Betty Comden and Adolph Green

Cherry Red’s El Label Celebrates Burt Bacharach, Leonard Bernstein on New Box Sets

August 15, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

In recent months, Cherry Red’s El imprint has turned its attention to a pair of legendary American composers. Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) and Burt Bacharach (1928-2023) were born just a decade apart, though Bacharach lived more than three decades longer than Bernstein. Neither man was born in New York City, but both created much of their remarkable work there. Both were proud Jewish Americans, and both wrote for the musical theatre. An American in New York: Leonard Bernstein – The City Scores brings together recordings of Bernstein’s musicals On the Town, Wonderful Town,…

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Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim

Release Round-Up: Week of June 30

June 30, 2023 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Frank Zappa, Funky Nothingness (Zappa/UMe) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com 2LP Standard Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com 2LP Colored Vinyl with exclusive guitar pick: Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com / SoundofVinyl.com UMe and Zappa Records have taken another deep dive into the vaults for Funky Nothingness. Recorded in the year following the release of Hot Rats and building upon its sound with many of the same musicians including Ian Underwood, violinist Don “Sugarcane” Harris, and Wrecking Crew bassist Max Bennett, the previously unreleased sessions include both compositions and jams. The five-piece group was completed by drummer Aynsley Dunbar whom…

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Alan Jay Lerner, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Big Country, Blossom Dearie, Charlie Watts, Frank Zappa, Frederick Loewe, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, Johnny Desmond, Jule Styne, Lucinda Williams, The Baseball Project, Vivian Blaine

Dance Only with Me: Stage Door Reissues Styne, Comden, and Green’s “Say, Darling” as Deluxe Edition

June 21, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Upon its May 13, 1954 opening, The Pajama Game was an instant smash. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical by George Abbott, Richard Bissell, Richard Adler, and Jerry Ross went on to run 1,063 performances and inspire a London production, two Broadway revivals, and countless regional, school, and community theatre productions. But for Bissell, the Iowa-born author of the novel 7-1/2 Cents on which The Pajama Game was based, the road to Broadway was a bumpy one. Bissell put his memories to paper in an amusing, semi-autobiographical 1957 novel entitled Say, Darling which…

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Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Johnny Desmond, Jule Styne, Vivian Blaine

Short Takes, Stage and Screen Edition: Stage Door Reissues “On the Town,” Kritzerland and Quartet Celebrate Jerome Moross

February 6, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Stage Door Records is pairing two rare London studio cast recordings on one CD with the February 22 release of On the Town/Broadway Melody. This stereo release celebrates the classic sound of the Hollywood musical. The Music for Pleasure label’s 1959 recording of On the Town wasn’t based on the original Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden/Adolph Green stage musical but rather its MGM movie adaptation in which selections from the original score were supplemented by new (and less complex) tunes from Roger Edens with Comden and Green. Dennis Lotis, Lionel Blair, and Shane Rimmer…

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Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Engelbert Humperdinck, Jerome Moross, Leonard Bernstein, Millicent Martin

Masterworks Goes “On the Town” With Roslyn Kind’s RCA Albums, Bernstein Musical’s London Cast

July 17, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Masterworks Broadway has announced the balance of its summer slate of CD-Rs/DD reissues from the Sony Music archives with both releases making their debut in the digital domain. Next week, the label will reissue for the very first time both RCA albums by vocalist and cabaret star Roslyn Kind – not only a talented artist in her own right but also the half-sister of one Barbra Streisand. Then, on August 19, Masterworks will bring to CD-R and DD the original 1963 London Cast Recording of Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green’s…

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Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein, Roslyn Kind