Original Broadway Cast - Dreamgirls (Special Edition)
Artist.......: Original Broadway Cast
Title........: Dreamgirls (Special Edition)
Label........: Universal
Release.Type.: Album
Genre........: Soundtrack
Source.......: CDDA
Encoder......: LAME v3.90.3 --alt-preset standard
Quality......: 197 kbps avg
Mode.........: Joint Stereo
Grabber......: CDTag 2.23
Street.Date..: 2006-11-21
Rip.Date.....: 2006-12-02
Year.........: 2006
Tracks.......: 30
Playtime.....: 1h 30min total
Size.........: 127.87 MB
Catalog......:
URL..........: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=185904&ts
Disc 1/2
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01. Move (You're Stepping On My Heart 1:56
02. Fake Your Way To The Top 2:28
03. Cadillac Car 3:33
04. Steppin' To The Bad Side 3:45
05. Family 3:18
06. Dreamgirls 3:14
07. Press Conference 1:40
08. Driving Down The Strip 1:00
09. It's All Over 3:51
10. And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going 4:06
11. Ain't No Party 2:07
12. When I First Saw You 2:42
13. I Am Changing 4:01
14. I Meant You No Harm 1:02
15. The Rap 1:55
16. Firing Of Jimmy 2:37
17. I Miss You Old Friend 1:33
18. One Night Only 3:40
19. Hard To Say Goodbye, My Love 3:34
20. Dreamgirls Finale 1:16
Disc 2/2
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01. Cadilla Car (Instrumental) 3:36
02. Steppin' To The Bad Side (Instrumental) 3:10
03. Family (Instrumental) 3:21
04. Dreamgirls (Instrumental) 3:18
05. And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (Instrumental) 4:07
06. When I First Saw You (Instrumental) 2:45
07. I Am Changing (Instrumental) 4:06
08. One Night Only (Instrumental) 3:39
09. Hard To Say Goodbye, My Love (Instrumental) 3:39
10. And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (Craig C. Club Mix) 5:22
Comments
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Special Edition of the Original Broadway Cast Album of Dreamgirls the upcoming
movie starring Eddie Murphy, Beyonce & Jamie Fox. Disc 1 is the remastered
original soundtrack and disc 2 is a collection of instrumentals for
"sing-a-long" plus a dance song to end it to dance too :)
Go sing and dance bitches and if you like this cd please buy it...I did!!
This December, 25 years after opening on Broadway, "Dreamgirls" premieres on the
silver screen. For fans of the original stage production as well as a new
generation of fans sparked by the movie, the two-CD "Dreamgirls - Original
Broadway Cast Album: Special Edition" (Decca Broadway/UMe), to be released
November 21, 2006, is a treasure. One disc features a newly remastered version
of the original album plus three previously unreleased cast recordings. The
second disc includes previously unreleased original instrumentals (recorded for
live TV appearances by the cast) of nine of the show's highlights -- perfect for
karaoke nights -- and a newly commissioned Craig C. dance remix of the show's
biggest hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going."
The three previously unreleased recordings include "Dreamgirls (Finale),"
"Driving Down The Strip" and "It's All Over," the dramatic lead-in to "And I Am
Telling You..." Also included in the package is a fabulous booklet with a
reproduction of the original LP's color gatefold, the original LP liner notes, a
personal introduction from the show composer Henry Krieger and, for the first
time ever, a reprint of the full lyrics.
"Dreamgirls" is the rags-to-riches story of a black all-girl singing trio from
Chicago called The Dreams who experience much heartache but also find their
dreams come true -- a story that partly echoed that of the real-life Supremes.
With music by Krieger and book by Tom Eyen, the Michael Bennett-directed musical
starred Jennifer Holliday, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Ben Harney,
Cleavant Derricks, and Obba Babatunde. "Dreamgirls" opened December 20, 1981, at
Broadway's Imperial Theatre and ran for nearly four years (1,522 performances).
It was nominated for 13 Tony Awards, including for Best Musical, and won six,
including for Best Book of a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical (Harney), Best
Actress in a Musical (Holliday), and Best Featured Actor in a Musical
(Derricks).
"Dreamgirls - Original Broadway Cast Album," produced by David Foster (Celine
Dion, Barbara Streisand, Josh Groban), was released in 1982 and reached #11 on
the Pop chart and #4 R&B, making it the highest charting musical since "Hair" 13
years earlier. The album, which eventually went gold, also spun off the first
Top 40 hit from a musical in many years: Holliday's earth-shaking rendition of
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," which charted #22 Pop and #1 R&B. Another
Holliday song, "I Am Changing," peaked in the R&B Top 30 while the Harney-Ralph
duet "When I First Saw You" made the R&B Top 50. "Dreamgirls - Original Broadway
Cast Album" won the GRAMMY« for Best Musical Show Album and earned two Grammys
for Holliday, for Best Female R&B Vocal and Best New Artist.
Now more of the much-beloved musical is once again back on record