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Something for the Boys
Because Tommy got his start in the record business producing studio cast
albums of old Gershwin shows, one of our goals -- when we started PS
Classics -- was to record vintage musicals that predated the advent of the
OCR. Since 2013, we've been working on our most ambitious restoration and
studio cast recording yet, but it had to take a back seat to Tommy's
health issues for a while. But now we're ready to kick it into high gear
once again, and announce our new 2018 Studio Cast Recording of Cole
Porter's 1943 smash Something for the Boys. It's one of the most forgotten
Porter shows -- it premiered during the famed musicians' union strike of the early '40s, and
none of its songs had the chance to become hits. But it's heavenly:
Porter's love letter to the big-band era that had taken the country by
storm. It swings like no other Porter score, and our time in the studio,
recording these original charts with 26 musicians and a cast of Broadway
pros, has been marvelous fun. Coming December
7, but you can read more and preorder here. Soundclips will be up in about
a week, and we think they'll blow you away.
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Piaf: No Regrets
Our relationship with Christine Andreas goes back 20 years and encompasses
the full range of what we do: solo albums, songbooks and cast albums. So
when she came to us this past summer with an album she had just recorded
-- a celebration of the great French singer Édith Piaf: a perfect pairing
of singer and subject matter -- we jumped at the chance to help her bring
it to completion and release it. Read more >
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Will He Like Me? (a love story)
We mentioned in a note this summer that we'd gotten back to thinking about new projects, after taking time off to deal with Tommy's health issues. Actually, we'd gotten a bit further than that. We've been working on Philip's next solo album since 2013, and this past summer, we went into Power Station and recorded it, with some of our favorite musicians. It's easily one of the most personal works we've ever released – in some ways, it's the culmination of everything we've tried to do with PS Classics. It's a song-cycle that uses 100 years of American popular song to reinvent the Great American Songbook for LGBTQ audiences. It's a gay man's love story, told through 17 classic songs, and it encompasses 35 years of his life, from first date to final goodbye. Read more > |
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