OBCR of FOLLIES remixed and remastered! — Page 9

Except they all had such terrible hair in that production. I mean, Julia McKenzie practically had a mullet.

"This is a thread that is complementing Bruce Kimmel and all the people at Kritzerland for performing a miracle job on a poorly produced cast album of a great show."

Uhh, jv, if you notice, I was commenting on a remark made in this very thread.

But thanks awfully for your charming words.

Mine arrived today. I haven't any new praise to add, other than it is all well deserved. It's such a wonderful contribution.

The voices aren't lost or drowned out, the balance is even, superb. THANK YOU.

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Just finished listening to it again and I've had to remind myself that this was once a badly mixed album of a 1971 musical. It sounds great and there's no sign it used to leave much to be desired. It could have been recorded in 1985, 2006, 1997, 2012. Only well produced albums are this timeless sounding. And I'm a notoriously picky mofo when it comes to mixing. I practically crucify myself on my own Les Mis orchestral tracks. Not that I'm an authority (amateur through and through) but I do possess the most astute, big, satellite ears around, lol.

And your mix did not make them twitch. That's a good thing.

Thanks for all your hard work!

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After Eight, although I didn't find anything objectionable or out of place, in your original comment, I can't blame anyone for jumping down your throat with all the hatred and anger you thrust onto these boards. :)

Anyways...

I've lost count on the number of listens I'm on for the new recording. It's amazing how much there is to discover. It's been a perfect companion for my re-read of Chapin's "Everything Was Possible" (which I'm finishing and just might read again, straight after).

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I just got my copy today and I've only listened to about a third of it so far, but what I've heard is simply fantastic. You did AMAZING work with this, bk. I'm so glad I bought this.

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Melissa, I just responded to your private message here - just drop me a line at kritzerland at gmail dot com

Hey, I'm related to Yvonne De Carlo, can I get a copy too?!?

I'm the love child of Fifi D'Orsay and Ethel Shutta... private messaging my address now!

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I'd be very surprised if he had any left at Footlight, knowing how many we sent him. But, who knows. If he has them, get it now because he won't for long.

As of Tuesday, Footlights had at least one copy left, because he sold it to me. It arrived yesterday, and has been in heavy rotation around the house, on dog walks and in the car.

Allow me to add my voice to the chorus of thanks--a great service has been done for the listening public and the history of American Musical Theater--not to mention Rabid Show-tune Queens!

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Dearest Bruce, I am sitting here in amazement, with tears in my eyes, listening to the show that changed my theatergoing life, the show I traveled to Boston to see in tryout, the show I saw on opening night in New York, the show I had to beg the box office to sell me standing room when the show was not (and never was) sold out, the show I dragged everyone I knew to see and almost none of them got it, the show I wrote to Hal Prince for a standing room ticket for the closing night, the show whose final performance was one of the most exciting events in my then-young life (when they announced that Kurt Peterson would be playing Young Ben at that performance, a roar went up in the theatre, and I knew I was in for the ride of my life, and it was).
After so many near-miss and not-quite-right attempts to get this show right, along comes Bruce to recreate the magic, as intact as it can possibly be, and sounding the way that it never did on recording. Thank you, Bruce, from the bottom of my heart and for all of FOLLIES fanatics out there, for this miracle. And so glad that Steve was "knocked out" by it!