"Day By Day," Godspell (1972)
A musical theater prayer on the pop charts
Peak: #13 on the Hot 100
Streams: 1.1 million
As you’ll recall, Ronnie Dyson sang the only song from an Off-Broadway musical to become a top 10 hit, but the Godspell cast got awfully close to matching that achievement.
Stephen Schwartz’s musical staging of various Biblical parables was a blockbuster when it opened at the Cherry Lane Theater in 1971, and by…
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