Yazbek CD Features Cut Full Monty Song and Others

By: Jul. 01, 2005
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 David Yazbek's CD, Tape Recorder: Collected Works, will feature some of the versatile composer/lyricist's best songs as well as a never-before-heard recording from The Full Monty; the CD will be released on What Are Records on August 2nd.

"While Yazbek was busy releasing three critically acclaimed pop albums in the late 90's," a press article states, "Broadway's higher ups were quietly watching. They knew of his whipsmart lyrics and bouncy piano driven melodies and tapped him to write the music for the smash Broadway hit, The Full Monty. He was promptly nominated for a Tony. Driven from his success, Yazbek took he bull by the horns and conceived the music for the more recent hit, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which was nominated for another Tony... Collected Works captures the spirit of David's work on the aforementioned hit Broadway musicals, but framed within a modern pop context, think Stephin Merritt meets XTC..David's self deprecation and quick wit is charming and it's in every note, every song, making tracks like 'Schmuck In a Vacuum' and 'Cowgirls Go To Santo Domingo' simply irresistible...It's twisted and intelligent, something pop seems to lack."

Yazbek's first album Laughing Man won the 1997 NAIRD Award for Best Pop Album; TOCK and Damascus are his other albums. Yazbek earned an Emmy for his work with "Late Night With David Letterman," as well as co-creating "Puzzle Place" for PBS and writing the theme song to "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" Yazbek has also scored films and shows for HBO, NBC, Fox, Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel and as a songwriter and/or producer has worked with such artists as XTC, Tito Puente, Ruben Blades, Crash Test Dummies, The Persuasions, Savion Glover and They Might Be Giants.

For more information, visit www.WhatAreRecords.com.

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