ETHEL MERMAN - The Ethel Merman Disco Album [1979] A&M / LP / FLAC

The idea is, of course, absurd. By the end of the 1970s, everyone, it seemed, was adding a disco beat and trying to cash in on the current -- and temporary -- fad. But Ethel Merman? The seventy or so Broadway diva was 20 years past her last big success on the Great White Way and, you'd have thought, ready for retirement. Yet she agreed to sing some of her best-known songs in disco arrangements by the estimable Peter Matz (the man who, for example, helped Barbra Streisand put together her first albums). The result sounds pretty much like you'd expect. Matz creates fairly typical disco tracks, and Merman sings the way she always does, sounding like she has nothing to do with the background at all. Actually, she sounds good for a 70-year-old, but it doesn't matter. The record is really only good for a laugh, but there's just one joke. by William Ruhlmann
Tracklist
A1  There's No Business Like Show Business 5:45
Words By, Music By – Irving Berlin
A2  Everything's Coming Up Roses 6:26
Music By – Jule Styne
Words By – Stephen Sondheim
A3  I Get A Kick Out Of You 5:59
Words By, Music By – Cole Porter
B1  Something For The Boys 5:15
Backing Vocals [Additional] – Bobby Borelli, George Ferren, John Joyce, Jon Randazzo, Manny Slali, Steve Smith 
Words By, Music By – Cole Porter
B2   Some People 4:47
Music By – Jule Styne
Words By – Stephen Sondheim
B3  Alexander's Ragtime Band  4:24
Words By, Music By – Irving Berlin
B4  I Got Rhythm  5:04
Music By – I. Gershwin
Words By – G. Gershwin
Credits
Bass – Chuck Berghofer, Greg Lee
Contractor [Orchestral] – Joe Soldo
Directed By [Backing Vocals] – Marilyn Jackson, Stephanie Spruill
Drums – Steve Schaeffer
Guitar – Dennis Budimir, Michael Anthony, Mitch Holder
Keyboards – John Berkman, Peter Matz
Percussion – Garyno, Paulinho
Producer, Conductor, Arranged By, Liner Notes, Arranged By [Vocal And Orchestra Arrangements] –Peter Matz
Saxophone, Soloist – Bud Shank, Ernie Watts
Trumpet, Soloist – Warren Luening

ETHEL MERMAN - The Ethel Merman Disco Album

A&M Records 1979 / LP / FLAC/ scans

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