Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

[ZiggyCringe]

Posted: 11/9/09 at 1:16pm

It's been three weeks, and I still cannot take "Cry For Us All" off my CD player.

Every track is genius.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 11/9/09 at 2:36pm

I agree. CRY FOR US ALL is brilliant. Next up should be DONNYBROOK, DOONESBURY, A TIME FOR SINGING, NEFERTITI, ANGEL...I'm sure there are others I'm missing...

[Scripps2]

Posted: 11/9/09 at 5:05pm

I love Cry For Us All too.

And Angel.

But I've never heard the score for A Time For Singing, only that it's really good.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/9/09 at 6:43pm

Angel was good. I saw Cry & remember it was very hard to get thru it as it was somewhat slow moving at times.

[bk]

Posted: 11/9/09 at 8:00pm

Thanks! I have a contract for one of the titles on your list, but haven't sent it in yet - it's a very different deal than I usually do, and given the sales on Cry For Us All I'm not sure I can commit to a deal like the one they want. Cry For Us All will eventually sell out, but it's a really slow go.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 11/9/09 at 8:06pm

Hope the sales are better than KITTY'S KISSES (350? Oy).

P

[Basely Tearful]

Posted: 11/10/09 at 4:42pm

My copy of Cry for Us All is on the way. I deeply regret missing Anya and Illya. I feel a fool but I missed that they were reissued.

Sorry that Cry is taking so long to sell. I've heard nothing but raves from my friends.

[bk]

Posted: 11/11/09 at 3:54am

Drop me a PM about Anya and Illya if you like - I always hold back copies for emergencies, like lost in the mail or damaged CDs. So, I have a handful left of each.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/11/09 at 9:27am

I second the request for Doonesbury!

Although it's not the type of show that you would normally preserve.

Still, thanks for all the wonderful shows you do save. I've been a fan since the Varese days and the Unsing Bway/Lost In Boston cds are still some of my faves!

[madlibrarian]

Posted: 11/11/09 at 1:25pm

Thanks to Bruce for Anya, Illya, Show Girl, House Of Flowers, etc. And more thanks for Cry For Us All. It has gorgeous music and singing--it's truly one of those cast recordings that makes you wonder how this wasn't a smasheroo.

[twinbelters]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 2:38pm

Yes, thank you BK! I have been enjoying Cry For Us All muchly. What might we expect for 2010?

[bk]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 6:10pm

I have several things that are possibilities, including the title I referred to back in November, although I just don't see how I cannot lose money on that particular deal. We'll see.

There is one reissue coming, presuming I can do what I need to do to it - it's been out on CD before, but what no one realizes is that that release was not the original album mix - it was transfered to digital and remixed but never acknowledged that that was the case. And I knew there was something that wasn't quite right about it. So, if we end up doing this title, which I'm fairly certain we will, it will be a two CD set which includes for the first time the original album master and then a completely newly remixed version which will hopefully for the first time correct some problems inherent in the original recording. It is the latter that will make it a must have, presuming I can do what I think I can do. I'll know next week.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 6:15pm

tease!

[twinbelters]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 7:05pm

Curiouser and curiouser. What cd is out of print that could have been digitally mucked with? I thought Coco sounded really off. Woman of the Year didn't sound right, either.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 7:09pm

can someone repost the list from November? I forgot what all was on it.

[madlibrarian]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 7:15pm

The list is above, in the second post in this thread. (By the way, the rumored possible arrival from the list (NOT the two-disc rerelease Bruce latterly mentions) is A Time For Singing... but apparently there are "issues" delaying it.)

[twinbelters]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 7:19pm

Time for Singing makes sense. I was waffling between that and Doonesbury, but that title seems far less vital than Time.

Thoughts on the double disc release? Might it be a Broadway Angel title? Whoop-Up was masterfully remastered and reissued so I doubt that one. I don't envision it being from the Columbia catalog.

[madlibrarian]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 7:25pm

As long as we have Bruce's attention, how about requesting CDs of the other remaining titles in the Warner Bros catalog?: Eubie!, Rugantino, and the fab revival of Stop The World--I Want To Get Off with Sammy Davis Jr.!?

[twinbelters]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 7:34pm

I had no idea there are so may Rugantino recordings. 6 according to castalbumcollector.com.
Rugantino, Rugantino, Rugantino...

[bk]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 8:16pm

The Warners catalogue is all the same deal as Time For Singing, and financially it's difficult to come out ahead with a real possibility of coming out in the red. It's just the way they license - one has to commit to a certain number of CDs - given the sales of the stuff we've already reissued (most of which have sold out, but not all - all those are 1000 unit releases - Time For Singing would have to be 3000 - therein the problem). The market for older shows has so dwindled since I started in the CD business. In the old days you could put out anything at all and sell 3 to 5000 copies in a week. Not anymore, sadly. We still have a couple hundred House Of Flowers, the same for Show Girl (maybe less of those) and Cry For Us All still has about 175 left.

[notabb]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 10:21am

I have to agree with the header...bless you for the shows you got to us we might not have had. I'd buy more if I hadn't already bought them all.And as one who has had to request one of your emergency copies , thanks for that.

[jovie27]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 10:38am

Where can I get a copy of Cry For Us All ?

Thanks!

[tazber]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 11:08am

kritzerland

[twinbelters]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 12:04pm

BK: Is the cd-on-demand model something that has been considered for Kritzerland? Or would Warner and all associated not go for that?

I was seriously bummed out about the state of cast album reissuing and the music market in general last night. Have you considered doing any market research to get a measure of how many people would purchase Time for Singing and other titles you have considered?

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 4:24pm

Bruce, was there ever an actual CD release of AIN'T BROADWAY GRAND on Bay Cities? I keep seeing listings for it as BCD 3032 but have never seen the actual disc.