| Milady/Steinman\'s Ninth | |
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Jan 08:15 pm UTC 11/22/11 |
| A couple of months ago I finally got a hold of \'The Confidence Man\' cd that was released in 2003. While reading Ray Errol Fox\'s history of he musical I was astounded by what Ray wrote about the \"world premiere\" at New York\'s Queen\'s College in 1986. \"During a performance, Steinman turned to me to declare that \'Milady\' was a hit song and he was going to seek a major recording of it. He sent it to Clive Davis, who chose it for Bary Manilow\'s next \"big\" record - and chose Jim to produce it. In the studio, the tracks for our elegant thirty-two bar love song ballooned into a nine-minute production. (Jim\'s assistant began referring to it as \"Steinman\'s Ninth.\")Jim told me he thought \'Milady\' was the most beautiful song he\'d written. Clive called me to say he thought it was the next \'Moon River\' and that someday they\'d be singing it at weddings everywhere. Barry briefly sang it in his act, but objecting, quite reasonably, to the leviathan production it had become, never recorded it, and I\'ve yet to hear it at a wedding.\" Nine minute version of \'Milady\'!!! I have never heard about this story before. Clive Davis and Jim working together after the notorious Meat/Jim audition?? I think Clive was right this time: it\'s a beautiful melody and could have became the next \'Moon River\', it\'s a shame that it didn\'t. But back to the nine minute version of \'Milady\'...if Barry never recorded it I would think there\'s at least a some kind of (Rory?) demo of it in some vault... I wanna hear \'Steinman\'s Ninth\'! :) | |
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