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DL MEDIA
BLACKBYRDS/Happy Music-Best of the Blackbyrds: Since they are one of the most sampled ol skool funk bands out there, it’s worth remastering and repackaging their catalog again. Breaking their music down by category rather than just doing straight album reissues is a nice twist. This focuses on their happy funk output. From just nutty to solid hard driving stuff, this is four on the floor collection that keeps the beat coming. Hard to resist, even thirty years on, this shows there was funk out there beside Parliament that was just as party worthy.
30194 (Fantasy)
SONY BMG MASTERWORKS/BROADWAY
INTO THE WOODS (68636); MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (68637); SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (68638); SWEENEY TODD (68639): Remastered and expanded and with bonus tracks, this is a wealth of riches for Sondheim fans that want to take another look at his 80’s output. With fierce competition from Andy Webber and having to live up to his own legacy, this period isn’t a commercial high spot for Sondheim, yet it offered a bunch of works and performances that history has shown to be among his best. With the show that might be considered his biggest flop to his period hit on board, you get another look at Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin and songs that have endured regardless. How bad could this stuff be since it featured pre-Seinfeld Jason Alexander, had songs like “Move On” and much ore to enjoy. Revisiting fairy tales for kids of all ages, revamping a Moss Hart classic, moving inside a painting and the demon barber of Fleet Street, quite a collection. It might not be “Gypsy”, “West Side Story” or “A Little Night Music” but you’re a fool to overlook it if you are a Broadway fan of great American songwriting fan.
Volume 30/Number 134
March 14, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
830 W. Route 22 #144
Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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