John Yap is one of the biggest idiots ever. He thinks he knows everything there is to know about making recordings when, in fact he knows very, very little. Now, let's see how long it takes for our stalker to send Mr. Yap that. My guess is, if they're on now, within five minutes. Good job.
What did you correct him on, elmore, and what did he accuse you of?
He has a complete recording of SHOW BOAT that he claimed was the 1946 revised version. Well, it sort of is and sort of isn't because it's missing the big dance numbers in Acts One and Two for Helen Tamiris' choreography and it cuts the character of Kim, the daughter, who sang in 1946 "Nobody Else But Me."
What he recorded was the Rodgers & Hammerstein rental package based on the 1946 revival. That's fine, and i actually think it's a pretty good recording, but it is not what he claims it is. I posted that if he'd included "Nobody else But Me" where it belonged, and not as an appendix, he'd have a good facsimile of the 1946 version.
Well, then he went ballistic and started raving that he was sick of me knocking his recordings! I didn't knock it, but then I went ballistic and pointed out that it was one more example of his lousy research and, thanks to his poor pre-recording research, his complete GREASE and KISS ME KATE recordings had the cleaned up high school lyrics and not the original Broadway ones.
Then I told him that Rodgers & Hammerstein had spoken to me about editing a complete SHOW BOAT edition last year. I am sorry that job fell through.
