Jule Styne in Hollywood

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Composer: Jule Styne
Conductor: Aaron Gandy
Performer: Kelli O'Hara
Performer: Sutton Foster
Performer: Audra McDonald
Performer: Leslie Uggams
Performer: Klea Blackhurst
Performer: Rebecca Luker
Performer: Marin Mazzie
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2006-05-23
Music Label: P.S. Classics
Soundtracks:

Blame My Absent-Minded Heart (Kelli OÂ?Hara)
10,432 Sheep (Audra McDonald)
You Make Me Dream Too Much (Sara Zahn)
Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week (Norm Lewis)
ThereÂ?s Nothing Rougher Than Love (Sutton Foster)
Brooklyn Bridge (Johnny Rodgers)
I DonÂ?t Want to Walk Without You (Leslie Uggams)
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (Philip Chaffin)
Winter Was Warm (Victoria Clark)
ItÂ?s Been a Long, Long Time (Eric Comstock)
The Lady Who DidnÂ?t Believe in Love (The Lascivious Biddies)
That AinÂ?t Hay (Klea Blackhurst)
Academy Awards Medley (Jason Danieley & Marin Mazzie)
Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket (Jeff Harnar)
Time After Time (Brent Barrett)
The Things We Did Last Summer (Rebecca Luker)

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Music Review: Possibly the best release from PS Classics ever
Rating: 5 Stars

Before the Broadway Jule Styne (think Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bells are Ringing, Gypsy among his most sucessful shows),he toiled in Hollywood for years during the late 30's and 40's. Some of his classic movie songs are well known such as I Don't Want to Walk without You and I'll Walk Alone. Others are not so well known. When I was plowing through the 6 disc Sinatra in Hollywood set, I was amazed at the vitality of the songs Jule Styne wrote for Sinatra. As the Amazon reviewer said, Sinatra and Styne were a match made in heaven. But how is this recording and will you like it? Wonderful and Yes you absolutely will!! Kelli O'Hara leads off with a lovely whistful song called Blame My Absent Minded Heart which is lovely. Unfortunately it is followed by Audra McDonald and an unfamiliar number from West Point Story called 10437 Sheep. Once you have heard it, everything else is forgotten. Teriffic performance of a teriffic song. Other highlights include Sutton Foster singing There's Nothing Rougher than Love, Philip Chaffin singing Come Out, Come Out, Wherever you are (with a sly little wink in his voice--Sinatra sang it in Step Lively but this is at least as good probably better), Klea Blackhurst with That Ain't Hay (That's the U.S.A.), Brent Barrett weighing in with the classic Time After Time and jeff Harnar's Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket. Any of the tracks that I have not mentioned would be standouts if only the tracks mentioned weren't so unbelievably wonderful. This CD should be rated with 8 stars!! One of the best CDs I have purchased in a long time, and I purchase a lot. BUY IT!!

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Description of Jule Styne in Hollywood

Jule Styne is best remembered as the composer of such Broadway classics as Gypsy and Funny Girl, but before that, he was one of Hollywood?s most successful songwriters, with an amazing string of hits that garnered ten Academy Award nominations. Jule Styne in Hollywood brings together some of the best artists from Broadway, cabaret and jazz in all-new recordings of Styne's greatest film songs.

Jule Styne in Hollywood gathers 20 different vocalists to perform 21 songs that Styne wrote for the movies before he moved on to Broadway fame. That means no Gypsy or Bells Are Ringing here, but there are many familiar standards such as "Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week," "I Don't Want to Walk Without You," "Three Coins in the Fountain," and "Time After Time" (you'll notice a Frank Sinatra theme, as Ol' Blue Eyes loved Styne's work with Sammy Cahn, who wrote the majority of the lyrics represented). And the unfamiliar fare sounds great when sung by some of Broadway's best and brightest, including Light in the Piazza costars Kelli O'Hara and Victoria Clark, Audra McDonald, Sutton Foster, Rebecca Luker, Brent Barrett, and married duo Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley. (Veteran Leslie Uggams's heavy vibrato among these golden voices takes some adjusting to.) Also noteworthy is the presence of Sara Zahn, whose outstanding 2001 album Songs of Carolyn Leigh proved she's perfect for this sort of material. Another excellent effort by PS Classics' nonprofit archival wing dedicated to the preservation of American song. --David Horiuchi