My Lorna Luft CD Just Arrived from Footlight.com

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 11:42am

FINALLY!



Lorna Luft's new CD features 11 tracks!

1. Lorna/Minstrel Girl
2. I Feel A Song Coming On
3. Rock-a-Bye Your Baby (With A Dixie Melody)
4. Mother Daughter Medley (Your Nearer / I Can't Give You Anything / Through the Years)
5. Chicago
6. The Man That Got Away
7. Come Rain Or Come Shine
8. Born In A Trunk Medley
9. Shining Star / Somewhere Over The Rainbow
10. Carnegie Hall Overture - The Trolley Song / Somewhere over the Rainbow / The Man That Got Away
11. Hello Bluebird
Lorna Luft: Songs My Mother Taught Me

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 11:55am

YEA!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 11:55am

Yum!

This would have made a lovely birthday gift...

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 12:00pm

Yes, bitch.

Mine is next week.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 3:00pm

I've already ordered 5 copies. It's all anybody's getting for Christmas.

The duets with Judy are gorgeously engineered, escpecially "Through the Years."

The Sondheim snippet from "Children and Art," telling her kids they would have loved their grandmother makes me sob.

And her "Chicago" and "Come Rain or Come Shine" are thrilling.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 3:02pm

Duets with Judy? How do you know who's singing what?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 3:12pm

It's gorgeous. The end of the show is a song called "Shining Star," which Lorna sings in counterpoint to Judy singing "Over the Rainbow." When Judy's voice first comes in, the effect is breathtaking, but when the two of them reach the crescendo with Judy singing "Why, oh, why can't I" and Lorna singing "Like a diamond, like a diamond, like a diamond in the sky"--I got chills on my spine.

I just got them describing it.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 3:15pm

And I got them just reading that! Good Lord.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 3:33pm

Earth Wind and Fire?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 3:53pm

That's her next CD--"Songs My Mother Would Have Grooved To"

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 4:05pm

Joey, I know you are super huge Lorna fan and I do like her, but doesn't the cashing in on Judy thing seem contirved. I dunno, it feels like a gimmick to me. I would have preferred her release an album of new material. Let me be clear in saying, Im not dissing Lorna-I love her-I'm just not a fan of the dead being revived for duets. It's one of my least favorite things. However, the way you describe it sounds like it is done really well. I can't help but think that it seems like a way to sell records.

[RetroBoy]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 4:10pm

How is her rendition of "The Man That Got Away". That has to be my all time favorite Judy song right next to "The Trolley Song".

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 4:14pm

All things being said, I still ordered it. Lorna on CD is too rare indeed. I look forward to getting it. Thanks for the heads-up PJ. I was unaware the CD existed.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 4:19pm

Betty--it's called "keeping the legacy alive."

Natalie Cole did it. Mercer and Mercedes Ellington do it. If they're cashing in, more power to them!

All these songs feature the glorious original orchestrations by Nelson Riddle and Mort Lindsay.

And Retro--all I can say is she rises to the occasion with "Man That Got Away"--ballad singing has always been her weak point, but she really wails on this one--but Lorna will always wail the wail of the survivor not the wail of the victim.

[artscallion]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 4:42pm

I want this and will buy it, but $22.95 for 11 tracks? And Amazon has it listed at $35.99! Why so expensive?!?

[folkyboy]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 4:45pm

is this on iTunes?

[artscallion]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 4:46pm

I couldn't find it on itunes or Ruckus, where I could get it free.

[folkyboy]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 4:51pm

anyone wanna send me that Judy duet with Shining Star?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 5:00pm

So far it's just released in the UK. Her website and Footlight.com are selling it here.

[DAME]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 8:34pm

"it's called "keeping the legacy alive."

Natalie Cole did it. Mercer and Mercedes Ellington do it. If they're cashing in, more power to them!"

Amen! Good for Lorna. She deserves to be heard and she is a thrill to see.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 8:36pm

Mama was funny.
Mama was fun.
Mama spent money
When she had none.

Mama said, "Honey,
Mustn't be be blue.
It's not so much do what you like
As it is that you like what you do.."

Those words COULD have been written about and for Judy Garland.

Updated On: 10/17/07 at 08:36 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 8:38pm

Just ordered mine!

[fflagg]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 10:57pm

Perhaps it is more affordable on amazon.uk?

Judy as Cora Hoover Hooper in "Anyone Can Whistle" singing "Me and My Town" and "A Parade in Town."

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 11:03pm

She'd have sung a beautiful "Anyone Can Whistle" as well.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 11:09pm

"Betty--it's called "keeping the legacy alive."


Betty, it's called 'she's got a voice that will blow the roof off of the place and she'll stomp all over you with it."



I'm not even going into the whole “WW I do if my mother was a ledged...” thing.