Would "Your Fault" count as a patter song? If so, I'd say it should've been at least mentioned...

@aarongilmore1254

7 ай бұрын

I was waiting for your fault as well

@22Circes

6 ай бұрын

I was waiting for Greens! as well.

@golvic1436

5 ай бұрын

Yes it would.

@robbey10

5 күн бұрын

@@22Circes Greens is rap.

@22Circes

5 күн бұрын

@@robbey10 One of the best pieces I ever got to perform. 💚

Good list. But the Sondheim patter song that I think should have been at the very top, didn't even make your list: "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir" from "Sweeney Todd.

enjoyed the video! I thought Not Getting Married Today is number 1. i thought the Greens, Greens Witch's Intro in Into The Woods would be there in the Top 5!

Watched your video because I wanted to know what a patter song was after hearing about them in "only murders in the building". I just love the triplet patter song sung by Steve Martin, I think he does an amazing job! 👏👏

I would have thought "Witch's Rap" from Into the Woods might have gotten an honorable mention, but these are priceless

@lolabond6821

6 ай бұрын

I thought the same - on both accounts

Wow, never heard the Julie Andrews "Not getting married". She really bangs the words out! Love the whole video!

@terryhastings2465

5 ай бұрын

She's done, by far, the best annunciated version of that song.

There are several that could be considered patter songs in _Into the Woods,_ including "Giants in the Sky", "On the Steps of the Palace", and especially "Your Fault". In _A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum_ there's "Pretty LIttle Picture". In _Pacific Overtures_ there's a whole big section in "Please Hello" that is like the Major-General's song in _The Pirates of Penzance._

@billsnyder6391

4 күн бұрын

Exactly.

Such a great video! Sondheim really was one of the greatest minds to ever have lived. Also, I didn't even know that Julie Andrews did a version of (Not) Getting Married Today. Gotta go check that out!

@MusicalswithCheese

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

@stephaniekeyes2928

7 ай бұрын

Original Broadway cast of Putting it Together- filmed version was with Carol Burnett

Another lovely video! Some patter songs I've recently seen live are "Both Sides of the Coin" from Mystery of Edwin Drood & "Not Getting Married" from Company. Truly breathtaking to watch a real person in front of you perform such challenging works. If I had to shout out another song off the top of my head, "Everybody Loves Louis" has stretches of pitter patter (I love the character Dot). Also, "Cabaret" from Cabaret.

@stephaniekeyes2928

7 ай бұрын

Yes Drood! Also Mandy does a great patter song on one of his albums by Gilbert and Sullivan. I have no idea how he possibly got through it!!!!

I was waiting for a mention of the Witch’s rap from Into the Woods!

You didn't even mantion YOUR FAULT from Into the Woods, which is a 4 part patter song. I mean, seriously, not even in the honorable mention?

I think the song Please, Hello from Pacific Overtures is my favorite "villain" song of all time, and everyone should listen to it, I would have loved to see it on the list, but I don't have the strength to chose where it should have been placed.

@palmereldritch7777

7 ай бұрын

this should have been a top ten at least......And Please Hello should be on the list absolutely. There also the story of Jessy and Lucy and The God Why don't you love me blues from Follies

@rabbitfishtv

6 ай бұрын

yes, correct! And the British general’s section is a perfect Gilbert and Sullivan patter song pastiche.

@njatty

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, "Please Hello" immediately comes to the mind. It even includes a G&S patter song parody. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jGyLy9eddM-6cto.html

The name of the song is “Getting Married Today”. Adding in the “Not” spoils the twist!!

@MusicalswithCheese

2 жыл бұрын

Yesss! A very “What is this Feeling” title

Would replace Now with The Miller's Song. And honorably mention How I Saved Roosevelt. What a man!

@Toggitryggva

6 ай бұрын

"Miller's SON"

Ahhhh so putting it together was what Art of the Dress was playing on.

“A Weekend in the Country” from A Little Night Music

The British and French sections of 'Please, Hello' from Pacific Overtures should have been on here, maybe 'The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me-Blues' from Follies and definitely 'Kiss Me' from Sweeney Todd.

@22Circes

5 күн бұрын

I suddenly regret that I haven't listened to that show in so many years. Going to add it to my library now.💜

@davidpratt466

4 күн бұрын

Even the American section has a patter-y feel, as does "The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea." ("Beyond the screens that glide aside..." etc.)

Omg how did I not know Julie Andrews covered Getting Married Today?? I do agree with your top choice btw. I would love to perform that sometime.

Julie Andrews' performance of Getting Married Today is actually from the 1993 Off-Broadway performance of Putting It Together! Before it transferred to mainstage Broadway in 1999 with Carol Burnett, Julie was also a part of the performance that you show in the Putting It Together segment with Michael Rupert, Rachel York, Christopher Durang, and Stephen Collins.

Not getting married today should be one. I don't know, I have sang each song mentioned but I feel the anxiety attack is just... The best, number one for me.

“It’s Your Fault” tops my list!

The miller’s son? I think that’s a great one too

I heard an interview with Maria Friedman who describe Franklin Sheppard Inc. as a love song. Such a powerful interpretation.

What a great video! I had never heard of a Patter Song before and am glad I learned since I apparently love them 😀 Gonna have to listen to Not Getting Married Today on repeat until I have memorized every line lol

@allisonbergh4429

2 жыл бұрын

They’re not Sondheim, but you should also give a listen to “Model Behavior” from Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown and “I Know What’s Going to Happen” from Tootsie 😁

@kittikat2318

9 ай бұрын

The funniest version of Getting Married Today is definitely Madeline Kahn. Patti Lupone & Mandy Patinkin are 2 of the other greats that could demolish any of the patter songs!! Their annunciation & breath work is spectacular.

@stephaniekeyes2928

7 ай бұрын

On many tributes and Madeline Kahn is great; Company original is the best tho

@OriginalCaliKitty

6 ай бұрын

@@kittikat2318 Yes, for me Madeline's version of the song is the gold standard.

Love Mr Sondheim.

For syllables per second it's hard to top Tom Lehrer singing 'The Elements'

@jordanbell6181

24 күн бұрын

And Daniel Radcliffe does The Elements on the Grahman Norton show (look it up) as well as nailing Franklin Shepard Inc...new king of the patter?

@erikafusco9063

7 күн бұрын

@@jordanbell6181 I'd say so!!

@LUTube81

4 күн бұрын

Which used the melody of Modern Major General.

PLEASE HELLO! One of the best patter songs since Gilbert & Sullivan! Controversial... well, yes. Brilliant, undoubtedly!

@laytonjones2093

9 күн бұрын

Gilbert and Sulllivan masters of the patter song

@22Circes

5 күн бұрын

I got to play Ruth in Pirates of Penzance. The show was modeled after the then current Broadway production with Linda Ronstat and Kevin Kline so the director added the pattern song "My Eyes Are Fully Open" from Ruddigore, with the lyrics changed to match Pirates' plot. Thar sucker was freaking fast. I loved performing G&S.

gilber and sullivan will always be the patter kings yet you opened the door to me checking out more of Stephen Sondheims work.

Franklin Shepard Inc. has recently become my favorite Sondheim number of all time. Nice to see it get some recognition! (I'm ashamed to admit but I was planning on leaving an angry comment if it wasn't here lol)

I would have put "Not getting married" at Number 1...... performed brilliantly by Cassidy Janson in the 2011 Southwark Playhouse, (London, UK), production of Company!

You can definitely see his impact on Lin Manuel-Miranda

Wonderful !!!!

Esparza’s version of Franklin Shepherd Inc is fantastic

"Please Hello" from "Pacific Overtures" contains what is easily the best Gilbert & Sullivan parody I've ever heard. I was astonished to learn that Sondheim didn't think very highly of G&S; he certainly mastered their idiom.

Ballad of Czolgosz from Assassins

@timothysmith7888

5 ай бұрын

Came to the Comments looking for THIS, or to add it, if missing.

great list. I would also put Chrysanthemum Tea from Pacific Overtures on there.

I love a good patter song! They're tons of fun to sing. Missing here: On the Steps of the Palace, from Into the Woods.

Bobbie and Jackie and Jack from Merrily We Roll Along

I really liked the use of "Co-op" to introduce the concept. I don't think Miranda has ever written a patter song. He writes hip hop songs for musicals. That being said, I was telling a friend today I think patter songs are proto hip hop.

@tomorr7548

6 ай бұрын

"You're Welcome." Maui's big song from MOANA, is absolutely a patter song (for just one example).

@wehkfam5680

6 ай бұрын

@@tomorr7548 I respectfully disagree. YW has a rap for the bridge, but everything else is standard. I think this goes back to the taxonomy of rap vs patter, but I can still cleaning draw a line between the two.

@tomorr7548

6 ай бұрын

Point taken. I withdraw my submission

Your Fault from ITW should be no. 1!

"Pretty Little Picture" from FORUM. The growing alliteration is brilliant.

These were great! what about it takes two from into the woods?

It's so strange seeing your face like Ive been listening to the podcast forever and like knowing what you look like beyond a disembodied voice is making me trip I can even begin to rank patter song smoke ahhh I'm crying just thinking about his musicals

@socialistwhore2132

2 жыл бұрын

Like your fault (idk if it counts tbh) is my favourite but that's probably cause I heard into the woods and a toddler and like I'm obsessed with fairytales and myths

The witches greens greens song from into the woods

❤️

Now is one of my favorites

“Crysanthemum Tea” from “Pacific Overtures” comes to mind. It’s very patter song in structure and rhymes, though a little slow to fit the bill?

I was disappointed not to see more of Raúl Esparza doing Franklin Sherheed. His motions and facial expressions while performing were fantastic.

you know my favorite thought it's really not a patter song I suppose because it goes back and forth from song to patter is The MIller's Son

Here after Only Murders in the Building

Franklin Shepard Inc is one of my favorite Sondheim patter songs

I would have included "The Miller's Son" from A Little Night Music. Although there are slow sections within it, there are some nice patter song moments as well.

I would add Chrysanthemum tea from Pacific Overtures.

You could drive a person crazy!

Surprised to see "getting married today" at TWO-but you're right. FSI is incomparable.

Who else expected #2 to be #1?

Love a patter song

Pirates of Penzance

The MIller's Son? Please! It's his best!

I don't think some of these meet the definition of a patter song. "Getting Married Today," of course, and the British Ambassador section of "Please Hello," without a doubt. But not all lyric-dense songs are patter songs, and when they have slower, broader sections ("Mind you I can't hardly blame them. These are probably the worst pies in London..." for example), I believe that puts them in other categories.

I’m sorry, I have to disagree. While I do love Franklin Sheppard Inc, I PLAYED AMY, and Getting Married Today is a FAR MORE DIFFICULT song to sing. I did it going up and down platforms in a gymnasium without a mic. Franklin Sheppard does give you room to breathe, Getting Married Today does not. Sing both and THEN tell me which you think Is the harder/better song.

Wrong! A patter song is not a fast song with a lot of words. A patter song is a "list" or a catalog of things. Like "raindrops on roses..." (My Favorite Things from "The Sound of Music"). William S. Gilbert was the best. Sondheim didn't like Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas.

@chrisf5828

6 ай бұрын

There is no definitive content of a patter song. None. Some patter songs list things and some do not.

@robstockton911

7 күн бұрын

The closest thing we have to a consensus definition of “patter song” would be Wikipedia’s, which describes it thus: “A patter song is characterized by a moderately fast to very fast tempo with a rapid succession of rhythmic patterns in which each syllable of text corresponds to one note.” I could find no definition anywhere that limited the phrase to lists.

Not in the same league as G & S, sorry.

@MusicalswithCheese

Жыл бұрын

That’s fine too!

@rabbitfishtv

6 ай бұрын

UTTERLY disagree. Gilbert had to include a libretto in the program because you couldn’t always catch the lyrics as they would be a bit obscure and tortured. Sondheim, OTOH, always catches the ear clearly.

Q: what's worse than a patter song? A: a Sondheim patter song