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"Company" is the title song from the Broadway musical, Company. It was written by Stephen Sondheim....

"Company" is the title song from the Broadway musical, Company. It was written by Stephen Sondheim. The song is the introductory song of the show. It is sung by the main character, Robert, and the full company in the first act, and reprised in a curtain call finale. “Company,” one of Sondheim’s lesser-performed songs, relies heavily on rhythm and tempo with a simple melody, greatly enhanced by a rock beat in its orchestration. The motif used throughout the entire score of “Company” begins here, inspired by a telephone’s “busy” signal (a common, everyday auditory tool used prior to the advent of cellphones. [The busy signal is used in recordings of the song]). The “Bobby, Bobby bubi, Robby, Robert darling” motif is a pulse of staccato and repetitive sound as voiced by the show’s couples -- first calling to Robert (the main character) by his legal name, and then by various nicknames and pet names -- segueing into conversational exclamations and endearments. Then at last the entire chorus of “married friends” mutually invite Bobby to “come on over for dinner! We’ll be so glad to see you! Bobby come on over for dinner...just be the three of us, only the three of us!” The main body of