#26
Posted: 7/30/08 at 12:43pm
Weez - The Ballad of Sweeney Todd Disco is by the long forgotten Gordon Grody. My Ipod plays it every 2 or 3 months as well.
Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs — Page 2
#27
Posted: 7/30/08 at 1:33pm
I happen to be a big Carpenters fan. I can't imagine that Karen, with that magnificent voice, would have "butchered" anything.
#28
Posted: 7/30/08 at 1:41pm
Tony Bennet's finger-snappin' version of "Losing My Mind", recorded c. 1971.
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#29
Posted: 7/30/08 at 1:52pm
"I happen to be a big Carpenters fan. I can't imagine that Karen, with that magnificent voice, would have "butchered" anything."
I love Karen Carpenter's voice. To me, it's an example of an almost perfect voice. Smooth as silk. And that's the problem with her recording.
Perhaps "butcher" is the wrong word to use for it. The material was not appropriate for her voice and style. If she had just stuck with "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" she could have pulled it off. But she went into the "Casa Rosada" dialogue including "I have taken these riches from the ogliarchs only for you, all of you" and "When they fire the cannons, the crowds sing of glory..." she isn't believeable. Those lines need power behind them and Karen just didn't have the power.
I love Karen Carpenter's voice. To me, it's an example of an almost perfect voice. Smooth as silk. And that's the problem with her recording.
Perhaps "butcher" is the wrong word to use for it. The material was not appropriate for her voice and style. If she had just stuck with "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" she could have pulled it off. But she went into the "Casa Rosada" dialogue including "I have taken these riches from the ogliarchs only for you, all of you" and "When they fire the cannons, the crowds sing of glory..." she isn't believeable. Those lines need power behind them and Karen just didn't have the power.
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Updated On: 7/30/08 at 01:52 PM
#30
Posted: 7/30/08 at 1:59pm
Kelli O Hara's version of Fable from Light in the Piazza, it sounds like a lounge singer
#31
Posted: 7/30/08 at 9:04pm
...am I the only one who saw that Merman album cover and immediately got a mental picture of Merman in XANADU...?
-- SDG
#32
Posted: 7/30/08 at 10:20pm
I second Wing. She's the worst singer I've ever heard - but it's oh so hilarious! Check out her music myspace for samples.
#33
Posted: 7/31/08 at 3:22am
I am a huge Betty Buckley fan, but I hate her version of "Seasons of Love."
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#34
Posted: 7/31/08 at 4:33am
I reckon you could probably fill a CD with butchered versions of 'Losing My Mind' all by itself. Make it a double and have a CD of butchered versions of 'Being Alive'. ;D
#35
Posted: 7/31/08 at 9:14am
Anytime Amanda Bynes sings on the Hairspray Film CD I am reminded of the soulful purr and hiss of Kerry butler and it makes me loathe the casting of non-singers. When Bynes warbles "I've tasted chocolate and IM NEVER GOOOING BAAACCK!" I literally convulse it is so bad.
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#36
Posted: 7/31/08 at 9:56am
Pal Joey, don't even TRY pretending that you don't love that Merman album.
#37
Posted: 7/31/08 at 11:02am
To say Merman's "What Kind of Fool Am I?" is overwrought is an understatement.
Listening to it can drive one to the brink.
Listening to it can drive one to the brink.
#38
Posted: 7/31/08 at 11:07am
Madonna's dance remix of "Don't Cry For Me..." I never understood its popularity. The first time I heard it was in a C&W gay club watching a forty-ish couple in full boots-n-ten-gallon-hat hick drag two-step to it. Horrors!
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#39
Posted: 7/31/08 at 11:09am
As much as I love Linda Eder's voice, some of her song choices and arrangements on her CDs have been completely wrong.
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#40
Posted: 7/31/08 at 11:18am
Debbie Gibson's "On My Own"
Now I actually maybe in the minority for actually like (most of) 'Coloured Lights' but her version of "On My Own" that was light, poppy and failed to hit any of the proper notes (literally and figuratively) just was a big disapointment.
Now I actually maybe in the minority for actually like (most of) 'Coloured Lights' but her version of "On My Own" that was light, poppy and failed to hit any of the proper notes (literally and figuratively) just was a big disapointment.
#41
Posted: 7/31/08 at 7:53pm
Oh GOD Linda Eder's 'Man Of La Mancha (I Don Quixote)'! Thank you SO much for bringing that horrible memory flooding right back! XP
#42
Posted: 7/31/08 at 8:31pm
I would have to say on the Ultimate Broadway CD where Aretha Franklin sings "I Dreamed a Dream" truly awful due to the adding of unnecessary words and musical phrases. Just like when she sang "Somewhere" at the Tony Awards with Hugh Jackman.
"Love the Art in Yourself. Not Yourself in the Art." -- Stanislavski
#43
Posted: 7/31/08 at 9:32pm
Aretha's "I Dreamed a Dream"
Deborah Gibson's "Colored Lights" (the song, listening to her try to belt the last few notes is a painful experience)
Deborah Gibson's "Colored Lights" (the song, listening to her try to belt the last few notes is a painful experience)
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