Encores LADY BE GOOD recording gets release date and track listing — Page 2

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I figured it was supposed to be a 30 Rock reference, I just thought saying "I've been secreting it" was hilarious.

I wonder if they could remix the 90s Gershwin Studio Cast albums to sound better?

Vis a vis remixing the Nonesuch version, if I recall correctly, it was recorded in a cavernous Hollywood studio, which didn't help. and I don't think it's particularly idiomatically performed, either. People who love it, or love the style of it, may have trouble getting used to the new one. Rob Fisher, who music directs the new one, has a real feel for the period, which I find quite thrilling -- like getting on a train back to the past -- but it's not for everyone. It's intentionally squarer than we're used to today, and, I suspect, much squarer in the way it almost-swings than the Nonesuch version. Also, the Nonesuch version had a lot of dance music that was expanded from an '80s (I believe) Goodspeed production, in a style that was completely out of period. The Encores production was much more faithful to a time when dance arrangements mostly consisted of playing different orchestrations of the melody, but rarely departing from it. Should be interesting to compare and contrast. The Encores one will be much more authentic, but that won't make everyone like it better.

I really just want to know when Paint Your Wagon is going to be released.

I just listened to the 2 tracks linked above. I always enjoyed the Nonesuch album and when it came out I thought it was the best of the Gershwin show series they had done up until that point. we had a very successful production of LADY BE GOOD at the Shaw Festival (in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario) in the summer of 1994 that was delightfully effervescent. I liked the Nonesuch recording because it seemed to capture the energy of a 1920s musical comedy.

My introduction to the score (well, 8 songs from it) came by way of an Lp on the long vanished Monmouth-evergreen label that reissued original cast 78 rpm sides made by the London cast circa 1925. The sound was dim and the vocals were unexciting. The 1992 studio cast disc is brimming with energy and as a bonus includes enough dialogue to put the songs in context.

I just listened on Spotify and it sounds pretty good! (Of course, I'm at work and don't have the volume turned up all the way.) What a delight to relive such a fun show.