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THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY (SORRY ABOUT THAT), BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON OR BUYING. THANKS FOR LOOKING. FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONS.

NOTE: eBay HAS TAKEN IT UPON THEMSELVES TO REMOVE WHAT THEY CALL “OUTSIDE” LINKS, THESE ARE IN THE HTML DESCRIPTION, AND CAN'T EVEN BE SEEN IN MY ITEM DESCRIPTION, SO FROM NOW ON IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE ITEM &/OR ARTIST LOOK 'EM UP, ON WIKI, OR OTHER SOURCES ETC. (SORRY 'BOUT THAT!)

CLEANING OUT MORE LP'S. SOME FROM THRIFT STORES, SOME FROM MY MUSIC LIBRARY, AND SOME FROM MY RADIO FRIENDS SOLD OR GIVEN TO ME, SOME FROM THE NETWORK I WAS AT.

NOTE: I DO NOT ACCEPT "BEST OFFERS" I WANT EVERYONE TO HAVE A FAIR SHOT AT WHAT I AM SELLING. THANKS! I DO COMBINE SHIPPING!

THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE ACTUAL ITEM FOR SALE, SORRY IF THE PICTURE(S) ARE A BIT BLURRY OR IF THERE'S A LITTLE GLARE.

I HAD A SMALL HEART ATTACK A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND AM SLOWLY LETTING GO OF MY ALBUM COLLECTION, THIS COMES FROM OVER 40 YEARS OF COLLECTING AND ALSO WORKING IN RADIO WHEN STATIONS WERE TRANSITIONING FROM LP's TO CD's.

COMPOSER: STEPHEN SONDHEIM

ARTIST: NOT SURE WHO IS SINGING AND/OR WHO THE INSTRUMENTALIST ARE

TITLE: “COMPANY-A MUSICAL COMEDY”

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS/BELOW:

RECORD LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

CAT.#: MK 1 / XTV 144428

YEAR OF RELEASE: 1970

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX/EX+ CONDITION, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS, SCRATCHES, BLEMS OR FINGERPRINTS. BOTH LABELS IN PERFECT CONDITION. THIS LOOKS AND PLAYS BRAND NEW. LOOKING AT THE VINYL UNDER A BRIGHT LIGHT THERE ARE A COUPLE OF VERY FAINT PAPER SCUFFS ON THE PLAYING SIDE, THESE IN NO WAY AFFECT PLAY, AT LEAST ON MY TURNTABLE. THIS ONLY HAS AUDIO ON THE “A” SIDE, THE OTHER SIDE IS BLANK (SEE PHOTO)

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN NM/NM-. NICE CLEAN ESGES, NO WRITING, BENDS, RIPS ETC. NO SEAM SPLITS. COMES IN A GENERIC LP JACKET

NOT SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD THIS IS A PUBLISHERS DEMO. PRINTED ON THE LABEL IS “HAROLD PRINCE IN ASSOCIATION WITH RUTH MITCHELL PRESENTS COMPANY A MUSICAL COMEDY- MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM”. ALSO YOU CAN HEAR THE SONG “HAPPILY EVER AFTER” ON YOUTUBE (WHICH IS ONE OF THE TWO UNRELEASED SONGS).

NOTE: I WILL NOT TAKE ANY BEST OFFERS, I WANT ALL POTENTIAL BIDDERS TO FEEL FREE TO KNOW THEY COULD WIN THIS RARE PIECE OF SONDHEIM MEMORABILIA, I ALSO AM LISTING A SIMILAR RECORD FOR “FOLLIES”.

ARTIST INFO-

STEPHEN SONDHEIM BIO/INFO-

Stephen Sondheim was born in New York in 1930. He has written the music and lyrics for twelve Broadway musicals and the lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy, and Do I Hear a Waltz?, as well as many other songs. He has composed film scores and has won an Academy Award best original song for “Sooner or Later,” which was sung by Madonna in Dick Tracy. He won the Tony Award and the Drama Critics Circle Award for best score for Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and Passion. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park with George. In 1983 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990 he was appointed the first visiting professor of contemporary theater at Oxford University and, in 1993, was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors for Lifetime Achievement. In 1992 he refused to accept the National Endowment’s Medal of Arts Award because he felt the NEA had been, in his words, “transformed into a conduit and symbol of censorship and repression rather than encouragement and support.” He accepted the award in 1997.

American composer and lyricist for film and stage productions notably 'West Side Story' in 1956, born 22 March 1930 in New York City, New York, USA and died 26 November 2021 in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA.
Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“COMAPANY- A MUSICAL COMEDY” INFO-

... the convention-shattering 1970 musical (revived on Broadway in 1995) that launched composer Sondheim's most fertile period--and his cult. Originally a series of one-act plays about marriage, the musical adds a linking character, Robert, who is the only one without a spouse. In visiting each of a half dozen couples who are his friends, Robert seeks to learn "what do you get" from being married. The answer is far from Hallmark, but visceral. The text includes Furth's witty, cutting dialogue and Sondheim's brilliant lyrics--especially to "Another Hundred People," "Have I Got a Girl for You" and "Being Alive." A portrait of urban angst that is nonetheless hilarious. 

NOTES FROM DISCOGS ON THE VARIOUS CAST ALBUMS-

"Company" is a musical comedy. The original production was nominated for a record-setting fourteen Tony Awards and won six. The musical opened on Broadway on April 26, 1970 at the Alvin Theatre, where it ran for 705 performances and seven previews. Shortly after opening night, Dean Jones withdrew from the show, allegedly due to illness. He was replaced by his understudy Larry Kert.

The Broadway cast album did not include Kert, because it had already been recorded before he assumed the role of Bobby. However, after having Jones' original vocals mixed out of the original Broadway backing tracks, when the cast travelled to London to reprise their roles, Columbia Records took Kert into the studio to record new vocal tracks. This "new" recording featuring the new vocals laid over the original Broadway backing tracks was released as the Original London Cast recording. In 1998, when Sony Music who had acquired the Columbia catalogues, released a newly digitalized CD version of the original Broadway cast recording, Kert's rendition of "Being Alive," the show's final number, was included as a bonus track.

Also available are cast recordings of the 1995 Broadway and London productions and the 2006 Broadway production.
Video recordings are available of the 1995 London and 2006 Broadway revivals.

NOTE: THEY ALSO HAVE A LISTING FOR THIS RECORD-

A1

Company

A2

Someone Is Waiting

A3

Another Hundred People

A4

Sorry Grateful

A5

Happily Ever After

A6

You Could Drive A Person Crazy

A7

Side By Side

A8

Company (Rock Version)

Companies, etc.

Manufactured By – Columbia Records

Credits

Music By, Lyrics By – Stephen Sondheim

Presenter – Harold Prince

Presenter [In Association With] – Ruth Mitchell

Notes

apparently contains 2 songs not on the commercial release

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