# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157 "2026-01-29T18:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 85
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1681 "2026-05-10T19:41:36Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > For once, I think all three variants are equally correct. I agree, in most cases, the apostrophe doesnt make any difference, one way or the ohter. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1682 "2026-05-10T19:47:53Z")
If by “most cases” you mean in general — with _other_ words or phrases — to me it _does_ matter (singular vs. plural). But for just this phrase — the maternal celebration — I think it works equally well as the “day of all mothers” (using the plural possessive, apostrophe at the end) — as for the “day of the mother” (as a kind of abstract category - singular possessive, apostrophe before the s)…. ….and I’m equally okay with the third option, “day for all mothers” (simple plural, no apostrophe — I think this is called an attributive noun). ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1683 "2026-05-13T17:28:01Z")
I’m a fan of musicals and have a number of recordings. I love _Candide_ and have two recordings – the original Broadway cast recording and a studio version conducted by Bernstein. Love them both. Oh, and I have both the original cast recordings of the London and the New York productions of _Evita._ I couldn’t decide which version I liked better. And they have different songs! ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1684 "2026-05-13T18:22:56Z")
Due to the wonders of YouTube, I now know that the Man of La Mancha album I listened to in the 1970s was from the original London cast in 1968. Which was not the original show. I also listened to Fiddler on the Roof around then. ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1685 "2026-05-13T18:25:16Z")
As a child in the 70s my mother subjected me to the Fiddler on the Roof, Hair, and Camelot soundtracks. That may be what gave me a lifelong distaste for Broadway. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1686 "2026-05-13T18:54:03Z")
The music teacher at my elementary school was a fan of musicals. Each year, over the course of a few months, he would have us listen to a cast recording, one song at a time, and as a group we’d analyze its musical features (instrumentation, tempo, dynamics, etc.) and lyrical content. After we got through the entire album, he’d then show us the entire film adaptation, and we’d spend a few more classes discussing the differences between the cast recording and the movie soundtrack. I remember that we went through _Jesus Christ Superstar_ and _West Side Story_ this way. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1687 "2026-05-13T19:04:10Z")
Me too, but to this day I love _Hair_ and _Camelot_. I have never seen a production of _Hair_ (movie or stage), though. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1688 "2026-05-13T19:10:34Z")
I’ve played my parents’ _West Side Story_ LP a few times over the years. With my wife and kid, I’ve heard the full _Hamilton_ CDs six or seven times. (Close but not quite: my parents’ _Hair_ soundtrack; I’ve listened to about half of it, maybe twice). By far, my most-often-heard full original soundtrack was not on this list: _ **Godspell** _. I played the full LP maybe fifty times between about age nine and fourteen, and maybe another twenty times since. Figured out all the songs by ear on piano as a teen, and on guitar (again by ear) as an adult. Only recently did I realize that Stephen Schwartz went on to compose the lyrics to _Enchanted_ (I love this film), and the music and lyrics to _Wicked_ (I’ve seen neither the stage musical nor the film). ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1689 "2026-05-13T19:14:16Z")
> [@Thumper668](#): > > and Camelot soundtracks. That may be what gave me a lifelong distaste for Broadway. The Camelot song itself was incessant in the 70s, and I grew to loathe it. Would you like to guess what three notes my oven uses to announce that it’s reached temperature? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1690 "2026-05-13T19:22:53Z")
I like to listen to soundtracks from the movie, so I was unable to check any boxes, since they were all “Original Broadway recordings”. I have 1776, Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Forum, Camelot, and a few others. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1691 "2026-05-13T19:50:06Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I like to listen to soundtracks from the movie, so I was unable to check any boxes, since they were all “Original Broadway recordings”. The poll’s title uses the term [“cast recording”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_recording), which refers not to movie soundtracks but to recordings by the cast of the live theatre production. (I slightly bent this rule for _Jesus Christ Superstar_, whose definitive album was recorded in the studio before the composers were able to arrange a stage production. They did manage to hire some of the album’s performers for the original Broadway cast.) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1692 "2026-05-13T21:38:51Z")
I played the hell out of the Ian Gillan _Jesus Christ Superstar_ album when I was a kid. I still think that is by far the best version. Other than that the only Broadway I listen to is occasional YouTube views of Les Miz. I’ll be going to the arena show at Radio City in a few months. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1693 "2026-05-13T22:54:00Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > The poll’s title uses the term [“cast recording”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_recording), which refers not to movie soundtracks but to recordings by the cast of the live theatre production. I have no idea whether those I voted for were a movie version soundtrack or stage production or studio recording. If I listened to an album of that title, I voted for it. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1694 "2026-05-13T23:02:41Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Me too, but to this day I love _Hair_ and _Camelot_. I have never seen a production of _Hair_ (movie or stage), though. Myself as well, though we had a LOT more play of various iterations of “Pirates of Penzance” than Camelot. I have many fond memories of 6-700 mile trips between Las Cruces NM and Colorado as a youth with my father singing along to Hair and Pirates at the top of his lungs for favorite songs as well. JC Superstar wasn’t in his rotation, but it’s in mine along with a rather more Modern production “[American Idiot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idiot_(musical))”. I’d probably have the adaptation of Billy Joel’s work “[Movin’ Out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movin%27_Out_(musical))”, but I have all the original song recordings on various CDs, so didn’t see the point, though I saw one of the live performances. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1695 "2026-05-13T23:07:18Z")
Thanksgiving - I went with other. 9/10 times, we are doing Thanksgiving with my in-laws, many of whom are Conservative Christians, with almost everyone present drinking a lot. We do not talk politics there, and step away from any of the sub-conversations that are adjacent. On the 10% of the occasions we’re with my folks, we try to avoid talking about it, but because we’re mostly in agreement and want to avoid the rage/despair when we’re having a rare chance to spend time together. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1696 "2026-05-14T01:10:24Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > The poll’s title uses the term [“cast recording”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_recording), which refers not to movie soundtracks but to recordings by the cast of the live theatre production. Okay, then I voted. But I have never ever seen a play on Broadway. I did see Yul Brynner and Something Funny happened on the way to the Forum with some of the original cast, in Hollywood. Plus a few others (Noises Off, etc) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1697 "2026-05-14T03:10:47Z")
Boo for not having the Ballad of Sir Robin the Monty Python poll. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1698 "2026-05-14T03:15:16Z")
Oops! I knew I was overlooking some. That’s one of my favourites, too. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1699 "2026-05-14T03:35:32Z")
I checked quite a few of the Monty Python songs, but also checked other for this one: I like traffic lights. I like traffic lights. I like traffic lights. No matter where they’ve been. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1700 "2026-05-14T03:56:00Z")
Mostly I dislike musicals, but two have really grabbed me: _Jesus Christ Superstar_ when I was in high school, and _Little Shop of Horrors_ much later. I played the hell out of those albums, and knew all the lyrics to both by heart. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157.md?page=84) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157.md?page=86)