Share the songs that move you (from musicals).

@1111art   Your post is bringing back some good memories for me.  Back in the 1950's my father (an electrical engineer) built a system that was the envy of all the neighbours.  A Dynaco Mark ll DYI kit, three Warfdale speakers, a TT with stobe and sliding speed control that went from below 33 to above 78.  I guess my dad was pretty hip back then.  So did I grow up listening to Miles or Bird or maybe The Jazz Messengers?  NO, I grew up listening to Show Tunes.  Gentlemen Be Seated is imprinted on my brain to this very day.  And you know, I still Wonder What Became of Sally, that old gal of mine. 🎶

- “Someone To Watch Over Me,” George & Ira Gershwin, Oh, Kay!
- “Ol’ Man River,” Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein, Show Boat
- “Embraceable You,” George & Ira Gershwin, Girl Crazy
- “I Got Rhythm,” George & Ira Gershwin, Girl Crazy
- “Night and Day,” Cole Porter, Gay Divorce
- “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,” Jerome Kern, Roberta
- “I Get a Kick Out of You,” Cole Porter, Anything Goes
- “About a Quarter to Nine,” Harry Warren & Al Dubin, Go Into Your Dance
- “I Loves You, Porgy,” George and Ira Gershwin, Porgy and Bess
- “Cheek to Cheek,” Irving Berlin, Top Hat
- “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” Cole Porter, Born to Dance
- “Begin the Beguine,” Cole Porter, Jubilee
- “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” George & Ira Gershwin, Shall We Dance?
- “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” George & Ira Gershwin, Shall We Dance?
- “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm,” Irving Berlin, On the Avenue
- “Where or When,” Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, Babes in Arms
- “The Lady Is a Tramp,” Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, Babes in Arms
- “Good Morning,” Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed, Babes in Arms
- “Love is Here to Stay,” George & Ira Gershwin, The Goldwyn Follies
- “White Christmas,” Irving Berlin, Holiday Inn
- “One for My Baby (and One More for the Road),” Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer, The Sky’s the Limit
- “Come Rain or Come Shine,” Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer, St. Louis Woman
- “Luck Be a Lady,” Frank Loesser, Guys and Dolls
- “I Could Have Danced All Night,” Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady
- “On the Street Where You Live,” Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady
- “The Life I Lead,” Richard & Robert Sherman, Mary Poppins
- “Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag),” Richard & Robert Sherman, Mary Poppins
- “Fidelity Fiduciary Bank,” Richard & Robert Sherman, Mary Poppins
- “It’s the Hard Knock Life,” Charles Strouse & Martin Charnin, Annie
- Every song from The Wizard of Oz, Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg
- Every song from Pinocchio, Leigh Harline & Ned Washington
- Every song from The Sound of Music, Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein

"Memory", from Cats

For starters, how about the Kern/Hammerstein and Rogers/Hammerstein songs, many of them prospective love songs:

Make Believe (Show Boat)

Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)

If I Loved You (Carousel)

Something Wonderful, I Have Dreamed (The King And I)

Climb Every Mountain (Sound Of Music)

and from Stephen Sondheim:

Maria (West Side Story)

Not While I'm Around (Sweeny Todd)

No More (Into the Woods)

Oops, I forgot Sunday (Sunday In The Park With George) by Sondheim!