List of patter songs
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A list of patter songs.
- Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.
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[edit] Pre-Gilbert and Sullivan
- Peter Cornelius: The Barber of Baghdad – "Bin Akademiker, Doktor und Chemiker"
- Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore – "Udite, Udite, o rustici", middle section (Dulcamara)
- Donizetti: Don Pasquale – "Cheti, cheti, immantinente", final section (duet for Don Pasquale and Doctor Malatesta)
- Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila – Farlaf's Rondo «Близок уж час торжества моего» (Farlaf)
- Mozart: Marriage of Figaro – "La vendetta, oh, la vendetta", final section (Bartolo)
- Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia – "Largo al factotum", final section (Figaro); "A un dottor de la mia sorte" (Bartolo)
- Rossini: La Cenerentola – "Sia qualunque delle figlie", final section (Don Magnifico)
- Rossini: "La Danza"
- Franz Schubert: From Winterreise, "Ruckblick"
[edit] Gilbert and Sullivan
- Sullivan: The Gondoliers – "In enterprise of martial kind" (Duke of Plaza-Toro)[1]
- Sullivan: The Gondoliers – "Rising early in the morning" (Giuseppe)
- Sullivan: The Grand Duke – "Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow" (Rudolph)
- Sullivan: The Grand Duke – "Sing Diamonds Hearts Spades and Clubs" (Quintette)
- Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore – "When I Was a Lad" (Sir Joseph)
- Sullivan: Iolanthe – "When you're lying awake" (Lord Chancellor)
- Sullivan: The Mikado – "I've got a little list" (Ko-Ko)
- Sullivan: Patience – "If you want a receipt for that popular mystery" (Colonel Calverly)
- Sullivan: Patience – "So go to him and say to him" (Bunthorne and Lady Jane)
- Sullivan: Patience – "When I go out of door" (Bunthorne and Grosvenor)
- Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance – "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" (Major-General Stanley)
- Sullivan: Princess Ida – "If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am" (King Gama)
- Sullivan: Princess Ida – "Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke" (King Gama)
- Sullivan: Ruddigore – "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin)
- Sullivan: Ruddigore – "Henceforth all the crimes that I find in the Times" (Robin)
- Sullivan: Ruddigore – "My eyes are fully open to my awful situation" (Robin, Despard, and Margaret) This song was adapted for use in the Broadway revivals of The Pirates of Penzance (Papp production) and Thoroughly Modern Millie as "The Speed Test".
- Sullivan: The Sorcerer – "My name is John Wellington Wells" (J. W. Wells)
- Sullivan: Trial by Jury – "When I, good friends, was called to the bar" (the Learned Judge)[2]
- Sullivan: Utopia, Limited – "Henceforward of a verity" (King Paramount, Scaphio, Phantis and chorus)
- Sullivan: Utopia, Limited – "It's understood, I think, all round" (Scaphio, Phantis, Zara and Fitzbattleaxe)
- Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard – "I've Jibe and Joke... I've wisdom from the East and from the West" (Jack Point)
- Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard – "Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon" (Jack Point)
[edit] After G&S: operetta, popular music, musicals, and miscellaneous
- Animaniacs – "Yakko's World", "The US State Capitols", "The Presidents" and many other songs from the animated TV series
- Ashman & Menken: "Now (It's Just The Gas)" from Little Shop of Horrors
- Bare Naked Ladies: "One Week" (1998 pop-rock song)
- Bare Naked Ladies: "Pinch Me" (2000 pop-rock song)
- Bart: "Reviewing the situation" from Oliver! (Fagin)
- Blues Traveller: "Hook" (1994)
- Jason Robert Brown: "That's What He Said" from Parade
- Hoagy Carmichael: "I'm A Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with My Honolulu Mama doing Those Beat-O, Beat-O, Flat-On-My-Seat-O, Hirohito Blues" (Sung by Bing Crosby during World War II; Longest song title in Guinness Book of World Records.)
- Coleman: "Museum Song" from Barnum
- Coward: "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"
- Shirley Ellis: "The Name Game" (1961 pop-rock song)
- Richard Fariña: "Hard-Loving Loser"
- Gabriel Fauré: "Fêtes galantes" in his composition Masques et Bergamasques (1919)
- German: "I do counsel that your playtime" from Merrie England (Wilkins)
- German: "King Neptune sat on his lonely throne" from Merrie England (Wilkins)
- Holmes: "Both Sides of the Coin" – duet from The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Billy Joel: "We Didn't Start the Fire" from the Stormfront album.
- Kander & Ebb: "The Money Song" from Cabaret
- Kander & Ebb: "We Both Reached For The Gun" from Chicago
- Sheldon Harnick: "A Trip To The Library" from She Loves Me
- Lehrer: "The Elements" (set to the tune of the Major-General's Song)
- Lerner & Loewe: "My Mother’s Wedding Day" from Brigadoon
- Porter: "Let’s Not Talk About Love" from Let's Face It!
- R.E.M.: "It's the End of the World As We Know it" (1987 pop-rock song)
- Tim Rice: "No Rhyme For Richard" from Blondel
- Rowe: "Words, Words, Words from The Witches of Eastwick
- Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (from Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" movie, 1964)
- Sondheim: "Getting Married Today" from Company (Amy)
- Stilgoe: "William Pratt" (set to the tune of the Major-General's Song)
- Weill: "Tchaikovsky (and Other Russians)" from Lady in the Dark
- Willson: "Rock Island (opening sequence)" from The Music Man
- Willson: "Ya Got Trouble" – "Piano Lesson (If You Don't Mind My Saying So)" from The Music Man
- Maury Yeston: "Follies Bergere" (the contrapuntal melody that begins with "The trouble with Contini...") from Nine
- Weird Al Yankovic: "Hardware Store" from the Poodle Hat album
