Mike Stoller - Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs Of Leiber And Stoller (1995 Original Broadway Cast)
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Artist: Mike StollerComposer: Jerry Leiber
Composer: Jerry / Spector, Phil Lieber
Conductor: Louis St. Louis
Performer: Adrian Bailey
Performer: B.J. Crosby
Performer: Brenda Braxton
Performer: David Keyes
Performer: DeLee Lively
Performer: Frederick B. Owens
Performer: Ken Ard
Performer: Michael Park
Performer: Pattie Darcy Jones
Performer: Victor Trent Cook
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1995-05-30
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Neighborhood
- Young Blood
- Falling
- Ruby Baby
- Dance With Me
- Neighborhood (Reprise)
- Keep On Rollin'
- Searchin'
- Kansas City
- Trouble
- Love Me/ Don't
- Fools Fall In Love
- Poison Ivy
- Don Juan
- Shoppin' For Clothes
- I Keep Forgettin'
- On Broadway
- D. W. Washburn
- Saved
- Baby, That Is Rock & Roll
- Yakety Yak
- Charlie Brown
- Stay A While
- Pearl's A Singer
- Teach Me How To Shimmy
- You're The Boss
- Loving You
- Treat Me Nice
- Hound Dog
- Little Egypt
- I'm A Woman
- There Goes My Baby
- Love Potion #9
- Some Cats Know
- Jailhouse Rock
- Fools Fall In Love
- Spanish Harlem
- I (Who Have Nothing)
- Neighborhood (Reprise)
- Stand By Me
- Neighborhood (reprise 2)
Free Music Notes for Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs Of Leiber And Stoller (1995 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: Smokey Joe's
Hit: 4 Stars
Love hearing these songs, most in a different style from the hits. The artists are very good. Two criticisms: First, a few have very abrupt cuts at the end, as if part of the song is dropped. Second, the title song is not on the album even through the insert says that it is on disc 2.
Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs Of Leiber And Stoller (1995 Original Broadway Cast) Poster
As good as Pomus and Gordy were, they can't compare with the premier rock & roll songwriters of the pre-Beatles era: Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Chuck Berry, and Percy Mayfield. The team of Leiber (the lyricist) and Stoller (the composer) created such enduring standards as "Kansas City," "Hound Dog," "Stand By Me," "Spanish Harlem," "Jailhouse Rock," and many more. Those songs and 33 more were assembled into a bookless Broadway musical called Smokey Joe's Cafe, which was nominated for eight Tony Awards. If this soundtrack album is any indication, the show was an abomination, an act of self-betrayal by Leiber and Stoller, who not only participated in putting the show together but also co-produced the album with Arif Mardin. Instead of remaining true to the songs' rock & roll roots, the soundtrack producers have allowed the obscure stage performers to commit Broadway's worst sins: excessive earnestness, undernourished rhythms, and bombastic over-singing. Everyone in the cast has a good singing voice, but no one has a distinctive musical personality. Michael Park's Presley parody on "Jailhouse Rock," B.J. Crosby's confusion of vocal power for vocal attitude on "Hound Dog," and Victor Trent Cook's syrupy version of "I (Who Have Nothing)" prove Broadway chorus dancers are no substitute for real rock & roll singers. --Geoffrey HimesPop Music CDs
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