America Sings!

On this CD:

1. Three Psalms
Composed by Diane Thome
Performed by Jeffrey Francis
Conducted by Joan Catoni Conlon

2. Mourning Madrigals
Composed by Joelle Wallach
Performed by Frederick Urrey

3. Greek Maxims (12) for voice & piano
Composed by Gregoria Karides Suchy
Performed by Donald St Pierre

4. Gilgamesh
Composed by George Belden

5. Herstory II
Composed by Elizabeth Vercoe
Performed by Boston Musica Viva, Elsa Charlston, Randall Hodgkinson
Conducted by Richard Pittman

America Sings!, Music, George Belden, Gregoria Karides Suchy, Diane Thome, Elizabeth Vercoe, Joelle Wallach, Joan Catoni Conlon, Richard Pittman, Boston Musica Viva, André Tarantiles, Naomi Kato, Donald St Pierre, Randall Hodgkinson, Elsa Charlston, Frederick Urrey, Jeffrey Francis, 20th/21st Century Music for Voice and Keyboard, Choral, Classical, Madrigal, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Psalm Setting, Unknown Genre/Unspecified Instrumentation, Vocal

Jones Sings Haggard, Haggard Sings Jones: Kickin' Out the Footlights... Again
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DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME !!!!!!!!

im suprised .

Good Ol' Boys being Good Ol' Boys

Outstanding idea, well executed!!

Velvet Voices

Jones Sings Haggard, Haggard Sings Jones: Kickin' Out the Footlights... Again
George Jones , and Merle Haggard
Manufacturer: Bandit Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000HIVQ7Q
Release Date: 2006-10-24

Tracks:

Footlights
The Race Is On
The Way I Am
She Thinks I Still Care
All My Friends Are Strangers
Things Have Gone To Press
I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
Born With The Blues
Sick, Sober & Sorry
I Always Get Lucky With You
Sing Me Back Home
The Window Above
You Take Me For Granted
Don't Get Around Much Anymore

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Nearly 25 years after their last album together (1982's A Taste of Yesterday's Wine), the Possum and the Hag reunite... with a twist. This time, they sing each other's songs. The conceit can be dangerous unless you're playing it for laughs, e.g., Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley on the former's 1960 television special. But though Jones puts more emotion into interpreting Haggard's songs than Hag reciprocates, these two old legends manage to pull it off. And with the help of producer Keith Stegall (Alan Jackson), they keep the music solid, too, spotlighting steel guitar great Norm Hamlet and celebrated piano sideman Pigg Robbins, who played on many of their original recordings. Jones particularly shines on "The Way I Am," and Haggard proves sublime on "I Always Get Lucky with You." Where the album really lights up, however, is on the duo's pocketful of duets, starting with a poignant and intensely resonant rendition of Haggard's classic aging-musician ballad, "Footlights." Surprisingly, the repertoire never seems tired, and there's a surprise around every corner: Rhonda Vincent adding splendid harmonies on Haggard's new "Born to the Blues" and Jones turning transcendent on a confessional line about being "crazy and lonely." Just as these ragged masters take their leave, they put a little more Western in Duke Ellington's swing ("Don't Get Around Much Anymore"), filling in the middle with a warm, nostalgic banter that reminds listeners just how much these two have seen and done. Who knew hard-luck autobiography could sound so exquisite? --Alanna Nash

Album Description

On this disc the two country music icons take turns singing the other's hit songs. On four songs they team up on duets. The end result is an historic recording enhanced with stellar production by Keith Stegall and an all-star band.

Customer Reviews:

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME !!!!!!!!.......2007-06-29

Don't get me wrong! I didn't mean don't waste your time listenning to this album because it is not good. I just want to tell all of you to run out and get this piece of gem right now, by all mean neccessary. There's no need to read the reviews....just believe me.

im suprised ........2007-06-21

as i heard this album i was taken back . For in recent yrs jones voice has sounded like he has a renewed spark . LIKE A DANCER with a new step. i seen him in concert last yr and oh my he sounded wonderful . and never missed a note . just awesomwe . And merle on the other hand has lost a step . BUT WITH THAT BEING SAID merle missing a step is still better then most artist on tour now on thier best day . WITH only 4 people with many yrs under thier belts still doing what they do so well left touring . JONES .MERLE .WILLIE . AND HANK JR . i WAS thinking MERLE CANT DO GEORGE JONES songs .As no one can sing jones songs . AS WAYLON SANG .(WRONG ) YES I ADMIT i was wrong . merle was great on this outing . george on the other hand was very good . So the one i thought would be the stronger of the two was not . Now im not saying mr jones was lost on this album . But merle was the merle of old . But jones can sing anything so he got away with being different on this album .Like getting in the ring with a great fighter known for his right hook . SO YOU WATCH out for that right hook . and get knocked out with the left . HOPE they tour together this yr.

Good Ol' Boys being Good Ol' Boys.......2007-03-18

Sometimes two mixing two great talents togeter dilutes the result. Not in this case. Here, 1+1 is very much more than 2. Quite simply this is brilliant, blissful stuff. Outstanding.

Outstanding idea, well executed!!.......2007-01-19

One of my favorite albums ever. I've already bought several more as gifts!

Velvet Voices.......2007-01-18

I LOVE this CD. Merle's voice is pure velvet and George Jones is totally himself - the rich deep voice of yesterday. They make a great team. I hope they do another one!

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Otis!
****3/4. One of the all-time classic soul records
Oddly overrated classic soul LP
Best soul album ever.
Not even a compilation, just great

Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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Release Date: 1991-06-11

Tracks:

Ole Man Trouble
Respect
A Change Is Gonna Come
Down In The Valley
I've Been Loving You Too Long
Shake
My Girl
Wonderful World
Rock Me Baby
Satisfaction
You Don't Miss Your Water

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Otis Blue has always been that rarest of beasts: a '60s soul album that could actually have been made as an album, rather than as a slapdash assortment of singles and fillers. The point being that there is no filler among these eleven classic Redding tracks that range from the crisp stomp of "Respect" and the Stones' "Satisfaction" to the touching pop of the Temps "My Girl" and Sam Cookes "Wonderful World"--not forgetting, of course, the heart-rending anguish of "Ole Man Trouble" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long." Otis Blue captures Redding at the very peak of his raw, unpolished powers, with the peerlessly punchy backing of Booker T. and the MGs. --Barney Hoskyns

Customer Reviews:

Otis!.......2007-02-23

Tired of what passes for soul these days? Had enough of Destiny's Child, John Legend, etc.? Then let me tell you about Otis Redding. This is the man who penned Respect - yeah, so Aretha's version is definitive, but his ain't too shabby either. This also contains Otis' first big hit, the oft-covered I've Been Loving You Too Long, which has survived being butchered by the Rolling Stones - out of its many covers, it's best heard here. And speaking of the Stones, Otis' version of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is a surprisingly good reading of the just rock classic, especially considering it's a fine example of record company prostitution - the Rolling Stones had hit big with it a few months prior to this album's release. Otis' is funky, soulful, etc. And how about the bluesy Ole Man Trouble? Man, that song's a killer. "Don't want you, Ole Man Trouble, don't need you, Ole Man Trouble..." damn! Is that soul, or what? Two cool Sam Cooke covers (Shake and Wonderful World) round this classic album out. I enjoy every song (with the possible exception of a rather limp My Girl), and this is one of my favorite Soul LP's.

****3/4. One of the all-time classic soul records.......2006-07-28

I don't know if "Otis Blue" is the greatest 60s soul record ever released, as some have suggested, but I'm convinced it must be in the top-10.
"Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul" is a bit brief by today's standarts, and I do prefer the Stones' own version of "Satisfaction" to this one, but virtually every thing else is terrific. The arrangements are lean and uncluttered but suitably muscular, and Otis Redding was not the least of the many fine vocalists of soul's "golden age".

Redding is equally convincing on slow, gospel-like tunes like "A Change Is Gonna Come" and up-tempo soul stompers like "Respect", and he receives excellent backing by guitarist Steve Cropper and a tight four-man horn ensemble (two trumpets, two saxes).
Highlights include almost every song. A gritty, grinding "Down In The Valley", a rarely-compiled cover of Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World", the aching ballad "I've Been Loving You Too Long", and "Shake", a driving dance-friendly party tune. Whether or not the blues classic "Rock Me Baby" benefits from this arrangement depends on how you feel about blues to begin with, I guess, but Steve Cropper's playing is certainly very good.

Some of Otis Redding's best self-penned songs are here, like "Ole Man Trouble" and the aforementioned "Respect" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long", and while a good case can be made for the "Dock Of The Bay" being Redding's best original album, I think this one deserves a tie at least.
"Otis Blue" should not be missing from any self-respecting soul collection. Music collection, really.
It's got a beat and you can dance to it. Ot just sit there alternately swaying and bopping your head like a deranged pigeon.

Oddly overrated classic soul LP.......2006-05-23

This is probably Redding's most famous and acclaimed single LP; it's one of only two that Rhino keeps in print domestically at mid-price. (The other is the ubiquitous semi-compilation, DOCK OF THE BAY). Redding's incredible force of personality carries all of his LPs, and they're all quality entertainment, but most of them are erratic. OTIS BLUE is as uneven as any of them but contains a handful of seminal performances.

Side A is much stronger than side B, and contains all of the original material Redding brought to this session. As expected, the three originals are all outstanding. "I've Been Loving You Too Long" is a justly famous, dynamic torch ballad; "Ole Man Trouble" (repeated, perhaps to more poignant effect, on DOCK OF THE BAY) receives a cavernous arrangement, anchored to a dissonant Steve Cropper riff, with lyrics of overwhelming despair. And the version here of "Respect" is sleeker and punchier than Aretha's, although necessarily it lacks much feminist interest. I prefer it anyway.

There are also three Sam Cooke songs, which suggests that Redding might have had a fuller tribute in mind to the then-recently deceased legend. Otis improves on both "Shake" and "A Change is Gonna Come" - the latter is skeletal and gut-wrenching, the former gloriously raunchy. (Despite the album's title, Redding's concerns throughout the album are pretty earthy - a lusty blues showcases Cropper on both sides of the LP, although the performances aren't among Redding's most memorable.)

Side B features a take on "Wonderful World" that is more radical, but not nearly apt or successful as the late-Cooke pieces on Side A. There's also a perfunctory version of "My Girl" that, like the two blues, slows the album's momentum and leads me to wonder why this is usually classed as Redding's masterpiece when discs like THE IMMORTAL OTIS REDDING are just sitting there unnoticed. After an odd (but basically reverent) version of "Satisfaction", complete with fuzz guitar, Redding takes William Bell by the collar and shakes "You Don't Miss Your Water" free, cutting to the quick just as he did with "A Change Is Gonna Come". His rendering of the immortal soul ballad is as eccentric and indispensible as The Byrds'.

Either three-and-a-half or four stars. DOCK OF THE BAY, which is just as cheap and is, to a certain extent, cobbled together (side B extracts tunes from three previous Redding LPs and one Stax compilation) is probably a better starter.

Best soul album ever........2005-09-05

This is for me the best soul album ever.
All songs are beautiful, contains true soul arrangements without
frequent and disruptive background vocals.
Redding is in top form. His songs like Respect or I've Been Loving You Too Long are great and his covers like Satisfaction or Down in the walley too.
This is essential music for every soul fans.
Note: I have this album on mono.

Not even a compilation, just great.......2005-08-30

You would think that this album is one of the many compilations of the greatest Otis Redding songs. But it isn't! It's an actual album, maybe still released as a collection of singles but definitely great.

You won't hear a lot of the great Redding/Cropper compositions because there are only three.

It starts with one of the best Redding openings. The choppy, on first hearing not to good, intro of 'Ole Man Trouble'. But you will never forget it.

Song 2 has been made more famous by Aretha Franklin, but Otis' rendition of his own 'Respect' has a different meant and a great horn part in the pumping intro followed by Donald Dunn's great bassline.

There are three Sam Cooke songs on this album, the first being the anthem 'A Change is Gonna Come'. As a great Sam Cooke fan I have to admit that Otis gives such a gutwrenching all out performance that is rivals Cooke's version.

'Down in the Valley' has a great bass/piano beat, it may not be the best song on the album, but it's still very good.

Track 5 is an Otis standard, the great 'I've been loving you too long', one of his best vocal/ballad performances.

Another Cooke song is 'Shake' recorded a lot wilder than Cooke did. This may actually be closer to what Cooke intended but he was of course bound by record label rules. If he had put this on his 'live at the harlem square club' album it would probably have sounded like this.

'My Girl' is a song that everybody will know and the same goes for Cooke's 'Wonderful World' which is one of the best covers of this song.

'Rock Me Baby' is one the bluesiest songs Otis ever recorded and it rivals the BB King Original, helped by the rumbling bass beat.

Otis gives a great and original version of the Stones' 'Satisfaction'. It's the horns that make the song.

The slower 'You Don't Miss Your Water' ends the album. An 11 song sample of Otis' many talents is over.

Great album

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THE Best of Two of the Best........
It is what it is, and I like it
faking and industry crass commercialism
A treasure
Best of the Best

Ray Sings, Basie Swings
Ray Charles , and Count Basie Orchestra
Manufacturer: Concord Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000H0MNOE
Release Date: 2006-10-03

Tracks:

Oh What A Beautiful Morning
Let The Good Times Roll
How Long Has This Been Going On?
Every Saturday Night
I Can't Stop Loving You
Cryin' Time
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Feel So Bad
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Georgia On My Mind

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To fake or not to fake: That is the question consumers must answer for themselves in assessing this feat of aural Photoshopping: an "imaginary concert" created by combining recently discovered soundboard tapes of Ray Charles's vocals from a mid-'70s European show and newly recorded backing by the Count Basie Orchestra--the "ghost band," still on the road 22 years after Count's passing. Charles is in exceptional voice, singing the heck out of standards like "How Long Has This Been Going On?," Genius classics like "Busted," and pop covers like Melanie's "Look What They've Done to My Song." His performance is a thrilling corrective to forgettable posthumous albums like Genius Loves Company, designed to cash in on the new audience created for him by the movie Ray. But as competently as the Basie band fill in the blanks under the direction of Bill Hughes, with Joey DeFrancesco guesting on organ, most of the new arrangements are rather pallid, and the ensemble lacks the personality of both the Basie orchestra and Charles's best groups. And as attractive as Ray Sings, Basie Swings may be for the casual listener, the gimmickry will appall serious fans, particularly since neither Charles nor Basie--who never collaborated in life--was around to lend his approval. Is The Doors Sing, Woody Herman Swings next? --Lloyd Sachs

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Ray Sings, Basie Swings proves not only that there's a market for Brother Ray's every last recorded utterance (and a breathless one at that), but that musical grafting can reap some seriously satisfying rewards. After Concord Records A&R chief John Burk mined his label's vaults in 2005 and came across tapes labeled "Ray/Basie," he made a move to re-record the songs, originally performed in the 1970s; the result is these 12 tracks, in which Charles's whiskey-weathered, old-soul vocals are laid over arrangements by the current Count Basie Orchestra. Charles fans couldn't ask for a classier pairing or more seamless studio wizardry: The classics, from "I Can't Stop Loving You" to "Busted" to "Georgia on My Mind," play as though orchestrated by the Genius himself--tight, nuanced, and intimate-sounding. Less familiar tracks, like the down-home deep-South number "Every Saturday Night" and a couple of covers ("Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma" and "The Long and Winding Road") offer so much in the way of novelty it's tempting to forget that what's playing is mostly the result of modern experimentation. Deep as the disc runs--and no one who who hears the broken-hearted "Cryin' Time" will deny it runs deep--the most essential track on Ray Sings, Basie Swings may be its most lighthearted one: There is no hearing Ray Charles sing "Oh What a Beautiful Morning"--even if it's four in the afternoon, even if it's raining torrentially--without agreeing. --Tammy La Gorce

Album Description

The producers of this CD discovered archival reels of Ray Charles and the Count Basie Orchestra performing live together in 1973. Although the vocals were superior, the remaining elements were or extremely poor quality. They decided to bring the current Count Basie Orchestra into the studio and, using the latest technology, they carefully and painstakingly laid down a new musical backdrop for Charles' towering vocals.

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Customer Reviews:

THE Best of Two of the Best...............2007-07-03

Ray Charles' songs and the Count's music...an incredible combination that truly showcases the best work ever put together by these two timeless artists. Thanks to technology and a lot of painstaking work, Charles and Basie's "recording" with each other will top the "wish-list" of all jazz/R & B collectors for many years to come!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is what it is, and I like it.......2007-06-11

I was standiing in a well known book store a while back, suffering through Rod Stewart's Still the Same...Great Rock Classics Of Our Time, when finally a young employee put me out of my misery with this great recording. What a breath of fresh air! Compared to Rod's yawning, lifeless, "the tape is full, when do I get paid?" sounding recordings, here is Ray belting it out with all the soul and power that few could ever possess. Sure, I found out later, that we had been a wee bit had, that this was a bit of "aural Photoshopping". but what a great job it was. As a graphic designer, I have created many pieces by splicing 2 or 3 separate photos together. This CD is sort of like that. As long as the purchasers of this work know this before they buy it, I see no problem. It is what it is - a beautiful piece of music, and I like it.

faking and industry crass commercialism.......2007-05-30

This is the recording that never was. One will never know what the original ray charles tapes sounded like--all we know from the liner notes is that much was unuseable and that through the genius of modern technology, ray charles' lyrics were improved and melded with an improvised new basie (after the Count) band's music. Whether Ray would have wished it his way or did it this way is an unknown and the effort, in the circumstances, exploits an artist and his public to improve the bottom-line of a recording company. That, in my view, is a sad commentary on the state of today's music "industry."

A treasure.......2007-05-26

Of the many wonderful Ray Charles collections, this disk is one that would be a perfect introduction to those who might not have experienced the music from this late genius of his realm. Perfect recording for the upcoming summer months out by the pool, or at the beach!!!

Best of the Best.......2007-04-26

This is one collaboration...well re-mixed, dubbed, whatever CD that you could ever ask for.

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Jerry Vale
Beautiful voice
the greatest Italian singer ever
Jerry Vale sings the Greatest Hits
I'd buy it again.

Jerry Vale Sings the Great Italian Hits
Jerry Vale
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Innamorata (Sweatheart)
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Non Dimenticar
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Jerry Vale.......2007-03-12

Beautiful cd - what a wonderful voice - those were the good old days!

Beautiful voice.......2007-01-12

Excellent italian music. Reminiscint of my early days in New York with the Italian-American genre of music.

the greatest Italian singer ever.......2006-05-22

First of all, the best Italian-American album ever. Put this in the CD player, pour a glass of wine, sit by the pool, add a little salami, provolone, and tender olives, lite the porch lites out back, and you are back listening to the songs Mama and Papa sang. This CD is so good you cant stop listening to it. I am not kidding. My kids listen to it with me. Mt father-in-law and I would sit by the pool every Sunday night, sip wine and listen to Jerry...it was heaven on Earth...and I miss those nights so much...buy this CD and see for yourself...you will know exactly what I mean. The memories are all we have left. Come join me.
Bobby

Jerry Vale sings the Greatest Hits.......2006-03-10

Nice to hear the old songs again. The quality of the CD is very good, highly commendable

I'd buy it again........2006-03-09

My father had this album many years ago.
The recording is just as perfect as I remember.
I'll be buying more Jerry Vale music.

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Judy Collins Sings Lennon & McCartney
Judy Collins
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I love Bette, but...
Miss Lee meer the divine Ms M
I love being here with Bette
FANTASTIC!
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Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
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Bette Midler and musical director Barry Manilow follow their successful tribute to Rosemary Clooney with a collection of songs immortalized by Peggy Lee. It starts off with the inevitable "Fever," which Midler does in a brassy, finger-snapping way that would feel more at home at the Sands c. 1960 than in a dimly lit 1950s boudoir. It's a deliberate, clever choice that works for Midler. The selection hits predictable bases ("Is That All There Is?", "Big Spender") but it's hard to argue when those bases are so loaded. Midler actually sounds a lot more at ease than on the Clooney disc. She handles the upbeat material as well as could be expected, but she also shines on the slower numbers, delivering sultry takes on "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe," "I'm a Woman," and "He's a Tramp" (a song copenned by Lee, from the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp). The neglected gem in the collection is Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "The Folks Who Live on the Hill," popularized by Irene Dunne in 1937 before being covered by Lee. Manilow's arrangements are deliciously lush and Midler uses a slight vibrato at carefully chosen moments, somehow sounding as if she had suddenly been lifted back to the 1940s. It's a real treat that epitomizes an accomplished album. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

I love Bette, but..........2007-05-14

I cannot tell you how disappointed I was in this album. I love Bette Midler and think she is one of the greatest entertainers we have today. But, my impression of this album was that she came into the studio, sang a few Peggy Lee songs, told them where to send the check and went home. To add insult to injury, there isn't a photo or anything else on the CD itself, just barely legible "This side up." Sorry Bette, in the future I'll stick to you singing your own material.

Miss Lee meer the divine Ms M.......2007-03-27

The trend in music lately is singers (Like Midler, Manilow, Rod Stewart)are recoring classics or standards. It seems to work, because it record sale magic.

Bette Midler has always been a great soulful singer, from the 1970's to present. Last year, Ms M took on the task for recording the Rosemary Clooney (that's George's aunt) songbook. This time she recorded the songs of Peggy Lee.

Lee has been a soulful jazz queen. Midler is one of the few singers today that could take on such Lee standards like "Fever", "He's a Tramp" , "Big Spender", and "Is that all there is?". Midler take on these pieces with such an aplome that you feel they were written today for Midler herself. The weakest song "The Folks who live on the Hill" does not fit Midler's vocal pattern range, she seem straining in that song. The duet with Barry Manilow on "I Love Being Here with you" reminds me of classic Ms M.

Talking about Manilow, who has recorded songs of the 1950, 1960, and the 1970, produced this CD for Midler. He has done a great job arranging & Producing this cd, Mailow make this seem so easy. It reminds that he was Midler's Piano man for years. He arranges these to suit her brassy style and it works so well

The DVD side has some rare Peggy Lee footage and interviews with Midler and others.

So, to quote Peggy Lee, "Is that all There is? Depressingly YES there is, and you want MORE

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

I love being here with Bette.......2006-07-20

Bette follows up her tribute to friend Rosemary Clooney, with a tribute to the great Peggy Lee. This set may not be as adventurous as the Rosie tribute, as the arrangements are very traditional (which suites these songs), however this is still a wonderful album. The ballads "the folks who live on the hill" and Harold Arlen's lovely "happiness is just a thing called Joe" are simply stunning and two of Bette's finest ever vocal performances. "fever" (revelatory interpretation) and "he's a tramp" come up a treat, and "I am w-o-m-a-n" is the divine Miss M in all her glory. Bette's been recording standards since `am I blue" on her first album (1972) and with the possible exception of Linda Ronstadt no rock singer sings the standards better then Bette and this album is a testament to that. Great songs, great arrangements, great singing, great album and a lovely tribute to a dearly missed singer (and songwriter).

FANTASTIC!.......2006-07-13

Bette midler has done justice to the talents of Peggy Lee! Not only does she add to the style of Peggy Lee, she embelishes it. An added feature are the DVD performances of some of the songs. Bette Midler's rendition of 'Is That All There Is' is unforgetable.

Defective product.......2006-04-20

I wish I knew if this recording was good or not. The dual format CD/DVD does not work. I thought the first defective and Amazon promptly replaced it. The newer version does not work either, it just clicks away. I tried it both in my MAC G4 as well as my Sony CD player. Nada. Invest your money is something that might actually work and avoid dual format.

Guess Who I Saw Today: Nancy Wilson Sings Songs of Lost Love

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Guess Who I Saw Today: Nancy Wilson Sings Songs of Lost Love
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Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
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ASIN: B000AHJ86K
Release Date: 2005-08-30

Tracks:

Guess Who I Saw Today Remastered
Days Of Wine And Roses Remastered 96
When Sunny Gets Blue
(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over
Here's That Rainy Day
You've Changed
The Good Life
Too Late Now
Theme From 'Hotel'
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
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I Wish I Didn't Love You So
How Insensitive
You Can Have Him

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A bit sad, but absolutely beautiful.......2007-06-09

Nancy Wilson puts such emotion into this music it's almost as if she's been there, done that. She has other recordings of the title song, "Guess Who I Saw Today" but this is the one that pulls on your heart and makes you dread hearing the sadness of that last line. Nancy Wilson is a gem and you can feel her brilliance in this album.

Comparing.......2007-04-02

The quality of the remastered record do not satisfied me, most of the items have echoes.

jazz.......2007-02-08

Good selection of standards The best song is the first ' guess who I saw today'

nancy wilson cd.......2007-01-11

as always, easy to order, quick delivery, totally pleasant and
hassle-free.

Absolutely Beautiful.......2006-12-21

I heard the title song 'Guess Who I Saw Today'like fifteen years ago and remembered being totally blown away by the song-but then being a young twenty year old couldn't get myself to actually go and purchase a Nancy Wilson CD. How un-cool. But the song haunted me and recently I decided to give this CD a try...I'm SO glad I did. Nancy Wilson is a class act who has produced wonderful music. This is the CD to settle back with a nice glass of wine and let you mind flow with the music. This may have been my first Nancy Wilson CD but it certainly will not be my last.

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Into the Ether.................
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Anita
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Anita Sings the Most
Anita O'Day
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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ASIN: B00000470X
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

S'Wonderful/They Can't Take That Away From Me
Tenderly
Old Devil Moon
Love Me Or Leave Me
We'll Be Together Soon
Stella By Starlight
Taking A Chance On Love
Them There Eyes
I've Got The World On A String
You Turned The Tables On Me
Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered

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In the mid-1950s, the Oscar Peterson trio (with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis) served as a house rhythm section for Norman Granz's Verve label and his Jazz at the Philharmonic tours. Stars in their own right, they were also superb accompanists, propelling Granz's swing-era giants to some of their best performances of the era. This 1957 date is a superbly swinging session that may be Anita O'Day's finest hour in the recording studio. Although she first found fame as a singer with big bands like Gene Krupa's, O'Day's freewheeling style was most at home in a small group setting. Here she sings swing tunes at breakneck tempos and adds boppish scat with genuinely instrumental fluency. O'Day's wistful treatments of ballads are graced by luminous accompaniments, by Ellis on "I've Got the World on a String" and Peterson on "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered." --Stuart Broomer

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Into the Ether........................2006-11-25

I read today of the passing of Anita O'Day into the place now sheltering my Aunt Sarah who made her way the day before. Knowing a bit about both lives it's a phenomenal truth that some are just too dear for this world... What a place they must be in now. I've always loved this album, it was my favorite O'Day in no small measure due to the Oscar Peterson trio...My favorites S'Wonderful/They Can't Take That Away From Me ,We'll Be Together Soon ,Taking A Chance On Love ,Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered.....her beautiful clear bell voice, the up tempo, the sound of someone in love with sound. Too bad reality was so hard on her. Reading of her life is the realization that a diamond was hidden in life's charade.Such disharmony. Putting this music on tonight to think of her dying....somethings took me away from the here into the there. She was an artist that understood transformation through sound. These tunes dance.

Great swinging jazz vocals & quartet.......2006-07-31

She can swing better than most and has a wonderful, original voice. One of the best jazz vocalists ever. And unique in many ways (style, melody, tempo, moods etc). The musicians behind Anita? Oscar Peterson is superb on piano, complemented perfectly by his three partners on bass, guitar and drums.
A great album and she belongs in every jazz vocal collection.

Anita .......2006-02-24

Released on Verve in 1956 "The Most ' is a superlative jazz album that showcases O'Day 's sexy and musical voice. Great tracks include Tenderly and Stella. Oscar Peterson Quartet is cookin' on all tracks and Herb Ellis solo on Them There Eyes is a knock out!

Ray Hood

I never get tired of this album.......2005-12-02

I discovered Anita O'Day late but she has the right combination of swing, verve and general light touch to keep me from changing the CD in my player. I love Ella Fitzgerald and Ella has better pipes but for some reason I get tired of Ella faster than Anita - don't ask me why Anita is more interesting but she is.

Very, Very Nice.......2004-02-09

The legendary head of Verve, Norman Granz, knew his business, and signing Anita O'Day was no exception. Though this is not her best Verve album ('Time For Two' with Cal Tjader claims this distinction) it is superb. (My favorite track is probably 'Stella By Starlight'; the best rendition of this gorgeous standard that I've ever heard.) Grab this one -- and 'Time For Two'.

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Ray Charles Sings for America
Ray at his Patrotic Best
Only one
Lift Every Voice and Sing !
Ray Charles was a great man

Ray Charles Sings for America
Ray Charles
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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ASIN: B00006HICB
Release Date: 2002-09-03

Tracks:

America the Beautiful
Imagine (featuring The Harlem Gospel Singers)
Let It Be
New York's My Home
Over the Rainbow
That Lucky Old Sun
Ol' Man River
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Ray Reflects on America
My God and I
Lift Every Voice and Sing
There'll Be No Peace Without All Men as One
Light Out of Darkness
Heaven Help Us All
Abraham, Martin and John
Hey Mister
Sail Away
The Danger Zone
God Bless America Again (previously unreleased, with Billy Preston and Slash)

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Gathering 20 soulful recordings from albums and singles released between 1960-1997. Featuring a brand new (2002) track 'God Bless America Again' featuring an all-star cast of supporting musicians including Billy Preston and Slash.

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Ray Charles Sings for America.......2005-09-26

This is a great CD. The songs are by far some of his very
best work. We enjoyed it from start to finish.

Ray at his Patrotic Best.......2005-08-31

I am the typical patrotic American and I just loved this collection of Ray Charles. Everytime I hear it I get chills up an ddown my spine and a tear in my eye. I would recommend this to every and all Americans.

Only one.......2004-10-17

Yes a definite Legend!! There a singer in the U.K. named Elkie Brooks, I always felt a duet between Ray Charles and Elkie Brooks, would have been something else. Alas! not possible.

Lift Every Voice and Sing !.......2004-07-26

This CD is well worth the price for the classic Ray Charles singing America The Beautiful. His soulful versions of Randy Newman's Sail Away, John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads, John Lennon's Imagine (featuring the Harlem Gospel Singers), are added bonuses. He makes every one of these songs his own.

I decided to purchase this CD when I heard Ray's rockin' rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing. Even the syrup-y strings and too-perfect background singers on Somewhere Over the Rainbow can't squelch the gritty soul when Brother Ray sings that old chestnut.

Ray Charles was a great man.......2004-06-14

He created soul. His rendition of America The Beautiful, and the fact he never sang The Star Spangled Banner is evidence we have our priorities out of whack in America. Ray had them straight. The land, the people, and their sacrifices are what matters.

Tracks:

Have You Met Miss Jones?
You Took Advantage Of Me
A Ship Without A Sail
To Keep My Love Alive
Dancing On The Ceiling
The Lady Is A Tramp
With A Song In My Heart
Manhattan
Johnny One Note
I Wish I Were In Love Again
Spring Is Here
It Never Entered My Mind
This Can't Be Love
Thou Swell
My Romance
Where Or When
Little Girl Blue

Tracks:

Give It Back To The Indians
Ten Cents A Dance
There's A Small Hotel
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
Ev'rything I've Got
I Could Write A Book
The Blue Room
My Funny Valentine
Bewitched
Mountain Greenery
Wait Till You See Her
Lover - Stereo Take
Isn't It Romantic?
Here In My Arms
Blue Moon
My Heart Stood Still
I've Got Five Dollars
Lover - Monaural Take

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Only Frank Sinatra has put his indelible stamp on as many pages of the American Popular Songbook as Ella Fitzgerald. But while Sinatra specialized in mood-themed albums (his composer-based collections were compiled from material already released), Fitzgerald's ambitious songbooks devoted themselves to one great songwriter after another: Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, and so on. Her two-volume Rodgers and Hart project ranks with the best, and if Buddy Bergman's arrangements are a bit sweeter than his Cole Porter settings, or Nelson Riddle's Gershwin treatments, they suit the material just fine. And what a wide range of material it is (with original verses intact!), intermingling novelty show tunes ("Give It Back to the Indians," "Johnny One Note"), sophisticated standards ("Manhattan," "Blue Moon," "The Lady Is a Tramp"), and lush ballads ("Isn't It Romantic," "It Never Entered My Mind"). But the most exquisite thing Fitzgerald ever recorded is her seven-minute "Bewitched" (a.k.a. "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered") on volume 2, casting a spell of hushed reverie that makes time stand still. --Jim Emerson

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10 cents a dance.......2007-06-14

Is it possible that no one has mentioned MY favorite song? How entrancing is that charming waltz rhythm in TEN CENTS A DANCE? The pace is never hurried and you can almost feel the stumbling partner's feet on your toes. More importantly, this song is perhaps the most melancholy tune since the days of Robert Schumann's lieder in the 19th century. When Miss Fitzgerald finally descends into the depths of her range to grab the last note, you may also feel some of the loneliness that was a recuring motif in her career.

Absolutely it.......2007-04-28

There is something like home in this collection that I am regretting
lending out but listening to happily in clips from here today.

My mother loved to sing. She was a wonderful singer.
A contralto, on the radio in Richmond, VA in her "day" and for the
phone company in my baby/toddler/little bit days.
The phone company had an orchestra in Richmond Va, she sang with in a
theater funded by Mr. Sauer. He was a condiment company owner. She saw
Sinatra there at a Tobacco Festival. She said he was a kid with salt
and pepper hair in 1951 (before my time). She saw a lot of things
actually on 40 dollars a week.
So while I recall growing up with certain remarkable and interesting
variations on "normal" ....I thought being sung "Bewitched" or
"Mountain Greenery"(what lovely phrasing) as a night time, bedtime
ritual quite ordinary.

Mountain Greenery

On the first of May, it is moving day,
Spring is here, so blow your job,
Throw your job away!

Now's the time to trust,
To your wanderlust,
In the city's dust you wait, must you wait
Just you wait.......!

In a mountain greenery,
Where God paints the scenery
Just two crazy people together.

While you love your lover,
Let blue skies, be your cover-let,
When it rains we'll laugh at the weather.

And if you're good,
I'll search for wood,
So you can cook... while I stand look-in'

Beans could get no keener reception in a beanery
Bless our mountain greenery home!

Mosquitoes here,
Won't bite you dear,
I'll let them sting, me on the finger!

Each night I have my tunes to coast off. It's time to visualize those
I care for, being happy. That's what love is like that fast break of
words ...."in my mountain greenery where God paints the scenery.."
Nice, these days of spring.Go to sleep with a love song. Easy with
Ella. Listen to Where or When, my absolute favorite of hers. So soft.
I did this singing too for my girls/son thinking it "the thing to do
as a mother", after my mom. We model and are deeply affected by the
model of a mother. Can barely separate her from Moon River. But I'm
without that beautiful rich voice more as a cookie singing. I have a
voice of a Twix Bar. Not the same. Very few baby ovations. Mom's song
phrasing probably borrowed from Ella Fitzgerald who, in this
collection, simply makes me feel like I landed in a silk scarf.
If I Could Only do this..

I teach 1st grade. On Valentines Day I taught them, My Funny
Valentines which Ella makes so wistfully enchanting. The way she hits
'sweet' ...boy. It's nice to sit and listen to anytime. Each day is
Valentines Day...we had fun with it.
I actually think for young kids singing with a woman it is somehow
easier, but it's just a theory...which on the surface this particular
tune is a bit sad but...it was pretty enough to us. It carried
something I was feeling then. If I do nothing else I try to teach the
songs I grew up loving. Some say, what is she doing in there? Is that
"doing her own thing?" Is that in the adopted curricular kit? Others
kind of wonder what Standard this is. My answer...the Old Standards.
Rodgers and Hart are among my older Standards, the ones we used to
recall when we "planned instruction" considering life. Now replaced by
a workbook. If you want to learn language try some music...but I
suppose that's not clear enough to the everyone who seem more
comfortable with rote. Not only can you no longer afford music, you
can't hear it in school either. At least in my hood. When you consider
the roots of the music that's almost the most amazing thing I can
imagine. The death of culture rising from who we are, remarkable. I
suppose like bees and oxygen the assumption is we will go buy it.

Ella sings these Rodgers and Hart songs on Verve and it's
delightful.Enough...I like a little romance.

A Best Seller in Heaven.......2007-01-06

The only thing better than a collection of Rodgers and Harts songs to delight the soul and lift the Spirit, is to have the songs performed by the Ella Diva! Sheer perfection!

Vaishali, Naples, FL

"I Could Write A Preface On How We Met . . . So The World Will Never Forget".......2006-12-09

"If they asked me
I could write a book
About the way you walk
And whisper and look
I could write a preface on how we met
So the world will never forget
And the simple secret of the plot
Is just to tell them that I love you a lot." ~ I Could Write A Book ~ Rodgers & Hart

A music critic, William Simon, described the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald, as a musician with ear, instinct and training who never actually has been instructed in vocal technique and yet she can command such breath control, can shape a tone with such color sense, and with such flawless intonation.

She was once called "A Melody's Best Friend" for her special ability to turn an ordinary song into extraordinary with her outstanding vocal artistry and her creativity in scat singing. Ms. Fitzgerald's elegant interpretations and Buddy Bregman's striking arrangements of these appealing melodies from Richard Rodgers and the meaningful lyrics from Lorenz Hart truly made this album worthy to any listener who appreciates great music.

On Liner Notes' Foreword, Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the following about music.

"Music is a difficult subject - anybody's music. Words are easier to analyze. Everyone speaks and writes words. Few can write music. Its creation is a mystery. There are mathematical principles to guide its construction, but no mere knowledge of these can produce the emotional eloquence some music attains. We are made sad or happy, romantic, thoughtful, disturbed or peaceful by someone else's singing heart. To me this is a most exciting and inexplicable phenomenon. Certain experiences have an effect on us quite beyond the capacity of any symbols that can be written on paper, and what music can sometimes do to us is quite beyond the ken and lingo of academicians."

It's absolutely true. It's so amazing how music can deeply affect us in terms of our experiences in life. Music is the soundtrack of our lives. And in this age and time, nobody creates great music as brilliantly as Rodgers & Hart and their colleagues. Their music has captured the ears of millions of listeners who truly admire their talents in creating the most appreciated melodies and lyrics of all-time.

This two-CD-set is a confirmation on how Ella Fitzgerald became one of the greatest singers of all-time. It contains the best-loved Rodgers & Hart songs taken from different shows from 1925 thru 1942. "Blue Moon" is the only song that is not published as a part of a show or a movie score. Some of my highlights are: "I Could Write A Book" and "Bewitched" (1940 Pal Joey), "Isn't It Romantic" (1932 Love Me Tonight), "Manhattan" (1925 The Garrick Gaieties), "My Romance" (1935 Jumbo), "This Can't Be Love" (1938 The Boys from Syracuse), "My Funny Valentine" and "Where or When" (1937 Babes In Arms), "Spring Is Here" and "With A Song In My Heart" (1938 I Married An Angel).

Nostalgically recommended for your listening pleasure.

Going By The Book.......2006-04-28

On a summers day in August of 1956. One of the greatest vocalist of her time went into a Los Angeles recording studio and took on "The Rodgers and Hart Songbook".The name of the great vocalist was Ms Ella Fitzgerald also known as "The First Lady Of Song".It was back in 1918 when composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart would form a collaboration that would change american music forever.During their lengthy careers they would come to write hundreds of songs.And some of those songs would become what we call "American Standards".Songs that would one day be perform by entertainers like Judy Garland,Frank Sinatra,Johnny Mathis and so many others the list is endless.After the death of Lorenz Hart.Richard Rodgers would team up with Oscar Hammerstein and continue his career.But that"s another story.This story is about Ella Fitzgerald who takes these Rodgers and Hart songs.And turns them into her own songs.These greatly entertaining songs are sung by Ella with perfect interruption,humor and style.Backed up the Buddy Bregman orchestra Ella sings songs that were written by Rodgers and Hart between 1925 and 1943.A naturally gifted singer who could sing anything Ella is at her best on this album.On the song "Where Or When" Ella uses her sweet voice to give us a sweet look at deja vu. On "Manhattan" she brings back the charm of the old city around the year 1925.On songs like "Isn"t It Romantic and I Could Write A Book" Ella sings these songs in such a way. It makes you want to fall in love.On "Give It Back To The Indians" Ella ready brings out the humor in this song.And Ella"s masterpiece on this album is "Bewitched" all the talent that made her such a unique vocalist are demonstrated on this song.This album is filled with classic Rodgers and Hart songs.Sung by one of my favorite vocalist Ms Ella Fitzgerald.Lyrics just roll off her lips like sweet melted butter.This is one of her best songbooks.And I just love listening to it.

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