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Lydia Sabosto, of Top of the Bay Fame, Gives Familiar Songs Unique Twists on New CD
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Lydia Sabosto, who plays keyboard and sings at Top of the Bay restaurant, at the dock in Cherry Grove, on Fire Island, on Thursdays, during the heart of summer, and Saturdays, after the beginning of September, has an engaging new CD out, entitled “A Suitcase of Memories” and filled with melodies, both familiar and rare, to which she lends her warm alto and which she gives inventive and unusual twists in mood and tempo. Assisting Lydia here are drummer and percussionist Wayne Sabosto, Lydia’s brother; guitarist and bassist Ray Sabatello, who co-produced the recording with her; saxophonist Mark Gatz; conga and timbale player Brian Johnson; and vocalist Margaret McMahon, who harmonizes with her in the concluding track.
Lydia starts with a sensitive account of icon Cyndi Lauper and Robert Hyman’s “Time After Time,” before taking us back decades with swinging standards, her romantic “The Way You Look Tonight,” by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, and seamless and rapid-fire pairing of the Gershwins’ “I Got Rhythm”—with the line “I got my man” aptly altered to “I got my girl”—and “Fascinating Rhythm.”
For the children in Lydia’s life, there’s a lilting “House at Pooh Corner,” by Kenny Loggins, of Loggins and Messina fame. She remembers her late special high school friend Faye with a sentimental and sensitive look at “Autumn” in New England, by Dan Hartman, and trips breathlessly through “Spooky,” by Buddy Buie, J.R. Cobb, Mike (Sharpe) Shapiro, and Harry Middlebrooks, Jr., declaring, “Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little girl like you!”
As for Lydia’s valid variations on well-known material, her “I Who Have Nothing,” by Carlos Donida and Giulio “Mogol” Rapetti, with English-language version by Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber, is considerably gentler than the masochistic cri de coeur of the virago that Shirley Bassey, say, made of it, and she offers an uncommonly slow and moody take on “Hold Me, Thrill Me,” by Harry Noble.
Lydia pairs an understated “Cuando Calienta el Sol,” in Spanish, by Carlos and Mario Rigual and Carlos Alberto Martinoli, with a bouncy “Love Me with All of Your Heart,” its English version, with words by Sunny Skylar, and takes us home with her lyrical “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” by Carole King and Gerry Goffin.
Catch up with Lydia on Facebook or on her web site, www.lydiamakesmusic.com.




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