Favorite Kander and Ebb Songs

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 8/31/15 at 5:22pm

My favorites are Maybe This Time, Cabaret, and New York, New York.  What are yours?

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/31/15 at 5:26pm

Someone's bored. Isn't college back in session?

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 8/31/15 at 5:27pm

yeah i gotta keep myself occupied somehow while im here :)

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 8/31/15 at 5:27pm

My top 5, according to my most played on iTunes library:

1. Maybe This Time - Cabaret

2. Dressing Them Up - Kiss of the Spider Woman

3. Cabaret - Cabaret

4. All That Jazz - Chicago

5. Don't Tell Mama - Cabaret

Posted: 8/31/15 at 5:42pm

New York, New York

Love and Love Alone 

But The World Goes 'Round

Maybe This Time

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/31/15 at 5:53pm

Too many to make a decision 

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 8/31/15 at 8:16pm

I love the quiet bittersweet ballads most--

My Coloring Book

A Quiet Thing

All the Children in a Row

Happy Birthday (Zorba)

Life Is

Only Love

Love and Love Alone

Updated On: 8/31/15 at 08:16 PM

[gypsy101]

Posted: 8/31/15 at 8:40pm

I love so much of their work, it's so hard to choose. Here's some right off the top of my head:

How Lucky Can You Get - Funny Lady
Don't Tell Mama - Cabaret
Class - Chicago
Colored Lights & Chief Cook and Bottle Washer - The Rink
Coffee in a Cardboard Cup - 70, Girls, 70
You Know Me - cut from The Visit
In the Same Boat - Curtains
Arthur in the Afternoon - The Act
Two Little Words - Steel Pier
Where You Are & Dear One - Kiss of the Spider Woman

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 9/1/15 at 4:53pm

I love the score of spider woman as well

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 9/1/15 at 4:57pm

I've fallen in love of late with THE HAPPY TIME. All of the songs are beautiful and several are funny while remaining in character. Robert Goulet is at his best and a teenage Michael Rupert shows the promise that he later fulfilled. I've read THE SEASON and I understand why the show didn't work, but the songs are among K&E's best, IMO.

 

As for picking a handful of favorites from the entire Kander & Ebb canon, I couldn't possibly...

[tazber]

Posted: 9/1/15 at 5:06pm

Me too Gav!

I've always loved that score. I love every song.

 

Please Stay is adorable and Life of the Party is a good Herman-esque toe tapper.

 

In terms of a favorite, I could never choose one out of all their songs, but The Money Tree has the most plays in my itunes.

[Fantod]

Posted: 9/1/15 at 5:20pm

The whole score of The Visit. It has become my favorite of all time, tied with Candide.

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 9/1/15 at 7:26pm

The Visit is absolutely gorgeous.  The music is exquisite, classy, and romantic.  It took a while to get to Broadway but it matured like a fine wine along the way.  It's impossible to choose a favorite song.

Cabaret will always be a favorite.  While the original is great, the show really came together in the 1998 revival.  They were able to combine the best parts of all of the previous productions and the film.  My favorite song is What Would You Do?.

The Scottsboro Boys is incredibly disturbing but phenomenal at the same time.  It's just a brilliant show that, like The Visit, deserves more recognition.  My favorite song is Go Back Home.

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 8:44am

i have 2 favorites...

MAYBE THIS TIME

BUT THE WORLD GOES ROUND...

actually i have 3...

A QUIET THING

 

all sung by LIZA...and Babs too (A QUIET THING)

 

 

Updated On: 9/2/15 at 08:44 AM

[madbrian]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 9:29am

In addition to those already mentioned:

Ring Them Bells

Chief Cook and Bottle Washer

[CurtainsUpat8]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 5:19pm

I've always loved "My Own Space" from The Act

[MVintheheartland]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 5:41pm

I've always loved "Razzle Dazzle" from Chicago, maybe due to hanging out with too many people in sales. 

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 5:42pm

Regrettably, I only know three of their shows well enough to pick from, and Cabaret has never been one of my favorites. So...

"Razzle Dazzle," "Roxie," and "Cell Block Tango" from Chicago

"Yellow Shoes" and "Love and Love Alone" from The Visit

[tazber]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 6:24pm

Oh crap - how could I leave off But the World Goes 'Round?!

It's even my signature!

[After Eight]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 6:26pm

Hit It, Lorraine
Unafraid
Angel's Rink and Social Center

[Ranger Tom]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 8:22pm

"Meeskite" - Cabaret

"Cell Block Tango" - Chicago

[SundayInThePark2]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 7:47pm

I think one of my favorites off the top of my head is Kiss of the Spider Woman from the show of the same title.

[Sutherland]

Posted: 9/4/15 at 11:19pm

Ironically, perhaps my favorite Kander ballad is Kander-without-Ebb:  I Miss The Music from Curtains.  Not only a gorgeous song in itself, its lyrics were written by Kander after Ebb's death and express the loss of the character's writing partner.

What's the matter, doesn't anyone remember that beauty of a song?

[jdrye222]

Posted: 9/5/15 at 10:42am

A Quiet Thing (Flora)

Go Back Home (Scottsboro)

At The Rialto (Skin of our Teeth)

Sing Happy (Flora)