专辑简介

Kids from Fame专辑介绍：by Sharon MawerThe first Kids From Fame album was an absolute sensation in 1982 spending a total of 12 weeks at no.1 and ending the year as the second best seller of the year (behind Barbra Streisand's Love Songs). Created by Christopher Gore, the weekly TV series based on the Alan Parker film, followed the exploits and adventures of the students and teachers at the New York High School of Performing Arts. Being an hour long weekly series as opposed to a one of two hour film, there was a lot more scope to develop the characters and delve into their personal lives and fans, particularly in the UK, grew to associate and love the individual characters, all of whom were flawed in some way, but all had the same aspirations of millions of ordinary people, to become famous. Each week there was an excuse for the troupe to break into a song (and dance) routine, sometimes organised but sometimes totally spontaneously and usually bringing tears to the eyes of either the parents or teachers or a guest star who happened to be passing and found themselves involved with the school in some way. For copyright reasons, despite being the theme song to the program, the most famous song, Fame originally sung by Irene Cara but sung on the TV show by Erica Gimpel, the new actress playing Coco Hernandez on the series, was not allowed to be on the Kids From Fame album but having a weekly audience of millions, they set out to create their own classics and during 1982 came up with two very different songs as singles, Hi Fidelity, the up-tempo, sing along, dance along happy song with Valerie Lansburg as Doris Schwartz on lead vocals, bouncing along and grinning from ear to ear and Starmarker, the ballad that the kids all took a line each to sing to the drama teacher Mr Crandall on his retirement and the songs on the album ranged between the two extremes of ensemble dance numbers I Can Do Anything Better Than You Can, Life Is A Celebration and Desdemona to solo ballads, I Still Believe in Me, It's Gonna Be A Long Night and Be My Music. The album hasn't aged well but was the perfect soundtrack to the early 1980s, 1982 in particular.