Topic: WHEN CAST ALBUMS WERE CAST ALBUMS (Read 645 times)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #60 on:** November 20, 2025, 10:08:13 AM »

As much as I've always loved the recording, I always - even as a kid - found the reverb-y or echo-y ambience on The Music Man a little much -- if that makes any sense, because I'm not sure it does.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #61 on:** November 20, 2025, 10:51:35 AM »

I think the one Columbia cast recording I do not like is Bells Are Ringing. The movie soundtrack is so much better.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #62 on:** November 20, 2025, 10:57:31 AM »

Also have to agree with BK on the Columbia (especially Columbia, but a few others, too - Mercury is one) recordings of plays such as Virginia Woolf and Luv. These are absolutely precious, and one of the favorite parts of my collection.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #63 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:01:06 AM »

Of course there are scads of Caedmon play recordings, lots of Shakespeare on Argo, etc. I haven't even tried to capture all of those. I'd need more shelving, for starters.

John G. · « **Reply #64 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:01:30 AM »

A few more to love:

Street Scene
Sweet Charity
All-American
Destry Rides Again
Flahooley

John G. · « **Reply #65 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:02:31 AM »

It was very busy this morning at the pantry because of the holiday. But they were processed.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #66 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:05:23 AM »

Caedmon. Great label.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #67 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:10:15 AM »

TOD: Camelot, Flower Drum Song, Abner, West Side Story, are all Columbia Masterworks.
The Happy Time and Take Me Along are good RCAs

I do not like the sound of RCA’s Hair original cast LP.

Jane · « **Reply #68 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:41:15 AM »

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Jane · « **Reply #69 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:42:25 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.

While not the best timing for rain I'm glad you have it.

Jane · « **Reply #70 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:42:59 AM »

Quote from: Laura 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.

That sounds good.

Jane · « **Reply #71 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:45:13 AM »

Quote from: Laura 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.

I can understand that.

Jane · « **Reply #72 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:45:45 AM »

Quote from: John G. on November 20, 2025, 05:33:04 AM

The back is very sore.

Jane · « **Reply #73 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:47:01 AM »

Quote from: Laura on November 20, 2025, 05:39:53 AM

Quote from: Freddie 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.

We booked the trip before DIL got the job. We need to pick up Grandson at school on Wednesdays and wait until Son gets home. Seemed silly for one of us to sit in the trailer in the rain while the other one did grandparent duty. Then drive back in the dark and rain, just to come home the next morning.

Is this the job she recently interviewed for, and different than the job she worked last Thanksgiving?

Laura · « **Reply #74 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:56:18 AM »

Different job. Same schedule, I believe.

Jane · « **Reply #75 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:58:55 AM »

I hope she is happy with her new employer.

bk · « **Reply #76 on:** November 20, 2025, 12:03:49 PM »

Re Bells Are Ringing - I believe that was Columbia's first stereo cast album - I really don't like the orchestrations at all and agree that Previn's for the movie are brilliant and far superior. Even the smaller shows Columbia did sound great - Ernest in Love, Dames at Sea, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - had all those - and lest we forget, Jacques Brel is Alive and Living in Paris.

bk · « **Reply #77 on:** November 20, 2025, 12:04:22 PM »

Had Pad Thai for food and a lot of it. I'm VERY full right now.

MichaelG · « **Reply #78 on:** November 20, 2025, 12:16:00 PM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on November 20, 2025, 11:10:15 AM

I do not like the sound of RCA’s Hair original cast LP.

Oh yeah, that's not a good one for sound. My favorite way to hear the Hair score is the movie soundtrack. I love that film and even like it better than the show. I got to play in the pit for a college production once.

MichaelG · « **Reply #79 on:** November 20, 2025, 12:41:20 PM »

I find most (certainly not all!) cast albums are fine for sound. So the ones I love are based on the shows and the performances. For instance, take Merrily in the OBC, the Off-Broadway revival, and the Broadway revival. Sound-wise I think all are fine, though the OBC may have some excessive reverb based on a spot check. But I'll take the Broadway revival anytime because each recording had a better cast than the one preceding it. Plus I have a soft spot for productions that I saw in the theater.

MichaelG · « **Reply #80 on:** November 20, 2025, 12:43:13 PM »

I'm curious about bk's listening environment. Headphones? Speakers in a relatively dead room? Speakers in a relatively live room?

MichaelG · « **Reply #81 on:** November 20, 2025, 12:45:13 PM »

I remember back in electronic music class where we were taught to be cautious with reverb, because the listening space will add its own.

Freddie · « **Reply #82 on:** November 20, 2025, 01:08:22 PM »

As further proof that YouTube's algorithm knows me so well, it just brought me:

The dancing duo known as "twinsauce" dancing to "Play that funky music, white boy"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DuJdEDyUqno

Jrand75 · « **Reply #83 on:** November 20, 2025, 01:20:34 PM »

I like twinsauce.....that was fun DR FREDDIE.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #84 on:** November 20, 2025, 01:20:57 PM »

Now I want to listen to all of my OCB Lps.

Freddie · « **Reply #85 on:** November 20, 2025, 01:38:17 PM »

CAUTION - SHILLING FOR YOUTUBE VIEWS AHEAD

Any reason for a parody song cue.

Today is the 100th birthday of Kaye Ballard, who was the first person to record "Fly Me to the Moon" - which may be my favorite song ever to parody.

This is my Newark Airport security scanner take "Fly Me In the Nude" - but don't worry, it's G-rated despite the parody title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMJvlkzntBg

bk · « **Reply #86 on:** November 20, 2025, 01:55:15 PM »

And then there were the cast albums on United Artists, the most successful of which was Promises, Promises, and also the most problematic, which we finally fixed a decade ago. Sugar we also fixed. A Family Affair sounds awful on CD because DRG couldn't find tapes and did it from an LP, a real shame. I knew exactly where not only the album masters were, but the original 35mm recording - which I would have used. House of Flowers was not anything special (the revival, although we issued it anyway). Illya, Darling turned out to be a fine-sounding thing when we located the original three-track tapes, which also had several missing from the LP things. That one turned out well. Anya was not a great recording but we did it anyway. That's quite a few UA cast albums we did. Am I missing other releases?

bk · « **Reply #87 on:** November 20, 2025, 02:10:52 PM »

All these posts and we're still on page three???

bk · « **Reply #88 on:** November 20, 2025, 02:11:00 PM »

How can that be?

Freddie · « **Reply #89 on:** November 20, 2025, 02:37:58 PM »

I think I see page 4 somewhere nearby.

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