Brigadoon Original Broadway Cast (1947) Music by Frederick Loewe; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner With David Brooks, Marion Bell, Pamela Britton, Lee Sullivan CD: RCA Victor RCA's first Broadway album, released as a 5-record set of 78s and one of the best of the pre-LP era. The score is severely truncated because of the recording limitations of the time, but it's the one Brigadoon that has the exciting sound you really only hear when a show is a brand new smash. This was Lerner and Loewe's third Broadway production, the one where they fully developed the style that put them on the road to becoming musical theater legends. The biggest popular hit from the show was "Almost Like Being In Love"...
I'm a dream-pop nutcase so I've been listening to this cut from Thank Your Lucky Stars about 5 times an hour this afternoon.
John Adams: I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky - Klaus Simon: Holst Sinfonietta [2005] samples
Head East - Flat As A Pancake (1975) http://www.allmusic.com/album/flat-as-a-pancake-mw0000194446 *A friend of mine loooooved this band. We saw them back in the late 70/early 80s. Another of his favorite bands at the time, April Wine, opened for them. This was their "hit" at the time: *DISCLAIMER: This is from memory. I know I saw Head East and I know I saw April Wine........I think it was at the same show.
And while I'm here time traveling back to the 70s (a band I did not see)... Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (1976) https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/jailbreak-deluxe-edition/id417123459 Pretty solid album for it's time: Jailbreak Boys are Back in Town Cowboy Song ...among others.
The Birds - Chestnut Mare (1969) Not sure why, but I ab-so-lute-ly love this song. It written by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy in 1969 for a planned country rock musical named Gene Tryp. The musical was never staged.
In honor of the 48th Anniversary of the moon landing, the #1 song on that day according to Billboard: EDIT: Was looking around and found this interesting bit of info: The #1 song before this was "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" by Henry Mancini. The #1 song after this was "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones Ahhhh the '60s.