Staged Right - Episode 8: The Cast Album
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- Cast albums are often how we first experience a musical. In this episode, we explore the history of the cast album, learning about visionary record producers like Goddard Lieberson and Thomas Z. Shepard, and how their historic recording sessions influenced this incredible art form. And as a very special treat, I am so happy to have Bill Rosenfield (Former A&R Director of RCA), and Kurt Deutsch (President of Ghostlight Records) as special guests, sharing their experiences in producing cast recordings like “Legs Diamond”, “The Last Five Years”, and “In The Heights”.
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Thanks for taking the time to produce this wonderful documentary about cast recordings. Your intellect, editing skills and humor are always appreciated . What a great channel.
i HAD that exact 78 speed Oklahoma cast album but over the years it's been lost in the shuffle. i hope someone is still listening to it!
We had the Muny Opera in St Louis. My father grew up attending. We had many cast albums!
Cast albums are particularly relevant as guide tracks for amateur theatre groups when licensing the show.
Some will even use the karaoke tracks directly.
Nice encapsulation. Thanks.
This spoke to me because I am the proud owner of a collection of over 50 Original Cast Recordings. Most of which I purchased after watching the Tony's and before I ever saw the show. I do miss the days when songs from musicals actually got radio play, like songs from Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Is it the radio stations not playing good music, or musicals not producing good songs?
@@robertewalt7789 Maybe it’s because listing something as a musical don’t make as much money as they did back then. There are plenty of songs in more recent that are good and can even fit into a regular pop vibe.
This was fascinating! So incredibly interesting! Thanks! Loved it! (:
Discovered your channel yesterday and watched every video. Well researched. Love it!
This film is an incredible introduction to a wonderful aspect of so much of our musical theatre experience. I throughly enjoyed this history of. A wonderful ongoing legacy. Thank you .
Great vid. So interesting. Looking forward to watching more
Unbelievable masterpiece of a RUclips video essay. Bravo bravo bravo, that intro my lord…
I'm just really grateful to have learned there once was a person called Dick Beavers.
Your channel is one of the best (FEW) good things to come out of the pandemic. So many interesting details here. I wonder if the original limitations of the recording length of 78s contributed to the original notion of 'singles' needing to be under 4 minutes? Or perhaps this is related to the limited capacity of the 45 RPM records? Also, I believe the multiple-record necessity of 78s being packaged together in a book-like presentation lead to a recording being called 'an album.' I remember my parents and grandparents having these -- back when turntables had 3 settings: 33/45/78...
Great job on this one !
Okay, the "plot synopsis of Chess" comment just killed me!
32:58 i pointed at the screen three feet away like a lunatic and then started to almost cry: ever since they said "Ghostlight" i was waiting to see or hear mention of
Carrie the Musical (i love the footage of that recording session & the video for "In"❤)
I paused the video, wiped my tear and made this comment.
ThankYou for this work being showcased here.
You're providing gateways.
Souvenirs 👍
Historic Preservation 👍
Gateways that help keep "the light" on Inside a person.
Thank You 🙏
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35:10 omg he's not:
Tell me he's not answering
"Why didn't they make a 1988 cast recording of Carrie while they were all in town" -No.
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@@this_Joe_Smith I’ll never tell ;-)
Your channel rocks. So well structured, and so thoroughly researched
MY FAVOURITE CAST ALBUM IS ... Jesus Christ Superstar.
I know!
I am a practicing Tibetan Buddhist and a Muslim and I cannot get enough of this album, nor the 1973 film.
It just gets better at every listen.
If you haven´t heard it or seen the 1973 film version, what are you waiting for?!?
My parents had all those old 78's of Broadway shows. I remember they weighed a ton.
Great job as usual, now when I listen to my music everyday I know it's history!
Thank you for these amazing videos! It's so wonderful to nerd out and indulge in what we all miss. Just brilliant!
I spent all night watching your videos and I LOVED ALL OF THEM! Where has your channel been all my life?? My favorites were the ones about Patti and Audra, but I will always be grateful for whatever you want to share with us. Thank you for your content! I thoroughly enjoy it
Terrific as always. Glad to see you back!
Another great video! I love cast albums because it's the only way I could access theater when I had less money. A lot of people talk about cast recordings from the accessibility standpoint only but im glad to hear more about the history. I'd love to hear your take on bootleg videos online. If only theater were more accessible!
I've learned so much! Great interviews as well!
Vol 2 of the original cast recording of 'Oklahoma' were actually released in January 1944, not 1945, 'Carousel' came in 1945.
This was an incredibly well researched video. I learned so much! Great video!
My little musical-theatre-nerdy heart is so happy :-) Thanks for putting this together!
My favorite recent albuum is Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
Once again, incredible content!!!
Hi, I'm 28 seconds in and crying, and I blame you. 🥰
omg that album looks so weathered at 8:55 i've never seen a record like that! cool:)
p.s: watched your video of Rebecca: the musical about 4 days ago, i'll leave a comment on that one too.
Oh...i have something that you'll be interested in! stay tuned;)
Thanks for this. When I first bought the "Follies" Original Cast LP, at an independent record store, the owner told me how the LP had been butchered, and that the only way to hear the complete recording was to buy it on reel-to-reel tape. (In those days you could still buy commercial recordings on reel-to-reel). Was he correct?
Yes.
For a man who has actually played Man in Chair, you have never been more Man-in-Chair than when you were explaining the history of the record 😂
My favorite OC album is "Godzilla!" The Musical.
Sunday In The Park With George.
Awesome video! I did a presentation at an MT conference a couple years ago on the various Pal Joey, Call Me Madam, and Kiss of the Spider Woman albums. To clarify, Harold Lang & Vivienne Segal couldn’t record the Pal Joey revival for Capitol because Columbia still had them under contract! Capitol very much wanted them for that revival album and suffered for it.
I'm not sure it's true that the AFM strike is what led to the Oklahoma! cast album, though that seems to have recently become the standard history since the book Broadway to Main Street was published in 2018. It seems odd to me that it would take 80 years for anyone to figure out where this process started, considering the many books on musicals and the frequency with which Oklahoma!'s stance as the (fabled) first original cast album is referenced. Neither Rodgers' autobiography nor Hugh Fordin's bio on Hammerstein (nor any book written on the team) reference the strike. I don't doubt the strike might have played some part in the process, but Jack Kapp who produced it, had already produced both a Show Boat revival cast recording with its cast (only two discs, I believe, and with studio orchestrations) and This is the Army (with both the original cast and the original orchestrations). He was clearly pushing for an accurate representation of Broadway scores on disc and Decca had slowly been giving in to his demand. I think his drive has more to do with the recording than the strike.
Rodgers autobiography is rather skimp on a lot details in general. I can't speak for the Hammerstein biography. It is an interesting example of how history is told by the accounts we have. if they aren't accounted for, do they have any weight?
@@StagedRight Agree about Rodger's bio, but it's still odd that basically no biographies on the partnership have mentioned it AND the strike had been settled (with Decca, at least) prior to the recording date. Like I said, think something somewhere between the traditional tale (Kapp wanted to preserve the show authentically) and the newer version of the tale (recording date set too soon after the strike was resolved for new accompaniment to be written) is most likely the case.
Chess, amazing! Shame they couldn’t get the stage version right!
Well, since we're on the subject... what was everyone's gateway musical theatre album?? Wicked definitely got me hooked back in middle school!
The original concept album of JCS. It was always playing in the house at Easter growing up. I'm a lapsed Catholic but I still get fish-n-chips and listen to the album on Good Friday ;)
After that... Probably "Rent". Also adore the OBC "Sweeney". Don't make me pick just one!
I got to the original cast recording of Into the Woods through the movie so I think that was it.
"My Fair Lady" and "Funny Girl"
Man of LaMancha.
Wicked, Lion King, and Book Of Mormon
WHERE can I find that company cast recording documentary?? I've been waiting to watch the John Mulaney parody until I can see the original :(
It’s been on RUclips for a long time
@@wordwatcher9495 link?
@@kazza6078 ruclips.net/video/8IU80Ium0dM/видео.html
I pasted your phrase ' company cast recording documentary 'into any search engine and the video is literally the first thing that shows up. Google is your friend.
@@stevepotfora7461 thank you so much for this advice and for assuming I'm so stupid I hadn't thought of googling it. Very helpful. Empathy is your friend.
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You, sir, need a pop filter on your announcing mic.