Have Fun [Import]

Product Description
Their new album has been recorded in Los Angeles under the direction of Wayne Vaughn. Features special guests Stevie Wonder, Terrace Martin, Louis Wiinsbert & Mino Cinelu. 12 tracks plus a bonus track (TBA). Warner. 2005.

Have Fun,No Jazz,Wea,Jazz

Average customer rating: Very difficult and not at all helpful for our situtation Great as background-Hard to sing Great for kids with special needs or speech delays!!!! Great Intentions; Didn't Blow Me Away Perfect for apraxic toddlers

Time to Sing! Various Artists Manufacturer: Time to Sing! ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Compilations | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Time to Sing! II Baby Babble - Speech-Enhancing DVD for Babies and Toddlers The Late Talker: What to Do If Your Child Isn't Talking Yet Time to Sing! at Christmas Speechercise - A Musical Workout For Your Mouth ASIN: B0000DEOJ2 Release Date: 2000-11-15

Tracks:

1. Wheels on the Bus
2. Aiken Drum
3. I Love You
4. Shake Your Sillies Out
5. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
6. Eentsy Wentsy Spider
7. Hokey Pokey
8. Wibbely Wobbely Woo
9. The Alphabet Song
10. Jack and Jill
11. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
12. If You're Happy and You Know It
13. Baby Bumblebee
14. Pop Goes the Weasel
15. I'm a Little Teapot
16. Bingo
17. You Are Special
18. Apples and Bananas
19. Five Little Frogs
20. Old McDonald
21. Mister Sun
22. Head and Tummy
23. Ten Little Indians
24. Five Little Monkeys
25. Sing!

Product Description

Young Children LOVE to sing, but they need to sing at their own speed. Time to Sing is a delightful collection of classic children's songs newly arranged for children of all ages and abilities. Time to Sing helps to build language skills and the wide variety of musical styles and settings makes it a joy to hear again and again. The Time to Sing series is sure to be a family favorite, give your child hours of entertainment... with Time to Sing! All proceeds benefits fully accessible indoor play enviroments for all children and their families.

Customer Reviews:

Very difficult and not at all helpful for our situtation.......2007-06-26

We have an adopted daughter who came from India at 15 months of age. She was in an orphanage prior to that, and missed out on a lot of the personal attention that helps develop early speech. As such, at almost three now, she is considered "speech delayed," and is still having problems making certain sounds that should be old-hat to her.

Naturally, we are taking her to a speech pathologist/therapist, but we are also trying to do "casual" things in our everyday life to help, including, of course, singing.

I bought this CD because I saw that it was for sale on the Talking Child web site, and we had found their Baby Babble DVD very helpful for Chandra earlier in our journey. Unfortunately, while the songs ARE sung at a much slower pace, some of them are nearly unrecognizable as the familiar children's tunes they are. The two most notable examples are "The Eentsy Weentsy Spider," which is over-performed and sung nearly aria-style, and "The Alphabet Song," which is sung by someone donning a Professor Ludwig Von Drake German accent!

Those songs are usually two of Chandra's favorites, which we sing slowly enough for her to follow the words and sing along, but she clearly did not recognize that the songs we were listening to on this CD were songs she'd ever heard before.

If nothing else, I've learned not to buy music that doesn't have tracks available for previewing. I'm returning this to Amazon, and I hope to find something more suitable for our needs.

Great as background-Hard to sing.......2007-04-06

THe arrangements are very original which is great as background music but makes them hard to sing along with, unless you do it every day.

Great for kids with special needs or speech delays!!!!.......2006-07-10

We bought this cd for our daughter who has Down Syndrome. She is 6 years old but still has difficulty articulating words together in a sentence and will often skip over words in songs because she cannot sing them as fast. This cd allows kids like my daughter to really hear the words clearly. Although it is slower than the songs would normally be, it is great for kids who have a delay because they have the time to process what they just heard and repeat it back more accurately. Then, when they try to sing the songs at the regular speed, they can do so with more accuracy and comprehension. Our daughter still loves her other cd's, but this just gives her one more way to help her with her speech skills. We plan to get the Christmas cd as she listens to Christmas music all year long!!! :

Great Intentions; Didn't Blow Me Away.......2006-07-03

I think that for special needs kids, children who are a little slower to talk, or kids just having problems with anunciation or expression, this CD presents an incredible opportunity in being able to share traditional, fun, upbeat and lively children's music with your kids. The notion of slowing down the words, if not the music, is fantastic as it gives kids a better grounding in what is being said, proper anunciation, etc.

The only knock I have against the CD is that the voices are quite operatic. I think this is an interesting choice as the delivery is certainly emotive and forceful, but I think it would have worked with the intent a little better if the singers weren't so operatic and instead sung in a clear, even, and less ornate fashion.

Overall, a fatnastic idea; but one that slightly works against its purpose.

Perfect for apraxic toddlers.......2006-03-09

The front of the CD says "Helps Build Language Skills" and part of the description on the back says "...the words are sung at a slower tempo so that any child can sing along - even a child just learning to speak". The CD doesn't fail to offer what it clearly states if you read it!

My children appreciated the different ways these songs were sung; for instance "If You're Happy and You Know It" had an African rhythm to it.

The words were spoken very clearly and I was able to sign along without having to do it so rapidly my toddler couldn't follow.

This CD gets the interest of my 33 month old toddler and he likes to listen to it while his older siblings and I sign along with it. I would say that is money well spent!

Average customer rating: Rod Stewart's disco album? Consistently Ordinary You know you loved it! Don't Worry About One Disco Song......the rest was the best! Better Than You Think

Blondes Have More Fun Rod Stewart Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Pop General | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classic Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Hard Rock & Metal | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Foot Loose & Fancy Free A Night on the Town Foolish Behaviour Atlantic Crossing Tonight I'm Yours ASIN: B00004Y6O4 Release Date: 2000-09-19

Tracks:

1. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
2. Dirty Weekend
3. Ain't Love A Bitch
4. The Best Day Of My Life
5. Is That The Thanks I Get?
6. Attractive Female Wanted
7. Blondes (Have More Fun)
8. Last Summer
9. Standin' In The Shadows Of Love
10. Scarred And Scared

Customer Reviews:

Rod Stewart's disco album?.......2006-07-07

A lot has been made of Rod Stewart's move to disco with "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" He was accused of being a sellout as soon as that hit began tearing up the charts. He didn't really deserve it, though - the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" was doing the same thing. What about David Bowie's "Golden Years?" Or ELO's "Sweet Talkin' Woman?" Roxy Music had a hit with "Love is the Drug." Kiss recorded "I Was Made for Lovin' You." The Rolling Stones reprised "Miss You" with "Emotional Rescue." Queen did "Another One Bites the Dust." So let's not get angry with the man just because he knew how to notch a hit.

Admittedly, Rod's contribution to the rock-disco crossover genre is one of the trashiest, sleaziest hits of 70's. It's also ridiculously infectious - especially that chorus - and Stewart was rewarded with a number one hit. It's no masterpiece, not even close, but it's guilty fun. Unfortunately, "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" ended Rod Stewart's hopes to remain a respectable singer - "Hot Legs" may have been sleazy, but it was all in good Stonesy fun. Here, he gave in to pulsating Eurodisco, and he's been paying the price ever since.

Of course, Blondes Have More Fun was a hit because of "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" but it was a better album than could be expected. Not great, not good, but there were certainly a few more winners. "Ain't Love a Bitch" is a nice acoustic piece. There are a couple of throwbacks to raunchy rock 'n' roll, the best of which is the title track. None of them hit like his best work, and they don't come close to Faces classics like "Had Me a Real Good Time," but they're enjoyable nonetheless. There are also a couple of ballad-style pieces that are pretty good, if not as emotional as earlier classics. In fact, few songs really follow the mold of "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" - "Standin' in the Shadows of Love" has another disco-fied beat, "Last Summer" features a slick rhythm - and so I feel that Blondes Have More Fun is quite underrated.

No, it isn't the place to start listening to Rod Stewart - try Every Picture Tells a Story - but it's a better album than it's reputation would indicate. If I could give it three and a half stars, I probably would.

Consistently Ordinary.......2004-09-18

Some folks out there are enamored with this CD and the big disco smash Do Ya Think I'm Sexy. others may think old hot Rod expanded his style. To some degree Rod Stewart did do the later. However, Blondes Have More Fun is just an ordianry ten song set.

Don't get me wrong, these songs do not ofend me in any great way. They just do not thrill me. The prevous release, Foot Loose and Fancy Free consisted of edgy rock tunes and touching ballads. There are too many ho hum ballads with lifeless arrangements. The rockers are a little better but fall short of previous gems like Hot Legs and Born Loose. Dirty Weekend may have catchy guitars but the hooks and lyrics are somewhat forgettable. The title track is pretty catchy but does not break any ground in the creative department. Is That The Thanks I Get has a pretty catchy chorus and the cover of Standing In The Shadows Of Love is quite memorable. The disco hit Do Ya Think I'm Sexy has a few catchy moments but just does not stay to memorable over its five minute length. I could go on about the other five songs but the response would be the same: Some good moments but basically forgettable.

Therefore unless you are an established fan of Hot Rod, I would say that you could live without this recording.

You know you loved it!.......2004-09-01

Never did any Rod Stewart album generate the kind of love/hate sentiment more than Blondes Have More Fun. Having already endured criticism, and cries of "sellout" for moving away from jolly old England, and settling in Los Angeles, and the subsequent cries of "sellout" for issuing the appropriately titled, "Atlantic Crossing", Rod dared to join the late 70's and horror of horrors, recorded a so-called disco tune. The truth is, most rock acts at the time were delving into the disco craze, trying to capitalize financially. The Stones (Miss You), Kiss (I Was Made For Loving You), Blondie (Heart of Glass), ELO (Entire Xanadu sountrack). So, criticism of Rod is very harsh, in my opinion. Especially when you consider that BHMF is a solid rock album on the whole.



I don't care what anyone says, Do Ya Think I'm Sexy is a great tune! And, unlike what most people thought, not autobiographical. As Rod does better than anyone else, he is telling a story. The lyrics start, "He sits alone, waiting for suggestions." After the mega hit, one kickass rocker, Dirty Weekend is next. In the style of the great Rod rockers, this one is basically a "head's down, meet you at the end in three minutes" tune. Rod displays his self-depricating sense of humour a lot on this album, as evidenced by 'Aint Love a Bitch. A cute little ditty that you'll be signing the rest of the day. Rod then slows things down a notch for a nice ballad, Best Days of My Life, before some more self-deprication on the rocking, Is That The Thanks I Get?



Side Two ( I Love vinyl) is more good stuff. With the highlights being the humourous (and again self-depricating) Attractive Female Wanted and Last Summer. You have to wonder if Rod was having trouble keeping girlfriends at the time he recorded this! Nice uptempo numbers such as the title track and a cover of Standing in the Shadows of Love fill out the cd, and we end with a song called Scarred and Scared. In my opinion this song is autobiographical, but I have no idea what the actual story is behind it.



The story here was that critics pretty much hated this album, but the fans ate it up. With the exception of Rod purists, who burned their copies of Every Picture Tells A Story in protest...



Overall this album is worthy of your music catalogue. Don't be afraid of disco folks. It's well dead...It's not coming back because you enjoy Do Ya Think I'm Sexy!

Don't Worry About One Disco Song......the rest was the best!.......2003-03-29

I think the music portrayed the time perfectly, for the year it was released. Our music was changing quickly. He had to plug at least one disco tune. Turned out pretty good for him. Everyone I knew had that cassette tape. The remastered is even better. The memories are always better with Rod around! There isn't much that I don't like about Rod Stewart. Though it was in the disco era, he released this at the right time. A Classic to say the least.

Better Than You Think.......2001-04-27

Blondes Have More Fun is the album that is easily the most critically reviled of all of Rod Stewart's albums and is a target of alot his fans. People call it Rod Stewart selling out to disco music and to a degree they're right. "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" is pure disco and in 1979 disco was king. The song was a number one hit and a platinum seller. The thing people overlook is that "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" is the only disco song on the album and while the rest of it isn't vintage Rod Stewart music, it's not bad. In fact there are some songs like "The Best Of My Life", "Ain't Love A Bitch" & "Scarred & Scared" that are high quality. Also, if you take "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" for what it is, it is a catchy piece of music. If you're looking for Every Picture Tells A Story, you won't find it here, but with Blondes Have More Fun, you get a solid, workman like effort.

Average customer rating: highly infectious blues! good time party, excellent talents! 3 words: Don't Be Silly somewhat original True Identities Revealed Jim Belushi and Dan Aykroyd are wonderful performers

Have Love Will Travel Jim Belushi , and Dan Aykroyd Manufacturer: Have Love Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music Modern Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: 36-22-36 According to Jim Blues Brothers & Friends: Live from House of Blues Jim Belushi & the Sacred Hearts - 36-22-36 Blues Brothers - The Definitive Collection ASIN: B0000936MA Release Date: 2003-05-20

Tracks:

1. Skybox Ballroom Romp
2. Have Love Will Travel
3. Dig Myself a Hole
4. All She Wants to do is Rock
5. Can't Get Out of It
6. Time Won't Let Me
7. Polk Salad Annie
8. 300 Pounds of Joy
9. Greenbacks
10. Cadillac Man
11. Swinging Party
12. Truth At the Time
13. Driving Wheel

Album Description

Have Love Will Travel is a very personal revisiting of Urban Blues, R&B, Jump Swing and Rock classics by internationally renowned actors and recording artists, Jim Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Have Love Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

highly infectious blues! good time party, excellent talents!.......2007-07-24

I dont really think people should mention SNL because this has absolutely nothing to do with it! this is a jammin rockin blues cd, great remakes of great classics done by 2 guys who you can tell know their music. akroyd/belushi are really great at this, not like some celebs who try to dabble in music as a side thing, when i put this cd in there is no way i can stop without listening to the entire thing, its a good time guaranteed everytime!!!!!!!

3 words: Don't Be Silly.......2006-06-23

Don't waste your precious time on Earth listening to these guys recycling great old tunes.

Seek the originals, or at least, the definitive early versions.

To wit:

One listen to Have Love Will Travel by THE SONICS and you'll be muttering, BELUSHI WHO?


This has been a public service announcement by the Better Living Through Good Music Council.

somewhat original.......2004-12-24

I've always got a kick out of the blues brothers and I would recommend this cd to both snl fans and lovers of classic r&b/blues & rock......Having read some of the other reviews, I would like to point out a fallacy. This is NOT mostly original. There are some original tunes but over half are cover versions.In fact, nine of the thirteen songs are covers. I listed them below with the original recording artists-
Have Love, Will Travel-Richard Berry (of Louie Loiue fame)
Dig Myself A Hole-Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
Time Won't Let Me-The Outsiders
Polk Salad Annie-Tony Joe White
300 Pounds Of Joy-Howlin Wolf
All She Wants To Do Is Rock-Wynonie Harris
Greenbacks-Ray Charles
Swinging Party-Lowell Fulsom
Driving Wheel-Roosevelt Sykes
Aykroyd & Belushi never tried to take credit for songs performed as the Blues Brothers and I don't think they would do so now.

True Identities Revealed.......2004-07-17

For 20+ years, Dan Aykroyd (an avid blues fan) has been performing the music he loved under the persona of Elwood Blues, one half of the now legendary "Blues Brothers" mystique. Thanks to the movies, it's been hard for Aykroyd to shed those glasses and hat and simply perform the music he loves AS Dan Aykroyd.

This album finally gives him the chance to perform as himself. Although teamed with one-time "Blues Brothers" singing mate, Jim Belushi (filling the shoes of Aykroyd's late partner, John Belushi), don't expect this to be another blues tribute album. For the first time, these two men (who have definitely blossomed as singers in their own right) have recorded a straight-forward studio album of modern blues songs, the majority of which are originals.

There is no gimmick on this album, simply two men singing, backed by a talented band (none of which were involved in the original Blues Brothers Band, by the way). As stated in other reviews, this is NOT a Blues Brothers recording. It IS a great blues project, however.

Jim Belushi and Dan Aykroyd are wonderful performers.......2004-03-08

I have gone to two of their CD signings and I got to met Dan Aykroyd. Jim, I met at a According To Jim taping. Songs from this CD was played on ATJ. The first season was "Cadillac Man", next season was "Have Love Will Travel" and "Can't Get Out Of It," and final this season they did "300 Pounds of Joy" and "Time Won't Let Me." Since I have it I been playing it over and over. I am a big fan of both of them, and also I love the Blues Brothers. They also do a wonderful Blues Brothers show. Any fan should add this to their collection, I have and its great music. I have Jim's other CD called 36-22-36 and it's also a great one. Both CD's I recommend. Great Blues music.

Average customer rating: Old music, fun listening.

1907: "Dear Old Golden Rule Days" Manufacturer: Archeophone Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Herbert | Herbert, Victor | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Lehár, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: 1908: Take Me Out with the Crowd The 1890s, Volume 1: Wipe Him Off the Land The 1890s, Volume 2: Wear Yer Bran' New Gown 1912: Waitin' on the Levee 1916: "The Country Found Them Ready" ASIN: B0000ACNCV Release Date: 2003-05-27

Tracks:

1. School Days (Byron G. Harlan)
2. I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave (Ada Jones)
3. San Antonio (Billy Murray & Chorus)
4. Red Wing (Frank C. Stanley and Henry Burr)
5. Camp Meeting Time (Collins and Harlan)
6. Maple Leaf Rag (U.S. Marine Band)
7. Pagliacci--Vesti la giubba (Enrico Caruso)
8. Because Youre You (Elise Stevenson & Harry Macdonough)
9. Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk (Ada Jones and Billy Murray)
10. I Love a Lassie (Harry Lauder)
11. The Bird On Nellies Hat (Helen Trix)
12. My Gal Sal (Byron G. Harlan)
13. "Merry Widow" Waltz (Victor Dance Orchestra)
14. No Wedding Bells for Me (Bob Roberts)
15. Harrigan (Billy Murray)
16. Honey Boy (Columbia Quartette)
17. Three Rubes Seeing New York (Peerless Trio)
18. Bake Dat Chicken Pie (Collins and Harlan)
19. My Irish Rosie (Ada Jones)
20. Nobodys Little Girl (Byron G. Harlan)
21. Because I'm Married Now (Billy Murray)
22. He's a Cousin of Mine (Bert Williams)
23. The Bully (May Irwin)
24. If I'm Going to Die I'm Going to Have Some Fun (Arthur Collins)
25. Auld Lang Syne (Frank C. Stanley)

Customer Reviews:

Old music, fun listening........2007-02-11

In perspective these are some of the most popular songs of their time. I enjoy the historical value of songs from the past. Hearing someone sing about things you may have only learned from a history book, makes it more real.

Average customer rating: Wonderful CD for toddlers and up awesome cd! Katherine Dines is the best!

Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta BOO-2! Katherine Dines Manufacturer: Hunk Ta Bunk Ta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta BOO! Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta GNU Oliver Button Is a Sissy Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta CHANTS The Royal Bee ASIN: B00000G1SF Release Date: 1995-01-15

Tracks:

1. Its Amazing What You Can Do With Your Brain!
2. All You Have To Do Is Try
3. Itchy Itchy Owie Owie Boo Boo
4. Muscle and Bone
5. Hey Sam!
6. All The Way Around The World
7. No Way Jose!
8. The Mighty Tree Of Life
9. The Goobaws
10. My Best Friend
11. Read A Book
12. We Dont Ever Have To Say Goodbye

Album Description

12 imaginative songs that carry engaging messages about the world in which we live. The lively acoustic pop-production motivates little minds and bodies to have fun and to become the best they can be.

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful CD for toddlers and up.......2006-06-02

My three year old son loves this CD and listens over and over. We heard Itchie Itchie Ow one morning and he was singing it that afternoon and I knew we had to get the CD. My husband and I enjoy her voice as well, soft, calming and melodious - easy tunes to remember and about things to which kids can relate. She is somewhat similar to Laurie Berkner but Katherine's songs seem to have more relevance, i.e., kids understand muscles and bones and what itchies and owies are. I agree with the other reviewers; you will be listening several times a day so good thing adults enjoy as well!!

awesome cd!.......2006-05-10

My children and I saw Katherine Dines at our library. She is wonderful! We bought two cd's and this is our favorite! Myself my children and all the kids in the neighborhood love her cd's (3-10yr olds). They always ask for it in the car. Muscle and Bones and Hey Sam are hands down the favorites of this cd. I really enjoy listening myself. You won't be disapointed with this cd.

Katherine Dines is the best!.......2000-09-25

My 2-year-old son has had this CD since he was 10 months old, and he loves it! If Mama doesn't play "Sam" (his name for it) at least once a day, she's in trouble! The songs are easy to learn and remember, the tunes are memorable and--great for this adult who has to listen to it over and over--enjoyable! Dines has a real gift for entertaining children as well as educating, and this collection is one of her best.

Average customer rating: Not as good as "Samantha Fox" but probably better than most anything else that she did Good mix of R&B and Pop A great pop album, like they don't make 'em anymore ! Samantha's mix of R&B, bubblegum, and surprises Good

I Wanna Have Some Fun Samantha Fox Manufacturer: Jive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Samantha Fox Just One Night Touch Me 21st Century Fox Samantha Fox - Greatest Hits ASIN: B0000004UW Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. I Wanna Have Some Fun
2. Love House
3. Your House Or My House
4. Next To Me
5. Ready For This Love
6. Confession
7. I Only Wanna Be With You
8. You Started Something
9. One In A Million
10. Walking On Air
11. Hot For You
12. Out Of Your Hands

Customer Reviews:

Not as good as "Samantha Fox" but probably better than most anything else that she did.......2006-10-23

The 3rd album by the super-sexy but not overly suggestive Samantha Fox (born 4-15-66) has many fine moments as well as her most commercially successful song "I Wanna Have Some Fun" (the only one to hit the Top 40 in R&B as well as pop). Other highlights include the non-hit "Next To Me" and the Dusty Springfield cover "I Only Wanna Be With You." Not as strong as her self-titled 1987 album, mainly due to the lack of anything as hauntingly mesmerizing as "True Devotion," but still several steps above her stale efforts of the 90s.

Good mix of R&B and Pop.......2005-07-24

Some people might see some difficulties with the mix of all kind of styles on this album, but personally I don't mind because I think it works: you find producers like Stock Aitken Waterman, Full Force and others here. So you have pop-tracks like "Hot for you" and "Walk on air" plus R&B tracks like "I wanna have some fun". You can see that Sam did this album when she was still enjoying fame, because it's an album full of good songs - like she picked all the goodies for herself from the producers. Well done

A great pop album, like they don't make 'em anymore !.......2004-01-26

When Samantha Fox released this album in the late 80's, she reached the peak of her popularity. It spawned three succesful singles (the title track, "I Only Wanna Be With You" and "Love House"), and heralded her first-ever world tour.

What surprises the most with this album is how good it still sounds today. The big variety of producers makes it for quality listening, and it's an album that doesn't stall on the same sound twice. Most people were turned off by the fact that Samantha was a former porn star, and that she didn't have the most powerful voice in the world, but hey, she could still carry a pop tune and make you feel what it's about.

There were many, many great moments on this album. Of course, the three singles were fantastic ("Love House" was even totally ripped by Madonna on her classic "Vogue" single - same beat, same funky piano solo near the end), but I always wondered why there weren't more singles from the album. "Ready For This Love" in particular is a magnificent pop song, highly danceable and almost euphorical; if this one doesn't put you in a good mood, then chances are you're already dead. "One In A Million" was also a very catchy dance song, very energetic; and "Hot For You" was arguably one of the album's best songs, adding a surprising rock and roll touch to an album that was mostly dance and pop. It was a nice reminder that Samantha had initially opted for a rock and roll orientation for her career. "Confession" is also a standout, with its ambiant mood and dark edge. And the closer, the beautiful rock ballad "Out Of Our Hands", proved that she had the versatility to do a great job on ballads.

There are only a couple of duds on this album : the boring "Next To Me", which proved that Full Force had little creativity as producers and could only rely on two hooks; and "Walking On Air", too generic and repetitive for its own good.

After this album, Samantha said in interviews that she would go in the direction set by songs like "Hot For You" and "Out Of Our Hands", meaning more rock records. Unfortunately, her record company wanted to milk the dance formula to death and they hired Full Force once again to work on Sam's follow-up, the boring and half-baked "Just One Night". Thus ended the career of Samantha, proving that an artist should be the one to have creative control, and not the record company. Still, "I Wanna Have Some Fun" lived up to its title - and still does 15 years after its release.

Samantha's mix of R&B, bubblegum, and surprises.......2003-11-06

With a successful formula on her second album, I wonder if Samantha Fox theorized that the more producers the better, a strategy that works to some extent for Jennifer Rush. In addition to the Steve Power/Steve Lovell team and that of Stock-Aitken-Waterman, I Wanna Have Some Fun boasts two songs each done by Rob and Ferdi Bolland and Fred Zarr, with others doing one song only, and yes, their distinctive styles emerge. 80's dance pop definitely predominates here, but there are a few surprises here as well.

The title track might as well be called "Naughty Girls Still Need Love." "Hello it's me again/don't you know it's hard to keep a good woman down/but then again, maybe that could be fun." After a giggle, the song begins in earnest with a funky bass backbeat and harmonies by the Full Force boys and some monologue rap in the middle.

"Are you ready to do things tonight that you never dreamed were possible? Follow me." With that spoken intro, we get "Love House", a more danceable single, which has harmony vocals, a cacophony of rap-scratched words, strange voices, special effects, and ominous vocals of the guide of the house. I initially thought this was produced by Full Force, because of the heavy bass beat but it's a Bollands production. I really enjoyed my visit to this house, all right.

Samantha must have really fallen in love with drum machines and bass beats, as "Your House Or My House" mixes those and sundry keyboards, computerized voices, and a strong backing chorus and monologue by Sam. Pure dance pop, call it Stock-Aitken-Waterman vanilla with some chocolate mousse and sprinkles.

The Full Force-produced "Next To Me" is similar to but injects a trice more fizzy pop to Full Force's 80's R&B formula.

Fred Zarr produced "Ready For This Love," a spright thumping drum machines and funky synths that resembles something Kim Wilde might have done on her Close album, also released in 1988.

Power and Lovell were responsible for the haunting "True Devotion" on her eponymous album. They do another one, "Confession", which explores sin in a religious aspect, only this time, a heavy bass synth beat, drum track, quick bursts of string synths, and satanically deep voice saying things like "Je t'accuse." The rhythm reminds me somewhat of Mick Jagger's "Just Another Night."

Then comes the two typical S-A-W bubblegum songs, the first one, a single, being a cover of Dusty Springfield's "I Only Wanna Be With You." It's only fair to give Foxy a 60's song after Kylie did "The Locomotion," right? "You Started Something" is of a slightly slower tempo, though the sound is unmistakable. On both these songs, Foxy blows the S-A-W bubblegum without it messily sticking on her face like those who don't chew Hubba Bubba gum-remember those commercials?

If S-A-W was upbeat, then what does one call "One In A Million"? S-A-W songs on steroids? The Bollands produced this song, with a rapid fire chorus and a sound Bananarama would've peeled their skins for, there's even a fierce guitar solo midsong. A must have on any disco mix tape.

"Walking On Air", produced by Fred Zarr, is more Kim Wilde, Close-era pop and reduced the BPM compared to the previous barnburner.

The next song, "Hot For You" boasts synths but also a guitar that's alternatively wails and grinds like light metal. Is she trying to do Pat Benatar or Vixen, I ask, complimenting the laudable guitar solo that could fit in 80's pop-metal? Nothing wrong with the song.

"Out Of Our Hands" is another atmospheric Power and Lovell ballad, sporting piano, bombastic power synths, and haunting vocals by Sam.

The variety of sounds, be it Full Force-style R&B/pop, bubblegum synth pop, or the attempt at pop-metal, makes I Wanna Have Some Fun a masterpiece for Foxy. And just think, when I first got this, I was thrown by what I perceived to be an incoherent mess.

Good.......2002-08-04

This is a good album by Samantha Fox. It features the hits "I Wanna Have Some Fun" and "I Only want To Be With You". Unfortunatley after this album her career faded into oblivion and I have no idea where she went. I don't think people gave her a fair chance and once the nineties came she disappeared. I hope she returns to the pop scene soon.

Average customer rating: An underrated gem! Dig that beat...

The Nervous Set (1959 Original Broadway Cast) Tommy Wolf , Fran Landesman , and Richard Hayes Manufacturer: Drg ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Broadway & Vocalists | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Soundtracks | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Christine (1960 Original Broadway Cast) The Girl in Pink Tights (1954 Original Broadway Cast) The Happiest Girl in the World (1961 Original Broadway Cast) Bravo Giovanni (1962 Original Broadway Cast) Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B00005YKIO Release Date: 2002-02-26

Tracks:

1. Overture/Man, We're Beat
2. New York
3. What's To Lose/Stars Have Blown My Way
4. Fun Life
5. How Do You Like Your Love?
6. Party Song
7. Night People
8. Overture - Act II
9. Party Song (Reprise)
10. I've Got A Lot To Learn About Life
11. The Ballad Of The Sad Young Man
12. A Country Gentleman
13. Max The Millionaire
14. Travel The Road Of Love
15. Laugh, I THought I'd Die
16. Fun Life (Reprise)
17. Bonus Track 1: Fun Life (By Jackie Cain & Roy Kral)

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As fans of musical theater, we're used to offbeat projects, but this long-forgotten show takes the cake--and it's completely entrancing. The opening number alone makes nasty fun of the then-popular beatniks and is immediately followed by "New York," a list song enumerating all the awful things about the city. Rarely has so much bile been spilled on the New York stage--but perhaps that's because the show originated in St. Louis. Tommy Wolf's finger-snapping score and Fran Landesman's biting lyrics are very compelling, especially because it's hard to tell when they're serious and when they're drily sarcastic. The energetic cast, which includes Larry Hagman (best known as JR in Dallas), is backed by a jazz quartet, and the result often sounds strangely contemporary. And then you have some numbers, such as "Night People," that are almost Sondheimian. What a strange, wonderful little show this is. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

An underrated gem!.......2003-06-03

The songs in this musical are simply wonderful! Canny, passionate, "beat," and sardonic. The story, its characters, and the lyrics are classic Greenwich Village of the late 1950's. This CD features talented singers and actors (including a very young Larry Hagman),a great lyricist, lush and complex music. To reiterate, it's just WONDERFUL! I ruined my LP long ago, and am THRILLED to find this CD replacement.

Dig that beat..........2002-02-28

A fun recording to have on CD. Very beatnik oriented musical from 1959 with such interesting names in the cast as Tom Aldredge (Into the Woods, Passion) and Larry Hagman!? The song "New York" is a lot of fun. The best of the rest the score include "The Ballad of the Sad Young Man" sung by Tan Seitz and "Laugh, I Thought I'd Die" sung by Richard Hayes. Larry Hagman has one song, "Travel the Road of Love" and although he doesn't embarrass himself, thank God "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Dallas" were still be come. He definitely did not inherit his mother's singing ability. In fact, I think his mother was performing in "The Sound of Music" during the short run of this show.

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Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes off, Pt. 1 Panic at the Disco Manufacturer: Wea/Atlantic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: I Write Sins Not Tragedies Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes off, Pt. 2 But It's Better If You Do Infinity on High ASIN: B000M2E8SQ Release Date: 2007-01-29

Tracks:

1. Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes ...
2. I Write Sins Not Tragedies [Live]

Album Description

Australian pressing of this CD single from the successful Alterna-Rock band's debut album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Features two versions of 'Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off' (Radio Edit and Main Version) plus live versions of 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' and 'Build God, Then We'll Talk', both recorded at the Astoria. Atlantic.

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Smart & Tasty 1: Good Food Tunes for Kids Abridge Club Entertainment Manufacturer: Russ InVision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Similar Items: Smart & Tasty 2: Good Food Tunes for Kids Adventureville: The Cosmic Kitty Adventure Tall And Small Snowdance The Big Rock Candy Mountain ASIN: B000BGQURU Release Date: 2005-09-02

Tracks:

1. We Love the Company
2. Days Old
3. Down, Down Baby
4. Farmers Market
5. Shake, Mix, Pound, Roll
6. I Lost My Basket
7. Vitamins
8. My Favorite Game
9. Aloha!
10. Wild Vines
11. After We Cook
12. If I Lived on an Island
13. Show Me You Love Me
14. What Can I Make?
15. What Else Can I Make?
16. We Love the Company (Spanish version)
17. Farmers Market (Spanish version)
18. Days Old (Spanish version)
19. Down, Down Baby (Spanish version)
20. Shake, Mix, Pound, Roll (Spanish version)
21. My Favorite Game (Spanish version)
22. I Lost My Basket (Food Groups)
23. Down, Down Baby (Instrumental)
24. Shake, Mix, Pound, Roll (Instrumental)
25. If I Lived on an Island (Instrumental)
26. Wild Vines (Instrumental)
27. What Can I Make? (Instrumental)
28. Show Me You Love Me (Instrumental)

Product Description

A mouthful of songs with TASTE! These delicious tunes teach children how to have FUN with FOOD while they learn about HEALTHY EATING. This tasty blend of gross motor and educational songs teaches the whole child. Kids learn good table manners, sing & dine in good company, locomotor through the farmers market, gather by food groups, shake & mix up a recipe, clean up, make food art, step over vines, dance a hula, and more. The collection includes 7 Spanish versions, as well as, 6 instrumentals for more interaction, background music, looping and personal creativity. A quick-view guide is printed on the inside cover. Also available from AbridgeClub.com, Smart & Tasty 2. And, produced exclusively for www.5aday.org, Smart Fruit & Veggie Songs.

Average customer rating: Rod Stewart's disco album? Consistently Ordinary You know you loved it! Don't Worry About One Disco Song......the rest was the best! Better Than You Think

Blondes Have More Fun Rod Stewart Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Foot Loose & Fancy Free A Night on the Town Foolish Behaviour Atlantic Crossing Tonight I'm Yours ASIN: B000002KJK Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
2. Dirty Weekend
3. Ain't Love A Bitch
4. The Best Day Of My Life
5. Is That The Thanks I Get?
6. Attractive Female Wanted
7. Blondes (Have More Fun)
8. Last Summer
9. Standin' In The Shadows Of Love
10. Scarred And Scared

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Rod Stewart's disco album?.......2006-07-07

A lot has been made of Rod Stewart's move to disco with "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" He was accused of being a sellout as soon as that hit began tearing up the charts. He didn't really deserve it, though - the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" was doing the same thing. What about David Bowie's "Golden Years?" Or ELO's "Sweet Talkin' Woman?" Roxy Music had a hit with "Love is the Drug." Kiss recorded "I Was Made for Lovin' You." The Rolling Stones reprised "Miss You" with "Emotional Rescue." Queen did "Another One Bites the Dust." So let's not get angry with the man just because he knew how to notch a hit.

Admittedly, Rod's contribution to the rock-disco crossover genre is one of the trashiest, sleaziest hits of 70's. It's also ridiculously infectious - especially that chorus - and Stewart was rewarded with a number one hit. It's no masterpiece, not even close, but it's guilty fun. Unfortunately, "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" ended Rod Stewart's hopes to remain a respectable singer - "Hot Legs" may have been sleazy, but it was all in good Stonesy fun. Here, he gave in to pulsating Eurodisco, and he's been paying the price ever since.

Of course, Blondes Have More Fun was a hit because of "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" but it was a better album than could be expected. Not great, not good, but there were certainly a few more winners. "Ain't Love a Bitch" is a nice acoustic piece. There are a couple of throwbacks to raunchy rock 'n' roll, the best of which is the title track. None of them hit like his best work, and they don't come close to Faces classics like "Had Me a Real Good Time," but they're enjoyable nonetheless. There are also a couple of ballad-style pieces that are pretty good, if not as emotional as earlier classics. In fact, few songs really follow the mold of "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" - "Standin' in the Shadows of Love" has another disco-fied beat, "Last Summer" features a slick rhythm - and so I feel that Blondes Have More Fun is quite underrated.

No, it isn't the place to start listening to Rod Stewart - try Every Picture Tells a Story - but it's a better album than it's reputation would indicate. If I could give it three and a half stars, I probably would.

Consistently Ordinary.......2004-09-18

Some folks out there are enamored with this CD and the big disco smash Do Ya Think I'm Sexy. others may think old hot Rod expanded his style. To some degree Rod Stewart did do the later. However, Blondes Have More Fun is just an ordianry ten song set.

Don't get me wrong, these songs do not ofend me in any great way. They just do not thrill me. The prevous release, Foot Loose and Fancy Free consisted of edgy rock tunes and touching ballads. There are too many ho hum ballads with lifeless arrangements. The rockers are a little better but fall short of previous gems like Hot Legs and Born Loose. Dirty Weekend may have catchy guitars but the hooks and lyrics are somewhat forgettable. The title track is pretty catchy but does not break any ground in the creative department. Is That The Thanks I Get has a pretty catchy chorus and the cover of Standing In The Shadows Of Love is quite memorable. The disco hit Do Ya Think I'm Sexy has a few catchy moments but just does not stay to memorable over its five minute length. I could go on about the other five songs but the response would be the same: Some good moments but basically forgettable.

Therefore unless you are an established fan of Hot Rod, I would say that you could live without this recording.

You know you loved it!.......2004-09-01

Never did any Rod Stewart album generate the kind of love/hate sentiment more than Blondes Have More Fun. Having already endured criticism, and cries of "sellout" for moving away from jolly old England, and settling in Los Angeles, and the subsequent cries of "sellout" for issuing the appropriately titled, "Atlantic Crossing", Rod dared to join the late 70's and horror of horrors, recorded a so-called disco tune. The truth is, most rock acts at the time were delving into the disco craze, trying to capitalize financially. The Stones (Miss You), Kiss (I Was Made For Loving You), Blondie (Heart of Glass), ELO (Entire Xanadu sountrack). So, criticism of Rod is very harsh, in my opinion. Especially when you consider that BHMF is a solid rock album on the whole.



I don't care what anyone says, Do Ya Think I'm Sexy is a great tune! And, unlike what most people thought, not autobiographical. As Rod does better than anyone else, he is telling a story. The lyrics start, "He sits alone, waiting for suggestions." After the mega hit, one kickass rocker, Dirty Weekend is next. In the style of the great Rod rockers, this one is basically a "head's down, meet you at the end in three minutes" tune. Rod displays his self-depricating sense of humour a lot on this album, as evidenced by 'Aint Love a Bitch. A cute little ditty that you'll be signing the rest of the day. Rod then slows things down a notch for a nice ballad, Best Days of My Life, before some more self-deprication on the rocking, Is That The Thanks I Get?



Side Two ( I Love vinyl) is more good stuff. With the highlights being the humourous (and again self-depricating) Attractive Female Wanted and Last Summer. You have to wonder if Rod was having trouble keeping girlfriends at the time he recorded this! Nice uptempo numbers such as the title track and a cover of Standing in the Shadows of Love fill out the cd, and we end with a song called Scarred and Scared. In my opinion this song is autobiographical, but I have no idea what the actual story is behind it.



The story here was that critics pretty much hated this album, but the fans ate it up. With the exception of Rod purists, who burned their copies of Every Picture Tells A Story in protest...



Overall this album is worthy of your music catalogue. Don't be afraid of disco folks. It's well dead...It's not coming back because you enjoy Do Ya Think I'm Sexy!

Don't Worry About One Disco Song......the rest was the best!.......2003-03-29

I think the music portrayed the time perfectly, for the year it was released. Our music was changing quickly. He had to plug at least one disco tune. Turned out pretty good for him. Everyone I knew had that cassette tape. The remastered is even better. The memories are always better with Rod around! There isn't much that I don't like about Rod Stewart. Though it was in the disco era, he released this at the right time. A Classic to say the least.

Better Than You Think.......2001-04-27

Blondes Have More Fun is the album that is easily the most critically reviled of all of Rod Stewart's albums and is a target of alot his fans. People call it Rod Stewart selling out to disco music and to a degree they're right. "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" is pure disco and in 1979 disco was king. The song was a number one hit and a platinum seller. The thing people overlook is that "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" is the only disco song on the album and while the rest of it isn't vintage Rod Stewart music, it's not bad. In fact there are some songs like "The Best Of My Life", "Ain't Love A Bitch" & "Scarred & Scared" that are high quality. Also, if you take "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" for what it is, it is a catchy piece of music. If you're looking for Every Picture Tells A Story, you won't find it here, but with Blondes Have More Fun, you get a solid, workman like effort.

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