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Mary Poppins
Richard M. Sherman , Robert B. Sherman , and Julie Andrews Manufacturer: Disney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000654YWO Release Date: 2004-11-16 |
Tracks:
- Buena Vista - Glynis Johns
- Overture - Glynis Johns
- One Man Band - Glynis Johns
- Sister Suffragette - Glynis Johns
- The Life I Lead - David Tomlinson
- The Perfect Nanny - Karen Dotrice
- Air Mail/Admiral Boom/The Not-So-Perfect Nannies/Mary Poppins Arrives - Julie Andrews
- A Spoonful Of Suger - Julie Andrews
- Pavement Artist - Dick Van Dyke
- Jolly Holiday - Marni Nixon
- Jolly Holiday (Reprise) - Julie Andrews
- Penguin Dance - Richard Sherman
- The Carousel Horses - Richard Sherman
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - Richard Sherman
- Pavement Artist (Reprise) - Dick Van Dyke
- Stay Awake - Julie Andrews
- Trouble At Uncle Albert's - Julie Andrews
- I Love To Laugh - Julie Andrews
- A British Bank - Julie Andrews
- Feed The Birds - Julie Andrews
- Father's Footsteps - Bill Lee
- Fidelity Fiduciary Bank - Bill Lee
- Panic At The Bank - Julie Andrews
- Chim Chim Cher-ee/March Over The Rooftops - Julie Andrews
- Step In Time - Dick Van Dyke
- A Man Has Dreams (The LIfe I Lead/A Spoonful Of Sugar) - Dick Van Dyke
- Mr. Banks Is Discharged - Dick Van Dyke
- Let's Go Fly A Kite - Dick Van Dyke
Tracks:
- Cherry Tree Lane (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- Mr. Banks Dcided To Hire A Nanny Himself (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- The Children Write Their Own Advertisement (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- The Line Of Applicants And Marry Poppins Arrives (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- Notes On Mary Meeting The Banks (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- Up To The Nursery (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- Bert And The Talking Pictures - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- A Carousel Horse Ride To The Seashore (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- The Return Home (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- The Next Morning We Meet The Sweep (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- Uncle Albert's (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- A Change In The Wind And Adventure With Admiral Boom (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- The Bird Woman (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- Mr. Banks And The C ompass (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- The Compass Sequence: Timbuktu (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- The Compass Sequence: The Land Of Sand (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- The Compass Sequence: Tea In China (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- The Compass Sequence: The North Pole (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- The Return Home (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- Everyone Descends On Cherry Tree Lane (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- Mary Departs (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts) - Mary Poppins (Special Edition): An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
- Hollywood Spotlight Microphone - (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts)
- The Sherman Brothers Reminisce About Their Work On Marry Poppins - (The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts)
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Winner of five Oscars (including two for Richard and Robert Sherman's memorable slate of songs), Disney's 1964 adaptation of British author P.L. Travers' beloved children's tales melded live action, animation and music more successfully than any film before or since. Containing the most complete version of the Sherman Brothers' score and a wealth of previously unavailable behind-the-scenes treasures, this double-disc, 40th anniversary soundtrack edition becomes the ultimate musical tribute to the beloved family masterpiece. The Sherman's memorable songs are showcased here in a more comprehensive musical context than ever before; indeed, a number of the expanded or previously unreleased pieces of the Irwin Kostal-arranged underscore now included were truncated in editing the film itself. The generous bonus disc contains the set's greatest historical treasure: a 40+ minute pre-production story meeting between the Shermans, gag writer Don DaGradi and author Travers herself. Also included is a lengthy 1964 audio documentary featuring the Shermans and stars Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, an audio montage of the songwriting team reminiscing and playing their original demos for the project and an illustrated 40-page companion booklet containing a history of the project as well as complete song lyrics. -- Jerry McCulleyCustomer Reviews:
Practically Perfect..........2007-06-20
A Classic.......2007-05-13
This CD is one to have in your collection of musicals.
Loved by young and old...I mean older :) .......2007-03-15
What a soundtrack!.......2006-11-10
Perfectly pleased.
Mary Poppins Soundtrack is supercalifriglisticexpialidocious.......2006-11-10
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Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002 Original Broadway Cast)
Jeanine Tesori , Dick Scanlan , and Sutton Foster Manufacturer: RCA Victor Broadway ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000066B4Y Release Date: 2002-06-11 |
Tracks:
- Overture (Orchestra)
- Not for the Life of Me (Sutton Foster)
- Thoroughly Modern Millie (Sutton Foster and Ensemble)
- Not for the Life of Me (Sutton Foster, JoAnn M. Hunter, Alisa Klein, Jessica Grove, Megan Sikora, Catherine Brunell and Kate Baldwin)
- How the Other Half Lives (Angela Christian and Sutton Foster)
- Not for the Life of Me (reprise) (Ken Leung and Francis Jue)
- The Speed Test (Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan and Ensemble)
- They Don't Know (Harriet Harris)
- The Nuttycracker Suite (Orchestra)
- What Do I Need with Love? (Gavin Creel)
- Only in New York (Sheryl Lee Ralph)
- Jimmy (Sutton Foster)
- Back at Work (Orchestra with Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan and Ensemble)
- Forget About the Boy (Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan and Ensemble)
- Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life/I'm Falling in Love with Someone (Marc Kudisch and Angela Christian)
- I Turned the Corner/I'm Falling in Love with Someone (quartet/reprise) (Gavin Creel and Sutton Foster, Marc Kudisch and Angela Christian)
- Muqin (Harriet Harris, Francis Jue and Ken Leung)
- Long as I'm Here with You (Sheryl Lee Ralph and Male Ensemble)
- Gimme Gimme (Sutton Foster)
- Finale (Thoroughly Modern Millie) (Gavin Creel, Angela Christian and Ensemble with Sheryl Lee Ralph and Sutton Foster)
- Final Bows (Entire Company)
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Although it's based on the 1967 movie of the same name, Thoroughly Modern Millie is almost thoroughly new. Composer Jeanine Tesori (Violet) and lyricist Dick Scanlan wrote a whole batch of songs, while retaining a couple from the movie--including the Jimmy van Heusen-Sammy Cahn title tune--and recycling even older material (look for Victor Herbert's "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" and the inventively arranged "Nuttycracker Suite"). Miraculously, the show, set during the jazz age, doesn't feel stitched together, and Tesori does a great job cranking out swinging melodies. Sutton Foster is appropriately brassy as Millie, but she can also tone it down, as in the beginning of "Gimme Gimme" (of course, she then proceeds to project up to the last rafters as the song builds to its climax). Harriet Harris, as nasty Mrs. Meers, steals the show with "They Don't Know." Close your eyes, listen to her, and you'll be back in Broadway's golden age. --Elisabeth VincentelliCustomer Reviews:
Excellent Musical, But Product Quality - Eh.......2007-07-15
My problem was not with the quality of the cd, but with the plastic case. The cd cases always come cracked. Although it doesn't affect the quality of the cd itself, it's rather disheartening that Amazon charges customers for its poor shipping.
MODERNIZE your music collection!!!.......2007-07-13
A must to add to your collection.......2007-05-18
Delightful.......2006-06-12
YOU WILL LOVE IT.......2006-02-17
Have Fun!
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King Of The Surf Guitar: The Best Of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
Dick Dale & the Del-Tones Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000348H Release Date: 1989-08-04 |
Tracks:
- Let's Go Trippin
- Shake 'N' Stomp
- Misirlou
- Mr. Peppermint Man
- Surf Beat
- Take It Off
- King Of The Surf Guitar
- Hava Nagila
- Riders In The Sky
- The Wedge
- Night Rider
- Mr. Eliminator
- The Victor
- Taco Wagon
- Tidal Wave
- Banzi Washout
- One Double One Oh!
- Pipeline - Dick Dale And His Del Tones w/ Stevie Ray Vaughan
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This collection rightly concentrates on Dale's instrumental exploits as the Jimi Hendrix of surf music. Nineteen sixty-one's "Let's Go Trippin'" was the first real surf instrumental, although the pyrotechnic fretwork of later Dale records is largely absent. Those divebomb runs, reverb drenchings, and impossibly quick picking displays materialize on the next single, "Shake & Stomp," then bloom on the revved-up Middle-Eastern standard "Misirlou." Dale's instrumentals generally fell into two camps: standard-progression frat blasts ("Take It Off," "Night Rider," "Mr. Eliminator") and minor-key Middle-Eastern excursions ("The Wedge," the "Pipeline"-esque "Banzai Wipeout," "The Victor," even "Hava Nagila"--which Jewish purists must have regarded as a hora of Babylon), on which his blistering technique was more likely to find its spotlight Some of his best work is found on "King of the Surf Guitar," a Duane Eddy knockoff with great vocals by the Blossoms garnished by lightning flashes of boss guitar. With all the dazzling axe-work on display (also including a beautiful 1987 duet with Stevie Ray Vaughan on the Chantays' unearthly "Pipeline"), the coolest cut here may be the sole vocal, "Mr. Peppermint Man," on which Dale's rasp oozes a concupiscent slime over the murky tale of a lollipop Lothario who "carries a little sign that says, Have some dessert." Frat rock godhead. --Ken BarnesCustomer Reviews:
Dick Dale was the Pioneer..........2007-05-31
His style is all over this cd, no mistaking it. He's described as "High Energy", and I'm not a fan of harsh surf - some of that here, but all good.
I recommend this cd for surf tune lovers and how surf all started with Dick Dale.
Surf mandolin.......2007-03-05
The Del-Tones never had a hit record in their time; not even "Misrilou" made much of a splash (forgive the pun). That song and Dale enjoyed a sort of notoriety 30 years after the track's release thanks to the film PULP FICTION. It was featured in the movie's opening credits.
In comparison to the surf music that followed in Dick Dale's wake (pun again), his stuff had more energy perhaps, but it just wasn't as good. Dale had a penchant for reworking tunes to his style that probably should have been left alone-- "The Wedge," "Riders In The Sky" and "Hava Nagila" are good examples of this.
The last selection, "Pipeline," features Stevie Ray Vaughan, and was recorded in 1987. RHINO did a fine job of remastering the older sides, and their liner notes are informative. THE BEST OF DICK DALE & HIS DEL-TONES is a collection that will appeal most to surf music completists, and historians of the "California Sound."
TOTAL RUNNING TIME -- 41:54
A Great Album but not easy listening music . . . ........2007-02-17
Most of the tracks are a good cross section of the times; has artist as well as studio written and produced tracks. If you are interested in pre-Beach Boys 'surf guitar', this is one to get.
Most people will recognize Banzai Wipeout, but there are some 'studio produced' tracks as well that Dale was forced to record. They are insipid, but a good contrast to the artist's material. Dale wanted to see what he could do with a traditional melody, Hava Nagila has to be experienced . . . .its a great revenge track for all the boring whiny gangsta rap you hear in the summer.
DickDale-King of the Surf Guitar.......2007-01-21
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You Don't Know Dick.......2006-12-31
Dick Dale needs to be experienced in order to be appreciated. I can't explain his music. It's kind of primal, kind of tribal, it's kind of raw and will gnaw at your gut for hours after listening to it. It takes a "different kind" of soul to not only listen to Dick Dale, but appreciate him. This isn't said out of arrogance, it's just said out of a knowing that not everybody will like him just like not everyone likes the Mills Brothers...
Shine little glow worm...
He is truly amazing. I saw him in concert a few times, but I remember one time he was playing so fast and so furious that he broke a guitar string in the middle of a jam session. Big deal you say? What would you say if I told you he changed that guitar string while he was playing it? He had a stage hand hold the guitar, while he changed the string with his left hand and played with his right. You wouldn't even believe how thunderous the applause was after that happened.
Every time I've seen him, I've been "deaf" for days. I've never left a Dick Dale concert without somehow changing in some way. He's like a Shaman, a wizard, an alchemist. He can transform the ordinary into something pure and golden. He is truly one of the world's greatest (and most overlooked) musicians.
He is the King.
So, buy this album. It's a great little starter and after you learn to appreciate this album, go to another, and another, until you'll finally be able to say, "Wow, I really do know Dick..."
Peace and Blessings, children
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Dick Bartley Presents: Classic Oldies 1965-1969
Various Artists Manufacturer: Eric Collection ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00068CVHG Release Date: 2004-11-23 |
Tracks:
- (YOU'RE MY) SOUL AND INSPIRATION - THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS (WITH RARE LONG INTRO)
- THE SUN AIN'T GONNA SHINE (ANYMORE) - THE WALKER BROTHERS
- I WILL ALWAYS THINK ABOUT YOU - THE NEW COLONY SIX
- BEND ME, SHAPE ME - THE AMERICAN BREED
- THE CLAPPING SONG (CLAP PAT CLAP SLAP) - SHIRLEY ELLIS (ORIG.VERSION DEBUT)
- ISRAELITES - DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES(RARE)
- MENDOCINO - THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET
- I WONDER WHAT SHE'S DOING TONIGHT -TOMMY BOYCE & BOBBY HART
- YOU'VE GOT YOUR TROUBLES - THE FORTUNES
- KEEP ON DANCING - THE GENTRYS
- PETER RABBIT - DEE JAY & THE RUNAWAYS (CD DEBUT)
- YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN - THE IDES OF MARCH (RARE)
- THINGS I'D LIKE TO SAY - THE NEW COLONY SIX
- YOU'VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY - THE SILKIE
- SOCIETY'S CHILD (BABY I'VE BEEN THINKING) - JANIS IAN
- LOVE IS ALL AROUND - THE TROGGS (STEREO DEBUT)
- A WHITER SHADE OF PALE - PROCOL HARUM (STEREO DEBUT)
- FIRE - THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN
Album Description
Dick Bartley, the best-loved oldies DJ in America, presents 18 tracks from the Golden Age of Top 40, a wide open era when bubblegum pop like Boyce & Hart's "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" could play alongside crazed psychedelic rock like Arthur Brown's "Fire." In these days of narrow-casting and micro-formatting, Dick Bartley helps us remember what made 60's radio so great.But the fun doesn't stop there! Dick throws in Janis Ian's controversial protest classic, "Society's Child," the Silkie's Top 10 Beatles cover, "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away," Sir Douglas' stoner travelogue, "Mendocino," and Desmond Dekker's 1969 freak reggae smash, "Israelites." Classic Oldies 1965-1969 collects the wildest, best music possible, mirroring the great Top 40 stations of the late 60's.
Classic Oldies 1965-1969 has been digitally mastered in true stereo wherever possible. Many songs, such as the I'des Of March's "You Wouldn't Listen" (released years before their best-known hit, "Vehicle") are sought-after rarities, and one track, "Peter Rabbit" by Dee Jay & The Runaways, makes it's CD debut. Two other tracks, Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade Of Pale" and the Troggs' "Love Is all Around" although widely released, have never been available in STEREO in the original versions - until now!
Customer Reviews:
A great collection of classic oldies.......2007-07-30
Dick Bartley plays Casey Kasum.......2007-04-14
Don't get me wrong, most of these songs I liked back then and still like now. Especially the long forgotten beautiful love ballads by The New Colony Six. (who were they?) But you will remember the songs if you preview listen to them. The incentive for me to purchase this collection was to aquire the song "Peter Rabbit" by DJ and the Runaways. (who were they?) Such "novelty songs" were rife in the 60's pop culture. Flashes in the pan and then forgotten. But they were OUR music back then intertwined by the thousand Coke, Pepsi and Marlboro commercials blaring at us through all those transistors!
Surfing through this collection brought back to me so many songs in my past. Surprises abounded as I reminisced. The only song in this collection I didn't like was "The Clapping Song." Please, let dead things lie in peace, before I throw cockroaches in their coffins!
UNFORGETTABLE PAST.......2007-01-18
A must have........2007-01-08
great cd / great sound.......2006-02-26
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Dick Bartley Presents: One Hit Wonders of the '60s, Vol. 1
Various Artists Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000032TV Release Date: 1990-10-15 |
Tracks:
- You Were On My Mind - We Five
- I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Barry & The Tamerlanes
- Last Kiss - Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers
- The Stripper - David Rose
- Do It Again A Little Bit Slower - Jon & Robin & The In Crowd
- Walk Right In - The Rooftop Singers
- Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Sounds Orchestral
- If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
- The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
- Midnight Mary - Joey Powers
- The Cheater - Bob Kuban & The In-Men
- More - Kai Winding
Album Description
Nationally syndicated radio show host Dick Bartley has painstakingly compiled this priceless series featuring performers who only enjoyed 15 minutes-or, more accurately, 2:30-of fame on the pop charts during the '60s. Many tracks make their CD debut!Customer Reviews:
Dick Bartley Present: One Hit Wonders Vol. 1.......2007-01-11
Hard to find songs.......2007-01-10
Dick Bartley Presents: One Hit Wonders of the '60s, Vol. 1.......2007-01-09
review of Dick Bartley Presents: One Hit Wonders of the '60s, Vol. 1.......2006-09-01
Good Buy.......2006-03-09
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Dick Bartley Presents: One Hit Wonders of the '60s, Vol. 2
Various Artists Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000032TX Release Date: 1990-10-15 |
Tracks:
- Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) - The Hombres
- Gimmie Gimmie Good Lovin' - Crazy Elephant
- Everlasting Love - Robert Knight
- Angel Of The Morning - Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts
- Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead - The Fifth Estate
- Morning Girl - The Neon Philharmonic
- Expressway To Your Heart - Soul Survivors
- Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
- No Good To Cry - The Wildweeds
- Cinnamon - Derek
- Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - The Casinos
- Hang On Sloopy - The McCoys
Customer Reviews:
Could not receive the CD.......2007-05-14
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Bubblegum ditties of the Baby Boomers.......2007-04-14
One Hit Wonders that were played over and over in their time then promptly forgotten. They were re'released in the many incarnations of "K-Tel," then forgotten again as these K-Tel records found their way to thriftshops, then landfills.
If you want to reminisce about all that "bubblegum" heard as a child, be more imaginative! Pass this one by and instead purchase The Resident's Third Reich and Roll! Only The Residents could give these "one hit wonders" the ROASTING they DESERVED!
Got me what I wanted..........2007-01-05
One Hit Wonders.......2005-09-06
Can't get enough of them!
Back for more.......2005-06-29
You can find a couple of the hits elsewhere ("Hang On, Sloopy" can be found in several places, while "Expressway to Your Heart" is on the three-CD "The Philly Sound" Philadelphia International collection), but this was, for years, the only CD where you could find the killer white soul shouter "No Good to Cry" by Connecticut band The Wildweeds (now on a killer 2002 collection called "No Good to Cry: The Best of The Wildweeds"). The song, written and sung by the teenage Al Anderson (before his long run with NRBQ and his successful career as a country songwriter), charted big in its home state (where I grew up) and in the South, but just made the upper 80s in Billboard; you fans from the rest of the country will wonder just how the hell this didn't become one of the all-time great chart hits.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Robert B. Sherman Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001DMVXK Release Date: 2004-02-24 |
Tracks:
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- You Two
- Toot Sweets
- Hushabye Mountain
- Me Ol' Bam-Boo
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Truly Scrumptious
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Lovely Lonely Man
- Posh!
- Hushabye Mountain (Reprise)
- The Roses of Success
- Chu-Chi Face
- Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Finale)
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Main Title)
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1964 brought both triumph and ironic tragedy to English spy-turned-author Ian Fleming. The year that saw producer Cubby Broccoli's successful film adaptation of Goldfinger elevate the adventures of British secret agent James Bond into a four-decade-plus global phenomena and the publication of Fleming's most idiosyncratic work, the children's fantasy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, was also the year the author succumbed to a heart attack. Broccoli (who'd acquired the Chitty rights along with Bond) shrewdly lured the Sherman Brothers away from Disney (where their musical successes included a pair of Oscars for Mary Poppins) to write a collection of songs for Fleming's magical tale of inventor Caractacus Potts (Poppins' star Dick Van Dyke) and the phantasmagorical flying car he and his children soar to adventure in. The Sherman's songs are among their best and most beloved, highlighted by the jaunty rhythmic rhymes of the title track, Van Dyke's energetic cane dance, "Me Ol' Bam-Boo," and his bittersweet children's lullaby, "Hushabye Mountain," all set to the magnificent, 90-piece orchestra arrangements of Irwin Kostal (Mary Poppins, West Side Story). Released in conjunction with MGM's double-disc DVD anniversary release, this new edition restores the album's tracks to their original 1968 format and features a new historical essay on the film that's become an enduring children's classic. --Jerry McCulleyCustomer Reviews:
Great Audio Quality from the Original Film.......2007-07-28
great substitute for the movie.......2007-03-21
Great music but less than great sound quality.......2007-03-09
Great Soundtrack.......2007-01-12
I always have a great time when I listen to it. My favourite
is the song when you hear Gerd Froebe singing. I hope futur brings such great Composers back as the Sherman brothers were. Not only loud boom - booms as Hans Zimmer or Howard Shore, for example, dare to present us today.
A most excellent soundtrack CD for a classic........2006-05-18
I took one star off, however, for the simple reason that these 16 tracks don't even add up to 40 minutes of audio, which is why the exclusion of the demos that are included on the 2-Disc DVD baffles me. I made myself a copy of the CD with both the songs from the CD and the demos from the DVD, and it came to just under 70 minutes. It'd be nice if in the future, a new soundtrack was released with the demos, or even just the full songs, including the instrumental breaks. It's about time these record companies started taking advantage of a CD's ability to hold up to 80 minutes of audio.
Despite any flaws, I wholeheartedly recommend this soundtrack to ANY fan of the film. It presents all of the classic songs in a satisfactory presentation, and is wonderfully nostalgic. The songs aren't as good as the songs you'll find in any great Disney classic, but they're still fantastic fun.
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Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
Manufacturer: Ghostlight ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000NJXGB8 Release Date: 2007-04-10 |
Tracks:
- Another Curtain Goes Up
- All I Ask (Is you love me)
- Three Gorgeous Kids
- big Titties
- The Salesman That Got Away
- Sittin' On The Fence
- The Jackie Rogers Jr Show
- Ba Ba Ba Ba Broadway
- The Hello Boy
- The Trumpet of Samaria
- Step Brother To Jesus
- Backstage Courtship
- Married To Marty
- Sniff Sniff
- A Dry Martin - Straight Up With A Twist
- Twelve Step Pappy
- More, More, More
- Would You Like To Star In Our Show?
- I Came Just As Soon As I Heard
- A Wicked Memorial
- Michael's Song
- Heaven, Heaven
- Up Here In Heaven
- A Big Black Lady Stops The Show
- Finale
- Lessons Learned
- Glass Half Full
- Frieda May's Lament
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Martin Short's 2006 Broadway show Fame Becomes Me is a love letter to old-school showbiz doubling as a send-up of self-serving celebrity memoirs. This "comedy musical" is obviously the work of someone who adores not only the golden age of Broadway but also that of a certain style of entertainment you may call vaudeville variety. The idea is that Short is looking back at his own life (with some libertiesif a celeb out there is not known for outrageous behavior, it's gotta be him) through songs and skits, and with the help of his own TV personae, such as Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley. It helps that said songs were written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman: The cocreators of Hairspray can zippily pastiche everything from The Wizard of Oz to Wicked. For this supposed ego trip, Short has also surrounded himself with a crackerjack cast that includes MAD TV's chameleonic Nicole Parker, versatile funsters Brooks Ashmanskas and Mary Birdsong, and Carpathia Jenkins, who blows the roof off the joint with the self-explanatory "A Big Black Lady Stops the Show"-a number that mocks the Broadway habit of hiring African-American belters for to deliver one song. In an ironic twist, Jenkins herself is woefully underutilized in Fame Becomes Me but at least she gets one of the two bonus tracks, "Frieda May's Lament," to herself. --Elisabeth VincentelliAlbum Description
In the grand American traditions of musical theater, sketch comedy and shameless self-promotion comes Fame Becomes Me, Martin Short's uproarious new comedy musical that has critics in hysterics! In Fame Becomes Me, the "phenomenally gifted" Martin Short (New York Post) and his "superb" cast (USA Today) sing, dance and mercilessly mock others as they race through a whirlwind revue that's part variety show, part celebrity send-up and "the best time on Broadway!" (WNBC-TV). Featuring original music from the composer and lyricist of Hairspray and South Park, Fame Becomes Me is Broadway's most riotous party and you're invited!Customer Reviews:
Very Funny!.......2007-06-12
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Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast)
Lee Adams Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004THM0 Release Date: 2000-05-30 |
Tracks:
- Act I: Overture
- Act I: An English Teacher
- Act I: The Telephone Hour
- Act I: How Lovely To Be A Woman
- Act I: Put On A Happy Face
- Act I: A Healthy, Normal, American Boy
- Act I: One Boy
- Act I: Honestly Sincere
- Act I: Hymn For A Sunday Evening (Ed Sullivan)
- Act I: One Last Kiss
- Act II: What Did I Ever See In Him?
- Act II: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
- Act II: Kids
- Act II: Baby, Talk To Me
- Act II: Kids Reprise
- Act II: Spanish Rose
- Act II: Rosie
- Charles Strouse At The Smithsonian: Put On A Happy Face
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A lighthearted romp reflecting the Elvis revolution, Bye Bye Birdie follows Albert Peterson (a pre-Mary Poppins Dick Van Dyke), the manager of rock & roller Conrad Birdie (Dick Gautier), who is sweeping through the town of Sweet Apple on a publicity stunt surrounding his being drafted into the Army. Meanwhile, Albert's faithful but exasperated secretary (Chita Rivera) hopes he will give up show business to settle down with her and become a respectable English teacher. In Charles Strouse and Lee Adams's energetic and tuneful score, Van Dyke sings the standard "Put On a Happy Face," the high schoolers are high schoolers ("A Lot of Livin' to Do," "The Telephone Hour," "One Boy") and bewilder their parents ("Kids"), Gautier thrusts his hips ("Honestly Sincere," "One Last Kiss"), and homage is paid to that icon of home entertainment, Ed Sullivan ("Hymn for a Sunday Evening"). Bye Bye Birdie won the 1961 Tony for Best Musical, and Van Dyke reprised his role in the 1963 film version. The 2000 remastering features outstanding clarity as well as a bonus track of Strouse himself introducing and singing "Put On a Happy Face" at a Smithsonian lecture in 1978. --David HoriuchiCustomer Reviews:
Energy proliferates.......2007-05-13
It's not the best--but buy it anyway!.......2007-03-31
Cute Classic.......2006-11-09
Unexpected but not disappointed.......2006-03-28
Bye Bye Birdie vocal CD.......2006-03-03
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Dick's Picks, Vol. 19: Oklahoma City, OK, 10/19/73
Grateful Dead Manufacturer: Grateful Dead / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002VETIG Release Date: 2004-08-31 |
Tracks:
- Promised Land
- Sugaree
- Mexicali Blues
- Tennessee Jed
- Looks Like Rain
- Don't Ease Me In
- Jack Straw
- They Love Each Other
- El Paso
- Row Jimmy
Tracks:
- Playing In The Band
- China Cat Sunflower
- I Know You Rider
- Me And My Uncle
- Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toddeloo
- Big River
Tracks:
- Dark Star
- Mind Left Body Jam
- Morning Dew
- Sugar Magnolia
- Eyes Of The World
- Stella Blue
- Johnny B. Goode
Customer Reviews:
Another great show except for additional mix edits.......2006-12-03
A Smooth and Solid Pick.......2006-11-10
The prime Dead Era of the seventies .......2006-03-10
5-Star Dark Star.......2005-08-24
I bought #19: I'm a collector of Dark Star(s). This version
is WONDERFUL...Phil's bass comes through loud & clear and
Jerry is subtle & complex and gorgeous as ever; and it's followed by a top-notch Mind Left Body Jam. As for the rest of #19...well...the first CD I threw away...in my mind,
it contains no "definitive" versions of any song.
CD 2, however, is worth keeping because of a long version of
Playing In The Band. It's very very good. The best thing to
do is: combine this Playing In The Band with the Playing In The
Band from Dick's Pick's #1 (both versions are 1973) and you have
yourself a terrific block of music...the ecstatic (but not too
long Weir vocal) followed by extended & brilliant Jerry jams.
A near-obligatory Pick: the essence of late 1973's glory.......2005-03-28
Dick's Picks 19 captures every aspect of that "sound," which made the Dead mesmerizing in this era, in one near-perfect concert. This show is a very special one indeed, kicking off an immortal Fall '73 tour where the band managed to capture lightning in a bottle night after night, pushing out into new improvisational territory and juggling setlists and song-sequences with devil-may-care abandon. (There are many - I'm one of them - who would argue that Fall '73 is every bit the equal of Europe '72; there's a reason that THREE Dick's Picks have been released from this two-month span.)
Just about the only complaint one might make is about the first disc. It represents the bulk of the first set, which means it's full of shorter songs. There are many fans who express impatience with this side of the Dead, but when the band's hearts are into the music I'm not one of them. 10/19/73 was one of those nights: it's surely not the BEST first set they ever gave, but the performances of "Sugaree," "Jack Straw" and especially "They Love Each Other" are all spot-on, and I even find myself enjoying songs which normally irk me like "Tennessee Jed" and "Don't Ease Me In." Near the end of the disc (i.e. the last four songs) the band begins to settle into the gentle, joyful, peaceable mood which will define the particular magic of this night.
And from disc 2 onwards this show simply vaults into that icy-blue sky so beautifully depicted on the back cover. Set 1 ends with a gorgeous, ghostly "Playing In The Band" (this song peaked in late '73 - buy this album and listen to one example of why), and then Set 2 begins with one of the defining "China Cat Sunflower" > "I Know You Rider" sequences of the year. "Mississippi Half-Step" continues this mood, flowing majestically all the way across the Rio Grand-i-o into a (thematically united) "Big River" which choogles as Garcia's electric-bluegrass guitar busily burbles and hums like water rushing downstream.
The show could have ended right there and still have been noteworthy. But what comes next guarantees its immortality: Disc 3 is one of the best single discs of Grateful Dead music available for purchase. It begins with an unearthly "Dark Star," one which eschews the "full freak-out" atonal jamming often employed in this era's performances for a much sweeter, gently inquisitive attitude. The emphasis on melody (and on sustaining the delicate, wistful mood which has been built throughout the previous two hours) becomes all that more apparent when they move into a rapturous jam based on a descending chord sequence popularly referred to as the "Mind Left Body Jam" - I believe the first time it was ever played in this context. Then, a quiet "Morning Dew" which builds to an anguished demonstrative climax. We're not done yet! After a concluding "Sugar Magnolia" the Dead, clearly thrilled by how well they're playing tonight, come back for one of the longest encores of their career: a 15-minute "Eyes Of The World" that slides imperceptibly into a crystal-clear, dead-calm "Stella Blue." One more blast of rock 'n' roll to send the kids home on an up note with "Johnny B. Goode," and the Dead finally leave the stage for good: after delivering one of their most consistent shows, one which has an emotional and musical UNITY that few others can boast...one for the ages.
Some have complained in their reviews about the sound quality of this Pick (rather, the sound MIX - the fidelity itself is sterling, far better than any '74 shows). Admittedly such things are subjective and a matter of taste, but I find the mix to be utterly unproblematic after the first few songs. (The "Caveat Emptor" included on this Pick notes this, warning of a "rather skeevy ouverture.") If anything, the mix heightens the thoughtful, introspective sensibility of this show.
If you enjoy '73 Dead then I would argue it's inconceivable not to own this Pick. If you're unfamiliar with the year and are looking to test the waters, then this is still a great place to begin - an unrepresentative night in that it captures them in an unusually pacific mood (one which, incidentally, is also conveyed by the stunning artwork on this release, easily the best of any Pick), but also a representative one in that it shows off so many aspects of their greatness at once.
Further recommendations from this era (...):
- Dick's Picks 28: February 26th-28th, 1973 (one the top 5 Picks in the series, no less)
- Dick's Picks 14: November 30 & December 1st, 1973
- Dick's Picks 1: December 19th, 1973
Dance Music:
- The Life: The Tale of a Rapper [Explicit Lyrics]
- The Life: The Tale of a Rapper [Explicit Lyrics]
- This Is Bass
- This Is JP
- Throwed Yung Playas, Pt. 2: Chopped & Screwed [Explicit Lyrics]
- Thug Diseaz
- Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983-1991
- Unlawful Entry [Explicit Lyrics]
- Wake Up & Ball [Explicit Lyrics]
- What Time Is It? It's Gucci Time
Dance Music
Three Viennese Classic Images [Enhanced]
Trio, Quartet, Quintet & Sextet: 1946-1949
Instant Live: The Paradise - Boston, MA, 10/10/03 [Live]
Tribute to Jimi Hendrix [Import]
Those Were the Days/Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet"
The Harold Wayne Collection, Vol. 27
Gluck - Iphigénie en Tauride / S. Graham · Groves · Hampson · Rouillon · Mozarteum · Bolton