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Short Takes, Holiday Edition: "Beetlejuice" Offers Demos, Anne Murray Collects Christmas Favorites

November 2, 2020 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Beetlejuice Demos

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Halloween might be over, but the party still continues: Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!  Legend has it that if you say his name three times, the demon - introduced on screen by Michael Keaton and then on Broadway by Alex Brightman - appears before you.  While Beetlejuice: The Musical had its New York run curtailed by COVID-19 after 366 performances, you can't keep a good demon down.  The Ghostlight Records cast recording starring Brightman, Sophia Anne Caruso, Rob McClure, Leslie Kritzer, and Kerry Butler has become a runaway hit, with over 250 million streams in the United States and 760 million streams around the world.  Attesting to its resonance with the younger generation, its songs have been used in over one million TikTok videos.  Now, Ghostlight is allowing fans of the cult musical a chance to hear composer-lyricist Eddie Perfect's stylistically and melodically varied score anew with Beetlejuice - The Demos! The Demos! The Demos! 

Perfect, a singer-songwriter and former Masked Singer celebrity in his homeland of Australia, has served up 24 recordings from the show's road to Broadway.  These include embryonic versions of the songs that made the final score, and many that didn't (including multiple early stabs at the opening and closing numbers).  These recordings were made between 2014 - when Perfect first threw his hat in the ring to the pen the score - to 2019, the year the show opened in all its ghoulish splendor at Broadway's Winter Garden.  With Perfect taking on all of the roles including Beetlejuice, Lydia, Charles, Delia, and more, The Demos! The Demos! The Demos! is a unique listening experience in its own right, and a fascinating window onto the creation of the macabre and wacky musical.  Note that these aren't spare piano-and-voice demos; rather, they're fully produced with instrumentation and multitracked vocals.  Currently, this release is available for streaming and download only.  An installment of the Ghostlight Shines On podcast features Perfect discussing the demo tracks.  The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Beetlejuice is available on CD, 2-LP, and digital formats.

Anne Murray Ultimate Christmas

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Back in 2017, Canadian chanteuse Anne Murray released The Ultimate Collection, a career overview available in 1- and 2-CD editions.  Now, Murray is revisiting another part of her classic songbook with the November 20 release of The Ultimate Christmas Collection, a companion disc filled with her favorite seasonal songs.  The Ultimate Christmas Collection features 22 personally-selected tracks drawn from the numerous Christmas albums she has released since 1981 through 2008 (her final studio recordings to date).  In the press release, the singer states, "I have always loved Christmas and over the years, my Christmas tours were my favorites.  I loved looking out over a sea of Christmas sweaters and happy faces while they sang along to the familiar carols and other songs of the season.  This collection is made up of those songs that have given me the most joy to record and perform over the years."

Four-time Grammy winner Anne blazed many trails - she was the first Canadian female solo vocalist to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts, the first to earn a Gold record, and the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Country Music Awards - but in a catalogue filled with pop and country riches, her holiday recordings are among the most beloved.  The Ultimate Christmas Collection features traditional carols and hymns ("Go Tell It on the Mountain," "O Come All Ye Faithful," "Away in a Manger"), Tin Pan Alley tunes ("Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Michael Bublé, "Silver Bells," "Winter Wonderland"), and Murray specialties (Art Podell and Randy Sparks' "Christmas Wishes," Rita MacNeil's "The Season Will Never Grow Old").  The set is due from Universal Music Canada/UMe in CD and digital formats in the U.S.; a 2-LP edition is also coming in Canada.

Eddie Perfect, Beetlejuice - The Demos! The Demos! The Demos! (Ghostlight, 2020) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) (Also available at all digital service providers)

  1. The Whole Being Dead Thing - 2014, Original Pitch Demo
  2. Death's Not Great (Beetlejuice) - 2015, Cut Opening Number
  3. The Hole (Beetlejuice) - 2015, Cut Opening Number
  4. Gotta Get Out of This House - 2016, Cut Opening Number
  5. Dead Mom - 2014, Original Pitch Demo
  6. Mamma Would (Lydia) - 2015, Cut Song
  7. Sign Yourself Over to Me (Charles) - 2014, Cut Song
  8. Delia's TED Talk (Delia) - 2015, Cut Song
  9. No Reason - 2015, Original Demo
  10. Fright of Their Lives - 2016, Original Demo
  11. Say My Name - 2015, Original Demo
  12. You Can Only Work with What You Get (Beetlejuice, Lydia) - 2015, Cut Song
  13. Step Right Up (Beetlejuice, Lydia) - 2015, Cut Song
  14. A Little More of Your Time (Charles) - 2015, Cut Song
  15. The Children We Didn't Have (Barbara) - 2018, Cut Song
  16. What's Left? (Barbara and Adam) - 2019, Cut Song
  17. Barbara 2.0 - 2019, Original Demo
  18. The Box (Otho) - 2017, Cut Song
  19. I Am Very Good at Running Cults (Otho) - 2018, Cut Song
  20. Mixed It Up Together (Beetlejuice and Company) - 2017, Cut Song
  21. Everything Is Kinda "Meh" (Boy Inferno) - 2018, Cut Song
  22. What I Know Now - 2019, Original Demo
  23. Goodbye, Emily Deetz (Lydia) - 2016, Cut Song
  24. Ain't It Strange? (Company) - 2017, Cut Closing Number

Anne Murray, The Ultimate Christmas Collection (Universal Music Canada/UMe, 2020) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

  1. Joy to the World
  2. Christmas Wishes
  3. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
  4. Blue Christmas
  5. We Three Kings
  6. The Christmas Song
  7. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
  8. Sweet Little Jesus Boy
  9. No Room at the Inn
  10. O Holy Night
  11. Go Tell It on the Mountain
  12. Silver Bells
  13. O Come All Ye Faithful
  14. I'll Be Home for Christmas
  15. Winter Wonderland
  16. Away in a Manger
  17. The Season Will Never Grow Old
  18. Christmas in Killarney
  19. White Christmas
  20. Baby It's Cold Outside - with Michael Bublé
  21. Mary's Little Boy Child/O My Lord
  22. Silent Night

Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Anne Murray, Eddie Perfect

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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  1. Carol Sundahl says

    November 3, 2020 at 8:54 am

    "Baby It’s Cold Outside – with Michael Bublé" isn't a Christmas song. It's about date rape. I'm sorry Anne recorded it years ago.

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