"soundtrack" NOT proper term

You're Welcome. And yes, CAST RECORDING!

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THANK you Hak. THANK YOU. It drives me CRAZY. (Right, Spidey?)

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Yes, Tiff....you CAST RECORDING calling nazi you.

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guys,PLEASE,really just get over this one-don't you have better things to worry about?

I could live without either,thanks-and if you cast back(no pun intended),you'll find at least 15 threads on this subject,too.Everyone knows what the unenlightened newjacks mean when they say soundtrack-do you just enjoy correcting people?

Veuve, that was perhaps the greatest post I've read all month.

I go away from this conversation with serious qualms about your personal taste.

Indeed.

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The reason I am a stickler for calling a cast album just that is because there is a very specific historical reason that is special for Broadway.

When cast albums were first released it was the days before long-playing records. So instead of being on one 33 1/3, the cast album was a seires of 78s, packaged together tightly like an "album."

That's where the term comes from and I think it is important that we keep it because a sound"track" is generally just taken from what is done in the studio. But cast albums are capturing a bit of a performance that happens eight times a week every week live.

So cast album is a nod to the fact that it is something unique that goes back way before the soundtrack.

Just another thing that makes Broadway special that we should appreciate.

Hak - since you are a stickler - is there a spellcheck available for these messages?

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Amen. It always bothers me when I go into stores and all the Cast Recording are under the "Soundtrack" section... I guess the general population isn't quite as informed as us!!! =P

No, it's because there usually isn't enough room to have both a soundtrack AND a "show" section, and we all know that Broadway CD's aren't one of the top selling. I really do think that people who get so irritated by the inadvertant use of "soundtrack" are perhaps a little too uptight and should focus their worries on more prominant issues. I see where people like veuve are coming from - but let's be serious. You're talking about an Evita CD, not how to end world hunger. In the end, is it really all that important? If someone says "I love the WICKED soundtrack," you know exactly what they're talking about. Obviously, the correct term is "cast recording," but it's clear what they mean. People don't need to act so uptight and get so angry or annoyed over such a word. And before those criticize others that might use the evil word "soundtrack," they better make sure that their own posts are as damn close to perfection as they can get before being picky about word choice - especially when you know what they're saying to begin with.

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Who's acting so uptight or angry about the misuse of that word? I think Hak did a good job of educating the newbies on this simple and common error. Hell, I learned it the hard way too on my very first post on a Broadway forum. The only people sounding uppity and uptight are the ones who bitch on here about why don't we have anything better to do than correct people. And yes, I do enjoy correcting people. Especially when I'm right.

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