Now THAT is cool. I wish they'd kept "Orphan River" in the final production. When I heard that on the workshop recently, (well firstly there's the whole thing about hearing a Jim song for the very first time), I just thought what an amazing thrilling transcendent moment.
> The MTYD workshop was April 1973; Rhinegold at the Mercer
> was June 1973. Fun fact: Even though they sang "Major lead
> us" on stage in the final production of MTYD, it was still
> "Rainbow lead us" in the written score.
>
> > Yes. I definitely hear him too. It would make sense. The
> > workshop for "More than you deserve" was right before the
> > first production of "Rhinegold" at Mercer Arts Centre, if
> > I'm not mistaken, so Meat would have been "around" to
> > record those vocals. "Rainbow" of course later becomes
> > "Song of the city of hope" in the main "More than you
> > deserve", not in the workshop.
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