Instant Broadway Musical Collection - 25 full shows plus notes

This is quite an interesting compilation ? 26 full Broadway musicals complete with artwork and show notes. Some of these are reworked from single show torrents put out by others, so major props to them! There is also a large grab bag of assorted songs from lots of other shows, but in those cases I couldn?t find the entire score. I have maybe another 50 shows on tape or record, but no means of making quality mp3s out of them. One or two shows are missing a song that I just couldn?t find. For other collectors out there like myself, I think we are making this harder on ourselves than it needs to be. The searchable tags need to be much better. Titles should always have something like BROADWAY or STANDUP COMEDY instead of just obscure names or TLAs like ?OBC? (and should NOT be in FLAC format, you rotten *&%$&$!!!!). Put something down in the description field so people have a clue what they are getting and a reason to bother getting it! Anyway, Broadway newbies should like this collection, it has most of the best and the most famous shows ? although I would advise you to avoid everything by Rodgers and Hammerstein ? it?s vomit inducing schlock. For all my fellow Broadway fans, please link to this torrent with any torrents for quality shows I have missed. I really wanted to add some that I just couldn?t find, or were only available on pay torrent sites. Together, we should be able to build a MAJOR Broadway resource. If anybody knows a good way for a technical idiot like me to get old tapes and LPs converted to mp3 without having to buy equipment, please link that too. Lastly, I have a mess of DVDs of Broadway shows performed in front of live audiences that I would love to share, but I don?t know how to rip DVDs, and all the how to manuals I have found online are written in techno geek or require me to buy equipment, so any simple advice for the technically impaired would be greatly appreciated! One last note ? anything you could ever want to know about any show is here: http://www.nodanw.com/list_of_shows_index/titlepage.htm Anything Goes Avenue Q Barnum Camelot Chess - Original Broadway Cast Chess - Original London Cast Fiddler On The Roof A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - 1996 Guys And Dolls - 1992 Hair Hedwig and the Angry Inch Into the Woods Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat Kristin Chenowith collection Les Miz Monty Python's Spamalot My Fair Lady Once Upon a Mattress Phantom of the Opera Ragtime Rent Sweeney Todd 2005 Revival The Little Mermaid - Broadway Cast Recording 2008 The Producers Unsinkable Molly Brown West Side Story Wicked AAA - Assorted songs - incomplete albums 42nd Street - Lullaby Of Broadway.mp3 (5.05 megabyte) A Chorus Line - One.mp3 (4.63 megabyte) Barbara Streisand - Funny Girl - My Man (1).mp3 (2.73 megabyte) Barbara Streisand - Second Hand Rose - Funny Girl.mp3 (2.97 megabyte) Barbershop - Give My Regards to Broadway.mp3 (3.29 megabyte) Barbershop-Shirley Jones, Robert Preston & The Buffalo ~D07.mp3 (3.89 megabyte) Bernadette Peters (Rare) - In A Little While (from Once U~Bd.mp3 (1.99 megabyte) Betty Hutton & Howard Keel - Anything You Can Do.mp3 (2.8 megabyte) Broadway Kids - Les Miz Medley (Les Miserables).mp3 (3.67 megabyte) Broadway Musicals - Gershwin - I Got Rhythm.mp3 (2.06 megabyte) Cabaret - Wilkommen .mp3 (4.13 megabyte) Chicago - All That Jazz.mp3 (3.49 megabyte) Chicago - Cell Block Tango.mp3 (4.29 megabyte) Chorus Line I Can Do That.mp3 (1.07 megabyte) Closing Medley (Do you hear the people sing - One Day More).mp3 (3.49 megabyte) Evita - Don't Cry For Me Argentina.mp3 (2.53 megabyte) Gilbert & Sullivan - A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One.mp3 (1.67 megabyte) Gilbert & Sullivan - Go, Ye Heroes, Go To Glory.mp3 (3.11 megabyte) Gilbert & Sullivan - Maiden Breast.mp3 (3.2 megabyte) Gilbert & Sullivan - Modern Major - General.mp3 (2.2 megabyte) Gilbert & Sullivan - Modern Major - General01.mp3 (2.06 megabyte) Gilbert & Sullivan - Poor Wandering One.mp3 (2.02 megabyte) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - A Sec~510.MP3 (4.6 megabyte) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - Broth~150.MP3 (4.71 megabyte) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - How To....MP3 (1.46 megabyte) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - I Bel~F7E.MP3 (4.63 megabyte) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - The C~9F7.MP3 (3 megabyte) Little Shop Of Horrors - Dentist.mp3 (3.37 megabyte) Little Shop Of Horrors - Intro.mp3 (3.18 megabyte) Little Shop Of Horrors - Skid Row.mp3 (5.82 megabyte) Little Shop Of Horrors - Suddenly Seymore.mp3 (3.15 megabyte) Oliver Twist - I'd Do Anything.mp3 (3.46 megabyte) Oliver Twist - Oom - Pah - Pah (Other).mp3 (3.39 megabyte) Oliver Twist - Where Is Love.mp3 (2.79 megabyte) Oliver! - Who Will Buy.mp3 (4.12 megabyte) Roger Whitaker - Sunrise, Sunset.mp3 (3.02 megabyte) Roger Whittaker - The Impossible Dream.mp3 (1.89 megabyte) Show Tunes - Fiddler On The Roof - If I Were A Rich Man.mp3 (4.47 megabyte) Sweeny Todd - The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd (1).mp3 (2.71 megabyte) The Producers - Keep It Gay.mp3 (2.33 megabyte) You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown - Glee Club Rehearsal.mp3 (1.34 megabyte)

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toasterfraker (2008-03-10)

Thanks...
nothing I don't have already but it's nice to see someone sharing so much in one swoop...
uh... btw, sorry to be a stickler but it's Kristin Chenoweth... not Kristen Chenowith. I know... it's just a pet peeves of mine ;)

toasterfraker (2008-03-10)

btw... I can help with DVD ripping if you like. where can I reach you with an email?

cutieblackbbw (2008-05-02)

Thank You for putting it in separately! I had most of the stuff and only wanted a couple songs, and you made it very easy. Thanks!

rizzalynne (2008-07-05)

hi, what a nice collection. i wish u got Miss Sagon too. i been lookin for it. :) if u got plz share it too... thanks :)

jmlovegrove (2008-07-16)

The "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" here is the movie soundtrack, not the original off-broadway cast recording. Please fix this.

 rambam1776 (2008-07-31)

rizz - Miss saigon is already on TPB, just run a search.
jmlovegrove - Let me see if I got this straight... I spend the better part of a month collecting scores, liner notes and even a couple of hard to find librettos, and your sole comment is to bitch that recording of Hedwig is from the film, not the OBC? I think it's about time we find a phrase in English that is the equivelent of go fuck yourself times ten. Go play in traffic, you ungrateful little shit.

25-2-LYFE (2008-08-11)

Great Collection! Def a bunch here I needed. I may upload some I have, not on this list like Miss Saigon, JC Superstar, and Godspell.
Thanks rambam!!

trina_ben (2008-10-14)

great collection! wow! thankssss!!!

lordquilton (2008-10-25)

Apologies for being off topic, but being a MUSIC lover I am compelled to confront FLAC hate wherever I find it. Did you know with your average mp3 file only 19 percent of the original sound is actually present? It's really not that hard to find codecs to install in WMP (for example) to allow it to play/tag FLAC. Future generations will thank you... :)
from
a rotten *&%$&$!!!!

lordquilton (2008-10-25)

p.s.- I still appreciate your upload, thank you.

fiyero (2008-11-04)

Fantastic Torrent!

 rambam1776 (2008-12-18)

LQ -
FLAC sucks becuase it wastes huge amounts of space on recording sounds BEYOND the ability of the ear to hear. The point of P2P is to spread the info. If someone hears an album here for free that they love, they will then go buy a commercial copy. I have saved thousands sampling albums I thought would be good but turned out to be crap. I have also spent a lot buying commercial copies of stuff I otherwise never would have bought.

skreech (2008-12-28)

FLAC does not "suck."
FLAC lets you store music from CDs in a neutral format with unadulterated sound. A full CD would normally take 650MB, but compressed with FLAC will take about 250MB. The benefits are reduced storage space and no penalty for transcoding.
The fact that it can be played in media players is not the point. It's helpful, but not the point.
lordquilton: You probably shouldn't repeat the comment about 19% of the original sound. So-called audiophiles are experts at fooling themselves. As the saying goes, audiophiles listen to sound, everyone else listens to music. It's an irrational obsession and most love to split hairs where hairs don't even exist, meanwhile they're made fools of with double-blind scientific studies. It's exactly like expensive bottled water, fans of which are also made a joke by double-blind scientific studies. Let me present a better alternative argument for future use:
Consider that for every purpose there is a format, and that format had to be encoded from some base sound file, and if it's not the original then you're daisy-chaining music formats. Who knows where your 128kbit mp3 came from? Maybe it started out as a CD, then someone encoded it into some 320kbit Oggs, and someone took that and transcoded to 192kbit VBS mp3, then took THAT file and re-encoded into its current format. You do this enough and audio artifacts will appear and you will *actually* hear them, rather than pretend to hear them as audiophiles do. As to why, the answer is in math and number theory. Sound quality is not a 1-dimensional continuum with every format and bitrate in its place, it is a path that can branch like a tree and the CD is always the root, and FLAC is its only equal root.
Music formats are not magic, they are algorithms and these algorithms have the potential of interacting strangely with each other to produce weird sounds. Usually, the greatest amount of interaction is interaction with itself.
Having a copy of the music in FLAC resolves all these issues. This doesn't mean 320kbit Oggs suck, or that anything sucks or rules. It just is.

 rambam1776 (2009-01-09)

As much as I wish the comment section here was dedicated to Broadway music instead of technical nonsense, I will reply to this topic one last time.
As far as torrenting and the p2p world goes, FLAC sucks.
A torrented audio track should meet some basic requirements:
1 ? Is the sound adequate? (64 and even 32 seems ok for audiobooks)
2 ? Does it take up little space?
3 ? Will it play on just about anything?
Anything that doesn?t satisfy these requirements is (in MY opinion) crap. Some people out there loved the LORD OF THE RINGS so much that they went out and spent the GDP of Brazil on the leather-bound collector?s set of DVDs, complete with Peter Jackson?s urine sample and a lock of Tolkien?s hair. For most of us, however, three ripped AVI files was perfectly adequate. For whatever splendiferous audio magic that is supposedly conferred by the magic FLAC codec, all I notice is that it won?t play on my MP3 player, the sound difference is negligible to unnoticeable, and it takes up 4-10 times the space of a common MP3 file.
I.E., Therefore, Ergo, Ipso Facto, and Waaaaaaaaah!; - FLAC freaking sucks. Please do not waste any more of *MY* time trying to convince me otherwise. When and if FLAC wipes MP3 off the market, or when OGG works on every player and replaces MP3, I?ll switch. I am looking for ease and consistency of use, I could care LESS what some audio engineer can prove to be true. Maybe Beta WAS better than VHS, but VHS won. It?s the same reason I use a PC and not a Mac ? nothing is available for the Mac.

kev3676 (2009-02-05)

any tottents for your a good man charlie brown? really WANT 1, plz

kev3676 (2009-02-05)

or any sheet music for Broadway

noahveil (2009-02-15)

A complete collection of Sondheim musicals is very much needed. Pacific Overtures and others are impossible to find.

scott_ehm (2009-02-26)

FLAC rules. I can most definitely tell the difference.

kaotik4266 (2009-03-08)

For most music, FLAC is just a waste of space. I find, however, that for big band (concert band, etc.) and orchestral music, it creates a much fuller and more realistic sound that you lose with MP3 and other lossy compressed formats because that music does have so much sound out of the human hearing range that you feel more than hear. Mind you, I wouldn't have my whole music library in FLAC because, as you say, it doesn't play on my MP3 player and would take up way too much space on my hard drive. Call me a heathen, but I find 192kbps to be adequate for most music, especially... well, actually pretty much anything!
On a more on-topic note, thanks for the great compilation and for leaving it split up, since I already have some of these (and they are brilliant! Broadway for the win!)

 rambam1776 (2009-03-18)

kev3676 -
There is a tracker site called makegreatmusic dot net that specializes in sheet music. You might try there.

JeffMilw (2009-04-05)

Thanks for sharing. Saw the request for Sondheim shows, so I just uploaded "Anyone Can Whistle" and will try to get a few more uploaded that I have. Any specific requests?
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4824890

bdc259 (2009-08-03)

Thanks, this is a really excellent upload. Surprised not to see Jekyll and Hyde...And needs moar Urinetown!

Dirtyfyche (2009-11-01)

rambam1776,
I truly appreciate the compilation! Most I had heard of, some I never explored the full soundtracks. Love the Cole Porter! Thanks for capturing generations and the best from the classics and the fringe!

HayleyL (2010-02-07)

I think that this is a great upload. Thank you very much.
Where do you find all of these albums?

diecelinedion (2011-02-11)

Thank you! :)