MUSIC released today:

Bobby Conte Thornton: Along the Way
(Broadway Records - new digital album on mp3/at iTunes)
Debut album from Bobby Conte Thornton (A Bronx Tale, Company). "Nature Boy / Blame It on My Youth," "Along the Way," "Time Heals Everything," "Everybody Says Don't," "Me and Mrs. Jones," "How Deep Is the Ocean? / Maybe It's Because I Love You Too Much," "I'm All Over It," "Here, There and Everywhere," "She Loves Me," "Love to Me” "That's Life," "Vienna," "Alice" (bonus track). 10-piece band. Orchestrated by conductor/musician and producer James Sampliner.

Broadway Bounty Hunter digital
(Ghostlight Records - new album on mp3/at iTunes)
Original cast album of score by Joe Iconis. Cast includes Annie Golden, Alan H. Green, Brad Oscar, Emily Borromeo, Shiro Jin; Badia Farha, Jasmine Forsberg, Omar Garibay, Jared Joseph, Christina Sajous. "Woman of a Certain Age," "Spin Those Records ," "Shiro’s Proposition ," "Red ," "Mac Roundtree Theme Song ," "Shiro’s Proposition (Reprise) / Welcome to Ecuador ," "Feelings ," "The Song of Janessa ," "Ain’t No Thing," "Master Shiro’s Bounty Hunters ," "Shiro Vows Revenge," "Little Red Fox ," "Ain’t No Thing (Reprise) ," "The Return of Roundtree ," "Reporter Rap," "Main Theme from 'Young People: The Musical'," "Veins," "Woman of a Certain Age (Reprise)." Album Joe Iconis and Charlie Rosen, and co-produced by Geoffrey Ko and Ian Kagey, with Jennifer Ashley Tepper serving as executive producer. To be released later this season.

John Raitt: Original Album Series
(Stage Door Records - new import album on 2 CDs)
Four of John Raitt's (Carousel, The Pajama Game) original studio albums recorded between 1955-1960: "Highlights Of Broadway," originally released in 1955, which opens with "Soliloquy," recorded a decade after Raitt first originated the song on Broadway, plus a selection of the most popular Broadway standards from the 1940s and '50s, including songs from Finian's Rainbow, Kiss Me, Kate, Kismet and more; Raitt's 1956 Latin inspired offering "Mediterranean Magic" ; the folk-themed collection "Under Open Skies," which includes folk ballads like "Sail Ho!" and "El Bandido," and numbers from Carousel and Paint Your Wagon; and Raitt's 1960 studio album "Songs The Kids Brought Home from Camp," featuring popular and memorable "sing-a-long" camp song favourites. Bonus material includes selections from Raitt's 1969 studio album "Today" and a 1962 recording collaboration with jazz musician Lionel Hampton. Foreword by Bonnie Raitt. Also at StageDoorRecords.com .