Spike Jones (the bandleader) / Spike Jonez (the filmmaker)
Eraserheads (the Filipino band) / Eraserhead (the movie)
Hanson (pop-rock trio of brothers from Tulsa) / Hanson Brothers (punk band from Canada) / Howard Hanson (mid-century American composer and conductor)

Not going to lie, I thought you wrote "Carol Kaye" and thought "awesome."

Carole King. One great career as relatively anonymous Brill Building tunesmith; a second great career as a performer.

"Thobama."

"Thanks, Obama."

I look forward to the day when Peter Serafinowicz gets one of these.

That's not vibraphone; they don't go up that high. It could be glockenspiel, but I think it's probably a celesta.

He'll do what Carson did: stay home with his kids, live off his earnings, and do nothing to tarnish the legacy. This is also known as "pulling a Watterson."

I will conquer the Dance of Reality horizontally. Wait for me here.

It's a really great album too, although most of the songs are "about" the state namechecked in the title only in the remotest sense imaginable.

I tried to Catch Bull By Four but ended up Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy instead.

I stand corrected. I misremembered the line in the notes that came with the DGG recording which say LB was too busy composing to _conduct_ the original production, not to orchestrate it.

I will go look for that.

Can I just say that the above discussion is one of the most thoughtful and illuminating debates I've ever read on the relative merits of R&J and the WSS book. I wish it were on a web page somewhere by itself so that when people google WSS they can get to read it. Seriously. I would totally audit this class.

Eleanor Parker?

The past few months at my house we've been working our way through a bunch of stage musicals on film and video (operas too). These kind of break down roughly into two types: (1) videotaping of a stage production and (2) adaptation for film. Very few of the latter ones "work" as well as the former, and I think it has a…

Looking at you too, Charleton Heston.

Note: Bernstein wrote the music. He did not do the orchestrations, either for the stage (he was busy with other projects) or for the movie.

Actually, in the bonus features of the Bluray, Rita says she had her singing dubbed by someone else as well. I had always been told it was her voice there, but I suppose she would know, right?

And original Sondheim songs.