The revival recording of She Loves Me: It was the first cast album I procured for Varese. I hadn't, as yet, produced a real cast album myself and I got talked into using the fellow who is listed as producer. So, it wasn't daunting to me. What was daunting was watching the endless bad choices this gentleman made, especially during the mix. I offered my two cents, which generally went unheeded. I did dig in my heels once about several lines in a vocal which I felt were too low in the mix. I was ignored. When he was editing it together (I sat silently in the back of the room, not so pleased with what I was hearing - way too much synth for my taste), it got to that point in whatever song it was and he heard it and turned to me and said, "I have to go back and remix that - you can't hear the vocal enough." I think any dear reader that knows me knows that I just about leapt across the room to grab him and kill him. There was no money for him to remix and reedit and I told him that next time he should try listening to someone who was just there to help. We had a huge fight, but I stuck to my guns. After that experience, I jumped in and produced all the rest of the cast albums I did. I should have done that one, too, but he made it seem as if it were some kind of mystical thing, producing a cast album. That it was very difficult technically and all that. Of course, after doing my first I found it wasn't difficult at all, it was easy, as long as you were prepared and as long as you had a good set of ears and knew how to talk to actors.
