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#26

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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.
#27

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

Posted: 7/30/08 at 1:41pm

Tony Bennet's finger-snappin' version of "Losing My Mind", recorded c. 1971.
"Hurry up and get into your conga clothes - we've got to do something to save this show!"
#29

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

Updated On: 7/30/08 at 01:52 PM

#31

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

Posted: 7/31/08 at 3:22am

I am a huge Betty Buckley fan, but I hate her version of "Seasons of Love."
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis
#35

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#37

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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.
#38

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali
#39

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson
#40

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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.
#42

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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

re: Butchered Recordings of Broadway Songs

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)

I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)

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