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David Cook
:Album Description:American Idol winner David Cook is set to release his self-titled debut album on November 18th, 2008. Produced by Grammy winning Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Kid Rock), David Cook is a quality album full with radio hits. Cook co-wrote 9 songs from his debut, along with songwriters like Chris Cornell, Brian Howes & Cathy Dennis. The 1st single 'Light On' was co-written by one of rock music's most influential innovators, Chris Cornell, lead singer and songwriter for Soundgarden and Audioslave, and acclaimed producer / songwriter Brian Howes, who has worked ...
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Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs Of Leiber And Stoller (1995 Original Broadway Cast)
: :As good as Pomus and Gordy were, they can't compare with the premier rock & roll songwriters of the pre-Beatles era: Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Chuck Berry, and Percy Mayfield. The team of Leiber (the lyricist) and Stoller (the composer) created such enduring standards as 'Kansas City,' 'Hound Dog,' 'Stand By Me,' 'Spanish Harlem,' 'Jailhouse Rock,' and many more. Those songs and 33 more were assembled into a bookless Broadway musical called Smokey Joe's Cafe, which was nominated for eight Tony Awards. If this soundtrack album is any indication, the show ...
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Pure Moods, Vol. III
: :What's most surprising about the Pure Moods series is not that it is so popular, but that the music on it actually represents some of the best New Age and modern instrumental music, rather than scraping the barrel. For every piece of Enya pop froth--like her 'Only If,' which opens the album--there is a deep and impassioned exploration like Sheila Chandra's virtually a cappella 'Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean.' Yanni's bombastic 'On Sacred Ground' is balanced by Moby's soulful trance groove, 'Porcelain.' Sometimes those juxtapositions don't work out well. The overwrought romanticism of ...
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Prelude: The Best of Charlotte Church
: :Need more evidence of the record industry's obsession with youth? Consider that budding Welsh diva Charlotte Church was a ripe, old 16 when this, her first greatest-hits anthology was released. Spanning her first four releases, as well as some outside collaborations and unreleased material, this 18-track collection underscores the soprano's seemingly boundless potential--as well as some potential career obstacles ahead. Her crystalline, still-maturing voice is best showcased on classically oriented works like Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Pie Jesu,' Franck's 'Panis Angelicus,' and her now-ubiquitous rendering of Delibes' 'Flower Duet.' She also excels ...
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: London Palladium Cast Recording (1991 London Revival Cast)
:Album Details:Digitally Remastered Edition of the 1991 Original Cast Album of the Hit Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical featuring Pop and Stock Aitken Waterman Star Jason Donovan in the Lead Role. Includes Full Libretto and Deluxe Packaging.
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Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series)
from: Sony
:Album Details:Digitally Remastered Edition of the 1991 Original Cast Album of the Hit Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical featuring Pop and Stock Aitken Waterman Star Jason Donovan in the Lead Role. Includes Full Libretto and Deluxe Packaging.
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The Great Thanksgiving
from: Sony
:Album Details:Digitally Remastered Edition of the 1991 Original Cast Album of the Hit Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical featuring Pop and Stock Aitken Waterman Star Jason Donovan in the Lead Role. Includes Full Libretto and Deluxe Packaging.
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The Island
from: Milan Records
: :After supplying something known as 'additional music' to many films since the late 1990s, Steve Jablonsky seems to have become the go-to composer for director-producer Michael Bay. Jablonsky's score for Bay's sci-fi thriller The Island shows the influence of its producer, Hans Zimmer. 'The Island Awaits You' sets up the mood, which is oddly muted for a movie directed by explosion-master Bay. Even a track titled 'Mass Vehicular Carnage' is merely ominously low-key, oddly sounding like something by dank trip-hopper Tricky. Elsewhere, the electronic number 'Starkweather' successfully creates a feeling of ...
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The Music Man (1957 Original Broadway Cast)
from: Capitol
: :Although Robert Preston and Barbara Cook put in stellar performances, it's the music that's the star of this hugely successful document of the 1958 Broadway smash. Written entirely by Meredith Willson, it drew from memories of his childhood in a small Midwestern town. Preston plays a traveling salesman/con artist, while Cook is the dull spinster 'Marian the Librarian,' whose love for Preston's character makes her come alive. 'Seventy-Six Trombones' has become a marching band standard, while 'Ya Got Trouble' (featuring dizzying fast-talk from Preston) and ''Til There Was You' (with a ...
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Send in the Clowns: The Ballads of Stephen Sondheim
from: RCA Victor
: :Although Robert Preston and Barbara Cook put in stellar performances, it's the music that's the star of this hugely successful document of the 1958 Broadway smash. Written entirely by Meredith Willson, it drew from memories of his childhood in a small Midwestern town. Preston plays a traveling salesman/con artist, while Cook is the dull spinster 'Marian the Librarian,' whose love for Preston's character makes her come alive. 'Seventy-Six Trombones' has become a marching band standard, while 'Ya Got Trouble' (featuring dizzying fast-talk from Preston) and ''Til There Was You' (with a ...
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