Back from the tape transfer place - and the good news is that it appears that I will indeed be able to do what I want with a cast album reissue - we haven't actually done the work yet, but it seems like it should work fine. And so, for your ears only, we will be doing a two CD set of the Original Cast Recording of Promises, Promises. CD 1 will be the original album mix, which, shockingly, has never been on CD before - yes, there have been two issues of this on CD (Ryko and Varese) but that was a remix that was simply not mentioned anywhere on the packaging. I never thought that CD sounded right and now I know why. So, for the first time on CD, the original album mix. CD2 will be a new mix with - and this is the fun part - all of Jerry Orbach's (and Ed Winter's and A. Larry Haines') pitch problems fixed - if not perfectly, much better than they've ever been. I am so thrilled to be able to do this, because I have to imagine that Mr. Orbach was probably not happy with the pitch problems - but they only had a day to record and that was that - the old days. So, we'll see how it goes, but this is potentially very exciting. Varese, in fact, after promising me they would never do anything B'way related after I left, broke their promise because of greed. They tried to renew their license, which was up at the end of April. But I'd already done the deal and they were told "too bad, Kritzerland has it."
