PROMISES, PROMISES - OCR NEW 2 CD SET HEAD'S UP — Page 5

It's not available - I've stated the reasons already - basically they can't find any paperwork and if they can't find paperwork, they can't license. I did transfer the tapes just in case that ever changes. It's a very different-sounding recording - and while it sounds okay, it's not as dynamic, sound-wise, as you remember :) It has some very nice things on it, but it's not quite as much fun as the original OCR.

I've never heard of seamail but I like it, whatever it is. Overseas goes out air mail first class. Depending on what country it can take anywhere from four or five days to a couple of weeks. There is no predicting, unfortunately.

Thanks for the reply, BK. (Seamail takes 7 weeks!).

Mine still hasn't arrived. Now with the holiday I can only hope that it arrives on Tuesday.

Wow! It really does sound incredible.

Jill O'Hara is a total goddess, I wish this woman recorded more in her prime.

Sold out.

If mine doesn't arrive tomorrow I'll have a nervous breakdown.

Also still available at

http://screenarchives.com/

Footlights, for whatever wacko reason, only took fifty - that, after they sold three hundred Anya and Illya Darling. Sometimes I just scratch my head and wonder. Of course, NOW he'd love to get more and NOW he won't be :) Screen Archives took quite a bit more (175) and their service is second to none.

Updated On: 7/5/10 at 05:56 PM

I purchased my second copy from Footlight and have had absolutely no problems with my order.

Thank you for the scans, Carlos -- and thank you again, Bruce, for this ridiculously fun, well-deserved remastering. It's like hearing the score for the first time all over again. I love the revival recording, but you've insured that the world has a definitive OCR, with that sound that could ONLY have been captured during the period.

In particular, the work you did on "Where Can You Take A Girl" is incredible. That song had always been my one skipped track on the OCR, and it wasn't until I heard the tight, bouncy rendition in the revival that I could appreciate it. Unless my ears deceive me, you've managed to not only bring those four original singers in tune, but you've managed to fix the fact that they always sounded at least a half-a-beat behind the orchestra. It's now one of my favorite songs in the whole score.

...still listening...still discovering....

Updated On: 7/6/10 at 01:36 PM

Dump Him.

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Where Can You Take a Girl was a trial, but we got it as good as it's gonna get. The problem was all four men were singing on one mic, and they were never flat in quite the same way - but we were just really careful and fixed as much as we could - it's much better than it was, that's for sure.

We just got a rave review here:

http://theseconddisc.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/review-promises-promises-original-mgm-broadway-cast-recording/

Updated On: 7/6/10 at 06:35 PM

Got mine today, and am listening to it now. It really is a revelation.

But I do have to wonder, why was the original riddled with flat notes throughout? I understand that cast albums are recorded in a day or two and there is very little if any time for retakes, but these are professional musical theatre performers.

Just wondering why this particular cast recording had so many flubs. I mean, when Jerry Orbach's pitch has to be corrected, something's really wrong.