Ethel Merman - Ethel Merman Disco Album
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Artist: Ethel MermanEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2003-01-28
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- There's No Business Like Show Business
- Everything's Coming Up Roses
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Something For The Boys
- Some People
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- I Got Rhythm
- They Say It's Wonderful (Bonus Track)
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Free Music Review: The Gal With The Most , Had A Disco LP To Boast!
Hit: 5 Stars
You gotta luv the 'ol gal for jumping on the disco bandwagon with everyone else in 1979. If Ann Margaret, Cheryl Ladd, Charo, John Travolta, and even Arthur Fiedler could do it, why not the original Broadway Babe herself? I remember seeing her on Johnny Carson in 1979 to promote this LP. She was tickled pink she had just made this album and was carrying on about how wonderful this opportunity was to resurrect her recording career, and that she was already back in the studio cutting more tracks for a second LP, because as she put it- "There are hundreds of showtunes to record!" Wonder where those other trax are today? Perhaps the bonus cut on this cd is actually from those sessions? I loved Ethel and simply feel that she recorded this album in the spirit of fun, and that is how the listener should take it. All the songs were the ones she sang back in the day, and kudos to her for doing them. You couldn't have expected her to do covers of "Love To Love You Baby" or "Knock On Wood". Although, I wonder how she could have handled "Mac Arthur's Park"? I like the fact that her big, booming voice, although sometimes bordering on obnoxious, was in top form for her age then. Perhaps this was a personal statement on her part to let everyone know the 'ol gal can still belt it out better than any other Diva on broadway. Interesting enough, Jennifer Holliday of Dreamgirls fame, once said on the Rosie O'Donnell show that when Dreamgirls became a huge hit on broadway, celebrities like Streisand and Merman came backstage to see her. Streisand gave her praise and advice: "Don't ever lose weight, you'll lose the voice". And Ethel Merman herself dissed Jennifer by telling her all the comparisons that critics were making of Ethel and Jennifer was pure hogwash and how dare they even think to compare Jennifer's voice to hers, why it was an insult! So, who knows.... maybe Ethel recorded this album to let everyone know she still had it and was staking her claim to the title.
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