1603:. The producer of these albums was Goddard Lieberson, who brought unquestionable taste and skill to translating a Broadway show to records. He didn't just record the songs. It was his goal to make the album an enjoyable listening experience for home listeners who, quite often, had not even seen the shows. Recorded in an old converted church on 30th street in New York City, Columbia's albums had a lush, open, spacious sound. When stereo came along in the late 1950s, Lieberson used stereo placement to enhance the performances but avoided any gimmicks. As a result, Columbia's albums of
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Capitol Broadway cast catalogue in 1992 and reissued all 40 of the cast albums on the Broadway Angel label. The CDs were well packaged with booklets containing detailed notes and production photos. Although only a half dozen of these releases are still in print
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minutes. Early albums had to severely abridge selections to fit the format. With LP cast recordings, usually released as single discs, it was not rare for compromises to be made to fit the recording within the forty-to-fifty-minute time limit. For example, reprises, or minor songs might not be
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The performers who appear in
Broadway shows sing the score live each night. When a Broadway cast album is made, it is (as a rule) recorded in a studio and produced with the home listener in mind (although live recordings of the original cast are not unknown). While it is strictly correct (if
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misleading) to call a movie soundtrack a "cast recording" since it does record the performances of the film cast, it is even more misleading, not to mention incorrect, to call any recording a "soundtrack" that has no connection with a motion picture or recorded television production.
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1652:, virtually complete and issued it as a 3-record set as well as a single Lp of highlights. Lieberson made sure that important scores were recorded even if the shows were not box office successes. Thanks to his foresight the original casts of
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musicals through the Really Useful Records label. Polygram merged with MCA to form Universal Music Group, and many of the cast recordings that Polydor has released are released in the US on the Decca Broadway label.
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1275:How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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2117:Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
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2062:. They have won three Grammy Awards for
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1465:Kiss of the Spider Woman
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30:Not to be confused with
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962:Rodgers and Hammerstein
869:Monty Python's Spamalot
725:Major label cast albums
117:original cast recording
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1961:Little Shop of Horrors
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482:A 1970 documentary by
304:Robert Russell Bennett
2172:The Three Little Pigs
2160:A Spoonful of Sherman
2150:Sleeping Arrangements
1639:The profits from the
1404:Merrily We Roll Along
1306:with Patrice Munsel,
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32:Studio cast recording
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2105:The Drowsy Chaperone
2054:– Both are owned by
2012:and the revivals of
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1736:A Little Night Music
1649:The Most Happy Fella
752:A Connecticut Yankee
476:The Most Happy Fella
252:The Cradle Will Rock
201:The following year,
132:audience reaction.
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1943:Andrew Lloyd Webber
1935:Deutsche Grammophon
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278:singing the songs.
2180:Stage Door Records
2071:The Book of Mormon
1883:Annie Get Your Gun
1805:The Little Mermaid
1682:The Sound of Music
1661:Anyone Can Whistle
1549:The Sound of Music
1428:La Cage aux Folles
1345:Annie Get Your Gun
1116:Annie Get Your Gun
899:Young Frankenstein
788:Annie Get Your Gun
758:One Touch of Venus
628:Alternate versions
538:The Book of Mormon
522:Billboard magazine
466:Anyone Can Whistle
436:The Sound of Music
334:Annie Get Your Gun
316:One Touch of Venus
239:Stars in Your Eyes
52:list of references
2242:Goddard Lieberson
2197:The Far Pavilions
2060:Sherie Rene Scott
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