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02/05/2008
MIDDER Music Records, Inc. is very proud to announce 2 new Nancy LaMott releases, now available online!
- CLICK HERE for the latest details, including volume discounts
- Or by in stores beginning February 12, 2008
All inquiries regarding online orders should be directed to customerservice@lmlmusic.com; inquires regarding CDs and DVDs from the Nancy LaMott catalog should be directed to MIDDER2000@aol.com
11/30/2007
MIDDER Music Records, Inc. is very proud to announce 2 new Nancy LaMott releases, scheduled for February, 2008. CLICK HERE for the latest details!
2/7/06
Day Dear Nancy fans,
Sorry it's been SOOO long since I've updated you, but we've moved and moved the record company offices as well and we've been a bit out of commission. Unfortunately, I'm sad to report that there will not be a Nancy LaMott tribute concert in June. The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation who were sponsoring it had a change of management, and numerous projects of theirs went by the wayside including us. However we are hard at work on a script for a Nancy LaMott movie and I will resume mixing the next CD as soon as the studio is up and running. We're also looking to getting started on the DVD's ASAP.
I'll keep you posted.
9/5/05 - Labor Day
Dear Nancy fans,
Sorry there's been such a long gap in news about Nancy, but a combination of my being away all summer and our quietly working on developing several things that needed to take form, have resulted in my waiting until I had something to report.
Here's the latest.
The next CD, a compilation of 20 songs that Jonathan Schwartz plays on the radio, has been pushed back to the Spring. There are several reasons for that. Firstly, because it contains songs recorded from many different sources, live on the radio, live in concert, on demos, it's a much longer process to mix and match them into a CD that will play consistently. Also, I wanted to make sure that things aren't released on right on the heels of each other because I wanted see to it that newspapers and magazines and T.V. would be willing to publicize, and sometimes when things are too close together they're not willing to do another piece on the same subject. Thirdly, we're working on developing a Nancy LaMott movie, the first draft of the script is almost done, and I wanted to time releases so that they could best take advantage of the publicity that might be generated by such a large undertaking as a film. Don't have any sort of dates on that, but I'll keep you posted as we progress.
For Christmas, we're re-releasing Nancy's wonderful Christmas CD. We're also releasing "Just in Time For Christmas" as a single and Len Triola, our radio promoter, is going to get it to 1000 stations around the country. Call your local radio stations and request it. We're hoping that this will become the Nancy LaMott Christmas standard that it should be, so listen for it and call in. The CD of course makes a great Christmas gift so order them in bulk.
In conjunction with the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, we're planning a Nancy 10th anniversary concert at Symphony Space in New York on June 5, 2006. We hope to have theater and cabaret stars singing Nancy's arrangements with Chris Marlowe and a band, and we will be showing a lot of video. My thought is that we will release all 8 DVD's that we are working on in a complete set, available only there and for one month afterward, to give collectors a chance to "have it all" and to raise money for Crohn's & Colitis, a cause very dear to Nancy. We'll keep you posted as to how to get tickets to this event. We'd love a large turnout. Let us know on the message board, or email me at MIDDER2000@aol.com if you're planning to attend or you'd like more information.
We've done well this year for a first year relaunch after an 8 year absence from the stores. We've sold about 26,000 CD's. Although this is amazing for a cabaret artist, we of course would love to sell millions and get Nancy's voice all over the world. Of all the publicity avenues that we have employed, the most powerful one for Nancy has always been, and continues to be you, her fans. Keep your ideas for publicizing Nancy coming, we're always thrilled to have them, and keep telling people you know (and don't know) about her. I've always said "to hear Nancy is to buy Nancy". And as always, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your unending support of this great human being and great artist.
I'll keep you posted.
David Friedman
4/5/05
Jim Bessman wrote a WONDERFUL half page article about Nancy and David Friedman in this week's Billboard Magazine. It really captures the essence of who Nancy was, what she meant in the music world and her relationship with David. The full article is available at our Reviews & Quotes page.
We're also hard at work on "Ask Me Again," Nancy's next CD containing 20 songs that Jonathan Schwartz plays on the radio, with liner notes by Jonathan. Look for it in the Fall. A big article is coming out in the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's national magazine this month.
We're in discussion for all sorts of T.V. and movie things ... documentary, feature film, news magazine story, so we'll see what comes forth. Keep coming to us with your ideas and your thoughts as to how to get Nancy's music out into the world.
3/5/05
Nancy's new CD (Live at Tavern on the Green) just got a fantastic review in Billboard. The full article is available at our Reviews & Quotes page.
2/21/05
The new Nancy CD "Nancy LaMott Live" is finally in the stores and the reviews have been great. Check out the reviews on this website, especially Terry Teachout's wonderful article in the Wall Street Journal and Andrew Gans' piece in Playbill on Line. We didn't realize that the Wall Street Journal has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the country, but the results of that article certainly proved that out. Within 6 hours we went from #300 on Amazon.com (which in itself is pretty good) to number 4!!! We also went to #2 in Tower.
Jonathan Schwartz is leading the way, playing the CD constantly. There is also a new promo on WNYC where if you donate $150.00 to the station you get a free Nancy CD as well as a free Sinatra CD.
When we put the CD together, Rupert Holmes was so excited to have his song "The People That You Never Get To Love" on the CD that he designated that all his royalties be donated to a charity we thought Nancy would have wanted to support. It was an extraordinary gesture of generosity, and he even got his publisher, Warner Brothers, to throw in their portion of the royalties. We decided to go with the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America because Crohn's had such an effect on Nancy. Crohn's is a little-known auto-immune bowel disease and Nancy was one of the few people who openly spoke out about dealing with it. For this reason they are going to be writing about her in their magazine and promoting her through their website. Hopefully this will create a new fan-base for Nancy as well as increasing the awareness and visibility for this disease.
We're also planning a concert in the Fall where cabaret artists get together and perform Nancy's material. This would benefit the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation and would probably take place in an 800 seat venue to be announced.
We're hard at work on the next CD. It will be called "Ask Me Again" and will contain the 20 songs that Jonathan Schwartz plays that are not currently available on CD. It should be gorgeous. We're also figuring out which DVD's to put out first and exploring ways to promote Nancy on TV through movies and documentary.
Of all the promotional things we've done over the years for Nancy, the one that has always worked the best was the personal devotion and support of her fans, who one by one or group by group spread the word. Please keep up your wonderful work in getting Nancy's name out there, and write to us with any ideas you might have about how we can better get her gorgeous voice further out into the world.
I'll keep you updated,
David Friedman
Nancy LaMott CD's Are Back!
MIDDER Music Records is
thrilled to announce the release of a brand new Nancy LaMott CD,
“Nancy LaMott - Live at Tavern on the
Green,” the first new Nancy LaMott release in 8 years.
Recorded live at Nancy’s last engagement at Tavern on the Green, just seven weeks before her untimely death, this CD is filled with radiant, joyful, gorgeously sung performances, as well as charming, funny, often-touching patter.
Featuring some of your favorite Nancy LaMott standards plus many songs you’ve never heard her sing on CD before, this CD captures, for all time, the magic that was Nancy Live.
CD's will be available in stores on February 1, (Just in Time For Valentine's Day) but are available on line now!
Press Release ...
MIDDER MUSIC TO REISSUE THE LATE NANCY LAMOTT’S CATALOGUE PLUS NEW LIVE CD RECORDED AT TAVERN ON THE GREEN
An Early Valentine To Arrive in Stores on
February 1
As the 10th anniversary of her untimely death at age 43 approaches, New York-based MIDDER Music begins a celebration of the life and work of the late cabaret singer Nancy LaMott by re-issuing her catalogue of recordings and releasing her first new CD in eight years. Arriving in stores on February 1, in time for Valentine’s Day, will be six of LaMott’s studio recordings plus the new NANCY LAMOTT – LIVE AT TAVERN ON THE GREEN, a monumental collection of both favorites and rarities recorded live just seven weeks before she died.
Nancy LaMott was poised for international recognition when she succumbed to cancer in 1995. Her producer David Friedman, who launched MIDDER as a home for LaMott’s recordings, has lovingly compiled the new live CD from recordings made of her last nightclub engagement, which opened on October 27, 1995. He has selected songs long associated with LaMott as well as several that she never previously recorded in the studio and has intercut the charming, intercuttng the engaging patter for which she was well known.
Backing LaMott on the live CD are her long-time arranger and musical director Christopher Marlowe on piano, Steve LaSpina on bass and John Redsecker on drums. Included on the CD are LaMott "standards," among them Irving Berlin’s "I Got the Sun in the Morning" and "How Deep is the Ocean," James Taylor’s "Secret O’Life," "The Promise (I’ll Never Say Goodbye)," written by David Shire and Marilyn and Alan Bergman, and two David Friedman classics, "Help is On the Way" and her signature "Listen to My Heart." Songs on this new CD that she never previously recorded are Rupert Holmes’ "The People That You Never Get To Love," Dean Pitchford and Alan Mencken’s "Sailin' On," the Harry Warren-Johnny Mercer classic, "Jeepers Creepers," Antonio Carlos Joabim’s "Waters of March" and Rodgers and Hart’s "I Didn't Know What Time It Was."
The CDs set for re-release, all produced by Friedman, are LaMott’s recording debut BEAUTIFUL BABY (1991), COME RAIN OR COME SHINE: THE SONGS OF JOHNNY MERCER (1992), MY FOOLISH HEART (1993), her breakthrough LISTEN TO MY HEART (1995), for which Barbra Streisand’s orchestrator Peter Matz came on board to co-produce with a full orchestra and WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT GOODBYE?(1996), the bittersweet collection that Friedman released a year after her death. Her holiday recording, "Just in Time for Christmas," will be re-released later in the year.
All of these MIDDER Music releases are being distributed by LML Music via Allegro Distribution.