The Complete Arc & Brunswick Sides

Product Description
She was one of the brightest and most beautiful stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals, so it’s little wonder that most Alice Faye collections to date have concentrated almost exclusively on her soundtrack recordings. But Alice was a recording star, too, and so we have collected her COMPLETE recordings for the ARC, Brunswick and associated labels dating from 1934 to 1937, which happens to be about the time Alice was at the peak of her popularity, before her clashes with Fox studio chief Darryl Zanuck caused her to leave the public eye altogether. With notes and great photos…a Collectors’ Choice Music exclusive!

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Average customer rating: Soggy Arrangements A Good Place to Begin A nice idea but already available Alice Faye's 1930s Commercial Recordings

The Complete Arc & Brunswick Sides Alice Faye Manufacturer: Collector's Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Tin Pan Alley | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Similar Items: On Screen & Radio 1932-1943 Got My Mind on Music You'll Never Know ASIN: B00008A8HP Release Date: 2003-06-10

Tracks:

1. Nasty Man
2. Here's The Key To My Heart
3. My Future Star
4. Yes To You
5. According To The Moonlight
6. Oh, I Didnt Know (You'd Get That Way)
7. Speaking Confidentially
8. I've Got My Fingers Crossed
9. I Love To Ride The Horses (on A Merry-Go-Round)
10. I'm Shooting High
11. Spreadin' Rhythm Around
12. Goodnight My Love
13. This Year's Kisses
14. Slumming On Park Avenue
15. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
16. Never In A Million Years
17. It's Swell Of You
18. There's A Lull In My Life
19. Wake Up And Live

Product Description

1. Nasty Man - (with Freddy Martin & His Orchestra)
2. Here's The Key To My Heart - (with Freddy Martin & His Orchestra)
3. My Future Star
4. Yes To You
5. According To The Moonlight
6. Oh, I Didn't Know (You'd Get That Way)
7. Speaking Confidentially
8. I've Got My Fingers Crossed
9. I Love To Ride The Horses (On A Merry-Go-Round)
10. I'm Shooting High
11. Spreadin' Rhythm Around
12. Goodnight My Love
13. This Year's Kisses
14. Slumming On Park Avenue
15. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
16. Never In A Million Years
17. It's Swell Of You
18. There's A Lull In My Life
19. Wake Up And Live


Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Soggy Arrangements.......2006-12-20

Although she's well before my time, I love watching Alice Faye in her movies. Most of the divas from that era do little or nothing for me, but she is a rare exception. There is a lack of pretentiousness in her. She's about the only A list female star from that era whom I find sexy. Sadly, the tunes on this cd suffer from lackluster arrangements. I agree with one reviewer about the same songs being more exciting in the films. I believe that this is so for most of the singers in film from that era. The studio recordings are never as exciting or beautiful as the arrangements on the soundtracks. Don't waste your time with this cd. If you enjoy Alice Faye, buy her movies whenever they are available on dvd. I even own the Shirley Temple one that Alice Faye is in, "Poor Litte Rich Girl," just to watch her.

A Good Place to Begin.......2006-04-15

Just where the site's product reviewer got the idea that Alice Faye dropped out of the public eye after her scrum with Darryl Zanuck in the mid-1940s escapes me---unless he/she was completely unaware of eight years (1946-1953) worth of a radio hit with husband Phil Harris, on which there were perodic little digs at Zanuck and Fox over his perceived duplicity in bumping Faye for Linda Darnell.

But never mind. One of the treats of the Harris-Faye radio hit was Faye's singing voice (she and Harris, himself a singing bandleader, invariably took a musical turn each on the sitcom), whether caressing a ballad or swinging easily. This set of recordings from a decade earlier is a perfect place to start appreciating Faye's singing voice(she isn't exactly an obscurity as an actress), a honeyed contralto which survives the passage of time and sounds alternatively romantic and playful, even if some of the material with which she was saddled during this period of her career doesn't. Even on some of the more banal selections Faye releases a deliciously affecting vocal presence enough to make you think she could have forged a lasting presence if she'd chosen to sing with the popular jazz orchestras of the day.

Come to think of it, it would be a phenomenal treat to mulct an album of the best of Faye's song performances from the old Harris-Faye show, if it hasn't been done already.

A nice idea but already available.......2006-02-17

The life of Alice Faye is a fine example of the fulfillment of the American Dream. Faye was born in New York into a working class environment. She left school to earn a living at the age of 13. She started in the chorus and rose through the New York nightclub scene, Broadway and eventually radio, as a singer with Rudy Vallee, to become the best example of the girl who sang at the microphone. Her film career began in 1934 and she quickly rose to the top. Her commercial recording career only existed for 4 years from 1933 to 1937.

The idea of creating a complete record of her commercial recordings was sound but unfortunately, this CD contains only one track, "My Future Star", which is not already available on a cheaper CD which contains a few extra soundtracks too. All of the songs, with the exception of the first 2, appeared in Faye's films, even if not performed by her. While many of them are long forgotten, all benefit from Faye's trademark warm smooth contralto but they often lack the vitality of their equivalents on film. Possibly one exception is the recording of "Wake up And Live" which has a delightful bouncy arrangement.

There is no doubt that a Faye close up enhanced her vocals, if that makes sense, as another reviewer has noted, because Faye was a very pretty woman with beautiful eyes. I suspect too that the 20th Century Fox magicians might also have been able to add a few tricks because she does sound better on film than here in general.

Alice Faye's 1930s Commercial Recordings.......2005-12-04

At the top of her career at 20th Century Fox, beginning with the 1938 double-whammy of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "In Old Chicago" (both available on DVD) and ending with the underrated 1945 film noir "Fallen Angel", Alice Faye was contractually forbidden (like Betty Grable would be too) from releasing commercial recordings of the songs performed in her films. This means that, with the exception of "Rose of Washington Square", whose soundtrack was remastered when released on CD, Faye's film recordings (including "You'll Never Know", her best song) are only available in poor quality CDs taken from her movies.

This CD collects her previous commercial recordings, consisting mostly of songs from the films she made between 1934 and 1937. Unfortunately, with a few exceptions, like the Irving Berlin songs (from 1937's "On the Avenue"), "Goodnight, My Love" (from the Shirley Temple vehicle "Stowaway") and "There's a Lull in My Life" (from the radio satire "Wake Up and Live"), most of the songs are on the mediocre side. Faye was also primarily a film star, not a recording star. By that, I mean that she sounds great accompanied by a close-up but only good without one. Still, Alice Faye has a warm, nice deep voice, and fans of 1930s music should enjoy this CD.

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10th Anniversary Indies Complete Box Janne Da Arc Manufacturer: Avex Trax ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Japan | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000E47QJ0 Release Date: 2006-03-21

Album Details

Limited to 50,000 Pieces. Includes Three CDs and One Dvd (Ntsc/Rc-2)

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Popular Works by Leo Brower Leo Brouwer , John Lennon & Paul McCartney , Enrique Ugarte , and Flavio Cucchi Manufacturer: Arc Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Italy | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000618A Release Date: 1998-05-05

Tracks:

1. Variations on a Theme by Django Reinhardt, Introduction
2. Theme
3. Bourree
4. Sarabande
5. Giga
6. Improvisazione
7. Interlude
8. Toccata
9. Decameron Negro el Arpe del Guerrero
10. Huida de los Arnantes Por el Valle de los Ecos
11. Ballada de la Doncella Enamorada
12. Dia de Noviembre
13. Tres Pieces Latino Americaines, Danza del Alitplano
14. Triste Argentino
15. Tango
16. Dos Temas Populaires Cubanos Cancio de Cuna
17. Ojos Brujos
18. Tres Danzas Concertantes, Pour Guitare et Orchestre a Cordes All
19. Andantino
20. Toccata
21. Seven Songs After the Beatles, She's Leaving Home
22. Ticket to the Ride
23. Here, There Andf Everywhere
24. Yesterday
25. Got to Get You into My Life
26. Eleanor Rigby
27. Penny Lane

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Plays Brouwer Manufacturer: Arc Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Italy | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000001IF6 Release Date: 1994-06-21

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