Ben Bagley's 'Revisited' Series — Page 2

I seem to remember Blossom Dearie and Bibi Osterwald being quite amusing in a song called A Lady Must Live, but I can't remember which recording it was on.

"No one has mentioned the great album cover art by composer Harvey Schmidt."

I did, but then deleted my post due to the attitude on the "Rhett Butlers charms" thread.

You have to get them just to have recordings of some fabulous performers who didn't have any or very many solo recordings of their own. Bibi Osterwald, Dorothy Loudon and Kaye Ballard to name a few.

As for those Harvey Schmidt covers, well, I'm in my forties and some of those still make me blush. I would never have brought the Kurt Weill covers into the house while my mother was alive. She'd have taken a magic marker to them!

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I was trying to be polite, but seriously, some of Ben Bagley's records are okay - one or two are great but many are just plain terrible. I was forced one night to listen to a tape of Blossom - her name should be Dreary - songs and I spent the evening cringing.

I understand Bagley's versions may be the only ones extant for many obscure shows, but come on.... those shows may be better off unrecorded.

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Updated On: 4/8/08 at 02:07 AM