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67-604: Rock Angelz is a soundtrack album to the 2005 direct-to-video film of the same name, which is based on the Bratz toyline. It was released on July 26, 2005, by Hip-O Records . The album had multiple promotional singles released. "So Good" was released as the first single from the album on August 22, 2005, in Australia. It was released in Germany on September 5. This information is from Genius. Soundtrack album A soundtrack album

134-462: A (more or less) complete musical. The first American original cast recording as we know it was an early experimental LP of program transcriptions of selections from The Band Wagon , a 1931 revue starring Fred and Adele Astaire . It was not widely released. The following year, Jack Kapp produced an album of songs from Show Boat timed to the 1932 Ziegfeld revival. This album featured Helen Morgan and Paul Robeson doing their songs from

201-460: A 3-LP set, an almost unheard of venture for an original cast album in the 1950s. A 1970 documentary by D. A. Pennebaker , Original Cast Album: Company gives a straightforward view of the making of a cast recording. It shows how the recording studio looks, how performers are arranged, and how the director behaves. The cast feels the pressure of delivering a definitive performance, with a degree of perfection beyond that ever required on stage, under

268-425: A Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999), and Man of La Mancha (2002). Many of the older, more obscure titles were deleted in 1999–2000 but the catalogue remains active. The merger between Sony and BMG in 2004 has resulted in a new label called Masterworks Broadway and now that Sony has taken over the entire operation they have started allowing outside companies such as DRG to re-release many of the rarer cast albums from

335-629: A Wish , Hazel Flagg , and Pipe Dream , along with minor hits Me and Juliet , Happy Hunting , New Girl in Town , Jamaica , Redhead , Take Me Along , Do Re Mi , Wildcat , and Milk and Honey . In the 1960s, Victor did better with the Tony Award winners How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying , Hello, Dolly! , and Fiddler on the Roof . They hit the top of

402-494: A composer with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum , but in 1971 they came under fire for refusing to record the complete score of Sondheim's Follies as a 2-LP set. The label executives complained that "cast albums don't sell" ignoring the ongoing success of Funny Girl and The Music Man and the fact that many of their shows had been outright flops. Follies was truncated to

469-511: A feature film is released, or during and after a television series airs, an album in the form of a soundtrack is frequently released alongside it. A soundtrack typically contains instrumentation or alternatively a film score . But it can also feature songs that were sung or performed by characters in a scene (or a cover version of a song in the media, rerecorded by a popular artist), songs that were used as intentional or unintentional background music in important scenes, songs that were heard in

536-445: A lush, open, spacious sound. When stereo came along in the late 1950s, Lieberson used stereo placement to enhance the performances but avoided any gimmicks. As a result, Columbia's albums of Kismet , The Pajama Game , Bells Are Ringing , and Flower Drum Song remain classics in the field. In 1956, Lieberson persuaded CBS to put up the entire capitalization for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady . This ensured that Columbia got

603-404: A more dark thriller would compose of hard rock or urban music . In 1908, Camille Saint-Saëns composed the first music specifically for use in a motion picture (L'assasinat du duc de Guise), and releasing recordings of songs used in films became prevalent in the 1930s. Henry Mancini , who won an Emmy Award and two Grammys for his soundtrack to Peter Gunn , was the first composer to have

670-544: A motion picture or television soundtrack. Many top-charting songs were featured or released on a film or television soundtrack album. Nowadays, the term "soundtrack" sort of subsided. It now mostly commonly refers to instrumental background music used in that media. Popular songs featured in a film or television series are instead highlighted and referenced in the credits, not a part of a "soundtrack". In advertisements or store listings, soundtrack albums are sometimes confused with original cast albums . These are albums made with

737-672: A musical artist), and the songs and the soundtrack itself can also be on music charts, and win musical awards. By convention, a soundtrack record can contain any kind of music including music "inspired by" but not actually appearing in the movie; the score contains only music by the original film's composers. Contemporaneously, a soundtrack can go against normality, (most typically used in popular culture franchises) and contains recently released or exclusive never before released original pop music selections, (some of which become high-charting records on their own, which due to being released on another franchises title, peaked because of that) and

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804-414: A new label called Masterworks Broadway and now that Sony has taken over the entire operation they have started allowing outside companies such as DRG to re-release many of the rarer cast albums from the combined Columbia and RCA Victor catalogues. Masterworks Broadway has also launched a new website offering the combined Victor and Columbia catalogues. ABC – This label was active in the cast album field in

871-560: A single LP missing four songs and abridging many of the others. It would be Capitol's last original cast album. EMI's classical division took over the Capitol Broadway cast catalogue in 1992 and reissued all 40 of the cast albums on the Broadway Angel label. The CDs were well packaged with booklets containing detailed notes and production photos. Although only a half dozen of these releases are still in print as of October 2007, most of

938-504: A single Lp of highlights. Lieberson made sure that important scores were recorded even if the shows were not box office successes. Thanks to his foresight the original casts of Candide , Anyone Can Whistle , and Goldilocks are preserved. Columbia recorded as many hits as they did flops - Gypsy , The Sound of Music , Bye Bye Birdie , Camelot , Sweet Charity , Mame , 1776 , Cabaret , West Side Story , Company , A Little Night Music , and Annie . In

1005-528: A time limit imposed by the high cost of studio time. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s it was not uncommon for cast albums to become best sellers. My Fair Lady , The Music Man , Funny Girl , and Hello, Dolly! all reached the #1 position on the Billboard magazine best-sellers chart. As popular music split away from the traditional Tin Pan Alley song stylings of Broadway and Hollywood, and rock music became

1072-434: A widespread hit with a song from a soundtrack. Before the 1970s, soundtracks (with a few exceptions), accompanied towards musicals , and was an album that featured vocal and instrumental, (and instrumental versions of vocal songs) musical selections performed by cast members. Or cover versions of songs sung by another artist. After the 1970s, soundtracks started to include more diversity, and music consumers would anticipate

1139-490: Is "Revival Cast". Studio cast : assembled by a record company. In the early days, the studio cast singers were often lesser known performers with good singing voices, usually joined by one fairly well known star. Mary Martin made a number of studio cast recordings for Columbia in the early 1950s including Babes in Arms , Girl Crazy , and Anything Goes . More recent studio albums have tended to be note-complete recreations of

1206-538: Is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show . The first such album to be commercially released was Walt Disney 's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , the soundtrack to the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , in 1938. The first soundtrack album of a film's orchestral score was that for Alexander Korda 's 1942 film Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book , composed by Miklós Rózsa . When

1273-591: Is readily available on DVD. Wicked , in particular has been a big seller for the label and continues to sell well. Although they are being selective about what they record, Decca Broadway plans to continue making cast albums, including the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein and Andrew Lippa 's The Addams Family: A New Musical . Although some of the slower-selling catalog titles have been deleted, many remain available as downloads. Capitol recorded St. Louis Woman in 1946, mainly because lyricist Johnny Mercer

1340-410: Is simply used for promotional purposes for well known artists, or new or unknown artists. These soundtracks contain music not at all heard in the film/television series, and any artistic or lyrical connection is purely coincidental. However depending on the genre of the media the soundtrack of popular songs would have a set pattern; a lighthearted romance might feature easy listening love songs, whilst

1407-485: The closing credits , or songs for no apparent reason related to the media other than for promotion, that were included in a soundtrack. Before home video became widespread in the 1980s, many soundtrack albums would also feature snippets of dialogue, as this was one of the few ways to re-experience a film after its original release apart from television broadcasts or theatrical reissues. Soundtracks are usually released on major record labels (just as if they were released by

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1474-443: The music of Bollywood , usually sells more than Indian pop records. Original cast album Cast recordings are (usually) studio recordings rather than live recordings. The recorded song lyrics and orchestrations are nonetheless identical (or very similar) to those of the songs as performed in the theatre. Like any studio performance, the recording is an idealized rendering, without audible audience reaction. The British were

1541-425: The 1926 Broadway cast - even though both of these shows are Broadway musicals, rather than British ones. Prior to the development of original cast recordings, there had been recordings of songs from musicals, and collections of several such songs, and recordings of songs performed by cast members; but they were recordings of songs , that is, they were recorded as stand-alone show tunes rather than representations of

1608-577: The 1980s, the label began to withdraw from the cast album field as RCA began to dominate it. Sony bought CBS records in the late 1980s and began reissuing many older cast albums on the Sony Broadway label in 1991–94 and later the Sony Columbia Broadway Masterworks labels. The few, mainly obscure flops, that Sony chose not to reissue were farmed out to DRG and other specialty labels. The merger between Sony and BMG in 2004 has resulted in

1675-521: The Army by Irving Berlin . Finally in 1943, came Decca's recording of Oklahoma! . It not only featured the original cast, but the show's original chorus, all accompanied by the same orchestra heard in the show, playing the music in the original Robert Russell Bennett orchestrations and conducted by the show's original conductor, Jay Blackton . The show was the biggest hit Broadway had experienced up until that time and people who could not get tickets bought

1742-593: The Broadway cast made an album for RCA Victor with Dinah Shore singing the Merman role. The label that would dominate the field until the late 1970s, however, was Columbia . They began by issuing an album of the 1946 revival of Show Boat followed by the original Broadway cast of Finian's Rainbow in 1947. A year later the label introduced LP records and used the format for two best sellers: Kiss Me, Kate and South Pacific , both recorded and released in 1949. Under

1809-492: The LP era dawned, Victor competed with Columbia for cast album rights. Their first LP release was Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam but because the star Ethel Merman was under contract to Decca, she was replaced on Victor's album by Dinah Shore. The album was a failure and was out of print until Red Seal reissued it in 1977. Victor did better with Paint Your Wagon , and Damn Yankees , but had their share of flops: Seventeen , Make

1876-499: The Laurence Olivier Richard III , the soundtrack of which was released as a 3-LP album by RCA Victor in 1955. Sometimes tracks not in the movie are included in the album, especially on a CD release of the soundtrack as opposed to an LP. Some of these may be "outtakes" (songs or instrumental music recorded for use in the movie but "cut" in the final edit as released), or they may have been used in trailers but not in

1943-461: The MCA label, all using the fake stereo masters. MCA released many of their classic shows on CD in the 1990s, going back to original master discs and tapes to generate excellent sounding (and complete) remasters of the originals. When MCA and Polygram were merged into the new Universal Music Group, a new label, Decca Broadway, was born. Decca Broadway has re-mastered and reissued virtually every cast album in

2010-455: The Spider Woman , Titanic , Steel Pier , Ragtime , Fosse , The Full Monty , Thoroughly Modern Millie , Urinetown , and Avenue Q . During this time RCA Victor also released the cast recordings for the Broadway revivals of Anything Goes (1987), Guys and Dolls (1992), Chicago (1996), Candide (1997), Cabaret (1998), The Sound of Music (1998), You're

2077-529: The Stars . Many of these were transferred to LP in 1949–1950 although sometimes songs were abridged or left out completely. The label added more titles to their cast album library in the early 1950s: Guys and Dolls , The King and I , Wonderful Town , Seventh Heaven , On Your Toes , and Anchors Aweigh . In 1968, Decca issued a 2-LP set of the London cast of Man of La Mancha , an album which featured almost

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2144-509: The album became a million seller. Without a TV/radio network affiliation (such as Columbia had with CBS and RCA with NBC) Capitol sometimes had to content themselves with "also-ran" shows. The 1960s found them with recording rights to a number of minor hits: No Strings , The Unsinkable Molly Brown , and Golden Boy but mostly they got flop shows: Sail Away , Kwamina , The Gay Life , Skyscraper , Walking Happy , and Zorba . They did record Stephen Sondheim's Broadway debut as

2211-526: The album. It would eventually sell over 1 million copies as a set of 78-rpm records, and millions more on LP and Compact Discs. Decca soon began recording every hit musical that came along including One Touch of Venus , Carmen Jones , Carousel , and Annie Get Your Gun . Soon, all the other record companies were bidding for the rights to record Broadway shows with their original casts. Capitol recorded St. Louis Woman in 1946, and RCA Victor recorded Brigadoon in 1947. Although Decca abandoned

2278-424: The cast album field in 1947 with two hits and a miss: Brigadoon , High Button Shoes , and Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro . Brigadoon was a big seller and remains in print on CD today. High Button Shoes was a hit show but the album did not do well. RCA's budget label, Camden, reissued it on LP in 1958 and Victor re-released it in 1965. At that time they also did the first LP transfer of Allegro . As

2345-402: The cast album field in the mid-1950s, Capitol and Victor actively bid for recording rights. Sometimes problems arose as when RCA Victor signed on to record the 1950 musical Call Me Madam even though the show's star, Ethel Merman was then under exclusive contract to Decca Records. This resulted in two albums of the score being released: Merman with a studio cast on her label, while the rest of

2412-534: The cast album rights and that CBS held all film and TV rights to the property. The show was the biggest hit of the decade, selling out for nearly 6 years on Broadway. The original cast album reached #1 on the Billboard charts, and stayed on the charts for nine years. Because the Broadway cast had been recorded only in monaural, when the cast opened it in London Columbia re-recorded it in stereo. The label later offered

2479-424: The cast of the original production, later high-profile productions may also produce cast recordings: for example, a recording by the cast of the first London production of a show that originated on Broadway, or of the first Broadway cast of a show that originated off-Broadway , or of the cast of a revival produced many decades later than the original production. For some musicals created before cast recordings became

2546-666: The charts with Hair in 1968. During this time it also released five of the cast albums from the Music Theatre of Lincoln Center revivals, The Merry Widow with Patrice Munsel, Show Boat with Barbara Cook , Constance Towers , Stephen Douglass , David Wayne , and William Warfield , Kismet with Alfred Drake , Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman , Carousel with John Raitt , and The King and I with Rise Stevens and Darren McGavin . In 1976, Thomas Z. Shepard left Columbia Records for RCA's Classical division and under his guidance RCA Red Seal eclipsed Columbia as

2613-452: The combined Columbia and RCA Victor catalogues. Columbia 's first original Broadway cast album was the 1946 revival of Show Boat , soon followed by an album of Finian's Rainbow . In 1948 Columbia introduced the Lp to the record market and soon offered LP editions of their 78-rpm sets. The first cast album recorded as an LP was Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate , which was a big hit on records and

2680-413: The complete show (the Broadway cast album had been recorded by Kapp Records ). In 1949, Decca began to re-release the best-selling of these albums on LP and in the late 1950s began offer electronically enhanced for stereo editions. The label was out of the business of recording new cast albums by the end of the 1950s. Decca was bought by MCA and in the early 1970s many of these titles were re-released on

2747-524: The deleted titles have been reissued by DRG keeping the scores available for collectors. Broadway Angel has recorded some recent shows such as: Crazy for You , Passion , The Color Purple , and Curtains , the 1994 Broadway revival of Carousel , as well as the Bernadette Peters revivals of Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy . In 2013, Universal Music Group acquired EMI and with it Angel and Capitol Broadway catalogues. RCA Victor entered

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2814-574: The dominant label for cast albums. Shepard recorded Sondheim's scores for Pacific Overtures , Sweeney Todd , Sunday in the Park With George , and Merrily We Roll Along , the 1977 Broadway revival recording of The King and I , as well as the hits Ain't Misbehavin' , 42nd Street , and La Cage aux Folles . In 1985, Shepard staged an all-star concert to make a complete recording of Sondheim's Follies . When pre-production costs escalated, label president Jose Menendez wanted to cancel

2881-411: The dominant pop culture form, show albums began selling less well, albeit with exceptions like the rock musical Hair , which as of January 2024 is the last cast album to chart at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. (The cast albums for The Book of Mormon and Hamilton both peaked at No. 3.) Also, as radio and TV moved away from showcasing Broadway numbers the ability for a show to reach an audience beyond

2948-536: The film casts of three Rodgers and Hammerstein films ( Oklahoma! , Carousel , and The King and I ) were also released on Capitol during the 1950s, all earning RIAA gold record awards. An even bigger hit came along in 1957 with The Music Man , which reached the #1 spot on the Billboard charts and stayed there for 12 weeks. It was also the label's first stereo cast album. They scored another bestseller in 1964 when Barbra Streisand's label Columbia Records passed on recording Funny Girl . Capitol recorded it, and

3015-676: The film concerned is a motion picture version of an original stage musical, and it often makes sense for record shops to put the two genres in the same section. But the cast album of a stage musical is very specifically not a soundtrack. Decca Broadway , known from the 1940s until the 1990s simply as Decca Records, is the label that began the trend in North America. They released 78-rpm album sets of Porgy and Bess , Oklahoma! , A Connecticut Yankee , One Touch of Venus , Carmen Jones , Bloomer Girl , Song of Norway , Carousel , Annie Get Your Gun , Call Me Mister , and Lost in

3082-506: The film soundtrack and a 1976 20th anniversary revival cast albums as well as recordings in French, Italian, Spanish and Hebrew. The profits from the My Fair Lady album financed many of Columbia's subsequent original cast and classical recordings. The label recorded Frank Loesser's near sung-through musical The Most Happy Fella , virtually complete and issued it as a 3-record set as well as

3149-444: The first three minutes, after which the dialogue was abruptly cut off and the musical score of the film took over, forcing listeners to "see the film if they wished to know what the mystery was all about." In a few rare instances, the complete soundtrack for a film — dialogue, music, sound effects, etc. — has been released. One notable example was a 3-LP set of the 1977 Rankin-Bass film The Hobbit . Because this particular film

3216-467: The first to create cast recordings, and they were also the first to create original London cast recordings of shows that had already opened on Broadway, but had not been recorded with their original Broadway cast. This led to the odd situation of having, for example, a 1928 recording of the London cast of Show Boat , but no recording with the actual 1927 Broadway cast, and a recording of the London cast of Sigmund Romberg 's The Desert Song , but not of

3283-474: The format. With LP cast recordings, usually released as single discs, it was not rare for compromises to be made to fit the recording within the forty-to-fifty-minute time limit. For example, reprises, or minor songs might not be included. By the 1980s, the rise of the compact disc with its 74-minute recording capacity (which was increased to 80 minutes in the 1990s) resulted in improvements in cast recordings, which were now usually capable of including all songs,

3350-409: The full overture and entr'acte, and, when appropriate, lead-in dialogue to the songs. In recent years, some cast recordings have been recorded live, in recording studios incorporated into the theater concerned. Otherwise, live recordings tend to trade sound quality for freshness and immediacy. It is often the case that many cast recordings may be made for the same show. In addition to the recording of

3417-545: The leadership of Columbia 's Goddard Lieberson , the label's cast recordings came to define the genre. Columbia Masterworks produced the original cast recordings of such shows as The Pajama Game , My Fair Lady , The Sound of Music , West Side Story , Gypsy , and Camelot . Lieberson also recorded important shows that had failed at the box office including Candide and Anyone Can Whistle . In 1956, he recorded Frank Loesser 's musical The Most Happy Fella , which had so much music that it had to be released as

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3484-425: The movie involved in other events (example: King of Pirates , from FLCL ). The unusual first soundtrack album of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz , issued in 1956 in conjunction with the film's first telecast, was virtually a condensed version of the film, with enough dialogue on the album for the listener to be able to easily follow the plot, as was the first soundtrack album of the 1968 Romeo and Juliet , and

3551-524: The movie itself. Examples include the South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut soundtrack. Two other well-known examples are the soundtrack albums to Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Carousel and The King and I both of which include two or more songs not heard in the finished film. Soundtrack albums account for the bulk of the Indian music industry . Music from the Indian film industry , particularly

3618-613: The norm, studio cast recordings are all that exist to document the original productions' orchestrations. Such studio cast recordings have been made of many early musical comedies by the Gershwins ( George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin ), Vincent Youmans , and Rodgers and Hart . Original cast : the premiere or original cast of the production (original Broadway cast; original London cast; original Toronto cast; original Australian cast, etc.). This can (rather confusingly) include revivals as well as first productions. Less misleading in this last case

3685-402: The old Decca catalogue including many rare titles that had not been available in almost 50 years. Decca Broadway has also recorded recent hits including: Wicked , Monty Python's Spamalot , Seussical , and Spring Awakening . It has not, however, released the London cast album of Man of La Mancha on CD, perhaps because it contains most of the dialogue from the show, and the film version

3752-502: The original cast are not unknown). While it is strictly correct (if misleading) to call a movie soundtrack a "cast recording" since it does record the performances of the film cast, it is even more misleading, not to mention incorrect, to call any recording a "soundtrack" that has no connection with a motion picture or recorded television production. Soundtrack albums fill a very similar function for films with music. Soundtrack and cast albums sometimes have much in common, especially when

3819-435: The original orchestrations, often with well-known singers (not infrequently from the world of opera rather than musical theatre) taking the leads: such as EMI's recordings of Brigadoon and Show Boat . The performers who appear in Broadway shows sing the score live each night. When a Broadway cast album is made, it is (as a rule) recorded in a studio and produced with the home listener in mind (although live recordings of

3886-417: The original stage cast of a musical , and are recorded by the cast either in live performance or in a studio, not transferred from a movie soundtrack. In some cases, recorded dialogue may be incorporated into the soundtrack album. This comes in two kinds: audio clips from the movie itself (used on the albums for Pulp Fiction and Apollo 13 , for example) or radio dramas that involve the characters from

3953-477: The recording. Shepard held his ground and won the battle. The 2-LP set was a bestseller and made profit within a month of release. Early in 1986 Shepard resigned and went to MCA. With the rise of compact discs in the late 1980s, RCA was bought out by BMG. At this time Bill Rosenfield used RCA Victor to re-release the label's vast catalogue of show albums on CD and to record new shows including: Into The Woods , Jerome Robbins' Broadway , Grand Hotel , Kiss of

4020-416: The same highlights sung by the actual stars of the original production, although recorded five years after the premiere. When a revival was staged in 1942, Decca issued a second album of some of the secondary songs from the opera by the revival cast and later combined these two albums onto one LP and called it the "original cast recording". Decca also issued an album of songs from the all-soldier revue This Is

4087-694: The show but used studio cast singers for the leads. As the 1930s progressed, Liberty Music Shop in New York City made mini albums of songs from the Ethel Merman musical comedies Red Hot and Blue and Stars in Your Eyes . These were more like personality recordings, since the arrangements were not the ones heard in the theatre. The first complete so-called original cast album was Marc Blitzstein 's 1938 album of songs from The Cradle Will Rock although these were recorded with just piano accompaniment and not

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4154-427: The show's orchestra. In 1984, the original recordings from Very Warm for May (1939) were discovered and issued on an LP. However, these recordings were not made with the original orchestrations. RCA Victor had made an album of the key songs from Porgy and Bess using the theatre orchestra but featuring Met opera singers Lawrence Tibbett and Helen Jepson singing the songs. Decca riposted with another album of

4221-518: The soundtrack albums of The Taming of the Shrew (1967 version), Cromwell , and Little Big Man . In the case of Patton , the bulk of the album featured the film's musical score, while the opening and final tracks featured George C. Scott 's opening and closing speeches from the movie. The highly unusual soundtrack album of the 1972 mystery film Sleuth was designed as a sort of teaser , with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine 's voices heard for

4288-704: The traditional Broadway fans lessened. Today few show albums even appear in the Billboard top 200, and the rare breakout hit like Wicked receives no radio airplay. New boutique labels such as PS Classics and Ghostlight release many of the cast albums of recent Broadway hits. With the recent merger of Sony Music (formerly Columbia Records) and BMG Music (formerly RCA Victor), many older editions of cast recordings are being deleted and newly remastered editions are being released. A 10-inch 78-rpm disc could hold about 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 minutes of music per side. A 12-inch 78-rpm could last 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 minutes. Early albums had to severely abridge selections to fit

4355-535: Was followed by the blockbuster Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific . The producer of these albums was Goddard Lieberson, who brought unquestionable taste and skill to translating a Broadway show to records. He didn't just record the songs. It was his goal to make the album an enjoyable listening experience for home listeners who, quite often, had not even seen the shows. Recorded in an old converted church on 30th street in New York City, Columbia's albums had

4422-415: Was one of the label's founders. It wasn't until the 1950s, however, that the label began bidding for cast album rights. Their first few choices were generally not big hits: Flahooley , Top Banana , Three Wishes for Jamie , and the revival of Of Thee I Sing . They finally got a hit show in 1953 with Cole Porter's Can-Can , which remained in print until the end of the LP era. Recordings featuring

4489-401: Was produced for television, it lent itself well to the LP format: built-in commercial insert points were used to end each LP side, thus avoiding any additional editing. Another example was the above-mentioned Zeffirelli Romeo and Juliet – the movie proved so popular that two years after the film's original release, an album set of the complete soundtrack was released. Still another example was

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