"I'm Paul" - The Official Thread of Cast Album Idiosyncracies — Page 2

During 'All I Need Is The Girl' on the Tyne Daly recording of Gypsy (I'm pretty sure it's that one) you can hear someone in the background coughing. It happens more than once.

I've seen this one mentioned before in similar threads, but it always makes me laugh. On the OBCR of 'Annie' during 'I Don't Need Anything But You' - Daddy Warbucks comes in singing with Annie, when he's not supposed to. They fixed it on the re-mastered version, but it's clear as a bell on the original.

On the Spring Awakening cast recording, it's incredible just how much saliva and lip-smacking you can hear... most from Jonathan Groff (often before he opens his mouth to sing); and from Christine Estabrook while she is speaking during "And Then There Were None." It's gotten to the point where that's all I can hear.

Things yelled out during the Company 2006 Cast Recording during What We Do Without You? :
- Happy Birthday Bobby!
- Oh, help yourself!
- No really, help yourself!
- I'm not getting married! / Oh yes you are!
- Is it raining? / It's raining! / That's rain!
- I don't think you yelled that right. (said by Joanne)

Yelled out during You Could Drive A Person Crazy:
- You small-dicked (something)-faced Momma's Boy, you're not even good at giving head
- You flabby, clumsy goddamned cockroach
- Bastard

You Could Drive A Person Crazy seems to get more profanity as it ages.

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well, ACL OBC: "I Can Do That"; how Mike doesn't actually wear tap shoes in the show for his number. I always found that bizarre.

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On the OBCR for The Pajama Game, Stanley Prager seems to run out of breath in "Seven-and-a-Half Cents" on the line, "That's enough for me to get an automatic washing machine/A year's supply of gasoline..." He barely squeaks out the word 'gasoline'.

This was different take used for BOTH CD editions. On the original LP he got through the line just fine. Also on the alternate the girls sing the next line "A vacuum instead of that blasted broom" an octive lower. On the original LP edition they sang it high.

Also on the CD of MISS LIBERTY thare are seveal alternate takes and the singer singing "The Most expensive Statue in the World" is very hoarse and losing his voice. The take used on the original 78 RPM and LP releases did not have that at all. Making me wonder why they used these different takes for the CD.

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Maybe it's just me, but in the OBC recording of Two Gentlemen of Verona, during the song Follow the Rainbow, it sounds like Raul Julia accidentally starts to sing the wrong line with "How can we ever be lost?" and he was rather sloppily edited out just after he started the note. It drives me crazy every time I hear it.

I know you wrote this back in August but ARGH this is so irksome! You'd think they'd edit that out in the remaster.

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"****SPOILER****

"Suffocate Them" was probably a moment in the show that ended up being cut from the album, as Aida and Radames die by being entombed and suffocated at the end of the show. "

Thank You DivaRobbie2, I was waiting for someone to say this. I haven't seen the show for a long time, but I was thinking exactly what you said.

There are so many little things on the Producers OBCR

-The "weee" before the whistle section of I Wanna Be A Producer
-Two vocal tracks of Nathan Lane overlapping at the beginning of Along Came Bialy
-Mel Brooks saying "That was funny" at the very end of In Old Bavaria


and fetzles, if you're talking about the drum intro to those songs, they sound the same because they're referencing the opening of The Ronette's Be My Baby, probably the most recognizable and recreated drum beat/intro in pop history.

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The bridge of Telephone Song on Cabaret's OBCR always reminds me of the Rich and Happy vamp on the OBCR of Merrily We Roll Along.

I'm not a Wicked freak, but on "Popular" it always sounds to me like a cell phone is ringing somewhere around "personality dialysis"

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"****SPOILER****

"Suffocate Them" was probably a moment in the show that ended up being cut from the album, as Aida and Radames die by being entombed and suffocated at the end of the show. "

Thank You DivaRobbie2, I was waiting for someone to say this. I haven't seen the show for a long time, but I was thinking exactly what you said.

Seriously? Think about it. Putting aside the fact that Radames and Aida were eventually buried alive and left to die (by suffocation), in what logical context would someone whisper "suffocate them" at the end of this song? It's a song about building a tomb for a dying Pharaoh (who was being poisoned). While Radames and Aida had met at this point, they hadn't bonded, or given anyone reason to think "hey, eventually, we're going to have to brick those two up".

There's definitely something there, but all I can hear is the "suffocate", and even that's not particularly crisply enunciated. I'm with whoever suggested you're reading too much into this. It's a random whispery noise, but it's not "suffocate them", it's not a plot point, it's not a spooky secret, it's just an album idiosyncrasy.

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