ALW Now and Forever Box Set Question (Sunset Blvd Related)

Posted: 12/4/08 at 9:34pm

I found this box set for VERY cheap (10 bucks) and while i'm not a major fan I couldn't resist.

Anyway in the book and the back of the case it says all the Sunset Blvd clips are the Alan Campbell/Glen Close US recording. That's the one I own but I don't have it here to compare. Hwoever I am CERTAIN that the lady singing The Perfect Year (on disc three) is a better singer than Close, and sounds a LOT like Lupone!

Am I going crazy? I found a download of the first minute of the track on the US album and it definetly is different...

[Byron Abens]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 11:26pm

If the Joe sounds like Alan Campbell it could be one of the Betty Buckley tracks. I do remember that she had recorded a few of the songs, probably just overlaid over Glenn's vocals, and they were selling the CD at the theatre during her run. I don't remember though if Perfect Year was one of the songs.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 11:41pm

Am I missing something? LuPone recorded Sunset Boulevard. Why couldn't it be her?

[Byron Abens]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 11:47pm

In my view, knowing the fall out with Patti and Sunset, it would be a pretty big slap in the face to give Glenn Close credit in the liner notes for a track that was hers. It could indeed be Patti, but if they were using Glenn's tracks, then to me the more logical mistake would have been to accidentally slip one of Betty's in, since they were most likely made using the same orchestral tracks, as well as Alan Campbell's vocals.

Not having heard the track in question, I would think listening to the Joe would provide the answer, as Kevin Anderson (Patti's Joe) and Alan Campbell (Glenn/Betty's Joe) sounded nothing alike.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:12am

The Barns and Noble preview track sounds like Patti to me.

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:47am

I expected it to be Glen like the notes say because of the whole probs they had. But it really doesn't sound like her--i admit the main recording I play is the Canadian cast I saw so I can't even tell which Joe it is, but it doesn't sound like the other Glen tracks--and I mean you can usually tell...

They do use Patti in one Evita track

[musical_devotee]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:57am

It is indeed Patti who sings that track and they credited Glenn Close and Alan Campbell by mistake. It's Patti and Kevin Anderson from the London cast recording.

There is also one other mistake: song 1, CD 2. It says it's sung by El Debarge when in fact it's the version from the original London cast sung by Ray Shell.

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:59am

Thanks! I'm glad I noticed that--I'm usually pretty crap at figuring out who sings what, but Patti and Glen are pretty different. I'm glad her Norma made it to the box set anyway.

[musical_devotee]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 1:14am

Patti is also featured on ALW's latest 60th birthday compilation with 'New Ways to Dream' from Sunset.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 2:35am

I'm sure she's thrilled he's still making money off of her.