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LIFE HAS BEEN GOOD TO ME – RANDAL KEITH CD REVIEW

Music, per se, is a various and sundry field of entertainment. The crowd I run with goes in for ‘popular’ music, specifically rock, although other forms of ‘popular’ music turn up like blues and even bluegrass. We don’t line dance or learn Italian for the opera though. But there is another genre of music that my friends and I never think of much, although it is as least as popular as blues and jazz together, fan wise, and that is the music of show tunes. Rarely does a show tune crack the charts (but it does happen). The draw to this style of music is the voice of the person singing the song. The songs often vary in range, pitch, and temperament, all in a moment’s note. A voice to sing this style of songs is trained up there with opera singers in preparation. It is this type of voice, a rich, clear baritone voice, that RANDAL KEITH brings to the show tunes and grand old standards backed by full orchestration that he does on this label quality CD. Currently on tour as Jean Valjean, the main chesse in the world's most popular musical, 'Les Miserables, Mr. Randal Keith performs a diverse compilation of Broadway musical songs he has delivered in past shows along with personal favorites. We’re talking songs like: Cole Porter’s ‘All Through The Night’ from Anything goes, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ from South Pacific, and Hoagy Carmichael’s ‘The Nearness Of You’. Also featured are songs from Evita, Faust, JC Superstar, and The Phantom of the Opera. For current info on RK, check out his website www.Randal-Keith.com. – PT ROTHSCHILD