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December 11, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

neil after the gold rush

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Neil Young, After the Gold Rush: 50th Anniversary Edition (Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 50th Anniversary Edition of Neil Young's classic album features new art based on Gary Burden's original album cover design.  The CD is out today while the vinyl edition will be released in March, 2021 and presented in a box set with the LP and a bonus 7″ single in a newly designed picture sleeve.  This set includes two different

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alan Jay Lerner, David Heneker, Deftones, Firefall, Frank Sinatra, Jim Croce, John Barry, Kool and the Gang, Maury Yeston, Merle Haggard, Neil Young, Roxette, Willie Nelson

November 4, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Lolita My Love

Kritzerland has just announced two new titles today! A musical version of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita hardly seemed like typical fare for the Broadway stage.  Yet Alan Jay Lerner - lyricist-librettist of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Paint Your Wagon - envisioned just that.  Lolita had already been adapted by Nabokov himself for director Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film starring Sue Lyon, James Mason, Shelley Winters, and a scene-stealing Peter Sellers, but the author gave his blessing to

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Alan Jay Lerner, Blossom Dearie, Bobby Short, Denise Nickerson, Dorothy Loudon, John Barry, Richard Chamberlain

February 19, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

West Side Story OBC

Curtain up!  Analog Spark, the audiophile imprint of Razor and Tie, has brought back the luster of yesteryear with a trio of reissues from the days when people dressed up to go to the theatre.  The label has given the Original Broadway Cast Recordings of My Fair Lady, West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof the deluxe treatment on 180-gram vinyl, and indeed, one would be hard-pressed to think of three titles more worthy of the presentation. Fair Lady, Fiddler and West Side all reveal

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Alan Jay Lerner, Arthur Laurents, Chita Rivera, Frederick Loewe, Jerry Bock, Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein, Sheldon Harnick, Stephen Sondheim, Zero Mostel

January 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

My Fair Lady Vinyl

Following its vinyl and SACD presentations of the original soundtrack of 1965's The Sound of Music and its 40th anniversary vinyl pressing of 1975's original Broadway cast recording of A Chorus Line, Razor and Tie's audiophile division Analog Spark has turned its attention to three more classic cast albums.  My Fair Lady (1956), West Side Story (1958) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964) are all now available from Analog Spark in newly-remastered, 180-gram deluxe audiophile vinyl editions.  These are

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Alan Jay Lerner, Chita Rivera, Frederick Loewe, Jerry Bock, Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein, Sheldon Harnick, Stephen Sondheim

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