Think It Over

1. Think It Over

2. Love Don't Hurt People

3. Somebody Should Have Told Me

4. After You

5. Warning Danger

6. I Just Want to Be With You

7. Umbrella Song

8. Sometimes

9. I Won't Be the One

10. Morning Much Better [*]

11. Love Is Holding On [*]

12. It Never Really Ended [*]

13. Love Is Something That Leads You [*]

Think It Over,Cissy Houston,M.I.L. Multimedia,Dance Music,Gospel,Pop,Popular Music,Retro-Soul,Soul

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Life Think It Over Count Basic Manufacturer: Instinct Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Acid Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Movin' in the Right Direction Trust Your Instincts Life Force Uptown Groove More Than the Best ASIN: B000001UVN Release Date: 1995-04-25

Tracks:

1. Prelude
2. Is It Real
3. M.L. In The Sunshine (Instr.)
4. Jazz In The House
5. So Close
6. All Time High
7. Animal Print (Instr.)
8. Strange Life
9. Hide & Seek
10. Healer
11. Joy, Peace & Happiness
12. Walk Tall (Instr.)

Average customer rating: A bargain collection of showtunes

Golden Greats: Greatest Broadway Hits Manufacturer: Golden Greats ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Duke, Vernon | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Weill | Weill, Kurt | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Easy Listening | Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005USEJ Release Date: 2002-02-26

Tracks:

1. Ouverture - Orchestra
2. Something Wonderfull - Dorothy Sarnoff
3. Doin' What Comes Natur'lly - Ethel Merman
4. Life Upon the Wicked Stage - Colette Lyons
5. So in Love - Patricia Morison
6. You'll Never Walk Alone - Jan Clayton, Christine Johnson
7. Bill - Carol Bruce
8. Hello, Young Lovers - Gertrude Lawrence
9. Bloody Mary - Male Chorus
10. I Can't Say No - Celeste Holm
11. This Was a Real Nice Clambake - Jan Clayton,
12. Oklahoma! - Alfred Drake
13. Sue Me - Vivian Blaine, Sam Levene
14. Woman Is a Sometime Thing - Edward Matthews
15. Some Enchanted Evening - Ezio Pinza,
16. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' - Todd Duncan, Todd Duncan
17. Guys and Dolls - Douglas Deane, Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver
18. It Ain't Necessarily So - Lawrence Tibbett
19. Make Believe - Jan Clayton
20. Wonderful Guy - Mary Martin
21. They Say It's Wonderful - Ethel Merman
22. When the Children Are Asleep - Jean Darling, Eric Mattson
23. More I Cannot Wish You - Pat Rooney, Sr., Pat Rooney, Sr.
24. Puzzlement - Yul Brynner
25. I Got Lost in His Arms - Ethel Merman

Tracks:

1. Overture...Summertime - Anne Brown
2. Why Can't You Behave? - Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang
3. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man - Carol Bruce
4. There's No Business Like Show Business - Chorus
5. If I Were a Bell - Isabel Bigley
6. People Will Say That We're in Love - Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts
7. Bess, You Is My Woman Now - Anne Brown
8. Luck Be a Lady Tonight - Robert Alda
9. Shall I Tell You What I Think of You? - Gertrude Lawrence
10. Girl That I Marry - Ray Middleton
11. Nobody Else But Me - Jan Clayton
12. Carousel Waltz - Orchestra
13. Dites-Moi - Barbara Luna
14. Ol' Man River - Kenneth Spencer
15. Summertime
16. Many a New Day - Joan Roberts
17. Blow High, Blow Low - Murvyn Vye
18. It Takes a Long Pull to Get There - Edward Matthews
19. You've Got to Be Carefully Taught - Billy Tabbert
20. We Open in Venice - Alfred Drake
21. I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair - Mary Martin
22. Who Do You Love, I Hope? - Kathleen Carnes, Robert Lenn
23. I've Never Been in Love Before - Robert Alda
24. Tom, Dick or Harry - Lisa Kirk
25. I Whistle a Happy Tune - Gertrude Lawrence

Tracks:

1. New York, New York - Lynn Murray, Lynn Murray
2. Almost Like Being in Love - Marion Bell, Dave Brooks, David Brooks
3. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Vivienne Segal
4. Beat out Dat Rhythm on a Drum - June Hawkins
5. How Are Things in Glocca Morra? - Ella Logan
6. Old Devil Moon - Ella Logan
7. South American Way - Carmen Miranda
8. September Song - Walter Huston
9. This Is the Army, Mister Jones - Irving Berlin
10. Takin' a Chance on Love - Ethel Waters
11. My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Mary Martin
12. Anything Goes - Jeanne Aubert & The Four Admirals
13. You're the Top - Jeanne Aubert & The Four Admirals
14. I Get a Kick Out of You - Ethel Merman
15. Night and Day - Fred Astaire
16. I Got Rhythm - Red Nichols & His Orchestra
17. Someone to Watch Over Me - Gertrude Lawrence
18. Fascinatin' Rhythm - Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire
19. Strike Up the Band - Red Nichols & His Orchestra
20. Makin' Whoopee - Eddie Cantor
21. Heatwave - Ethel Waters
22. Easter Parade - Clifton Webb
23. She Didn't Say Yes - Peggy Wood
24. I've Told Every Little Star - Mary Ellis
25. Johnny One Note - Lynn Murray, Lynn Murray

Album Description

Import exclusive, budget price compilation featuring Broadway classics like 'You'll Never Walk Alone', 'Summertime', & There's No Business Like Show Business', performed by Ethel Merman, Gertrude Lawrence, Celeste Holm, & many more. 75 tracks in all. Standard double jewel case. Disky. 2001.

Album Details

3 CD set

Customer Reviews:

A bargain collection of showtunes.......2005-08-19

This bargain collection of showtunes is highlighted by the composition of Kurt Weill and the uniquely rolling tongue of Colette Lyons. I have a complaint about this compilation. It includes "Ol' Man River", but it excludes Al Jolson's rendition of "Ol' Man River." Otherwise, this collection gives you ample bang for your buck.

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Great Musicals Manufacturer: Rajon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000682FF4 Release Date: 2004-11-15

Tracks:

1. Oklahoma Suite: Oklahoma!/Oh, What a Beautiful Morning/The Surrey With
2. My Fair Lady Suite: Ascot Gavotte/Wouldn't It Be Loverly?/With a ...
3. Annie Get Your Gun Suite: Doin' What Comes Natur'lly/You Can't Get ...
4. King and I Suite: The March of Siamese Children/I Whistle a Happy Tune
5. Sound of Music Suite: The Sound of Music/My Favourite Things/Do-Re-Mi
6. West Side Story: The Jet Song/America/Tonight/Something's Coming/Maria

Tracks:

1. Porgy and Bess Suite: Summertime/I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'/I Loves ...
2. South Pacific Suite: Bali Ha'i/A Cockeyed Optimist/Some Enchanted ...
3. Guys and Dolls Suite: Luck Be a Lady/Fugue for Tinhorns/Follow the ...
4. Carousel Suite: The Carousel Waltz/Mister Snow/June Is Bustin' Out All

Tracks:

1. Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat: Any Dream Will ...
2. Evita: Don't Cry for Me Argentina/Another Suitcase in Another Hall
3. Jesus Christ Superstar: Jesus Christ Superstar/I Don't Know How to ...
4. Cats: Memory/Macavity the Mystery Cat/Mister Misoffeles
5. Phantom of the Opera: Phantom of the Opera/All I Ask of You/Angel ...

Album Description

Australian exclusive 3-CD set from the Rajon label's 'Great Series'. 2004.

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Classics Explained: Rite of Spring Stravinsky , Rahbari , and Brt Po Brussels Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Classics Explained: Pastoral Symphony An Introduction to Ravel's "Boléro" and "Ma mère l'oye" Classics Explained: Brandenburg Concertos 4 & 5 An Introduction to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 Symphony 9: Introduction to Dvorak ASIN: B00007FPFN Release Date: 2003-07-15

Average customer rating: Seventies Disco and Soul Dont Think it over Disco Diva Cissy / One hit CD Cissy Houston

Think It Over Cissy Houston Manufacturer: M.I.L. Multimedia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: High On Your Love Beautiful Bend The Cissy Houston Collection Ultimate, Vol. 1 Just Being Myself ASIN: B00000DBVU Release Date: 1998-09-15

Tracks:

1. Think It Over
2. Love Don't Hurt People
3. Somebody Should Have Told Me
4. After You
5. Warning Danger
6. I Just Want to Be With You
7. Umbrella Song
8. Sometimes
9. I Won't Be the One
10. Morning Much Better [*]
11. Love Is Holding On [*]
12. It Never Really Ended [*]
13. Love Is Something That Leads You [*]

Customer Reviews:

Seventies Disco and Soul.......2004-07-02

Before Whitney there was Cissy Houston! Produced and arranged by Michael Zager, a disco genius of the 1970s, Think It Over is a nice mix of dance numbers and soul ballads.

The title track is a real stunner, a disco masterpiece with a powerful hook and rousing vocals. Love Don't Hurt People is a gentle and tuneful ballad with an impressive orchestral arrangement and moments of great vocal virtuosity. Somebody Should Have Told Me is an uptempo disco ballad and After You a slow song with beautiful piano.

Warning - Danger is a real disco stomper with a marvelous rhythm break whilst I Just Want To Be With You is a soulful torch song and Umbrella Song has a calypso feel. Sometimes is another torch song and I Won't Be The One another uptempo disco ballad.

This CD release contains extra tracks which make it value for money. Although never a big star like Donna Summer or Gloria Gaynor, Cissy Houston had her moments. I recommend Think It Over to those who are nostalgic for the disco era.

Dont Think it over.......2003-09-21

Buy this cd. Cissy has incredible power and range. Her voice fits any style. From disco to light pop. Her gospel trained vocals power through uptempo jams like "Think it over", "Somebody should have told me", and "Warning-Danger". The ballad "Love is holding on" is a winner. Its a tugging heartfelt song that is a standout. Their are some mis-stpes. "The Umbrella Song" is terrible. Other than that the rest can be tolerated. Cissy Houston has a unforgettable voice. This cd shows you shes not just Whitney's mother. She was a great vocalist in her own right! Sing on.

Disco Diva.......2003-07-29

Think It Over! need I say more.

Cissy / One hit CD.......2002-01-06

Ok Ok Ok guys - the rest of the CD is a BOMB Mother & Child (whitney ) have done better , But what is not noted on the cd , was the Cut of "Think it over " is NOT the org mix , but the extended , which is rare , and worth the bucks shelled out , for those DJ,s looking for this rare mix THINK OVER !!

Cissy Houston.......2001-07-28

Any person led to this album by Michael Zager's reputation as producer may be disappointed. There are only 3 dance tracks here. 6 tracks emulate the soul ballads of The Stylistics. 2 are gospel-style ballads. The album as a whole evokes Dionne Warwick's work with the Spinners, although Cissy's vocal style is huskier and more church-rooted than her niece's.

Average customer rating: Some Brilliant moments Britpop Byrdisised

Some People Are on the Pitch They Think It's All Over It Is Now The Dentists Manufacturer: Rev-Ola ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Neo-Psychedelia | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Behind the Door I Keep the Universe Deep Six Magpie Eyes 1982-1985 The Sound Is in You Feels ASIN: B000A6AB9E Release Date: 2005-09-26

Tracks:

1. Flowers Around Me
2. I'm Not the Devil
3. Tony Bastable V John Noakes
4. You Make Me Say It Somehow
5. Mary Won't Come Out to Play
6. I Had an Excellent Dream
7. Kinder Still
8. Little Engineer's Set
9. Back to the Grave
10. Tangerine
11. Arrow Points to the Spot
12. Everyting in the Garden
13. One of Our Psychedelic Beakers Is Missing
14. Strawberries Are Growing in My Garden (And It's Wintertime) [*]
15. Burning the Thoughts from My Skin [*]
16. Doreen [*]

Album Description

Long before they became the indie darlings and international recording artistes they're usually remembered as, The Dentists were the black sheep of the mid '80s medway rock n' roll family. Railing against the tried and tested garage rock of The Prisoners and The Milkshakes, The Dentists blended the contemporary guitar pop of The Smiths, The Go Betweens and REM with the classic '60s rock of The Who, The Kinks and The Byrds, added a generous sprinkling of heavy-lidded psychedelia and played the resulting sound stew very loudly at 90 mph on beaten-up old guitars and drums. A recipe for great pop music you may think...and you'd be right! First time ever on CD, features 16 remastered tracks including the 3 bonus tracks 'Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime)', 'Burning The Thoughts From My Skin' & 'Doreen'. Re-ola. 2005.

Album Details

Now, for the First Time Ever, Rev-ola Presents the Album and Single on CD, Remastered and Expanded. Ripe for Rediscovery and Re-evaluation, These Earliest Dentists Recordings Are Dripping with the Kind of Ramshackle Charm and Youthful Zest that Make So Many Debuts Unbeatable.

Customer Reviews:

Some Brilliant moments.......2006-04-21

I wasn't going to add a review, but when I saw how dismissive another review was, I had to get in and say my two cents worth!
The Dentists have released some better material, but this, the first album, is filled with brilliant guitar melodies, which reaches a peak on the brilliant "Excellent Dream". If anyone likes the Jingle Jangle sound, buy this, buy all the EPs, buy Space Man, Powdered Lobster, and anything else you can find. A band that deserved to be so much bigger. Melodic songs, guitar work from Collins is brilliant and a great vocalist. All supported with some great drums and bass moments. I still listen to these records, often. And I'm still struggling to find something I like more.

Britpop Byrdisised.......2005-11-23

Rev-Ola, a solid label purveying well-crafted, Anglophilic pop, in its blurb above sums up well this Kent quartet's influences. It's perfectly fine, but not more than that. Fans of The Smiths, Robyn Hitchcock, the La's, and perhaps of the later period of The Jam, will like these songs. But they do not leap out at you as they should have done. Lacking the idiosyncratic but memorable stylings of a Paul Weller or Morrissey vocal, these tunes remain politer but more pedestrian in their arrangments, which cry out for Roy Wood of the Move to elaborate. I think they can hear in their heads more of sonic variety that a small budget and a first album may have thwarted.

This band knows its 60s forebears, and the title is a marvelous quote from the announcer signalling the end of the World Cup '66 English triumph over West Germany. Trouble is, with the limited production, this album stays mired in 1966 sonics that cripple the songs from fully taking charge. The first four songs grab you a bit more forcefully, with a drum sound recalling their punk-pop side, but the remainder of the tracks, until a second wind around tracks 9-10-11 brings you into their Beatlesque paisley garb fittingly, lag a bit in their lack of energy. More experimentation in the arrangements, more variety in the pretty but ultimately similar Byrdsian guitar chords, would have made more of an impact.

Still, it's a solid album, with excellent liner notes on each song by band members and fans as well as a well-illustrated history of the detailed making of the group's debut album, here appended with its first single sides. I wish all re-issues were packaged with the same care and love. This is reputedly their best album, and one that I had heard of but never heard in the mid-80s, so if you want an intro to the band (see also a compilation from 1992 on the U.S. Homestead label, "Dressed," but it overlaps with much of "Some People"), this is a good pick.

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Pictures of the Gone World Manufacturer: Synergy Ent ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Poetry | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Spoken Word | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B0007GAEMG Release Date: 2005-02-08

Tracks:

1. Away Above A Harborful
2. Just As I Used To Say
3. In Hintertime Praxiteles
4. In Paris In A Loud Dark Winter
5. Not Too Long
6. And The Arabs Asked Terrible Questions
7. Yes
8. Sarolla's women In Their Picture Hats
9. 'truth Is Not The Secret Of A Few
10. For All I Know Maybe She Was Happier
11. Fourtune
12. And She Like A Young Year
13. It Was A Face Which Darkness Could Kill
14. So
15. Funny Fantasies Are Fewer Never So Real As Oldstyle romances
16. Three Maidens Went Over The Land
17. Terrible
18. London
19. With Bells For Hooves In Sounding Streets
20. That Fellow On The Boattrain Who Insisted
21. Heaven
22. Crazy
23. Dada Would Have Liked A Day Like This
24. Picasso's Acrobats Epitomize The World
25. The World Is A Beautiful Place
26. Reading Yeats I Do Not Think/Sweet And Various The Woodlark

Average customer rating: Great live album if you're a fan of Thunder

They Think It's All Over...It Thunder Manufacturer: Papillon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Rare Raw & the Rest Best of Thunder: Their Finest Hour (And a Bit) The Magnificent Seventh! Behind Closed Doors ASIN: B00004TVVM

Tracks:

1. Welcome to the Party
2. River of Pain
3. Pilot of My Dreams
4. Backstreet Symphony
5. Until My Dying Day
6. Fly on the Wall
7. Love Walked In
8. Just Another Suicide
9. Gimme Shelter
10. Play That Funky Music
11. Dirty Love
12. Stand Up
13. Low Life in High Places
14. This Forgotten Town
15. Pinball Wizzard
16. Once in a Lifetime
17. Close to You
18. Lola
19. Better Man

Album Description

The last ever album for the British heavy metal act recorded live at a packed Dingwalls to a rapturous reception. This album is a strictly limited edition numbered double CD and only 10,000 will be manufactured. Includes a rocking set of Thunder classics along with two new songs and a collection of acoustic performances of their own material along with rock classics such as 'Pinball Wizard' and 'Lola'. Also includes a hilarious Q & A session with the fans. 2000 release. Slimline double jewel case.

Album Details

Recorded Live at Dingwalls, London, 04/05/2000. Limited to 10,000 Copies.

Customer Reviews:

Great live album if you're a fan of Thunder.......2004-03-16

Excellent album. 2 CD's of live music with Thunder at their best. I've been a fan of theirs since the early '90's with their album "Laughing On Judgement Day". I had it on vinyl and cassette and had burned it to a CD but recently had an electrical house fire and lost everything. It's been great to find nearly all the CD's I definitely had to replace. This album is not a replacement but a worthwhile purchase to anyone who likes music and expecially likes this band.

Average customer rating: A touching English Butterfly

Puccini - Madam Butterfly / Cheryl Barker, PO, Yves Abel [in English] Giacomo Puccini , Yves Abel , Cheryl Barker , Paul Charles Clarke , and Simon Birchall Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Puccini | Puccini, Giacomo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Turandot (Chandos Opera in English) Puccini - La bohème / Haymon · O'Neill · Opie · McLaughlin · A. Miles · Dazeley · Shore · PO · Parry Verdi: La Traviata Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Te Kanawa · Hampson · Rosenshein · Gedda · Sir Charles Mackerras [in English] ASIN: B00005QF3K Release Date: 2001-11-20

Tracks:

1. Act I: Introduction - Cheryl Barker
2. Act I: 'So The Walls And The Ceiling...' - Ann Taylor/Stuart Kale
3. Act I: 'I Think Your Honour's Smiling' - Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor/Stuart Kale
4. Act I: 'It Can't Be Much Further Now!' - Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor
5. Act I: The Whole World Over - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
6. Act I: 'Fate Can't Crush Him' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
7. Act I: 'Is The Bride Very Pretty?' - Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor
8. Act I: 'True Love Or Fancy' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
9. Act I: 'See Them! They're Climbing The Summit Of The Hill!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich
10. Act I: 'We Are Honoured' - Cheryl Barker/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale
11. Act I: 'The Imperial Commissioner' - Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker/Simon Birchall
12. Act I: 'Oh, Indeed, My Friend, You're Lucky!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker
13. Act I: 'Come, My Beloved' - Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker/Stuart Kale
14. Act I: 'My Fate I Have To Follow' - Cheryl Barker
15. Act I: 'Silence! Silence!' - Stuart Kale/Roland Wood/Cheryl Barker
16. Act I: 'Congratulations' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich/Frances Brett/Clive Bayley/Stuart Kale
17. Act I: 'Dearest, My Dearest, Weep No More' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby
18. Act I: 'Evening Is Falling...' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby
19. Act I: 'Child, From Whose Eyes The Witchery Is Shining' - Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker
20. Act I: 'Ah, Love Me A Little' - Cheryl Barker/Ann Taylor
21. Act II Part I: 'Izaghi Izanami' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
22. Act II Part I: 'One Fine Day' - Cheryl Barker

Tracks:

1. Act II Part I: 'Come, Let's Enter' - Stuart Kale/Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker
2. Act II Part I: 'Yamadori, And Has your Unrequited Love Not Yet Released You? - Cheryl Barker/D'Arcy Bleiker/Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale
3. Act II Part I: 'Now, At Last!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker
4. Act II Part I: 'Just Two Things I Could Do' - Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich
5. Act II Part I: 'This Child! This Child, Then!' - Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich
6. Act II Part I: 'Do You Know, My Darling' - Cheryl Barker
7. Act II Part I: 'I Must Be Going' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
8. Act II Part I: 'Ah! Ah!' - Stuart Kale/Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
9. Act II Part I: 'Look, It's A Man-of-war!' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
10. Act II Part I: Flower Duet: 'Shake The Cherry Tree' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
11. Act II Part I: Humming Chorus - Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
12. Act II Part 2: Prelude - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
13. Act II Part 2: Daybreak Over Nagasaki - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
14. Act II Part 2: 'It's Morning' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
15. Act II Part 2: 'Who Is It?...' - Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
16. Act II Part 2: 'I Know For Such Misfortune There Is No Consolation' - Gregory Yurisich/Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor
17. Act II Part 2: 'Farewell, Oh Happy Home!' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
18. Act II Part 2: 'Then Will You Tell Her?' - Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby
19. Act II Part 2: 'Suzuki, Where Are You?' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
20. Act II Part 2: 'You, Suzuki, You're Always So Faithful' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
21. Act II Part 2: 'Viper! I Want You To Answer' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby/Gregory Yurisich/Ann Taylor
22. Act II Part 2: 'Your Little Fluttering Heart Is Beating' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
23. Act II Part 2: 'Death With Honour Is Better Than Life With Dishonour' - Cheryl Barker

Amazon.com

This performance, the only one available in English, is problematic. Best is Yves Abel's leadership of the orchestra, which sounds wonderful, imbuing Puccini's lush score with just the right exoticism and emphasis. But aside from Gregory Yurisch's fine Sharpless, the singers don't please. Paul Charles Clarke as Pinkerton is lacking stylistically and vocally, and as Butterfly, Cheryl Barker sounds under strain and never pretty. While she has the power and feeling for the big second-act climax (the sighting of the ship), she never for a moment sounds fragile or girlish, not even in the all-important early scenes. English or not, this set isn't in the running. Stick with Callas or Scotto in Italian, and follow the libretto. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

A touching English Butterfly.......2002-03-27

Anyone familiar with Cheryl Barker's Butterfly will be interested in hearing this recording. I have heard her in the role twice - in Auckland and London - and her voice has filled out as the years have gone on. She hasn't a large italianate soprano; the sound is too slender somehow. Yet there is the paradox - it has great carrying power and a decent cutting edge to make itself heard above the orchestral climaxes. What really impresses is the sense of vulnerability and moral strength she imparts, making sense of the big moments of the secong act. The sound in Act one is gorgeous (and a super D flat in theentrance aria) and she differentiates impressively between the child-bride and the embittered woman of the two acts.

She is surrounded by a mixed supporting cast. Jean Rigby is maternal, warm and affecting as Suzuki. Gregory Yurisich makes Sharpless' dilemma more understandable than usual, rather than being completely ineffectual. Paul Charles Clarke perhaps illustrates Pinkerton's arrogance with a degree of vocal swagger, but the sound is rough-hewn and unlovely save for some moments in the love duet. Stuart Kale's Goro is suitable ingratiating and oily.

Abel's conducting is the other chief draw of this set. That he has experience of the score in the theatre means that his pacing is really superb, and the lush orchestration is given its due, the potent intermezzo during the overnight vigil sounding suitably ominous.

This won't replace the classic Butterfly recordings, but in the absendce of any new ones recently, and for acceptable diction in an English version, it is certainly worth the (not very high) price. Recommended.

Average customer rating: Quilter deserves better...

Roger Quilter: Complete Folk-Song Arrangements; Complete Part-Songs for Women's Voices Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Roger Quilter: O Mistress Mine; To Daisies; Julia's Hair; Go, Lovely Rose English Song Series 1 ASIN: B0007XHL0M Release Date: 2005-04-19

Tracks:

1. Drink To Me Only - David Wilson-Johnson
2. Over The Mountains
3. My Lady Greensleeves
4. Little Moth
5. Love Calls Through The Summer Night
6. If Love Should Pass Me By
7. The Rose Of Tralee - Philip Langridge
8. Believe me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms - David Wilson-Johnson
9. Oh! 'Tis Sweet To Think - David Wilson-Johnson
10. Come Lady-Day
11. The Starlings
12. To A Harebell By A Graveside
13. It Was A Lover And His Lass
14. Ye Banks And Braes
15. Charlie Is My Darling
16. Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes
17. Where Go The Boats?
18. Windy Nights
19. Summer Sunset
20. Le Pauvre Laboureur - David Wilson-Johnson
21. L'Amour De Moi - David Wilson-Johnson
22. Joli Mois De Mai - David Wilson-Johnson
23. Daisies After The Rain (Solo Version)
24. My Heart Adorn'd With Thee
25. The Passing Bell
26. Blossom-Time
27. Daisies After The Rain (Duet Version)
28. Weep You No More
29. I Gotta Robe - David Wilson-Johnson
30. 'Tis St. Valentine's Day
31. What Will You Do My Love - Philip Langridge
32. The Jolly Miller
33. Barbara Allen
34. Three Poor Mariners - David Wilson-Johnson
35. Since First I Saw Your Face - David Wilson-Johnson
36. The Ash Grove

Customer Reviews:

Quilter deserves better..........2005-11-10

Was this recording of Quilter songs (Complete Folk-Song Arrangements and Complete Part-Songs for Women's Voices) a vanity project for soprano Amanda Pitt? It is hard to explain in any other terms, for her voice is not pleasant to hear. It is a pinched, badly produced, squally sound - the sort of standard one would expect in a not very gifted singing student. Why Naxos permitted this travesty of a recording under their label is a mystery.

The majority of the songs on this CD are sung by the aforesaid Amanda Pitt (soprano). The other singers in this project are of a better standard - in the case of Philip Langridge, beautiful to listen to. This recording is not worthy of his excellent career and lovely tenor voice. The other two singers - mezzo Joanne Thomas and baritone David Wilson-Johnson - are not bad, either, although the mezzo doesn't get a single solo. The lack of a solo for Ms Thomas is glaringly evident when compared to the ten (10) solos which Ms Pitt sings. (10 out of 21 solos - definitely an unfair ratio. Of these ten solos, several could have been given to the mezzo to sing - they were certainly not beyond the average mezzo range.)

The rest of the album consists of duets - thirteen of them. Eleven of the thirteen duets are soprano/mezzo, and in spite of the mezzo's voice (from what one is permitted to hear of it) isn't bad, the duet performances are frankly awful, chiefly because of Ms Pitt. Even the superior quality of Philip Langridge's singing cannot save the two duets he sings with Amanda Pitt.

It's artistically an insulting and atrociously unbalanced distribution of material.

Look for the John Mark Ainsley/Lisa Milne recording of Quilter songs & arias. Admittedly, it doesn't include most of the duets on this CD, but oh, the sheer pleasure of hearing well-trained and lovely voices give Quilter a worthy treatment!

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