Strangers World

Strangers World

Editorial Reviews
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It's fitting that Bruce Cockburn sings on two songs on Patty Larkin's new album, --Strangers {cq} World, for Larkin's new music has far more in common with the harmonically dense, guitar-driven folk-rock of Cockburn and Richard Thompson than with the strum-along confessionals of the coffeehouse crowd. There was no need for Cockburn to play the guitar parts himself, for Larkin has always been a superb picker. With each album, her songwriting skills have gotten closer and closer to the standards of her guitar playing, and on this new project it's nearly impossible to separate the elegance of her melodies or the emotional density of her harmonies from her facility on the instrument. It's only after the music has demanded our attention and has established the mood that we notice the lyrics. They're strong--the political slogans and cheap jokes of her early work has given way to visual detail and evocative vernacular--but the words serve the music rather than the other way around. On the ear-grabbing chorus of "Johnny Was a Pyro," a note-leaping exclamation establishes the singer's despair before the words get a chance to explain it ("What am I doing with this ring on my hand?"). The lyrics for "Closest Thing" are oblique, but the skittering Celtic arpeggio and husky vocal harmonies telegraph the romantic intent. Long before the words provide the details of car wrecks in a blizzard and armed robbery in a downtown store, the sense of crisis in "Me and That Train" is established by the jittery, percussive, minor-key chords. --Strangers World was produced by John Leventhal, who created a similar chamber-folk-rock sound for Rosanne Cash's recent albums, and Leventhal plays several instruments on each track. The result reminds one of the unusual soundscapes Joni Mitchell created on her later albums, and Larkin has moved as far from her first recordings as Mitchell did.--Geoffrey Himes

Tracks:

Beauty And The Beast - Celine Dion And Peabo Bryson
You'll Be In My Hear - Phil Collins
Circle Of Life - Elton John
Reflection - Christina Aguilera
My Funny Friend & Me - Sting
Colors Of The Wind - Vanessa Williams
True To Your Heart - 98 Degrees And Stevie Wonder
Strangers Like Me - Phil Collins
He Lives In You - Tina Turner
When She Loved Me - Sarah McLachlan
You've Got A Friend In Me - Randy Newman & Lyle Lovett
Once Upon A Time In New York City - Huey Lewis
A Whole New World - Peabo Bryson And Regina Belle
I'm Gonna Love You [Madellaine's Love Song] - Jennifer Love Hewitt
Put It Together[Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo] - Brooke Allison
Hakuna Metata - Jimmy Cliff And Lebo M

Customer Reviews:

Awesome.......2006-04-04

I loved the music on this cd. Thank you so much. My brother and I listen to it all the time.

Disney Always Rocks.......2005-09-29

Yeah looks like it's a great get, if you haven't already got every CD by disney. Didn't know the song You'll be In my Hear was a Tarzan track. Must be a spin off to You'll be in My Heart. Its all good.

Awesome collection!.......2003-10-19

I have to say, that with a 5 year old who is obsessed with the movies that these songs go with, it has made the perfect gift! She spends hours listening to this CD while doing more productive activities than sitting in front of a TV watching the movie. The songs are special to her because of the movies, and she actually does her schoolwork well with these fun songs playing. As a music lover and a Disney lover, we both agree at 5 and 30 that this is a hit.

For adult listeners, the Disney songs sung by "real" singers.......2003-07-22

Trivia Challenge: Included in the 16 tracks on "Disney's Superstar Hits" is the only song from a Disney film to hit #1 on the Billboard Pop Charts. See if you can remember which one it is before I give the answer away at the end. No peaking ahead.

The songs collected on "Disney's Superstar Hits" are mostly from the 1990s; there is "Once Upon a Time in New York City" from way back in 1988 from "Oliver and Company" and a few songs from the 21st century. But the only golden oldie is "Put It Together (Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo)," which comes from "Cinderella II" and not the original. The obvious frame of reference would be to see this collection as representing the Disney Renaissance ushered in by the Alan Menken/Howrad Ashman era, which makes it strange that nothing from "Little Mermaid" is included. But the common denominator to this collection is that the songs are not sung by the characters from these films, or, more properly, the people who did the voices for the characters. So instead of Angela Landsbury doing "Beauty and the Beast" it is Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson.

There are several songs from the less than stellar direct to video Disney sequels, such as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame II," "The Lion King II: Return to Pride Rock," "and "Cinderella II," which would be a minor complaint. But Tina Turner sings one of the songs, so it is hard to complain. In fact, the strength of this collection is indeed the superstar singers. Most of them are blasts from the past such as Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Phil Collins, Sting, Huey Lewis, and Randy Newsman, but there is also new blood such as Christina Aguilera, Sarah McLachlan, Vanessa Williams, and even Jennifer Love Hewitt. Peabo Bryson comes out ahead, with the aforementioned "Beauty and the Beast" and another duet, "A Whole New World" with Regina Belle.

This disc is perfect for grown ups, who like the "real" singers singing the best songs from the Disney movies their kids have been dragging them to for the past decade. Vanessa William's "Colors of the Wind" is my personal favorite, although it is hard not to recall the fantastic opening of "The Lion King" when you hear Elton John do "Circle of Life." On the fun side of the ledger I like Randy Newman and Lyle Lovett working their collective ways through "You've Got a Friend in Me" a bit more than Jimmy Cliff and Lebo M's "Hakuna Matata."

Trivia Answer: "A Whole New World" was #1 on the Billboard Pop Chart for one week starting on March 6, 1993. It is the song that replaced Whitney Houston's cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" after 14 weeks on top.

Good CD.......2002-12-29

This is a great CD, but I was kind of disappointed that there weren't more tracks on it. Other than that, you and your kids will be singing along in the car for sure.

A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World/It's All in the Movies

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A Tribute to a Tribute Album

A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World/It's All in the Movies
Merle Haggard , and Merle Haggard & the Strangers
Manufacturer: Beat Goes On
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EBGBKI
Release Date: 2006-04-10

Tracks:

Brown Skinned Girl (With Narration) - Merle Haggard
Right or Wrong - Merle Haggard
Brain Cloudy Blues - Merle Haggard
Stay a Little Longer - Merle Haggard
Misery - Merle Haggard
Time Changes Everything - Merle Haggard
San Antonio Rose - Merle Haggard
I Knew the Moment I Lost You - Merle Haggard
Roly Poly - Merle Haggard
Old Fashioned Love - Merle Haggard
Corrine Corrina - Merle Haggard
Take Me Back to Tulsa - Merle Haggard
It's All in the Movies - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
Nothing's Worse Than Losing - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
After Loving You - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
Stingeree - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
I Know an Ending - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
This Is the Song We Sing - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
Living with the Shades Pulled Down - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
Hag's Dixie Blues, Pt. 2 - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
Let's Stop Pretending - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
Cotton Patch Blues - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
Seeker - Merle Haggard & the Strangers

Album Description

Remastered. If any one album deserves credit for ushering in the Western swing revival, it's this previously buried treasure from 1970. Haggard taught himself to play fiddle before recording this album and augmented his band with members of Wills's pioneering Texas Playboys, including guitarist Eldon Shamblin and fiddler Johnny Gimble. Merle would become a more fluid fiddler in the future, and the Strangers would swing more cohesively, but that doesn't take away from the chemistry or adventurousness in this, his first effort in the genre. BGO. 2006.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition that Combines the Tracks of Two Original LP Classics on to a Single Compact Disc. "Tribute..." Was Recorded Shortly after Famed Bandleader Bob Wills Had Been Cited by the Texas Legislature and Taken Ill Shortly After. Haggard Made it his Mission to Heighten Public Awareness of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Contribution to Modern Music by Reuniting as Many Members of the Original Band that Would Participate in These Sessions Along with his Own Band the Strangers. The Album Accomplished It's Goal and Became the Precusor of Many Tributes by Others that Would Follow in the Years to Come. "it's all in the Movies" was Just One of Two Album Releases in 1975 and Finally Makes Its CD Debut on this Set. Includes the Hit Title Track and the Bob Wills Inspired "Living with the Shades Pulled Down".

Customer Reviews:

A Tribute to a Tribute Album.......2007-02-07

Not to worry this is a CD that takes two of Merle Haggard's Capital Record albums from the 1970's and puts them on one CD. In a way its amazing that Record buyers from the 60's and 70's bought albums with 30 minutes of music, but today we can reap the benefits of two albums plus some well worth bonus tracks on one CD. As to the Music its a pure delight. Merle Haggard plays tribute to his musical idol Bob Wills on the 1st half of this CD. Its great and many of the original Texas Playboys play too. This has been out of circulation for awhile. The other half of the CD is pure Haggard at his best.

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Astounding.
Intelligent songwriting, outstanding performance
Intelligent songwriting, outstanding performance
Superb
Patty's best!

Strangers World
Patty Larkin
Manufacturer: Windham Hill Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

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Johnny Was A Pyro
Don't
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Open Arms (Don't Explain)
Dear Diary
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Me And That Train
When The Heavens Light Up
Carolina

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It's fitting that Bruce Cockburn sings on two songs on Patty Larkin's new album, --Strangers {cq} World, for Larkin's new music has far more in common with the harmonically dense, guitar-driven folk-rock of Cockburn and Richard Thompson than with the strum-along confessionals of the coffeehouse crowd. There was no need for Cockburn to play the guitar parts himself, for Larkin has always been a superb picker. With each album, her songwriting skills have gotten closer and closer to the standards of her guitar playing, and on this new project it's nearly impossible to separate the elegance of her melodies or the emotional density of her harmonies from her facility on the instrument. It's only after the music has demanded our attention and has established the mood that we notice the lyrics. They're strong--the political slogans and cheap jokes of her early work has given way to visual detail and evocative vernacular--but the words serve the music rather than the other way around. On the ear-grabbing chorus of "Johnny Was a Pyro," a note-leaping exclamation establishes the singer's despair before the words get a chance to explain it ("What am I doing with this ring on my hand?"). The lyrics for "Closest Thing" are oblique, but the skittering Celtic arpeggio and husky vocal harmonies telegraph the romantic intent. Long before the words provide the details of car wrecks in a blizzard and armed robbery in a downtown store, the sense of crisis in "Me and That Train" is established by the jittery, percussive, minor-key chords. --Strangers World was produced by John Leventhal, who created a similar chamber-folk-rock sound for Rosanne Cash's recent albums, and Leventhal plays several instruments on each track. The result reminds one of the unusual soundscapes Joni Mitchell created on her later albums, and Larkin has moved as far from her first recordings as Mitchell did.--Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Astounding........2005-05-05

I came late to this dance, not long before the 10th anniversary of the release of "Stranger's World." It was one of those CDs I've been meaning to get around to; now I have, and I'm glad I did. Every song on this album is enlightening and enjoyable; "Open Arms (Don't Explain)" along with "Me and That Train" are incomparable.

Intelligent songwriting, outstanding performance.......2000-12-06

Patty Larkin is an inspiring musician. Not only is she an incredible live performer, but her artistry continues to improve with every CD release. Larkin is not your typical run-of-the-mill coffeehouse chanteuse with a guitar. She is an astonishing singer/songwriter/guitarist, energetic and eclectic in her rhythms and moods. Her musical explorations spin around the world, and she continues to create vibrant, intriguing songs. Also check out her latest release "Regrooving the Dream". Patty Larkin is a satifying listen, kind of like finally finding a really good, smart novel. She is a rarity, very cool and hard to come by.

Intelligent songwriting, outstanding performance.......2000-12-06

Superb.......1999-09-13

"Stranger's World" is a solid album that ranks among Patty Larkin's very best. It features some of her best songwriting, and while these songs are arranged and produced in a manner that might seem a bit odd at first to longtime fans used to her more basic material, it also expands Larkin's horizons to the point of confirming that she is one of the most important talents in the singer/sonwriter genre.

Patty's best!.......1999-07-23

For me, this is Patty Larkin's' highpoint - a flawless album superbly written, fabulously sung, and extraordinarily well played. Song's like "Open Arms," "Carolina" and most of all the excellent "Me And That Train" open up a world of exciting new possibilities for the first rate singer/songwriter - possibilities continued on the excellent follow-up "Perishable Fruit."

The Alamo: The Essential Film Music Collection

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More expensive than the other Essential but worth it.
Excellent compilation of an important composer.
"film composer Dimitri Tiomkin gave his all and then some"

The Alamo: The Essential Film Music Collection
Dimitri Tiomkin
Manufacturer: Silva America
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ASIN: B00022MBNK
Release Date: 2004-07-13

Tracks:

Night Passage
Tension At Table Rock
High Noon
The War Wagon
The Wild Wild West: Main Theme
The Wild Wild West: The Ballad Of Jim West
Gunfight At The O.K. Coral
Rio Bravo
Rawhide
Red River
The Unforgiven: Across The Texas Panhandle
The Unforgiven: The Need For Love
The Unforgiven: Horse Ballet
The Young Land
Duel In The Sun

Tracks:

The Fall Of The Roman Empire: Overture
The Fall Of The Roman Empire: The Fall Of Love
The Fall Of The Roman Empire: Pax Romana
55 Days Peking
Land Of The Pharaohs
Circus World (The Magnificent Showman)
Dial M For Murder
Strangers On A Train
Giant: Main Title
Giant: Love Theme
Giant: The Jett Rink Theme
The High And The Mighty
Wild Is The Wind
The Guns Of Navarone

Tracks:

Cyrano De Bergerac
The Well
Friendly Persuasion
Town Without Pity
It's A Wonderful Life
Tarzan And The Mermaids
The Thing From Another World
The Alamo: Overture/Prologue
The Alamo: Davy Crockett
The Alamo: Tennessee Babe
The Alamo: The Battle Of The Alamo
The Alamo: The Green Leaves Of Summer
The Alamo: Finale

Tracks:

Giant: This Then Is Texas
Rawhide: Rawhide
High Noon: Do Not Forsake Me
Night Passage: Follow The River
Giant: The Ballad Of Jett Rink
Friendly Persuasion: Thee I Love
It's A Wonderful Life
Wild Is The Wind
The High And The Mighty
The War Wagon: The Ballad Of The War Wagon
Rio Braco
The Young Land: Strange Are The Ways Of Love
The Wild Wild West: The Ballad Of Jim West
The Wild Wild West: The Wild Wild West

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Dimitri Tiomkin was one of the most prominent composers of Hollywood's Golden Age and beyond, his career spanning a half-century and some of America's most classic films. This sprawling, four-disc anthology (its title a marketing nod to the modern remake of one of Tiomkin's notable collaborations with John Wayne) features new digital recordings of full-bodied performances by the City of Prague Orchestra and Festival Chorus, the most ambitious and comprehensive tribute to the composer yet attempted. There's something here for film score buffs (rarities like a suite from his sci-fi genre-defining Thing From Another World and the "Main Theme" for the pilot of TV's Wild, Wild West) and novice alike; indeed one could scarcely ask for a more complete overview of Tiomkin's robust orchestral oeuvre. Divided into four chapters, disc one chronicles how the Ukrainian immigrant concocted a rich Western film heritage (including such genre landmarks as Red River, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Rio Bravo) from largely European traditions, while the next two CD's cover his rousing work for epics and thrillers of every stripe, and collaborations with Hitchcock, Wayne, Capra, Stevens and more. The concluding disc pays homage to Tiomkin the unlikely pop tunesmith, via his hit vocal themes to Rawhide, Wild is the Wind and High Noon's "Do Not Forsake Me." --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

More expensive than the other Essential but worth it........2007-04-22

This is an excellent set of music of Dimitri Tiomkin's music! The 4th disc is short (at just over 30 minutes), but thats because it is just the vocal versions of tracks which appeared in instrumental form throughout the first 3 discs. Whenever you buy a silva screen compilation, the first thing you ask yourself is 'when were these recordings made' and 'do I have these tracks on other compilations? Thankfully, this set has TONS of new recordings, but there is some recycled stuff and they are as follows:

Dial M For Murder is from the 1993 History of Hitchcock Vol. I, while Strangers on a Train is from 1995's History of Hitchcock Vol. II.

Three tracks originate from 1994's "Music From the Films Of John Wayne". They are "The High and the Mighty", "The Alamo - Overture" and "The Alamo - Green Leaves of Summer".

Red River is from 1996's "How The West Was Won: Classic Western Film Scores Vol. One".

The Thing From Another World suite is from the excelllent 1998 set "Alien Invasion: Space And Beyond II"

Many tracks first appeared on "Way Out West: The Essential Western Film Music Collection Vol. Two". They are: "Duel In The Sun", "The Alamo (Davy Crockett)", "Friendly Persuasion", "Giant (Main Theme)", "Gunfight at the OK Corral", "High Noon", "Rio Bravo", and "The Unforgiven (The Need For Love)".

The rest of the tracks are brand spankin new, and most are not available on other discs, so snag this one up in a hurry!

Excellent compilation of an important composer........2004-07-16

This long overdue collection of Tiomkin standards and rarities is a must for any fan of symphonic music; albeit, for film or concert hall. As the liner notes clarify; these recordings are a real labor of love for James Fitzpatrick and the Silva Screen team. Tiomkin is; undoubtedly, one of the most difficult of composers to replicate. This recording comes extremely close to "hitting the nail on the head" particularly with tracks such as: "Across the Texas Panhandle" from the Unforgiven, The Entr'acte from Duel in the Sun, The Guns of Navarone, The War Wagon, and the main title and Jett Rink theme from Giant. This recording is a bargain, particularly for collectors who have sought after many of Tiomkin's composer conducted soundtracks (which are getting harder and harder to obtain). Listeners who enjoy this set should consider seeking out previous cd releases of the soundtracks to "The Guns of Navarone" (SONY, Varese Sarabande), "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (Varese Sarabande, PEG), "55 Days at Peking" (Varese Sarabande), and "The Alamo" :original soundtrack (still available on SONY-Legacy).

"film composer Dimitri Tiomkin gave his all and then some".......2004-07-13

Silva America presents the ultimate in film music during the illustrious career of an icon and legendary composer of film scores ~ "Alamo:Dimitri Tiomkin Essential Film Collection/O.S.T", featuring some long forgotten 53 cues that sent chills and thrills into the pulses of world events ~ selections from a limited collectors edition that would make any "film-score-buff" green with envy.

Tiomkin was born in Ukraine, Russia [1894-1979] attended and graduated from St. Petersburg Academy[studied under the famed composer Glazunov] ~ had a degree in music as well as law ~ came to America in 1925, shown great interest for Native American music early in his film career.

Great fondness for "The Western" ~ "DUEL IN THE SUN" (1946) (Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Lionel Barrymore, Lilian Gish and Charles Bickford - one of biggest and successful epic Westerns ever, score & photography was simply breathtaking), "RED RIVER" (1948) (John Wayne, Monty Cliff and Walter Brennan - the Duke should have won an Oscar for his performance as the aging cantankerous cattle baron)"HIGH NOON" (1952)(classic film with Gary Cooper in his Oscar winning performance of Will Kane), "TENSION AT TABLE ROCK" (1956), "GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL" (1957)(Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp & Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday pulled this off with the help of the Main Theme), "NIGHT PASSAGE" (1957), "RIO BRAVO" (1959) (top box office leaders John Wayne, Dean Martin, Walter Brennan and Ricky Nelson), "THE YOUNG LAND" (1959) (young Dennis Hopper), "RAWHIDE" (TV Series) (1959-66) (Eric Fleming as trail boss Gil Favor & Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates), "THE UNFORGIVEN" (1960) (Burt Lancaster, Audie Murphy and Audrey Hepburn), "THE WILD, WILD WEST" (TV Series) (1965-69)(Tiomkin's music never saw the light of day), "WAR WAGON" (1967) (John Wayne & Kirk Douglas starred) (beautifully melodic) ~ it's easy to see why Tiomkin loved Western lore.

Second disc contains The Epics ~ "LAND OF THE PHARAOHS" (1955) (Jack Hawkins as Pharaoh Cheops and a beautiful Joan Collins as his scheming wife), "55 DAYS AT PEKING" (1963) (Charlton Heston, David Niven and Ava Gardner is the all star cast), "THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE" (1964) (featuring Alec Guinness as emperor Marcus Aurelius), "CIRCUS WORLD" (1964) (John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale and Rita Hayworth under the big top) ~ next we Hitchcock Thrillers with "STRANGERS ON A TRAIN" (1951) (a masterpiece film featuring Robert Walker and Farley Granger are both very convincing as we learn, never talked to strangers on a train or anywhere), "DIAL M FOR MURDER" (1954) (tense moments come from Grace Kelly, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings - they don't get any better than this) ~ finally Drama and High Adventure with "HIGH AND MIGHTY" (1954) (another outstanding performance by John Wayne, as the co-pilot of an airline whistling the haunting theme), "GIANT" (1956)(another big epic film with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean and Chill Wills show us what it's like to be a Texan, with oil and money), "WILD IS THE WIND" (1957) (Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani and Anthony Franciosa), "THE GUNS OF NAVARONE" (1961) (World War II film featuring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, David Niven and Stanley Baker on a small Greek Island trying to outwit the Germans and a very big gun) ~ some of Tiomkin's most inspiring themes rise to the surface.

On disc three ~ as we continue with Drama and High Adventures "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE" (1946) (James Stewart, Donna Reed, Thomas Mitchell, Lionel Barrymore and Ward Bond with wholesome warm and endearing themes from our favorite composer), "TARZAN AND THE MERMAIDS" (1948) (in his 12th film as Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller still had what it takes to swim and defeat the man-god Balu - Weissmuller and Tiomkin the perfect combination for this Tarzan adventure), "CYRANO DE BERGERAC" (1950) (Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's famous swordsman with a even more famous nose), "THE WELL" (1951) (intense cues give the film musical triumphs in final scenes), "THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD" (1951) (exciting Howard Hawks film with a score to match), "FRIENDLY PERSUASION" (1956) (director William Wyler shows the life and times of a Quaker family played by Gary Cooper, Dorothy Mcguire and Anthony Perkins during the American Civil War, very touching), "THE ALAMO" (1960) (big budget epic western with Big John Wayne it's producer, director and star as Davy Crockett with a haunting and never to be forgotten "The Green Leaves of Summer"), "TOWN WITHOUT PITY" (1961) (Kirk Douglas in a post-war Germany story, blends jazz themes with Tiomkin signature arrangements) ~ Tiomkin always made the difference when it came to scoring a film.

The last and final disc four ~ The Tiomkin Vocal Songbook featuring "This Then is Texas" (Giant), "Rawhide" (Rawhide), "Do Not Forsake Me" (High Noon), "Follow the River" (Night Passage), "The Ballad of Jett Rink" (Giant), "Thee I Love" (Friendly Percuasion), "It's A Wonderful Life", "Wild Is The Wind", "The High and the Mighty", The Ballad of the War Wagon" (The War Wagon), "Rio Bravo", "Strange are the Ways of Love" (The Young Land), "The Ballad of Jim West" (The Wild Wild West), "The Wild Wild West" (The Wild Wild West) ~ many were hit makers of the day and in the top ten.

Outstanding performances by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (Nic Raine, Paul Bateman, Mario Klemens - are the conductors), Crouch End Festival Chorus (David Temple - choir master), featuring vocals by Jason Howard and Keith Ferreira ~ hats off to James Fitzpatrick (producer), Reynold da Silva (executive producer), Olilvia Tiomkin Douglas, John Waxman, Rick Clark and Gareth Williams (associate producers) ~ all film producers and directors welcomed the legendary composer with open arms for their forthcoming projects ~ the "film-score-buff" collectors are ecstatic about this four disc release on the essential film music collection of DIMITRI TIOMKIN, the arrangements and performances are top notch inclusive of HDCD/Dolby Surround.

When listening to the music of a film, you had the feeling of the storyline, characters and convictions of the whole picture, they'll never be another to come this way again ~ Silva America has outdone themselves on this one, it is definitely a five star film score box set...gotta love it!

Tracks:

Strangers In The Night
I'm Beginning To See The
It's Only A Paper Moon
You Turned My World Aroun
You Are There
Stardust
Something
When You're Smiling
Out Of Nowhere
My Way Of Life
Moonlight Serendade
On The Sunny Side Of The
Didn't We
World We Knew
My Blue Heaven
Lover
Good Life
Continental
My Melancholy Baby
My Way

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A very true and funky jazz album
Hi Steppin' with Intimate Strangers
intimate strangers a must!
Searched for years for Intimate Stranger, Thanks Amazon.com

Intimate Strangers
Tom Scott
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Loving and Leaving: Lost Inside the Love of You (Reprise)/Do You ...
Breezin' Easy
You're So Good to Me
Puttin' the Bite on You
Beautiful Music
Breezin' Easy
You're So Good to Me
Puttin' the Bite on You
Beautiful Music

Album Details

Remastered Reissue of 1979 Release. Jaco Pastorius Guests.

Customer Reviews:

A very true and funky jazz album.......2004-10-04

I chose this album since the track "Getaway Day" was a song that was sampled by Musiq on his latest project. But after giving Tom Scott's whole CD a listen, I was definitely impressed. It was definitely funky and has its sensual moments as well. A very thorough album which I recommend to any jazz aficianado

Hi Steppin' with Intimate Strangers.......2003-08-29

This is a great album, and a definite must-have for all funky-jazz lovers. The one thing I don't understand is why this amazing album is only available on import from Japan for a fairly large sum of money (on a comparative scale, of course), rather than being a normally priced remaster, widely available in the general public. But really, either way, it's great that this album has finally been brought out on CD.

The opening track within the "Sudden Attraction" suite "Hi Steppers" is an upbeat, yet wonderfully slick song, driven by it's quirky 6/4 tempo. This is the beginning of the Intimate Strangers concept of the "lady in the front row" dream.

Even though Tom's singing on "Do You Feel Me Now" may seem a little scratchy, the transition from "Do You Feel Me Now" to the reprise of "Hi Steppers" is absolutely wonderful.

Regardless of the price, this album is a defintite must-have for anyone who needs to listen to something which actually involves talented muscians.

5/5.

intimate strangers a must!.......2002-11-29

as along time jazz listner and musician i have searched high and low for this reissue. the personnel on this album(richard tee,steve gadd,gary king,eric gale..)makes it worth its weight in gold.thank you amazon.com

Searched for years for Intimate Stranger, Thanks Amazon.com.......2000-08-01

I've search the used bins, super store computer systems etc...for this gem of artistic expression. Intimate Stranger is one of Tom Scotts finest works.I can only reason that the masses did'nt care for it or record company politics keep it off the mainstream shelf.This album is a wonderful piece of fluidity. It flows so smoothly as to be one contiguous set of musical thinking. There is a point where Toms' sax flows undetectablely into a synthesized organ note, unbelieveable! If you let yourself you can truely get lost in the music of this ablum.

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Fantastic!!!!!!

Sweet Seraphic Fire

Manufacturer: New World Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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American Angels

ASIN: B000AA4L8W
Release Date: 2005-08-02

Tracks:

New Canaan (Oliver Holden, 1793)
Maryland (William Billings, 1778)
Bethlehem (William Billings, 1778)
Lynn (Oliver Holden, 1793)
Funeral Hymn (Oliver Holden, 1792)
An Anthem for Easter (William Billings, 1787/1795)
Walpole (Abraham Wood, 1786)
Beauty (Jacob French, 1789)
Happiness (Jacob French, 1793)
Woburn (Jacob Kimball, 1793)
Montague (Timothy Swan, 1801)
Newport (Daniel Read, 1785)
Hatfield (Thomas Baird, 1800)
Attention (Asahel Benham [?], 1790)
Crucifixion (M. Kyes, 1798)
Mechias (James Lyon, 1774)
St. Paul's (Supply Belcher, 1794)
Transition (Supply Belcher, 1794)
Jubilant (Supply Belcher, 1794)
The Lilly (Supply Belcher, 1794)
Buckfield (Abraham Maxim, 1802)
Pennsylvania (Nehemiah Shumway, 1793)
Sounding Joy (J. P. Storm, 1795 )
Redemption (Jeremiah Ingalls, 1805)
Consolation (Lucius Chapin, c. 1812)
Liberty-Hall (Lucius Chapin, 1813)
Babe of Bethlehem (Southern Harmony, 1835)
Convoy (M. L. Swan, 1867)
Hallelujah New (Roland Hutchinson, 1996)
Nativity (Bruce Randall, 1990)
Cortona (M. R. Truelsen, 1996)
Great Divide (Stephen Marini, 1998)
Arinello (Dennis O'Brien, 1997)
Ev'ry String Awake (Glen Wright, 1996)
Ten Thousand Charms (Hal Kunkel, 1996)

Product Description

Sweet Seraphic Fire brings together two unique bodies of American sacred song: choral compositions from the New England singing-school tradition and the most popular Evangelical Protestant hymn texts in historic American use. In the late eighteenth century the New England singing-school movement produced America's first great sacred-music style, employing several genres of unaccompanied four-part choral compositions with the melody in the lead (tenor) part. The enormous popularity of singing-school music also promoted a canon of hymn texts shared across America's competing Evangelical Protestant denominations. This recording contains neglected masterworks from the New England singing school that also helped to create the American hymn canon. Marking a more recent turn in this process, we have also included some new settings of traditional Evangelical lyrics written by leaders in the revival of singing-school music that has blossomed in the Northeast since 1976. ! Selection of pieces for this recording was determined by correlating "The Norumbega Harmony"--our collection of one hundred six historic New England singing-school compositions and thirty contemporary works in traditional style--with a list of the three hundred most frequently printed hymn texts in America from 1737 to 1960. --Stephen Marini

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Fantastic!!!!!!.......2006-03-15

This is a REALLY cool album of shape-note singings, I particurlarly like EVERY STRING AWAKE and ANTHEM FOR EASTER.
Some of the songs are kind of dreary, (Hatfield) but all in all this is COOL!!!

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Who needs Sinatra ?

Strangers in the Night
Bert Kaempfert
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JR0Y
Release Date: 1994-02-24

Tracks:

Strangers in the Night
I Can't Give You Anything
But Not Today
Time on My Hands
Milica (Sweet Maria)
Mexican Shuffle
Show Me the Way to Go Home
Two Can Live on Love Alon
Every Sunday Morning
Boo Hoo
Tijuana Taxi
Forgive Me
I Stay with You
Somewhere in the Sky
Pussy Footin
Hold Back the Dawn

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Who needs Sinatra ?.......2005-01-05

This is one of Bert's top 5 albums without a doubt.
The band delivers its classic mid-late 60's sound with some very impressive numbers.

What beautiful trumpet solos - complemented by a terrific stereophonic brass section which sounds unreal with the Taragon remastered CDs.

Ironically "Strangers in the Night" is not the great played number in here - it's actually a bit dull.

There are several great numbers - PussyFootin is a beautiful number.

You have to have this!

A Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player In The World: Or, My Salute To Bob Wills

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One of the best!
An interesting historical document, but not a great record
this is real bob wills music, real fun real swing
Merle put Western Swing back on the map!!
Supurb and Deserving Tribute

A Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player In The World: Or, My Salute To Bob Wills
Merle Haggard & the Strangers
Manufacturer: Koch Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Same Train, Different Time

ASIN: B000001SLO
Release Date: 1995-06-20

Tracks:

Brown Skinned Gal
Right Or Wrong
Brain Cloudy Blues
Stay A Little Longer (Stay All Night)
Misery
Time Changes Everything
San Antonio Rose
I Knew The Moment I Lost You
Roly Poly
Old Fashioned Love
Corrine, Corrina - Strangers
Take Me Back To Tulsa

Amazon.com essential recording

If any one album deserves credit for ushering in the Western swing revival, it's this previously buried treasure from 1970. Haggard taught himself to play fiddle before recording this album and augmented his band with members of Wills's pioneering Texas Playboys, including guitarist Eldon Shamblin and fiddler Johnny Gimble. Merle would become a more fluid fiddler in the future, and the Strangers would swing more cohesively, but that doesn't take away from the chemistry or adventurousness in this, his first effort in the genre. And he was resourceful enough to pick some tunes ("I Knew the Moment I Lost You") that remain obscure even today. --John Morthland

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One of the best!.......2005-09-18

Once again Merle Haggard has done a wonderful job on a tribute album. He did the same for Jimmie Rodgers. This album only makes a listener want more Bob Wills. The only exception to excellence is that I would have added a couple more of Bob Wills classics.

An interesting historical document, but not a great record.......2003-12-06

When Merle Haggard hit superstardom in 1969 on the back of "Okie from Muskogee," in his typical idiosyncratic fashion, he chose to exercise his new found leverage over his record company to record and release his salute to Bob Wills, who by that time sadly had faded into obscurity beyond a few honky-tonk jukeboxes on the Texas prairie. Hag's championing of Wills was instrumental in the resurgence of interest in his music and some of his former Texas Playboys, such as fiddler Johnny Gimble were able to resuscitate their careers in the wake of this recording. So there is no questioning Hag's sincerity and dedication. What is at issue it the recording itself.

Bottom line: it's not bad, but it's not Bob Wills, either. Hag's band, the Strangers, is not entirely suited to this music, and it loses some of its swing. And while Hag's a fine vocalist, he is no Tommy Duncan, and his spoken interjections, a la Wills, don't really come off, at least to me. So I would give five stars for the intention and effort, but if you really want to hear "Time Changes Everything," "Take Me Back To Tulsa," "San Antonio Rose," or other Bob Wills classics...buy a Bob Wills record.

this is real bob wills music, real fun real swing.......2003-07-08

The thing about this is that this music is real fun, not reverential archival recreation by people outside the music culture the life cultural the joy culture of the music, but something done by the literal descendant of Bob Wills, a great ARTIST who called together great artists to do this. This began the return of Westdarn swing
but forget about the importance of this album. You will like it because its fun, it swings, it talks about love in a loving way, blues in a bluesy way, swing in a swinging way, and it just is good even if it had been done last night by a garage band in Upper Nyack New York.
People I know who know Bob Wills Music because they sat out on the Santa Monica Peer among 10,000folks listening to battles of the bands between Wills and Spade Cooley say this is how the wills band sounded.
But even if there had never been a Bob Wills, this CD is a treasure.
Of course it is a treasure that will lead you to bigger more important ones--try Boot Hill Drag, the MGN years by Bob for size--if you like to strike it rich.
And don't forget if Haggard is this good here, try out his work from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s. Few American artists of any kind any genre have been as good has Haggard in his true Hag years

Merle put Western Swing back on the map!!.......2002-06-11

Merle put Western Swing back on the map!
True to form when Merle does a tribute album, he really does it right! He brings the spirit of the person alive whom he is paying tribute.

When Merle Haggard and his The Strangers and a handful of retired Texas Playboys recorded this album, he intended to turn back the pages of time, hoping for a glance at what once had been, never dreaming that he would jump start the Western Swing genre back into popularity single-handedly.

Haggard, always a risk taker, lost his father way too soon, ended up riding the rails, `hoboing' across the US with a Railroad Workers pass in his pocket because of his father's trade. He never used the pass and did it his way. His way, wound him up in San Quentin Prison serving hard time where he turned 21 in solitary confinement next to condemned criminal Caryl Chessman. His offenses, though not the caliber of Chessman, he was a very unsettled young man with a string of convictions ranging from burglary, grand theft auto and more escapes from jails and juvenile institutions than the judge had ever seen. He served his time, paid his debt to society and later California Governor Ronald Reagan eventually gave him a full pardon.

Haggard beat the odds. He emerged from prison a changed man. He left behind a life of crime and ended up a legend in his own hometown of Bakersfield and in Country music, not to mention, a legend in his own time.

At the height of his career, he swept the CMA awards ceremonies in 1969 for his self-penned, mixed message anthem, 'Okie From Muskogee'. It garnered awards for album, song, single, and male vocalist and entertainer of the year. As he stood there accepting the trophys, in the back of his mind was a project that would change music history; `The Bob Wills Tribute'.

He discussed it with his Strangers and always the perfectionist, never the compromiser; they decided if the project was to have validity, outside assistance was necessary. Merle went to Ft. Worth to see Bob Wills, then ailing from a series of heart attacks and strokes which impaired him where he no longer lead a band or perform. Wills advised, "Get some of my Texas Playboys to help you!" Most were scattered, in retirement except fiddler Johnny Gimble in Nashville who was a popular sideman. Within hours of this meeting with Wills, Merle had received commitments from 6 former Texas Playboys including Johnny Gimble, guitarist Eldon Shamblin, fiddlers Joe Holley and Tiny Moore who also played electric mandolin, trumpet man Alex Brashear, Bob's brother Johnnie Lee Wills on tenor banjo. With the Strangers as a nucleus: guitarist Roy Nichols, steel guitarist, Norman Hamlet, rhythm Bobby Wayne, bass man Dennis Hromek, drummer Biff Adam, fiddler Gordon Terry and pianist George French the two groups merged together and commenced rehearsals on Merle's 33rd birthday, April 6th, 1970. The 3 day session yielded the album that turned back the pages of time, 'A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddler in the World... or My Salute to Bob Wills'.

Talk about taking risks! Having swept the CMA awards and he chose this to be his `Okie' follow-up album? Capitol Records producer Ken Nelson was NOT amused! Threatening to sue Hag for breach of contract, Nelson, who had produced virtually all of Haggard's early hits, refused to produce the sessions. Calling their bluff, Merle booked studio time and commenced. They were not about to lose their `cash cow', after all the awards, number one hits, and all that money rolling in. Meanwhile, Capitol released a `live' follow-up album from a concert in Philadelphia, entitled 'The Fightin' Side Of Me', a sequel to 'Okie'.

Haggard stood his ground, self produced the recordings, while Capitol assigned Earl Ball interim `producer'; he made sure there was tape on the Ampex recorders. Merle proudly played the fiddle Bob Wills had given him. This recording was about posterity, not hits, or money. It is the album, which brought Western Swing out of mothballs. The music had with the emergence of Television and Rock and Roll. It was dance music but by 1956, Wills' music was taking a backseat to 'I Love Lucy' and Elvis Presley. People preferred to sit at a 'concert' to view a performance instead of `shaking a leg'. Old-timer's talked about the good old days, teenagers took over music, the recording industry catered to them and the old 78-rpm's gave-way to 45-rpm's.

In 1970, enter Merle Haggard Superstar. He releases this groundbreaking album paying homage to another hero whose music has touched untold thousands. This album was the Rosetta Stone where artists Asleep at the Wheel, George Strait and others took inspiration, emerging as great Western Swing artists. Haggard relit the torch, passed it on to these upstarts and the results speak for themselves.

The album proved several things. Merle had done his homework, this was not some `Johnny-come-lately-flash-in-the-pan' just out to fulfill contract obligations and make a few bucks. Merle knew Wills, seeing him many times in his neighborhood as a teenager at dances in the 40's at Bakersfield's Beardsley Ballroom from a window he crawled up and sat in. He witnessed legends playing with freshness on each performance yet with standard of excellence, heard on the red Columbia Bob Wills 78 rpm's his mother had bought him. He observed with an intensity that afforded him knowledge of Bob's stage antics as he played his fiddle, and the band extemporized their solos. Merle, who was especially delighted in Tommy Duncan's easy, straightforward singing style and the hot guitar solos. When the tribute album was in the works Merle would say, "Didn't 'we' used to do it like this?" playing a passage on the fiddle. Merle indeed did his homework. He loved their music, and it shows! The album is a labor of love; lots of joy and tears passed between them all before it was completed.

Buy this CD! It is a highly recommend album for all fans of Bob Wills, Western Swing, and Merle Haggard. You will get a birds eye view of what Merle observed from that window as a kid. Let Merle and company turn back the pages of time. Bob Wills is gone and was not present on this album- but his spirit sure was and still IS!

Buddy McPeters
Bay Area, CA June 2002

Supurb and Deserving Tribute.......2001-04-27

I'm also 33 years old but my parents actually had the LP of this great album. (What's a CD?) However it's been collecting dust for 25 years since it's too worn out to listen to. Plus, where is that darned old record player anyway! After recently acquiring this LP on CD, trust me, you'll be glad to hear this fine "tribute to the best" in true 21st century hi-fi sound (CD quality). Oh yeah, the songs are all good to, but I've loved this album since the '70s. Ahh Haa.

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Cocktail Classics

Manufacturer: Intersound Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000000BNE
Release Date: 1995-06-27

Tracks:

Pachelbel's Canon: Canon in D
Pachelbel's Canon: Minuet and Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2
Pachelbel's Canon: 'Masterpiece Theatre' Theme
Pachelbel's Canon: Air for the 'G' string
Pachelbel's Canon: Alla Hornpipe from 'Water Music' Suite
Pachelbel's Canon: Allegro from 'The Spring' from 'The Four Seasons'
Pachelbel's Canon: Trumpet Voluntary
Pachelbel's Canon: Allegro from 'Brandenburg' Concerto No. 5
Pachelbel's Canon: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Pachelbel's Canon: Largo from 'Xerxes'
Pachelbel's Canon: Allegro:Rustic Dance from 'The Spring' from 'The Four Seasons'
Pachelbel's Canon: Overture to Orchestral Suite No. 3