
then back to the beginning

Post by Eagle
Your mission, RATMers, should you decide to accept it, is to identify
a musical theatre song that you first became familiar with in a
different context from the show that it originally came from (not just
someone singing it in a club act or on an album as part of a
"Comedy Tonight" - Was the theme song for a TV comedy show starring
Robert Klein
"Friendship" - Lucy and Ethel sing it in an I LOVE LUCY episode
"I Ain't Down Yet" - Was the theme song for WONDERAMA
"Glitter and Be Gay" -- The theme music for THE DICK CAVETT SHOW
"Big Spender" - an old commercial for (shaving cream?)

[Andy on Long Island]

I actually knew a person (not even a young kid) who did not know (until I
told him) that "Till There Was You" came from TMM. His exact words: "The
Beatles' 'Till There Was You'? You're kidding."

And I thought there'd be more responses like the foregoing to your post, but
instead find in the responses references to various commercial jingles. In
this vein, I can offer (and this goes back aways) one for a brand of candy,
"Bonomo's Turkish Taffy" that used the song "Hey, Look Me Over" from one of
the "obscure musicals" you guys seem to know so much about, "Wildcat."
Lucille Ball was in this one, I think.

Post by Eagle
Your mission, RATMers, should you decide to accept it, is to identify
a musical theatre song that you first became familiar with in a
different context from the show that it originally came from (not just
someone singing it in a club act or on an album as part of a
"Comedy Tonight" - Was the theme song for a TV comedy show starring
Robert Klein
"Friendship" - Lucy and Ethel sing it in an I LOVE LUCY episode
"I Ain't Down Yet" - Was the theme song for WONDERAMA
"Glitter and Be Gay" -- The theme music for THE DICK CAVETT SHOW
"Big Spender" - an old commercial for (shaving cream?)

[robert armstrong]

...one of the "obscure musicals" you guys seem
to know so much about, "Wildcat."

Just remembered: Give a Little Whistle And I'll Be There was a jingle
for French's Mustard. Don't know what it has to do with whistling. Now
French's also used to make bird seed...

His exact words: "The Beatles' 'Till There Was You'?
You're kidding."
And I thought there'd be more responses like the
foregoing...

Well, along that line I think a lot of people are still surprised that
the Doors' Moon of Alabama/Alabama Song is from Mahagonny, about forty
years earlier.

Just don't tell Brecht his *zeitoper* counts as "show tunes." Now rock
'n' roll music...

Bob A

"Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy the motorcade?"

[AndrewJ]

The "We love you Conrad" motif from BYE BYE BIRDIE was used as a
jingle for Crowley dairy products (in upstate NY) in the early 1980s.
Of course, there was a "We love you Beatles" version released in
1964...

[r***@yahoo.com]

Post by AndrewJ
The "We love you Conrad" motif from BYE BYE BIRDIE was used as a

There we go-- that was my sister's play...

"One Night in Bangkok" got more attention for being banned in Thailand
than as being from CHESS.

[Tim Gowen]

You'll Never Walk Alone is the consummate song that's supposed to be a
pop record because it was one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_Never_Walk_Alone_(song)

There were primary|elementary school alternative lyrics to Superstar,
from JCS, which I knew before I knew about musicals.



Tim

[w***@gmail.com]

If My Friends Could See Me Now:

"What a step up, holy cow---they'll never believe, if my friends could
see me now."

Oldsmobile's early 70's ad campaign -- I remember it in 1970, or 71,
but found an example in print from 1973--used the "What a Step Up,
Holy Cow" line from "If My Friends Could See Me Now" (Sweet
Charity).

See Loading Image...

I had no idea until years later that was from a show.

Also, I believed until somewhere in my teens that the Rodgers and
Hammerstein music my mother would sing or talk about was 50 or 100
years old, and not from shows that ran just before or after I was
born.

-Stuart (Mr. MaryLyon)

[Patti Beadles]

It's not quite what you're asking, but...

When I saw Whistle Down the Wind a few years ago, I recognized
the song Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts. The melody was reused
from ALW's earlier show Song and Dance, where it appeared as
English Girls.

-Patti

[AndrewJ]

FAMILY GUY had a song about the FCC, the melody of which was lifted
from TAKE ME ALONG's "Volunteer Fire Picinic"...

[Marcia]

Post by AndrewJ
FAMILY GUY had a song about the FCC, the melody of which was lifted
from TAKE ME ALONG's "Volunteer Fire Picinic"...

They do a great version of "But Yours" from TAKE ME ALONG, as well.
They don't seem to be doing big musical numbers this season, and I miss
them. Love that show!

Marcia

[Marcia]

Post by Marcia

Post by AndrewJ
FAMILY GUY had a song about the FCC, the melody of which was lifted
from TAKE ME ALONG's "Volunteer Fire Picinic"...

They do a great version of "But Yours" from TAKE ME ALONG, as well.
They don't seem to be doing big musical numbers this season, and I miss
them. Love that show!
Marcia