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Post by lost_person_no1 on Apr 19, 2004 19:40:05 GMT 11
This is a tad random, but it's really bothering me! I'm hoping someone might be able to shed some light on this. I've been searching the web all afternoon & have come up with nothing.
I recently came across a JCS recording on cassette, which says "First Australian Recording". It's quite odd, there is very little information on the insert. No cast/musician list, details on where it was recorded, etc. It's copyrighted to EMI Australia, but the date is 1972, and according to the RUG website, JCS first opened in Oz in '75.
I had a listen to snippets of the '71 broadway album and the original London concept album (thinking that 'First Australian Recording' meant it was the first one available in Australia), but i'm 99% certain that it's neither. The voices and music seem fairly different, as are the tracks (it has more songs then the broadway recording, but fewer than the concept album). Though, it is hard to tell from 5, 30 second sound bytes on Amazon.com!
So does anyone know anything about it? I can scan & post the cover image, if anyone's interested. (It's an excellent album, by the way!)
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Post by Talissa on Apr 19, 2004 20:18:39 GMT 11
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Post by lost_person_no1 on Apr 19, 2004 21:10:07 GMT 11
Ahhh. Thankyou so much! The date really threw me, and the lack of info on the web! The Really Useful Group's website (and I use the term 'useful' very loosely!) must have the wrong dates. I also contacted the guy I bought it from this afternoon, and though he said it was indeed Australian, he didn't know who was in it or any other information. It's a brilliant recording - probably the best JCS I've heard. I only wish it was a CD, not cassette - I don't want to damage it from overuse! This is the cover (note the absence of useful information!):  |
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Post by Dunks on May 25, 2004 18:29:28 GMT 11
First Australian production premiered May 1972; the soundtrack was recorded in '72 on the MCA label (not sure who distributed it?). Never been reissued on CD, sadly - great recording. The Sydney production director, Jim Sharman, and designer Brian Thompson also created the London and Tokyo productions and both subsequently worked very closely with Richard O'Brien (a shortlived London cast member) on the creation of the Rocky Horror Show. The Aust. cast recording had a purple gatefold cover with the Superstar Angels logo in silver spread across the outer face. Cast included Trevor White, Jon English, Michelle Fawdon (later replaced by Marcia Hines, but Fawdon is on the cast recording), Robin Ramsay and Reg Livermore. More info: www.milesago.com/Stage/superstar.htmCheers Dunks |
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Post by john gribben on Aug 5, 2004 1:46:09 GMT 11
i feel certain that this is the version i have too. i haven't been able to find it on cd anyway, and i have to agree it's the best version of "superstar" i've heard yet. the orchestrations are wonderful, and jon english as judas is just fantastic. no one else compares.
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Post by JM on Sept 7, 2004 3:30:02 GMT 11
As another correspondent wrote, the original Australian cast Album had a purple and silver cover and featured the cast he/she mentioned.
The cover you scanned is, I believe, an early Australian recording but NOT a cast album. This used to happen with some shows, and particulrly with Superstar. I have an early English recording too, which features 'singers from the original recording' but is not, in fact the original concept album. (You can recognise the Judas' voice in one of the smaller roles on the concept album, and the Jesus tries to sing like Gillan, but clearly isn't him).
From memory the early Australian recording you have pre-dated the Aussie cast album, and indeed the Austrlian production, so it must have been done in 1971 or early 72.
I have both recordings, but I live in London now and most of my collection is in Sydney, so I am relying on memory here - may not have all the facts straight.
I remember being told that the Judas from this album expected he would be cast in the Austrlalian production on the strength of this album, only to be pipped by the then unknown Jon English (and rightly so - the best Judas I ever saw live, and one of the very best I have heard).
It's years since I've heard the one you have but if I recall correctly it's pretty good. The genuine original Aussie cast album leaves it for dead though - definitely one of the best ever, both for singers and musicians.
What an anorak I am!
If you're worried about preserving your casssette, get a computer geek friend to put it onto CD for you. Some programmes will even eliminate the tape hiss for you.
Cheers
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Post by calixtah on Sept 9, 2004 23:25:43 GMT 11
Dear JM,
Is there a possibility that you could make a copy of the CD that you have of the Trevor White/Jon English 1972 JCS?
Lost_person_no 1 has graciously agreed to send me a CD of the audiocassete he does have, but just in case it is a studio recording -- and it sounds in all probability like it is -- I am really desperately searching for the "real" 1972 cast recording.
Please e-mail me if you're willing.
Thanks
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Post by calixtah on Sept 18, 2004 4:31:19 GMT 11
Hi y'all, Just to let you know that I am still searching for the 1972 Australian recording of "Jesus Christ Superstar". In any medium: LP, audiocassette, CD, or stone tablet. I really want this badly. Any ideas on even where to look for it? Any good websites for used old vinyl LPs? I live in the States, so I can't travel to Australia if there are some places there. I wish I could. If you help me, I will sell you my first child.  |
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Post by calixtah on Sept 30, 2004 9:30:30 GMT 11
Bump.
Anyone able to help me in tracking down the Australian 1972 JCS recording?
It's so gorgeous. You antipodeans do not get the accolades you deserve, as far as Musical Theatre creations are concerned.
From Hurricane-infested Florida (FOUR this summer to destroy things and people around Tampa Bay, statistically this has never happened before),
Calixtah
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Post by nobooooody on Oct 15, 2004 4:49:33 GMT 11
Hello and bump again. I was posting as calixtah, but for some reason my membership on the board was dropped. Don't know why, maybe it was something I did. Anyway, I had to choose a new user name, I though the name "nobooooody" filled the bill because the board would not accept my old user name. I'm still looking for the 1972 recording of the Aussie 1972 JCS with Trevor White and Jon English. I'll shut up now.  |
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Post by Talissa on Oct 16, 2004 2:05:39 GMT 11
Your old member name has not been deleted. Email me, and I'll see if I can get you back into it, if you like. Otherwise, stay with that name, but if it happens again, let me know so I can try to fix it for you.
~Julia
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Post by coyboy on Jan 15, 2005 4:30:52 GMT 11
To me, the definitive version is the original concept album, recorded before there was even a stage version. Far and away the best.
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