Godspell
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Brand: UnknownEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1990-04-03
Music Label: Arista
Soundtracks:
- Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord
- Save the People
- Day by Day
- Learn Your Lessons Well
- Bless the Lord
- All for the Best
- All Good Gifts
- Light of the World
- Turn Back, O Man
- Alas for You
- by My Side
- We Beseech Thee
- On the Willows
- Finale
- Day by Day (Reprise)
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Free Music Review: classic
Hit: 5 Stars
Godspell was put out in 1971 as a reaction to Jesus Christ Superstar. Where Superstar looks at Christ as a man, Godspell said he was, in fact, the savior.
Well, we are not going to figure this one out here, but just LISTEN to the band on Godspell. These guys are so tight, they take a mix of funk and folk and play it just perfectly. It is actually not funk in the James Brown sense, but more like the program funk you may have heard at the time on, say, Room 222.
The bass playing is pristine, but busy, playing every funky counterrhytm with amazing percision, but equally amazing soul. The singing is excellent--it is too bad all involved did not go out after Godspell had its run and form a band.
When I was a baby, I was amazed by the cover of this, crawling towards that black white and red hippie gaze. When I was a teenager, I was not to crazy about the preaching on this in contrast to Superstar.
At forty, I am more into music than ever, and for singing and playing, you can't do better than this.
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No Description Available.Genre: Original Cast Recordings
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 14-MAR-1991
Jesus was a pretty popular guy in New York in 1971; as the ersatz star of both Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. If Superstar was a little dark, Godspell was positively frothy; and its portrayal of Jesus as a hippie clown was part of its goofy charm. Another part was Stephen Schwartz's nifty score; a little naive and dated, but also as hummable as anything in history. Slap this in the CD player and be transported back in time to an era when kids were all singing "We Beseech Thee," "Prepare Ye the Way of The Lord" and, of course, the cheery "Day by Day." I'm guessing they don't do these in folk mass anymore. --Michael Ruby
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