Crazy Mary [CD-single]

Crazy Mary [CD-single]

Track Listings

1. Crazy Mary [Radio Edit]

2. Crazy Mary [LP Version]

3. Polish Those Shoes [LP Version]

Crazy Mary,Victoria Williams,Mammoth,Adult Alternative Pop/Rock,Alternative Country-Rock,Alternative Folk,Contemporary Folk,Folk-Rock,Singer/Songwriter

Girl Crazy (1951 Studio Cast)
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good reissue

Great CD

Boy! What time has done to this record!

Girl Crazy (1951 Studio Cast)
Ira Gershwin
Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000DHSK
Release Date: 1998-11-10

Tracks:

Overture
The Lonesome Cowboy
Bidin' My Time
Could You Use Me
Bronco Busters
Barbary Coast
Embraceable You
Sam And Delilah
I Got Rhythm
But Not For Me
Treat Me Rough
Boy! What Love Has Done To Me
Cactus Time In Arizona
Finale
But Not For Me

Customer Reviews:

good reissue.......2003-09-17

GIRL CRAZY was one of the top Broadway shows of the 1930s, with a delightful score by George and Ira Gershwin. The original Broadway production is also noteworthy in that it launched the career of a young Broadway belter by the name of Ethel Merman...

This 1951 studio cast album of the immortal GIRL CRAZY score was produced by Goddard Lieberson, with a cast headed by Mary Martin (still riding high on her SOUTH PACIFIC success). She's joined by a lovely supporting cast which includes Louise Carlyle and Eddie Chappell.

The orchestra, under the faultless direction of maestro Lehman Engel, is fabulous. You'll be hitting the repeat button for the thrilling Overture (the GIRL CRAZY Overture is considered one of the greatest ever written).

Mary Martin croons and coos her way through the slinky "Bidin' My Time", and belts "I Got Rhythm" all the way to the back-row. Louise Carlyle is a perfect comic soubrette singing "Sam and Delilah", while her duet with Eddie Chappell in "Could You Use Me?" is a joy.

Fans of Mary Martin and the brassy score of GIRL CRAZY will adore this cast album!

Great CD.......2002-11-27

I think this version of Girl Crazy is suitable for any Gershwin buffs who wish to enjoy this musical at an affordable price.I shall review each musical numbers.

a)The overture is played with much zest and energy.Watch out for the saxophone solo playing a fragment of 'Bidin' My Time'before the orchestra beaks out into a rousing fragment of 'I Got Rhythm'

b)'The Lonesome Cowboy is a good display of male chauvinism in music style (slight exaggeretion!).The music is played in a march like tempo.

c)Bidin' My Time is sung by Mary Martin as if she is really biding her time!;slow and in a relaxed tempo.

d)Could you use me is a witty duet

e)Bronco Busters and Barbary Coast are 2 superb choral numbers,particularly the latter,which qualifies as a show stopper number

f)Embraceable You is a piece of lyrical tongue twisting number delivered by M.Martin in a wistful manner.

g)Sam and Delilah is sung by Louise Carlye in a brash,rough manner with a discordant music accompaniment with crashing cymbals.Perfect

h)I Got Rhythm is sung in a show stopping manner by M.Martin which is enough to make you wanna dance dance dance.

i)But not for me is performed in a rather melancholy manner by M.Martin.Perfect for the lyrics.

j)Treat me rough was another delightful piece in cowboy melancholy talk style

k)Boy what love has done to me.A song of reggreted love in a delicate style,not exactly woeful

l)Cactus time in Arizona.A beautiful piece in a brilliant energetic style.

m)The finale is a medley of songs beautifully stitched into a single song.

This CD fails to include 3 numbers :Land Of The Gay Caballero,Mexican Dance (instrumental) and Goldfarb! That's I'm

Boy! What time has done to this record!.......2002-03-06

When this album was first released in 1951, it was warmly welcomed since it was the first time most of the GIRL CRAZY score had been recorded. Even Ethel Merman did not get to record her famous hit "I Got Rhythm" until 1947, some 17 years after she introduceded it!

Even when it was new this record was a mixed blessing. Mary Martin was showcased as the "star" and naturally she gets to sing many of the show's hits...even when they do not belong to the same character. So, Mary Martin croons "Bidin' My Time" (in the original production it is lazily sung by 4 cowboys); She takes all of "Embraceable You" (originally a duet for the leading lady and the leading man); and "I Go Rhythm" (originally sung by the secondary character, Kate.) The score was also re-orchestrated for this album, so the sound is more 50's musical theatre than 30's musical comedy. Still, in spite of a total lack of theatricality, the album filled an important gap in Broadway show collections, and Columbia reissued it in 1957, 1965 and 1973...the latter issue staying in print right through the end of the vinyl era.

The 1990 recording on Nonesuch was performed by a full cast with the original orchstrations and is musically complete. If you want to hear GIRL CRAZY with any sense of what teh show sounded like in 1930, the Nonesch album is the one to get.

Sony decided to reissue this version of GIRL CRAZY for the Gershwin centenary in 1998 and listening to it now it seems ...well...out-of-date. The early 50's mono sound makes the orchestra sound tinny. Mary Martin sings wonderfully although her style is not exactly what this brasy score calls for. So, yes, the album is historcally important. But no longer essential.

Tracks:

Ouverture - Orchestra
Something Wonderfull - Dorothy Sarnoff
Doin' What Comes Natur'lly - Ethel Merman
Life Upon the Wicked Stage - Colette Lyons
So in Love - Patricia Morison
You'll Never Walk Alone - Jan Clayton, Christine Johnson
Bill - Carol Bruce
Hello, Young Lovers - Gertrude Lawrence
Bloody Mary - Male Chorus
I Can't Say No - Celeste Holm
This Was a Real Nice Clambake - Jan Clayton,
Oklahoma! - Alfred Drake
Sue Me - Vivian Blaine, Sam Levene
Woman Is a Sometime Thing - Edward Matthews
Some Enchanted Evening - Ezio Pinza,
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' - Todd Duncan, Todd Duncan
Guys and Dolls - Douglas Deane, Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver
It Ain't Necessarily So - Lawrence Tibbett
Make Believe - Jan Clayton
Wonderful Guy - Mary Martin
They Say It's Wonderful - Ethel Merman
When the Children Are Asleep - Jean Darling, Eric Mattson
More I Cannot Wish You - Pat Rooney, Sr., Pat Rooney, Sr.
Puzzlement - Yul Brynner
I Got Lost in His Arms - Ethel Merman

Tracks:

Overture...Summertime - Anne Brown
Why Can't You Behave? - Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man - Carol Bruce
There's No Business Like Show Business - Chorus
If I Were a Bell - Isabel Bigley
People Will Say That We're in Love - Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts
Bess, You Is My Woman Now - Anne Brown
Luck Be a Lady Tonight - Robert Alda
Shall I Tell You What I Think of You? - Gertrude Lawrence
Girl That I Marry - Ray Middleton
Nobody Else But Me - Jan Clayton
Carousel Waltz - Orchestra
Dites-Moi - Barbara Luna
Ol' Man River - Kenneth Spencer
Summertime
Many a New Day - Joan Roberts
Blow High, Blow Low - Murvyn Vye
It Takes a Long Pull to Get There - Edward Matthews
You've Got to Be Carefully Taught - Billy Tabbert
We Open in Venice - Alfred Drake
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair - Mary Martin
Who Do You Love, I Hope? - Kathleen Carnes, Robert Lenn
I've Never Been in Love Before - Robert Alda
Tom, Dick or Harry - Lisa Kirk
I Whistle a Happy Tune - Gertrude Lawrence

Tracks:

New York, New York - Lynn Murray, Lynn Murray
Almost Like Being in Love - Marion Bell, Dave Brooks, David Brooks
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Vivienne Segal
Beat out Dat Rhythm on a Drum - June Hawkins
How Are Things in Glocca Morra? - Ella Logan
Old Devil Moon - Ella Logan
South American Way - Carmen Miranda
September Song - Walter Huston
This Is the Army, Mister Jones - Irving Berlin
Takin' a Chance on Love - Ethel Waters
My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Mary Martin
Anything Goes - Jeanne Aubert & The Four Admirals
You're the Top - Jeanne Aubert & The Four Admirals
I Get a Kick Out of You - Ethel Merman
Night and Day - Fred Astaire
I Got Rhythm - Red Nichols & His Orchestra
Someone to Watch Over Me - Gertrude Lawrence
Fascinatin' Rhythm - Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire
Strike Up the Band - Red Nichols & His Orchestra
Makin' Whoopee - Eddie Cantor
Heatwave - Ethel Waters
Easter Parade - Clifton Webb
She Didn't Say Yes - Peggy Wood
I've Told Every Little Star - Mary Ellis
Johnny One Note - Lynn Murray, Lynn Murray

Album Description

Import exclusive, budget price compilation featuring Broadway classics like 'You'll Never Walk Alone', 'Summertime', & There's No Business Like Show Business', performed by Ethel Merman, Gertrude Lawrence, Celeste Holm, & many more. 75 tracks in all. Standard double jewel case. Disky. 2001.

Album Details

3 CD set

Customer Reviews:

A bargain collection of showtunes.......2005-08-19

This bargain collection of showtunes is highlighted by the composition of Kurt Weill and the uniquely rolling tongue of Colette Lyons. I have a complaint about this compilation. It includes "Ol' Man River", but it excludes Al Jolson's rendition of "Ol' Man River." Otherwise, this collection gives you ample bang for your buck.

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I'm Not Going to Stop Touching It
Crazy Mary
Manufacturer: Humsting
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00062E4DQ
Release Date: 2003-09-23

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Voices of Freedom
When the Shit Hits the Fan
Invisible
Knucklehead
Land of Jagged Mountains

Product Description

5 Songs: 1. Voices of Freedom 2. When The Shit Hits the Fan 3. Invisible 4. Knucklehead 5. Land of Jagged Mountains

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Sensational Vocal Album by Carole Farley and William Bolcom
Great Songs, but Mind the Singer
The Songs of William Bolcom

William Bolcom: Songs
Carole Farley , William Bolcom , Farley , and Bolcom
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ASIN: B0009F4UBQ
Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

You Cannot Have Me Now - Or, the Military Orgy
Night, Make My Day
The Digital Wonder Watch
My Father The Ganster
The Last Days Of Mankind
This Is A Face
Since I Have You
The Rabbit
I Am Not Free
For Me
From Wandering
Beware
I Wouldn't Die
I Remember
For Everything
I Have Climbed
Pity Me Not Because The Light Of Day
How To Swing Those Obbligations Around
The Crazy Woman
Just Once
Never More Will The Wind
The Sage
O To Be A Dragon
The Bustle In A House
Night Practice
I Saw Eternity
The Fish
Costa Del Nowhere
Table
Mary
River Song
Messing About In Boats
Rat's Song
When We Built The Church

Customer Reviews:

Sensational Vocal Album by Carole Farley and William Bolcom.......2007-02-13

Carole Farley and William Bolcom have recorded this landmark CD, and I can easily understand why this CD received a GRAMMY nomination in the "Best Vocal Recording of the Year" and a 2nd GRAMMY nomination in the "Best Engineered Recording of the Year" category. It's indeed one of the best vocal albums of contemporary songs ever made. Carole Farley, who made her MET debut in the MET's first LULU production, seems to be just at home with Puccini, Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and even Latin American popular songs (her Lecuona songs album is extremely beautiful).
William Bolcom's accompaniment is brilliant, and the songs are a revelation.
J.B. (Pittsburgh, Pa)

Great Songs, but Mind the Singer.......2006-07-04

This is one of those discs where the listener has to balance the advantages of the program with the disadvantages of the performance. Bolcom is one of this country's most versatile and brilliant composers, and those qualities are demonstrated to great effect in the songs on this album. His piano playing is, as one would expect, also solid and expressive. The drawback here is Carole Farley. Although her diction and intonation are good, as far as tone-color goes, she seems to be a one-trick pony; and if you don't like that trick (opera singer trying to sound like what she thinks a musical theater singer sounds like), listening to her can get very tiring. So while I highly recommend the disc for its content, I suggest listening to excerpts first before buying just to make sure that the singer's voice doesn't drive you batty.

The Songs of William Bolcom.......2006-02-14

The American composer William Bolcom (b. 1938) is best-known for his large-scale setting of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience," which is available on a 3-CD Naxos set. This new collection of Bolcom's songs also on Naxos shows the composers's lifelong fascination with Blake. It includes an early lyrical setting of Blake's poem, "Mary" which deals with a beautiful and intelligent young woman and her rejection by her society. In the several torch and cabaret-style works it includes, the collection also shows Bolcom's attempts to fuse classical with popular styles of music. Bolcom also has done so in his piano music, much of which is heavily influenced by ragtime.

The songs on this CD are performed and selected by soprano Carole Farley with Bolcom himself at the piano. Ms. Farley has also recorded for Naxos' "American classics" series a selection of the songs of Ned Rorem with Rorem at the piano. Ms. Farley and Naxos are doing listeners a service by introducing them to the world of the American art song.

The highlight of this CD is the 20-minute song-cycle "I will breathe a mountain" in which Bolcom sets 11 poems by American women. The poems were selected by Alice Fulton, and they include Fulton's own "I will swing those obligatos around" in which the young singer describes a come-on from a boor. The song writing is declamatory in character with many twists, turns, and shouts in the vocal line. Only the setting of H.D.'s "Never More Will the Wind" is lyrical and flowing. Besides Fulton and H.D. the settings include poems by Millay, Gwendolwn Brooks (a poem called "The Crazy Woman" with appropriately wild shrieks) Anne Sexton, Denise Levertov, Marianne Moore (listen to what Ms. Farley makes of the poets wish to be a DRA' GON), Emily Dickinson (in a moving poem of the stillness of a home after death),Louise Bogan, May Swenson, and Elizabeth Bishop. "I will breathe a mountain" is an outstanding and moving contemporary American song-cycle and is in itself sufficient reason for hearing this recording.

The CD also includes a second exquisite cycle, "Songs to Dance" which sets ten miniature poems by George Montgomery. This is a work to be danced as well as sung, and it has apparently been performed live only once, by the composer, his wife, the soprano Joan Morris, and dancer, Dan Wagoner. It has never been recorded before. The work deserves to be heard and seen.

Many of the remaining works on this CD are cabaret-style theatrical pieces that Bolcom composed in collaboration with lyricist Arnold Weinstein. The best of these are two torch songs from a show called "Casino Paradise": Night Make my Day (a parody of the torch style which is sometimes performed straight) and "My Father the Gangster", in which a young woman laments how men are, understandably, worried about her father and afraid to approach her. The collection opens with a scream by Ms. Farley in the erotic novelty "You cannot have me now", about the affairs of the wife of a German officer, sung with a heavily inflected German accent and also set to words by Weinstein.

I enjoyed Bolcom's short setting of May Swenson's poem "The Digital Wonder Watch" with the tick-ticking in the piano. This song is a satire of technology, with the poet describing the features of her "wonderful watch" while asking: "Does it show how to wind up/a broken heart?" The other songs on the CD include the passionate "The Last Days of Mankind", conceived for rock singer Marianne Faithful, two eloquent settings of poems by Richard Tillinghast, and four concluding early collaborations between Bolcom and Weinstein.

This CD offers an opportunity to explore the world of American song in the works of a leading contemporary composer. The cycle, "I will breathe a mountain" will be a lasting achievement in American art song.

Robin Friedman

Heart Rock: 40 Great Love Songs [Time-life Music]

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TRACK LIST

Heart Rock: 40 Great Love Songs [Time-life Music]
Various Artists 1. Take My Breath Away -- Berlin 2. Joanna -- Kool & The Gang 3. Total Eclipse Of The Heart -- Bonnie Tyler 4. A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do) -- Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio 5. In Too Deep -- Genesis , Use Ta Be My Girl -- The O'Jays 7. All By Myself -- Eric Carmen 8. I Can Dream About You -- Dan Hartman 9. Still -- Commodores , Jr With Bill Withers 11. Sexual Healing -- Marvin Gaye 12. Just Remember I Love You -- Firefall Just The Two Of Us -- Grover Washington , Too Little, Too Late -- Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams 16. Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me -- Gladys Knight & The Pips Even The Nights Are Better -- Air Supply 14. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me -- Culture Club 15. Too Much , Shake You Down -- Gregory Abbott 18. Being With You -- Smokey Robinson 19. I'd Really Love To See You Tonigh -- England Dan & John Ford Coley , 1. Minute By Minute -- The Doobie Brothers 2. Time After Time -- Cyndi Lauper 3. Almost Paradise...Love Theme From Footloose -- Ann Wilson & Mike Reno 4. Lotta Love -- Nicolette Larson 5. I'm In You -- Peter Frampton , 6. Run To Me -- Dionne Warwick & Barry Manilow 7. Endless Love -- Diana Ross & Lionel Richie 8. Secret Lovers -- Atlantic Starr 9. After The Love Has Gone -- Earth Wind & Fire 10. Torn Between Two Lovers -- Mary MacGregor , 11. Can't We Try -- Dan Hill With Vonda Sheppard 12. One Hundred Ways -- Quincy Jones Featuring James Ingram 13. L-O-V-E (Love) -- Al Green 14. You're Only Lonely -- John David Souther , 15. All Cried Out -- Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam 16. You're All I Need To Get By -- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 17. Keep On Loving You -- REO Speedwagon , and 18. I Go Crazy -- Paul Davis 19. Open Arms -- Journey 20. Hold Me Now -- The Thompson Twins 21. You Are So Beautiful -- Joe Cocker
Manufacturer: Time Life
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ASIN: B000MI5EOM

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Heart Rock (Disc A) Label: Time-Life Music Year: 1988 Track Title 1. Take My Breath Away -- Berlin 2. Joanna -- Kool & The Gang 3. Total Eclipse Of The Heart -- Bonnie Tyler 4. A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do) -- Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio 5. In Too Deep -- Genesis 6. Use Ta Be My Girl -- The O'Jays 7. All By Myself -- Eric Carmen 8. I Can Dream About You -- Dan Hartman 9. Still -- Commodores 10. Just The Two Of Us -- Grover Washington,Jr With Bill Withers 11. Sexual Healing -- Marvin Gaye 12. Just Remember I Love You -- Firefall 13. Even The Nights Are Better -- Air Supply 14. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me -- Culture Club 15. Too Much, Too Little, Too Late -- Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams 16. Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me -- Gladys Knight & The Pips 17. Shake You Down -- Gregory Abbott 18. Being With You -- Smokey Robinson 19. I'd Really Love To See You Tonigh -- England Dan & John Ford Coley ---==== Heart Rock (Disc B) Label: Time-Life Music Year: 1988 Track Title 1. Minute By Minute -- The Doobie Brothers 2. Time After Time -- Cyndi Lauper 3. Almost Paradise...Love Theme From Footloose -- Ann Wilson & Mike Reno 4. Lotta Love -- Nicolette Larson 5. I'm In You -- Peter Frampton 6. Run To Me -- Dionne Warwick & Barry Manilow 7. Endless Love -- Diana Ross & Lionel Richie 8. Secret Lovers -- Atlantic Starr 9. After The Love Has Gone -- Earth Wind & Fire 10. Torn Between Two Lovers -- Mary MacGregor 11. Can't We Try -- Dan Hill With Vonda Sheppard 12. One Hundred Ways -- Quincy Jones Featuring James Ingram 13. L-O-V-E (Love) -- Al Green 14. You're Only Lonely -- John David Souther 15. All Cried Out -- Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam 16. You're All I Need To Get By -- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 17. Keep On Loving You -- REO Speedwagon 18. I Go Crazy -- Paul Davis 19. Open Arms -- Journey 20. Hold Me Now -- The Thompson Twins 21. You Are So Beautiful -- Joe Cocker

Customer Reviews:

TRACK LIST.......2007-01-08

Heart Rock (Disc A)
Label: Time-Life Music
Year: 1988

Track Title
1. Take My Breath Away -- Berlin
2. Joanna -- Kool & The Gang
3. Total Eclipse Of The Heart -- Bonnie Tyler
4. A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do) -- Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio
5. In Too Deep -- Genesis
6. Use Ta Be My Girl -- The O'Jays
7. All By Myself -- Eric Carmen
8. I Can Dream About You -- Dan Hartman
9. Still -- Commodores
10. Just The Two Of Us -- Grover Washington,Jr With Bill Withers
11. Sexual Healing -- Marvin Gaye
12. Just Remember I Love You -- Firefall
13. Even The Nights Are Better -- Air Supply
14. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me -- Culture Club
15. Too Much, Too Little, Too Late -- Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
16. Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me -- Gladys Knight & The Pips
17. Shake You Down -- Gregory Abbott
18. Being With You -- Smokey Robinson
19. I'd Really Love To See You Tonigh -- England Dan & John Ford Coley

Heart Rock (Disc B)
Label: Time-Life Music
Year: 1988

Track Title
1. Minute By Minute -- The Doobie Brothers
2. Time After Time -- Cyndi Lauper
3. Almost Paradise...Love Theme From Footloose -- Ann Wilson & Mike Reno
4. Lotta Love -- Nicolette Larson
5. I'm In You -- Peter Frampton
6. Run To Me -- Dionne Warwick & Barry Manilow
7. Endless Love -- Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
8. Secret Lovers -- Atlantic Starr
9. After The Love Has Gone -- Earth Wind & Fire
10. Torn Between Two Lovers -- Mary MacGregor
11. Can't We Try -- Dan Hill With Vonda Sheppard
12. One Hundred Ways -- Quincy Jones Featuring James Ingram
13. L-O-V-E (Love) -- Al Green
14. You're Only Lonely -- John David Souther
15. All Cried Out -- Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
16. You're All I Need To Get By -- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
17. Keep On Loving You -- REO Speedwagon
18. I Go Crazy -- Paul Davis
19. Open Arms -- Journey
20. Hold Me Now -- The Thompson Twins
21. You Are So Beautiful -- Joe Cocker

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Impeccable taste

Tell Me the Truth about Love

Manufacturer: White Line
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004NJJU
Release Date: 2000-04-25

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Impeccable taste.......2006-02-17

Mary Carewe is a Britisher with impeccable taste in lyrics and a delightful and fascinating voice. This is high-toned cabaret or, as she dubs her intimate program, "serious cabaret". If you like Ute Lemper or Bolcom and Morris, you'll enjoy Mary Çarewe. This is her only solo CD to date, but I can't help but believe that more are in the works for this talented soprano. Her big vocal range is matched by her big voice, which regularly accompanies symphonic orchestras in the UK and Europe in programs of modern music and pop, i.e., would you believe a program of James Bond film title songs with the Hallé orchestra?

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Red Hot + Country
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1. Teach Your Children - Suzy Bogguss/Alison Krauss/Kathy Mattea/Crosby, Stills & Nash 2. Fire And Rain - Sammy Kershaw 3. Folsom Prison Blues - Brooks & Dunn/Johnny Cash 4. Rock Me On The Water - Kathy Mattea/Jackson Browne 5. Matchbox - Carl Perkins/Duane Eddy/The Mavericks 6. Crazy - Jimmie Dale Gilmore/Willie Nelson 7. Willie Short - Mary Chapin Carpenter 8. Forever Young - Johnny Cash 9. If These Old Walls Could Speak - Nanci Griffith/Jimmy Webb 10. Up Above My Head / Blind Bartimus - Marty Stuart/Jerry & Tammy Sullivan 11. You Gotta Be My Baby - Dolly Parton 12. Close Up The Honky Tonks - Radney Foster 13. Goodbye Comes Hard For Me - Mark Chesnutt 14. Pictures Don't Lie - Billy Ray Cyrus 15. When I Reach The Place I'm Going - Patty Loveless 16. T.B. Is Whipping Me, The - Wilco/Syd Straw 17. Keep On The Sunny Side - Randy Scruggs/Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson RED HOT + COUNTRY, in addition to supporting AIDS research, will fund a special education project which will target rural communities throughout the nation. "Teach Your Children" was nominated for Best Country Vocal Collaboration, and "Keep On The Sunny Side" was nominated for Best Country Instrumental Performance in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards. RED HOT + COUNTRY is the fourth album in the very successful RED HOT series of genre-specific recordings benefiting AIDS Awareness. This time it's country music's turn, and under the guidance of Kathy Mattea, numerous contemporary Nashville superstars chose a song or a style representing an influence on their own artistry. For the most part they chose songs of hope and healing. From the opening "Teach Your Children" featuring Mattea, Suzy Bogguss, Alison Krauss, and Crosby Stills & Nash to the closing Carter Family tune, "Keep On The Sunnyside," featuring bluegrass greats Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson, the entire album offers a ray of light in these fearful times.

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Mediocre Cabaret Singer with Outstanding Combo
A Dynamite Debut CD!

Crazy Eyes
Mary Foster Conklin
Manufacturer: Original Cast Record
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000006AUF
Release Date: 1998-04-28

Tracks:

Crazy Eyes
The Gentleman Is A Dope
Baby Talk
I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
Slow Boat To China
Dead Presidents
Goody Goody
Mad About You
Some Cats Know
Fried Bananas
Billy's Blues
How Can I Be Sure
Only Trust Your Heart
You'll Never Get Me Out Of Your Mind

Customer Reviews:

Mediocre Cabaret Singer with Outstanding Combo.......2005-03-16

This singer's shrill voice and overdramatic renditions of such wonderful songs hardly seems fitting for a combo as talented as Bill Mays, Frank Vignola, Jon Burr and Joe Ascione. Conklin's voice is like a wet blanket on the instrumental performances and arrangements. I simply cannot understand how any organization would ever name her Jazz Vocalist of the year. If cabaret is your thing you might really love Mary Foster Conklin, but if you are looking for soulful female jazz artists pick up Dinah Washington, Nancy King, Billy Holiday or Nancy Wilson. Conklin is about as soulful as Dorris Day.

A Dynamite Debut CD!.......1998-06-15

Backed by one of the best rhythm sections in the biz - Bill Mays on piano, Jon Burr on bass and Terry Clarke on drums - Mary Foster Conklin offers an astute array of music guaranteed to please fans of jazz vocals.

From Jeffrey Klitz's inventive arrangements of the Rodgers and Hammerstein standard, The Gentleman Is A Dope, and the Johnny Mercer-Matt Melneck hit, Goody Goody, to four new tunes by one of the most talented new composer on the block, David Cantor, she brings a sassy style to the music. Note the title tune: Crazy Eyes.

Pay special attention to Fried Bananas, a bebop tune by sax legend Dexter Gordon with lyrics by Anne Phillips. She nimbly nails this tricky, never recorded "vocalese" tune like a master. Also note the Willie Dixon blues tune, Dead Presidents.