What Color Is Love [Import]

What Color Is Love [Import]

Track Listings

1. Dancing Girl

2. What Color Is Love

3. You Goin' Miss Your Candyman

4. Just as Long as We're in Love

5. Ho Tsing Mee (A Song of the Sun)

6. I'd Rather Be With You

7. You Don't Care

Tracks:

Dancing Girl
What Color Is Love
You're Goin' Miss Your Candyman
Just As Long As We're In Love
Ho Tsing Mee (A Song Of The Sun)
I'd Rather Be With You
You Don't Care

Customer Reviews:

Folk-soul-R&B-jazz masterpiece, sadly unheard-of in USA.......2007-05-19

Thanks to the wonderful institution of Amazon's "Listmania" and my relentless search thereof for great 'lost' 60's and 70's rock, folk, country and soul music, I was recently helped into discovering this unique genre-bender of a classic album from Terry Callier. After researching him a bit, I found that this is one of his three most highly-recommended 70's albums, sandwiched in between 1972's Occasional Rain and 1975's I Just Can't Help Myself. Since What Color Is Love was the first I heard about, and has such a classic, evocative cover (yeah, occasionally you CAN judge an album by its cover art), I decided to pick it up first. What a great purchase--I can confidently recommend this album to fans of jazzier folk, more "out-there" folk that is influenced by more wide ranging musical styles than just American roots and blues, as well as more adventurous fans of R&B legends like Marvin Gaye and Al Green who don't mind if their soul is cut with a bit of folk and jazz.

The album opens with the spacey "Dancing Girl," in which Callier displays his novel combination of acoustic folk guitar with his soulful, yearning voice that seems to evoke all the best characteristics of 60's/70's black soul, but at the same time transcend the structural trappings of the genre. On first listen, I was immediately impressed with Callier's lyrics--meaningful, mysterious, and thought provoking, on "Dancing Girl," he lays out some mind-blowers ("You'll surely come to harm/With that needle all up in your arm") and some lines that, combined with the power of the music, transcend the words alone ("Anyway you want to do/Boogie, bop, or boogaloo" is priceless in Callier's husky whisper). The song's structure is pretty progressive, with multiple movements and clocking in at over 9 glorious minutes.

"What Color is Love" and "Just As Long As We're In Love" showcase Callier's strengths as an interpretive singer and his gentle side, backed by female background singers, horns and strings in a delightful blend. "You Goin' To Miss Your Candyman" is one of the album's greatest tracks, with the funkiest soul bassline since Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)," and showcasing Callier's uniformly tight, gnarly rhythm section, which often includes some sick bass lines and bongo drums. "Ho Tsing Mee" is a contemplative protest song, deceptively gentle at the beginning, building to a barnstorming climax with Callier's plaintive scat/howl elevating the song to great heights. "I'd Rather Be With You" is the album's closest thing to a typical "on the road" folksong, and the closer is a groovy Bacharach-like blend of horns and background singers repeating "You Don't Care" for a tranquil, meditative end to a real trip of an album.

Terry Callier is one of the greatest relatively unknown artists I've discovered lately, and I can't help but recommend him as highly as I can. I'm looking forward to checking out his other classics, and maybe some of his newer music, which I heard is also excellent. Take a chance--I think you'll find Callier rewarding.

The Lady On The Cover.......2004-11-21

One day about thirty-five years ago.I was browsing in a record store.Not looking for anything in particular.When my eyes hit upon this ablum cover.Partly because I guess the woman was naked (Yeah).Now I must admit I did not know a thing about Terry Callier,and had never heard of him.But the album caught my attention so I brought it. Once I got the album home I begin to wonder what the woman was thinking about.She had the most thoughtful look on her face.As she sat in the chair in a almost fetal position with a cigarette in her hand.Was she thinking about a current lover or an ex-lover or maybe a love that will never be.As Terry Callier says"A heart cannot live if a heart isn't giving".And that statement really does apply to love,and the lady on the cover.What Color Is Love a 1972 effort by Terry Callier is one of the best albums I've ever brought.Terry Callier is not only a great singer but he is also a great songwriter.He wrote songs in the 70s for the Dells on the old Cadet label.On What Color Is Love Terry Callier with the help of a few friends like his long time songwriting partner Larry Wade and arranger,producer Charles Stepney have put together a classic album.The musical journey begins with Dancing Girl-With a great arrangment,the song takes you on a dream trip that ends with a hard look at drugs and prostition.The title track What Color Is Love-Is not a love song,but a song about love.The song tells us that love can be wrong or right,can be as simple as black and white but it can also be complicated it can be strong,deep,giving,rise to great heights,can be hard to find and when it's over it can leave you with feelings that may last a lifetime."Yougoin"Miss Your Candyman-Is like a folk and blues song.And maybe the best arrangment on the album.Just As Long As We're In Love-I love the words to this song and the female background voices sound great.HotsingMee(A Song Of The Sun)-Another good song dealing with war and it's aftermath and the human conition.I'd Rather Be With You-I really love this song.A great love song,and I just love the harmonica playing in the background.You Don't Care-Is a little instrumental and a little vocal,and a very pleasurable tune.With this song the musical journey comes to an end.I highly recommend this album. '

This man is good!.......2003-05-29

This was my first taste of Mr Terry Callier. I remember putting the CD on and being mesmorised for nearly 9 minutes listened to the majestic 'Dancing Girl'. This is a truly epic piece of music which takes you on a musical journey into the sublime. The CD is worth buying just for this one track.

Then comes another Terry Callier classic 'What Color is Love'. These two tracks have become 2 of Terry's most played during his musical pilgrimage around the world.

This man is a true talent, buy this CD and try to go and see him live. This CD will never leave your collection

Terry Callier testifies............................................2001-12-31

WELLLLLLLLLL,

Another WONDERFUL talent "rescued" from the scrapheap of obscurity by the English acid jazz/ dusty soul fans, TERRY CALLIER, Chicago's finest, seems to be enjoying the same career revival as Brasilians Marcos Valle and Joyce, and more recently here in USA, Shuggie Otis-------- izza 'bout time-a, ya thinks??

I used to see Mr Callier at the old QUIET KNIGHT club at the Belmont Ave "EL" train stop lightyears ago, and was always taken by his incredible vocal frasing, syncopated jazz time over his alternately folk/soul and post doowop compositions (TC composed many doowop soul tunes as a staff writer at Brunswick records, if I remember clearly............

TC's more stripped down accompaniment on the live dates was augmented on these older Cadet record recordings by the wonderful arrangements of Charles Stepney(Earth Wind & Fire) and the great jazz arranger Richard Evans, and featured alla the stalwart Chicago soul/ jazz session "cats" of the time, "What Color is Love " and the even better"Just Cant Help Myself" were for me , Mr Callier's finest recorded moments until his recent "Time Peace" cd, which is only BRILLIANT .

Only 7 tracks here, but each is of a very reasonable length.

The sound of the recording will satisfy the novice fan to Mr Callier, as it compares to the jazz folk sounds of Shawn Phillips and the recently cannonized Nick Drake both in conception and the EXCELLENT quality of lyrics.

Re; Tc's lyric conception,I feel most lyricists here in the USA lack the poetic flow -the "jeitinho"(knack??) to spin a nice melodic lyric that both sounds good AND means something. (maybe Jimi Hendrix, I think....). Mr Callier uses words in the same way a soloist chooses frases from the scales he's gonna run on the changes, Pure poesia, not "Baybee I Loves ya BS........"
There's no Vinicius de Moraes, Cae Veloso or Aldir Blanc here in USA as lyricwriting goes.(Im not a Dylan fan, so I must keep him out of the mix.......)

Mr Callier's folkier sounds were never my favorites, I always dug the jazzy and the doowop stuff. The doowops are fabulously represented with "Just as Long as We are in Love" and "You Dont Care"--straight up "Brunswick records " sound.
"Dancing Girl" is that dreamy quality that the Drake and Phillips sounds represent-
it is a lovely "suite".
What Color is Love title track simply a jazzy ballad, with the feel of all the timeless "standards". A lovely arrangement for sure!

The record hardly sounds dated, it's as fresh as anything recorded these days.........

And TC's vocals just soar, he frases like a jazz horn!

I'd review ALLA Tc's cds, ya have to say the same words for all of them-------- the word of gypsy origin, "duende" applies....DEEP PROFOUND "SOUL" from a fine musico, BRAVISSIMO < Terry Callier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this album i have never forgoten.......2001-07-11

When i first heard this music many year's ago, it left a lasting impression. i have not forgotten it. believe it or not, i was in love with a woman at the time. the day i walked away, i left this album on her door step. it was my only copy. i am new to this internet searching, for the hell of it, i looked this up. i was shocked when i found it. this man can sing with the best of them. for all the music that is offered today, very few artist's can really get to the inner soul of a song. if you want to hear a man sing a love song, i highly reccommend terry callier.

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Outstanding
Incredible..Worth 30 stars
Superb singing matched with superb arrangements
Beautiful music
Beautiful Music, Yet There Is No There Here

Blue Wheat
Stephen Foster , John , American Traditional , Spiritual Traditional , and Dale Warland Singers
Manufacturer: American Choral
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Harvest Home
Christmas With the Dale Warland Singers
Cathedral Classics
December Stillness
Christmas Echoes, Vol. 1

ASIN: B000003M4T
Release Date: 1996-06-18

Tracks:

Oh, Shenandoah (Traditional)
He's Goin' Away (Traditional)
Skip To My Lou (Traditional)
Steal Away (Spiritual)
Wayfarin' Stranger (Traditional)
Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me? (Traditional)
Pretty Saro (Traditional)
Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
Black Is The Color (Traditional)
Red River Valley 9 (Traditional)
Nelly Bly (Stephen Foster)
My Lord, What A Mornin' (Spiritual)
Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair (Stephen Foster)
Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen Foster)
Single Girl (Traditional)
Deep River (Spiritual)
Buffalo Gals (Cool White [John Hodges])
The Water is Wide (Traditional)
Black Sheep (African-American lullaby)

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding.......2007-06-06

Robert De Cormier's remarkable arrangement and Marie Spar Dymit's and Lynette Johnson's pure vocals of "Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier" are well worth the price of the entire CD.

Incredible..Worth 30 stars.......2007-05-16

The Dale Warland Singers are my benchmark by which I judge all other choirs. The uniformity of sound, blend, and precise entrances, uniformity are incredible - almost inhuman. Excluding the all male Chanticleer from the roster, this was the finest choir in America. Now that they have broken up, buy all of their CD's you won't be disappointed!

Superb singing matched with superb arrangements.......2004-07-03

A project like this one inevitably highlights the skill of arrangers, and Dale Warland has selected some of the most talented anywhere. Most of these selections will be familiar to listeners, but I doubt most people have heard, for example, "Red River Valley" in Carol Barnett's haunting version here, and ditto for her magnificent "Deep River."

The disc opens with a spectacular, panoramic "Shenandoah" that takes maximum advantage of the Dale Warland Singers' refined sound, and things only get better (if that's possible). Other favorites are a cheery, fizzing "Nelly Bly" and Mark Keller's strong reworking of Stephen Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More."

Throughout the recording, the freshness of the arrangements is matched by the irresistible singing. This group is known for its outstanding performances and recordings, but this must be counted as one of their all-time best. The sound quality is terrific, capturing the gorgeous blend and precision of the group in a natural-sounding acoustic. Just stunning.

Beautiful music.......2003-07-03

I bought this CD after hearing a few of the recordings on our local NPR radio station. I was not disappointed in any of the selections. Very beautiful.

Beautiful Music, Yet There Is No There Here.......2003-01-13

The Dale Warland Singers (DWS) are among the relatively few musical professionals, who by their aesthetic standards and demonstrated artistry, have taken the less traveled and narrow road to exemplary artistic excellence.

The sound quality and acoustics are excellently engineered in this 20-bit original recording. The most delicately blend and inflection of the singers' voice can be heard. This sheaf of choral works has once existed in real space and time in the kaleidoscopic folklife of past generations. In recording the "Blue Wheat", the 40-member DWS, the creme de la creme of professional choral ensembles, has elevated the common oral tradition of American folk music into a rarified choral art form a capella "in the style of the chapel."

If the soul of the DWS is a capella singing, then Warland and the arrangers are the wings of the same soul. Among the kapellmeisters whose arrangements have graced this folksong anthology are the late Norman Luboff and Roger Wagner. Also included in this album are contemporary arrangements by other esteemed composers: John Rutter (conductor of The Cambridge Singers), Carol Barnett (the DWS resident composer from 1992 to 2001), and Stephen Paulus.

Gertrude Stein is famous for saying of her childhood home, Oakland, California, "When you get there, there's no there there." Purportedly, Stein opined this city by the San Francisco Bay lacked a defining sense of place. Bel canto notwithstanding, the folk melodies of "Blue Wheat" invoke a longing for something no longer possible. The abyss between the America today and the its past is impossible to bridge. Already, we have yielded to the abstractness of political correctness. Our past is either neglected, actively destroyed, or selectively museumed. We do not live in an understood land and culture. There is no there here in the presence of this music. It is only the poignancy of the moment that these beautifully rendered tunes live in our mind. We have to accept this reality as part and parcel of our rootlessness.

Tracks:

17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Danny Boy
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Annie Laurie
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: O Waly, Waly
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Turtle Dove
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Alister McAlpine's Lament
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Ca' the Yowes
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: O Dear! What Can the Matter Be?
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Polly Wolly Doodle
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Old Folks at Home
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Beautiful Dreamer
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Comin' Through the Rye
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Loch Lomond
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Shenandoah
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: My Lord, What a Morning
17 Familiar American And British Folk Songs: Great Day

Customer Reviews:

easy listening.......2001-06-12

a good combination of great songs. The choir's voices are sweet and melancholy. If you enjoy the old folk songs, you'll enjoy this cd.

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Alfred Deller - Portrait of a Legend

Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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

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

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

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

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ASIN: B0001L1B7Y
Release Date: 2004-06-08

John Langstaff Sings Archival Folk Collection

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John Langstaff Sings Archival Folk Collection

Manufacturer: Revels Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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General | Folk | Styles | Music

Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00068CUQS
Release Date: 2004-11-02

Tracks:

O Waly, Waly/The Water Is Wide, I Cannot Get O'er
Carrion Crow
All 'Round My Had I Will Wear a Green Willow
Cruel Mother
Farmer's Curst Wife
Riddle Song/I Will Give My Love an Apple
Lord Rendal
Billy Boy
Croodin' Doo
John Barleycorn
Lover's Tasks
Green Wedding
She's Like the Swallow
John Riley

Tracks:

Bonnie Wee Thing
Pretty Sally
Two Brothers
Teh Deaf Woman's Courtship
At the Foot of Yonders Mountain
Rich Old Lady
There Was a Man in Our Town
Baby Bunting
When I Was a Little Boy
Rosey Boy, Posey Boy
Frog Went Courtin'
Dn Lover
Jockie to the Fair
Pretty Sally

Tracks:

False Knight Upon the Road
Little Turtle Dove
Seventeen Come Sunday
Sir Patrick Spens
Blow Away the Morning Dew
Trees They Do Grow High
Crawfish Man's Street City
She Moved Through the Fair
Golden Vanity
Rich Old Lady
Nottamun Town
John Barleycorn
Jolly Ploughboy
St. James Hospital
Brisk Young Widow
Six Dukes Went A-Fishing

Tracks:

Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
Bingo
I Wish I Was a Child Again
Hares on the Mountain
Two Magicians
Trees They Do Grow High
Lady Maisry
Edward
As I Walked Through the Meadows
Lark in the Morn
Gypsy Laddie
Go and Tell Aunt Nancy
Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?
Cripple Creek Girls
Tottenham Toad
Frog in the Well
Dance to Your Daddy
As I Was Going to Banbury
Swapping Song
Dashing Away With the Smoothing Iron
O My Love, Will You Wear Red?
Frog and the Mouse
Cocky Robin
What'll We Do With the Baby?
Mocking Bird (Hush Up, Baby)
Bye, Bye Baby
Tiny Man
Weekdays and Sundays
Oh Jacky, Stand Still
Turn Round, Turn Round
Basket Full of Nuts
Our Baby Prince
All the Ducks
Polly Perkin
Follow the Leader
Poor Doggie
Baby's Song

Album Description

John Langstaff, now 83 years of age, is the founder and director emeritus of Revels, the non-profit performing arts company that produces Revels Records as well as 'The Christmas Revels' annual winter solstice celebrations in 12 cities across the country. This is the complete collection of Langstaff's disc, featuring all four acclaimed previously re-released CDs originally recorded in England. The recordings have been digitally re-mastered at London's famed Abbey Road Studios. Included are many traditional British and American folk songs and ballads, most with simple, art song settings. Legendary pianists Sir Gerald Moore, Sam Mason and John Powell, as well as guitarist Martin Best, are featured.

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A Lark in the Morn

Manufacturer: Revels Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
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Folk songs - where they belong

Lie Down Poor Heart

Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

O Waly, Waly - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
I Will Give My Love An Apple - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
Black Is The Colour - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
The Isle Of Aigas (Lute Solo) - Sylvian Bergeron
Mary, Young And Fair (Lute Solo) - Sylvian Bergeron
What If I Seek For Love Of Thee - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
Lie Down, Poor Heart - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
Say, Love, If Ever Thou Dist Find - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
Sorrow Stay - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
I Saw My Lady Weep - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
Never Weather-Beaten Sails - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
Prelude (Lute Solo) - Sylvian Bergeron
A Corranto (Lute Solo) - Sylvian Bergeron
Cuperaree (Lute Solo) - Sylvian Bergeron
A Coranto (Lute Solo) - Sylvian Bergeron
Grays Iron Mask (Lute Solo) - Sylvian Bergeron
The Fairy Masque (Lute Solo) - Sylvian Bergeron
The Three Ravens - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
Howm Againe Markget Is Done (Lute Solo) - Sylvian Bergeron
Joane To The May Pole (Lute Solo) - Sylvian Bergeron
Down By The Salley Gardens - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
Variations On The Scottish Air (Lute Solo) - Sylvian Bergeron
Greensleeves - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron
The Foggy Dew - Daniel Taylor/Sylvian Bergeron

Amazon.com

The patriarch of modern countertenors, Alfred Deller, once pointed out that many well-known English folk songs are at least as old as the great lute songs of Shakespeare's era, and suggested that the more melancholy examples "one must treat in exactly the same way as one would treat the art songs." For this disc, countertenor Daniel Taylor and lutenist Sylvain Bergeron have taken Deller at his word, and bracketed a set of songs and lute solos by great Elizabethan composers such as John Dowland and Thomas Campion with lyrical, even melancholy, traditional English airs. These fine Canadian musicians treat the folk songs with the respect that Deller called for--and it works: even old chestnuts like "The water is wide" and "Black is the colour of my true love's hair" come across as credible in the company of Dowland's masterful "Sorrow stay." ("The Foggy, Foggy Dew," however, was not the best choice for ending the disc.) Bergeron plays both his solos and the song accompaniments beautifully, with a gentle charisma that holds a listener's attention even through the softest, more slow-moving passages. Taylor, who has made exquisite recordings of Purcell and Dowland, is a bit more problematic: his diction could be clearer; and, particularly in his upper register, there's often a worrisomely tremulous quality to his sound. Has this talented singer's career in Baroque opera begun to fray his voice already? Let's hope not, for he's as intelligent and sensitive a musician here as ever he has been, and in his middle and lower registers he still makes some lovely sounds. Flaws notwithstanding, this is a worthwhile record--both for the fine performances and the reminder that the line between "art music" and "folk music" is thinner than we might think. --Matthew Westphal

Customer Reviews:

Folk songs - where they belong.......2001-03-06

In the universe of singers specializing in song, Daniel Taylor takes a special place. He really knows how to communicate emotion. Even the simplest of songs come out memorable when Dan sings them. Unlike many recordings of lute songs, this disc includes a fair amount of anonymous material, and the approach taken by the singer is very appropriate. I think the point of this disc was to bring these songs home to their origins. I think it worked. The singing here is gentle, intimate, purposely unaffected: it evokes the image of a wandering 16th century bard singing his own songs to a bunch of villagers, plucking his own lute. The simplicity is utterly beguiling because it communicates so much and because it makes falsetto sound like the most natural of voices. The centerpiece of this disc is Robert Jones's melancholy Lie Down Poor Heart. Clocking at more than 7 minutes, it never gets boring. The lightly decorated stanza with which it ends is absolutely delicious. Dowland's evergreen Sorrow Stay and I Saw My Lady Weep, interpreted through a folk lens, are striking in their freshness. Of the folk songs, O Waly Waly and especially Black Is The Colour really stick in memory. If there is anything about this disc that was not quite to my liking it was the playing of Sylvain Bergeron. I do not profess to know much about lutes, but, to me, the lute often sounded like it was being played one string at a time. For example, Bergeron's accompaniment to I Will Give My Love an Apple sounded like "boink - boink - boink..." You won't be surprised that I thought that there were way too many solo lute pieces on this disc (11 of 24). But I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this disc to anyone (just skip the lute). -- gggimpy@yahoo.com.