Do I Speak for the World

Product Description
People of the world is your obligation to listen to this body of work, Gerald Levert's, Do I Speak For the World? It's not about old school, new school, pop, crossover, AC, urban, mainstream, etc. It is simply good music. Gerald's, Do I Speak for the World? is passionate, though provoking, and poignant. Simply good music as it should be. Check for yourself and enjoy.

Do I Speak for the World,Gerald LeVert,Atlantic / Wea,Pop,Quiet Storm,R&B,Retro-Soul,Soul/R & B,Urban

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Average customer rating: SAIL ON, KURT! Not at All Vile Weill ELEVATOR MUSIC

Kurt Weill: Life, Love, & Laughter--Dance Arrangements, 1927-50 H.K. Gruber , and Palast Orchestra Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Weill | Weill, Kurt | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music 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 | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Ein Freund ein Guter Freu Krokodile und Andere Hausfreunde Wochenend und Sonnenschein Superhits Präsentiert Vom Palast Orchester Superhits V.2 ASIN: B000055YBR Release Date: 2001-02-12

Tracks:

1. Mile After Mile
2. Bilbao Song
3. Stay Well
4. Life, Love And Laughter
5. My Ship
6. Green-up Time
7. The Little Gray House
8. Blues Potpourri
9. September Song
10. All At Once
11. Le Roi d'Aquitaine (Waltz)
12. Foxtrot Potporri
13. Alabama Song
14. Lied Der Jenny
15. Speak Low
16. It Never Was You
17. What Good Would the Moon Be
18. Tango Ballade
19. Kanonen-Song

Amazon.com

Here's a disc of 19 familiar and unfamiliar Kurt Weill songs arranged for dance band and played by an expert group of specialists in Roaring Twenties band music. They're led by singer-conductor-composer H.K. Gruber, whose previous recordings include Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper. The result is a start-to-finish delight. From the first notes, you're beamed back in time to one of those sleek transatlantic passenger liners, sitting in an art deco ballroom watching elegant couples in tuxedos and ball-gowns swirl by while the band plays hits from Weill's German and Broadway triumphs. Sure, the venom is leached from the originals, but who needs agitprop when you're on a dance floor? The arrangements are by a variety of hands, hired by Weill's European and American publishers with his approval to get more mileage from his musical theater works. They're delightfully square rhythmically and formulaic in transferring Weill's music to conventional dance bands, but the music still holds up and is fun to hear in its new clothes. A special treat is the eight tracks with Max Raabe, whose light tenor and falsetto singing preserve the spirit of Weill's songs, as well as perfectly mimic the boy band singers of times gone by. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

SAIL ON, KURT!.......2006-04-23

I wouldn't take offence here oh, Weill purists! These reconstructions are charming and harmonically reverent to their originals, more than could be said for many versions of the Weill Songbook through the decades, including Lou Reed's friendly `adaptation' of the September Song's chord progression and melodic line!

Shoenberg and Webern expressed their disdain of Weill's music; curiously, Arnold had also disclosed a secret wish of having his own audiences walk back home "whistling his tunes", oh, don't ask why... You can certainly whistle, hum and sway your partner now, as the transatlantic's bouncy dancehall sails on just as Kurt, Lotte and the lot of them did when escaping the lethal hounds of early 30s Berlin.... the-next-little-dollar bound.

Not at All Vile Weill.......2001-08-13

The ever versatile HK Gruber has done it again digging up these gorgeous dance arrangements for Weill's music--proving, if anything, Weill's versatility. Anyone familiar with the Capriccio historical Weill recordings will be aware of the long tradition of dance bands taking Weill's music as the lead for dance music or pop music incarnations (all the way up through the more obvious appropriations familiar to Americans: Mack the Knife and September Song). Hardly MUZAK arrangements (listen to the delicate violin in track 17's "What Good Would the Moon Be" to hear what I mean), this generous helping of 19 songs offers a chance to see Weill through a delightfully different but entirely compatible lens. Max Raabe provides the ideal vocal compliment on 8 of the tracks, his tenor floating effortlessly into his head voice suggesting a "period" sound reminiscent of Bing Crosby. The import title for this disc is "Charming Weill," and that modest adjective expresses the least of its virtues.

ELEVATOR MUSIC.......2001-05-23

This is a very strange CD: why would anyone want to take the quirky rhythms and melodies of the great Kurt Weill and "tame" them into dance arrangements? Certainly one has listened to (& even perhaps admired) dance arrangements of composers from Victor Herbert to Cole Porter to Jerry Herman, but these are all, if you will, main stream composers-- men whose music sounds good in original Broadway or Hollywood arrangements and just as good (or almost as good) as played by a dance band...think "Begin The Beguine" as done by Fred Astaire on film or "Begin The Beguine" done by Jo Stafford with the Paul Weston Orchestra.

But Weill was an innovator: a man who can still be listened to experiencing the thrill of something fresh and new. One immediately thinks of his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht in Germany: "Threepenny Opera" and "The Rise & Fall Of The City of Mahagonny" or "The Seven Deadly Sins", etc. his American opera, "Street Scene" with Langston Hughes or his American musical plays: "One Touch of Venus" with Ogden Nash or "Love Life" with Alan Jay Lerner, etc. The songs on this CD all deserve great recordings from the "Alabama Song" to "September Song" but they turn into a kind of flattened elevator music instead of having fresh interpretations or even more traditional ones. What happens is that the longing in "What Good Would the Moon Be" and the romance of "Speak Low" and the raucousness of "Bilbao Song" are all much too similar and much too easy.

It's a little weird to think of husbands whispering to their wives," Listen, honey, they're playing 'As You Make Your Bed' from "Mahagonny".........let's fox trot!"

Average customer rating: One thing's for sure you speak for Grown &Sexy R&B Excellent CD!! SPEAK GERALD: "The greatest R&B singer of my generation" No You May Not Speak For the World...

Do I Speak for the World Gerald LeVert Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Quiet Storm | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Love & Consequences Groove On Voices Gerald's World The G Spot ASIN: B00064LOR8 Release Date: 2004-11-30

Tracks:

1. Interlude/Speak 4 the World
2. Interlude feat. Tavis Smiley & Dr. Cornell West
3. Crucified
4. Greater Later
5. Interlude
6. Lay U Down (Make It Right)
7. Everyday
8. Talk It Out
9. Was What It Was
10. Duty Calls
11. One Million Times
12. What Happened to the Love
13. So What
14. Where Do We Go
15. Click A Glass
16. Closing Interlude

Album Description

People of the world is your obligation to listen to this body of work, Gerald Levert's, Do I Speak For the World? It's not about old school, new school, pop, crossover, AC, urban, mainstream, etc. It is simply good music. Gerald's, Do I Speak for the World? is passionate, though provoking, and poignant. Simply good music as it should be. Check for yourself and enjoy.

Customer Reviews:

One thing's for sure you speak for Grown &Sexy R&B.......2007-03-08

Gerald Levert returns with another amazing CD of grown and sexy ballads that real R&B music fans can like. Gerald Levert shines on the slow jam tracks Duty Calls and the two singles released One Millon Times and So What If You Got A Baby. The production is polished and ideal for quiet storm formats and the guest appearances that so often saturate a record like this are noticeably absent and Gerald will always be the teddy bear.

Excellent CD!! .......2007-01-12

Gerald always delivered his best! He will truely be missed but his music will live forever. Love you Gerald!

SPEAK GERALD:.......2006-11-25

Hey everybody, understand, we've all got to grow up sometime. All the baby making music was fine, but the brother felt he had something to say about conditions. And I applaud him. Too often, these days, entertainers have nothing to say, even in the love songs. THE BROTHER GREW UP!

"The greatest R&B singer of my generation".......2006-11-17

First of all let me adress that that I too am deeply hurt and saddened by the utimely passing of Gerald Levet, he was truly legeng in his own time. I really didn't write this review to talk about this album although it's a great album. See I was born in the mid seventies and to me he was what Marvin Gaye Barry White, and Teddy Pendergrass was to the generation of my parents. I now see how they felt when Marvin Gaye died back in 1984 and I am devestated. See all I listen too is the true greats of music be it soul,funk,jazz, or rock and I could see the apple didn't fall too far from the tree in the case Gerald. He was the ultimate soul singer who passionate pleas to woman made men really wanting to step their games up so to speak. See in this day and time we have very few artist who transcends their respective genres of music and Gerald was one of them. Just two weeks I purchase his group Levert's album Bloodline off of Amazon from a private seller for about thirty bucks. That's how much a fan I was (and still) of Gerald's music, which by the way copleted my whole Levert and Gerald Levert collection.

See to me, he was truly the last of the great baritone singers of our time and one of the true "real man voices" of soul music that is rarely heard in todays music. See he comes from a bloodline of great singers (no pun intended), such as his dad the legendary Eddie Levert of the O'Jays. Just a couple years ago I was just so dissapointed at the state of hip-hop and music in general that I decided to go back to where music had substance and style. While doing this I came across a greatest hits cd of Levert and started to listen to the first track on it fom their first album Bloodline called Pop,Pop,Pop,Pop,Goes My Mind. By hearing that song It took me back to that summer of 1986 back home in D.C. playing with my friends and and chasing girls. See, Gerald bridged the gap between the old and the new generations which was one of the reasons I still listened to curent R&B. But now I and many others will have huge void in ours hearts because of his passing. Every year you could expect an album release by Gerald just like my parents every year back in the 1970's saw a new release by the O'Jays and both were always great. My condolensces to his family and friends, especially Eddie who he was so close to. And last may his music live on forever in our hearts and may God bless his soul. We all love you and thanks for all the great memories we'll never forget. R.I.P. Brother

No You May Not Speak For the World..........2005-10-14

Ok exactly why did G waste his time on this album.It literally falls short of what he did for Stroke of Genius and G Spot.I hate to compare but he tries too hard at making a Marvin Gaye album[What's Going On].I suggest next time he tries at doing himself instead of something he isn't because it ain't working

Average customer rating: Amazing Don Angle Rocks With His Spirited Harpsichord!

Yes Indeed! Manufacturer: Afka ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Rota, Nino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sousa | Sousa, John Philip | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Harpsichord Magic ASIN: B00029LN3M Release Date: 2004-06-29

Tracks:

1. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
2. Old Folks at Home
3. Tiptoe Through the Tulips
4. Angleterre
5. In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
6. St. Louis Blues
7. Crazy Arms
8. Stayin' Alive
9. In the Heat of the Night
10. Boogie
11. World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
12. No Place Like Home
13. I'll Fly Away
14. Do Lord
15. Yes Indeed!
16. Speak Softly Love
17. Time to Go
18. Stars and Stripes Forever

Customer Reviews:

Amazing.......2005-03-17

I recently heard an excerpt from this CD on the radio. I immediately purchased the CD and found it to be a collection of music that is superbly played on an instrument that I haven't heard in years. It is a welcome addition to my CD collection. I have listened to it several times and highly recommend it.

Don Angle Rocks With His Spirited Harpsichord!.......2004-09-26

If you have been deprived of the genius of Don Angle until now, you are in for a treat! His latest CD, "Yes Indeed!" offers the most scrumptious sampling of instrumental music ever recorded. Don has selected very classy tunes from Quincy Jones, the Bee Gees, Stephen Foster, Nino Rota and John Phillip Sousa to bring alive his shockingly spirited harpsichord, yes I said harpsichord! His brilliant arrangements begin with the joyful Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah and include beloved traditional songs, Don's signature Boogie, and three more luscious Don Angle creations, including his title song "Yes Indeed!" If you have long been a Don Angle fan, as I have, then you already know the thrill of his unique arrangements as he makes his harpsichord "rock!" New to Don Angle's world, or devoted fan, you will want to have this CD sound in your life. Yes Indeed!

Average customer rating: Bits of the Bard you have probably missed!! Excellent variety of choices!

Shakespeare on Broadway Various Artists - Soundtracks , Leonard Bernstein , Hal Hester , Rupert Holmes , Cliff Jones , Bruce Kimmel , Frank Loesser , Jeffrey Lunden , Cole Porter , Richard Rodgers , Stephen Sondheim , Michael Valenti , James ( , Crista Moore , David Engel , Debbie Gravitte , Glory Crampton , Guy Haines , Harry Groener , Jason Graae , Jonathan Freeman , Karen Ziemba , Larry Raben , Lee Wilkof , Liz Larsen , Lynnette Perry , Marcia Mitzman , Melba Joyce , Michelle Nicastro , Rod Raines , Sal Viviano , and Sean McDermott Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Grey Gardens - A New Musical (2006 Original Broadway Cast) The Boys from Syracuse (1997 Studio Cast) See What I Wanna See (2005 Original Off-Broadway Cast) Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B0000014WX Release Date: 1996-02-13

Tracks:

1. Brush Up Your Shakespeare From Kiss Me, Kate - Jonathan Freeman/Harry Groener/Guy Haines
2. I To The World From Oh, Brother! - Jason Graae
3. Should I Speak Of Loving You? From Music Is - Marcia Mitzman
4. Sing For Your Supper From The Boys From Syracuse - Lynette Perry
5. Fear No More From The Frogs - Ron Raines
6. Dear Old Syracuse From The Boys From Syracuse - Timothy Jerome & Lee Wilkof
7. It's Love...I Think From Another Midsummer Night - Crista Moore
8. Brush Up Your Shakespeare-Part Two - Jonathan Freeman/Harry Groener/Guy Haines
9. What Do I Know? From Your Own Thing - James Matthew Campbell/Leo Daignault/David Engel/Larry Raben
10. Too Darn Hot From Kiss Me, Kate - Liz Larsen
11. If My Morning Begins From Rockabye Hamlet - Sean McDermott
12. The Last Blues From Rockabye Hamlet - Melba Joyce
13. Two Songs From Twelfth Night - Rupert Holmes
14. Brush Up Your Shakespeare-Finale Ultimo - Jonathan Freeman/Harry Groener/Guy Haines
15. Darn That Dream from Swingin' The Dream - Karen Ziemba
16. What Do I Do Now? From The Comedy Errors - Michelle Nicastro
17. Tonight From West Side Story - Glory Crampton/Sal Viviano
18. Hamlet From The Film Red, Hot, And Blue - Debbie Shapiro Gravitte

Customer Reviews:

Bits of the Bard you have probably missed!!.......1999-10-02

This CD is a treat loaded with surprises. Program notes are well written and entertaining (by a Shakespearean expert?). Hear "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" in it's entirety, enjoy Hamlet retold in a jazzy piece that even features a little scat singing, and revel in the creative arrangement of "Tonight" (it features a bit of dialogue, some musical borrowings from Prokofiev, and more to create a multi-dimensional experience of this piece.) I highly recommend this diverse, interesting, stimulating and intriguing CD. I really liked it, in case you haven't guessed.

PS: The singing is good, too.

Excellent variety of choices!.......1998-09-10

This CD gives you an educational background on just how many different musical adaptations of Shakespearean works have been produced! The songs range from familiar tunes of Cole Porter like "Too Darn Hot" to obscure performances in Yale's swimming pool for "Fear No More." The notes by Bert Fink are hilarious and move along with the songs smoothly.

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