Old Dan's Records

Old Dan's Records

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The original 10-song 1972 album available for the first time on CD, featuring 'The Same Old Obsession', 'Hi' Way Songs', 'Farewell To Annabel', 'My Pony Won't Go', and title song 'Old Dan's Records.' Rhino Records. 2002.

Tracks:

Farewell To Annabel
That Same Old Obsession
Old Dan's records
Lazy Mornin'
You Are What I Am
Can't Depend On Love
My Pony Won't Go
It's Worth Believin'
Mother Of A Miner's Child
Hi'Way Songs

Album Description

The original 10-song 1972 album available for the first time on CD, featuring 'The Same Old Obsession', 'Hi' Way Songs', 'Farewell To Annabel', 'My Pony Won't Go', and title song 'Old Dan's Records.' Rhino Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

lightfoot.......2007-07-22

It's a keeper once you have all the others. Here you will find song themes of poverty, love, remorseful self reflection, as well as betrayal. "That same old obsession" is another work of impeccable genius with a chilling reference to evil during a lovers agony in the garden: unheard of profundity among trite contemporary love songs. "Someone is crying I'm calling her name deep in the garden, deep in my brain. I long to recall every kiss, every kind word, I miss her so much I could die, but the creatures of evil have captured her heart and that same old obsession still keeps us apart."

Heartfelt and non-commercial.......2006-08-29

One of my favorite of Gord's albums because he's singing his heart even more than usual.

Nothing commercial going on here; no pop tunes, no overt attempts at a single. Instead, the best collection of lyrics Gord ever put on a single album. Each song evokes a particular mood; just the right memories matched lyrically to just the right music.

More than any other GL album, this one makes me feel like I know him.

Lightfoot at his best.......2006-07-18

In the early 70's Gordon Lightfoot cranked out a lot of good folk based music and there are differing views on where he shines best. For me, he's at his best here, Old Dan's Records. While I agree it's not easy to pick one album over another and I wouldn't have problems with someone who wanted to argue for another of his albums, for me this album stands out for two reasons.

The first is the arrangements. Back when Lightfoot was doing his best work there was a thing for adding orchestration to his music, I suspect to make them more popular and "commercial." But I've always felt he sounds best when the strings are gone and the music focuses on his voice and the guitars, dobros, bass, and drums - his basic sound, Lightfoot with Rick Haynes, Terry Clements and Red Shea. And of all his albums, this one more than any other I know emphasizes that sound. The strings are here, but they take a back seat. You barely notice them when they appear.

The other reason is that it was around this time Lightfoot's voice was at its best. He sounds great on this disc.

His songwriting is also at its peak. So ...

This album more than any other captures the Gordon Lightfoot I love. It also has three of my favourite Lightfoot songs: Farewell to Annabel, Old Dan's Records and Lazy Mornin'.

Yes, I love this album.

Lightfoot's Best.......2006-07-12

I agree with the previous reviewer who states that this may very well be the best Lightfoot cut ever. In my mind, the music and instrumentation (guitar, banjo, autoharp, dobro, pedal steel) are the very soul of Gordon Lightfoot: Country folk tunes about the day-to-day thoughts and feelings we all experience. Love, travel, "chilling out", and good-old fashioned clean fun. Yup, some reviewers found the album boring: It is supposed to mellow the listener out! The proof of this is in the lyrics to the classic "Hi'way Songs": "When I walk the hills so high, around the town where I was born; New York seems so far away, though I was there just yesterday." Buy this CD and take a trip back to when "...picking with a friend 'till dawn, singing all those hi'way songs." was one of the most exciting and meaningful things one could do.

Classic Gordon!.......2006-06-20

I don't see anything wrong with this album. It has everything that I want from a Gordon Lightfoot album: love, nature, longing, and beautiful music. Listen to it again!

To Sun, to Feast and to Converse: American Vocal Duet Music

Average customer rating:

To Sun, to Feast and to Converse: American Vocal Duet Music

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Margarets: To A Young Child
Margarets: Merry Margaret
Fort Juniper Songs: O World Of Toms
Fort Juniper Songs: The Pope
Fort Juniper Songs: Diver
Fort Juniper Songs: Gloria
Fort Juniper Songs: Blood Stains
Fort Juniper Songs: Light Casualties
Fort Juniper Songs: Waxwings
Aeon: Dolcissima mia vita
Aeon: Audi, pontus, audi, tellus
Aeon: L'ora di musica
Bermudas
Lady Kate: Eve, I Can't Lie To An Old Friend...
Roman Fever: It's Still The Most Beautiful View In The World...

Average customer rating:

An Old Salem Christmas

Manufacturer: Raven Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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

General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music
ASIN: B000KJTGKQ
Release Date: 2006-12-26

Average customer rating:

Ingenious and perfect

nightfall
Dan Baraszu
Manufacturer: blue canoe records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000BYNTX0
Release Date: 2005-10-25

Tracks:

APRIL FOOLS
AIN'T MESSIN' 'ROUND
INCONSTANT MOON
TIME MACHINE
INTO THE BLUE
NIGHTFALL
SMUDGE
SUMMIT DRIVE
NEUTRON STAR

Product Description

Featuring 9 explosive jazz originals, Dan Baraszu's CD, "Nightfall" will surely raise some eyebrows as this young gun's guitar and compositional skills are those of an old master. In addition to Dan's guitar wizardry and vision, "Nightfall" features one of the South's most accomplished and versatile rhythm sections

Customer Reviews:

Ingenious and perfect.......2007-05-09

Dan is a superbly gifted musical genius. His hands are stunningly fast, and he has an amazing gift for creating gorgeous melodic/chordal structures that move the soul. I love this CD, and it stays in my player constantly.

Average customer rating:

Music for "blackout nights" during the War

Farinelli & Light Orchestral Songs

Manufacturer: Danacord Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000003LOT
Release Date: 1998-01-05

Tracks:

Farinelli: The Song Has Wings
Farinelli: He Who Has Pursued Life's Gentleness
Farinelli: The Pleasures Of Life
Farinelli: There Is A Song
A Sailor Leads A Lonely Life
Rosavald and Rosa. It's fine with the compass
Trees
Night and Day
The Tones
In The Twilght Nights
Flag in Storm. A flag Looks Its Best In Head Wind
The Song About Home
Denmark's Freedom Song
Three Rythm Girls
A Meeting In The School Playground' The School Upside Down'
The Five Syncopes
Land of Happiness
The Sun's Lullaby
While I Still Have You, Mum
Play Your Own Gypsy Song
The Good Old Days
Tango

Customer Reviews:

Music for "blackout nights" during the War.......2004-09-12

During the 1930s and `40s, Wagnerian tenor Lauritz Melchior was the most famous Danish tenor in the world, singing virtually every role Wagner ever wrote worldwide, but in Denmark during the same period a very different kind of tenor was flourishing: Aksel Schiøtz, with his light, silvery voice, high standards of musicianship, excellent command of lieder and wide popularity among his countrymen for his singing of Danish folk and art songs.

All of this came to an abrupt end in the fall of 1946 when Schiøtz, suffering from severe headaches and impaired vocal control, was diagnosed with a brain tumor that had to be removed immediately. The operation saved his life but left one side of his face, and vocal muscles, paralyzed. Through sheer hard work he was able to com back, two years later, as a baritone, but though the phrasing and musicianship remained intact the voice no longer had its silvery bloom. He continued to perform and record as a baritone through the late 1950s, then became a teacher of voice and interpretation in Colorado before accepting a similar post in his native Denmark in 1969. He died ten years later.

This particular entry in the Schiøtz series concentrates on light music, the kind of material that made him popular with everyday Danes who were not particularly interested in Schubert, Bach, Buxtedhude or even the art-songs of Carl Nielsen. Among the real treasures here are the excerpts from an operetta based on the life of the great castrato Farinelli, though the plot apparently restored his manhood and made him a hot lover, as well as the Cole Porter song "Night and Day" (sung in beautiful English), excerpts from Bernhard Christensen's "jazz oratorios" with The Rhythm Girls, snippets of Danish film songs, and recordings made under the moniker of "The Masked Tenor." All are sung with an artless simplicity and great beauty of tone.

None of the cramped, dry LP pressings we all became to familiar with were used here, or indeed in any of the volumes of this series; every single track was lovingly and meticulously restored in London's Abbey Road studios from mint-condition copies of the original 78s or brand-new transfers made from the original metal parts. The results are simply magical, creating a tremendous intimacy between the tenor and listener in a way that is hard to describe unless you hear it for yourself. A shame that most of these CDs are now hard to obtain, but I urge you to get them if you can!