Annie (1977 Original Broadway Cast)
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Free Music Notes for Annie (1977 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: Good, but don't bother with the extras
Hit: 3 Stars
I purchased this for my 5 YO daughter. She loves it. The only complaints we have about the mixing is that the additional commentary (songs?) at the end is painful to listen to and, in my opinion, has no value at all.Free Music Review: Best youth performance!
Hit: 3 Stars
Andrea McArdle debuted the world famous song "Tomorrow." Other good performers and songs make this a top choice!Free Music Review: Good but certainly not great (sadly)
Hit: 2 Stars
My school was considering doing a production of Annie so I randomly chose one of the CD offerings and this one was it. Several reviewers gave it very high marks, so I thought that the few that didn't must have misheard or something. But no...the negatives are unfortunately correct. The numbers featuring just the principals sound fine, even if they aren't digitally remastered (?), and the "bonus" tracks at the end with piano intros, spoken notes, rough takes, etc, are actually quite interesting from a technical standpoint.
But the CHORAL NUMBERS ARE LACKING especially the ones with the orphans. Some of the orphans come out nice and loud a clear but in a few songs (Hard Knock Life, NYC) the occasional line is buried in the background. It's as though they were singing on another track/microphone that was never properly mixed into this recording, as though another mic was picking them up from a distance.
It's quite disconcerting actually to hear nice loud clear voices then suddenly this little voice far away, slightly echoing singing a line that you can't quite hear, then suddenly back to nice and loud.
So I'm afraid for that reason, I can only give it 2 stars. The solos and duets are fine, but the choral numbers need remixing. Now I have to try and find better copies of Hard Knock and NYC among others.
Very sad.
Free Music Review: Shipping
Hit: 2 Stars
Ittook forever to get here. It langusihed in the local PO for a weekFree Music Review: Technicial Blunder
Hit: 1 Stars
I cannot imagine what Sony or their sad, sad technicians were thinking - or NOT thinking when they "remastered" this great musical. I HOPE - and one can only hope - whomever it was that "remastered" this music (and I can't imagine why they would call it re-MASTERED) that they got FIRED afterwards or went back to basic recording school. MASTERING a musical CD means that you check your levels and balance - something they either forgot to do or were too busy talking while they should have been listening to what they were doing. Did Sony imagine they'd be able to sell this on it's own merits...that being an attractive, well known, sell-able music CD of a charming musical - while duping the buying public (sadly ME included) that it would be something worth having for any Broadway music collection?? Well I was most assuredly fooled. Even with my cheap (Sony by the way) 2 track tape deck could have come up with better than this rendition. I just cannot abide that some highly technical "master" of recording equipment couldn't fix this before the thing was committed to a glass cd master to be cut in quantity, offered and distributed as a "remastered" version that SHOULD have been BETTER than the original but sadly isn't even close. I thankfully, still have a cassette tape version of this musical from when it was first released many years ago and prefer that to this impossible display of cd "mastering" I have EVER heard - and I've heard a lot of quality remastered CD's - but this isn't one of them. THE ONLY saving grace of this CD is some of the extras that have been included. But not at full price..if you ask me. Think twice or at least understand at the outset what you're getting....a very poorly "rekindled - NOT remastered" CD that has some singers sounding as if the "technicians" forgot to bring up the volume on those tracks. Pretty sad, pretty sad. Disappointing. Love the musical - HATE the lousy CD.