15 Carousel is one of my favourite musicals. Definitely my favourite Rodgers & Hammerstein one. "Soliloquy" was one of the hardest songs my singing teacher (yeah yeah) taught me, growing up. But it's a VERY working class, very non-woke musical, so of course the woke had to ruin it, in this era... (archive.is) posted 1 year ago by bamboozler1 1 year ago by bamboozler1 +16 / -1 9 comments share 9 comments share save hide report block hide replies
I’ve heard those. I have Old Man River by various artists. Also aware of The King and I
I realised after I wrote this that Pirates and the Mikado are both Gilbert & Sullivan… 🤦🏻♂️ Show Boat is Hammerstein, but not Rodgers…
But yeah, Oklahoma!, the King and I as you mention, South Pacific, Allegro, The Sound of Music - there’s a whole bunch of them.
Oddly I got the era and country completely wrong for the Gilbert & Sullivan ones, lol…
They’re good, too, but they’re like half a century older, so they’re less… Relevant, I guess. And a bit less “serious”, I would say, too. 🤷🏻♂️
Being from Oklahoma we sang the main song from that musical at school a lot. I have some recordings of Robeson singing Old Man River. Very good