It's No Secret Anymore

by Linda Eder

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Personnel includes: Linda Eder (vocals); Kim Scharnberg, Jeremy Roberts (conductor); Peter Calo (guitar); Robert Bush (flute); Shelly Woodworth (oboe, English horn); Carl Herman (clarinet); Tom Sescovic (bassoon); Bob Mintzer, Charlie Pillow (saxophone); Randy Brecker, Jim Hynes (trumpet); Birch Johnson, Larry Farrell (trombone); Philip Myers, Bob Carlisle (French horn); Jeremy Roberts (piano, keyboards, programming); David Finck (bass); Mark Walker (drums); Gordon Gottlieb, Steve Kroon (percussion); Will Lee, Russell Velzquez (background vocals).

Recorded at Right Track Recording, Edison Recording Studio and Sound On Sound, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Jack Murphy.

Broadway diva Linda Eder, best known as the damsel-in-distress heroine of Jekyll and Hyde, returns with the new Millennium's equivalent of a '60s Streisand album. Eder's husband, J&H composer Frank Widehorn, wrote all but one of these songs. With the exception of the power-ballad wannabes "Even Now" (from Queen Christina) and "Vienna" and the Latin-tinged "Never Dance" (from Havana), the material is in the pre-rock musical tradition of the show tune. The lyrics have been updated a bit-think Cole Porter with '90s topical references and more sexual frankness. Eder is a powerful ballad singer who also knows how to swing. She's in excellent form here, particularly on the album's finale, the Arlen/Mercer classic "One for My Baby," offered as a tribute to Frank Sinatra.