Dorothy Fields - The Second Disc

The Weekend Stream: January 28, 2023

January 28, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Today, there’s some newer KISS, some obscure Duke Ellington, and a few rare cast albums – plus a way you can help out some writers in need. KISS, Sonic Boom (UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) After a mid-’90s reunion of the classic KISS line-up, the band dynamics began to shift again In the early 21st century; by 2004, guitarist…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Country, Jazz, Rock

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Barbara Cook, Claibe Richardson, Cy Coleman, Debbie Allen, Dorothy Fields, Duke Ellington, Jim Weatherly, KISS, Kenward Elmslie, Moose Charlap, Neil Simon, Ram Jam, Susan Johnson, The Grass Roots

Hey, Big Spender: Stage Door Reissues “Sweet Charity” London Studio Cast on CD

June 30, 2021 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Fun, laughs, good time… The team of director-choreographer Bob Fosse, librettist Neil Simon, composer Cy Coleman, and lyricist Dorothy Fields made good on those promises with the 1966 Broadway debut of Sweet Charity. Based on Federico Fellini’s film Nights of Cabiria, the musical depicted the bittersweet romantic adventures of dance hall hostess Charity Hope Valentine, so memorably created onstage by Gwen Verdon and introduced on film by Shirley MacLaine. The splashy production reopened the venerable Palace Theatre on January 29, 1966, netting a Tony Award for Fosse’s remarkable choreography and lasting 608…

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News

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Cast Recordings

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Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, Mary Preston, Neil Simon

Hey, Look Me Over! Harbinger Celebrates The Music of Cy Coleman On New Collection

June 4, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

When Bob Dylan released his first collection of standards earlier this year, the venerable singer-songwriter took umbrage at the notion that he was “covering” classic songs. “I don’t see myself as covering these songs in any way,” he reflected. “They’ve been covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them.” Among the songs uncovered by Dylan was Cy Coleman and Joseph McCarthy’s “Why Try to Change Me Now,” first recorded by Frank Sinatra at his final session for Columbia Records in 1952. …

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News, Reviews

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Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Carolyn Leigh, Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, Floyd Huddleston