<p>Help me please…I can’t think of one thats not overdone…</p>
<p>Overdone is not all that important. If you do it well, you do it well.</p>
<p>Having said that, find the original recording/sheet music for “South Pacific” (if you’re young, which I’m assuming you are). There’s a song entitled “My Girl Back Home” that was yanked from the production, though it’s a very good ballad. So, almost no one does it.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>What’s your vocal range? It’s impossible to get specific without knowing that. I recommend that my students look at older and/or underused shows – like Plain & Fancy, Finian’s Rainbow, Babes in Arms, Barnum – there are good ballads in all of those shows. There’s an excellent book out called “The Broadway Song Companion” by David DeVenney, published by Scarecrow Press. It claims to be “an annotated guide to musical theatre literature by voice type and song style.” I have found it very useful.</p>
<p>I would honestly suggest picking up all the Musical Theatre Anthology collections for your range and working with those songs. While most people are looking for their “unique” song, most forget about the great antiques.</p>
<p>Well, you can really take any ballad that you really feel fits your “style”. If you have a voice teacher, or perhaps a friend of some sort, that can transpose it for you and fix it to your key, then you’re all set.</p>