ASK BK
Is this the first time your songs have been arranged and orchestrated for a large orchestra?
No, there's Larry's chart for What Do I Do Now? on Shakespeare on Broadway, Mort Lindsay did Was It Really All That Thrilling? from Start at the Top, David Siegel did Chinese Food in Bed (although that's a smaller group) and there's the Nudie Soundtrack (about twenty-five pieces) and the songs from The Creature Wasn't Nice is a forty piece band. Also, Lanny did an amazing chart for a song I wrote for a cable movie called The Execution of Frank Musso. But, yes, it's an amazing thing for me to hear all fifteen of these songs with the big band, as 90% of them have not ever sounded like this. That said, even The Lights and the Smiles sounds so different in Lanny's version - it's just fantastic.