Side A
Artist	Song
Mandy Patinkin	Over the Rainbow
	Coffee in a Cardboard Cup
	The Happy Medley:
	(med): There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
	(med): Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
	(med): Puttin' on the Ritz
	(med): Alexander's Ragtime Band
	(med): Swanee
	(med): My Mammy
	(med): Handful of Keys
	No More
	On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
	Triplets
	Sorry-Grateful
	Being Alive
	Ya Got Trouble (In River City)
	Something's Coming
	Good Thing Going
	Taxi
'Sunday in the Park with George' orig. cast recording	Putting It Together
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
'Follies' concert recording	Buddy's Blues
Mandy Patinkin	If I Loved You
	Bali Ha'i
	Not a Day Goes By
	You've Got to Be Carefully Taught/Children Will Listen
	Rabbi Elimeylekh
	Ten Kopeks/Supercalifragilisticexpialodocious/The Hokey Pokey
	Minute Waltz
	Singin' in the Bathtub
	How Could You Believe Me?
	Johanna
	Green Finch and Linnet Bird
	Pretty Women
	Everybody Says Don't
	Send in the Clowns
	Live, Laugh, Love
	You Could Drive a Person Crazy

Comment:

Here's another one to baffle 98% of AOTM-ers. Maybe you know Mandy from his single (Emmy-winning) season on 'Chicago Hope' or as the campy guy who repeatedly sang 'Over the Rainbow' on Letterman. He combines the most powerful set of pipes in the theatre biz with an almost complete lack of restraint or shame. Comparable to Jolson in this regard, so no surprise he recorded two of Jolson's trademarks on his debut. And yet he is one of the foremost interpreters of Sondheim, witness his bravura Sondheim concert and recording last year, well represented in the last half-dozen tracks here, with more Sondheim scattered throughout. Mandy is over the top, painfully needy emotionally, an acquired taste to be sure. At times a histrionic screamer devastatingly parodied in a 'Rainbow' rewrite titled 'Somewhat Overindulgent,' but the sort of outsized personality and talent who is in such short supply in the theatre today. This comp, made as a gift for my son's piano teacher, represents all his solo records plus a couple cast albums, with perhaps an overreliance on the loud, fast, funny ones. Fasten your seat belts, it's gonna be a bumpy night.

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