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#26

re: Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

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

Please add my vote to the Doonesbury list. I remember when Gary Trudeau was submitting new material to it every week; it was a great cast and a fun show. When I talk about it, half the folks think I'm making it up... thanks for validating my failing memory folks!

#27

re: Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

Posted: 4/14/10 at 5:18pm

Wasn't the deal with Ain't Broadway Grand that it was a cassette sold only at the theater? Then, any effort to issue it to the general public was squashed because the actors were not paid for such a form of a release?

Bay Cities recordings.. wow, that takes me back. What recordings do people have from Bay Cities? I have A Doll's Life, Golden Boy, and Do Black Patent...? I remember wanting to kill for the Chicago reissue.

With Irma you gotta do something!

#28

re: Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

Posted: 4/14/10 at 6:45pm

WOMAN OF THE YEAR was a Bay Cities issue too, and even better than the LP edition it included production notes and a synopsis. (I'd like to see a law passed that no cast album be issued without a synopsis!)

Some people may forget that the OBC of FORUM was first issued by Bay Cities (Capitol/EMI had no interest in releasing it?) and only later did it show up as part of the 40 CD series from Broadway Angel.

I think CELEBRATION also came out first on BC. So did the album of FUNNY LADY.

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

#29

re: Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

Posted: 4/14/10 at 7:08pm

Yes I own both versions of the FUNNY LADY soundtrack. The Bay Cities release and the ARISTA MATERS re-release. I think the Bay Cities release was more representative of the soundtrack as originally released by Arista back in 1975.

The ARISTA MASTERS version played around with the track listing and possibly used different takes on some of the musical numbers.

There's a Quadraphonic version that was released as well that contained alternate vocals/mixes of the numbers but I've never been fortunate enough to run across it.

#30

re: Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

Posted: 4/14/10 at 7:18pm

Print on demand isn't of interest to Warners, at least right now. It's complicated over there.

Ain't B'way Grand was talked about but never issued by us.

#31

re: Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

Posted: 4/15/10 at 5:19pm

Nor anyone else it seems. The CD-R I have appears to have been dubbed from the cassette which has tons of reverb (It's almost has hollow as those old Decca fake stereo Lp's) and with almost no bottom end.

#32

re: Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

Posted: 4/15/10 at 7:22pm

When I got home I remembered I have Anastasia Affaire on Bay Cities. I do recall Celebration first being issued on that label as well. And, yeah, Funny Thing is a .. funny thing.

With Irma you gotta do something!

#33

re: Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

Posted: 4/15/10 at 10:19pm

We did the first issues of Funny Thing, Golden Boy (best sounding of all issues), Funny Lady, Chicago, Celebration - I think I'm forgetting one or two... I do remember that the first four show reissues all had one thing in common - each show had sets by Tony Walton.

#34

re: Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

Posted: 4/16/10 at 3:42pm

Woman of the Year was one. (Can you confirm or deny you plan to issue this one again?) I already mentioned Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..?

With Irma you gotta do something!

#35

re: Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

Posted: 4/16/10 at 4:51pm

I'd definitely buy A Time For Singing.

#36

re: Bless you, Bruce Kimmel

Posted: 4/16/10 at 4:56pm

Should we start a Facebook page and survey the demand for ATFS? Or Surveymonkey, even? I would be curious to know how many people would buy Whoop-Up if it was reissued--not that that's going to happen.

With Irma you gotta do something!

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