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For the show collectors who reside here:
Kritzerland is proud to present a new musical theatre album:
BEN BAGLEY’S IRA GERSHWIN REVISITED
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Music by George Gershwin, Vernon Duke, Burton Lane, Arthur Schwartz, Harry Warren, Kurt Weill
Ira Gershwin Revisited was one of the most fun of the Ben Bagley Revisited series. He assembled a great cast and Dick Hyman provided really wonderful arrangements.
Aside from the many classics written with brother George, after George’s sad and untimely death at the age of thirty-eight, Ira went on to collaborate with some other great composers, with much success, including Vernon Duke, Burton Lane, Arthur Schwartz, Harry Warren, and Kurt Weill. Ira’s facility for wordplay and rhyme is absolute genius – his turns of phrases, his titles, the ability to put a smile on your face or bring tears to your eyes or make you laugh out loud was, in a word, dazzling.
For Bagley’s Revisited series, the songs were not the hits, but the lesser known works and sometimes completely unknown works. Ira Gershwin Revisited is loaded with gems. There are several wonderful songs from the 1953 MGM musical film Give a Girl a Break, which starred Debbie Reynolds, Marge and Gower Champion, a young Bob Fosse, and an uncredited George Chakiris. There are songs from George White’s Scandals, The Barkleys of Broadway, A Dangerous Maid, Treasure Hunt, Ziegfeld Follies, The Firebrand of Florence, Where Do We Go from Here, and Park Avenue.
This thoroughly delightful album is loaded with sparkling performances by Blossom Dearie, Mary McCarty, Danny Meehan, Charles Rydell, Ethel Shutta, and Margaret Whiting. For the original CD release, Bagley added a few songs, and those are sung by Dody Goodman, Paula Lawrence, KT Sullivan, and Arthur Siegel. Honestly, who could ask for anything more?
IRA GERSHWIN REVISITED is limited to 500 copies only and priced at $19.98, plus shipping. CDs will ship by the second week of July, but never fear, we’ve actually been averaging three to five weeks early in terms of shipping ahead of the official ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
ATTENTION INDIEGOGO CONTRIBUTORS: IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE THIS RELEASE YOU MUST OPT-IN BY SENDING US AN E-MAIL – SEND TO kritzerland@gmail.com. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO RECEIVE IT, YOU DON”T NEED TO DO ANYTHING. IF YOU ARE NOT AN INDIEGOGO CONTRIBUTOR, ORDER AS YOU NORMALLY WOULD. THANK YOU.
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Folks, I'm here to tell you, this is the re-release of a perfectly wonderful album, and I strongly urge you to grab it if you don't happen to be lucky enough to already own it. To paraphrase Ira's lyric, all that I know is it would be hard to replace!
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Well, Bruce, it looks like now we know who is the lone show collector in residence.
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Well, Bruce, it looks like now we know who is the lone show collector in residence.
I think there might be one or two others. People are slow to expand their horizons, which is a shame. Ever since I was a little boy, I have always gone outside my musical comfort zones and even if I ended up not loving something, I was always happy for the experience and I also discovered many wonderful things that way. I'm no fan of a lot of modern classical music, but amidst the stuff I really don't like, occasionally there will be a jewel, so it's all worth it in the end.
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I'm with you all the way on that philosphy.
BTW, I'd like to put in a plug for Ira's brother here at the Forum, but I don't see that you've had a thread announcing "George Gershwin Revisited."
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I'm with you all the way on that philosphy.
BTW, I'd like to put in a plug for Ira's brother here at the Forum, but I don't see that you've had a thread announcing "George Gershwin Revisited."
I stopped doing threads for the theater stuff, because some folks would use those threads to complain that I wasn't doing a film title.
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People are slow to expand their horizons, which is a shame
I tend to fear expanding them to a point as I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of having to follow/buy a whole extra subset of things....
Well, that's another story 
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People are slow to expand their horizons, which is a shame.
When I scan the horizon, I'm seeing fewer and fewer Kritzerland soundtracks.
Of the last TWENTY-FIVE Kritzerland releases, only FIVE have been movie soundtrack releases.
We used to enjoy getting regular "clews" about what the next film music release would be, but these days we hardly have a clue if any of the next half-dozen releases might be a film score.
Funnily, in years past the show collectors had the same exact complaint. It all evens out in the end and I have learned the hard way never to talk about anything that's in the works, soundtrack-wise.
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Well, anyway, Gang, the album of George's songs is just as great as the album with the songs by his lovely wife Ira!
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Jun 16, 2019 - 10:58 AM
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People are slow to expand their horizons, which is a shame.
When I scan the horizon, I'm seeing fewer and fewer Kritzerland soundtracks.
Of the last TWENTY-FIVE Kritzerland releases, only FIVE have been movie soundtrack releases.
We used to enjoy getting regular "clews" about what the next film music release would be, but these days we hardly have a clue if any of the next half-dozen releases might be a film score.
Funnily, in years past the show collectors had the same exact complaint. It all evens out in the end and I have learned the hard way never to talk about anything that's in the works, soundtrack-wise.
" ..... never to talk about anything that's in the works, soundtrack-wise."
So, we have coming HENRY KING AT FOX, VICTOR YOUNG AT PARAMOUNT VOL. 3, MAX STEINER AT THE HANGING TREE, HUGO FRIEDHOFER AT VERA CRUZ etc.? ...... just kidding Bruce!
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