Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Oct 17: Composer Spotlight Jason Robert Brown

Samples of Jason Robert Brown performing

She Cries - Brooks Ashmanskas, Songs for a New World (RCA Victor Broadway)
Just One Step - Jessica Molaskey, Songs for a New World (RCA Victor Broadway)
That's What He Said - Rufus Bonds, Jr., Parade [Brown] (RCA Victor Broadway)
All the Wasted Time - Lara Pulver, Bertie Carvel, Parade OLC (First Night Records) Shiksa Goddess - Norbert Leo Butz, The Last Five Years (Image)
I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You - Jason Robert Brown, Wearing Someone Else's Clothes (Sh-K-Boom)
Prelude/High Fashion & Low Prices - Orchestra, The Trumpet of the Swan-A Novel Symphony for Actors & Orches (PS Classics)
Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You - Norbert Leo Butz; Sherie René Scott, The Last Five Years (Image)
The Lamest Place in the World - Allie Trimm, 13 (OBC) (Ghostlight 81313)
Here I Come - Graham Phillips, 13 (OBC) (Ghostlight 81313)
Mr. Hopalong Heartbreak [From Urban Cowboy] - Lauren Kennedy, Here and Now (PS Classics)
Hear My Song - Cast, Songs for a New World (RCA)
Stars and the Moon - Audra McDonald, Way Back to Paradise (Elektra/Asylum)

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Oct 10: Doo Wee Doo Wop

Lida Rose - Buffalo Bills, The Music Man [Original Broadway Cast] (Angel Records)
Gentle Loving People - The Kinsey Sicks, Dragapella (The Kinsey Sicks)
A Thousand Summer Nights - Jerry Tellier, Original Cast. Ray Leslee & John Jiler, Avenue X (RCA 09026 63208-2 MP3)
New York is Funny That Way - Cast, In Transit (intransitthemusical.com) Skid Row (Downtown) - Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Little Shop of Horrors [Original Soundtrack] (Geffen)
Woe Woe Woe! - Shannon Mercer; Rosalind Plowright; Eric Idle; William Ferguson; Christopher Purves; BBC Symphony Orchestra&Chorus, Not the Messiah (He's a very naughty boy); A Comic Oratorio (Madison Gate Records)
Doo-Wah-Doo-Wee - Cast, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (Original Cast Record)
Those Magic Changes - New Broadway Cast, Grease [2007 Broadway] (Sony Classics)
Walk Like a Man - John Lloyd Young, Daniel Reichard, Christian Hoff, J. Robert Spencer, Jersey Boys (Jersey Boys Broadway/Rhino) Welcome to the 60's - John Travolta; Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray [2007 Soundtrack] (Universal Classics)
Born to Hand Jive - Sha Na Na, Grease [Original Soundtrack] (Polygram International)
Love Potion #9 - Original Broadway Cast, Smokey Joe's Cafe (Atlantic)
Dawn (Go Away) - John Lloyd Young, Daniel Reichard, Christian Hoff, J. Robert Spencer, Ensemble, Jersey Boys (Jersey Boys Broadway/Rhino)
He's So Fine - Doris, Baby It's You - Original Cast Recording (Verve 001570402 MP3) Heart and Soul - Guy Stroman, Forever Plaid [Original Off-Broadway Cast] (RCA Victor)
Move (You're Steppin' on My Heart) - Jennifer Holliday; Loretta Devine; Sheryl Lee Ralph, Dreamgirls [Original Broadway Cast Album] (Geffen)
Someday - Montego Glover, Memphis [Original Broadway Cast] (Rhino)
Where Is Love - Original Cast. Ray Leslee & John Jiler, Avenue X (RCA 09026 63208-2 MP3)
Freddy, My Love - Robyn Hurder, Grease [2007 Broadway] (Sony Classics) Quality - Sophia Salguero, The Capeman (Decca Broadway MP3)
Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now - Harvey Fierstein; Jackie Hoffman; Kerry Butler; Laura Ashley Bell Bundy; Linda Hart; Marissa Jaret Winokur, Hairspray [Original Cast] (Sony Classical)

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Oct 3: Everyone's a Little Bit Racist

I'm an Indian, Too - Mary Martin, Annie Get Your Gun [1957 TV Mary Martin John Raitt] (Angel ZDM 0777 7 64765 2 0)
Ugg-A-Wugg - Mary Martin/Sondra Lee, Peter Pan [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA Victor Broadway)
What Made the Red Man Red - Disney, Peter Pan (Walt Disney Records)
Ten Little Indians/Populism, Yea Yea/Crisis Averted - Company, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Original Cast Recording) (Ghostlight) Colors of the Wind - Judy Kuhn, Pocahontas [Original Soundtrac (Walt Disney)
I Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) - Carmen Miranda, Funny Songs (Master Classics Records)
I Make My Money With Bananas / Babalu - Cast, 4 Guys Named Jose...And Una Mujer Named Maria! (DRG)
All You Have to Do Is Wait - Shawn Elliott, City of Angels [Original Broadway Cast] (Columbia)
Taxi - Jared Crawford/Raymond King, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk (BMG) The Message From A Nightingale (Bonus Track) - Original Cast Recording, The Drowsy Chaperone [Original Broadway Cast] (Sh-K-Boom Records)
Muquin (after "Mammy") - Francis Jue/Harriet Harris/Ken Leung, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Broadway Cast) (RCA Victor)
Swanee (originally in Sinbad) - Al Jolson, The Encyclopedia of Jazz (Recording Arts)
Great White Father - Joyce Brown, Purlie (RCA Victor Broadway)
Southern Days - Original Off-Broadway Cast, The Scottsboro Boys (Jay Records) Uncle Huck-A-Buck Song - Ann Duquesnay/Baakari Wilder/Jeffrey Wright, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk (BMG)
I'm Black - Darius Nichols, Bryce Ryness, Will Swenson, Gavin Creel, Sasha Allen, Hair [2009 Broadway Revival Cast] (Ghostlight)
Yes, I's Finished on Y'all's Farmlands - Darius Nichols, Ato Blankson-Wood, Brandon Pearson, Tommar Wilson, Hair [2009 Broadway Revival Cast] (Ghostlight)
Colored Spade - Lamont Washington, Hair [Broadway Deluxe Collecto (RCA Victor)
Everyone's a Little Bit Racist - Ann Harada; John Tartaglia; Jordan Gelber; Natalie Venetia Belcon; Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q (RCA Victor 82876-55923-2RE1)