Idina Menzel sings duet with Ray Charles on his NEW CD release!

[StarbuckQAF]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 3:38am

Article from Billboard.com: ( http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001095915 )

Snipet:
... The new duets album has Charles singing with Jill Scott, Mary J. Blige, Chris Isaak, Patti LaBelle, Diana Ross, George Michael and Angie Stone. He also teams up with John Legend, Italian pop star Laura Pausini and Idina Menzel, star of the Broadway play "Wicked."...

Also, below is a link to where you can buy the CD, and the track Idina will be singing with Ray is "I Will Be There".

Pre-Order CD from Rhino.com here: http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=73185

Updated On: 9/10/05 at 03:38 AM

[elphaba3]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 9:12am

Cool, i gotta hear this, I love Idina.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 10:02am

I hate when articles call musicals plays.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 12:28pm

Why? A musical is a play:

7 a : the stage representation of an action or story b : a dramatic composition : DRAMA

Even though, obviously, calling it a musical is more correct, there is nothing in the standard definition of "play" that prevents a musical from being called a play.

[bwayfan3]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 12:31pm

Her song is not on the track listing according to Amazon.com.

[Magdalene]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:10pm

I don't think this cd is due out until 9/20---I'll check a release book (Monday am) and see if it is listed there.

Updated On: 9/12/05 at 02:10 PM

[sabrelady]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:23pm

Drama! Hmm As i recollect in my dotage, musical is a shortening of the phrase musical-comedy which is what the addition of music ( certainly in the originating years ) did. Make the show a comedy.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:30pm

I hope he and Kristen record a duet for a future album. I bet they would be fantastic on "I Will Never Leave You" from Sideshow.

[Conor]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:35pm

i can't find it on limewire.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:47pm

Ray Charles is dead.

And no, a musical is not a play.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:50pm

Shouldn't this CD be called CASHING IN: SINGING KARAOKE WITH A DEAD MAN?

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:53pm

Wait, he did record these songs with them before he died right? It's not some crap with artists singing along to his already recorded tracks is it?

[WickedJerseyGirl]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:54pm

It says that it was one of his last requests and something he had lined up before he died. I assume that means he didn't actually record with them.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 3:26pm

RAY CHARLES DIED? WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY TELL ME? Who's next? Sinatra?

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 3:39pm

a musical is a play, they call it a musical because most people think of plays as dramas.

[jeremykushnier1fan]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 3:45pm

I still see a major difference between plays and musicals, they should be classified seperatly. Oh and must hear this duet!

[wickedlygreen]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 4:44pm

Updated On: 9/24/05 at 04:44 PM

[WickedJerseyGirl]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 4:57pm

It says "he" recorded the songs in 1998. I don't know. I think it's too obvious that it doesn't mention when the other artists were in the studio. I have never been a big fan of artists recording, like Sueleen said, karoake with a dead man. It seems this was a plan of his that he wasn't able to see to fruition. It could surprise me.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 5:00pm

That makes no sense. A play isn't a play because it is dramatic. And a musical IS a musical because it has music in it.

YOu wouldn't call a turtle a lizard would you?

[TennesseeTwang]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 5:16pm

I've seen more than a few people in the biz treat the term "play" as if it were interchangeble with "show", which to my knowlege, means any theatrical production.

So I'm guessing that many people agree that musicals are plays. They are are just a specific type of play.

Btw, I can see it now. Many of Idina's fans probably want to know who this upstart Ray Charles is. They also probably want to know how he dares to think he's good enough to sing with their goddess Dina.
Updated On: 9/12/05 at 05:16 PM

[WickedJerseyGirl]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 5:21pm

Gad, I didn't think of that. They will probably think it's Jamie Fox.

[StarbuckQAF]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 7:06pm

Btw, I can see it now. Many of Idina's fans probably want to know who this upstart Ray Charles is. They also probably want to know how dares to think he's good enough to sing with their goddess Dina.

... Guys... seriously... that's ridiculous. I would refrain from lumping Idina's fans into one ignorant and clueless clump. The young ones may be pretty overly-fanatic, even maybe some of the older ones, but it doesn't mean they're stupid. No one is going to jump in and think "What? Who is this... Ray Charles??? How did he get lucky enough to sing with Idina?!??!"... *rolls eyes* c'mon...

[Magdalene]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 1:39pm

Idina isn't mentioned on the sales sheet for the cd.
Then again, they always say the track listing and artist listing is subject to change...

Updated On: 9/12/05 at 01:39 PM

[TennesseeTwang]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 2:53pm

"No one is going to jump in and think "What? Who is this... Ray Charles??? How did he get lucky enough to sing with Idina?!??!"..."

I wouldn't have believed this either. Then I saw the staggering number of people who confessed that they had no idea who Ray Charles was before the movie Ray was released.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 3:12pm

I hope she's a lot better than she was this weekend when she sang that DREADFUL arrangement of America the Beautiful. She couldn't even put on a nice outfit - she looked like she rolled out of bed and grabbed some sweats, and sounded like she didn't take the time to warm up properly. Who the heck came up with that awful arrangement, anyway? Yikes.