Broadway Remixes? Inc. Ethel Merman...

Surely you have heard the "Disco Ballad of Sweeney Todd."

Gloria Gaynor's "I Am What I Am" from LA CAGE.

There was an entire EVITA disco album.

There was also a disco single I had at one time that was two songs from ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: "Never" and "Our Private World."

Deborah Cox's EASY AS A LIE is way HOT
She's no Merm though!

Updated On: 5/11/06 at 11:08 AM

Here's the sad thing about Ethel's Disco album--it's really BAD disco. You don't hire Peter Matz to produce a disco record, anymore than you'd hire Kool and the Gang to produce an album of standards. I've always wished someone would take Ethel's vocal tracks and remix them into something really fun and dancable.

Makes me wonder why no one has taken Merman's tracks and re-mixed them with a full (non-disco) orchestra. Though it was the last album she recorded, she was in better voice here than on some of her London albums of the mid 1970s.

What is sad is that no one thought to star her in studio cast re-creations of her classic shows around the time of the ANNIE GET YOUR GUN revival. RCA's cast album of that sold (and still sells) very well. Would have been nice to have Merman do new and complete versions of ANYTHING GOES, GIRL CRAZY, SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS and CALL ME MADAM.

Instead, for the rest of her career she re-recorded the same group of hits over and over.

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Yea, I have two SOL remixes. Also on Karmine Aler's CD, there is a remix of Out Tonight.

There were several Madonna remixes of "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina," as well a non-commercially released CD single of remixes for "What's New, Buenos Aires?" that are actually pretty good. It was only given to DJs as a promo demo in anticipation of a full release that never happened, but it pops up on eBay every now and then, and it's worth owning.

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LMAO this isn't a remix, but it just reminded me

Has anyone seen the episode of Dawson's Creek in which Katie Holme's character enters a beauty pagaent and sings "On My Own"??? it's the most god awful thing EVER. Please find it, and listen to it. Maybe it's on You Tube.

end thread jack.

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Do a search- this topic has been done a few times. There's tons of songs!