Topic: WHEN CAST ALBUMS WERE CAST ALBUMS (Read 575 times)

bk · « **on:** November 20, 2025, 12:11:22 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of classic cast recordings compared to today's dead-sounding recordings, and now it is time for you to post until the cast album cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2025, 12:12:59 AM »

And the word of the day is: PRODIGIOUS!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2025, 12:18:30 AM »

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elmore3003 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 20, 2025, 03:35:33 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2025, 03:37:15 AM »

This morning is my second assessmrnt for home healthcare. The iterview is supposed to last around an hour. I will be Zooming with a different interviewer.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2025, 03:43:09 AM »

I slept rather well. I had a long dream in which Leonard Bernstein was cleanng out a storage area, and he gave me copies of everything he had ever written for Candide Then, I had questionms about "Oh, Happy We," which went through several sets of lyrics, so I walked out of my parents; house in Middletown, Ohio, and crossed the street. I walked up to the house where the Schultheises lived in the 1950s and knocked at tghe door, and Felicia answered it. I asked in Mr Bernstein was home and she said no, so I walked back to my parentrs' house. Then I woke and "Oh, Happy We" ran through my head until I woke. Something tells me there was a part of the dream I do not remember involving a staging of Candide and the cut Infant Casmira sequence of the Auto-da-fe.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2025, 03:46:04 AM »

i must needs put together a small grocery delivery today.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2025, 03:56:31 AM »

TOD
I think they are all Columbia recordings:
The Sound of Music
Gtpsy
Li'l Abner
Juno
Camelot
My Fair Lady (original 1956, not the stereo redo)
CandideKean
On the Twentieth Century
Cabaret
Kismet

Nope!
Carousel (RCA, 1966)
Kismet (RCA, 1965)
The Music Man
Tenderloin
Annie Get Your Gun (RCA, 1966)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 20, 2025, 03:59:40 AM »

I never thought much of the sound on Capitol and MGM, much as I love the score for She Loves Me. The sound on early RCA recordings is terrible; compare the OBC of Brigadoon with Goddard Lieberson's more complete studio cast with Shirley Jones.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #9 on:** November 20, 2025, 04:17:07 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #10 on:** November 20, 2025, 04:27:11 AM »

DR Elmore's list is great.

I love those Lincoln Center RCA's, too. Haven't listened to them in forever. Must get them out.

Maybe add Bye Bye Birdie to the Columbias?

Agree re Capitol, MGM, etc., but when I compared the She Loves Me CD against the LP, the LP won by a long shot. Horrible CD transfer. Also recently listened to RCA's On a Clear Day CD and thought that sound was crappy.

Laura · « **Reply #11 on:** November 20, 2025, 04:42:21 AM »

Good morning.

Laura · « **Reply #12 on:** November 20, 2025, 04:45:41 AM »

We've been getting more rain this week. Of course, we were out in our little camping trailer. We finally just came home early for reasons.

Laura · « **Reply #13 on:** November 20, 2025, 04:47:27 AM »

Today I'll go over to the church with all the tablecloths and set out tables for the Thanksgiving Potluck this weekend. Tomorrow the pastor's wife and I will set the tables and whatever.

Laura · « **Reply #14 on:** November 20, 2025, 04:48:25 AM »

I'm going to make gnocchi in brown butter with fried sage leaves for the dinner. Plus roasted veggies.

Freddie · « **Reply #15 on:** November 20, 2025, 04:52:59 AM »

TOD: Besides recordings where BK was involved:

I'm biased of course, but whatever Skip's set-up here in the apartment was in the mid-2010s, I think he really was able to hit that feeing BK mentioned with his tracks of the then-full score for VIVA MAX! (our musical version of the Alamo-based novel by Jim Lehrer), some of which are here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cp64RFa6t4

and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqnEz0SBblk

At the time, a number of Jim Lehrer's family members had said the demos sounded as good as many original cast recordings they'd heard.

Looking back on how things went in the years after that, it's probably too bad we didn't try to get the extra work done to release that score while CDs were still "in".

(The Kritzerland recording of LAST STARFIGHTER vocals were done in a recording studio in 2005.)

Laura · « **Reply #16 on:** November 20, 2025, 04:53:22 AM »

I don't know if we're really going to do Thanksgiving here at home. My DIL might have to work that day. She did last year, and it was really hard for her to work Wednesday night, come here, and go to work Thursday night. I'll still cook a turkey that day anyway. Just cuz.

Laura · « **Reply #17 on:** November 20, 2025, 04:53:37 AM »

TRADITION!!

Freddie · « **Reply #18 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:04:40 AM »

Quote from: Laura on November 20, 2025, 04:45:41 AM

We've been getting more rain this week. Of course, we were out in our little camping trailer. We finally just came home early for reasons.

"came home early for reasons" sounds mysterious. Was it just due to the rain? Hope everything was OK.

singdaw · « **Reply #19 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:09:54 AM »

DR elmore3003: you didn't ask Felicia if you could borrow a cup of sugar?

singdaw · « **Reply #20 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:10:07 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #21 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:10:14 AM »

And others.

singdaw · « **Reply #22 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:10:58 AM »

~~~SECOND ASSESSMENT VIBES~~~ for DR elmore3003!!!

singdaw · « **Reply #23 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:17:58 AM »

DR George:

Lefse is a traditional, soft Norwegian potato flatbread that resembles a thick crepe. It is particularly popular in the American Midwest due to Norwegian immigration, and is a staple during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

singdaw · « **Reply #24 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:19:14 AM »

It is sometimes used as a punchline around these parts.

Freddie · « **Reply #25 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:27:26 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on November 20, 2025, 03:37:15 AM

This morning is my second assessmrnt for home healthcare. The iterview is supposed to last around an hour. I will be Zooming with a different interviewer.

Vibes the Zoom today goes well!

John G. · « **Reply #26 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:32:11 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #27 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:32:28 AM »

Not a great night of sleep.

John G. · « **Reply #28 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:32:46 AM »

Still, I feel somewhat rested.

John G. · « **Reply #29 on:** November 20, 2025, 05:33:04 AM »

The back is very sore.

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