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o SNOWBIZ
Release Date: Winter 2006
The Not-So-Happy Holiday Album: 13 Songs and Stories for the Seasonally Depressed. Guest Artists Gloria Steinem, Allison Miller (Natalie Merchant) and Genya Ravan (Goldie & The Gingerbreads) join BETTY. For more, visit CDBaby
Elizabeth Ziff: vocals, rhythm guitar / Amy Ziff: vocals, cello, tambourine / Alyson Palmer: vocals, bass guitar, maracas
Tony Salvatore: guitars / Mino Gori: drums / Mike Thorne: keyboards / Allison Miller: bongos / Genya Ravan: harmonica / Gloria Steinem: hope
Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, by Anthony Ruotolo / Overdubs at the Stereo Society, New York, by James Rosenthal / Mixed at the Stereo Society by Mike Thorne
Producer: Mike Thorne
Song List: "Snowbiz"
1. Snowfolk
2. Space Age Solstice
3. Miracles Can Happen
4. Georgia
5. Itchy Fingers
6. Snowslide
7. Happy Holidays
8. Dreidle Jingle Fiasco
9. Holiday Office Party Blues
10. Lullabye
11. Xmas Ain't Coming
12. Snowjob
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o BETTY RULES
Release Date: 2005
The Original Cast Recording of the smash Off-Broadway hit show. After harmonizing punk, pop, and politics for close to two decades, legendary cult band BETTY joined forces with Michael Greif, the director of "Rent" and "Next to Normal" to create a theatrical production about a band flying just under the radar for 20 years. This is the original cast album of that smash hit show. The album captures BETTY's trademark goosebump-raising harmonies, their infectious music, high-octane personalities and the wild tales from the dark side of fame which came together to compose the most innovative rock show of the Broadway season. "They're HOT! Forget Destiny's Child. These are the real survivors." - Entertainment Weekly
Producers: BETTY and Mike Thorne
Song List: BETTY RULES
1. Ups and Downs
2. Slap Bang
3. Window
4. It Girl
5. I Met Someone
6. Mr. Music
7. I Met Someone - Amy Ziff
8. Put It Off
9. Kissing You
10. I Met Someone - Elizabeth Ziff
11. Jungle Jane
12. Overwhelmed
13. If Only
14. Broken
15. Wave
16. Gravity
17. Noise
18. Happy Holidays
19. Window
20. If I Had It Over to Do
21. Yeah Yeah
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o CARNIVAL
(Stereo Society)
Release Date: 2000
Step right up. Hurry, hurry. Welcome to the rocking roller coaster. Sneak into the freak show as our heroines take you on a musical journey through the lighter and darker side of innocence lost. Three voices and a raucous band combine to recreate musical mayhem on the midway.
Alyson Palmer - bass & vocals
Amy Ziff - cello & vocals
Elizabeth Ziff - guitar & vocals, "Carnival" keyboard
Tony Salvatore - guitars / Keith Carlock - drums & percussion? Mike Thorne - synclavier, synthesizer & piano
Carnival Girls - Georgia McGovern, Francesca Bates, Victoria Santagato / Production Assistance & Additional Engineering - James Rosenthal / Production Coordination - Jeanette Buckley / Recording Engineer - Carl Beatty, TMF Studios, New York / Mixing - Mike Thorne, The Stereo Society, New York / Mastering - Scott Hull, Classic Sound, New York
Producer: Mike Thorne
Song List: Carnival
1. Carnival
2. Millennium Man
3. Jungle Jane
4. Wishing Well
5. Pins and Needles
6. Heartache
7. Carnival Revisited
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o BETTY3
(T.M.F.B. Records)
Release Date: 1999
Deserves to be a classic, By A Custo, San Francisco: "I LOVE this CD. It builds into a crescendo, song by song, and feels almost like a rock opera. Naughty Nadia is my favorite. if you ever get a chance to see BETTY live, do it. They rock… and more."
From the anthemic "It Girl" to the abrupt final chord of "Lucy", this album never lets up. Guest musicians Alison Cornell (Shania Twain) on "Naughty Nadia", Keith Carlock (Steely Dan) on drums and percussion and the ever-melodic Tony Salvatore on guitars create a lush playground for BETTY's rough honey vocals to share their innermost thoughts.
Producers: Alyson Palmer and Elizabeth Ziff
Song List: betty3
1. It Girl
2. Kissing You
3. Perfect Day
4. Dolls and Bennies
5. Hercules
6. Wave
7. Underworld
8. Naughty Nadia
9. Nowheresville
10. Together
11. Greedy
12. You Don't Know
13. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
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o LIMBOLAND
(T.M.F.B. Records)
Release Date: 1995
The album with tv & film soundtrack hits "Flick That Thing" (the theme song to HBO's "Real Sex"),"Atypical Love" (from the Miramax Film "The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love") and the title track, featured in "The Out-of-Towners with Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin, (and cameos by BETTY!). Guest Musician Hook Herrera (Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule) contributes soulful harmonica, while Dave Lisles plays drums. Long-time collaborator Tony Salvatore's first album with BETTY.
Produced by: BETTY
Song List: Limboland
1. Limboland
2. Baby Ooo
3. In Crowd
4. Brave Old World
5. Houdini
6. Windy
7. Freaky
8. Typical Love
9. Flick That Thing
10. Impossibly Blue
11. Heaven
12. Two Cherries
13. Metro
14. Limboland (Pop Remix)
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o HELLO, BETTY
(T.M.F.B. Records)
Release date: 1992
Excerpted from Producer Mike Thorne's Stereo Society Liner Notes about the recording of BETTY's first album:
"BETTY are not a conventional outfit, and a conventional CD with ten tracks would do nothing to exploit their apparently effortless theatrical flair. A big strength of their shows was (and continues to be) melding of song and speech which delivered a vigorous and pointed entertainment. Even though they used drum machines and synthesizers on stage, with the occasional technical pause for thought, the atmosphere was utterly spontaneous. The CD must capture this unusual skill and flow. There's something about the greatest music, even art in general, that feels as if it has just been invented, as if you are presently exploring along with the artist and discovering the same things at the same time.
The eventual CD works pretty much like their live set at the time. The crowd yelling 'Hello BETTY!' at the beginning is from a couple of recordings made in 1991, the crowd went, er, wild. The central recording proceeded pretty much like any other album, one track at a time until we had the basketful. It still sounds completely fresh, even the purely spoken bits. The Man From B.E.T.T.Y. released Hello BETTY! and sold 40,000 CDs on their own label without any major affiliation, with "Ladybug" and "Echo" used on the HBO TV series, "Encyclopedia"."
Producer: Mike Thorne
Song list: Hello BETTY!
1. Hello, Betty
2. Fun Girl {From Funny Girl}
3. Picnic Love Affair
4. Martini Talk
5. First Date
6. Chain Reaction
7. Bicycle
8. Bettycoat Junction
9. Wolfwoman
10. Echo
11. Bar Talk Duets
12. Window
13. Broken
14. Nyu
15. Aftershock (I Vibrate)
16. Go Ahead and Split Mr Amoeba Man
17. Shrinkback
18. D.C. Dog
19. Snake Saga
20. Ms. Snake
21. Mrs. Goldberg's Critique
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