Song & Dance: The Songs - Original Broadway Cast Recording [Cast Recording]

Song & Dance (Related Recordings), Bernadette Peters, Andrew Lloyd Webber | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 18, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: RCA Victor Broadway
• ASIN: B000003FY5
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,997 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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out of print and hard to find

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Who can tell?, October 6, 2004

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Richard Benson "musically obsessed" (Plant City, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Song & Dance: The Songs - Original Broadway Cast Recording (Audio CD)

I have never reviewed any item that I gave less than four stars, so this is a first for me. That said, I bought this CD because "Tell Me On A Sunday" is one of my all-time favorite songs, and I looked very forward to hearing Bernadette Peters' version of it. What a disappointment! No criticism against Ms. Peters -- I couldn't tell if I liked her version or not. The sound quality on this recording is the worst I have ever encountered. This CD is for me, completely unlistenable.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Awesome voice, lousy recording, January 21, 2003

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This review is from: Song & Dance: The Songs - Original Broadway Cast Recording (Audio CD)

Ms. Peters has never been in better voice. Evokes all the right nuances and emotion, from giddy to heartbreaking. The problem is that every high breaks, every low muffled. A sublime performence is undermined by lousy recording and worse transfer. It sounded pretty bad on vinyl, I had hoped the CD mastering would be a correction. I was wrong, and the music was wronged.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bernadette Peters in her Tony-winning performance, March 2, 2004

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Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Song & Dance: The Songs - Original Broadway Cast Recording (Audio CD)

SONG AND DANCE earned Bernadette Peters the first of two Tony Awards. The musical SONG AND DANCE is actually two different programs - 'Tell Me on a Sunday' and the dance piece 'Variations'. 'Tell Me on a Sunday' is the story of an English hat designer Emma who follows her American boyfriend back to the states, only to discover heartache and unhappiness. 'Tell Me on a Sunday' was originally an album of songs performed by Marti Webb, later expanded into the stage show SONG AND DANCE in the double-bill with 'Variations'.

Bernadette Peters perfectly inhabits the character of Emma, and while her English accent occasionally falters, she conveys the rollercoaster of Emma's emotions beautifully. Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Don Black's incisive and entertaining score includes numbers that have become standards like "Take That Look Off Your Face", "Unexpected Song" and "Tell Me on a Sunday".

Even more beautiful is the haunting "Nothing Like You've Ever Known". There are also great character pieces like "Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad", "English Girls" and the "Letter" songs.

As several other reviewers have noted, sound quality is dreadfully muffled, but this is overshadowed by the tour-de-force performance of the amazing Miss Bernadette Peters.