List of patter songs

A list of patter songs.

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"

Gilbert and Sullivan

*Sullivan: "The Gondoliers" – "In enterprise of martial kind" (Duke of Plaza-Toro) [ [http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/gondoliers/html/gn_02.html Lyrics to "In enterprise of martial kind", "The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive"] ]
*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) [ [http://victorianweb.org/mt/gilbert/judge1.html Article and links about "The Judge's Song", "The Victorian Web"] ]
*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)

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 "Storm Front" 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)
*Reunion: "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" (1974 pop 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
*Scrubs: "The Rant Song"

Notes

External links

* [http://www.broadwaycafesociety.com/songarc1106.htm Jason Fortner's description of a number of patter songs]
* [http://www.schickele.com/cgi-bin/playlist.pl?program=14 Peter Schickele on the history of the patter song]
* [http://www.cris.com/~oakapple/gasdisc/ms_eddy.htm Description of Nelson Eddy recording of patter songs, listing them]
* [http://www.cris.com/~oakapple/gasdisc/ms_green.htm Description of Martyn Green recording of patter songs, listing them]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=xgCQOLBKm28C&pg=PA353&lpg=PA353&dq=%22patter+songs%22+-princess&source=web&ots=c3JgFfF0HX&sig=8zNVCWOUIU42NVuGvvLsMU0Jn3s&hl=en List of some classical patter songs]