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D s has decided that he wants to change his legit song for auditions . He is a tenor and needs a good ballad . Any ideas please ?? He has thought about the usual Maria, younger than springtime , street where you live etc. nothing seems to be right . Any ideas gratefully received .

Not sure whether these count as ballads but;-

Kansas City, from Oklahoma

It only takes a moment, from Hello Dolly

You Are Beautiful, from Flower Drum Song

You've got to be carefully taught, from South Pacific

Good Luck

How about My Funny Valentine?Chet Bakers version is lovely as is his version of I Get Along Without You Very Well.Worth checking out the best of Chet Baker sings x

Oh What a Beautiful Morning
Some Enchanted Evening.
When I'm not near the girl I love (Finian's Rainbow)

Lots of luck to him

It might be worth investing in this:

The Singers Musical Theatre Anthology

They come in several volumes - and are split into books for different voices (Tenor, Soprano, Mezzo etc etc)
You can get them with accompaniment CDs too (more expensive then obviously).

There's even a 16 bar adbridged audition volume...

They're published by Hal - Leonard and they are available from most music shops and from on-line stores like Music Room, Ebay, Amazon. There are probably some second-hand offers around too. I think there are 4 volumes for Tenor. If you searched on Amazon you would probably be able to "look inside" and get some ideas without buying them if you wanted to!

As a tenor the choice available to him is huge!

Thank you for the suggestions , keep them coming . There are lots of songs out there , but this era often has songs with a very small range and often very easy, hence the reason he is changing his choice. The ones that are difficult enough would probably be the ones that are over used . That is a worry in itself .

Thank you for the suggestions , keep them coming . There are lots of songs out there , but this era often has songs with a very small range and often very easy, hence the reason he is changing his choice. The ones that are difficult enough would probably be the ones that are over used . That is a worry in itself .

Would anything from Gilbert and Sullivan fit the brief? Or does it have to be 20th Century? I know these are operetta - but there are some wonderful tenor songs and arias, and they would certainly show off range!

I love Hilarion's song : Whom thou hast chained must wear his chain - from Princess Ida - so lyrical
(there's a top Bflat in it I think...)
though there are many more which have more humour but are still ballads.
If G&S would fit the bill I will ask dd for some suggestions as she knows the operas much better than I do.