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Ain't Misbehavin': The Fats Waller Musical Show (1995 Original London Cast) [Cast Recording]

Melanie Marshall, Dawn Hope, Ray Shell, Debby Bishop, Sean Palmer, Fats WallerAudio CD
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (April 7, 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Cast Recording
  • Label: First Night Records
  • ASIN: B000006OKV
  • Also Available in: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,150,174 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

 
1. Ain't Misbehavin'
2. Honeysuckle Rose
3. Squeeze Me
4. Handful Of Keys
5. I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling
6. How Ya Baby
7. The Jitterbug Waltz
8. The Ladies Who Sing With The Band / Yacht Club Swing
9. Cash For Your Trash
10. Off-Time
11. The Joint Is Jumpin'
12. Spreadin' Rhythm Around / Loungin' At The Waldorf
13. The Viper's Drag
14. Mean To Me
15. Your Feet's Too Big
16. Keepin' Out Of Mischief
17. Find Out What They Like
18. Fat And Greasy
19. Black And Blue
20. Finale: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter / Two Sleepy

 

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Lively; maybe too lively at times., March 13, 2006
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Johann Fu (Bellevue, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ain't Misbehavin': The Fats Waller Musical Show (1995 Original London Cast) (Audio CD)
Very lively performance. Makes you want to get up and dance. The American accents sound ok to me. I don't know why another reviewer is so hysterically down on this recording.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth it., December 31, 2002
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Jeff Stoffa (Miami Beach, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ain't Misbehavin': The Fats Waller Musical Show (1995 Original London Cast) (Audio CD)
I grew up listening to the original 1978 soundtrack with Nell Carter as a child. I am not African-American but came from a musical household and appreciated the fact that what makes this music so special is the voice range of the singers, the dialect, and the skat. As an adult I decided to buy the CD for myself and since the London version from 1995 was so much cheaper I thought I'd try it. BIG MISTAKE! These people have to be British. They have no soul, they don't skat. They changed the "ain't"s to "isn't," and the "I goes" to " I go." The women seem more comfortable singing operatic soprano than soulful jazz. You could call this "Gilbert and Sullivan do 'Ain't Misbehavin." Every word is perfectly enunciated. I yearned for Nell Carter's whiney American accent and incredible range as I heard a different woman sing a clipped perfectly enunciated "Oh Honey." You get the feeling that the singers don't really understand the music, nor do they feel it the way the original cast did. It's not part of their culture. You can tell they are singing something foreign to them and it is painful to hear how they obviously are trying to sound Harlem of the 1930s and 1940s but do a lousy job. They couldn't have gotten a speech coach to teach them that Americans don't exaggerate words ending in "t" when they sing? Especially Harlem jazz? I ended up throwing this CD away and buying the original version for $$$ after all so it was a waste. Maybe for the British this was entertaining, but for an American, this CD is comical.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money! HORRIBLE...., April 14, 2008
Well, ain't nothing like the original soundtrack with Nell, Ken, Andre, Armelia and Charlaine!
No soul, no "pop", no snap!
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