Name: Sunset Boulevard
Brand: Polydor
SKU: 861655
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Sunset Boulevard

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Album: Sunset Boulevard
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Overture/I Guess It Was 5 A.M.: Overture / I Guess It Was 5 AM
2)	Let's Have Lunch
3)	Car Chase
4)	Surrender
5)	With One Look
6)	Greatest Star of All, The
7)	Every Movie's a Circus
8)	Girl Meets Boy
9)	New Ways to Dream
10)	Ladies Paying, The
11)	Perfect Year, The
12)	This Time Next Year
13)	New Year's Eve
14)	Sunset Boulevard
15)	As If We Never Said
16)	Eternal Youth Id Worth a Little Suffering
17)	Too Much in Love to Care
18)	New Ways to Dream
19)	Final Scene, The

Album: Sunset Boulevard
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Overture/I Guess It Was 5 A.M.: Overture / I Guess It Was 5 AM
2)	Let's Have Lunch
3)	Car Chase
4)	Surrender
5)	With One Look
6)	Greatest Star of All, The
7)	Every Movie's a Circus
8)	Girl Meets Boy
9)	New Ways to Dream
10)	Ladies Paying, The
11)	Perfect Year, The
12)	This Time Next Year
13)	New Year's Eve
14)	Sunset Boulevard
15)	As If We Never Said
16)	Eternal Youth Id Worth a Little Suffering
17)	Too Much in Love to Care
18)	New Ways to Dream
19)	Final Scene, The

Performer Notes

Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics written by Don Black and Christopher Hampton.
Principal cast includes: Glenn Close (Norma Desmond), Alan Campbell, George Hearn, Judy Kuhn.
SUNSET BOULEVARD was nominated for Best Musical Show Album in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.
Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics written by Don Black and Christopher Hampton.
Principal cast includes: Glenn Close (Norma Desmond); Alan Campbell (Joe Gillis); George Hearn (Max Von Mayerling); Judy Kuhn (Betty Schaefer); Alan Oppenheimer (Cecil B. De Mille); Vincent Tumeo (Artie Green).
Producers: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Nigel Wright.
Recorded at Sony Music Scoring Stage and The Record Plant, Los Angeles, California.
Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber .
Lyricists: Don Black ; Christopher Hampton.
Personnel: Rick Podell, Vincent Tumeo, George Hearn, Glenn Close , Peter Slutsker, Alicia Irving, Ed Evanko, Matthew Dickens, Tom Robbins, Judy Kuhn, Alan Campbell , Mark Morales, Amick Byram (vocals); Peter Woodford (guitar); Chris Ermacoff (violin, cello); Eun Mee Ahn, Jean Hugo, David Stenski, Norm Hughes, Charles Everett, Brenton Banks (violin); Helain Wittenberg, Karie Prescott (viola); Heather Lockwood, Larry Hughes, David Hill (woodwinds); Stewart Blumberg (trumpet); Marilyn L. Johnson , Nathan Campbell (French horn); Alan Johnson (bass trombone); Roger Steinman, Steven Cahill, Carol Anderson (keyboards); Don Williams (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Bob Fernandez.
Recording information: Record Plant, LA, CA; Sont Music Scoring Stage; Sony Music Scoring Stage; The Record Planet, Los Angeles, CA; Todd A.O. Scoring Stage.
Photographer: Joan Marcus.
These so-called highlights from Lloyd Webber's musical based on the famous Billy Wilder film indeed lives up to their billing, as the disc frequently achieves soaring heights. The music possesses the sweeping grandeur of Lloyd Webber's finest efforts, while the lyrics of Don Black and Christopher Hampton provide an unexpected bite to the soft, lush arrangements. The singing of Glenn Close (as lead Norma Desmond) tends to be a bit overblown, but such minor flaws are incapable of overshadowing this monumental achievement of Lloyd Webber's. Though not as well known as some of Lloyd Webber's other work, Sunset Boulevard boasts some of his finest songs -- listen to "With One Look," "Girl Meets Boy" and "Too Much in Love to Care" and be convinced. ~ Brian Christopher Egan