title: Be careful taking the CDs out of the tray

text:
This is the second time I bought this soundtrack.  The 2-CD jewel case had a death grip on Disc 1 when I tried to remove it in the car and the CD snapped.  If you own this, please use more care than I did.

Taron Egerton does the singing on all but a duet with Sir Reg towards the end ("I'm Gonna Love Me Again"), only an Adult Contemporary hit in the U.S.  He does a fair imitation of the pop-rock god.  A surprising number of the entries were non-hits, which may be a good thing.  Some of the hits are here in shortened versions.

A good souvenir of the movie for fans of Sir Elton and of the film.


title: Mostly, or all, remixes, most of which vary between the absurd and the sublime.

text: Raise your hands if you want a remix of "Knock on Wood" that ruins its awesome intro and only lasts a bit over four minutes.  Well, then, this CD is perfect for you--both of you!  Track three, "137 Disco Heaven," separates one of the breaks from the long version of "Light My Fire/137 Disco Heaven" to provide only chants of the latter title for 2 minutes and 42 seconds of "why bother?"  The version of "My Guy/My Girl" is not the (minor) hit duet with Johnny Bristol from 1980, but an awful remix apparently with Deon Estus that is too loud and overpowers both singers.  (Estus is not credited here--no one is--but an "official" remix CD actually does list him.  It's definitely not Bristol; I checked my 45.)  Track 8, sensibly entitled "Ash 48," is a remixed instrumental version of "Knock on Wood" that lasts a whole two minutes and five seconds.  Inexplicable.  Missing from this wretched CD are "The Letter," "Jealousy," and "Friends" which are included on Hot Classics' "The Best of."  One odd plus for this CD is that, by separating the "137" part out, this seems to include the actual 7" (3:55) version of "Light My Fire."  There are not only no liner notes, there are no songwriter or production credits or song times.  And the cover art is tacky.  Which, considering Ms. Stewart's original LP covers, is an achievement of no small note.  Highly not recommended.


title: Same as "TV Themes of the '70's"

text:
Just found this used at a thrift shop.  (For $3.99 but the disc has scuffs that thankfully don't affect play.)  I'd already spent a lot of money on "TV Themes of the '70's," mainly because it was the only place I could find Rhythm Heritage's "Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow" on CD.  It's a version of the theme from "Baretta."  Anyway, here's the track listing:
  1.  Theme from The Brady Bunch-The Brady Bunch
  2.  The Tra-La-La-La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)-The Banana Splits
  3.  Love American Style-The Cowsills
  4.  Theme from S.W.A.T.-Rhythm Heritage
  5.  Love Is All Around-Sonny Curtis
(note:  this is a 1980 vesion that sounds different from what we all remember from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show.")
  6.  The Rockford Files-Mike Post
  7.  Welcome Back-John Sebastian (a/k/a "Welcome Back Kotter")
  8.  Theme from "The Incredible Hulk"-Joe Harnell
  9.  Those Were the Days-Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton
(note:  by Season Two or Three, the show used a different version without audience laughter; this is the version that made it to #43 in 1972.)
  10.  Theme from Battlestar Galactica-Henry Mancini (in case some of you didn't realize there was a version of this show in the '70's, there was)
  11.  Happy Days-Pratt and McClain
  12.  Movin' On Up-Ja'net DuBois and Oren Waters (shame on you if you don't know this is the awesome theme from "The Jeffersons") (or, congratulations on being young)
  13.  Sanford & Son Theme-Quincy Jones
  14.  Hikky Burr, Pt. 1-Bill Cosby (notes show this was from the "short-lived" early '70's "The Bill Cosby Show."  Despite a good effort from a horn section, this theme song can't have helped the early cancellation.)
  15.  Song from M*A*S*H-Al DeLory
  16.  Making Our Dreams Come True-Cyndi Grecco (from "Laverne and Shirley" BTW) (this appears on one of Rhino's "Have a Nice Day" series, but that version seems to have background noise not apparent here)
  17.  Baretta's Theme (Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow)-Rhythm Heritage
  18.  Makin' It-David Naughton
  19.  (Theme from) Charlie's Angels-Henry Mancini (wow.  this is only "Theme from" title that uses parentheses.)
  20.  Long Lonesome Highway-Michael Parks

Most are complete single versions, except some that I doubt were ever singles (Brady Bunch, Love American Style, Hulk, Battlestar, Movin' On Up, & Sanford & Son).

Most of these themes almost bring a tear to my eyes, since I grew up with most of these shows.  If you know what I mean, you may want to try and track this CD down.


title: Odd Mix of Big and Less Big R&B Songs

text:
This is an OK CD that would appeal mostly to fans of '70's soul music.  There was no track listing, but it was three bucks (plus shipping) so I took a chance that the Donnie Elbert song would be "I Can't Help Myself," which has been impossible to find on CD.  (I lose; it's "Where Did Our Love Go.")

This is a 21-track collection of songs, most of which came out on the Buddah or All Platinum labels in the '70's.  Several were hits in England but not in the USA.  The oldest track is "Up On the Roof" by Julie Grant, a UK-only hit in 1963.  The newest is the always-welcome Candi Staton's version of "Suspicious Minds", released on Sugar Hill in 1982.  The sound quality is good.  Castle is a reliable reissue label across the pond.  However, there are no liner notes except songwriter and licensing information inside.

Track Listing:
Addrisi Brothers-Does She Do it Like She Dances (#74 pop, 1977)
Gladys Knight & the Pips-Make Yours a Happy Home (#13 R&B '73, #35 UK in '76)
Maxine Nightingale-Spinning Wheel (didn't chart but sounds pre-"Right Back Where We Started From")
Jimmy Helms-Gonna Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse (#92 R&B, #8 UK '73)
Wilma Reading-Stay With Me Baby (didn't chart)
Retta Young-Sending Out an S.O.S. (#88 R&B, #28 UK '75)
Norman Connors-You Are My Starship (#27 pop, #4 R&B '76)
MIchael Henderson-Take Me I'm Yours (#88 pop, #3 R&B '78)
Moments & Whatnauts-Girls (#25 R&B, #3 UK '75)
Real Thing-Can't Get By Without You (#2 UK '76; this group had several hits across the pond but only one minor
  hit in the US)
Julie Grant-Up on the Roof (#33 UK)
Phyllis Hyman (actually Norman Connors featuring Ms. Hyman)-Betcha By Golly Wow (#29 R&B '77)
Shirley & Company-Shame, Shame, Shame (#12 pop, #1 R&B, #6 UK '75)
Donnie Elbert-Where Did Our Love Go (#15 pop, #6 R&B, #8 UK '71-'72)
Candi Staton-Suspicious MInds (#31 UK '82)
P.P. Arnold-The First Cut is the Deepest (#18 UK '67)
Kelly Marie-Feels Like I'm in Love (#1 UK '80 and a big disco hit over here)
Moments-Dolly My Love (#10 UK '75) (the Moments later changed their name to Ray, Goodman, & Brown of
  "Special Lady" fame)
Sylvia-Pillow Talk (#3 pop, #1 R&B, #14 UK)
Sweet Sensation-Sad Sweet Dreamer (#14 pop, #63 R&B, #1 UK '75) (this is a male group, not the ladies
  who had several hits in the late '80s-early '90s)
Carl Douglas-Kung Fu Fighting (#1 pop, R&B, and UK in 1974).


title: Great Variety of Hits From 1979

text:
Take One was fine, but Take Two digs a bit deeper than the Top 10 and collects a really nice variety of sounds.  It starts with the Cars' awesome "Let's Go", eventually reaching Blondie's eccentric "Heart of Glass" follow-up, "One Way Or Another", The Knack's punchy and sleazy "Good Girls Don't" and Joe Jackson's is-it-New-Wave "Is She Really Going Out With Him?".

There is a fair amount of disco, very appropriate for '79:  Bonnie Pointer's amazing "Heaven Must Have Sent You" (the short disco verson without the string solo middle but still terrific), Bell & James' "Livin' It Up (Friday Night)", and Ashford & Simpson's classy Top 40 (#36) breakthrough "Found a Cure".  Not to forget two huge singles that would have fit on Take One:  the Village People's massive "Y.M.C.A." and Peaches & Herb's ultrafunky "Shake Your Groove Thing".  I love all of these songs.  Well, I only like "Good Girls Don't".  Sometimes.

Highlights continue:  The late Nicolette Larson's "Lotta Love", (Ray Parker &) Raydio's clever "You Can't Change That", Rickie Lee Jones' boho "Chuck E's in Love".  Huge comeback hit for the great Smokey Robinson ("Cruisin'") and the last big hit for Hot Chocolate ("Every 1's a Winner").

I never warmed up to Foreigner's "Dirty White Boy" or Peter Frampton's "I Can't Stand It No More" (hopefully their fans won't pelt me with unhelpful votes).  But they're not bad...I take this CD with me in the car more than most.  It's very entertaining and highly recommended.


title: "Diana" needs to be released on CD

text: "Diana" is a great song.  Definately one of his best.  Adams needs to get over his personal baggage about Princess Di's passing and properly put this out!!!


title: Well worth the money

text: She's only the greatest female singer ever; sadly,  she made her exit way too soon.


title: Five Stars

text: Greatness!


title: Five Stars

text: Great cd!


title: What it's all about

text: This cd was a gift from my cousin after a trip to Turkey, For those of us who enjoy the wonderful fusion of jazz with the various folk influences of other countries, this serves as a prime example....world class musicians....wonderful sounds.


title: Beware!!!

text: I played this on my OPPO/Onkyo 7.1 system and it produced a loud pop and shut down my receiver. Needless to say I returned it and Amazon promptly credited my return. Buy at your own risk.


title: Very little rock and roll or doo wop.

text: This is for an audience who is now in their 70s, 80s, or older. These are primarily pre-rock and roll/doo wop artists. If you like Pat Boone, Johnnie Ray, and Doris Day you'll love this. The sound quality is awesome. The German liner notes are hilarious. If this series continues, I hope they tailor the play lists more to the post-war generation. Also the song lists would need to be included in the advertising information to consider another purchase.<br />I rated the purchase low because the song lists were not included and I felt that I had been somewhat mislead when I received the disc.


title: IT SAYS PRODUCED BY JAMES BROWN, BUT I DOUBT VERY SERIOUSLY IF HE PRODUCED THIS WHOLE ALBUM???

text: It sounds more like the group (Dee Felice Trio) did the production work, and James Brown just got all of the credit. Let's move on to the music...If you loved The Ramsey Lewis Trio during their heyday then you're truly gonna enjoy this album. Aside from "Oh Happy Day" that has the un-needed Background Singers...Now I think it's safe to say that on THIS cut James Brown probley did have a hand in it. Once you get pass that 1 (One) Every cut is a winner! The version of "There Was A Time" on this album is the Single Version which was released on 45 in late 1969 has Horns Overdub in it. There was an earlier version that appeared on a James Brown album entitled "Gettin' Down To It" that featured The Dee Felice Trio as the backing band (See my Review) that was released a few Month's before this album was released that had the SAME Version but without the Horns. BOTH Versions of "There Was A Time" are still much sampled and Club Favorites. This album is on the mark!


title: BE FORWARNED! THIS IS A 'UNDERGROUND' OR A FIRST COUSIN TO A BOOTLEG (UNOFFICAL RELEASE) REPLICATED! NOT A 'BURNED' COMPACT DISC

text: You can even call this the one that will do until a legit company officially puts one out (With a Booklet!). I find it strange that Stores (Sellers) can actually sell these and NOT be in trouble by the Powers That Be At Amazon and other Web Sites??? Now that we've gotten pass that ugliness, Let's talk about the music...This Compact Disc features 27 (Twenty-Seven) cuts taken from various sources (Vinyl, So-So Quality Source Masters, Etc.) from the different labels these Groups recorded for. Although NONE of these Groups NEVER had a Billboard Charted Hit Single, they were making a lot of noise in the East and West Coast areas with local Smash Singles (Several are found here on this Collection!). The sound varies from Track To Track! I'm pretty sure there are no pristine Master Tapes on several of these songs simply because Singles (Back in the day...The 50's & 60's) were pressed in small quanities and were released on VERY SMALL INDEPENDENT LABELS! If you're trying to make someone happy or at least hold them until the real thing comes along this will do.


title: STUMBBLED ACROSS THIS EXCELLENT ALBUM WHILE LOOKING FOR ANOTHER ALBUM BY ROBERT...HAD TO BUY 4 MORE COPIES FOR NON-BELIEVERS!!!

text: Some things you take a chance on...You'll either be happy or you'll be sad. In this case VERY HAPPY!!! At first I thought 2 Discs of Robert Guillaume is gonna put me to sleep, Not the case here! There's a handful full of so-so songs, but who hasn't been entertained with that on a Double Album?. You won't find this Out Of Print treasure at your local retail outlet. I was told it has only appeared on the Time-Life label, and that was for a short time! This is well worth hunting down. If you enjoy Little Jimmy Scott, Luther Vandross (The Ballads), Johnny Mathis, Celine Dion, you'll get plenty of enjoyment from this collection of Pop Classics & MOR Favorites like: "People", "Send In The Clowns", "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "The Nearness Of You", "Midnight Blue", "Ebb Tide", and "When I Fall In Love". 34 (Thirty-Four) Tracks in all! Plus several sought after studio musicians that I'm not gonna give you their names (That would take more of the fun of hunting this down). I can tell you this much...Just from letting a friend hear this...that same friend turned around and had me to locate 3 (Three) more copies!!!<br />...I think that is saying something....Whatcha think???


title: Disjointed rock album

text: For four years, Beavis and Butt-head was a very popular show on MTV. But this album inspired by that show left me disappointed. Most of the rock bands on here come out with very disjointed and uninteresting songs. Some of their worst efforts in their careers and they don't really rock that well. Even Megadeth's song sounds so self-deprecating in some cases.  Sir Mix-A-Lot's redo of his song comes off as lame.  And the Beavis and Butt-head number with Cher sounds silly and out of place. Come To Butt-head sounds corny. Only the Run-DMC song Bounce, and Aerosmith's rocking Deuces are Wild stand out of this mess. The others sound like they were left on the cutting room floors in studios and that's not good. Save your money on this sorry mess and buy something else!


title: Very funky album! The Tony Dofat songs still stand out!

text: This album from Queen Latifah still is a favorite to me! Makes me think that a live band is performing this entire album instead of different producers and samples.  Especially U.N.I.T.Y. which is so funky--I'm thinking that there are live horns and a band instead of a sample.  But there are countless standouts, especially Black Hand Side, I Can't Understand, Just Another Day, her tribute to her late brother and others. My favorites are the Tony Dofat produced songs, with his hard beats and the echoes on some of those beats. Dofat did about 6 to 7 songs, while S.I.D. and Kay Gee did the other half of the album. Dofat gives the S.I.D. songs some tight competition!  I still like Listen 2 Me, perhaps Dofat's best produced song then or now. But Latifah's themes of standing up for yourself and making women take control of their lives are a common theme througout this album and that's what I love about Black Reign. I was pleased that she won a Grammy for U.N.I.T.Y.! I've played it more ever since it won.  It makes this album more respectable. An album that I still love to this day!


title: They put it out just in time for summer! Fun, breezy, rock songs!

text: Sugar Ray has had a consistent number of hits with loads of catchy hooks.  They can be rocking on Fly, yet turn around and be sensitive on Someday. Someday managed to be calmer and appealed a lot to adult contemporary stations not as crazy about their hyper rock/hip-hop sounds.  I wished that they had that It's So Easy-like song that samples two songs, yet has such a funky sound to it. Mark McGrath is obviously a fan of '80s music, so his band smartly does a remake of Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time. And there are shades and influences of '80s pop within Sugar Ray's songs, yet they keep their own originality within them.  Would have liked it if Mark and his band did a Duran Duran song for one of the new tracks. Mark's a huge fan of that band's music. One of the few rock bands to have a DJ, a rarity when most bands would rather prefer straight up guitars.  This will sell like crazy because of its catchiness, reminiscent of Steve Miller Band's Greatest Hits album from the '70s.


title: Five Stars

text: excellent


title: Five Stars

text: Good


title: Four Stars

text: Good


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent


title: Five Stars

text: Product was as advertised.


title: Kika is GREAT!!!!.

text: Excellent Cd, Kika is a great singer and i love her songs.


title: Always she is adorable. *****

text: She is a great voice, excellent Singer and i really love her songs. This CD/DVD is fabulous .


title: Well worth it the extra cost if you are a black metal fan.

text: One of the best black metal albums I've ever heard.  Very unique sound and blend of music.


title: Very Unique stuff

text: I never heard of ambient black metal until I heard this album.  Temple of Not are actually Nightbringer in this one I think.  They have this simply awesome evil dark sounding orchestration and ambient sound to get you in that "black" mood for listening to more dark sounding stuff.  If you aren't the biggest fan of black metal singing, this will get you into it more than anything.


title: Five Stars

text: Love it!  very nice


title: ear candy

text: excellent musice for antime or mood


title: The CULT ROCKS

text: Excellent guitar playing


title: DIO ROCKS

text: I enjoyed the music very much


title: Fun times!

text: Sonny is good!


title: Cassette heaven is #1

text: I've purchased several tapes from cassette heaven. They have great stuff!


title: Excellent

text: Record is in excellent condition.


title: Excellent!

text: Excellent!


title: Best cd/dvd of Simply Red available.

text: I've watched this dvd and listened to the cd over and over.  This is Simply Red at his best with a 40 piece orchestra and wearing a tuxedo to boot........class act.  Mick Hucknall has been my favorite artist since 1985 when I first heard "Holding Back The Years" on my car radio.  He had me with the first few notes.  The man is a musical genius and writes most of his own material.  My number one wish on my bucket list is to see him live.  This dvd is probably as close as I'll ever get.


title: Five Stars

text: GOOD 'OL ROCK


title: Bold and , not for the faint of heart.

text:
I just finished listening to and reading For Colored Girls Who Struggle & Pale Girls Who Juggle. Listening to the author read the poems was rewarding. Her southern drawl adds a depth and sensuality to every line and stanza, and although some of the pieces have some graphic language, her approach and tone keeps it all in context and palatable to the listener. The background music adds an additional layer that's like a seasoning to an already delicious dish. The variety of themes that the author touches on in her poetry are varied enough to keep ones interest but similar enough to feel consistent. If I had to offer one negative comment it would be that the pieces are too short. Once you find a poem that you enjoy, you will wish there was more of it.
For the short story that's added as a bonus, the subject matter of sexual abuse, molestation and the victims struggle between identifying with her abuser and the urge for revenge may not be an easy read, particularly with the descriptive scenes, but the characters and plot move the story along and help the reader process what the main character is going through.

I can't wait to see what more this author has to offer us in the future.


title: Jennie Smith

text: I own all of the albums from Jennie Smith, a sadly pretty much-forgotten vocalist from the 50's.  This is my favorite album of hers.  Her voice was a cross between Joni James and Eydie Gorme.  Yes, she did work with Steve Allen and sang many of his tunes.  He should be more remembered for the remarkable songwriting he produced.  Her version of Fly me to the moon is my favorite one.  "This could be the start of something big" is excellent as well.  The arrangements are playful as well. (Interesting to note they were done by Mort Garson, who would later make electronic music.  He did the cult album The Wozard of Iz's "An Electronic Odyssey".)<br />So many superb vocalists got lost with the movement of rock n' roll.  Jennie was one of them.  I wish that someone would put together a collection of her singles.


title: ⭐ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing Collection

text:
Such an awesome tribute
A great collection with many rarities and deep cuts.
It’s been lovingly reproduced and curated so well
The booklet and the packaging are amazing
It’s wonderful to have so many of her amazing performances in one whole package.
I highly recommend to any true die hard fan


title: Save your money!

text: I stumbled across this while I was looking for a replacement for the Betrayal single I've worn out over the years.  I have this on vinyl as well and never thought much of it.  I was disappointed by it when it came out.  It seemed like a watered down N.O./C.O.X./L.L.  Nothing worth more than $15 for sure!


title: cd

text: I like the CD and the seller send it out quickly.


title: Easy Listening at its best

text: I love to settle down with a good book and listen to this music while I read. It is Great!


title: Solid quad mix

text:
Ted causes some issues for some folks, but that has nothing to do with music, and this is music.

If you like rawk. This is excellent rawk.

Dutton Vocalion do an excellent job of reissuing these quad mixes, and this is a good quad mix.
We have guitars either side of you, and a solid rhythm section with the vocals and some more guitar up front.
This isn't about fancy arty mixes, it is about presenting this album with more aural breadth, and it does a good job.


title: Soundscapes and emotive meanderings with a nice 4.0 Quad mix

text:
This isn't the kind of album that will appeal to everybody, it is of the kind of style that we find in a lot of the seventies fusion type albums that has a lovely feel and style, but it is based in textures and not necessarily melodic songs with structure. If you like that kind of thing, then it is a very good example of the form.
Dutton- Vocallion have been doing some wonderful work reissuing Quad mix album on sacd, and this is another in a long line that they have done a very good job of.
The mix is very nicely immersive, and when in the mood this is an extremely satisfying listen.
Like most Dutton-Vocallion stuff, this is very worth checking out


title: Great album.

text: This is a fantastic album. I see some reviews are upset that Eric seems happy, what crap. This album is full of great songs, well executed, well produced and extremely well sung. The vocals on this album are above what I thought Clapton was capable of. Yea it's not cream, but frankly cream were over rated anyhow.


title: 5.1

text: If you find a copy of the dvd-audio available, I highly recommend getting it.<br />This is probably my favourite porcupine tree album and worth having in your collection.


title: Five Stars

text: great


title: ... I expected I thought I was getting the original good hearted woman album on CD & at such a ...

text: not what I expected I thought I was getting the original good hearted woman album on CD & at such a high cost then I had to order what I wanted on a vinyl 78  now I will have to try to get it copied  to a CD  still don't know how I'm going to do that


title: Really, Raphael for ever...

text: Raphael for ever...!!!. This is a very good collection of those classic themes of Raphael's carrier. All of them are hits and all have been recorded with the original sound. For lovers of this famous latin singer, this compilation is a must. I strongly recommend this item.

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title: Fast shipping

text: I love music


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent cd


title: Five Stars

text: great cd Would recommend to everyone


title: Good multi cannel sound-took way too long to get.

text: Good multi-channel sound-took way too long to get.


title: It's Chopin

text: Nothing to dislike. I am not an expert on any recording of Chopin. I hear his music and it transcends. Maybe another pianist or recording does Chopin more justice. Maybe not. I wouldn't know. My father had an LP of Chopin played by Van Cliburn which I heard quite often growing up. Beautiful music. I found this at a used disc store, This sounds pretty good to me.


title: Anti Climax

text: Why anti climax? Because after this terrific album from former Outsiders  Sonny Geraci and Walt(er) Nims, Climax disappeared. I was a "card carrying" member of hard rock and metal in the 70's but the vocals and arrangements on this album put me in awe. From the classics "Precious and Few, Life and Breath" to the equally moving "Picnic in the Rain, Rainbow Rides are Free, Prelude" and "Child of December" the whole album is a musical masterpiece from beginning to end. The song "Park Preserve" which was the "B" side to the single "Precious and Few" was probably left off the original album for good reason; it just didn't fit in to the theme of the project. It was most likely a precursor to get feedback to a future heavier sounding album which never came. It may be just as well because sometimes things are better left with you wanting more and in the case of this album its true. Of all the music I've heard over the years "Climax" is without a doubt my favourite soft rock/pop album of all time. Now if we could only get a few samples of this album to go with the song list, I'm certain that most people unfamiliar with this work of art would agree.


title: Great memories from this CD!

text: Fast shipping and a great item!


title: Five Stars

text: Great.


title: Five Stars

text: Just great.


title: Fantastic! I love it

text: Fantastic! I love it. All I need to do now is buy a new stylus and transfer it to cd. PERFECT!!


title: Five Stars

text: Fantastic!


title: Five Stars

text: Good.


title: Five Stars

text: Good


title: Looney Tunes by K-Tel Record

text: The record is an old record, but I feel the price that was charged was not appropriate, the record is scratched and some of the songs do not play well because of this. this is truly the first purchase from Amazon sellers that I am not happy with.


title: A great cd!

text: Great sound and song selection!

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title: Striker

text: This is a great rock album that was never released on cd.  the tunes are well done with the heavy edge.


title: The Most Stirring Olympic Music Ever Performed!

text: I tried to find this Olympic music on C.D. but had no luck.  I purchased the vinyl record and had it copied to a C.D.  I attended the 1976 olympics in Montreal.  The athletes marched in to the traditional olympic march, but then the program began to change.  It had a jazzy/rock sound that gave me goosebumps.  It must have had the same effect on the athletes, because they started moving  and bouncing to the music.  It was magical.  This music still gives me goosebumps;  it is that good.  Pure genius.


title: "Being A Psychedelic Era Gal: Nancy Sinatra Was Excellant"!

text:
Prior to this Review: there was only one previous Amazon Customer Review on this Excellent CD so I'll tell you a little bit about it......I bought this CD from Amazon under our former Amazon Customer Info about 13 years ago around 2005 and we still have it. I even typed an Amazon Review on it but I made the mistake of deleting that Review several years ago.

  For the most part: Nancy's Psychedelic Era Hits are all here and they include her January 1966 Chart Topping #1 US & UK Hit "These Boots Are Made For Walking", her April 1966 #7 US Hit "How Does That Grab You, Darlin", her November 1966 #5 US Hit "Sugar Town" and her underrated June 1967 James Bond 007 Classic "You Only Live Twice" which Peaked at only #44. Several of Nancy's Hit Duet's are also here including her April 1967 #1 US Chart Topper with her dad: Frank called "Something Stupid", "Things" with Dean Martin plus several Duets with Lee Hazelwood are here also and 4 of them are "Summer Wine" which was a March 1967 Top 50 Tune, her June 1967 #14 US Hit "Jackson", her October 1967 #20 US Hit "Ladybird" & her Haunting #26 US Hit "Some Velvet Morning".

  Many Music Fans from those years think of Johnny Cash & June  Carter when the Song "Jackson" is mentioned but Nancy's & Lee's Version was the "Jackson" I was mostly familiar with because my family & I had their Duet LP when it was bran new in those days.

  There is an Out Of Print Rhino CD Package of Nancy's still available thru Amazon and The Internet and from a Collector's point of view: I wish I had that Package but this 1990 CNR Records Belgium CD is very good too. Other than the Song Lineup: there are no Liner Notes {Biography} of Nancy at all with this Liner Sleeve but the Sound Quality on this 20 Song Disc is Excellent!.....Total Running Time is 59:16.


title: "Unforgettable"!

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I find it hard to believe that there were no previous Amazon Customer Reviews on this!............A little over three years ago: I bought the 2000 Electra "Natalie Cole Greatest Hits: Volume 1" CD from Amazon but I was disappointed that her VH1 Version (Alias: 7" Version) of "Pink Cadillac" is not on it! The Version on that CD is good but different than the Version I was/am familiar with. Well: my search for that VH1 song ended right here!

  The very first tune on this CD is the familiar TV Video Hit Version of Natalie's "Pink Cadillac" many of us remember & cherish from the height of the VH1 & MTV Music Video craze of the 1980's. There are only three other songs on this Disc totaling only 19:53 elapsed time and their song titles are "I Wanna Be That Woman", "Jump Start" & the Club Vocal of "Pink Cadillac" but to me: this has her very best Version of "Pink Cadillac" on it and definitely worth having! I also find it hard to believe that this CD is Out Of Print but then: it was a long time ago being 1988 but this goes/pairs well with Greatest Hits: Volume 1.....Recommended


title: The Rascals Were Much More Than 1968's "Time Peace"

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Actually that Classic Atlantic LP by these Hall Of Famers was called "Time Peace: The Rascals Greatest Hits".

  In Referance to Brian's December 1st 2012 Amazon Review on this 2-CD Package: you will find The Rascals 2 Top 100 US Hits "Hold On" & "Love Me" together on Rhino's 1997 "Flashback" 10 song single CD Package called "The Rascals: Groovin' And Other Hits". The other 8 songs on the "Flashback" CD are already on "Anthology" but as of the day I typed this Review: you could pickup a good "used" copy of that "Flashback" CD on Amazon for less than a dollar (plus Shipping & Handling). You also need to remember that "Hold On" & "Love Me" was The Rascals last 2 Top 100 songs on the US Charts. "Love Me" peaked at #95 in June of 1971 & "Hold On" peaked at # 51 in January of 1970.

  This 1992 Rhino 39 song 2-CD Anthology of The Rascals is Great. There is also a Rhino 44 song 2-CD Anthology of The Rascals (also from 1992) that already has "Love Me" on it but even it does NOT include "Hold On" and it's much more expensive than this Compilation. As I said above: The "Flashback" CD has both.

  This paragraph is another small piece of nostalgia from someone who was there. Me!.....This 2-CD Rhino Rascals Anthology has some Underrated Gems on it that you won't find on The Rascals Single Greatest Hits CD Packages and two of them are "Baby Let's Wait" & "I'm So Happy Now". In those days: besides their usual Hits: I was also fond of both of those Rascals songs. I don't believe either Charted but they were liked by several of us Baby Boomers then. "I'm So Happy Now" was wrote & sang by (Then) Rascal Bandmate Gene Cornish and personally: I think it was as good as any of their Hits. It was also made popular locally in the Louisville, Ky area in those days by a Louisville Band called "The Company Front" and I remember their Version of that song more than I do The Rascals Version. It was excellent too. "Baby Let's Wait" was also a Top 40 Pop Hit Ballad for Ocala, Florida's "The Royal Guardsmen" around 1968. "The Royal Guardsmen" turned it into a Lush Ballad and it was Beautiful: and still is. While "The Royal Guardsmen's" Ballad "Baby Let's Wait" can easily be found on CD (Compact Disc): I haven't been able to find "The Company Front's" Version of "I'm So Happy Now" on CD yet but Amazon & Ebay do have it "used" on Vinyl 45's.


title: Marty Is Definately Legendary!

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1995 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Made In USA..........I just recently became acquanted with these "Time Life: Legendary Country Singers" single CD's and I am impressed. I had previously owned other single CD's of Marty's but there was always at least one of my favorite songs missing on them.  His "16 Biggest Hits" single CD is missing "You Gave Me A Mountain" & his "All-Time Greatest Hits" CD is missing "A White Sport Coat". We also owned Marty's double LP All-Time Greatest Hits for 30+ years and that package was also missing "A White Sport Coat"

  This excellant 25 song CD takes care of that shortfall because they are here along with my other favorites. The song titles are in the Editorial Review Section above. All songs sound original and the sound quality is very good. It comes in the standard plastic jewel case and the liner notes booklet is a whopping 22 pages long with several photos! I am shocked at how many of these are Out Of Print and I am also shocked at how few Amazon Customer Reviews are on these Time Life CD's. I guess there are a lot of consumers who just don't know about them. I bought a Time Life "Legends Of Soul: Jerry Butler" single CD locally and I have bought six of these "Legendary Country Singers" CD's (including this one) from Amazon and all seven are Outstanding! These are the real deal!

  Final Comments: Marty & his band broke new grounds with his 1961 Chart Topping Country Hit "Don't Worry" when they introduced us to the guitar driven fuzz-tone that became so popular a few years later during the Psychedelic Era and beyond. "Don't Worry" was also a Top 10 US Pop Hit Peaking at #3. Personally: I believe it's one of the best songs of all-time. In 1982 Marty entered the Top 10 for the last time with his great song "Some Memories Just Won't Die" and both of these tunes are also on this CD. Later that very same year on December 8th 1982 Marty passed away at only 57 years of age. He was one of the greatest!...........A little added info: Marty passed away exactly 2 years to the day after John Lennon passed away: which was December 8th 1980.


title: Better Than I Expected!

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With no previous Amazon customer reviews on this out of print and rare CD: I wasn't sure what I was getting but it's for real! I was concerned about if the songs were original or re-recordings. They are not only original but they sound great too! Before I bought this I noticed it was a 1997 MCA CD so I was confident that it was legit and it is.

  I purchased this for five songs because I already own compilations by the Artist's of the other five songs but buying this used was worth it because I had never owned Hugh Masakela's version of "Grazing In The Grass" on CD before or Len Barry's "1-2-3", Barry McGuire's "Eve Of Destruction", Ruby And The Romantic's "Our Day Will Come" or Pat Boone's "Moody River" and all are excellant 60's timepieces with Pat Boone's "Moody River" being my biggest surprise. I probably hadn't heard that song since the late 60's and had forgotten all about it. It's not only excellant but it was a #1 Chart Topper in May of 1961!.....I know where Pat's daughter Debby Boone gets her vocal talent from! You 70's music fans will remember Debby and her huge hit "You Light Up My Life".

  Although I've never owned Barry McGuire's "Eve Of Destruction" on CD before: I have owned it on a 45 practically ever since it was new plus I bought an excellant CD of "The New Christy Minstrels" from Amazon a year or so ago. Barry was a member of that group for awhile and at times you can hear his voice in their hit song "Green Green". That group was great! Just listen to their gorgeous hit ballad called "Today".

  Now back to this CD.....The other five songs on here are also  by artist's who were no strangers to us 60's baby boomers. Tommy Roe's "Dizzy", The Mamas & The Papas "Monday Monday", Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense And Peppermints", The Grass Roots "Midnight Confessions" and Louis Armstrong's "Hello Dolly". I'll give you one example as to why I already own previous CD's by these five artists prior to buying this CD.....Louis Armstrong's "Hello Dolly" (which is on this compilation) topped the Charts at #1 in February 1964 at the height of Beatlemania but one of the last songs he had on The Charts before he passed away was none other than "What A Wonderful World"! While not only making it to #12 on The Adult Contemperary Charts in 1967-68: it also topped the Charts at #1 in The UK. It's one of his best and most cherished and most everyone old enough to remember it: loves it! What I'm trying to say is: Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong  was/is too much of an Icon for any music fan to settle for only "Hello Dolly" that's on this Disc! Tommy Roe, The Mamas And The Papas, Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Grass Roots also fall in that same category.

  This comes in the standard plastic CD case and there are no Liner Notes at all with this CD and although Liner Notes would have been appropriate: the music speaks for itself and it is outstanding. It's brief by today's standards with only ten songs timing in at only 28:12 but it is ideal for what I wanted it for. It might be for you too.

  Final Comments: The era in which these ten songs were new is long gone and we have sadly lost several artists who were associated with these tunes. I will list some names of the artists you baby boomer fans will remember.  Rob Grill (1943-2011) lead vocalist of The Grass Roots, Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong (1901-1971),  Mama Cass Elliot (1941-1974), Denny Doherty (1940-2007) & John Phillips (1935-2001) of The Mamas And The Papas. Yes! Three of the four from The Mamas And The Papas! The lone surviver is Michelle Phillips!.....Thanks for the music Michelle and every other living artist associated with these songs who may see this review! Four words sum them up.....Ten Of The Best!


title: Fabulous!

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title: Five Stars

text: Floyd good


title: Classic

text: They don’t make music like those anymore !


title: A Top Notch Early Music Recording That's Becoming Hard To Find!!

text: A five-star performance of early music- "Dances from Terpsichore"- by Michael Praetorius(1569-1621). Includes excellent performances on keyboards, violin/viola and percussion- as well as Carole Koenig's beautiful dulcimer work. The CD includes a few extra tracks from another of Koenig's recordings as well. Also, this Renaissance-era music is very well suited to the holidays. It's not just for Hammered Dulcimer fans!!


title: Enough is on file with Glen Gould, he is ...

text: Enough is on file with Glen Gould, he is the man for / was rather for interpreting and playing Bach, and does the most precise manner that has been done.


title: but we all know that DVD is better. It is a great account of the life ...

text: I have this on VHS, but we all know that DVD is better. It is a great account of the life of Alexander Graham bell, complete with Scottish accent. This a very in depth study of the man from boyhood to old age. Buy this if you want to experience one mans fantastic life.


title: Five Stars

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title: First-rate Issue of a Long-Delayed Soundtrack

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For whatever reason, 20th Century-Fox chose not to issue a soundtrack LP on Robert Aldrich's EMPERIOR OF THE NORTH POLE (aka EMPEROR OF THE NORTH) when it was released back in 1973, despite its being a high-profile film with two major stars (Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine) at its center. and it was three decades before such a release saw the light of day. The resulting CD from Intrada Records is a crisp sounding document of Frank DeVol's score, a mix of subtle and sly song ("A Man And A Train") that catches the underlying theme behind the film (which director Aldrich later lamented that most audiences missed entirely, contributing to the movie's box-office failure) with action scoring and period popular music detail (I love DeVol's arrangements of those). It's not the most profound score ever composed, but it does bear repeated listening, especially as this CD is made up of DeVol's original scoring for the film (complete with Bill Medley's vocals on "A Man And A Train"), before the film was recut and the score edited at the last minute. As a bonus, we get DeVol's music for CAPRICE, a movie mostly remembered as a notorious misfire of a vehicle for Doris Day -- the music is the best part of the film, as it turns out, filled with sweeping melodies and a mix of comedic and suspenseful cues. Frank DeVol was a musical jack-of-all-trades, and was very much in his various elements here, amid an incomprehensible plot and a phantasmagoric array of late 1960s visuals, courtesy of director Frank Tashlin. The audio quality on the tracks is excellent.

The notes for the CD reveal more about the production history of EMPEROR OF THE NORTH POLE than most of us have ever known. It's a superb release, well worth owning for fans of the movie or of the composer.


title: A Unique and Glorious Listening Experience

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I was first told about this set at Academy Records in New York City, and lo, and behold, they came up with a copy of it that same afternoon. And I was sold enough to buy it without checking with any reviews.

So alright, we'll start with the concession that there are technical shortcomings to these home recordings -- they are home recordings, after all, from 1940. But the sound has been fixed up as best as any technology could possibly provide, and the experience is downright spellbinding, as the composer takes us through his final composition in his own, inimitable way, with comments in the background. I had to listen to them three times the first afternoon I had the set, and each time there was something different and more to be gotten out of them.

The accompanying performances, recordings and broadcasts by Dimitri Mitropoulos and Eugene Ormandy, plus earlier recordings of Rachmaninoff at the piano, are wonderful to have all in one place in surprisingly fine sound for their era. Finally, there's a release that is a perfect companion to the old RCA Victor/BMG set of the complete Rachmaninoff recordings, and not just a companion, but an equally compelling release in its own right.

Put simply, this is one killer CD set, one of the most exciting listening experiences I've run into, certainly for anything involving established repertory, in many, many years.


title: Long Overdue -- And Oh So Fine Listening -- A Great Soundtrack to a Great Film

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I saw COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT in a theater when it first opened in April of 1970 (at the RKO Keith's theater in downtown Flushing, Queens, NY), and was very frustrated by the fact that there was never a soundtrack album to accompany the release. This La-La-Land CD issue from July of 2018 makes up for that oversight, not only providing a fuller account of the movie's score than any LP of the era would have, but also revealing, in Jeff Bond's annotation, the struggle that went on behind the scenes between director Joseph Sargent and the studio, and composer Michel Colombier and his musical and creative sensibilities -- apparently Colombier's instincts and judgement departed sharply at times from the goals that Sargent and the producers had for the mood and tone of certain scenes and also such key moments as the ending; Colombier had a much more irony-laced score in mind than the people making the movie did.

But all of that said, the places where he was in sync with the makers are brilliant -- his use of strings, horns, and percussion always stood out in the finished film, and having all of that score exposed properly here is a real treat for anyone who has ever liked the movie. The sound quality is excellent, the annotation is so thorough that it could be the foundation for a book about the movie, and the price is just right. And this bodes extremely well for La-La-Land's intended issue of a wide-array of soundtrack music from Universal's vaults.


title: An Hour of Off-Beat Fun, for the Veteran Listener or the Casual Fan

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This is a delightfully strange Moody Blues compilation, released under license from Decca and Threshold Records in 1989 -- rather than compiling a collection of their hits and best-known album tracks, the makers decided to shoot for something different, going for the B-sides of their best known singles and for album tracks that got lots of FM radio play in the day, but not so much across time. Apart from "Steppin' In A Slide Zone" and "Question" (the latter in its remixed form from THIS IS THE MOODY BLUES), there's not a lot here that the casual listener is likely to know very well, but that doesn't mean that it's not enjoyable. Indeed, quite the contrary, this collection is a salute to the durability of the Moody Blues' sound across a dozen years or so, from 1966 to 1978, even when the selection isn't based on direct popularity -- casual fans of the group are certain to find a lot of music here that they will enjoy, while serious listeners will, undoubtedly, enjoy the offbeat mix of pre-psychedelic, psychedelic, and post-psychedelic style numbers, intermingled and sometimes jumbled together. And amid the explorations of their "off-brand" material, a pair of tracks from CAUGHT LIVE + 5, "Gimme A Little Something" and "Please Think About It," get some deserved fresh exposure (the former, especially, is a fine John Lodge tune). My only complaint is an error in the usually perfect John Tobler's annotation, concerning the origins of those two songs.

Songs:
1 Voices In The Sky
2 Out And In
3 Candle Of Life
4 After You Came
5 For My Lady
6 Cities
7 A Simple Game
8 Fly Me High
9 Steppin' In A Slide Zone
10 So Deep Within You
11 I'll Be Level With You
12 Leave This Man Alone
13 Dr. Livingstone, I Presume
14 Gimme A Little Somethin'
15 Please Think About It
16 Question


title: Some of the Most Fun This Band Ever Had -- And a Great Oldies Record, Too!!!!

text: I was a big fan of Lindisfarne, but I never knew about this album, as it never did show up -- so far as I can tell -- on the American side of the Atlantic. And when I saw it on Amazon UK, I grabbed it. C'MON EVERYBODY is basically the classic Lindisfarne line-up (Alan Hull, Ray Jackson, Rod Clements, Ray Laidlaw, Simon Cowe, and Marty Craggs) having a lot of fun in the studio, capturing for posterity their favorite vintage party songs, which were a key part of a series of renowned Christmas shows that they did in the 1980s. It's a long way from "Meet Me On The Corner" or "Lady Eleanor" (though not quite so far from "Fog On The Tyne" or "Mandolin King"), but these guys could rock out, and have a lot of fun doing it. In spirit, the album -- a fully-packed double LP with lots of medleys -- is closer in spirit to the work of Showaddywaddy (who were sort of the UK's classier, more ambitious answer to America's Sha-Na-Na) than it is to, say, the Band's Moondog Matinee or even the Guess Who's Rockin', but that's to the listener's advantage. The joy that permeates (and, indeed, oozes over the sides of) every one of these tracks makes this an absolutely incredible party album, and one that could have sold tons on this side of the Atlantic, with a little exposure. The songs range across the gamut of 1950s/early 1960s classics: Frankie Ford, Dion (& the Belmonts), Big Joe Turner, the Isley Brothers, Richie Valens, Eddie Cochran, Bill Haley, Little Richard, the Diamonds . . . . the list goes on and on. And for good measure, they finish with new recordings of "Fog On The Tyne," "Run For Home" (the band's only US singles chart entry), "Meet Me On The Corner" etc. -- "Fog On The Tyne" will be an acquired taste to anyone who remembers the original, but I'll take it anytime, anywhere, anyway I can get it (and I've never even been to Newcastle!), and the rest is like spun gold transmuted into music.


title: A Fantastic Christmas Record, and a Great Showcase for Skiffle Music

text: Skiffle music was a hugely popular genre in England from the mid-1950s into the very start of the 1960s, and is mostly remembered elsewhere as the medium through which most first- and second-generation British rock musicians first started playing American-style music. Infectious in its appeal, it can win over new listeners in a flash if it's played by a real master, and there were a few of them: Lonnie Donegan, Wally Whyton, Johnny Duncan, Chas McDevitt etc. Today, it's usually dismissed as formulaic and narrow in focus, a meld of blues, folk, country, and western, with elements of jazz lurking about, but all very basic. MERRY SKIFFLEMAS, by Big Boy Pete (aka Peter Jay Miller, of Peter Jay & the Jaywalkers [and a LOT else]) and Hilton Valentine of the Animals, shows just how flexible skiffle music could be -- without losing any of the fun and good times that goes with playing it and listening to it, the pair deliver delightfully earthy, rhythmic renditions of holiday music ranging from "Silent Night" to "White Christmas" and "Auld Lang Syne," done so breezily and off-handedly that all of it sounds new, as well as completely spontaneous. Miller being a top producer and engineer as well as a first-rate musician -- and Valentine a better-than-first-rate guitarist -- the playing and the sound are both beyond reproach.


title: English Rock 'N' Roll's First Important Live Album -- and it still rocks 56 years on.

text: Cliff Richard's first long-player was titled simply "Cliff" and cut in February of 1959 with his band The Shadows -- consisting of Hank B. Marvin, Bruce Welch, Jet Harris, and Tony Meehan, all still known as The Drifters at the time, and identified as such on the original cover -- at EMI's Studio No. 1, in front of a horde of enthusiastic fans. Along with Billy Fury's The Sound of Fury 10-inch (which dates from a bit later), it is one of a tiny handful of UK rock 'n' roll albums of the time that hold up to modern ears with no apologies or explanations needed, as Richard and the band tear through an array of rock 'n' roll standards plus their own repertory (and their big hit of the time, "Move It") in good form. Listening to it 56 years on, it's easy to understand precisely how important not only Richard, but also Marvin, Welch and company were to the evolution of early British rock 'n' roll out of skiffle and teen pop (although the latter is the sound that Richard would start pursuing within just a couple of years of this release) -- Jet Harris showed off the power of the electric bass in no uncertain terms, and Tony Meehan had youth and personality in his presence behind the drums to match with Marvin and Welch's mix of virtuosity and flash. The sound is excellent, and the show is a keeper.


title: The Group's Long-Player Debut -- And a Killer Album

text: This is a sizzling debut long-player for this band who -- at the time -- were outselling their rivals the Rolling Stones. Their debut hit "House of the Rising Sun should dominate, even in its shortened three-minute edit, but the band does so well by their covers of numbers associated with Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker etc. that the whole album boils and surges, and in a way that its UK counterpart (released a month later) doesn't quite match. A great way to start collecting the best of the hardest side of the British invasion.


title: Two Albums from Dusty Springfield's Brother (and a guest appearance by Dusty)

text: Tom Springfield (b. Dionysus O'Brien) was never quite as visible as his younger sister Mary (better known as Dusty Springfield), but in the realm of folk music and folk-pop music in England he was a very active participant, as a performer (as part of the trio The Springfields) and then as a producer/songwriter, principally with The Seekers (he and Jim Dale co-wrote the song "Georgie Girl"). He didn't get around to recording solo until the 1970s, with the album SUN SONGS, by which time a lot of his recognition had passed him by, along with his audience -- all of which is sort of a shame, as he reveals an expressive voice and a natural flare for folk-based material, especially with a Caribbean/Calypso flavor. His work is a little too smooth and pop-flavored for what audiences were seeking in the 1970s, but had these records appeared a decade earlier one could easily imagine Springfield capturing an audience, especially with his sultry rendition of "Manha de Carnaval." He also turns in a surprisingly lively Caribbean-style rendition of Paul McCartney's "Here, There & Everywhere."<br />His second album, LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY, has a wider palette of acoustic sounds, but for some listeners the most notable feature will be the opening track, "Morning Please Don't Come," which features Dusty Springfield in a gorgeous duet with her brother -- the latter must surely qualify as one of her most obscure recordings. The rest of the record is beautiful in its own right, as Springfield pushes his range a bit further, in some cases out of the folk realm entirely, and into the territory of show-tune style numbers. It's a fun album, and the lyrics on Springfield's originals reveal a knowingly satirical edge. The Vocalion CD reissue of these albums is not easy to find in America -- it was far more accessible in England -- but is worth tracking down, for the curious.


title: A Lost Collection of the Band's Later Work -- And Not To Be Missed

text: This was a great idea for a compilation album back in the early 1980s, as a natural follow-up to Volume 1 (1965-67), when the Byrds' catalog experienced a major revival of interest, especially in Europe. And because it never received a US release (unlike its volume one equivalent), there were never any cheaper, degraded American masterings/pressings out on vinyl to disappoint listeners -- CBS UK did a great job of mastering and pressing this album, which was one of the few ways of obtaining the David Crosby-authored "Lady Friend" on an LP (it never showed up on a US release till the CD era); and it showcases the all-too-brief Gram Parsons era and the Clarence White era. UNTITLED is a better overall showcase for that last band, but there is a lot of fine material here across two years or so of music-making, some of it psychedelic, some of it folk-based, and a lot of it country, and much of it mixing some combination thereof. It's since been supplanted by the Japanese-issued Original Singles A's & B's 1965-1971, but this volume was never on CD and was (and is) an LP of some musical value, in any case.


title: Good CD of the United Artists LP -- But No Significant Bonuses

text: Elmer Bernstein's music was just about the only thing (apart from Donald Pleasence's acting and Lee Remick's good looks) in John Sturges's The Hallelujah Trail that worked the way it was supposed to, and this CD is a long-overdue reissue of the original soundtrack album from United Artists Records, augmented by two short excerpts from the recording sessions for the film which are the only bonus materials. But those expecting -- or hoping for -- anything resembling the joys, depth, and power of the Intrada double-CD set of Bernstein's score for Sturges's The Great Escape will be sorely disappointed. These are the official soundtrack album recordings, made in the studio for the record using a 30+ piece orchestra and a similarly small-sized choir, as distinct from the actually film recording sessions, which usually used forces of up to double that size or even bigger (that's part of the reason, besides their actual widescreen images, why all of those 1960s epics seemed so imposingly BIG in a theater), which were the basis for Intrada's Great Escape set. The relevant tapes for THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL have not survived, so this is all there is, at least until someone in Europe with some money decides to book some session time with a Russian or Polish orchestra and choir to do the whole score anew.


title: A Rare CD in the USA -- And One Worth Finding

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I could be wrong, but it seems to me that this CD was never in the US catalog -- it was a new one on me as a compact disc when I spotted it on Amazon a few weeks ago, and if that was, indeed, the case, then RCA should be ashamed of itself for never issuing it on this side of the Atlantic. The performances are impeccable, Julian Lloyd Webber treating each of the three pieces appropriately in terms of natural lyricism and a good deal of, if you will, almost a sense-of-wonder about the Delius and Holst pieces. I first heard the Delius concerto in DuPre's recording on EMI, and loved it -- only years later did I discover that she took it more slowly in many key passages than was standard practice -- since then I've heard it by Raphael Walfisch (with Mackerras conducting) on EMI, and also by Paul Watkins on Chandos. I would have to say that the Walfisch is still my favorite, followed by this one -- the DuPre I put in a separate category owing to the anomalies in it.

As to the Holst "Invocation," it's a piece that I will need time to absorb more fully, as one of his more introverted works. The Vaughan Williams is a delight from beginning to end, if not his greatest exploration of folksong material. The sound is excellent, by the way, which makes it even more of a shame that this compact disc was never issued over here (neither, officially, was the LP, as I recall -- it was a direct import back in the day, from Peters International or some other outlet).


title: Beecham Mono Classics that Sony USA Neglected

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Sir Thomas Beecham was around for so many years, as a conductor, a recording artist, and a personality, that he looms amazingly large in 2013, 52 years after his death -- but that's mostly by virtue of his EMI recordings, mono and stereo, principally from the mid-1950s on to the end of the decade (capped by his RCA Victor stereo Messiah), which have been liberally represented on compact disc on both sides of the Atlantic. His post-World War II Columbia Masterworks sides, of which this disc is representative, have had a much more limited life and exposure, especially in the United States. Partly this seems to be a matter of corporate inertia -- there were (and still are, for all I know) issues concerning master sources on those Columbia sides, which date from the late 1940s thru the early/middle-1950s. As Columbia Records USA had no European facilities of its own until the mid-1960s -- instead relying on mutual licensing/distribution/recording agreements with various European recording companies, most of Beecham's recordings from this era were done by Philips; and according to one Sony Classical executive to whom I spoke in person during the late 1980s, Philips at some point cleaned out its vaults, junking all of the session and master tapes that were not actually owned by them and which were otherwise unclaimed, which included all of Beecham's Columbia recordings that had been done by them. (And, alas, Columbia Records never reclaimed them, so they were disposed of). As a result, during the CD era, while Sony Classical in America was re-releasing upgrades on recordings by Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta, Bruno Walter et al Beecham's legacy (apart from some recordings done here during World War II) wasn't even considered because of the work that seemed to be involved in finding substitute sources. THAT is the story I was given in New York City in 1989-/90-whatever.

And it's why all we ever saw of Beecham in the Masterworks Heritage series were some of his New York Philharmonic sides from the early 1940s (those were obviously made here, and the sources, whatever they were, were here, as he did sit out the war on this side of the Atlantic, a decision that cost him the directorship of the London Philharmonic [which he had founded] when he returned to England -- which is a WHOLE other story in a life filled with stories. . . .)

But that hasn't stopped Sony Music in Europe (especially France and Austria) from issuing this CD, as well as a brace of additional Beecham sides in various compact disc cycles. The CD at hand will sound compressed by contemporary standards -- that's unavoidable on tapes dating from 1950. But that doesn't mean there's any less joy in hearing the performances, which are thoroughly imbued with a free-flowing lyricism and overflowing with panache, from this most genial of interpreters. The music is also worth discovering -- Richard Arnell (1917-2009) might not have been another Vaughan Williams, but he could write scrumptious ballet music, which is the best away to describe "Punch And The Child," the earliest performance here, from 1950 with the Royal Philharmonic. The ballet suite of Lord Berners' "The Triumph of Neptune" (a Diaghilev commission) is more familiar, and while the Royal Philharmonic under Beecham left behind better accounts of it, the Philadelphia Orchestra rises to the occasion under his baton. And Frederick Delius's "Paris -- A Nocturne," from 1955, holds up well, both sonically and as a performance.

The annotation is reasonably informative, and there is recording information included, and it's just unfortunate that, when there were still music stores all over America (many of them carrying some classical) it wasn't possible for people on this side of the Atlantic to discover this release by accident, so to speak -- happy accident, to be sure. (Thanks again, Sony USA . . . .)


title: Great Job -- And Yet Another Wrinkle in the early Traffic Catalog

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NOTE: THIS REVIEW APPLIES PRINCIPALLY TO THE MAY 2012 SUNDAZED CD OF THE US MONO VERSION OF TRAFFIC'S HEAVEN IS IN YOUR MIND.

Sorting out the early Traffic catalog is about as confusing to the average listener as working out the Beatles' US and UK libraries for the low-level fan, and much for the same reason, mostly having to do with the differing philosophies about albums and singles on the two sides of the Atlantic. In America from the early 1960s onward, singles were often used to promote accompanying albums as well as careers, and there was every reason to throw the single that everyone presumably already knew (and liked) from the radio onto whatever album was issued in connection with it. In England, however, albums and singles were usually treated as completely separate entities by the record labels -- issued on different occasions, and often a bit (and in this case, quite a bit) later than any singles. The only place where they normally intersected was on "greatest hits" and "best of" compilation LPs.

And so the MR. FANTASY album, as their debut on Island Records was known in England, did not have the group's first two singles, "Paper Sun" and "Hole In My Shoe," on it -- which was just as well from the group's standpoint, as most of the album was recorded a bit later than those singles, and mostly after the point where they had pretty much abandoned the sitar, and at a moment where, in terms of direction, the group were sorting out their internal dynamics by casting their lot with Steve Winwood rather than with Dave Mason. And in that connection, another complicating factor was Mason's departure following the completion of MR FANTASY -- the result was that by the time that album was issued in England in December of 1967, it was a snapshot of the group that, essentially, was no longer valid. By the time the group's US label, United Artists Records, was preparing the American release, however, they saw no reason not to include "Paper Sun" and "Hole In My Shoe" on the album -- the presence of which, as two eminently accessible pop/psychedelic numbers, could only help sell a long-player by a band that was still mostly an unknown quantity in America -- and, in the process, remove a pair of Mason's songs, as he didn't seem to figure in the future of the group at that point. That doesn't mean that the US version is necessarily "better" than the UK original, or even preferable, although a case could be made that it is easier to absorb with the two single A-sides present. But it did mean that the US album, retitled HEAVEN IS IN YOUR MIND (with some variations, which made for still more confusion in retrospect), which was the way many longtime US fans first heard the group (though it only reached No. 88 on the American charts), had a distinctly separate identity. (The UK version didn't show up on American shores until much later). And if one thinks about it a bit and recalls the box set craze of the early 1990s, it's just possible to visualize a box set devoted to the different permutations of this album (stereo/mono -- US/UK etc.).

Sundazed Records previously had the US mono version of HEAVEN IS IN YOUR MIND out on vinyl, and there was a CD version of the US mono album issued on a UK Island CD (see how complicated this is starting to get?) around 1999 -- counting the different cover art on both sides of the Atlantic, it gets very difficult to keep track of what one may have heard, or which version(s) one may already own, or which is better. But whatever way one got (or gets) to hear this record, it is a lot of fun and pretty intense, a strangely progressive and spaced-out mix of psychedelia, jazz, folk, and pop-rock, done in a truly freewheeling spirit, all very trippy and very British and mostly played superbly. Concerning the playing, that's more complicated here than it would be on the UK version of the album, owing to the presence of those two single sides (and, with them, Dave Mason's considerable influence on the early group). Mason's use of the Mellotron on a pair of tracks ("Hole In My Shoe," "No Face No Name And No Number") also comes off very strikingly vivid in the mastering of this CD, as much as the drums and bass on "Heaven Is In Your Mind," or Winwood's organ elsewhere. And for the uninitiated, there will be surprises -- between the sitars, the flutes, and the Mellotron and the trippy ambiance in a lot of this material, a neophyte listener might expect this record to intersect with the work of such pop/psych bands as, say, the Moody Blues, of the same era; but it doesn't -- if anything, with the playing as solid as it is here from the rhythm section on up, a lot of HEAVEN IS IN YOUR MIND is closer in spirit and impact to the Rolling Stones' subsequent BEGGARS' BANQUET (which, no coincidence, was the work of the same producer), but mostly with a richer sound palette than the Stones mustered, even with Brian Jones still in the lineup.

Even on this freshman effort, these guys were playing circles around most of the competition, and Traffic's approach to music was all their own and completely experimental in structure and content. Heard today, at its most accessible the album comes off as experimental pop, and not like too much else that was around (or crossing the Atlantic) in late 1967/early 1968. Only the music hall-influenced numbers, such as "Berkshire Poppies," seem a little weak, and that's only when heard out of context with the rest of the album.

This particular edition was made off of the original Philips Records masters, and even the most twee and spacy moments have some serious intensity to the playing and singing, and the overall production, that sets it apart from light psychedelia of the era. It's a masterful job, and just as good in 2012 as it was in early 1968.


title: A Brilliant Soundtrack Gets The Luster It Deserves

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I've loved Richad Rodney Bennett's music from Ken Russell's BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN ever since I first saw the movie -- even longer than that, as the main title theme was used in the television advertisements for the film weeks before it opened. But as soon as I saw the movie, I ran out and bought the soundtrack LP. The music was the best part of a movie filled with great things and wonderful elements, right down to its cynical plot (from Len Deighton's novel), about a free-lance secret agent (Michael Caine) who finds himself trapped between the Brits and the Soviets in a Bernie Madoff-style scam -- that could trigger World War III -- being run out of Finland and Latvia by a larcenous agent (Karl Malden) on behalf of a virulently anti-Communist Texas multi-millionaire oilman (Ed Begley Sr.).

This CD finally gives the music the shine and luster it always deserved in its presentation, newly remastered and reasonably fully annotated. One point not included in the notes is that of the three players featured on piano for the title theme, one was composer Bennett, and another was Thea Musgrave (later a noted composer in the operatic field), and the third . . . no one remembers. I worked for a company that had the rights to this album at one time, but we could never get it issued on CD even at the height of the compact disc boom, so I'm doubly glad to see it now, and done right. The companion score to THE FINAL OPTION is a more modern, contemporary one, that could pass muster with a movie in 2012. But Bennett's music for Russell's movie is unique and special, in its content, humor, and scoring, all making it a must-own release. (And more recently, he is properly known as SIR Richard Rodney Bennett, incidentally).


title: A Classic Show From Early In Their History

text: There's no shortage of live Southside Johnny material available, mostly starting from somewhat later in their history, which is all perfectly fine (I don't know if he knows how to give a bad show) -- but this one pre-dates all of them, and it's only amazing that it isn't better known, and wasn't out as a widely available commercial release.


title: Budgie still rocks

text: I haven't listen to any Budgie since the late 70's, not long ago my 13yr. old daughter was listening to Metallica's remake of Breadfan,  I'd forgotten how Budgie rips so I pulled out the old LP's put on the Best of and enjoyed the great selection of songs!  If your a Budgie fan this is a good representation on of early Budgie tunes.  My daughter thinks it rocks!


title: Five Stars

text: Amazing music, amazing age!


title: Great music and songs.

text: Great music and touching, real-life issues songs. Very uplifting.


title: A very enjoyable and lovely soundtrack

text: I have come across final fantasy piano soundtracks just a few years ago and I enjoy them very much. As a piano player, I only used to practice classical music but since I have bought these I have expanded my repertoire. They are very lovely to hear and enjoyable to practice. Each time I play them I develop more and more attachments towards the characters and appreciate the people who made them possible.


title: Great new music

text: When does the next set get released? I'll be waiting. Only regret that there are only 4 real tracks on this set.


title: Were are they now?

text: I heard this band in Florida and fell for them like a blind roofer. They are hands-down the best power-pop band I have ever heard. I always wondered what happened to them.


title: Unchained Melody

text: There never has been any song surpassing Unchained Melody, although other singers have achieved the same heavenly bliss!!!


title: INFORMATION ON DISC.

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THIS CD IS FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE, 1995.
ARTISTS INCLUDE: LEE RITENOUR & LARRY CARLTON, JOE HENDERSON,
DAVID SANBORN, BILLY JOE WALKER JR., DAVE BRUBECK, JAZZ AT
THE MOVIES BAND & STRINGS, JOHN PATITUCCI, THE LYNNE ARRIALE TRIO, PHYLLIS HORNE, HENRY THREADGILL.
TEN TRACKS.


title: INFORMATION ON DISC.

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THIS CD IS FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, 1995.

ARTISTS INCLUDE: GROOVE COLLECTIVE, MARK WHITFIELD, STEVEN

PASERO & CHRISTOPHER BOCK, BILL STEWART, PAUL TAYLOR, DEE DEE

BRIDGEWATER, TOM GRANT, STAN SAMOLE, MARK WINKLER, MARCUS MILLER.

TEN TRACKS .


title: '70's "ROCK"

text: Seventies soft rock...Rocks! I wanna get the entire collection someday! You should too! One of the best collections from Time/Life!


title: Worth it for the amazing music alone

text: Great book with Arthurs very cool themed  artwork spread across 110 pages -- no words or title on book which is my only complaint .. other wise the cd has nearly 80 minutes of beautiful haunting soundscapes occasionally with some subtle voiceover or vocal melodies that sounds like Boards of Canada at times … get it because its very limited and you can buy it much cheaper on his website...  amazing item!


title: Absolutely Essential collection of rare 70s French analog synth Music

text: Quite simply this is one of the best electronic (cosmic space) compilations available-  a whos who of out of print rare 70s French electronic artists- including the cd only versions of the material by Zanov- Serge Ramses- OSE- Space Art- Christian Boule etc- impossible to find even on vinyl! If you like klause schulze tangerine dream jarre Tim Blake 70s electronic music etc  this is a must own~ Both cds are lengthy and great though the first disc is the best by a hair! Highlights include the tracks from Zanov's Green Ray album and the the Serge Ramses cut- when the birds die away- buy it now while you can - even at these prices its worth it- to try to get vinyl versions of these would cost well into the 300-500 range..... If you an get a copy for a hundred id consider it worth it without hesitation!


title: more weird french space electronic pop!

text: Shave your head and paint yourself silver- this halloween go as a member of late 70s french analog spacemen band Rockets. While youre at it pop this rare cd into your system and be transported back to the futurepast of cosmic space analog world .  You will be pleasantly suprised at the quality of this  admittedly disposable and somewhat dated robo  space pop- a mix of thick warm analog synth vocoder pop tunes including a great cover of "on the road again" yes that song that plays on every classic rock station. More effective though are the Tangerine Dream inspired songs like cosmic race and astroglide- hinting at some leftover french progressive music from a few years before and ot afraid to include some funk grooves and chops! Much better then any Daft Punk AIR or any other atempted retro vocoder electronic acts of the last decade by a longshot! And i say this as a pretty big AIR fan. P.s check out their hilarious videos on youtube and snatch this up as its become very rare despite the fact they sold millions of records in Europe in the late 70s and early 80s. In the end this is a likable record that occassionaly has moments of funky sublime brilliance and delivers with its dreamy moogs arps and catchy electronic grooves!


title: absolutely perfect late sixties french pop ala gainsbourg

text: I just discovered Manset and must say ive been blown away- this album of orchestral mod leaning british style sixties pop is perfect in every way- great voice and phrasing- tons of strings and violins and a beat not unlike some of Gainsbourgs best stuff-  get it while you can this is pretty rare and one of the best 60s era french recordings ive heard and ive heard a pretty vast selection and own quite a few- i place this among the top along with historie de melodie nelson and jacques dutronc etc!!!!!!


title: What if...

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Rated five stars, but five exclamation marks !!!!! might be more exacting.

What if there was a band that played so well that they rivaled the best.

What if this band played lively swing that was over the top playfully happy.

What if this band's music riled the imagination in storybook fashion.

What if this band came from a far away place, so far away that too few can imagine that this music even exists.

What's Mocca?  Mocca is swing (in the fashion of Frank Sinatra) - not twee pop, jazz, rock, indie pop nor the countless other genres placed.  Vocalist Arina has a startling clear, beautifully youthful voice.  (The musical theme is not childish and Arina is 30)  Songwriter and guitarist Riko is usually mentioned along with the word 'genius'.  Toma plays electric and double bass that provides the musical swing.  Indra is a very original and talented drummer.  Put them together and they add up to Mocca.  They are the pride of Bandung, Indonesia.

You can tell where Mocca is going with the music in the opening lines...

Once upon a time, when the sky was covered with blue
Once upon a time, when the sun was smiling too
We're just common people with an ordinary look
We're just common people with an ordinary love

My Diary is about the dreams, thoughts and ambitions of one girl.  The story goes that there is this Secret Admirer who never sends bouquets of flowers.  But this secret admirer is full of secrets like Clark Kent, and all she needs is someone...  What If... is a song out of the imagination on a seductive theme.  What if I give you my smile?  Are you gonna stay for awhile?  Me and My Boyfriend is the strongest track.  The bursting swing brings emphasis to the elation of the moment.  But things don't go so perfect.  The phone doesn't ring.  I start to think you forgot.  I don't want to hear your excuse...  There are more sad songs and then Life Keeps On Turning, the final story in which it all begins again.

There is this quality in the lyrics.  Many times I think that I've heard this music before but never put in this way.  For example, the line "Loosing (sic) you is not the end of the world, but it's true that it definitely hurts!"  How clearly one can imagine so much with such concise words.

There is also a variety of instruments including guitars, keyboards, flutes, trombones, trumpets, whistles...

Mocca has the conceptual talent in the way of a Pink Floyd.  The music is accomplished.  The magical imagination is in the way of a Fantasia. It is medicine for the soul. Ordinary people, well maybe.  Ordinary musicians, clearly no.


title: Great set of concerts

text: AC/DC was great with Bon Scott.  I recommend it!


title: Very relaxing

text: I like the product altho it's not my favorite. The cd"s tracks are a little too short play time for my Tai Chi classes. I might recommend it for listening only.


title: Exactly

text: This product is exactly what I was looking for and exactly as described.


title: Five Stars

text: love it


title: unique classic

text: at the time of this review, there is one copy for $75. If I didn't own it, and had the cash, i would certainly pay that. I bought it on the recommendation of a trusted record shop owner, and am so glad i did. 15 years later it's hardly aged a day; covers the ground from middle-eastern flavored sullen dub to scorching acid, beautifully done throughout. very much five full stars.


title: dark and brilliant

text: from the "isolationist" camp, dark grinding textures, really lost and gone. a classic. the P Children track is as essential an example as exists.


title: 90s Vancouver indie legends

text: Even Vancouverites who think they've never heard of Sarcastic Mannequins may recognize two songs on this album: "4 Arabs In A Red Fury" (inspired by the classic mostly-instrumental "Tequila") and "The 6-6-60s are over", both of which received airplay on a number of local stations in the early 90s, primarily on the modern rock champion Coast 1040, which made a great effort to showcase local talent whenever possible.


title: Incomplete order recieved!!!!!!!!

text: I received a CD. I purchased this for the DVD. The description states that there would be a DVD, CD And an action book. I noticed another review where someone states they only received a DVD. Is this a deceptive practice or simple error. Beware.


title: just what i needed in my life RIGHT NOW.!!

text: this book is so enlightening.!! gets better with every page,


title: Fun, clever, and highly engaging

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Correctly referred to as the "Second Missus Beastly", this is an important work in the history of Jazz Fusion, with a clever, engaging mixture of brash fun with moments of unexpected emotional and acoustic subtlety that belies what one would expect from the (ostensibly) controversial cover and some track titles.

Reminiscent of Weather Report and Doldinger's funkier works, this band's somewhat atypical instrumentation -- guitar, sax, keyboard, bass and drums along with not one, but two flautists in some pieces -- is central to the buoyantly unexpected nature of the album.  The sudden and surprising flute solo at the heart of "Talle" leads later to a moving and almost mournful trailing off that is the perfect ending of this engaging and eclectic work (the additional tracks added in later releases do a real disservice here by rendering this important effect moot).

4.5 Stars.  No fusion collection should be without it!


title: Mind Stretching!

text: 12 hours of fascinating material. Definitely a mind stretcher!


title: My Favorite P & W CD

text: This has become my favorite P & W cd. Danny Daniels is topnotch as an artist!


title: great voice/so-so music

text: The vocals are incredible, although the original tune's music doesn't do them justice however. The Riva, Paul Van Dyk & Armin Van Buuren mixes are what make this song shine. Get them if you can.


title: Not as good as expected

text: Thought these would be blue grass versions of punk Floyd songs. Instead they are more of Bluegrass interpretations<br />There are better offerings out there


title: Musica maravillosa

text: Excelente.


title: Where's the CD release ?

text: One of Rushen's best (and my personal favorite). Just before the pop, still in the jazz, square in the funk. Great concepts, great musicians, great performances, great grooves (and good vocals, too, of course!).<br />This needs a CD release !!! Wounded Bird? Somebody?


title: Indescribably bad

text: Let me first say that I would love to like this CD.  The music is certainly fantastic.  But... this is one of the single worst recordings I have ever heard.  The engineer responsible for this atrocity should be drawn and quartered.  Though, perhaps that is a bit harsh; after all, I ought to give him or her the benefit of the doubt, because perhaps this misguided person was simply trying to hide the fantastically sub-par singing of the ensemble.  I'm not sure if they were going for an "authentic" sound, and don't quite get how the tuning system used in Monteverdi's time worked, but this CD abounds with moments that make nails on a blackboard sound positively angelic.  Which is unfortunate, because most of the ensemble does fairly well most of the time.  But we all know that a vocal ensemble is only as strong as its weakest member, and there seem to be a couple of singers among this group who consistently end a full 25 cents flat or sharp on key notes.  And I've decided not to give the engineer the benefit of the doubt, because the instruments actually seem decent, in the few moments when you can actually hear them.  Final verdict - unless you're some sort of auditory masochist, or you have some compulsive need to purchase every CD ever made of Monteverdi's music, avoid this.  Because there's nothing more offensive to a musical enthusiast than hearing beautiful music made to sound ugly.


title: Great music

text: The music is great but one of the disc is screwed up. one song on the 501 blues cd cuts out on most of the song. maybe a manufacture defect.


title: FABULOUS SELECTION!

text: This is one of the better collections out there. Some very hard to find songs on this wonderful 3 cd set. Comes in a very nice hard plastic box 3 cd holder which is rare these days. Most multi-cd set cases are flimsy and fall apart quickly. Not this one. This is a bargain. It seems that the previous review was for the wrong CD.


title: Excellent Recording -especially Poco Alegretto

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JOHANNES BRAHMS
SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN F MAJOR, OP. 90
ORCHESTRA FILHARMONICA SLOVACCA
CONDUCTOR ~ LUDOVIT RAJTER

TRACKS

1. Allegro Con Brio ~ 9:48
2. Andante ~ 10:20
3. Poco Allegretto ~ 6:00
4. Allegro ~ 9:00

PLAYING TIME ~ 35:08


title: SUPERB HAMMERED DULCIMER!!

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TRACKS

1. The song of the water kelpie ~ 2:21
2. Juniper waltz ~ 4:18
3. Rainshower ~ 6:06
4. Summer days ~ 2:55
5. Sarabande ~ 1:44
6. Over the rainbow ~ 3:06
7. Lovely love ~ 3:12
8. Carolan's draught ~ 2:57
9. Eleanor plunkett ~ 3:33
10. Home once again ~ 4:06
11. Waltz for the little girls ~ 3:08
12. The jewel ~ 2:18
13. Coilsfield house ~ 3:05
14. How can i keep from singing? ~ 4:56

TOTAL PLAYING TIME ~ 48:13


title: Excellent selection and performance

text: Excellent!<br />18 tracks written by modern day composers including: Williams, Jarre, Morricone, Flowers, Barry, Vangelis and more.


title: Excellent Contemporary Interpretation

text: This is a rare gem at a budget price. I was surprised with the excellent recording quality as well as the superb performance ~ Instrumental, Mood: Gentle & Peaceful, very relaxing music. Instruments: Piano, keyboards, flute, acoustic guitar, oboe, violin, clarinet, percussion, bass. Track List: The Girl With the Flaxen Hair/ 2nd Gnossienne/ Pavane/ 3rd Gymnopedie/ Clair De Lune/ Sonatine (Menuet)/ La Plus Que Lente/ Mother Goose Suite (Tom Thumb)/ Mother Goose Suite (Pavne of the Sleeping Beauty)/ 2nd Gymnopedie)/ Pavne Pour Une Infante Defunte/ Songs Without Words (Andante Moderato)


title: TRACK INFORMATION

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TRACKS
1. Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in D minor ("Double"), BWV 1043 1992 15:25
Performed by: Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Alberto Lysy, International Menuhin Music Academy, Gstaad,

2. Pietro Antonio Locatelli Violin Concerto in C major, Op. 3/5  1992 11:06
Performed by: Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Alberto Lysy, International Menuhin Music Academy, Gstaad

3. Richard Wagner Träume (Dreams) for violin & small orchestra in A flat major (from Wesendonck Lieder No. 5), WWV 91b 1992 4:54
Performed by: Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Sophia Reuter, International Menuhin Music Academy, Gstaad

4. Malcolm Arnold Concerto for 2 violins & strings, Op. 77  1992 14:53
Performed by: Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Alberto Lysy, Sophia Reuter, International Menuhin Music Academy, Gstaad

5. Alberto Lysy Variations on a theme by Corelli for 02 Violins  1992 4:11
Performed by: Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Alberto Lysy, Liviu Prunaru, International Menuhin Music Academy, Gstaad

6. Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto for 3 harpsichords, strings & continuo in C major, BWV 1064 1992 18:17


title: Beauty of the artist!

text: Simply great!


title: Thanks again

text: It's excellent SMB


title: She's the best

text: I love it and I came fast


title: Thanks

text: It came fast I love it I don't understand why someone said it's better than the old CD


title: Five Stars

text: I love it great price I received it thank you


title: Four Stars

text: TOP and GREAT !


title: Five Stars

text: TOP and GREAT !


title: All in all okay, but OBI-STRIP has discoloration (Colour-fading ...

text: All in all okay, but OBI-STRIP has discoloration (Colour-fading !) and the SELLER<br />should descirbe this - but anyway - THANK YOU very much -> 4 Stars for YOU


title: The man who loved movie music

text: One of the rarest Mancini's soundtracks. Also one of the less known, but also one the the very best. The melancholy themes succeed one another creating a very special and personal mood. one can't help noticing the "mancini's touch", but he has never been quieter and thoughtful, just like the interesting movie by Blake Edwards. I can only hope that other rare and fabulous mancini soundtracks - like "S.O.B." and "That's Life!" - are on its way to be released - even if it's a "limited collector's edition of 2000 copies", like "The Man Who Loved Women".


title: Wonderful!

text: It's a marvelous show! Don't miss it! No one beats Julie Andrews playing Cinderella!!


title: Yuletide Music

text: This is a delightful collection of secular music for the Holiday Season, most of it originating many years ago. The liner notes are very helpful in placing the music in proper context. I particularly enjoy "A Counting Song," but every track is well done.


title: Must have!

text: Absolute brilliance.  Every song is a gem.


title: Oof.

text: When purchasing a Marc Ribot-related project, ask yourself, "Is he singing on this?" If he is, maybe keep moving. Tacuma and Weston are mighty here, Ribot is making a great racket, but man, the vocals are weak and a terrible distraction. Halvorson doesn't really fit in here, either: Her tone is very thin and processed sounding, lacking the rhythmic bite and intensity of her bandmates. I'm relieved that this project was not pursued further...it's a curious one-off, but certainly not worth paying out-of-print CD prices for...


title: Five Stars

text: This is a pretty awesome and authentic recorded performance.  Simply beautiful and mystical


title: Not only excellent music but a recording of historical importance as well.

text: I have this and other LPs of the Hart House Glee Club of The University Of Toronto.  They were recorded fairly well, and the singers are fanatic.  I wish they were all on CD as there are at least a few I would grab.


title: I loved this classic CBC program.  I wish shows like this still existed.

text: Clyde Gilmour's show was wonderful because you never knew what you were going to hear next.  He might start with Mozart, followed by an operatic piece and then a track from a spoken word recording.  After that you could locomotive sounds, jazz, or maybe a comedy piece.  There was always insightful commentary as well.  I'll always recall hearing all or part of his weekly show when we would return from Church.  There are few if any shows like this today.  We now have programs and even entire channels devoted to very specific genres.  But Gilmour's Albums did not exist in the era of hundreds of channels or the Internet.  You had far fewer choices then, so variety shows were very practical.  This CD captures some of the hosts favourite pieces along with his own words.  Theme music from the show is included.


title: Stunning collection of traditional carols sung perfectly in the English choral tradition from Windsor Castle.

text: I remember buying this CD around 1990 and I have played it every Christmas since.  Recently I thought I would see how it was reviewed here at Amazon so I looked for it.  I am surprised to see that it's now a rather obscure CD, because its just wonderful in every respect.  Perfect singing, a great program of music, an an enchanting and authentic sounding atmosphere.  This is totally worth picking up if you like traditional Church choirs and organ music.

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title: Shockingly beautiful...

text: This album is shockingly beautiful.  Norman's voice is amazing.  The first track alone brings tears to my eyes.  This is one of my favourite Christmas albums of all time.  If you like Jeysse Norman and you like beautiful, sacred Christmas music, then you should also check out Jeysse Norman At Notra Dame.


title: on time shipping

text: nice music


title: Five Stars

text: love it nice keep up the good job.


title: Five Stars

text: yes I like is artists.


title: A Trip Through Time!

text: I love this music. Take me, My Baby and "I Was Drifting" are gems. The  model is Lisetta Johanson. There are three different Drummers-Ken Grenne, Roger Gorey & Donny Strofollino!  The music spans from 1985 through 2015.


title: Ego Maniac

text: All I can write is that this album is actually great for intimate times with one's partner. The music is a blend of Reggae, Flamenco, Jazz and blues with the artist playing all of the instruments. I have heard that this artist has been releasing his own vinyl records since the early 1980's and went Business to Business selling one record at at time, he sold thousands. What a crazy way to sell records. The dude must be old though and I can't understand why he is not more well known. The instrumentals are good but I would like to hear vocals on his next release from the institute.


title: Craig Barr's 1st vinyl Album.

text: "Completely Craig Barr" is a ten song vinyl record recorded April 1985 & released in August 1985. Only one thousand copies were made. Another thousand copies were pressed with two titles-"The River" & Completely Craig Barr" which were labels on each side of the record. The music was recorded in Ossining  New York at "Mood Studios." Ossining is the town along the Hudson River which was famous for the infamous Sing Sing Correctional Facility which housed Al Capone & more recently, John Gotti. The music was recorded on an 8 track "Teac 38 Reel to Reel" recorder. In 1985 most albums were recorded using 2 inch tape on a 24 track deck which renders this recording unusual for that year. !985 was also the year in which CD's first were made commercially available for public sale. I would search out this record since it is a collectors item and includes some very good guitar playing.


title: Great music works good Thank

text: Received in the condition seller said. Great music works good Thank You


title: Fabulous Talent

text:
Fabulous talent!  The sound is very clear and  the performances of the songs are sharp.  I am impressed by how the girls modified some
of the songs like Tiffany's rap part in Genie and the heavy metal part in Hoot.  Very enjoyable also were the covers of non SNSD songs such
as TaeNy's  "Lady Marmalade," Sooyoung's "Sway," Hyoyeon's "Please Don't Stop The Music," to name a few.  The song selection is vast,
energetic, covering songs from their debut album through the Run Devil Run album, in both Korean and Japanese.  The "eye candy " booklet is full of great pictures too.  Highly recommend.


title: I LOVE THIS CD I WAS HESITANT TO PAY THE 30 ...

text: I LOVE THIS CD I WAS HESITANT TO PAY THE 30 SOME DOLLARS BUT THIS CD HAS 7 DISCS AND COVERS 126 SONGS FROM THE GREAT SINGER PEDRO INFANTE ABOUT 30 CENTS PER SONG!!!!!!!!


title: 56 ANVERSARIO 1957-2013 EDICION LIMITADA2CD PEDRO INFANTE

text: 5 STARS FOR THIS 2CD WITH PEDRO'S MAGNIFICENT VOICE AND MARIACHI I JUST LOVE IT GREW UP WITH HIS MUSIC MOST HAVE FOR ALL LOVERS OF PEDRO'S INTERPRETION OF MARIACHI MUSIC I RECOMEND IT TO ALL


title: GIRLS' GENERATION-MINI ALBUM VOL.4[MR.MR.]+POSTER IN TUBE

text: I LOVE THIS GROUP AND IT MET ALL MY EXPECTIONS, THE POSTER WAS GREAT FOR MUSIC LOVERS I RECOMMEND THIS ALBUM


title: Five Stars

text: Great


title: so good

text: get over it... 5 starz


title: A great songwriter proves she's also a great artist.

text: Gretchen Peters has written many great songs and also many hits to some of Nashville's most famous artists, but, unfortunately, she's not very well known as an artist. She has a, not perfect, but characteristic and very beautiful voice. And the songs are very good. Also the weakest song, "I Ain't Ever Satisfied" (the only song on the album she didn't write or co-write), is good and a potential hit single. The rest of the songs are all as good as the best ones on many albums of the artists who have sung Gretchen's songs. One of the first of Gretchen's songs I heard was "On a Bus to St Cloud". Her own version is even better than Trisha Yearwood's. It's a very beautiful song, but not the best song on the album. All of the songs are high standard and there are no fillers.<br />There is no doubt that Gretchen Peter's is one of the best songwriters in Nashville, maybe in the world, and she is also a very good singer. If you like music with good melodies and lyrics - Buy this album! I can almost promise you that you will love it and play it a lot. It's worth every penny. With better promotion, this album could easily be a best seller. It's better than most best sellers. It's probably one of the best albums, at least debuts, of the last decade.


title: Wanna buy obi,beatles stuff?

text: I have this album and is a beautiful cover if anything else from a beatles compilation standpoint the usual love songs. They sound great I might add,and super cool import vinyl is a bonus!


title: The acoustic ambient album

text:
With god knows how many albums Circle have it can be a bit of a nightmare knowing where to start. It's even harder to know how to classify them. You might have heard those labels of Finnish Krautrock/NWOFHM ( that being New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metal ) and so on and it's true......but it doesn't give you everything. In fact, it only gives you two sides to this multi-faceted group. They are that hard to pin down.

So it's to Miljard where the biggest surprise comes off. There's no heavy guitars since it is for all intents and purposes an acoustic ambient album. Pianos meander while underneath the surface there's something rumbling in the mix. It's not quite defined but the effect is sometimes eerie but never short of breathtaking. And ultimately soothing as well.

If you need something that has a calming if disconcerting effect then this is something for you. The one thing you'll notice after listening to this CD and a couple of others is that you begin to wonder what will they do next as there seems to be nothing in their reach that they can't do. Give it a spin and be pleasantly surprised!


title: Five Stars

text: Thank you for a quick and easy transaction.  A+++++ & 5*****


title: another stone for my library have all the albums now!

text: I will always be avid fan of the rolling stones recently bought the movie. am glad was able to obtain this superb soundtrack with bonus songs on it for a modest price thank you once again


title: Four Stars

text: nice boogied for hours ty


title: id like the right album pictured not the platters i ot

text: i didnt get the allmans i got the wrong thing instead i got the platters im not happy whats wrong with theses people


title: A Sad OOP Horror Story

text:
If I could save only a handful of CDs from the fire, this would be one of them. It's true that to really appreciate the power of these tracks-digitized
from Frontiere's own analog master tapes-you really need a very good sound system. These recordings are blessed with a stunning dynamic
range and low distortion. Indeed, the first, if not all three CDs in this set were digitized by Bernie Grundman Mastering. No wonder the sound quality is to die for! Some of these crescendos and surprise cymbal crashes can knock you out of your seat. And do NOT listen to these
with headphones. Very high SPLs!

Even if you've never seen one episode from Outer Limts, TOS-especially the first season when Frontiere was under contract-this music
is what truly made this sci-fi anthology series a treasured timeless classic. Shamefully out of print now. EMI music has the rights


title: Awesome, Bold and Beautiful

text: WOW! What incredibly honest and liberating lyrics. Like the freedom you can feel from an exhilarating breeze, unfettered from convention or from what totalitarian institutions tell us is the proper way to think and feel and love. It's so tragic that today's songwriters are too conditioned to conceive or expound on stuff like this.