Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good Gawd!
Comment: Just fantastic performances from everyone featured on the CD. Of special note is Gregg Edelman's rendition of "Molasses to Rum" but the best thing about this recording is the level of quality all the singers show. I didn't have an opportunity to see it performed, and this CD shows me just how much I really missed. I bought it because I'm a Brent Spiner fan, and as always he sounds marvelous, but really it sounds like a very strong ensemble effort.
Customer Rating:
Summary: fantastic!
Comment: I like very much this Cd, it is a patriotic musical which creates a special atmospehere...
you seem to enter in a different world and you listen to the splendid performance of this cast which should narrate some historical events of the American independence, but it is so beautiful that you believe to "see" them...
very recommended!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Decent, but the Original Recording Wins
Comment: I find the musicianship on this revival to be very good, but I like the characterizations in the original, 1972 recording better. In particular, Brent Spiner has a much nicer singing voice than William Daniels, but Daniels really sounds like John Adams to me - "obnoxious and disliked" - while Spiner seems somewhat miscast. Also, there's just no way anyone could match the power of Clifford David performing "Molasses to Rum".
But it's ok.
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Summary: From someone who despises American musical theater
Comment: Okay... wow.
In the Brent Spiner Fangirl Legal Contract, it specifies that said fangirl must purchase any and all vocal recordings containing said Brent Spiner (and that she will not, in any way or at any time, mention how much he sounds like Judy Garland on steroids). Which is why I purchased this CD.
He... ripped... into... this... part. That's the only way I can put it. I was floored from start to finish.
The work, as a whole, is something of a consuming thing. Be prepared to sit in silence for a few minutes after you're done with this one, because after hearing the whole thing, silence will be the only followup that does it justice.
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Summary: A Mans Show
Comment: For anyone looking for male songs, or a male show to put on, this is the soundtrack for you. It has great ballads as well as big chorus numbers for the male sex. However the subject matter just didnt grab me by the throat and make me love it. History isnt my thing. That being said, the music and lyrics are great, and worth the money. This is a good one to get if your interested in broadway, but not the Rodgers and Hamerstein style. My favorite songs are "Molasses to Rum" and "Momma Look Sharp."
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