Recordings of "Medowlark" from Baker's Wife?

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:50pm

Anyone know of a good one besides LuPone?

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:02pm

liz callaway. amazing!

[mrs felciano]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:02pm

Patti's is my favorite, but Susan Egan has a lovely one too!

[folkyboy]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:13pm

i LOVE Liz Callaway's version! i'm also a fan of Betty Buckley's.

[desiree armfeldt]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:18pm

Liz!

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:24pm

Thanks, kids.

[wiggum2]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 4:43pm

I love Betty Buckley's from the London concert not the jazzy one, I also enjoy Srah Brightman's version

[Gingersnap2]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 4:50pm

I'm not a huge Sarah Brightman fan (don't love or hate her)...but her version is the one that made me like the song.

[folkyboy]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 4:50pm

that's actually the one i was referring to. sorry i should've specified.

[tcoppola]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 5:28pm

Callaway all the way.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 5:31pm

Liz Callaway's version is the definitive one for me. Absolutely stunning.

[DBillyP]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 5:58pm

I find Susan Egan's a bit dull, but I love Betty B.'s.

[ACTlete676]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 6:05pm

Stephanie J. Block
&
Eden Espinosa

[EganFan2]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 6:11pm

I prefer Sarah Brightman's to Susan Egan's.

Posted: 6/1/07 at 6:13pm

I wish Patti's was better recorded--anyone else notice how there are chunks where the quality of recording shifts sharply? and she sounds suddenly closer to the mike?

Anyway I do really like the woman singing on the Trevor Nunn London recording--who's name I have no idea.

(and I'm not a Sarah Brightman fan either but her version is surprisingly good--i think the song suits her rather thin voice for some reason)

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[pc1145N2]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 9:26pm

I believe that Patti's is the difinitive version. Having said that, I really enjoy Stephanie J. Block's version and Sarah Brightman's version. Now that I read how good Liz Calloway's version is....I'm going to try and download that right away. Thanks for the heads up.

[wiggum2]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 10:08pm

Where would one find Stephanie J. Block's version?

[wickedfan]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 10:15pm

pc-You won't be sorry. Although, on iTunes it only has the recording from "Sibling Revelry", which, though great, can't compare to her album "The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway sing On & Off Broadway". "Sibling Revelry" has a piano, a bass (I think), and a percussion unit. "The Story Goes On" has a full fledged orchestra, and it is just breathtaking.

[TheaterBoy7777]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 10:34pm

I love Eden Espinosa's recording and I love Alice Ripley singing it too!

[bwaydoc]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 11:19pm

wiggum, I believe if you go to Stephanie J. Block's website you can hear her version of "Meadowlark." The link to the audio page is below.


SJB Audio

[wiggum2]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 11:23pm

^^ Thanks

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 6/2/07 at 12:17am

I was going to say Ms. Block. Amazing!

[jacco]

Posted: 6/2/07 at 11:11am

Buckley's London Concert version gives me goosebumps every time....AMAZING orchestrations...you have to like her voice though...(I do)

[jo]

Posted: 6/2/07 at 11:58am

I first heard the song as sung by Sarah Brightman in one of her early albums and liked it right away.

[mrkringas]

Posted: 6/2/07 at 1:04pm

Sharon Lee Hill was Genevieve in the London production and the wife of Trevor Nunn at the time.

Its a decent recording especially Alun Armstrong as the Baker.