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Linda Eder's second album was in effect a follow-up to the 1992 studio cast album of composer Frank Wildhorn's The Scarlet Pimpernel, even repeating a track, "I'll Forget You," from that release. Wildhorn co-produced And So Much More with the singer and wrote or co-wrote eight of its 13 tracks. Eder and Wildhorn conceived of her as a personality singer in the tradition of Barbra Streisand (her vocal timbre inescapably recalled Streisand, but so did her phrasing, which meant the similarity was intended), and the songs tended to be lush, dramatic ballads that gave her plenty of opportunity to emote. For a change of pace, Wildhorn threw in a couple of neo-swing exercises. The duo boldly announced their ambitions with their choice of covers, usually standards closely identified with major singers, such as "The Man That Got Away" (Judy Garland), "All the Way" (Frank Sinatra), and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (Art Garfunkel). Eder had the pipes, but not the seasoning, to carry off such appropriations, while Wildhorn's stylized, generic songs, seemingly beamed in from an alternate universe where rock & roll never happened, had only the range, not the distinctiveness, to showcase her effectively. You could see what they were going for; they just didn't quite get it. ~ William Ruhlmann
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Recorded at RPM Studios and River Sound Studio, New York; Mad Hatter, Andora and O'Henry, Los Angeles, California.
Personnel: Jay Berliner (guitar); Ed Maina (woodwinds, saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Ted Nash, Mike Migliore (alto saxophone); Danny Wilensky, Andy Snitzer (tenor saxophone); Chris Botti, Bob Milikan, Tony Kadleck (trumpet); Jim Pugh, Michael Davis (trombone); George Flynn (bass trombone); Jeremy Roberts (piano, tambourine, programming, background vocals); Claude Gaudette (synthesizer, programming); Mark Walker (drums); Scott Frankfurt (programming); Chris Hajian, Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy, Kim Scharnberg (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Jeremy Smith .
Recording information: Andora, L.A., CA; Andora, LA; Mad Hatter, L.A., CA; Mad Hatter, LA; O'Henry, L.A., CA; O'Henry, LA; River Sound, NY; RPM Studios, NY.
Photographer: Bonnie Schiffman.
Arrangers: Claude Gaudette; Tony McAnany; Kim Scharnberg; Jeremy Roberts.
Personnel includes: Linda Eder (vocals); Jay Berliner (guitar); Ed Maina (woodwinds, saxophone); Ted Nash (alto saxophone); Andy Snitzer, Danny Wilensky (tenor saxophone); Tony Kadleck, Bob Milikan, Chris Botti (trumpet); Michael Davis (trombone); George Flynn (bass trombone); Jeremy Roberts (piano, programming, background vocals); Claude Gaudette (synthesizer); David Finck (bass); Mark Walker (drums); Jeremy Smith (tambourine); Claude Gaudette, Scott Frankfurt (programming); Chris Hajian, Mike Davis, Anthony Gilis, Jack Murphy, "Kimtron" Scharnberg, Frank Wildhorn (background vocals).
Engineers include: Mike Krowiak, Brad Aaron, Jay Ryan.
And So Much More Music Review Purchase And So Much More CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Linda Eder It's Time CD (1997)
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Linda Eder's third album demonstrated her growth as a singer; for the first time on one of her records, you could listen through whole songs without being reminded of Barbra Streisand. She remained largely dependent for her material on composer Frank Wildhorn, but at least on this occasion, for the most part, Wildhorn worked on a consistent set of songs with the same lyricist, Jack Murphy; they came up with a varied collection not dominated by generic romantic ballads, though there were a few, especially toward the end. (There were also Wildhorn songs from his musicals Jekyll and Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and The Civil War.) Murphy's words approached wit on occasion, even if Wildhorn's music continued to hew to pre-rock pastiche, so that Eder, swimming in string and horn charts, still seemed caught in a time warp circa 1955, even when she was dropping references to RuPaul and the Internet. And she continued to be arrogant in her choice of covers, this time trying out "Over the Rainbow." Nevertheless, the news here was her development of a distinct vocal identity: finally, you could just say that Linda Eder was a great singer, not that she was a great singer who sounded like... ~ William Ruhlmann
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| | Linda Eder It's No Secret Anymore CD (1999)
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Broadway diva Linda Eder, best known as the damsel-in-distress heroine of Jekyll and Hyde, returns with the new Millennium's equivalent of a '60s Streisand album. Eder's husband, J&H composer Frank Widehorn, wrote all but one of these songs. With the exception of the power-ballad wannabes "Even Now" (from Queen Christina) and "Vienna" and the Latin-tinged "Never Dance" (from Havana), the material is in the pre-rock musical tradition of the show tune. The lyrics have been updated a bit-think Cole Porter with '90s topical references and more sexual frankness. Eder is a powerful ballad singer who also knows how to swing. She's in excellent form here, particularly on the album's finale, the Arlen/Mercer classic "One for My Baby," offered as a tribute to Frank Sinatra.
Ori. Release '99, recorded during her pregnancy and features tracks from the musical " Havana", which her husband/collaborator Frank Wildhorn wrote specifically for her.
Recorded at Right Track Recording, Edison Recording Studio and Sound On Sound, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Jack Murphy.
Personnel: Linda Eder (background vocals); Bernd Shoenhart, Peter Calo, Bernd Schoenhart (guitar); ...
| | Linda Eder Christmas Stays The Same CD (2000)
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Brainerd, Minnesota-raised Linda Eder is presumably no stranger to snow, so she's an ideal candidate to lead this collection of Christmas songs old and new. Her voice is classy and Broadway-oriented, as are most of the arrangements here (stabs of "New York, New York" have been somewhat sacreligiously inserted into the medley of "Here Comes Santa Claus/Santa Claus is Coming to Town"). If you're yearning for the kind of album that the grown-ups used to play to augment the egg-nog and Martinis, then yearn no more.
CHRISTMAS STAYS THE SAME features a couple of originals by the Broadway team of Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy (who penned the immensely successful though hardly Yuletide-friendly JEKYLL AND HYDE musical in which Eder has appeared), including the ...
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