jeliza

In general, I've got a brain like a steel sieve, which is to say my memory is crap.

The exact details of voice and phrasing of albums I heard when young, though, that's carved in marble. When i need to hear those songs again, the only way to satisfy the urge is to hear the *right* one.

This is how I came to discover that multiple "original" casts recorded Godspell and ALL used the same damn cover art. (Original Off-Broadway, Broadway, Movie and New Broadway)

(Sonia Manzano has both the best weary burlesque singer tone and the best ad libs for Turn Back O Man, by a long shot)

Worse than Godspell is the going on two years need to hear the cast recording of "Jubalay" which is an obscure 1974 Canadian musical that had exactly one vinyl pressing and nothing else. One nowhere Maine record shop will sell me a copy for $50, and other than that I can find nothing. I suspect Mom must have actually gone to see it in the original staging in Vancouver. Sadly, when she died I was in no shape to go through and grab things, and in fact had no idea it was obscure.

I'm still trying to figure out which C-list singer's version of Teach Me Tonight keeps resurfacing.