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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 8, 2017 8:38:29 GMT
I wonder if we can actually pin down the most recent U.K. Top 40 chart single that was lifted from a musical?
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 8, 2017 8:39:25 GMT
The World Is Stone by Cyndi Lauper from the musical Tycoon
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 8, 2017 8:45:19 GMT
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 8, 2017 8:57:59 GMT
Dame Shirley Bassey also had a hit with As Long As He Needs Me from Oliver!
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 8, 2017 9:00:03 GMT
There was also Immortality by Celine Dion and The Bee Gees for the musical Saturday Night Fever
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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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, 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:
