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| Artist : Linda Eder |
| Album : Soundtrack |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
| Label : Verve |
| Year : 2009 |
| Genre : Vocal |
| Rip date : Oct-07-2009 |
| Store date : Oct-13-2009 |
| Size : 47,6 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - I Will Wait For You 03:35 |
| 02 - Accidentally 02:58 |
| 03 - Falling Slowly 03:53 |
| 04 - Against All Odds 03:13 |
| 05 - Charade 02:20 |
| 06 - If I Can't Have You 03:51 |
| 07 - Help 03:25 |
| 08 - I Can't Help Falling In Love 03:48 |
| 09 - Everybody's Talkin 03:13 |
| 10 - Valley Of The Dolls 05:02 |
| 11 - Everything I Do 04:20 |
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| 39:38 min |
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| Linda Eder was perhaps the most popular new interpreter of theatrical |
| songs to emerge during the '90s. A disciple of Barbra Streisand early |
| on, Eder gradually forged her own vocal style, and branched out from |
| show tunes to include pop standards, light swing, and adult contemporary |
| balladry in her repertoire. As a stage actress, Eder worked primarily |
| with her husband, composer Frank Wildhorn, who often designed his |
| material specifically for her (and produced her recordings as well). It |
| was Wildhorn's musical adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde that first |
| catapulted Eder to stardom, and she continued to rely on his pen for a |
| good portion of her recorded output, though her albums of the new |
| millennium increasingly broadened her comfort zone.Eder was born |
| February 3, 1961, in Tucson, AZ, just two months after her parents |
| emigrated to the United States. Her mother was Norwegian, and her father |
| was an Austrian pastry chef who eventually settled the family in the |
| small northern town of Brainerd, MN, where Linda spent the vast majority |
| of her childhood. She was first inspired to try her hand at singing by |
| Judy Garland's performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," and at 16, |
| she won a local beauty pageant in part by performing an original |
| composition. Teaming with pianist Paul Todd, a high-school classmate, |
| Eder began performing locally, making her first professional appearance |
| at the Brainerd Holiday Inn in 1981. After graduation, the two took |
| their nightclub act on the road, playing cabarets, cocktail lounges, and |
| supper clubs around the country as Paul & Linda.Todd and Eder eventually |
| split, and she began working with pianist Jeremy Roberts in his place. |
| In 1988, Eder caught her first big break when she successfully |
| auditioned for the TV talent show Star Search. She went on to win the |
| competition 12 weeks in a row, which brought her to the attention of |
| composer Frank Wildhorn, who had recently co-written Whitney Houston's |
| number one hit "Where Do Broken Hearts Go." Wildhorn had been working on |
| a musical version of Robert Louis Stevenson's legendary Dr. Jekyll/Mr. |
| Hyde story for quite some time, and securing Eder's services gave the |
| project a whole new life. Cast in the role of Lucy, a prostitute and |
| nightclub singer, Eder soon developed a romantic relationship with |
| Wildhorn as well.The first version of Jekyll and Hyde premiered in |
| Houston in 1990, and an album of musical highlights was released the |
| same year in hopes of stimulating interest in the show. In the meantime, |
| Eder recorded her self-titled debut album, which was released by RCA in |
| 1991. The following year, Wildhorn and Eder issued an early version of |
| another musical, The Scarlet Pimpernel, which was initially constructed |
| as a showcase for Eder and her Streisand-style vocal dramatics. The song |
| "You Are My Home," recorded as a duet between Eder and Peabo Bryson, was |
| a minor hit on the adult contemporary charts. Eder's next proper solo |
| album was 1994's And So Much More, on which Wildhorn had a hand in |
| composing the majority of the material. During the same period, Wildhorn |
| began work on a musical adaptation of Svengali, which naturally focused |
| on Eder.Jekyll and Hyde embarked on a national tour in 1994, often to |
| negative reviews and positive box office receipts. In 1995, having |
| become a word-of-mouth hit, Jekyll and Hyde was re-recorded in a more |
| complete form; the following year, Eder embarked on her first national |
| concert tour as a solo artist. In 1997, after undergoing substantial |
| revisions, Jekyll and Hyde finally made its long-awaited Broadway |
| premiere, by which time Eder's cult following had blossomed into full- |
| fledged stardom. She signed to Atlantic Records that year and released |
| It's Time, her most commercially successful album to date, which showed |
| her coming into her own as a distinctive vocal stylist. Wildhorn wrote |
| or co-wrote most of the material again, sprinkling in a few songs from |
| Jekyll and Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and a new work in progress, The |
| Civil War. After a lengthy courtship, Eder and Wildhorn finally married |
| in 1998.Eder's next album, It's No Secret Anymore, was released in 1999, |
| and again concentrated mostly on Wildhorn material, with selections from |
| the musical work-in-progress Havana (another Eder vehicle) and a lullaby |
| for the couple's newborn child. Eder's first holiday album, Christmas |
| Stays the Same, appeared in 2000. She returned in 2002 with Gold, a less |
| traditional, more guitar-based set of contemporary pop that featured |
| covers of songs by the Beatles, Dusty Springfield, Boz Scaggs, and Dobie |
| Gray. Still, Wildhorn material dominated the record, including the |
| well-received title track, which was to be a cornerstone of the new, |
| unfinished musical Camille Claudel. "Gold" also appeared on Eder's |
| follow-up album, 2003's Broadway My Way, an album of show tune standards |
| that backed away from the more contemporary touches of its predecessor. |
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