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The Broadway cast recording of the 1957 musical The Music Man was released as an album by Capitol Records. The original release formats included LP, 4×EP, and reel-to-reel tape. [2] The album spent several weeks at number one on Billboard's Best Selling LPs chart. [5]
The song was originally recorded on a Warner Bros. Pictures soundstage in early 1962 at the same time as the recordings for the soundtrack of the Warner Bros. musical film The Music Man, starring Robert Preston. Recorded on the same three-track 35mm magnetic film as the soundtrack recordings, Preston's vocal is isolated on one track, with the ...
Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and screen actor, best-known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man for which he received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey.The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naïve Midwestern townsfolk, promising to train the members of the new band.
The American online music publication Pitchfork has awarded a perfect score of 10 to more than 50 albums. Most of the scores were given in retrospective reviews of classic albums or reissues . [ 1 ] Artists who have received perfect scores on release include Radiohead , Fiona Apple , Kanye West , Bonnie "Prince" Billy , And You Will Know Us by ...
154 is the third album by the English post-punk band Wire, released in 1979 on EMI imprint Harvest Records in the UK and Europe and Warner Bros. Records in America. Branching out even further from the minimalist punk rock style of their earlier work, 154 is considered a progression of the sounds displayed on Wire's previous album Chairs Missing, with the group experimenting with slower tempos ...
"Shipoopi" is a song in the 1957 musical The Music Man by Meredith Willson. [1] The song is sung by the character of Marcellus Washburn, a friend of con man "Professor" Harold Hill. It occurs in act 2 of the play during the dance committee's rehearsal which the town
The Ideal Copy is the fourth studio album by the English rock group Wire, released in April 1987 by Mute Records.It was the first full-length recording following the band's hiatus of 1980–1985 (The band had also recorded and released the Snakedrill EP in 1986 after reuniting).