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Jersey Boys (2005 Original Broadway Cast Recording)
:Album Description:Recounting the rich history and reliving the timeless sounds of the phenomenal Frankie Vallie & The 4 Seasons, the new Broadway musical Jersey Boys answers the musical-and philosophical question, 'How did four would-be wise guys from Newark, NJ, become one of the greatest chart-topping successes in pop music history?' Jersey Boys celebrates legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi who, as the 4 seasons, wrote their own songs, invented their own identity, and sold 175 ...
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Chicken Little
from: Walt Disney Records
: :This soundtrack offers a pretty standard mix of new songs, old chestnuts, and excerpts from the score (here by John Debney). On the new tip, Joss Stone and Patti LaBelle engage in an overheated battle of the divas on CD opener 'Stir It Up,' a bouncy piece of fluff that sounds more like Aretha Franklin circa 'Freeway of Love' than classic soul. Other originals include Barenaked Ladies' 'One Little Slip' (this movie's answer to Counting Crows' 'Accidentally in Love' from Shrek 2) and the Cheetah ...
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Myths And Hymns (1998 Off-Broadway Cast, Originally Saturn Returns)
: :Until this disc, Adam Guettel was best known as the mastermind behind Floyd Collins, the gut-wrenching, boundary-breaking piece of musical theater that never gained the popularity it deserved. Myths & Hymns is another beast altogether, though just as interesting. Guettel has created a song cycle based loosely on Greek mythology and lyrics he discovered in an antique hymnal. These 15 songs are a combination of art song and show tune, but all are interesting. 'Icarus' is funky jazz in which the composer duets with Lawrence ...
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Hollywood Hits: 70 Years of Memorable Movie Music
from: Shout Factory
: :Assembled as a companion piece/pledge item for the 2007 PBS television concert special Movie Songs Live this boxed collection is divvied into separate discs each devoted to movie themes Oscar-winning songs and film musicals. While the vast and rich history of the motion picture music genre cannot possibly be compressed into any three-CD set the compilers did a... More remarkable job of covering the touchstones -- although there are only 54 tracks here in all there is little to quibble about when playing the ...
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Bond and Beyond
from: Telarc
: :Assembled as a companion piece/pledge item for the 2007 PBS television concert special Movie Songs Live this boxed collection is divvied into separate discs each devoted to movie themes Oscar-winning songs and film musicals. While the vast and rich history of the motion picture music genre cannot possibly be compressed into any three-CD set the compilers did a... More remarkable job of covering the touchstones -- although there are only 54 tracks here in all there is little to quibble about when playing the ...
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Amour (2002 Original Broadway Cast)
: :It's hard not to feel a little embittered by the fate of Amour when you see the junk that spends years on Broadway. Composer Michel Legrand and lyricist Didier van Cauwelaert's delightful show (Le Passe Muraille in the original French version) closed after a woefully short run in the fall of 2002, yet it had enough dedicated fans that it scored a handful of Tony nominations and ended up being recorded. The sung-through score, which tells the story of a meek civil servant who discovers ...
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Me and Juliet (1953 Original Broadway Cast)
from: Flare UK
: :It's hard not to feel a little embittered by the fate of Amour when you see the junk that spends years on Broadway. Composer Michel Legrand and lyricist Didier van Cauwelaert's delightful show (Le Passe Muraille in the original French version) closed after a woefully short run in the fall of 2002, yet it had enough dedicated fans that it scored a handful of Tony nominations and ended up being recorded. The sung-through score, which tells the story of a meek civil servant who discovers ...
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Riverdance: Music from the Show
from: Decca Broadway
: :It's hard to believe that Riverdance, which began as a 7-minute intermission act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, is already 10 years old. Nobody back then could have imagined that a new-fangled amalgam of Irish folk styles, light classical music a la Albert W. Ketelbey and Tin Pan Alley would top the charts, win a Grammy for Best Musical and go on to take the world by storm. But why re-record Riverdance, which is as deeply associated with its original time and context as ...
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Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow! Vintage Fiddle Music 1927-1935: Blues, Jazz, Stomps, Shuffles & Rags
:Album Description:'Beautifully assembled, meticulously annotated, Folks is yet another striking contribution by Old Hat to the reassessment, if not the rewriting, of blues history. This is wonderfully unexpected music which refuses to conform to any of the accepted conventions of 12-bar blues. It should serve as a reminder of why the world continues to be drawn to this music, described by early observers as something unaccountably wild and strange. Folks restores some of that wildness, strangeness, and incalculable beauty.' Peter Guralnick - author Careless Love, ...
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Hits of '55: Moments to Remember
from: Asv Living Era
:Album Description:UK pressing presented by the Living Era label. Details TBA. 2006.
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