Best Songs [Import]

Best Songs [Import]

Track Listings

1. CD 1

2. Anthem

3. Burning Love

4. In The Mirror

5. Milky Way

6. Crazy Night

7. Angel Dust

8. Geraldine

9. Tusk Of Jaguar

10. Like Hell

11. Bad News

12. Street Woman

13. Sleepless Night (Live)

14. Ares' Lament (English Version)

15. CD 2

16. Eruption

17. Crazy Doctor (English Version)

18. Loudness

19. Speed

20. Hard Workin'

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The best japanese, english, live & solo tracks from Japan's premier metal act. 26 tracks.

Tracks:

La Vie En Rose
Hymne A L'amour
Padam... Padam
Johnny Tu N'es Pas Un Ange
La Goualante Du Pauvre Jean
Sous Le Ciel De Paris
L'homme A La Moto
Mon Manege A Moi (Tu Me Fais Tourner La Tete)
Non Je Ne Regrette Rien
Milord
Les Flonflons Du Bal
Les Mots D'amour
Fallait-il?
La Foule
Tiens V'la Un Marin
Le Droit D'aimer
A Quoi Ca Sert L'amour?
L'accordeoniste

Customer Reviews:

Edith Piaf CD.......2007-07-25

Excellent CD of original works and pleasure to hear after seeing recent movie, La Vie En Rose. Better selection of songs than movie CD in my opinion.

Great Singer! Great CD!.......2007-07-19

Definitely a must-have for those who grew up in the 40's and the 50's. Good listening music and what a solid voice! I will never get tired of listening to Edith Piaf.

Wonderful Compilation of Edith Piaf.......2007-03-09

Such a pleasure to hear so many songs that Ms. Piaf made famous especially, "Milord", "La Vie En Rose", and "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien". A great compilation! I only wish a word booklet had been included, but you can't have everything. Ms. Piaf's voice is more than enough!

Eternelle.......2007-02-17

The songs are wonderful, Edith Piaf has a beautiful voice. The songs are sung in French, a masterpiece.

Mesmerizing and enchanting..........2002-03-26

I love this collection. It has all of my favorite songs of Edith Piaf. This one is truly a classic. You won't be dissatisfied.

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Absolutely the best of Billie Holiday
Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
The tragedy of a lonely woman!
Billie's Best - Accept No Substitutes
A serious and great artist's best work, you need these sides

Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Pure Ella: The Very Best of Ella Fitzgerald
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The Ultimate Collection

ASIN: B00005Q45Y
Release Date: 2001-10-02

Tracks:

What A Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday
These Foolish Things - Billie Holiday
I Cried For You - Billie Holiday
Summertime - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
If You Were Mine - Billie Holiday
A Fine Romance - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Easy To Love - Billie Holiday
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
I Must Have That Man - Billie Holiday
Me, Myself And I - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
They Can't Take Away From Me - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Easy Living - Billie Holiday
A Sailboat In The Moonlight - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Travelin' All Alone - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
When A Woman Loves A Man - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
You Go To My Head - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
My Man - Billie Holiday

Tracks:

I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me - Billie Holiday
The Very Thought Of You - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
I Can't Get Started - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Long Gone Blues - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Sugar - Billie Holiday
Some Other Spring - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Them There Eyes - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
The Man I Love - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Body And Soul - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Swing, Brothers, Swing - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Night And Day - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Let's Do It - Billie Holiday
God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Solitude - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
I Cover The Waterfront - Billie Holiday
Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday
Until The Real Thing Comes Along - Billie Holiday
All Of Me - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra

Album Description

Lady Day: The Best Of Billie Holiday is an ideal introduction to the Voice of Jazz in all its enduring glory. This incomparable collection draws on the 10-CD boxed set Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944) (CXK 85470), representing not only her finest work, but American jazz and pop singing at its zenith. Accompanied sublimely by a Who's Who of the Swing Era (including her soulmate Lester Young, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Buck Clayton, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Jo Jones, and pianist-arranger Teddy Wilson, who was often at the helm when Holiday entered the studio), Billie Holiday masterfully renders a host of mostly-classic pop tunes. Fans are drawn to her musical triumphs and personal tragedies. She is a mysterious icon in the same vein as Miles Davis. Columbia possesses the first and finest recordings of her entire career! This material has never sounded clearer and more intimate!

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely the best of Billie Holiday.......2007-02-24

Anybody who likes Billie Holiday even part time needs this CD. Even great for those people who only know a few songs just by chance. Love the CD. Even got another as a gift for a friend.

Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday.......2007-01-10

Bought this for my granddaughter. She's a Billie Holiday fan. She loved the CD.

The tragedy of a lonely woman!.......2006-11-21

The stature of this emblematic singer of the jazz is absolutely undeniable. Her powerful, sensitive and expressive voice made of her, one of the most tragic icons in the jazz. She sung as she lived. In this sense she reminds too much to the legendary Edith Piaff in the other side of the Atlantic.

What else might I add for cataloguing this cult artist that it has not been said just before? She is part of the history jazz and her memory will transcend and surmount the next years to come.

Billie's Best - Accept No Substitutes.......2006-06-12

Billie Holiday is the quintessential jazz singer; despite a limited vocal range she set the standard by which all others are measured. It's all about the quality of her voice, the lush tone, and her marvelously idiosyncratic phrasing. Though her career was short and troubled, she recorded a lot, which means novice collectors must avoid innumerable bear traps. In general, her later work should be ignored, by then she was wearing her emotional problems like an ugly hat, despair manifested itself in performances so lackluster they're depressing at best, frequently downright tragic.

For the best of Billie you need to go back to the glory days, 1933-1944, precisely the time period covered by this reasonably priced and beautifully produced 2-CD set. (If you're a player with money to burn go for the 10-CD comprehensive retrospective, The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, 1933-1944.) All the songs providing the foundation of her reputation are here, as well as many pleasant surprises. The booklet, though not lavish, provides photos, background, and a complete list of personnel for each track. This detail is significant because the players on these selections, in addition to being the finest who ever backed Ms. Holiday, were also the absolute elite of their generation, each worthy of individual exploration. (Names like Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, and Teddy Wilson enjoy legendary status.)

Perhaps most amazing is the sound quality, considering the recordings are WWII vintage they're clear and smooth. About Ms. Holiday's personal life, the less said the better. What is remarkable is that, despite her personal troubles, she managed to create a canon of work that is truly timeless, just as sweet and powerful today as it was then. Not only is this the best Billie Holiday anthology available, it makes a formidable addition any jazz collection. (Dig that cover photo, wow!)

A serious and great artist's best work, you need these sides.......2005-03-11

If there were some way to award music 200 stars, I am sure all of us would have done so for this set!

Like others here, I have it all, but I think her work from the 30s and early 1940s from Columbia and its ancestors is not just her greatest works, but among the great works of world musical culture. Everyone with a set of ears should be more or less required to have this music and enjoy it.

Strange Fruit was not recorded for Columbia but for the Indy label Commodore. Thus, you will not find it on this or any of the Columbia collections like this that capture her work in the period BEFORE Strange Fruit. It was recorded in the 1940s, whereas this collection contains work from Billie in the 1930s and perhaps 1940 and 1941. No doubt Sony wishes it had the rights to that side and everything else Commodore recorded, but they don't.

The truth is, Strange Fruit is not one of Billie's Greatest works. There are about 15 tunes on this CD that have better singing, better musicians backing her, and were more important pieces of Billie's work. Strange Fruit is well known to the people who know about Billie as a person, but don't know much about Billie as a Jazz musician. Her recording, while powerful, was not very nuanced, not very jazzy, and not as good as much of the work here. Indeed, the weakness of her mid-1940s Commodore work as opposed to these recordings is that Billie was persuaded to move away from Jazz and swing to attempt to become a cabarat chanteuse of "serious" songs, a move that some also relate to the inception of heroin and the decline of her voice, a move that brought about a decline in her art.

If you want to hear a better version of "Strange Fruit," listen to Josh White's recording which is so much more powerful, if not as well known. I am not downing the song or its politics, far from it, but Billie's Strange Fruit is more important as a political statement than as a work of Jazz art.

One of the greatest things about these records are the many master musicians of swing and jazz that join her on these recordings. Very shortly after she started recording, the greatest names in Jazz would flock to her sessions and play on her recordings for litte because of the innovation and creativity Billie showed as a jazz creator in her own right. These recordings were a chance for them to jam together in loose arrangements and be more innovative and creative than they were with the orchestras they played with.

These masters of Jazz viewed Billie as a serious artist of Jazz. They delighted in her knowledge of the musical aspects of swing jazz which was unique for such a young singer (she was in her twenties when these records were made) and delighted in her ability to sense what they were doing in their accompaniments and solos and to respond to them in her vocals.

Despite the exaggerated picture of her life as a prostitute that was part of the marketing of the 1950's work of ghost-written fiction called "Lady Sings the Blues," that a drug addled Billie claimed was her autobiography, Billie Holiday grew up around Jazz with her father being a big band guitar player who complained Billie hired every NY guitarist but him for these sessions. Billie's mother specialized in boarding Jazz musicians and catering parties for musicians and singers, parties where the young Billie would often help serve the food. So when she met Lester young in 1937 for these sessions, she had already known the man she named 'Prez in 1934 when he boarded with her mother while he was in the Fletcher Henderson band.

These sides contain most of the great collaboration between Lester Young and Billie. They were great musical friends and personal friends until Billie became a heroin addict, at which point Lester didn't much want to be around her.

However, as much as I am a Lester Young man to the death (his framed picture hangs in my home), too little is said of the other musicians who grace these recordings. Billie's collaboration with pianist Teddy Wilson who plays on and directed most of these recordings (many were recorded as Teddy Wilson Orchestra sides)needs to be explored. Likewise, her work with the great bassists and rhythm players on these records needs to be appreciated. My favorite sides are the ones in which she has the benefit of Basieites like her dear friend Freddy Green on guitar and the great Walter Page on bass. Likewise, Billie's musical closeness with the great Buck Clayton and his role on these sides is also underestimated.

Yet, it doesn't matter if Billie had recorded these sides with some high school band members from Winslow, Arizona. This is good music to listen to, good music to smile to, music to fall in love to, and music to dance too. Contrary to the tendency to get maudlin and milk her image as a tragedy that Holiday developed in the 1950s as her life and her musical skill declined , even the songs on these recordings with the sadest lyrics possess a great joy, swing, and spirit of the wonders of Jazz.

Let the Praises Ring: The Best Worship Songs of Lincoln Brewster

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Worship CD
Excellent!
Lincoln's best...SO FAR!! :D
Powerful Praise and Worship
Awesome!

Let the Praises Ring: The Best Worship Songs of Lincoln Brewster
Lincoln Brewster
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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All to You... Live
See the Morning
Every Time I Breathe
Beautiful News
Beyond Measure

ASIN: B000IONL8G
Release Date: 2006-11-07

Tracks:

Everlasting God [New!]
All to You [Radio Mix]
Love the Lord [Radio Mix]
Let the Praises Ring
Everybody Praise the Lord
Lord I Lift Your Name on High
All I Really Want
All the Earth Will Sing Your Praises
Majestic [Radio Mix]
Power of Your Love
Shout to the Lord
He's All I Need
Everyday [Radio Mix]
Take Me Higher (PS. 73:25)
What Kind of Man
You Are Good
Here I Am to Worship [New!][Instrumental]

Customer Reviews:

Worship CD.......2007-07-05

A fantastic worship cd with a difference - it will take me a log time to get sick of this one. While I already knew most of the songs, it was good to hear them again differently.

Excellent!.......2007-06-27

I'm a little biased. When I heard his music on the radio I "liked" it, but not "loved" it. However, on a whim, I recently saw him in concert and had a great time. Seeing Lincoln live offered me the opportunity to see the man behind the music. He's a worship leader that loves the Lord and is genuine about who he is and his calling right here, right now.

Lincoln's best...SO FAR!! :D.......2007-06-14

This is a much recommended album from one of the most inspiring artists I have had the pleasure of meeting, and also, working with when at our common church personally...he is truly a class act in person as well...I can remember when he recorded some of the songs on this album, I was totally moved to tears (literally)...

Powerful Praise and Worship.......2007-05-29

Lincoln Brewster is among the best when it comes to praise and worship music. This CD is a great demonstration of that.

From start to finish, this is packed full of very good tracks. At least one is absolutely outstanding: 'Everlasting God'. That tune is amazing. The ending with the child reading from Isaiah 40 is one that may make the hair stand up on the back of one's neck. It is powerful and unforgettable. That song is at least a six on a 1-5 scale.

I highly recommend this CD.

Awesome!.......2007-05-13

Lincoln's "Let the Praises Ring" CD is just awesome from track 1 throughout the entire CD. His guitar playing, band, & vocals uplift you so one cannot help but sing along. What a wonderful voice and musical talent he has been blessed with! You can feel his energy in each song.

Since our move from Northern California, we definitely miss worshipping along with Lincoln and our former church; but, this CD helps A LOT!

The Very Best of Echo & the Bunnymen: More Songs to Learn and Sing

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Great Collection, worth getting over the original release
An Excellent Package With A Few Flaws
long overdue

The Very Best of Echo & the Bunnymen: More Songs to Learn and Sing
Echo & the Bunnymen
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000KN7BKO
Release Date: 2007-01-23

Tracks:

The Cutter
The Back Of Love
The Killing Moon
Seven Seas
Never Stop
Rescue
I Want To Be There (When You Come)
Don't Let It Get You Down
A Promise
Silver
People Are Strange
Do It Clean
The Game
Rust
Lips Like Sugar
Nothing Lasts Forever
Bring On The Dancing Horses
Hang On To A Dream
It's Alright
Stormy Weather

Album Description

Expanded & Remastered CD+DVD career-spanning edition of the band's classic retrospective now presents over 25 years of hits and essential tracks plus videos for eight of their classic songs.

Customer Reviews:

Great Collection, worth getting over the original release.......2007-05-07

The sound quality is much better and it has Lips Like Sugar. Nuff said!

An Excellent Package With A Few Flaws.......2007-02-03

Here's the DVD tracklisting, since Amazon does not list it:

01 The Cutter
02 The Killing Moon
03 Seven Seas
04 Bring On The Dancing Horses
05 The Game
06 Lips Like Sugar
07 Nothing Lasts Forever
08 Rust

As with most music that I purchase sound quality is usually most important. This release does not disappoint! In fact, this is simply the best remastering I've heard on a Bunnymen release! With mastering by Giovanni Scatola, these songs sound even better than the 2003/2004 Rhino remasters. The music is crisper, louder, and more punchy. ("Lips Like Sugar" sounds awesome with it's roaring intro!) That's not to say that those recent remasters weren't good, but I personally think that the music sounds brighter on this compilation.

Next up we have the excellent packaging and tracklisting. Some fans may complain about the release being presented in digipak format, but I quite like it. Plus, we have the classic cover photo by Anton Corbijn. For a 1-CD collection, the release highlights 20 Echo & The Bunnymen classics from 1980 to 2005! We could argue what should and what should have not been included, but for the casual fan this sums up their history quite well.

My major complaint with this release is the 8-track DVD. Considering the list price, I think the DVD should have featured much more than 8 tracks. Surely these guys have more than 8 videos! How about including all their music videos?!?! Considering how most record labels work, this will probably be our only chance to get their videos on DVD for several years to come. It's only a random sample of their career! I guess fans will be left "You-Tube"-ing the rest!

Note that the package states "all promo videos are stereo except track 2 in mono". What is track 2? "The Killing Moon"! Unfortunately, Rhino let me down here. Why include all videos in stereo except this one? Not that it really mattered, considering the original audio tracks seem to have been used on all the videos instead of overdubbing newly remastered audio. That's why "The Killing Moon" video sounds poor and flat, besides it being in mono!

The recent videos sound fine, but they are mastered at too low of volume. Sounds like laziness! Do an A/B comparison between "The Cutter" as heard on the DVD video and "The Cutter" as heard on the CD. It goes to show how well the music has been restored for the CD and how carelessly flat it was left for the DVD. As for the picture, it is surprisingly excellent, considering the age of some of the earlier promos. Too bad the same care couldn't have been given to the underlying audio track. I expect better work from the Rhino team!

As a casual fan myself, I must admit that I still really enjoy this best of, including the DVD (despite the faults). It's the first time I've seen many of these videos. Add in the excellent CD audio, and it's a worthy package to add to any Echo collection.

long overdue.......2007-02-01

Finally we get an official video collection on DVD with this remaster of the 1985 release!

The original 1985 release of "Songs To Learn and Sing" was a must have for every college kid I knew back then. For some US fans this was the first album to expose them to the Bunnymen.

This expanded and remastered version picks up where the old one left off and then picks up again when they reformed with the UK Top 10 album "Evergreen" and continues to the 2006 release "Siberia".

My only complaint is that this is not in 5.1 surround sound.

Best of the Millennium: Top 40 Classical Hits

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Waste of money
Great Music Compilation
If you like classical music don't buy this CD.
A must for anyone wanting the staples of classical music
A great compilation

Best of the Millennium: Top 40 Classical Hits

Manufacturer: Utv Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00004GOZA
Release Date: 2000-02-08

Tracks:

Adagio In G Minor
Jesu, Joy OF Man's Desiring
Moonlight Sonata - Adagio sostenuto
March Of The Toreadors (Carmen)
Celebrated Minuet
Polovtsian Dance No. 1 (Prince Igor)
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Rhapsody In Blue - Andante And Finale
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Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus
Liebestraum
Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Wedding March
'Masterpiece Theater' Theme: Rondau (First Symphonic Suite)
The Great Gate Of Kiev

Tracks:

Eine klein Nachtmusik - Allegro: Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Allegro
Orpheus In The Underworld: Cancan
Carmina Burana - O Fortuna
Canon In D
Lietenant Kije Suite - Troika
Turandot: Nessun dorma
Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini - 18th Variation: Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini- 18th Variation
Bolero - Conclusion
The Tale Of Czar Sultan: Flight Of The Bumblebee
William Tell Overture - Finale
Carnival Of The Animals: The Swan
Gymnopedie No. 3
Ave Maria
Blue Danube Waltz
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Sunrise
Firebird Suite - Finale
1812 Overture - Finale: 1812 Overtune - Finale
Fantasia On 'Greensleeves'
Anvil Chorus (II Trovatore)
The Four Seasons - Largo From 'Winter'
Die Walkure: Ride Of The Valkyries

Amazon.com

For those who want the most remembered passages of classical music's best-loved works, here's a package for you. On this bargain priced double-CD, you'll find music from 40 different classical composers; for the most part, the recordings excerpted here are some of the very best. Of course, you only get one Bach sampling (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, played by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra) and one Mozart (A Little Night Music conducted by Herbert von Karajan), but this is still a nice collection--perhaps the starting point for a budding collection of classical music. This set's downfall? Unfortunately, though the liner notes discuss the evolution of classical music chronologically, the tracks are programmed in alphabetical order by composer's last name. This makes for some startling transitions! Emil Gilels's reflective performance of the Adagio from Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata is followed by the crashing cymbals and bombast of Carmen's "March of the Toreadors," a recipe for a heart attack if there ever was one. Still, there's something here for everyone and the liner notes even explain what movies this music can be found in. A nice touch. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

Waste of money.......2006-01-12

Watch out for the volume leveling mentioned in another review. Surely the compliers could have come up with a better sort order than by composer. The change in tempo/volume between pieces makes it impossible to enjoy. My two CD's ended up in the trash.

Ken

Great Music Compilation.......2005-08-15

This is a great CD full of many songs that you will recognize and enjoy. If you are someone who likes classical music but doesn't necessarily know which songs or which composers you like, then this CD is for you. You will likely recognize many of the songs as the classical songs you would have picked out to be your favorites.

If you like classical music don't buy this CD........2005-03-11

Most of the tracks were chopped down to 3-4 minutes so some of the best parts of the compositions are missing. I don't know what I was thinking trying to buy 40 classical songs on two CD's. If you really want to enjoy the music you would do better to purchase a CD with fewer, but better quality tracks.

A must for anyone wanting the staples of classical music.......2005-02-23

In my years of experience teaching Fine Arts to high school students, I know that the majority, if not all, of the music included on this album is commonly used in collge music appreciation courses. This is an excellent sample of truly all the "greatest hits" of classical music. My students enjoy listening to the music and have later told me when take their required music apreciation courses in college that they "already know it all" because of this CD! The recordings are clear, the selections are passionate, and the listener will gain a familiarity with all of the most commonly heard classical music used in tv commercials, movies, etc.
I recommend this album, along with the boxed set, "Age of the Classics" for anyone who is interested in becoming familiar with the most famous staples of classical music.

A great compilation.......2005-02-09

This cd somes up some of the greatest pieces of instrumental (and is some cases choral) music ever written. It is a great starter for a beginning classical music lover or a quick and easy all-in-one for those of us who study classical music for a living. I highly recommend this cd to anyone who wants to love or already does love classical music.

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Great Voice
Great performer
if you like
Mellow and sultry
Peggy Lee's Greatest Hits

The Best of Miss Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee
Manufacturer: Capitol
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ASIN: B00000DCI5
Release Date: 2001-07-31

Tracks:

Waiting For The Train To Come In
I Don't Know Enough About You
It's All Over Now
It's A Good Day
Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep)
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Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too)
Manana (Is Soon Enough For Me)
Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
Fever
Alright, Okay, You Win
I'm A Woman
Pass Me By
Big Spender
Is That All There Is?

Customer Reviews:

Great Voice.......2007-07-21

Highly recommend this to anyone who thinks they may be a fan, or could be one.

Great performer.......2007-04-03

Peggy Lee has a smooth, rich voice, and her sultry style pairs beautifully with the lyrics.

if you like.......2007-03-21

Don't need to say much - I am not an audiophile but I love Peggy Lee so I am very pleased by this recording of many of my favorites. Can't really go wrong with this.

Mellow and sultry.......2007-03-09

I remember hearing "Fever" on the radio as a child, and thinking "are they allowed to play stuff like that on the radio?". The seduction in her voice was alluring and mysterious, you could almost see steam in the air.

While singing "Waiting for the Train to Come In", her super-laid-back drawl lets you see a woman by the tracks at the train station, the words being sung are the thoughts going through the woman's head, waiting for her man to come home.

Although I prefer the Mills Brothers' rendition of "I Don't Know Enough About You", with their wonderful harmony, Peggy's version still stands on its own merit, and is a welcomed addition to the CD.

The majority of the tunes on this disc are a sampling of the popular songs during the 40's and 50's, almost a condensed time capsule. "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" is her cover of a song from the all-Black movie musical "Cabin in the Sky" (1943), starring Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson as Little Joe.

And last, and definitely not least, "Is That All There Is". A masterpiece in matching words to supporting music. I bought this CD specifically for this song. I remember hearing it when it was released in 1969, and it stopped me in my tracks. Stunningly written and performed, especially when compared to the mindless "bubble gum" pop music of that period. Even to this day, it's a creepy and beautiful song, and in my opinion, her best.

Peggy Lee's Greatest Hits.......2007-01-10

If you would like a CD that chronicles the greatest hits of Peggy Lee, this is it. THe sound is clear and great on all recordings. The songs are great, but some quite different than others, so it made me want (in some cases) the individual albums.

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Soviet Army Band & Chorus aren't taking any prisoners!
Good music.
Magnificent!
I loved it!
The ultimate collection

Best of the Red Army Choir
Red Army Choir
Manufacturer: Silva America
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000066RMJ
Release Date: 2002-06-25

Tracks:

Kalinka
Partisan's Song
Souliko
Korobelniki
On The Road (A Soldier's Song)
My Country
The Red Army Is The Strongest
Moscow Nights
Along Peterskaia Street
Smuglianka
Troika Gallop
Ah Nastassia
Echelon's Song
My Army
Civil War Songs
Bella Ciao

Tracks:

National Anthem Of The USSR
Oh Fields, My Fields
The Cliff
The Cossacks
In The Central Steppes
Gandzia
Cossack's Song
The Roads
Song Of The Volga Boatman
Dark Eyes
Let's Go
The Birch Tree
The Road Song
The Samovars
Varchavianka
Slavery And Suffering

Customer Reviews:

Soviet Army Band & Chorus aren't taking any prisoners!.......2007-05-12

If you enjoy a good stiring martial male chorus then spend some time with these guys. They're all graduates of Soviet musical acadamies and any one of them could have graced the top opera houses of the world. You don't have to know any Russian to appreciate this CD. The songs are glorious (just don't translate them -- machine guns, death to foes, etc.), and will make you want to march on Berlin all over again.

Good music........2007-03-09

I had heard a few songs by the Red Army Choir in the past and happened upon this CD set a while back, I found it to be far better than I had hoped and would reccoment it to anyone who enjoys Russian folk music, choir in general, and cultural items from when Russia was still the Soviet Union.

Magnificent!.......2007-02-27

I'm so glad I stumbled onto this.

Spirited, committed, manly singing. Soul-shaking stuff! The ensemble is incisive; soloists are marvelous. The folk melodies are enchanting. The songs--and the singers--are bound up in the cultural fabric of the Cossacks, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky...on and on.., Chekhov, Trotsky, Nabakov... This music conveys the great romantic, dignified, boistrous soul of the Russian People. (Loosely speaking. Some members of the chorus were presumably of other nationalities once part of the Soviet Union. And some of the songs are not Russian).

I don't speak Russian, but listening to this makes me wish I did. What a beautiful-sounding language it is.

I loved it!.......2007-02-22

Even though I cannot speak Russian, the quality of this choral group is beyond excellent. Many of these pieces are extremely moving and stirring. The rendering of the Soviet anthem and the song "Let's Go" (V'put) come to my mind. "Let's Go" became a huge hit in Russia when it was featured in a movie about the Great Patriotic War, and indeed, hearing it - you can well imagine ranks upon ranks of hard-eyed, grim-faced Soviet soldiers striding into battle against the Wehrmacht.

The ultimate collection.......2004-06-15

Excellent performance by the choir and the orchestra. The grandeur, the charm, and the romance! Great collection of songs, sure to bring back memories!

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Best of the best
The Wonderful Miss London
Julie London - "The Very Best of Julie London"
Surprising who the next big FAN is...
Superb Late Night Music...

The Very Best of Julie London
Julie London
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009IE6K8
Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
Cry Me A River
Blue Moon
Sway
My Heart Belongs To Daddy
When I Fall In Love
Can't Help Lovin' That Man
Misty
Lover Man
Desafinado (Slightly Out Of Tune)
Girls Talk
Let There Be Love
Wives And Lovers
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
Making Whoopee
The Good Life
The More I See You
A Taste Of Honey
Go Slow
You And The Night And The Music
Black Coffee
Basin Street Blues
Blues In The Night
'Round Midnight
As Time Goes By

Tracks:

Can't Get Use To Losing You
September In The Rain
Mad About The Boy
Love Letters
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend
Goody Goody
Days Of Wine And Roses
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
Light My Fire
Here's That Rainy Day
Body & Soul
God Bless The Child
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Our Day Will Come
I've Got You Under My Skin
The End Of The World
One For My Baby
Love For Sale
Sentimental Journey
I've Got A Crush On You
Call Me Irresponsible
You Made Me Love You
Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast
Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye

Album Description

50 track collection featuring all her hits, 'Fly Me to the Moon', 'Cry Me a River', 'Sway', 'One for My Baby', 'Wives and Lovers' and many more tracks spanning her entire career. EMI. 2005.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Double CD Anthology of 50 Great Recordings by One of the Most Understated, Underrated Song Stylists of the 20th Century. Thanks to the Inclusion of "Fly Me to the Moon" and Other Gems You'll Find on this Set in Television Commercials, a New Audience Generation Can Hear the Voice that Inspires Artists Like Diana Krall, Dianne Reeves and Many Others. Also Featured Here Are Instantly Recognizable Songs Like "Blue Moon", "When I Fall in Love", "Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend", "Light My Fire".

Customer Reviews:

Best of the best.......2007-04-21

I will use this seller again if possible, really fast delivery to Finland

The Wonderful Miss London.......2007-02-20

The Very Best of Julie London is a fantastic overview of her career, great song selection and the remastering is GREAT! Julie's sexy, sultry, cool voice is out front, Julie had great arrangements and musicians backing her and you'll definitely hear this on these two cd's! Julie is one my favorite singers and if you're discovering her for the first time, start with this and then invest in getting other cd's by her, Julie was one of the best 'torch singers'.

Julie London - "The Very Best of Julie London".......2007-01-09

All of Julie's greatest hits selected from her many albums.

I have wanted her songs for years. Now I won't have to cry me a river.

Surprising who the next big FAN is..........2007-01-04

I got this collection for myself because I love Julie London's voice delivering all these sentimental tunes. (Okay, not "Light My Fire" because I can only imagine Jim Morrison on that one now.) I play it in the car all the time and sing along with abandon. To my surprise, my eight-year-old daughter LOVES this CD, especially "Fly Me to the Moon" and "Let There Be Love." Get it and see what YOUR kids think!

I enjoyed reading the liner notes included with this CD and learning about Julie's colorful career, but I do wish that they had included song lyrics, too.

Superb Late Night Music..........2006-12-22

There's something about Julie London's voice... sultry, sexy, super-cool... that perfectly captures the feel of the night. And, if you only know of her through "Cry Me a River" - as most people do - then you're in for a real treat because between the mid 50's and the late 60's she produced a huge amount of similarly beautiful music.

Featuring 50 tracks, most of which are "standards", virtually all of which are near-perfect examples of how to inject pure "atmosphere" into a song, and an incredibly large number of which are better than their more famous originals, this superb compilation will leave you wondering why she wasn't ranked up there with the great artists of her time... and, more interestingly, given the huge popularity of recent "jazz-cool" artists such as Norah Jones, why she's still so undiscovered.

Best of all this selection is a quite superb, flawlessly sung & played "late night" album - put it on and slip into over two hours of gloriously laid back music... you won't find much better.

The Best of Cajun: The Traditional Songs

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Great CD
Great recording- super renditions-I wish I could find more CDs like this
Ou-ce Que Te Parti
Acadienne At Its Finest!
This collection of Cajun music is just too cool for words!!!

The Best of Cajun: The Traditional Songs
Waylon Thibodeaux
Manufacturer: Mardi Gras Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005XFX
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

Je Veux Me Marier
Grand Mamou
Chou-Pique Two Step
Bayou Teche
Paradin Two Step
Grande Texas
Madame Sosthene
Ou-Ce Que T'es Parti
Jolie Blonde
Lake Charles Two Step
Big Mamou

Customer Reviews:

Great CD.......2005-12-22

I just love this CD, especially song #8! I'd say this is the best Cajun CD I've heard yet. Would highly recommend it to anyone. It's at the top of my list!!

Great recording- super renditions-I wish I could find more CDs like this.......2005-10-14

This CD is simply a wonderful find.

Excellent recording, excellent renditions of traditional songs.

Like listening to E Power Biggs play Bach, Waylon Thibodeaux has captured something very special with this recording.

I'd love to see suggestions for similar albums- I've looked for a while but I keep coming back to this one.

Ou-ce Que Te Parti.......2005-10-07

This a song that is needed by the Westwego Senior Citizens. A small group visits the shut in and they requested this particular song. I would like to have a copy both in french and english?

Acadienne At Its Finest!.......2002-05-05

The songs on this album with the exception of Big Mamou are old beautiful traditional Cajun songs. Waylon does an excellent job at playing these songs and keeping them fairly authentic sounding. Waylon should be given a medal for preserving these old songs and giving them a modern-quality recording. Waylon does not exclude modern zydeco either in Big Mamou. This song will make you want to jump up and do the fais-do-do. If you dig Cajun music at all, this album is a must have.

This collection of Cajun music is just too cool for words!!!.......1999-07-14

Okay, okay, you haven't encountered much of Cajun music? Here's the place to start. Twelve catchy numbers, most with lyrics in Cajun French, brighten this fine record by Waylon Thibodeaux. They're lively, enjoyable, and make you want to dance or at least enjoy more whatever you might be doing while listening. Thibodeaux does the definitive "Jolie Blonde" in this CD, and has several great ones such as "Grand Texas," "Grand Mamou," "Je Veux le Marier," and "Paradis Two-step."

Tracks:

Strange Fruit
Fine And Mellow
Lover Man
Don't Explain
Good Morning Heartache
T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
My Man
I Loves You Porgy
Lady Sings The Blues
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
I Cover The Waterfront
God Bless The Child

Customer Reviews:

Simplicity Like A Blow.......2007-04-23

This is the very first jazz record I have ever bought or listened to, and I decided to write my review with the first listen still fresh in my mind. It's not that I was avoiding jazz; I was simply never exposed to it. What can I say, I stand before you unmasked as the Philistine that I am! Certainly then it must seem a bit presumptuous of me, a jazz illiterate if ever there was one, to offer any criticism good or bad. But on the other hand, who can give you the more honest reaction: the man who has studied, weighed and evaluated jazz for four decades, or the man whose ignorance precludes the possibility of bias?

The word 'Diva' gets tossed around a lot these days. It is frequently misapplied to singers like Whitney Houston or Celine Dion, two performers who are unquestionably talented, but not as much as their hype would lead us to believe. Chockingly, it is also used to describe Cher, a woman who this reviewer feels is unfit to Chine Billie's Choes.

Because Billie...ah, Billie, SHE'S a Diva! This woman's voice is hypnotic, a Lucky Strike soaked in honey and absinthe. The songs are unaffected and powerful in a way only authenticity makes possible; Billie makes you FEEL her songs without resorting to histrionics. I am thoroughly convinced the Lady lived the blues long before she got around to singing 'em. The somewhat sparse musical arrangments are an absolute joy to listen to, and lend themselves incredibly well to Billie's voice. The horns almost seem to lead the listener simply by Suggestion, allowing Billie's voice to take center stage while the instruments mould themselves around her smokey lyrics like cognac poured across the rocks. I am completely smitten by this wonderful singer! Unwind in style with the music of a vanished era!

The Definitive Billie Holiday Collection!!!! .......2006-03-20

When I saw this while browsing at my local record store, I had to buy it. It had all the classics in 1 small package. It was an excellent value at only $8.99! Wow!

This CD (along with many other CDs in the Millennium Collection series) is an excellent value for the new or casual fan of Billie Holiday. It's remastered too so the sound quality is excellent. I loved the CD, especially Don't Explain (my all-time favorite Billie song) and Good Morning Heartache. The CD is WAY better than Ken Burns JAZZ Collection! *Highly recommended!*

If you liked this one, check out these titles from Billie Holiday:

This Is Jazz Volume 32: Billie Holiday Sings Standards
16 Most Requested Songs
Swing Brother Swing!
I'll Get By

I borrowed all of these other CDs from my local library (a great way to expand your digital library of classic jazz for no charge). They were pretty good. But none of these can match 20th Century Masters-Billie Holiday. This is the one Billie Holiday CD I wanted to keep for my own collection. Her voice, her style, her songs are so powerful and beautiful - all of these attributes are wonderfully displayed on this collection. Enjoy!

12 Tracks 41:05 total time~Hip-O/Verve 24.bit remastering.

A relaxing Holiday.......2005-09-29

One of the best. A great collection of her hits. While dining or just chilling, its a must have.

Skimpy, but well produced.......2002-08-06

Although not generously packed with tons of material, this is a thoughtfully-programmed selection of Holiday's later, non-Columbia material. Ten tracks, drawn from various sessions at Decca, Commodore, Clef and Verve, starting with "Strange Fruit" and ending with a 1956 live version of "God Bless The Child." This set is nice in that it avoids the usual emphasis on her difficult-sounding later performances, avoiding the tragedy-laced version of her career in favor of a more positive, musically triumphant telling of the tale. For a budget-line release, it's pretty darn nice.

good Introduction to the New Billie Holiday Fan.......2002-07-31

Billie Holiday is one of the Most Important Artists Ever to Rock a Mic&She is Displayed here with many of Her Classic Songs that Showcased Her Essence as a Artist."Strange Fruit","Good Morning Heartache","God Bless the Child" among others featured here.there are so many Collections to get on Her but this is a Cool Introduction for the New Billie Holiday Fan.

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