David Merrick/Thomas Z. Shepard
42nd Street (1980)
(original cast recording)
About time you got your hair cut young man.
Stop filling your head with all that synthesized noise!
Listen to some proper music like this:
(see included info file for further details)
regards
Titus
01 Overture; Audition
02 Shadow Waltz
03 Young And Healthy
04 Go Into Your Dance
05 You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
06 Getting Out Of Town
07 We're In The Money
08 Dames
09 Sunny Side To Every Situation
10 Lullaby Of Broadway
11 About A Quarter To Nine
12 Shuffle Off To Buffalo
13 42nd Street
14 Finale: 42nd Street (Reprise)
Very poor DLs on this. I expected more from my sophisticated music visitors
ReplyDeleteDon´t know about how the sophisticated crowd :-D thinks about this one, but me being more on the low brow and curious kind felt i had to give it a listen just for the... well, just for arguments sake. Hmm.... yeah, that´s very... Broadway. As in bombastic and a bit operetta like, especially the male singers sounds like precursors of The Three Tenors, but as said that´s above my pay grade or something. Have to say it´s a bit too much for me, even though they didn´t blow up "Lullaby of Broadway" and "We´re in the money") , but maybe i´ll stick this album in the same collection of miscellanous albums as The Nutley Brass instrumental takes on Ramones songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH0kHju79Ek, seriously. I feel there´s some playful spiritual connection to the stuff. Can´t help making a synaptic cross reference to the epic german TV series Babylon Berlin (For those who missed out: it´s a film noir-like drama set in the days - or mostly nights - of the Weimar Republic, very much worth checking out) and it´s also slightly anacronistic theme song "Zu ache, zu staub" performed by Severija https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uekZpkYf7-E (Bryan Ferry is also featured in the series but only as a night club performer). Thanks for posting, anyway. Always eclectic to have a listen to what you present.
ReplyDeleteThanks as always for your considered comments. I like this kind of thing because of the song writing/arrangements. I know it probably doesn't appeal to most 'rock' fans...you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink! :)
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