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Highlights From The Phantom Of The Opera: The Original London Cast Recording (1986 London Cast) >>

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Media Type: CD
Artist: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Title: ORIGINAL CAST
Street Release Date: 10/10/1988
Domestic
Genre: CAST RECORDINGS

Raise The Dead >>

RAISE THE DEAD is Phantom Planet's fourth full-length collection,
following 1998's highly-praised PHANTOM PLANET IS MISSING,
2002's THE GUEST (which included the now-classic California,
known far and wide as the theme song to Fox's The O.C.), and 2004's
PHANTOM PLANET. The band started production on the new disc
eighteen months ago, eventually paring down 120 tracks written and
30 tracks recorded to the final 12. The result is an album that effortlessly mixes the band s sixties pop influence with a modern slant that s extremely refreshing in today s increasingly homogenous musical landscape. With RAISE THE DEAD, whether you decide to explore the cultinfluenced iconography or just want to listen to the songs on a purely visceral level, it s hard to deny that it was worth the four year wait

The Best of Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series) >>

A companion to the fabulous PBS series, the 21-song, 77-minute The Best of "Broadway: The American Musical" provides about as good a single-disc compilation as anyone could hope for. (There's also a five-CD version.) What sets it apart from so many other "best of Broadway" collections is its breadth--because it had access to a variety of record-label vaults it doesn't have to try to disguise gaps by using revivals or solo recordings. Here you get all the authentic stuff, including: Paul Robeson singing "Ol' Man River" from the first modern American musical, Show Boat; Ethel Merman singing "You're the Top"; the title song from Oklahoma!; Julie Andrews singing "I Could Have Danced All Night" from My Fair Lady; West Side Story's "America"; Betty Buckley singing "Memory" from Cats; Hairspray's "Good Morning Baltimore"; and "Defying Gravity" from Wicked, the newest show discussed in the PBS series. And it's hard to argue with the songwriters represented: Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, Lerner and Loewe, Leonard Bernstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, among others. Obviously, no single-disc compilation could ever please everyone (did we really need two ALW songs?), but as a sampler intended for people who watched the series and want to hear more of the Great White Way, The Best of "Broadway: The American Musical" can't be topped. --David Horiuchi

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Shoutin' in Key: Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band Live >>

Recorded live over three nights in Los Angeles in 1998, Shoutin' in Key provides an accurate snapshot of late-1990s Taj and his all-inclusive view of the blues. In fact, blues is really just one ingredient in a stew that offers hard-driving, horn-fueled R&B, gently swaying Caribbean-style rhythms, slow-burning soul, loose reggae jams, 12-bar stomps, smart jazzy grooves, and polished country-blues updates. On this album, he's most compelling the further afield he moves. His reading of Delroy Wilson's "Rain from the Sky," a Jamaican standard, is a highlight here, as is his own Latin-jazz-infused instrumental, "Sentidos Dulce." And he delivers fine readings of signature songs like "Mail Box Blues," "Corrina," and "Leavin' Trunk" as well. While he's not at his most consistently inspired throughout, there are certainly enough high points to make this a worthwhile introduction to the Mahal style. --Marc Greilsamer