Various - Anything Goes OCR

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Recording information MSR Studios NYC 06 20 2011 The Roundabout Theatre Company s 2011 Broadway revival of Anything Goes offers a fresh take on Cole Porter s 1934 hit musical while keeping close to the freewheeling spirit of the original The production was a huge success winning Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Musical and for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical going to Sutton Foster as the singing evangelist Reno Sweeney The album debuted at the top of Billboard s Cast Album Chart and offers ample evidence that the enthusiasm the revival has generated is fully deserved The spotlight is on Foster who brings considerable glamour to a role created by Ethel Merman She skillfully manages the trick of conveying the character s essential sweetness and vulnerability while still channeling some of Merman s humor and brassy confidence She s immensely appealing in songs like I Get a Kick Out of You You re the Top and Anything Goes and she cuts loose in Blow Gabriel Blow The supporting cast is consistently strong which is essential in an ensemble piece like this that s packed with eccentric high-profile characters As Billy Crocker the guy who finally gets his girl Colin Donnell has an appealing charm and he and Laura Osnes as Hope Harcourt generate some heat in duets like Easy to Love a song that had been cut from the original production It s De-Lovely and All Through the Night Osnes poignant solo Goodbye Little Dream Goodbye is one of the album s highlights Joel Grey shines in the crucial but relatively small role of Moonface Martin This production which uses a book updated by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman for a 1987 revival beefs up the role and gives Grey the chance to sing Friendship a song lifted from Porter s show Dubarry Was a Lady with Foster as well as his standard solo Be Like the Bluebird One of the special attractions of this album is the inclusion of several of Porter s songs i

Original Cast - Les Miserable The 2010 Cast Album

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Personnel Stuart Andrews keyboard programming Recording information The Palace Theatre Manchester 02 2010 Since the English-language version of the musical Les Mis rables opened in London in 1985 there have been a number of recordings this one features the cast of the 25th anniversary London revival production with John Owen-Jones starring as the Job-like Jean Valjean and featuring Earl Carpenter as his nemesis Javert Madalena Alberto as Fantine I Dreamed a Dream Katie Hall as the grown-up Cosette Rosalind James as Eponine On My Own and Gareth Gates as Marius On this live recording the cast seems a bit overexcited at the outset but they settle down into a professional performance over the course of the long running time The show has not changed much over the years making any new recording essentially redundant This is not the only one drawn from a live performance but such recordings have the odd aspect of loud cheering which disrupts the grandly tragic intentions of the piece Still the album serves as a souvenir of a work that has held up over a quarter-century and seems likely to do so in the future William Ruhlmann

Various - Oklahoma ost

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Music composed by Richard Rodgers Lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II Principal Cast Gordon MacRae Curly McLain Shirley Jones Laurey Williams Rod Steiger Jud Fry Gloria Grahame Ado Annie Carnes Gene Nelson Will Parker Charlotte Greenwood Aunt Eller Murphy James Whitmore Andrew Carnes Eddie Albert Ali Hakim J C Flippin Ike Skidmore Producer Fred Hynes Reissue producers Didier C Deutsch Charles L Granata Recorded at MGM Studios Culver City California between May amp July 1954 Originally released on Capitol 595 Includes liner notes by Didier C Deutsch amp Charles L Granata Digitally remastered by Darcy M Proper Sony Music Studios New York New York Music composed by Richard Rodgers Lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II Principal cast includes Madge Ryan Aunt Eller John Diedrich Curly Rosamund Shelly Laurey Mark White Will Parker Alfred Molina Jud Fry Jillian Mack Ado Annie Carnes Linal Haft Ali Hakim Normah Atallah Gertie Cummings Recorded live at the Palace Theatre London England Includes liner notes by Clive Hirschhorn Music composed by Richard Rodgers Lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II Principal cast John Raitt Curly Florence Henderson Laurey Phyllis Newman Ado Annie Carnes Jack Elliott Will Parker Irene Carroll Aunt Eller Ara Berberian Jud Fry Leonard Stokes Andrew Carnes Recorded at Columbia 30th St Studios New York New York between March 16 amp 24 1964 Originally released on Columbia 2610 Includes liner notes by Richard Ridge All tracks have been digitally remastered Adapter Adolph Deutsch Personnel Jay C Flippen vocals Audio Remixer Darcy Proper Liner Note Author Charles Granata Recording information MGM Studios Culver City CA 1955 Editor John Palladino Arranger Robert Russell Bennett Twelve years after it opened on Broadway Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II s first musical burst onto the screen in the Todd-AO wid

Original Cast - A Chorus Line OCR

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That indelible Marvin Hamlisch music helped make this 1975 Broadway smash the second-longest-running show of all time-and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize and nine Tonys Includes One I Can Do That Sing What I Did for Love At the Ballet and more

Cadillac Records DVD

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CADILLAC RECORDS is a writer director Darnell Martin s riveting ensemble film depicting the rise in the early- 50s to late- 60s of key musical figures at the crossroads between blues rhythm amp blues and rock amp roll Based on the true story of the original Chicago-based purveyors of electric blues Chess Records it centers on two men Leonard Chess Adrien Brody a Polish-Jewish nightclub owner and Muddy Waters Jeffrey Wright a transplanted Mississippi sharecropper with sights set on musical stardom After hearing Waters s electrified Delta blues during a tussle at his nightclub Chess decides to pool his resources into releasing what were then called race records Soon a coterie of label talent from Little Walter and Howlin Wolf to Chuck Berry and Etta James help to propel the fledgling label to the top of the charts-with each hit-maker rewarded by Chess with a shiny new Cadillac automobile While sometimes playing loose with some minor historical points the film truly hits the mark with its attention to visual detail from costumes and cars down to vintage recording equipment all of it is a feast for period buffs But what truly makes CADILLAC RECORDS captivating are the exceptional musical performances of Beyonce Knowles Etta James and Mos Def Chuck Berry two of the finest musicians-turned-actors of their time Ultimately CADILLAC RECORDS most potent message may be the boundless ability that much of this music had in transcending the unsettling realities facing blacks of the time From Payola the practice of bribing disc jockeys to play race records and segregation to white performers pilfering songs written by blacks all of it is handled with admirable aplomb in this enjoyable often edifying film

Elvis Presley - Peace in the Valley-Gospel Recordings

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Personnel includes Elvis Presley Carl Perkins Jerry Lee Lewis Johnny Cash The Jordanaires The Imperials The Nashville Edition J D Sumner amp The Stamps The Sweet Inspirations Kathy Westmoreland Sherrill Neilsen Compilation producers Ernst Mikael Jorgensen Roger Semon Recorded between 1956 amp 1977 Includes liner notes by Cheryl Thurber Digitally remastered by Dennis Ferrante amp Lene Reidel Audio Remixer Dennis Ferrante Recording information 1957-197 Arrangers Earl Brown Elvis Presley Elvis Presley was and is an American icon a figure whose impact on the pop music world cannot be overestimated Before he became a legend Presley was just a singer albeit one who got the goods by synthesizing the music of his youth blues country music mainstream pop Dean Martin was an early favorite of his and gospel Southern gospel is a intensely rhythmic devotional music and that obviously left a powerful impression on the young Elvis he often sang gospel tunes to warm-up for recording session and concerts This box set exclusively collects the gospel songs old and then new Presley recorded throughout his career including the Million Dollar Quartet session Elvis Jerry Lee Lewis Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash This collection is wildly varied the relaxed party-like informality of the Quartet session it was not originally intended for release and the glossy orchestrated pop of Only Believe seem to be poles apart yet the common ground is the conviction Presley brings to these performances Other high points the almost Baroque choral touches on a gently loping take of Johnny Cash s A Thing Called Love the spare haunting I Asked the Lord and the near-operatic wail of Reach Out to Jesus

Dimensions Birth Record Counted Cross Stitch Kit

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Capture the precious memories of baby s arrival with this darling birth record Classic toys in pastel colors create a keepsake that will be treasured for years Stitch kit includes a color-accented chart and alphabet for personalizing Counted cross stitch Kit contains cotton embroidery thread 14 count white Aida fabric thread palette needle and easy instructions Mat frame not included Finished product measures 10 inches wide x 14 inches long