Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 32-minute recording of the musical with 19 tracks was issued in the US on Scepter Records in 1971. It was a reissue of the 1969 Decca UK album, capitalising on the success of 1970's "Jesus Christ Superstar" in the US. It featured Daltrey as Joseph, Rice as Pharaoh, William S. Lloyd Webber on the Hammond organ, Alan Doggett conducting, and the Colet Court choir as the chorus. Lloyd Webber and Rice used the popularity of their subsequent musical, the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar", to promote "Joseph", which was advertised in America as a "follow-up" to "Superstar". The rock opera's
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