N.B.
I am an idiot. In my capsule review of the Nine cast recording I said, quote: "Nine represents the first instance I'm aware of in which a record company got down a Broadway recording by having the cast perform the entire show—not simply the score—in the studio, from beginning to end, and editing from there" End-quote. Apparently I'd forgotten a little thing called The Most Happy Fella.
In 1956 Goddard Lieberson did this great, unweildy, slightly schizoid Frank Loesser musical up brown, with a grand and lovingly-presented 3-LP boxed set that was still in print in the late 1980s (and made it to CD in the '90s.) I'd be willing to bet Lieberson did not record the score "in one," as the producers of the Nine cast recording did, but that's not the point: I made it sound as though the Yeston show was the first to be gotten down in its entirety. (And—Jesus Christ! how could I have neglected Lieberson's full-lengther of the 1974 Hal Prince Candide revival? Mea cupla!)
Not what I meant, but one should be clear about these things, no?
End of N.B.
In 1956 Goddard Lieberson did this great, unweildy, slightly schizoid Frank Loesser musical up brown, with a grand and lovingly-presented 3-LP boxed set that was still in print in the late 1980s (and made it to CD in the '90s.) I'd be willing to bet Lieberson did not record the score "in one," as the producers of the Nine cast recording did, but that's not the point: I made it sound as though the Yeston show was the first to be gotten down in its entirety. (And—Jesus Christ! how could I have neglected Lieberson's full-lengther of the 1974 Hal Prince Candide revival? Mea cupla!)
Not what I meant, but one should be clear about these things, no?
End of N.B.
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