Kay Cole Souvenir
In 1975, A Chorus Line took Broadway by storm and ran a then astonishing fifteen years, at that time the longest running musical in history. Featured in that original brilliant company was a diminutive powerhouse named Kay Cole as Maggie. In the song “At The Ballet,” composer Marvin Hamlisch wrote her one of the greatest money notes in history and when Kay hit it it was like the heavens opened – it was a great Broadway voice of incredible purity and power, but also subtlety and nuance. It’s taken a little over forty years for Kay to do her first solo album. And finally, here it is. Kay Cole – Souvenir is an intensely personal journey through songs that resonate with Kay and that she loves singing. A true collaboration between her, producer Bruce Kimmel, and John Boswell, her amazing musical director, the CD is filled with great songs – some Broadway, some pop, but all wonderfully melodic, funny, touching, and lovingly sung. The voice, the purity, the power, the subtlety, the nuance is all there. There are songs from shows she’s done (Bye Bye Birdie, Best Foot Forward and, of course, A Chorus Line – singing the song that was actually supposed to be sung by her originally but wasn’t), along with an eclectic and great selection of others by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, Carly Simon, Billy Joel, Al Dubin and Harry Warren, and other greats. It’s been a long time coming, but we hope you’ll agree that the wait was worth it.
Kay Cole  (Artist),     Various  (Composer),     John Boswell  (Conductor)    &                   0                  more   Format: Audio CD
{"Manufacturer": "Kritzerland", "Date First Available": "January 9, 2017", "Label": "Kritzerland"}