Smash is the fourth studio album by French DJ and record producer Martin Solveig, released on 6 June 2011 by Mercury Records. The album's lead single, "Hello" (a collaboration with Canadian band Dragonette), was released on 6 September 2010 and became a worldwide hit, topping the charts in five countries. "Ready 2 Go" was released as the album's second single on 28 March 2011 and features English singer Kele Okereke.
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Smash.
The first season of the American musical drama television series Smash premiered on February 6, 2012 on NBC and concluded on May 12, 2012, consisting of 15 episodes.
Julia Houston (Debra Messing) and Tom Levitt (Christian Borle), a Broadway writing team come up with the idea of a new musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, Bombshell. Producer Eileen Rand (Anjelica Huston), in the midst of divorce proceedings from her philandering husband, jumps on board and brings with her Derek Wills (Jack Davenport), a difficult but brilliant director. Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) is initially cast as Marilyn, but is forced to deal with competition from the talented, yet naive ensemble member Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee). Julia's former lover Michael Swift (Will Chase) is initially cast in the role of Joe DiMaggio. However when Julia and Michael's reunion causes serious trouble in her marriage to Frank (Brian d'Arcy James), the decision is made to fire Michael. The role of Marilyn is recast with film star Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman), leaving Ivy devastated. After a somewhat disastrous out-of-town opening in Boston, Rebecca is felled by a peanut allergy and the actor playing Joe departs the production for a better gig. Derek casts Karen in the role of Marilyn and Michael is reinstated as Joe. Karen discovers Ivy has slept with her fiancé Dev (Raza Jaffrey), while Eileen finds out that her assistant Ellis (Jaime Cepero) was the one who poisoned Rebecca and fires him. Karen gets through her debut and the season ends with the closing number being applauded by the audience.
Pall Mall Groove is an album released by Switch, under the name of Hot Ice. After the White Heat fiasco, the band recorded this album for Bernd Lichters. It was initially released only in Germany, Bernd's home country, in 1977 through Polydor Records. It was eventually released in the US in 1979, now renamed Smash, on the MCA Records-distributed Source label. In 2007, it was released again (still titled Smash) on a limited edition CD through Bernd's own Burndsman Records. This album appeared a year before their Motown debut as Switch. Hot Ice was Gregory Williams, Jody Sims, Phillip Ingram, Bobby DeBarge, Tommy DeBarge, T.C. Brown, Stanley Brown and Arnett Hayes. The album includes a re-recording of "Funk Freak" from the previous White Heat album.
Side One:
Side Two:
Marilyn:
Put down the playbook,
'Cause the things
I wanna show you
Can't be written down...
Let my lips do the teaching.
Joe DiMaggio:
Turn off the camera,
Kick your shoes off—
For this scene
You should be sitting down.
Yeah, sitting close enough for reaching.
Marilyn:
Turn down the lamp,
For the last page
Has been turned.
Joe:
When the dawn's breaking through.
Marilyn:
We can stop and review—
Both:
All the lessons you'll have learned,
'Cause history is made at night,
So close the books,
Turn off the light and listen...
Let my heart be the teacher.
No one here to disapprove,
As we review the lessons
You've been missing...
Let the moon be our only light,
'Cause history is made at night.
Joe:
I see the questions
Burning in your eyes,
Or is it just reflections,
Mmm, of the stars high above you?
Marilyn:
Oh... I'm just your student
And I hope you won't be shy—
Please, make corrections...
Yeah, on the sweetest way to love you.
Joe:
Come whisper close—
Tell me just when to say when.
Marilyn:
Then we'll sleep through the day—
Joe:
Then whenever you say—
Both:
That's when school begins again,
'Cause history is made at night
So close the books,
Turn off the light and listen...
Let my heart be the teacher.
No one here to disapprove,
As we review the lessons
You've been missing...
Let the moon be our only light,
'Cause history is made at night.
Marilyn: [Spoken]
C'mere...
[Sung]
Oh, oh, yes...
Someday they'll write lots of books
About our fame and glory.
Joe:
But if all their reports
Are just movies and sports—
Both:
They'll be missing the whole story!
'Cause history is made at night
So close the books,
Turn off the light and listen...
Let my heart be the teacher.
No one here to disapprove,
As we review the lessons
You've been missing...
Let the moon be our only light,
'Cause history is made at night.