Darkness Darkness [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Darkness Darkness [Original recording remastered] [Import]

ASIN: B00005L93E

Track Listings

1. Darkness Darkness

2. Fire & Rain

3. What We Call The Blues

4. Cold Sweat

5. Please Send Me Someone To Love

6. Inner City Blues

7. Your Friend

8. Love & Peace

9. Sweet Chariot

10. Sausalito Blues

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Digitally Remastered Edition of the 1971 Album from One of the Most Gifted Guitarists Ever to Pick Up the Instrument. Upchurch Had Played with Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions and Jerry Butler, but Headed to California to Make a Name for Himself. This Outstanding Album was Produced by Tommy Lipuma and was Musically Arranged by the Late Donny Hathaway, who also Provided Much of the Keyboard Work Here, Along with the Crusaders' Joe Sample. Upchurch Offers Amazing Renditions of the Youngbloods' "Darkness Darkness", Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" and James Taylor's "Fire and Rain".

Darkness Darkness,Phil Upchurch,Universal/Mca,Blues,Jazz

Average customer rating:

great work from Jim Steinman

Loved it so much I got the rights!

The Confidence Man

The Confidence Man

The Confidence Man
Jim Steinman (Composer) , Ray Errol Fox (Lyricist) , Bobby Blume , Yancey Arias , Bruce Yeko , Jeff Olmsted , George Costacos Best , Norbert Leo Butz , Tom Christensen , Rayme Cornell , Jean Fox , Lauren Fox , Shani Glance , Andre de Shield , Mark Nadler , Terry Waldo , Julia Murney , Jamison Stern , Eric Michael Gillett , Thomas Stamet , LaChanze , Garrett Long , Chuck Cooper , Andrea Marcovicci , and K.T. Sullivan
Manufacturer: Original Cast Record
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000WN1YA
Release Date: 2003-12-09

Tracks:

New Orleans Is Comin' to Me - Norbert Leo Butz, , , Chorus
Pitch Penny
Such Heaps of Fine Friends - Mark Nadler, , Terry Waldo
Edging into Darkness - Julia K. Murney,
Methinks - Eric Michael Gillett,
Confidence - Mark Nadler
Nocturnally Yours - LaChanze,
Pain Humbles - Norbert Leo Butz
Maiden Is Only as Maiden as She Feels - Garrett Long,
Give Us This Day Our Daily Flesh - Chuck Cooper
Sanctimonious Sambo - Terry Waldo
Milady
Soft-Handed Gentleman (It's Your Life) - Andrea Marcovicci,
Something of This Masquerade May Follow - Chorus

Customer Reviews:

great work from Jim Steinman.......2006-06-16

Jim Steinman, known for his operatic-style rock music (Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, etc.) has shown a more classic style of him in this one-of-a-kind musical. He takes several styles from the Civil War era and twists them with modern musical treatments.

You can hear many bits and pieces of music used in this album that Steinman uses much later in some of his rock songs, such as the intro to Making Love Out of Nothing at All, chorale phrases from The Future Ain't What it Used to Be and many others.

If you are a Steinman fan, this is a must!! Ray Earl Fox does a great job with the lyrics and they compliment the music to a tee.

Loved it so much I got the rights!.......2004-05-26

Upon hearing this musical I loved it so much I went out and got the rights to direct it onstage this October in Cincinnati! I was always a fan of Jim Steinman's music, but I now also have a great respect for the lyrics of Ray Fox. Fox is a wordsmith much in the tradition of Stephen Sondheim, with intricate wordplay and quick patter. I would suspect that it was his early work with Fox on this project that led Steinman himself into developing into a world class, phrase twisting. lyricist himself. And of course you have Steinman's great ear for melody, but with a much different feel than his Rock music. A great lost treasure of American theater (come see it in October!)

The Confidence Man.......2004-04-02

One of the undiscovered classics of the century. I hope to produce the first Australian production in November 2005. This show has a long and winding history, but I'll leave all that to the liner notes. Ray Errol Fox is one of the greatest lyricists of all time. I have never seen another talent like him - expect for Rupert Holmes - and these are the men I hold among my chief inspiration. Jim Steinman, the composer, whom many of you will remember from Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell has actually re-used many of these tunes in his subsequent projects. If you want the original version of his closing song from Pandora's Box, listen to Track One. "Milady" and "Something of this Masquerade may Follow" were re-used for TANZ DER VAMPIRE. Thank God this was finally released. It's a beautiful, heroic and courageous, discovered-at-last masterpiece of American musical theater.

The Confidence Man.......2004-03-07

When a friend gave me "The Confidence Man" as a Christmas gift, he advised me that I would be in for a treat. I was somewhat skeptical since I had never heard of it, but since it was based on a Herman Melville novel, I was intrigued. And it had music by Jim Steinman. I liked the story, of course, and the music, but it was the lyrics (by Ray Eroll Fox) that captivated me. They are witty, literate and consistently surprising. I find something new to admire every time I listen. Anyone into American musical theater shouldn't be without this one!

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