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Kritzerland is proud to present a new limited edition soundtrack release – a landmark soundtrack to a classic film musical, presented complete for the first time on two CDs for a one-CD price:
STORMY WEATHER
Stormy Weather, Twentieth Century Fox’s lavish 1943 film musical was really a groundbreaking, courageous production. With its all-black cast, and scintillating vaudeville style, the film eschewed plot for song-and-dance extravagance. The list of talent was and is truly mind-boggling: Lena Horne, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Cab Calloway, “Fats” Waller, Ada Brown, Dooley Wilson, The Nicholas Brothers, Babe Wallace, Mae Johnson, Katherine Dunham and her beautiful dance troupe and many others. Critics and audiences alike were stunned and delighted by the sheer parade of non-stop musical excellence. In fact, the film’s brief running time of less than eighty minutes contains over seventy minutes of music. Lena Horne’s ethereal, gorgeous voice lends an unforgettable purity to her renditions of “There’s No Two Ways About Love” and the title song, “Stormy Weather.” The inimitable “Fats” Waller delivers the definitive “Ain’t Misbehavin’” and a superb duet with Ada Brown called “That Ain’t Right.” Cab Calloway sashays and cavorts through “Geechy Joe” and “Jumpin’ Jive.” Bill Robinson bends the mind with his agility at age 65, and Mae Johnson does a great “I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City.”
Stormy Weather was originally released on CD back in 1993 by Arista Records, and has long been out-of-print. That release was not complete, but did contain a few fun bonus tracks. For this new, definitive release, we’ve got it all – all the songs (here full length as recorded, where they were frequently edited in the film), all the incidental music (save for one seven-second bit of scoring for which an overlay couldn’t be found), and in addition to the previously found additional material, we’ve unearthed four more songs that were recorded for but not used in the film. CD 1 contains the complete film soundtrack of around seventy-seven minutes’ duration. CD 2 contains all the bonus material. The sound is excellent mono, and this is an album every serious film score collector will want, and an album that any musical theatre aficionado will need to have, as well as any fan of some of the greatest entertainers show business ever had. We’re releasing this in conjunction with the new Twilight Time Blu-ray of the film, which we recommend highly.
The world will never see the like of these performers or this kind of music again. So celebrate the glory that is Stormy Weather on this great new two-CD set. You’ll be tappin’ your toes and hummin’ along for sure.
Stormy Weather is limited to 1000 copies only and the two-CD set is priced at $19.98, plus shipping. CDs will ship by the second week of April. However, never fear – on average we usually ship two to four weeks ahead of the official ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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Feb 24, 2015 - 11:34 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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Oops. No mention of the composer above, or in the e-mails.
Emil Newman was the musical director.
The score includes quotes from:
"The Darktown Strutters' Ball" by Shelton Brooks
"Margie," music by Con Conrad and J. Russel Robinson
"Ja-Da" by Bob Carleton
"At a Georgia Camp Meeting," music by Kerry Mills
"De Camptown Races" by Stephen Collins Foster.
Songs:
"There's No Two Ways About Love," words by Ted Koehler, music by James P. Johnson and Irving Mills
"Linda Brown," words and music by Alvis Cowens
"That Ain't Right," words and music by Nat King Cole and Irving Mills
"Ain't Misbehavin'," words by Andy Razaf, music by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks
"Diga Diga Doo," words by Dorothy Fields, music by Jimmy McHugh
"I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City," words and music by Leon René and Johnny Lange
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love," words by Dorothy Fields, music by Jimmy McHugh, special lyrics by Eddie Jones
"Geechy Joe," words and music by Cab Calloway, Jack Palmer and Andy Gibson
"Stormy Weather," words by Ted Koehler, music by Harold Arlen
"My, My, Ain't That Somethin'," words and music by Harry Tobias and Pinky Tomlin
"The Jumpin' Jive (Jim Jam Jump)," words and music by Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba and Jack Palmer
"African Dance," words by Langston Hughes, music by Clarence Muse and Connie Bemis.
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Oops. No mention of the composer in the release info, or in the e-mails.
Complete exhaustive credits in the packaging - we didn't think it was necessary to list that stuff in the blurb. That said, there are a couple of original Cyril Mockridge cues.
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Wow.
I've never seen or heard this before, the clips are extraordinary - the sound is remarkably clear and present, inconceivable that it's 70 years old.
I've been listening more and more to early jazz and swing in the past few years, and this sounds just essential. Will be watching the movie finally. Thanks so much for such a tremendous restoration.
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All this, and heaven, too. I was already ecstatic at the original announcement on another thread, but now I'm delighted all over again to learn about the lagniappe of a couple of new Mockridge cues.
One never knows, do one?
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Wow.
I've never seen or heard this before, the clips are extraordinary - the sound is remarkably clear and present, inconceivable that it's 70 years old.
I've been listening more and more to early jazz and swing in the past few years, and this sounds just essential. Will be watching the movie finally. Thanks so much for such a tremendous restoration.
You and those who purchase this are in for something special - this is a whole other kettle of gefilte fish as compares to the long OOP Arista, in both sound and presentation. I've played it non-stop for days and days now. The arrangements, the vocals, the instrumentalists - unparalleled and brilliant, from the kinds of artists who will never be bettered. It is the happiest music - you just smile and it lights up the room. I know there will be many who just won't go there and sadly they just won't discover the glory that is this CD. But, the good news is, it's selling really well.
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The Blu-ray is FANTASTIC!
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Has reverb been added to stereo-ize this or am I hearing an artifact of the MP3 encoder?
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Has reverb been added to stereo-ize this or am I hearing an artifact of the MP3 encoder?
I don't know what you're hearing, but nothing has been added to anything to do anything to anything's anything.
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