Laurie Beechman - Listen To My Heart

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1990
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:13
Size: 131,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:20)  1. Listen To My Heart
(3:23)  2. Look To The Rainbow
(4:09)  3. Unexpected Song
(2:12)  4. Everybody Says Don't
(3:01)  5. Since You've Asked
(2:12)  6. I Got Rhythm
(3:27)  7. Sailin' On
(3:47)  8. Anyone Who Had A Heart
(4:04)  9. I Dreamed A Dream
(5:42) 10. Sail Away/Shiver Me Timbers [Medley]
(3:25) 11. Believe It Or Not
(5:07) 12. Memory
(3:25) 13. What I Was Dreamin' Of
(4:53) 14. Here Is The Heart
(4:00) 15. I'll Be Here With You

Broadway star and recording artist Laurie Beechman grew up in the Philadelphia area, the daughter of a singing restaurant owner and a mother who worked in community theater. She studied drama at New York University, but dropped out after two years and remained in New York singing in a rock band. In 1977, she made her Broadway debut in Annie, also making her recording debut on the cast album, and voiced a character in the children's television movie The Fourth King. She appeared in the film version of the Broadway musical Hair in 1979 and was on the soundtrack album. In 1980, her band, Laurie & the Sighs, released a self-titled album on Atlantic Records and toured. She returned to Broadway in Pirates of Penzance in 1981, then got her first substantial role in a Broadway musical playing the part of the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which earned her a Tony Award nomination in 1982. In 1983, she was cast in the role of Grizabella in the first national touring production of Cats, then moved to Broadway in the part, remaining with the show more than for five years. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1989, but managed to continue her career during periods of remission from the disease. In 1990, she took over the role of Fantine in the Broadway production of Les Miserables, playing the part for six months. That November, she released her debut album, Listen to My Heart, on DRG Records. In October 1992, she married Neil Mazzella, a theatrical set builder. She performed in cabaret and in concert, with occasional returns to Broadway and regional theater. She released her second album, Time Between the Time, in 1993, and her third, The Andrew Lloyd Webber Album, on Varèse Sarabande, in 1995. Her fourth and final album, No One Is Alone, a collection of inspirational songs from Broadway musicals, was released in 1996. She died of complications from ovarian cancer in 1998. ~ William Ruhlmann ?https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/laurie-beechman/18312869

Listen To My Heart

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Laurie Beechman - Time Between The Time

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:43
Size: 116,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:32)  1. Another Hundred People
(3:22)  2. It Might Be You
(4:01)  3. Look At That Face
(3:18)  4. A Very Precious Love
(3:33)  5. Long Before I Knew You
(4:14)  6. The Look Of Love
(3:50)  7. A House Is Not A Home
(3:08)  8. I'll Never Stop Loving You
(4:21)  9. The Shining Sea/The Shadow Of Your Smile
(4:22) 10. Soon It's Gonna Rain/Rain Sometimes
(3:12) 11. Music That Makes Me Dance
(3:52) 12. Time Between The Time
(3:41) 13. Never Never Land
(3:11) 14. Home

On her 1990 debut album Listen to My Heart, Laurie Beechman, best known for her roles in Broadway shows like Cats and Les Miserables, predictably performed her songs from those shows along with a selection of other show music. Three years later, her second album, Time Between the Time again chose primarily from theater and film songs, but it had more of a personal character and more of a narrative structure. Recently married, the singer examined romantic love in a contemporary setting, beginning with Stephen Sondheim's "Another Hundred People," about how people find each other, moving on to early infatuation in "It Might Be You" from the film Tootsie, and, by the middle of the album, advancing to songs of full-blown devotion. Later, songs like a medley of "Soon It's Gonna Rain" from The Fantasticks and "Rain Sometimes" detailed difficulties in a long-term relationship, and the title song concerned the specific problem of maintaining a relationship in the entertainment business with its itinerant nature, before "Never Never Land" from Peter Pan and "Home" from The Wiz concluded the cycle by touching on the magical nature of love. Beechman inhabited the narrative with an actress' talent, glowing with new love on "Look at That Face," for example, but restraining her well-known ability to belt until some of the later songs. Often, however, she retained a certain distance from the material, and, just turning 30-years-old, still seemed to be trying to perform the material precisely rather than fully experience the emotions expressed in the songs. Her stage roles had required a high degree of technical efficiency, but little emotional involvement; on her solo albums, she was still feeling her way towards expressing her real feelings in song. But Time Between the Time marked a significant advance in that direction. ~ William Ruhlmann https://www.allmusic.com/album/time-between-the-time-mw0000105854

Personnel: Laurie Beechman (vocals); John Pizzarelli (guitar); Mike Renzi (piano, synthesizer); Jay Leonhart (acoustic & electric basses); Warren Odze, Terry Clarke (drums); Tom Spahn (programming).         

Time Between The Time

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