It's delightful, it's delicious, it's dlevy!
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According to Wikipedia, rampion is the flower that features in the Rapunzel story. I see what you did there, Steve.
25 years since Into the Woods premiered and I’m still not sure what rampion is.
Percy Faith
“Here We Are Again” from Do I Hear A Waltz?
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
from Do I Hear A Waltz? Percy Faith and His Orchestra Play Songs From The Richard Rodgers - Stephen Sondheim Broadway Musical HitIt was tempting to launch this blog with “The Bravest Individual” from Sweet Charity, since that song actually takes place in an elevator, but the only instrumental Sweet Charity album I had handy doesn’t include that number. So instead, we launch with a song whose sentiment is totally appropriate for my umpteenth launch of a blog, rendered in swinging style by Percy Faith.
One of the things I love about these instrumental Broadway cover albums, and particularly those by the masters of the craft, is the way the arrangements really elevate the songs that are overlooked in their original contexts. “Here We Are Again” feels like filler on the Waltz cast album, but here it’s a showstopper.
Okay friends. Please reblog and follow broadwayelevators.
“Rainbows,” written for an unproduced film adaptation of Into the Woods, currently part of the score to Marry Me a Little off-Broadway.
The previously-posted version on Fuck Yeah Stephen Sondheim is now a dead link, so why not refresh it this way?
Jo complained that I haven’t posted in a few days, so to tide him and the rest of y’all over, here’s a bossa nova rendition of “The Jet Song” from West Side Story as recorded by the Bill Barron orchestra.
Vera Mann sings “Ik Lees” (aka “I Read”) from Passion (2004 Dutch Cast Recording).
Clearly I’m having one of my “musicals in translation” weeks.
Luckily, I made a Spotify playlist for just such an occasion.
insidemysanity Asks:
itsdlevy Said:
If you are really all that concerned with what percentage of your money goes to the people who actually made the album as opposed to those who provide the infrastructure for you to get the album, may I suggest buying the New Broadway Cast Recording directly from PS Classics?
No matter how you rationalize it, you’re not going to convince me that somehow it’s righteous to steal an album when you could own it legally for $10 - $15.
Mel Tormé swings “Send in the Clowns.”
It’s wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong and therefore delightful. (I particularly love “Where are the clowns” at 0:40.)
A Little Night Music + Swing
