Search - Laurie Beechman :: Time Between the Time

A glorious pop confectioneries

groucho | Chapel Hill, NC, USA | 01/20/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The late cabaret and theatre singer Laurie Beechman recorded this album 10 years ago. Unlike her succeeding albums that paid homage to Andrew Lloyd Webber and a select list of uplifting songs of the Great White Way, this album is a mixed bag of pop confectionaries ranging from a stately reading of "It Might Be You", a less melismatic "Home", a heartbreaking "A House is not a Home", a melancholy "The Shining Sea" that later on transmogrified to "The Shadow of Your Smile", and a defiantly ingenuous "The Music That Makes Me Dance". This album has pop sophistry written all over it -- she can give a lesson or two to Mariah Carey about vocal restraint while belting, or jettison a high note with yet another high note and remain musically even all throughout. Too bad, she is no longer with us just like the lamented Nancy Lamott. Beechman released only 4 solo albums but if you can get hold of any of them (my personal favorite is her "No One Is Alone" album), you will wonder why people of talent never really get the recognition they deserve."

You'll never forget this voice

rklaus@a-omega.net | San Antonio, Texas | 02/14/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Laurie was taken from us last March at age 44, leaving behind just a small legacy. But what a legacy it is. She was just breaking through with solid Broadway performances, clubs, recordings. She's like a great Streisand, like a winsome Garland, yet she's like no one else. She can belt out a bravura, sing bel canto, croon in a lower register, yet whisper as tenderly as a mother singing a lullaby. She was tops. Don't pass her by. Those of us who know her music will treasure her always."