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CLEANING OUT MORE LP'S. SOME FROM THRIFT STORES, SOME FROM MY MUSIC LIBRARY, AND SOME FROM MY RADIO FRIENDS SOLD OR GIVEN TO ME, SOME FROM THE NETWORK I WAS AT.

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THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE ACTUAL ITEM FOR SALE, SORRY IF THE PICTURE(S) ARE A BIT BLURRY OR IF THERE'S A LITTLE GLARE.

I HAD A SMALL HEART ATTACK A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND AM SLOWLY LETTING GO OF MY ALBUM COLLECTION, THIS COMES FROM OVER 40 YEARS OF COLLECTING AND ALSO WORKING IN RADIO WHEN STATIONS WERE TRANSITIONING FROM LP's TO CD's.

COMPOSER: STEPHEN SONDHEIM

ARTIST: NOT SURE WHO IS SINGING AND/OR WHO THE INSTRUMENTALIST ARE, POSSIBLY PETER ALLEN AND LIZA MINNELLI..

TITLE: “FOLLIES A NEW MUSICAL”

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS:

RECORD LABEL: NOT SURE, THOUGH THE FINAL SHOW ALBUM WAS RELEASED BY CAPITOL RECORDS.

CAT.#: CRP 1002

YEAR OF RELEASE: 1971

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN NM/MINT- CONDITION, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS, SCRATCHES, BLEMS OR FINGERPRINTS. BOTH LABELS IN PERFECT CONDITION. THIS LOOKS AND PLAYS BRAND NEW. LOOKING AT THE VINYL UNDER A BRIGHT LIGHT IT LOOKS MINT.

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN NM/NM-. NICE CLEAN ESGES, NO WRITING, BENDS, RIPS ETC. NO SEAM SPLITS. COMES IN A GENERIC LP JACKET. ALSO SOMEONE WHO OWEND THIS PRIOR TO ME XEROXED OFF A COPY OF THE ACTUAL “FOLLIES” ALBUM COVER AND SCOTCH TAPED IT ON THE FRONT OF THIS JACKET, I AM SURE SO THEY WOULD KNOW WHICH SHOW WAS ENCLOSED, JUST AN F.Y.I.

NOT SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD THIS IS A PUBLISHERS DEMO. PRINTED ON THE LABEL IS “HAROLD PRINCE IN ASSOCIATION WITH RUTH MITCHELL PRESENTS FOLLIES A NEW MUSICAL- MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM”. ALSO YOU CAN HEAR THIS ON YOUTUBE AS SOMEONE HAS POSTED THE AUDIO. MORE INFO ON THE CASTALBUMS DOT ORG. WEBSITE

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ARTIST INFO-

STEPHEN SONDHEIM BIO/INFO-

Stephen Sondheim was born in New York in 1930. He has written the music and lyrics for twelve Broadway musicals and the lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy, and Do I Hear a Waltz?, as well as many other songs. He has composed film scores and has won an Academy Award best original song for “Sooner or Later,” which was sung by Madonna in Dick Tracy. He won the Tony Award and the Drama Critics Circle Award for best score for Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and Passion. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park with George. In 1983 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990 he was appointed the first visiting professor of contemporary theater at Oxford University and, in 1993, was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors for Lifetime Achievement. In 1992 he refused to accept the National Endowment’s Medal of Arts Award because he felt the NEA had been, in his words, “transformed into a conduit and symbol of censorship and repression rather than encouragement and support.” He accepted the award in 1997.

American composer and lyricist for film and stage productions notably 'West Side Story' in 1956, born 22 March 1930 in New York City, New York, USA and died 26 November 2021 in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA.
Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

"Follies" is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The Broadway production opened on April 4, 1971, directed by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett. The musical was nominated for eleven Tony Awards and won seven. The original production ran for 522 performances. The piece has enjoyed a number of major revivals, and several of its songs have become standards, including "Broadway Baby", "I'm Still Here", "Too Many Mornings", "Could I Leave You?", and "Losing My Mind".

Originally titled The Girls Upstairs, the musical was to be produced by David Merrick and Leland Hayward in late 1967, but the plans ultimately fell through, and Stuart Ostrow became the producer, with Joseph Hardy as director. These plans also did not work out, and finally Harold Prince, who had worked previously with Sondheim, became the producer and director. He had agreed to work on The Girls Upstairs if Sondheim agreed to work on Company; Michael Bennett, the young choreographer of Company, was also brought onto the project. It was Prince who changed the title to Follies; he was "intrigued by the psychology of a reunion of old chorus dancers and loved the play on the word 'follies'"

FROM A DESCRIPTION OF THE DEMO ON YOUTUBE-

Sondheim "Follies" Publisher's Demo "Waiting Around for the Girls Upstairs" Alternate lyrics

Publisher's demo for Sondheim's "Waiting Around for the Girls Upstairs" from "Follies", recorded by two anonymous singers and a prominent banjo. Recorded to hopefully interest pop recordings outside the original cast album, this was perhaps targeted at Mickey Finn and his TV show. At any rate, of most interest are the alternate lyrics in the last section, odd enough to perhaps have been dummy lyrics though usually publisher's demos didn't use them. Unclear if this was recorded before the show was transformed from a murder mystery musical of the same title into its present day incarnation. This has been cleaned and transmogrified.

12 years ago

Those were the lyrics that were in the show for a while in Boston, before the song was shortened slightly and had the lyrics changed to what we're familiar with now. Curious that the song uses them, though- perhaps it was recorded sometime in the 3 years between when The Girls Upstairs was conceptualized and Follies was produced?

ALSO THE FULL AUDIO IS ON YOUTUBE, HERE'S ANOTHER COMMENT-

“Music publisher's demo that was issued to record labels prior to the show's premiere. No performers are credited, but it has been rumored that Liza Minnelli and Peter Allen are the singers of "Losing My Mind."

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