"One (Reprise)" Cough?

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"One (Reprise)" Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:48pm

This has been bothering me for years and I'm finally too curious to stay quiet.

On my copy of the "A Chorus Line" original Broadway cast album, I swear there's a woman coughing in the background of "One (Reprise)"

In between 0:31 and 0:32 at: "One thrilling combination" QUIET COUGH "every move that he makes."

Can anyone else hear it? Is it just my bizarre defunked copy?

And while we're on the subject, what other idiosyncracies are there are other Broadway cast albums are there?

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:51pm

Hey Eug. I just went and listened to it. I heard the second *cough*.. the first is hard to makeout with the music.

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:52pm

Can anyone else hear it? Is it just my bizarre defunked copy?

I thought I was crazy but I also heard it.

The towel waving reminded me of a Per?nist rally. I kept chanting "Evita!" whenever they'd pan to the crowds. - SM2

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:52pm

You're not insane; I never noticed it before, but if not a cough, there's *something* there.

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:55pm

I heard the cough...probably just someone in the cast.

In "Along Came Bialy" you can hear a double of Nathan Lane during "...and their prayers were heard up above."

In "I Wanna Be a Producer," at the start of the whistles, it sounds like one of the chorus girls is going to say "He wants..." because you hear a quick, high-pitched, "He!"

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:59pm

There was a really interesting thread a while back about all kinds of weird stuff you could hear on recordings if you listened closely. I'll try search for it - but I remember going back and being shocked after listening to a lot of my albums after reading that thread!

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:01pm

A barely perceptible one...on the OLCR of Phantom, there is a faint, strange sound at 2:12 on "The Point of No Return", right after Christine's second "decided" and right before the drums lead into the song's chorus. Some people have said it sounds like a rubber band or a violin string snapping. I prefer to imagine that it's Sarah Brightman walking into a music stand.

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re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:07pm

I can't hear it, but I have the remastered version.

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:17pm

Found it! Have a look, people have found some pretty weird stuff...

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=872827

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

#10

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:18pm

And then of course, Company OBCR has quite a few little recording suprises.

If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....

Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)

#11

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:21pm

In addition to JAC's link, another on the same topic: https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=706413#1149104

#12

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:34pm

I can't hear it, but I have the remastered version.

Ah, yeah, the remastered version...I guess they cleaned it up. Owners of the original ghetto Polydor discs, represent. [gang sign]

#13

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:47pm

I have both versions and I can hear them on both. Maybe I just have fantastic hearing? But yeah. Thanks...now this is gonna drive me insane forever. Just kidding...

#14

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/29/06 at 1:01am

I can't hear it at all...

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

#15

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/29/06 at 8:54am

Let's not forget Carol Channing's premature entrance in "Put On Your Sunday clothes". I wonder why it was never fixed when it was re-mastered?

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#16

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/29/06 at 9:46am

I know what I'll be spending the weekend doing. Thanks for the links!

"There's a lot I'll have missed but I'll not have been dead when I die! And a person should celebrate everything passing by."

#17

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/29/06 at 10:38am

I always thought it was just me, thanks!

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#18

re: 'One (Reprise)' Cough?

Posted: 8/29/06 at 11:00am

I don't know if it's my weird copy, but on "Little Women," during "Astonishing":

"I thought a promise tha-that we would never change and never epart..."

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