Promises, Promises (1968 Original Broadway Cast)

Promises, Promises (1968 Original Broadway Cast)

Promises, Promises (1968 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-04-12
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
  1. Overture
  2. Half As Big As Life
  3. Upstairs
  4. You'll Think of Someone
  5. Our Little Secret
  6. She Likes Basketball
  7. Knowing When To Leave
  8. Wanting Things
  9. Turkey Lurkey Time
  10. A Fact Can Be a Beautiful Thing
  11. Grapes of Roth
  12. Whoever You Are
  13. Where Can You Take a Girl?
  14. Christmas Day
  15. A Young Pretty Girl Like You
  16. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
  17. Promises, Promises

Free Music Notes for Promises, Promises (1968 Original Broadway Cast)

Free Music Review: Wow
Hit: 5 Stars

I love both Burt Bacharach and Law and Order, so when I found this in a dollar bin, it was a no-brainer.

This is not the hippie rock of Hair or Jesus Christ Superstar, nor is it the old school musical work of Rogers and Hammerstien. Bacarach here creates a pop/torch song based on some traditional broadway sounds, but also on bossa nova and light jazz. There is no straight rock here, but the vibrancy of some of the music (She Likes Basketball, When To Leave) is definately informed by rock energy. Rock was flooding all kinds of music in 1968, and in turn, a lot of the songs on Promices Promices would have worked well on Top 40 Radio. The title track did.

Now, I only know Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe, so hearing him sing here is a real treat. He really seems to be having fun with these songs, especially "She Likes Basetball." It is refeshing to see this great actor in a whole other context (not looking over a corpse). His voice is a lot higher than i would have thought--I would have never pegged him as an alto.

Either way, all the music is great--no one except for Jimmy Webb uses chords like Bacharach-- and it is wonderful to hear the 60s opptimism that radiates from a lot of this album. There is a touching nievete' about the way love, relationships and, implicitly, sex, are dealt with in this material. It provides a great contrast to the meaness and spite we see on reality TV today. I'll take the former, any day.

Bacharach fan, Law and Order Fan, or just plain music fan, you gotta hear this.

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