My question for BK for today.
If you were asked to chose up to five titles from each of the genres of your recordings (Cast Recordings, Jazz, Vocals, Broadway Related, Film Related, Spoken Word) to place in an time capsule that would openned 100 years from now, which ones would you choose? They do not necessarily have to be your favorite or the best recordings you have produced, but ones that would be significant examples of the respective genres to listeners 100 years from now.
It's all so subjective, and these sorts of answers change with the wind, but I guess I'll take a stab:
Cast recordings: The King and I (revival - stuff that's not on any other cast recording), Play On! (excellent cast, and oh that music), No Way to Treat a Lady (I like it), Drat! The Cat! (technically a studio cast album, but one that I love), Night of the Hunter (ditto).
Jazz: Passion in Jazz (with Terry Trotter), Jazz Goes to Hollywood (the first volume with Fred Karlin), It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing (with Buddy Bregman), Follies in Jazz (with Trotter), Star Wars in Jazz (again with Trotter - and just such a weird album).
Vocals: Liz Callaway: On Broadway and Off, Michelle Nicastro: Toonful, Rebecca Luker: Anything Goes, Brent Barrett: The Kander and Ebb Album, Christiane Noll: A Broadway Love Story
Broadway related: Lost in Boston I, Unsung Musicals 1, Prime Time Musicals, Unsung Irving Berlin, The Burt Bacharach Album
Film related: Sax and Violence, Titanic, Sherlock Holmes, Monster Mania (the Godzilla album), Cinema Romance (with Grant Geissman).
Spoken word: There are only two, and I choose Copenhagen.