- Prologue - Theme from City of Angels
- Double Talk
- What You Don't Know About Women
- You Gotta Look Out for Yourself
- The Buddy System
- With Every Breath I Take @@Kay McClelland
- The Tennis Song
- Ev'rybody's Gotta Be Somewhere
- Lost and Found @@Rachel York
- All You Have to Do Is Wait @@Shawn Elliott
- You're Nothing Without Me
- Stay with Me
- You Can Always Count on Me @@Randy Graff
- Alaura's Theme
- It Needs Work
- L.A. Blues
- With Every Breath I Take
- Funny @@Gregg Edelman
- I'm Nothing Without You
- Epilogue - Theme from City of Angels
- Double Talk Walk
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The 1989 Broadway musical City of Angels, with a book by veteran comedy writer Larry Gelbart and songs by another veteran, composer Cy Coleman, and first-time lyricist David Zippel, is a send-up of hard-boiled detective fiction and the Hollywood movies that were made from it in the 1940s, the main characters being Stone (James Naughton), the detective in a Sam Spade/Philip Marlowe mold, and Stine (Gregg Edelman), the novelist in a Dashiell Hammett/Raymond Chandler mold, both of them (and everyone else) wisecracking a mile a minute. A few examples of that snappy dialogue sneak onto the cast album, which is otherwise devoted to the Coleman/Zippel songs, a score very much in keeping with the script. Coleman, who started his career as a jazz pianist in the 1950s, is at home composing music in a post-World War II jazz-pop vein, with elements of swing, bebop, and vocalese. For the last, there is a vocal quartet that sounds an awful lot like the Manhattan Transfer. Of course, Coleman also brings in the style of the soundtracks to the film noirs of the period; in fact, one of his themes is so close to the one for Laura that composer David Raksin is probably owed some royalties. Meanwhile, as a lyricist, Zippel is a Stephen Sondheim wannabe who isn't above borrowing an idea or two from his idol, but also comes up with plenty of his own witticisms, along with some hilariously terrible puns. He has to to keep up with Gelbart's script. The cast, also including Rene Auberjonois (as a studio head), Kay McClelland, Randy Graff, and Dee Hoty, plays broadly, which is what is called for. City of Angels is a lot of fun, and at least some of that fun is transferred to the cast recording.
Product Details
Release Date: | 02/09/1990 |
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Label: | Sony |
UPC: | 0074644606720 |
catalogNumber: | 46067 |
Rank: | 75244 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Shawn Elliott VocalsJames Naughton Vocals
Belinda Whitney-Barratt Concert Mistress
Sy Berger Trombone
John Campo Woodwind
Charles Descarfino Percussion
Glenn Drewes Trumpet
Kenneth Hitchcock Woodwind
Karl Kawahara Violin
Mike Migliore Alto Saxophone
Lee Musiker Piano,Keyboards
Jim Pugh Trombone
Dave Ratajczak Drums
Bob Rose Guitar
Kathy Sommer Keyboards
Bob Steen Woodwind
Byron Stripling Trumpet
Cenovia Cummins Violin
Rene Auberjonois Vocals
Eddie Salkin Woodwind
Mike Miller Synthesizer
Randy Graff Vocals
Dave Rogers Trumpet
Tony Migliore Woodwind
Belinda Whitney Concert Mistress
Dee Hoty Vocals
Scott Waara Vocals
Astrid Schween Cello
Susan Terry Vocals
Jackie Presti Vocals
Keith Perry Vocals
Peter Gordon French Horn
Larry Gelbart Dialogue
Gregg Edelman Vocals
Rachel York Vocals
George Flynn Trombone
Kay McClelland Vocals
Tom Galantich Vocals
Raymond Xifo Vocals
Herschel Sparber Vocals
Evan Thompson Vocals
Jacquey Maltby Vocals
Gordon Lowry Harrell Musical Direction
City of Angels Pit Orchestra Performing Ensemble
Eleanor Glockner Vocals
James Cahill Vocals
James Hindman Vocals
Alvin Lum Vocals
Amy Jane London Vocals
Gary Kahn Vocals
Doug Tompos Vocals
Peter Davis Vocals
Technical Credits
Cy Coleman Composer,ProducerMichael Berniker Producer
Michael Farrow Engineer
Peter Fitzgerald Sound Design
Bernard Fox Sound Design
David Zippel Lyricist
Mike Miller Programming
Marc Kirkeby Liner Notes
Larry Gelbart Book
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