We Play for Pleasure

we play for pleasure

Track Listings
1. Off If Go
2. Get Back In
3. Coming Back
4. Always Up To Something New
5. Stupid Lies
6. I Won't Pretend
7. In My Mind
8. I Don't Understand At All
9. Believe In You
10. Feed My Dreams

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The 2004 debut album from side project of Hellacopters guitarist Robert Dahlqvist.

We Play for Pleasure,Thunder Express,DeAf & Dumb,Rock,Rock/Pop

We Play for Pleasure
Her First Roman (1993 Studio Cast)
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Take a chance on this incredible score!
  • Failed Broadway musical revived 25 years later.
 Her First Roman (1993 Studio Cast)

Manufacturer: Ducy Lee Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000C2LN
Release Date: 2001-05-29

Tracks:

  1. Opening/What Are We Doing In Egypt? - Mark Miller
  2. Song To The Sphinx - Richard Kiley
  3. Save Me From Caesar! - Leslie Uggams
  4. Many Young Men From Now - Leslie Uggams
  5. When My Back Is To The Wall - Leslie Uggams
  6. Pleasure Him - Leslie Uggams
  7. Her First Roman - Chorus
  8. Magic Carpet - Leslie Uggams
  9. Rome - Mark Miller
  10. The Dangerous Age - Ron Raines
  11. The Things We Think We Are - Ron Raines
  12. Her First Roman: Reprise - Ron Raines
  13. Parable Of The Monkey - Maureen Davis
  14. I Cannot Make Him Jealous / I Can't Help Feeling Jealous - Leslie Uggams
  15. The Wrong Man - Leslie Uggams
  16. Let Me Lead The Way - Brenda Silas-Moore
  17. In Vino Veritas - Ron Raines
  18. I Fell In With Evil Companions - Ron Raines
  19. Just For Today - Leslie Uggams
  20. Finale Ultimo - Ensemble
  21. Song To The Sphinx (Demo Recording) - Ervin Drake

Album Description

25 years after this show debuted on Broadway, the two original stars - Richard Kiley (Man of La Mancha) and Leslie Uggams (Hallelujah, Baby) - join a talented cast of newcomers to record the score! The album also restores the original orchestrations - long thought lost - and recreates the thrilling sound of Broadway shows in the 1960s.

Also featured are Broadway stars Priscilla Lopez (A Chorus Line), Ron Raines (Days of Our Lives) and Brenda Silas-Moore (Freeway Dreams), among others.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Take a chance on this incredible score!.......2004-07-22

I'm glad I did, as it definitely now resides in my top ten favorite Broadway scores. It's an extremely variable score, from wildly comic to powerfully beautiful, and that may have affected the show's run, but it works great on your CD player.
Don't be afraid to change the order of the songs either. I start off with 2,3, then 1, etc. In fact, the only song I didn't end up liking on the entire CD was "Many Young Men From Now".
When I read a review by someone, I'm always curious about other shows they've liked, or didn't like, to see how similar (or dissimilar!) our tastes are. Some scores I've enjoyed include: House of Flowers, Grass Harp, Saratoga, Camelot, Purlie, Dear World, Mata Hari, The Life, Avenue Q and Wicked.
Some I didn't like include Bajour, Subways Are For Sleeping, The Seussical, St. Louie Woman, Applause, Urinetown, Greenwillow, Big River, Sweet Charity and The Golden Apple.

2 out of 5 stars Failed Broadway musical revived 25 years later........1999-06-05

This is a true oddity. HER FIRST ROMAN with book, music and lyrics by Ervin Drake is a show with some promise. The rhyming in some of the lyrics is clever, the premise of adapting Shaw's CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA to the musical stage a beguiling one. But this is amateurish from beginning to end. Not able to make up its mind whether it is drama, comedy or low comedy, it is none of these. Uggams is woefully miscast but Kiley does a wonderful job as Caesar. There are only two songs of merit - MANY YOUNG MEN FROM NOW (which should be in every gay cabaret singer's repertoire) and the rollicking I FELL IN WITH EVIL COMPANIONS. The rest range from mediocre to downright boring. Amazing that the original cast members and the producers liked it well enough to mount a cast album 25 years after the closing. Valuable to Broadway composers/lyricists in showing how NOT to write a show. This would have been ideal material for Lerner and Loewe, but sadly not for Mr. Drake.
We Play for Pleasure
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Dahlquist's Side Project Delivers A Top Notch Performance!
 We Play for Pleasure
Thunder Express
Manufacturer: DeAf & Dumb
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009SQ58E
Release Date: 2005-05-16

Tracks:

  1. Off I Go
  2. Get Back In
  3. Coming Back
  4. Always Up to Something New
  5. Stupid Lies
  6. I Won't Pretend
  7. In My Mind
  8. I Don't Understand at All
  9. Believe in You
  10. Feed My Dreams

Album Description

The 2004 debut album from side project of Hellacopters guitarist Robert Dahlqvist.

Album Details

Robert "Strings" Dahlquist, Guitar Hero and Songwriter from Amazing the Hellacopters, Solodebuts with the Band Thunder Express. During the Hellacopters Year Off, Dahlquist Gathered his Friends Martin Hederos (Piano) and Mattias Bjäred (Guitar) from the Soundtrack of Our Lives and Jesper Karlsson (Drums) from Diamond Dogs and Jens Lagergren (Bass) to Record the Album Debut "we Play for Pleasure". The Self-produced Album was Recorded During the Summer of 2004 and Mixed by Micke Herrstrom."we Play for Pleasure" is High Energy Rock N Roll at Its Best.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Dahlquist's Side Project Delivers A Top Notch Performance!.......2006-04-16

Robert Dahlquist, lead guitarist for the great Hellacopters, shows his songwriting abilities with his band Thunder Express. On their debut album We Play For Pleasure, Dahlquist and co. get down with some inspired, old fashioned, no-frills rock and roll. The band, inspired by all-time greats MC5, Stooges, The Stones and The Faces, really sets out to have both fun and deliver a top notch performance. Thunder Express succeeds and as a result delivers a very satisfying CD. Some highlights are the heavy Stupid Lies, jumping Always Something New and great In My Mind. On their website, Thunder Express states that they are recording a second album, I will be looking forward to hearing it as I'm sure it will be great.
We Play for Pleasure
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		We Play for Pleasure
    Thunder Express
    Manufacturer: Deaf & Dumb Sweden
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000ALM4HQ
    Release Date: 2005-09-13
    Americans In London 1947 - 1951: Original London Cast Recordings From Oklahoma! (1947) / Annie Get Your Gun (1947) / Carousel (1950) / Zip Goes A Million (1951)
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Review of Americans in London
    		 Americans In London 1947 - 1951: Original London Cast Recordings From Oklahoma! (1947) / Annie Get Your Gun (1947) / Carousel (1950) / Zip Goes A Million (1951)
    Oscar Hammerstein II , and Erich Mashwitz
    Manufacturer: Encore
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000001ZRD
    Release Date: 2000-01-01

    Tracks:

    1. Oklahoma!: Oh What A Beautiful Mornin'/The Surrey With The Fringe On Top/Out Of My Dreams
    2. Oklahoma!: Kansas City/I Can't Say No/People Will Say We're In Love
    3. Oklahoma!: The Farmer And The Cowman/Pore Jud Is Daid/It's A Scandal, It's An Outrage
    4. Oklahoma!: Many A New Day/All 'Er Nothin'/Oklahoma!
    5. Annie Get Your Gun: The Girl That I Marry/They Say It's Wonderful/There's No Business Like Show...
    6. Annie Get Your Gun: You Can't Get A Man With A Gun/My Defenses Are Down/I Got Lost In His Arms
    7. Annie Get Your Gun: Moonshine Lullaby/They Say It's Wonderful/Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
    8. Annie Get Your Gun: Who Do You Love, I Hope?/Anything You Can Do/I'm A Bad Bad Man/I Got The Sun...
    9. Carousel: June Is Bustin' Out All Over/Mister Snow/When The Children Are Asleep...
    10. Carousel: If Loved You
    11. Carousel: A Real Nice Clambake/Blow High, Blow Low
    12. Carousel: What's The Use Of Wond'rin/My Little Girl/You'll Never Walk Alone
    13. Zip Goes A Million: Saving Up For Sally
    14. Zip Goes A Million: Ordinary People
    15. Zip Goes A Million: Zipe Goes A Million/Running Away To Land/Zip Goes A Million
    16. Zip Goes A Million: It Takes No Time To Fall In Love
    17. Zip Goes A Million: Nothing Breaks But The Heart
    18. Zip Goes A Million: Pleasure Cruise

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Review of Americans in London.......2006-03-09

    The recording is excellent and replaces my old 78 recordings which I transferred to tape some years ago. But they have that horrible hissing noise which spoils my enjoyment of them.
    It is to be observed that although the cast is American, the orchestras and conductors are British (except for Debroy Sommers). I know qite a bot about Deboy Sommers and Lew Stone, but can anyone fill me in about Reginald Burston?
    The CD is great. Thank you to Amazon for this.
    Were All Stars!
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Were All Stars!

      Manufacturer: Xcalibur, LLC
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000CAKUMQ
      Release Date: 2003-11-18

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