A tribute album to Adam Schlesinger being released today on Bandcamp includes cover songs by two actors who collaborated with the late songwriter on projects, Rachel Bloom and Sarah Silverman, as w…
Bloom sings Schlesinger’s best known song, the Fountains of Wayne hit “Stacy’s Mom,” in an arrangement that slows down the power-pop charge of the 2003 original and turns it into an unlikely ballad of intergenerational same-sex attraction. The star of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” shared in Schlesinger’s Emmy win in 2019 for a song from the series as well as several previous nominations.
Silverman, with whom Schlesinger had been co-writing the songs for the upcoming stage musical comedy “The Bedwetter,” joins singer-songwriter Ben Lee for a duet of “WayOne of his longtime bandmates in Fountains of Wayne, Jody Porter, makes the choice to honor Schlesinger’s other band, Ivy, with a cover of “Four in the Morning.”
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