The Maury Yeston Songbook
The Maury Yeston Songbook
#0The Maury Yeston Songbook
Posted: 9/28/05 at 2:02pmDOes anyone else adore this CD? Ripley, Barrett, Buckley, etc. Not really a bad track on the whole disc. "New Words" has to be one of the most beautiful songs ever.
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Posted: 9/28/05 at 2:04pm
I love it.
Love the Laura Benanti track "Now and Then."
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Posted: 9/28/05 at 2:05pm
I love love love this disc! The work of one of my favorite theatrical composers combined with some of my favorite performers? Who could ask for anything more!
Funnily enough, Brian d'Arcy James's rendition of Unusual Way just came up on my iTunes.
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Posted: 9/28/05 at 2:17pmWOw, I've never heard Christine Ebersole's voice sound as good as it does in "My Grandmother's Love Letters".
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Posted: 9/28/05 at 2:21pman amazing cd by an amazing underrated composer with awesome performers.
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Posted: 9/28/05 at 2:43pmI love "danglin". could listen to it over and over.
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#6re: The Maury Yeston Songbook
Posted: 9/28/05 at 2:57pmI also love this cd! I love By the River, Now and Then, Please, Let's Not Even Say Hello...well, who am I kidding? I love the whole dang thing!!
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#8re: The Maury Yeston Songbook
Posted: 9/28/05 at 5:05pm
WONDERFUL disc - It's must have for any musical theatre collector.
My favorites constantly change.
Currently I'm partial to Simple (Callaway), New Words (Barrett), Unusual Way (James) and Grandmother's Love Letters (Ebersole).
But I won't live alone in a house of regret.
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#9re: The Maury Yeston Songbook
Posted: 9/28/05 at 5:13pmMy favorite is "Be On Your Own" by Betty Buckley! Loveit!
#10re: The Maury Yeston Songbook
Posted: 9/28/05 at 5:58pmHave it. Love it. Chris Fitzgerald's song makes me happy and I looove Sutton Foster on "I want to go to Hollywood" or is it just "Hollywood" ? Either way the entire CD is great!
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Posted: 9/28/05 at 6:40pmIs this the one with Eden Espinosa doing Is someone out there...because if it is then its AMAZING
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#12re: The Maury Yeston Songbook
Posted: 5/22/07 at 5:45pm
i bought this CD off iTunes awhile ago and can't stop listening to it. i wish they'd do another one. in the wake of Grey Gardens, "My Grandmother Love Letters" reminds me almost of Little Edie singing this in her house.
so haunting.
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Posted: 5/22/07 at 5:49pmI love Yeston and I love this album. There's so much talent on it. I especially love Christine Andreas' version of "By the River".
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#14re: The Maury Yeston Songbook
Posted: 5/22/07 at 6:23pmI'm not the biggest Brent Barrett fan, but his rendition of "New Words" leaves me speechless every time I listen to it. Same with "By the River"; Andreas sings it with such incredible emotion. I also really like Buckley's first song on the album--I think it's called "Orange Moon"--but I'm not too fond of her "Be On Your Own". It doesn't naturally sit in her range, and she forced it too much.
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-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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Posted: 5/22/07 at 6:36pm
Not a big fan of Foster's "I Want to Go to Hollywood" or Ripley's "A Call from the Vatican." Having said that, this is one of my favorite Broadway compilation albums. Maury Yeston is a fantastic composer and this album really shows how wide his range is.
My favorite is Betty Buckley's "I Had a Dream About You," I'm not a Buckley fan and yet she kills me every time she sings this number so beautifully, and Yeston shows his cleverness with the final phrase "I had a dream about you but of course it was only a dream." "Danglin'" is also great and Laura Benanti's "Home" is the best. Callaway's "Simple" and Barrett's "Only You" are other highlights.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
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Posted: 5/22/07 at 6:56pmI love "Home" on this album. Gorgeous.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#17re: The Maury Yeston Songbook
Posted: 5/22/07 at 7:27pmAmazing! And Home is my favorite too. All my reservations were mentioned in Ray-andallthatjaz and AC126748 posts.
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Posted: 5/22/07 at 7:31pmI've been thinking about buying this off itunes for the longest time...it sounds like maybe I should do it.
#19re: The Maury Yeston Songbook
Posted: 5/22/07 at 7:38pm
I wish he'd write a new musical...
does anyone know anything?
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#20re: The Maury Yeston Songbook
Posted: 5/22/07 at 7:42pmHe and Tommy Tune should team up again...
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
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Posted: 5/22/07 at 7:49pmWasn't he writing a musical version of "Death Takes a Holiday" that was supposed to be staring Antonio Banderas? Is it still in the works?
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#22re: The Maury Yeston Songbook
Posted: 5/22/07 at 7:58pmI love this cd! Especially "I Want to go to Hollywood" and "My Grandmother's Love Letters." Christine's voice is simply sublime in the latter.
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