Just saw the track listing for this four CD box set of Sondheim that's coming out in September. Now, we'll just put aside that this box has been in the works for four years and had no release date until I announced Evening Primrose (the most anyone said to me was end of this year). That is, I'm sure, just a coincidence. There are, according to the press release, thirty-seven unreleased tracks. No matter how I counted I could not come up with thirty-seven, unless there are separate tracks for the pieces in The Enclave and Invitation To A March. I do hope they're not counting the Evening Primrose vocals because those have obviously been released. But most of the unreleased tracks are Sondheim singing songs that have, in fact, been recorded elsewhere - by me, mostly on Unsung Sondheim, which also included The Enclave and Invitation To A March. So, the demos are the thing here - if you want to hear Sondheim singing these songs. The most interesting thing in the set are the demos from Saturday Night with Jack Cassidy and, of all people, Arte Johnson.
