Betty Buckley - 1967
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Artist: Betty BuckleyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-10-16
Music Label: Playbill Records
Soundtracks:
- One Boy
- C'est Magnifique
- Quando Calienta El Sol (Love Me With All Of Your Heart)
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- They Were You
- Call Me
- I Wanna Be Free
- Where is Love?
- Who Can I Turn To?
- My Funny Valentine
- When I Fall In Love
Music reviews of 1967
Music Review: This is what life is all about...
Rating: 5 Stars
I have to admit, when I kept reading words like "joyous" as a descriptor of Ms. Buckley's teenage voice, I assumed it was some sort of gentle, coded way of saying, "She wasn't very skilled yet, bless her heart."
Still, I bought this recording out of sheer curiosity. I know Betty Buckley's music as being full of depth and experience. I figured this lost recording of her at age nineteen was just a lark, and there wouldn't be much to it.
But wow. Just. Wow.
This might actually unseat her Carnegie Hall recording as my favorite. One wonders: How did this facility for phrasing get into a kid that age? Imagine how it might sound if the ghost of Sarah Vaughan had taken possession of Kristin Chenoweth; that notion begins to get at the unique mixture of sophistication and sheer lightness that comes across in this music.
This recording is glorious. The voice is different from Buckley's more mature voice, to be sure. But what a joy it is (there's that inevitable word!) to hear in this sweet girl's voice, the hints and traces of what was to become.
Make no mistake: This is not merely an archival recording of Betty Buckley before she got her feet under her. This is a teenager who could have readily held an audience at any number of top jazz clubs or cabaret venues.
The only down side in listening to 1967 is that it forces one to consider how many years went by without recordings from Betty Buckley. And one can't help but grieve that loss a little bit. How wonderful it would have been to have a fuller recorded history of this singular talent in evolution.
The selection of songs on 1967 is inspired. Some songs I'd completely forgotten existed, it had been so long since I heard them. But each is deftly delivered (with really brilliant twists in tempo here and there). I'd tell you my favorite track, but it seems to be that whatever track is playing at the time.
(For what it's worth, I've already spent an entire day tormenting people at work with my rendition of Betty's rendition of "One Boy". My version is not as good. So unless you sing as good as Betty and work somewhere where it's not weird to belt out a song about goin' steady, I suggest you avoid listening to this recording over breakfast.)
It's not one or two songs that make 1967 worth buying; it's the total effect. What really haunts me is the sweet, aching quality evoked by this recording as a whole. It doesn't go overboard into a sappy or camp mode. Rather, it leaves me with the feeling of having watched a movie like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg-- where one finishes with a smile and a sigh and only the sweet, tender memories of being young.
What a lovely surprise.
Description of 1967
From the Tony AwardŽ-Winning Actress of CATS and SUNSET BOULEVARD, Her Never-Before-Released Debut Recording!Betty Buckley is one of only a handful of women who can be referred to as a real Broadway star and a true legend. Her very first audition in New York, back in 1969, landed her in the Broadway musical 1776, her first of many to come. She won the coveted Tony AwardŽ for her portrayal of Grizabella in the Original Broadway Cast of Cats and has appeared in many shows, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, both in London's West End and on Broadway. She has acted in many films and starred on television, but this recording is an unexpected surprise, both to Buckley herself and for the fans who will get to hear it.
Titled BETTY BUCKLEY 1967, it was recorded when she was only 19 with a then-young producer named T Bone Burnett, now a legend as well. As Buckley said, "He had the only studio in town," referring to where they both grew up - in Texas. She recorded it for her boyfriend at the time, and for legendary agent and producer Roger Hess, who was interested in signing Betty after seeing her as a guest performer on the 1967 Miss America Pageant. Betty was Miss Fort Worth, 1966.
Having learned of this recording when Betty Buckley casually mentioned it during a recent interview with PLAYBILL magazine, Playbill Records and Masterworks Broadway are excited to release this newly rediscovered treasure.
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