BOOK of HATE

BOOK of HATE

Track Listings

1. Peggy Gordon

2. Tam Lin

3. Who Killed Phillip?

4. Night Falls

5. Pastorale

6. By Any Other Name

7. Lost My Way

8. Panik in the Cattle-Pen

9. Louis Riels' Farewell

10. Amsterdam Street

11. For Jesse Bernstein

12. Fiery Heart

Editorial Reviews
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Her songs vary from chilling howls to beautiful ballads that take advantage of her guitar skills and three-octave range.”

Product Description
While a lot of contemporary music is created to be easier to swallow than creamed baby food, Kathleen Yearwood's music goes down like razor blades. She brings such intensity and honesty to her work that it makes me shiver. In her songs, she pushes the boundaries to the edge -- lyrically, emotionally and instrumentally. She performs in a way very few other artists have the courage to.Kathleen was born in Alberta, and she lives there still. Her first professional appearances were as a 12 year-old in a Calgary coffeehouse. She was paid to go on stage and just make things up. A few years later, she was in Montreal, studying physics and the physiology of music at McGill and Concordia. Along the way, she has released a series of cassettes and CDs. Her last CD, Book of Hate, came with liner notes saying "feel free to make copies for your friends... and enemies."

When Kathleen performs traditional material, she brings to the songs an emotional spectrum that is transcendent. Unlike so many artists, working the Celtic vein these days, she doesn't stop at pretty. When she sings we hear both the unearthly beauty and the unspeakable pain. She is not interested in making the old songs into the sort of aural wallpaper now used to sell expensive sports cars and airplane tickets. In her interpretations, it becomes quite clear that those ancestors did not live in easy times.

When she performs her own material, she sings in words we can all understand. She sings about things we often choose not to see -- the troubled people that live in the streets around us, and the evil in the world that affects us all, but none more than Kathleen. She is an artist of the heart.

Tracks:

Overture - Irving Berlin
I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep - Irving Berlin
I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen - Irving Berlin
Ihe Army's Made A Man Out Of Me - Irving Berlin
The Army's Made A Man Out Of Me - Irving Berlin
What The Well Dressed Man In Harlem Will Wear - Irving Berlin
How Bout A Cheer For The Navy - Irving Berlin
American Eagles - Irving Berlin
Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning - Irving Berlin
Going Home Train - Harold Rome
Along With Me - Harold Rome
Little Surplus Me - Harold Rome
The Red Ball Express - Harold Rome
Military Life - Harold Rome
Yuletied, Park Avenue - Harold Rome
When We Meet Again - Harold Rome
The Face On The Dime - Harold Rome
South America, Take It Away - Harold Rome
Call Me Mister - Harold Rome
Winged Victory - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra
My Dream Book Of Memories - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra
The Whiffenpoof Song - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra
The Army Air Corps - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

Fine music, tone-deaf pricing from Vivendi.......2007-05-09

"This is the Army" is the first, and by far the greatest. When the word historic has lost all meaning this revue truly was -- perhaps the biggest show-biz charity fundraiser ever (for the Army Emergency Relief, which exists to this day), an incalculable morale booster on two fronts, a show whose too-small number of black players nonetheless helped break down the military's color barrier. It also sired the first major-label musical cast album; Decca rushed it into production at the end of July, 1942 to beat the AFM's notorious recording ban. That (and perhaps some reticence with an untested genre) may explain why the public only got four 10" 78s, shorter than they should have been. (Victor rushed its own studio recording into print as well, with mediocre arrangements and Fats Waller.) The following year Decca atoned for its mistake when it declared peace with the musician's union to record "Oklahoma!", making the cast album a permanent part of our musical lives. If we got only a fraction of what must have been it must have been tremendous. On the evidence this was Irving Berlin's finest score to date, and after the slog through multiple continents with a war hardened company he dug deep and wrote "Annie Get Your Gun." The tragedy is that no one tried to revive this show when enough of the boys were still alive, say in the eighties; perhaps Berlin, by then a hopeless recluse, turned it down. As touching and as stirring as these songs are it is preposterous that this score has remained all but buried since the last production in 1945. That this show is inextricably tied to a war is no excuse; the memory of a brave generation deserves better.

We go inevitably downhill from there, starting with the first track of "Call Me Mister", a postwar show with a lighter touch, and a lighter songwriter in several ways. Harold Rome could write a mean lyric, and he was good at the sort of situational humor that worked with topical shows, but despite his ambitions -- at the end of his career he foolishly adapted "Gone with the Wind" -- he just could not write the fine ballad that would have put him in the first rank. So where "This is the Army" can move the soul "Mister" just sits there, despite a haunting tribute to the "Face on the Dime." Its comic relief saves the day and it's pretty good as a recording too, as it's from 1946, and gives us a flavor of the old-time Broadway sound that makes these early albums so appealing. The four concluding sides of incidental music from Moss Hart's play "Winged Victory" are negligible. These are from David Rose, author of "Holiday for Strings" and patron saint of easy listening (until he wrote "The Stripper" and no doubt caused Red Skelton to swallow his kaddidlehopper). As might be expected from a man Spike Jones parodied he writes the most self-important music with the most showoffy grandiose charts, undercutting whatever patriotic feeling it had. His orchestral yelling even makes "The Army Air Corps" ("Off we go into the wild blue yonder") tiresome, a true negative achievement. It's easy to see why this has never been revived -- and never could be.

Despite its shortcomings of production (and in the last two works of inspiration), this is a fine and valuable recording. Which brings us to Vivendi. When the company revamped its cast-album catalog it decided to price these completely amortized albums at full-line-plus. It's especially galling here as all the selections from "This is the Army" and "Winged Victory" and at least one from "Call Me Mister" have enough surface noise and distortion to indicate they're likely from commercial pressings. Maybe Mr. Bronfman Junior needed the money for his ultimately failed investment; but such gouging underscores the contempt the record business has for its customers, whom it sees as saps whose pockets will empty endlessly when it grabs them face down by the ankles. The public is now richly returning the favor by tuning itself out to the majors and its endless parade of tunelessness. For all the gold-chained clan's howls of denial it isn't good for the record trade -- and in the end, by eviscerating the one stable source for new music, it isn't good for us.

At long last and timely to boot.......2003-09-01

Having scored a triumph during World War I with his "Yip Yip Yaphank," Irving Berlin was a natural to be asked to create a similar revue for World War II, and the all-male "This Is the Army" did very well. An original cast recording came out in 1942. The very next year, the Air Force got its chance with Moss Hart's "Winged Victory." Four of the songs appeared in boxed set of 78 rpm discs. When it was all over, the returning GI was saluted in yet another revue called "Call Me Mister." That original cast album appeared in 1946. Now you can hear them ALL on a single Decca CD (BOOOO831-02).

There is a soundtrack recording from the film "This Is the Army" that is extremely fuzzy, making this Decca release far preferable, all the more so because it does give us the original all-soldier cast that included Irving Berlin himself singing (more or less) his immortal "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." Other songs include "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen," "How About a Cheer For the Navy," and "American Eagles."

The focus here is how men made the transition from civilian to military life, and most of the problems they faced are mentioned in the opening number, "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones." We must also note with some sadness that the real problems of joining an army are never explicit, but the purpose of the show was to reassure and not to look at the "dark side of the force."

"Winged Victory" originally contained only two discs holding four songs: "Winged Victory," "My Dream Book of Memories," "The Whiffenpoof Song," and "The Army Air Corps." That last one thrilled my generation whenever it was played over the radio and especially during the wartime films; and it has lost none of its potency over the years. (The line about going "down in flame" still chills.) This was also the first military revue that included women, a fact which makes it even more of an historical document.

In 1946, Harold Rome lent his talents to putting together a revue for those returning to civilian life. Early in the war, Dinah Shore was able to praise "A Boy in Khaki," but Vaughn Monroe later in the war sang about looking forward to wearing "Just a Blue Serge Suit." I have a particular fondness for this set, because I owned a copy as a boy, played it to death, and eventually lost track of it. I never knew there was a 1950 LP version which included "This Is the Army," and I spent years trying to find the company that held the copyright that would get it onto a tape or (later on) a CD. So 57 years after the album first was released, my prayer has been answered!

The first number, sung by Lawrence Winters (a great portrayer of Porgy, by the way), takes place aboard a "Going Home Train" and is replete with optimism. A sketch in which a group of men are waiting to be assigned work for the day included Winter's rendition of "The Red Ball Express" on which the Black GIs carried supplies to the troops. He is the only one denied work at the end of the scene. We had an even older enemy than the Nazis to face.

A young newcomer named Betty Garrett delighted audiences with "Little Surplus Me" and "Yuletide, Park Avenue" in which many of the New York shops are mentioned in Christmas carol style. But it was her rendition of "South America, Take It Away" that brought down the house and raised her to stardom.

You get the expected comic number, "Military Life," sung by Jules Munshin (remember him from the film "On the Town"?) and two other men, while Winters sings "A Face on a Dime," a song that needs some explaining to those who were born after the minting of the "Roosevelt Dime." "Along With Me" and the full version of "When We Meet Again" are the ballads, while the title song acts as a finale number.

The press release announces, "Decca Broadway Salutes the Troops With the CD Release of Three World War II Musical Revues." The current situation, I am sure, helped prompt the release of this set; but whatever the reason, I am absolutely delighted it is finally available. The songs are mostly excellent examples of their kind, the lyrics for the most part clever and powerful, the historical value great. I really suggest that History Departments take notice and get a copy. All the textbook accounts of the war never give the human side of things, and this CD will go a long way to letting the present young generation know how we faced all-too-familiar problems back then.

Book Yourself Solid - The 7 Keys To Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even If You Hate Marketing And Selling
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Book Yourself Solid - The 7 Keys To Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even If You Hate Marketing And Selling

Manufacturer: Michael Port & Associates LLC
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000623MF2
Release Date: 2004-06-09

Album Description

Introducing Michael Port's newly released no-nonsense, results oriented Book Yourself Solid- The 7 Keys To Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even If You Hate Marketing And Selling. In 3 easy listening CDs, Michael's fun and outrageous style teaches you insider techniques guaranteed to get you high paying clients. The result… more time, freedom and financial security for you and your family. Book Yourself Solid guarantees your business will be overflowing with clients you love working with in just 90 days.

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Book of Hate
Kathleen Yearwood
Manufacturer: Subterranean
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00005V7FI
Release Date: 1994-08-08

Tracks:

Peggy Gordon
Tam Lin
Who Killed Phillip?
Night Falls
Pastorale
By Any Other Name
Lost My Way
Panik in the Cattle-Pen
Louis Riel's Farewell
Amsterdam Street
For Jesse Bernstein
Fiery Heart

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Hate Book
Alice's Tin Pony
Manufacturer: MCS
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000MAFD3W

Product Description

10 Tracks

Average customer rating:

Something grand from a true Northerner

BOOK of HATE

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00005USR1
Release Date: 1994-09-01

Tracks:

Peggy Gordon
Tam Lin
Who Killed Phillip?
Night Falls
Pastorale
By Any Other Name
Lost My Way
Panik in the Cattle-Pen
Louis Riels' Farewell
Amsterdam Street
For Jesse Bernstein
Fiery Heart

Album Description

While a lot of contemporary music is created to be easier to swallow than creamed baby food, Kathleen Yearwood's music goes down like razor blades. She brings such intensity and honesty to her work that it makes me shiver. In her songs, she pushes the boundaries to the edge -- lyrically, emotionally and instrumentally. She performs in a way very few other artists have the courage to.Kathleen was born in Alberta, and she lives there still. Her first professional appearances were as a 12 year-old in a Calgary coffeehouse. She was paid to go on stage and just make things up. A few years later, she was in Montreal, studying physics and the physiology of music at McGill and Concordia. Along the way, she has released a series of cassettes and CDs. Her last CD, Book of Hate, came with liner notes saying "feel free to make copies for your friends... and enemies."

Customer Reviews:

Something grand from a true Northerner.......2003-06-18

Kathleen Yearwood won't likely make it to the grammys or even beyond campus/community radio stations... not because her music doesn't deserve to but because the gap between cool and her music hasn't been bridged... YET! A true poet and thought provoking artist I can only recommend this albumn to adventurous souls who yearn for greener pastures beyond the safe main stay of commercial schlock and drole. To label this albumn folk misses the mark horribly. To pigeon hole it with alternative rock at this point of alt. rock definition would be insulting. I can only give you a rough idea of what you'll find by misleading you and suggesting this release is a mongrel hybrid between Babes in Toyland and Buffy Ste. Marie. Thank you Kathleen from the bottom of my heart.

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