Fiddler's Green

Fiddler's Green

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Fiddler's Green: The happy land/heaven imagined by sailors where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing and dancers that never tire. "This is intimate music, good for a quiet morning or evening at home. A few solos, a duet, and some spare acoustic ensembles. There's a good dose of fiddling, and about half of the songs are traditional. Traditional music sometimes seems mysterious, but it's always familiar. It's comfortable like an old pair of shoes, and its timeless melodies and themes are the building blocks of the newer songs here... As Louis Armstrong once said, 'All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.'" --Tim O'Brien

Musicians include: Chris Thile, Kenny Vaughan, Dennis Crouch, Edgar Meyer, Dirk Powell, Casey Driessen, Stuart Duncan, Dan Tyminski, Jerry Douglas, Mollie O'Brien, Darrell Scott, and Del McCoury.

Tracks:

Give My Regards To Broadway- Joel Grey
Swanee- Al Jolson
When The Moon Shines On The Moonshine- Bert Williams
A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody- John Steel
My Man- Fanny Brice
Fascinating Rhythm- Fred Astaire, Adele Astaire
If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)- 78rpm Version Eddie Cantor
Someone To Watch Over Me- Gertrude Lawrence
Bill- 78 rpm Version Helen Morgan
Ol' Man River- Paul Robeson
Ain't Misbehavin'- Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
Ten Cents A Dance- Ruth Etting
Body And Soul- Libby Holman
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime- Bing Crosby
Night And Day- Fred Astaire
Heat Wave- Ethel Waters
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes- Tamara
You're The Top- Ethel Merman
Summertime- Anne Brown
September Song- Walter Huston
My Heart Belongs To Daddy- Mary Martin
It Never Entered My Mind- Shirley Ross
Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered- Vivienne Segal
Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning- Irving Berlin
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'- Alfred Drake

Tracks:

New York, New York- Cris Alexander,Adolph Green,John Reardon
If I Loved You- John Raitt,Jan Clayton
Come Rain Or Come Shine- Ruby Hill,Harold Nicholas
There's No Business Like Show Business- Ensemble
How Are Things In Glocca Morra? From "Finian's Rainbow"- Ella Logan
Once In Love With Amy- Ray Bolger
Wunderbar- Alfred Drake,Patricia Morison
Some Enchanted Evening- Ezio Pinza
Lost In The Stars- Todd Duncan
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend- Carol Channing
Luck Be A Lady- Robert Alda,Guys
Getting To Know You- Gertrude Lawrence
Who Cares?- Jack Carson,Betty Oakes
Stranger In Paradise- from " Kismet" Doretta Morrow,Richard Kiley
Ballad Of Mack The Knife- Gerald Price
Hey There- from "The Pajama Game" John Raitt
Whatever Lola Wants- Gwen Verdon
I Could Have Danced All Night- Julie Andrews
Standing On The Corner- from "The Most Happy Fella, 1956" Shorty Long,John Henson,Alan Gilbert
The Party's Over- Judy Holliday
Glitter And Be Gay- Barbara Cook
Tonight- Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence

Tracks:

Seventy-Six Trombones- Robert Preston
I Enjoy Being A Girl- from "Flower Drum Song, 1958" Pat Suzuki
Everything's Coming Up Roses- Ethel Merman
My Favorite Things- from "The Sound Of Music" Mary Martin
Put On A Happy Face- from "Bye Bye Birdie" Dick Van Dyke
Try To Remember- Jerry Orbach
Camelot- from "Camelot" Richard Burton
Love Makes The World Go 'Round- Anna Maria Alberghetti
I Believe In You- Robert Morse And Co.
The Sweetest Sounds- Diahann Carroll,Richard Kiley
Comedy Tonight- Zero Mostel
What Kind Of Fool Am I?- Anthony Newley
As Long As He Needs Me- Georgia Brown
Hello, Dolly!- Carol Channing,Cast
People- Barbra Streisand
Anyone Can Whistle- from "Anyone Can Whistle" Lee Remick
If I Were A Rich Man- Zero Mostel
Night Song- Sammy Davis, Jr.
The Impossible Dream- Richard Kiley
If My Friends Could See Me Now- Gwen Verdon
Open a New Window- from Mame Voice

Tracks:

Willkommen- from "Cabaret" Joel Grey
Let The Sunshine In- James Rado,Lynn Kellogg,Melba Moore,Cast
I'll Never Fall In Love Again- Jill O'Hara,Jerry Orbach
The Ladies Who Lunch- from "Company" Elaine Stritch
Tea For Two- Roger Rathburn,Susan Watson
I'm Still Here- Yvonne De Carlo
I Don't Know How To Love Him- Yvonne Elliman
We Go Together- Adrienne Barbeau,Barry Bostwick,Walter Bobbie,Cast
Corner Of The Sky- John Rubinstein
Send In The Clowns- Glynis Johns
Ease On Down The Road- Stephanie Mills,Tiger Haynes,Ted Ross,Hinton
One- from "A Chorus Line" Cast
All That Jazz- Chita Rivera,Ensemble
Tomorrow- Andrea Mcardle
Don't Cry For Me Argentina- Patti Lupone
Come Follow The Band
Lullaby Of Broadway- Jerry Orbach
And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going- Jennifer Holliday
The Bells Of St. Sebastian- Raul Julia

Tracks:

Memory- Betty Buckley
I Am What I Am- George Hearn
Move On- Bernadette Peters,Mandy Patinkin
Do You Hear The People Sing?- Michael Maguire,Cast
The Music Of The Night- Michael Crawford
You're Nothing Without Me- James Naughton,Gregg Edelman
The American Dream- Jonathan Pryce,Cast
Doctor Jazz- Gregory Hines,Company
With One Look- Glenn Close
On Broadway- Adrian Bailey,Frederick B. Owens,Ken Ard,Victor Trent Cook
Le Jazz Hot- Julie Andrews,Ensemble
Seasons Of Love-
Hakuna Matata- Max Casella,Tom Alan Robbins,Scott Irby-Ranniar,Jason Raize
I Wanna Be A Producer- Matthew Broderick,Ensemble
Dancing Queen- Louise Plowright,Jenny Galloway
Good Morning Baltimore- Marissa Jaret Winokur
Movin' Out- Michael Cavanaugh,Band
I Go To Rio- Hugh Jackman,Company
Defying Gravity- Kristin Chenoweth,Idina Menzel

Customer Reviews:

Fabulous for any Broadway-lover.......2007-01-30

Packs into 5 CD's a sampling of Broadway tunes from the 20's thru (almost) today, mostly from original cast recordings. Includes not just well-known hits, but also some lesser-known gems. Sound quality is first rate, booklet is informative too. Have given this as a gift to several friends with rave reviews.

Top Shelf.......2007-01-04

This is THE definitive collection of Broadway hits. I have other collections, and none of them measure up. A great deal of care was obviously taken in compiling and presenting this box set. It covers a lot of ground, starting with some long-forgotten but still very enjoyable hits from the days of yore, and finishing with present-day favorites. To the best of my knowledge, the recordings are by those who made them famous. You won't be disappointed.

TERRIFIC CD'S.......2006-03-23

THESE BROADWAY MUSICALS CD'S ARE A BROADWAY LOVERS DREAM. WITH EACH SONG, MEMORIES COME FLOODING BACK. BOTH THE FAMILIAR AND THE FORGOTTEN SONGS ARE A TRUE LISTENING PLEASURE. IF YOU LIKE BROADWAY, YOU'LL LOVE THIS SET.

Great Collection of Broadways greatest Songs .......2005-06-14

This Collection was perfectly made it has almost all the most famous Broadway songs on this 5 cd set. The Music is great and has Broadways greatest treasures like "Memory""People""With One Look""Give my regards Too Broadway" just to name a few of this numerous cd set with over 100 songs. This is a great buy if you like musicals or The music of Broadway

Great Compilation!.......2005-01-17

If you are a fan of the Broadway Musicals, this is a collection that you should purchase. Since I got the 5 disc set I've enjoyed listening to it. The majority of the songs are done by the original singers. The collection is priceless considering that you will have over 100 songs from popular musicals since the beginning of Broadway

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Fiddler's Green
gets better the more you listen to it
Tim O'brien at his creative best
Great bluegrass music
Roots Music with Style, Verve and Complexity

Fiddler's Green
Tim O'Brien
Manufacturer: Sugarhill [Country]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music

General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music

Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music

General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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Cornbread Nation
The Best Kept Secret
She Waits for Night
Tone Poets
Laps in Seven

ASIN: B000AMFF4O
Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

Pretty Fair Maid In The Garden
Look Down That Lonesome Road
Fiddler's Green
Land's End/Chasin' Talon
Fair Flowers Of The Valley
Foreign Lander
Buffalo Skinners
First Snow
Train On The Island
Long Black Veil
A Few More Years
Early Morning Rain

Album Description

Fiddler's Green: The happy land/heaven imagined by sailors where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing and dancers that never tire. "This is intimate music, good for a quiet morning or evening at home. A few solos, a duet, and some spare acoustic ensembles. There's a good dose of fiddling, and about half of the songs are traditional. Traditional music sometimes seems mysterious, but it's always familiar. It's comfortable like an old pair of shoes, and its timeless melodies and themes are the building blocks of the newer songs here... As Louis Armstrong once said, 'All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.'" --Tim O'Brien

Musicians include: Chris Thile, Kenny Vaughan, Dennis Crouch, Edgar Meyer, Dirk Powell, Casey Driessen, Stuart Duncan, Dan Tyminski, Jerry Douglas, Mollie O'Brien, Darrell Scott, and Del McCoury.

Customer Reviews:

Fiddler's Green.......2007-07-19

This grammy award winning album is a must for any O'Brien fan or anyone interested in bluegrass or newgrass type music. From his days in Hot Rize until today O'Brien continues to be the quintessencal performer. He is the whole package- song writer, singer and musician extraordinare!

gets better the more you listen to it.......2007-05-26

bought this cd because of one song i heard on the radio the rest of the cd didnt hold the same feel but it is a great cd the songs get better the more you listen to them. you hear something new everytime you listen to it. buy it you wont be sorry

Tim O'brien at his creative best.......2007-03-08

This album was released around the same time as Cornbread Nation, another one of Tim's masterpieces. This one really has a bluegrassy/Irish/Celtic flavor that is timeless. A must-have.

Great bluegrass music.......2006-11-08

Tim O'Brien was born in heart of bluegrass music country, in Wheeling West Virginia, in 1954. And in 1970, he moved to Colorado and moved into professional music. The rest, as they say, is history. He's a master of the guitar, the fiddle, the mandolin, and other instruments, and he produces some of the greatest bluegrass music made today.

This album is another in a long list of Tim O'Brien's works of art, and it is just as good as his others. The songs are a fine selection of Appalachian and Scots-Irish tunes, carrying the listener back and forth across space and time. I loved Pretty Fair Maid In The Garden and Foreign Lander, and really loved the musical numbers Land's End/Chasin' Talon and First Snow.

Overall, I found this to be a great album, and have listened to it over and over again. If you like the sound of great bluegrass music, then you will like this CD - I sure know I did! I give this CD my highest recommendations.

Roots Music with Style, Verve and Complexity.......2006-08-13

If you like traditional and bluegrass music with tight harmonies and innovative use of instruments, you'll love this album. This is not simply roots music, but roots music at its finest, showing theinfluence of layers of cultures and music styles, but well-incorporated with the Anglo-American musical tradition that forms the substrate from which these songs and pieces derive. The greatest gems here are "Foreign Lander," a duet of voice and bass with amazing, heart-rending and shivery harmonies; "A Few More Years," a violin-voice solo with all of the above characteristics; and the title cut, Fiddler's Green," a modern ballad written in the traditional style, with musical borrowings from sea chanteys and gospel. Nice versions of several traditional ballads, e.g. "Fair Flowers of the Valley" (Child's "Babylon") and "Pretty Fair Maid" (Child's "John Riley"). I bought this CD several months ago and it's still in my top-5 playlist.

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Fiddler's Green
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Blix Street
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Irish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Celtic Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

General | International | Styles | Music

General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music

Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | New Age | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0001ENXUY
Release Date: 2004-02-24

Tracks:

Mystics's Slipjigs - Maire Breatnach
Celtic Sea - Taos
Caoineadh Eoghain Ruadh - Nollaig Casey, Arty McGlynn
Carillions/Moling - Maire Breatnach
Swans at Coole - Maire Breatnach
Hunter's Purse - Nollaig Casey, Arty McGlynn
Waterwheel - Taos
Bholenath - Taos
Abbie's Music Box - Connemara
Cape Clear - Nollaig Casey, Arty McGlynn
Silent Star - Connemara
Trowie Burn - The Boys of the Lough
Shining Child - Taos
Angels Candles/Coinnle Na Naingeal - Maire Breatnach
st - Maire Breatnach
Dreamer - Maire Breatnach

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True Beauty
Zimmerman is wonderful, she captures the beauty of the music

Earth Chants: Madrigal Singers Of Sbhs

Manufacturer: Sheffield Lab
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music

General | International | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Chansons | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music
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Piano Music of Chopin, Brahms and Prokofiev
Matter of Time

ASIN: B0000009ER
Release Date: 1994-10-15

Tracks:

Cantate Domino
My Heart is Offered Still to You
Modern Music
Two Songs: Die Nachtigall/Lerchengesang
Earth Chants: Song of the Skyloom/The Great Sea/Remeber, the Sacredness of Things
Now I Walk in Beauty
E La Don Don
Five Folk Songs: I'd Enter Your Garden/The Fiddler/How Sad Flow the Streams/At Night/...
She's Like the Swallow
Green Grow the Rushes
Keep Your Lamps!

Customer Reviews:

True Beauty.......2000-01-30

I have had the pleasure of hearing one of Ms. Zimmerman's choirs perform. She is a wonderful conductor and teacher. This is proven in the way her choir sings. Earth Chants is a wonderful record and I would recommend it to anyone, whether you like choiral music or not. They SBHS Madrigals have near, if not perfect intonation and their songs have so much emotion. I have had the pleasure of singing the Brahms and Cantante Domino, both of which are very beautiful, as well as difficult to sing. If you like this album, check out Canticle, Zimmerman's newest group, or the Lompoc High School Madrigals (this is hard to find, you can call the school for more info). Both are very talented groups.

Zimmerman is wonderful, she captures the beauty of the music.......1999-02-02

SBHS Madz are truely wonderful in this record. They have great dicipline and perfect intonation. I would recomend this to anyone who enjoys choral music.

Fiddler's Green Irish Pub presents Beach Bands Christmas Jams '97

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Fiddler's Green Irish Pub presents Beach Bands Christmas Jams '97

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000291HNS

Product Description

Christmas songs by various artists, including Tammi Gavin, Michael Justis, Hacklehead, Chameleon, Watershed, Big Mutha Down, and many more

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Sound approach to oriental bike ride for charity - Robert McMillen

Great China Bike Ride

Manufacturer: Precious Oil
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAAAFS
Release Date: 2003-12-23

Customer Reviews:

Sound approach to oriental bike ride for charity - Robert McMillen.......2005-12-02

It's easy to see how the beautiful landscapes of China could awaken the creative spirit in you, but singer/songwriter Raymond McCullough did it the hard way. In October 1999, Raymond went on the Mencap China Bike Ride - despite not having been on a bike for 29 years!

"I thought I'd never do it," he said, "The journey was 444 kilometres long over four-and-a-half days. On the first day we did 40 miles instead of 40 km which was tough, but the following morning, we woke up in this beautiful hotel with the sun shining down on the pomegranate trees, and I had a shower, put the shorts on and thought, `I can do this'. By the third day I had caught up on the lead riders," says Raymond with obvious pride.

The scenery was breathtaking, he recalled, but going up 18 hairpin bends to get the views wasn't all fun!

Even on the flight to Beijing, though, there was a song brewing in Ray's imagination. "Making our way over the Mongolian mountains, about six in the morning, I got this wee tune, three chords, in my head, and that became the chorus of `Ballad of Beijing'.

In the second week, whever I went I heard this particular tune played by three percussionists and I incorporated that into the song as well."

The `Ballad of Beijing' can be found on `The great China Bike Ride', a mini-album with five other songs from Ray's vast repertoire.

`Smoke goes up' is a lovely song about Ireland's smell of turf, which Ray wrote on a journey home from Cork through Ireland's towns and villages. "The smoke goes up, the rain comes down," is an image many will find familiar!

`1989' is about the fall of the Berlin Wall and there is a lovely instrumental called, `Ar tir seo aguinne (Our Land)'.

Review by Robert McMillen - (Irish News - Sat. 2004-01-31)

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Drive Me Mad!
Fiddler's Green
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000S60EHA

Product Description

1 Irish Air 2 Folk's Not Dead 3 The Night Pat Murphy Died 4 Salonica 5 Rollin' 6 When Will We Be Married 7 Another Spring Song 8 Bretonix 9 Lukey 10 Marie's Wedding 11 Long Gone 12 I'm Here Because I'm Here 13 All These Feelings 14 (you) Drive Me Mad 15 Captain Song 16 Into Your Mind 17 Shamrock Tunes 18 Don't Let Go 19 Whack Me 20 Creel 2007

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British String Miniatures 1
Gavin Sutherland , and Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00006B1LD
Release Date: 2002-09-24

Tracks:

Allegro Vivace
Lento Cantabile
Presto
Largo
Allegro Giocoso
Elegy, Op. 58
Spring Serenade
Compline
Perpetuum Mobile
Cherubim
Divertimento
Lento, Ma Non Troppo
Gaily, But Not Quick
Allegro Molto Vivace
Moderato
Andantino
Molto Vivace
The Death Of Falstaff
Touch Her Soft Lips And Part
Andante Tranquillo - Allegro Con Brio
Grazioso, Tempo Di Menuetto
Allegro Vivace
Lento Con Moto
Andante - Alla Marcia

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Best Folkrock Band I've heard!!!
Scottish and Irish Folk the German way

Stagebox
Fiddler's Green
Manufacturer: Wea/East/West
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music

Rock | Celtic | International | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000JXLY
Release Date: 1999-08-27

Tracks:

What a Day
Mary Mack
Irish Airman
Whale Song
Make Up Your Mind
Captain Kennedy
Home
Back of Beyond
Reel Jig Bag
I Won't Follow You Up to Carlow
Gallant Murray
Tribal Dance
Drive the Golden Spike/Keep It Up/Edmonten Airbus
Fiddler's Green
High Noon
Haughs of Cromdale
As I Roved Out
Dublin Streets/Irish Washer Woman
Jacobites
Wish U Well
Hip Hurray
Freeman
Little Beggarman
Step It Out
Don't Turn Away
Mermaid
Rose of Ballymore
Rocky Road to Dublin
Stay by My Side
Blarney Roses

Customer Reviews:

Best Folkrock Band I've heard!!!.......2002-09-28

I saw Fiddler's Green this summer playing a major festival in Germany. It was a graet concert! Superb performance! I bought the "Stagebox" Live CD and I'm addicted to it now. It's a real hot insider tip!!!

Scottish and Irish Folk the German way.......2000-07-25

Fiddler's Green call their music "speed folk", and on this 2-CD-live-album you get more than two hours of it (there even is an edition with a third bonus CD). Although I never saw the band live, I really do believe that they - and probably most of the audience - are having a good time. If you listen to the CD alone without the concert experience, it's about the same as if a cajun band or Scottish folk band tried to perform German folk music - it just isn't the real thing. If you're looking for authentic speed folk you probably do better with the Pogues.

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Fiddler's Green

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000BZT0FU

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