Gee

Track Listings

1. Gee

2. I Love You So

3. No Help Wanted

4. I Really Really Love You

5. Miss You

6. Baby Doll

7. Untrue

8. Call the Doctor

9. Mambo Shevitz

10. Sweet Sue

Gee,The Crows,Collectables,Doo Wop,Oldies,Pop,R&B,United States of America

Gee

Tracks:

Sabre Jet (Ralph Rebel)
Continental Theme (The Boss Martians)
Side Slippin (The Supertones)
Bad News (The Volcanos)
Stella Vista (The Coffin Daggers)
Black Boots & Bikes (The Krontjong Devils)
Shangai Surf (The Supertones)
Codename: Gypsy (The Penetrators)
Caught in the Undertow (The Retroliners)
Surf Hammer Live (Big Ray and The Futuras)
The Sweet Ride (The Supertones)
The Rafter (The Krontjong Devils)
The Wayback Machine (The Honkeys)
Pogo a Gogo (The Apemen)
Sand Pumper Live (The Supertones)
Malaguena (The Boss Martians)
James Bond (Ralph Rebel)
50 Bucks A Midget (The Penetrators)
Sol Si Do Si Mi Re La (Estrume'n'tal)
Bullseye (Footstompin Trio)
Avenue X (The Coffin Daggers)
The World We Knew (The Krontjong Devils)
The Wet Set (The Supertones)
Horrorscope (Big Ray and The Futuras)
Good / Evil (The Honkeys)
Run Chicken Run/Rawhide '63 (Footstompin Trio)
1000 ft. rd. (The Supertones)
Apollo (The Del-Vamps)
Step Lively! (The Retroliners)
It's So Easy (Johnny and The Shamen)
Bolero (Estrume'n'tal)
Sea & Shore (The Untamed Youth)

Album Description

The BEST surf instro CD of the year with 32 tracks of the coolest Surf music from Golly Gee Records and Double Crown Records. With almost 80 minutes of music from 15 of today's hottest Surf Instro bands - You need to own this disc. All killer - no filler!

Customer Reviews:

Good songs.......2007-04-04

You take Bullseye, The Wayback Machine, and James Bond, and listen to those. They are good cuts. Then the rest, some of which I really don't like. But you take those three, maybe a couple more - it's worth the discount price. For those, I'd recommend it. I put two of those on one of my mix cds right along with my remixes of Metallica live (SnD), Sabbath live (Into Void), Nugent (Please Don't), etc. And I can get tired of those, and never much listen to the lyrics at all. But I like listening to Bullseye and Wayback, over and over again. I'm very partial to guitar intrumentals, with some 'groove' and energy.

THERE'S NO DENYING.......2006-10-26

THAT THIS SURF MUSIC CD GETS YOU GOING. I AGREE WITH ONE OF THE OTHER REVIEWERS THAT THE SONGS MAY AT TIMES SEEM A BIT FORMULAIC, NEVERTHELESS IT IS STILL PRETTY GOOD AND BETTER THAN MOST OF THE CRAP YOU WOULD HEAR ON THE RADIO NOWADAYS. SO IT GETS AND EXTRA STAR FOR THAT BY ITSELF. HOWEVER, THERE IS NOT ONE CUT ON THIS CD THAT IS TRULY ORIGINAL.......AND IT LOSES A STAR FOR THAT!

why surf music died.......2006-07-28

While this may sound negative for the sake of bashing, i grew up with surf music and really like it. Heck I play it (as i imagine some of the people interested in this genre might too). WHile ther are one or four somewhat intersting cuts- this is quantity not quality surf.

Back in the day there werent as many super guitarists, but lots of pretty competant guys....well this cd shows that these cuts seem to be emulating that level of playing and creativity.

The best of the genre is great-this cd is a sampler of Golly Gees and Crown records 'stable'-personally i think it is stale and uncreative-kind of a modern surf thrash-suitable for modern day movie sound tracks-ie -I-IV-V's with insipid repeating hooks and bashing drums, the ballad in minor, but nothing taking the genre someplace new and better, or taking the old and putting a great new twist on it. Just my opinion.

I wouldnt buy this again, as I really found it formulaic and an imitation of the genre with little new or inspiring. and next time ill listen to more cuts more carefully before buying. The sound quality however is quite good, as are the catchy tune titles and group names.

surf mania!.......2004-04-11

The title of this alblum sounds a bit cheesy but the music in the CD is excellent. The songs sound much better on my stereo than the little speakers in my computer. This CD is a champ as far as giving you your moneys worth of songs. I could not find any songs I did not like to listen to and was very impressed with the Supertones songs on the alblum. While not quite as authentic as real 60's surf music I find the collection of songs here to be some of the very best of whats offered today in the modern day surf guitar sound.

This is a Great CD!.......2003-12-20

I picked this CD up after I purchased the other Golly Gee release "Rockabilly Rumble". Someone had recommended it and since "Rockabilly Rumble" was such a great record, I had to have this one as well. I was not disappointed at all. This is an incredible CD with almost and hour and a half of music! No boring tracks at all - and surf music can be boring. After listening to it all the way through I had to listen again and again. "War of The Surf Guitars" is definitely worth buying - even if you live in Texas and can't see the ocean ; )

Ultimate Broadway II: The Very Best of Broadway Now

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redux
Moderate Quality
POOR EXCUSE FOR SOME GOOD THEATER MUSIC

Ultimate Broadway II: The Very Best of Broadway Now
Various Artists
Manufacturer: RCA Victor Broadway
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000092Q7E
Release Date: 2003-05-20

Tracks:

Overture (from Gypsy) - London Cast Recording
Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote) - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ernie Sabella
Run, Freedom, Run! - Hunter Foster
Your Daddy's Son - Ted Sperling, Ragtime Orchestra
Music Of The Night (From The Phantom Of The Opera) - Colm Wilkinson
All That Jazz (from "Chicago") - Bebe Neuwirth
Gimme Gimme - Michael Rafter
La boh; Act I; O soave fanciulla - Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Montserrat Caball
Next Best Thing To Love - Randy Graff
Cabaret - Natasha Richardson
Springtime For Hitler (From "The Producers") - John Morris, Mel Brooks
Losing My Mind - Barbara Cook
Time Warp - Raparza
Oklahoma!; Oklahoma - Finale: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (Reprise) - Musical Cast Recording
Breeze Off the River - Patrick Wilson
Big Spender - Jane Lanier, Valarie Pettiford, Shannon Lewis, Kim Greene, Kim Morgan, Dana Moore, Rachelle Rak, Elizbeth Parkinson, Dede LaBarre, Mary Ann Lamb, Mary McLeod
Gee Officer Krupke - Cast
Agony - Paul Gemignani
Bring Him Home (from Les Miserables) - Colm Wilkinson, Colm
Lullaby of Broadway (from "42nd Street") - John Lesko, Jerry Orbach

Customer Reviews:

redux.......2007-07-06

Four of the songs on this CD (Oklahoma, Music of the Night, Cabaret, and All That Jazz) were on the earlier Ultimate Broadway. Of all the shows that have been on Broadway over the past 70+ years, including the ones that are currently running, there is no excuse for repeats!

Moderate Quality.......2003-06-20

I believe that the show selection for this CD was excellent. However the song selection and song order were not. Why pick "Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime when you can have the amazing and fantastic "Prologue" from the same show. Also I believe that a mistake was made by slecting "I Don Quixote" from Man of La Mancha instead of the much more listenable "Impossible Dream." Also the overture from Gypsy is not the proper song to start out a CD. Perhaps the "Overture" from The Phantom of the Opera.

This is however an excellent example of showtunes for inexperienced members of the theatrical world.

POOR EXCUSE FOR SOME GOOD THEATER MUSIC.......2003-05-20

The best of Broadway? Sure, if you consider the best of Broadway only those songs taken only from RCA Victor cast recordings. Expect the expected: Tracks from "Ragtime," "Chicago," "42nd Street" and "Man of La Mancha," sung by the likes of Audra
McDonald, Bebe Neuwirth, Jerry Orbach and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Including a live recording of Barbara Cook warbling "Losing My Mind" from her "Mostly Sondheim" CD isn't exactly kosher. But then again, neither is this gimmick-riddled release. Curtain up?
Half-way, maybe. Light the lights? Dim them, please.

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A Wonderful Collection
Traditional & Modern, Russian & Global.
!
What's on this CD

The Best of Shostakovich

Manufacturer: Naxos
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The Best of Fauré

ASIN: B0000014HZ
Release Date: 1999-06-22

Tracks:

Festive Overture, Op. 96
The Gadfly, Film Score Suite, Op. 97a: Interlude
The Gadfly, Film Score Suite, Op. 97a: Barrel-Organ Waltz
The Gadfly, Film Score Suite, Op. 97a: Galop
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Symphony No. 1 In F Minor, Op. 10: Allegro
String Quartet in No. 4 in D major, Op. 83: Andantrino
Symphony No. 9 In E Flat Major, Op. 70: Allegro
Piano Trio No. 2 In E Minor, Op. 67: Largo
Symphony No. 5 In D Minor, Op. 47: Allegro Non Troppo

Customer Reviews:

A Wonderful Collection .......2005-12-17

This is an excellent sampling of the music of one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century, displaying a wide range of emotion, from the enthusiasm of the first selection, the Festive Overture, to the soaring lyrical beauty of the Romance (track 5), to the poetry of the andante movement of the Piano Concerto No. 2 (track 9), to the slow, deep, intensity of the Largo movement of the Piano Trio No. 2 (track 13), very movingly performed by the Stockholm Arts Trio.

At the same time that the various musical selections exhibit Shostakovich's range and diversity, they are nonetheless arranged in such a way that the listener doesn't experience any unpleasant impact from the sudden change in tempo that occurs, for example, when the Romance in track 5 ends, and the very next selection is the highly energetic allegro movement from the Symphony No. 10. Rather, the feeling is one of stimulation and excitement as one moves, from one selection to the next, through the wonderful variety of Shostakovich's compositions.

The quality of the musicianship on every track is first rate, including the selections played by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and its talented conductor, Theodore Kuchar. The andante movemont of the Piano Concerto No. 2 is a slice of musical heaven, played wonderfully by pianist Michael Houston and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. There is power, intensity, tenderness, subtlety, and great beauty in the wonderful performances on this very reasonably priced CD. The sound engineering is also first rate, with crystal clear sound and excellent balance of the instruments. For those who want to hear a greater number of selections from this composer, Naxos has now released the two-CD "The Very Best of Shostakovitch."

Amongst the "Best of" or "Greatest Hits of" classical music CD's that I have, this is one of the best. Highly recommended.

Traditional & Modern, Russian & Global........2003-03-21

This CD opens a door for me to explore the huge music treasure of Shostakovich. I love every piece of music on this CD. "The Gadfly" film score suit is especially beautiful and performed by first-class musicians in National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. There is too little, this is the only problem with this CD to me.

!.......2000-07-13

Pursuant to the previous review: Since there is now a listing supplied, I guess that the disc should now be considered a five star masterpiece.

What's on this CD.......1999-04-14

I'm not reviewing the CD, I'm reviewing your listing. What's with this "Best of" title where I can't find out what's on the CD. Better info please.

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Rock-A-Billy Rowdy
Phenomenal CD! Great Rockabilly!!
I really wanted to like this cd but.........
Really Happy About Buying This CD
Fantastic Rockabilly

Rockabilly Rumble
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Golly Gee
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Billy 1

ASIN: B000068D5V
Release Date: 2002-05-01

Tracks:

Bop Party (Bill Fadden & The Silvertone Fliers - Bop Party)
Rock n' Roll Boogie (Peter and The Wolves - Trouble With Girls)
Hello Baby (Blue Flames - Memphis to Chicago)
Misunderstood (The Long Island Hornets - Roadkill)
Pink n' Black Cadillac (The Wildkatz - Pink n' Black)
Red T Bird (The Rebel Rockers - Red T Bird)
Soda Shop Rock (Jive Romeros - Bim Bam!)
Set 'em Up Joe (Ralph Rebel - Big Town Boogie)
Steamhammer Jones (The Slingshots - Feels So Right)
Mean Little Mama (The Spinouts - Cruisin At Night)
Ace of Spades (Union Avenue - Ace of Spades)
Two Tone Shoes (The Long Island Hornets - Roadkill)
Blackberry Boogie (The Accelerators - Right Behind You Baby)
'51 Chevy (Ralph Rebel - Rockabilly Vampire)
Starlight (The Preachers - Rock You Sinners)
Girl of My Dreams (Peter and The Wolves - Trouble With Girls)
Track Down Baby (Tennessee Trio - Track Down Baby)
Rockabilly Vampire (Ralph Rebel - Rockabilly Vampire)
Honky Tonkin (The Dagmars - We are The Dagmars...)
Rock n Roll Zombie (The Rebel Rockers - Red T Bird)
Surfin Crow (The Arousers - Princes of Penetration)
Rebel Rouser (Ralph Rebel - Surfin & Rockin)
Dopey Frutti (Riverside Trio - Gotta Keep Movin)
Red Hot and Real Gone (The Spinouts - Cruisin At Night)

Album Description

A red-hot 24-track Rockabilly joint sampler of the best of Golly Gee Records and Raucous Records. It's THE Rockabilly disc to buy, with over an hour of music from more than 15 of the US and UK's hottest Rockabilly bands. All killer - no filler!

Customer Reviews:

Rock-A-Billy Rowdy.......2007-02-07

If you like the newer Punk/Rebel Rock-A-Billy you'll like this disc.

I play a few of the cuts off it on the rock-a-billy review radio show from time to time.

The Mean Eyed Cat
KNON 89.3
Dallas, Texas

Phenomenal CD! Great Rockabilly!!.......2006-04-16

I picked up this CD recently together with Rockabilly Rumble Deuce. Golly Gee Records and Raucous Records have put together a winner here. Fantastic modern rockabilly music that has high quality production but with a vintage feel. 24 tracks and an hour's worth of great rockabilly music - this is a deal! There wasn't one bad cut on the record. Purchase with confidence and get ready to bop and jive!

I really wanted to like this cd but................2005-10-15

I eagerly awaited the arrival of this cd wanting to hear some new rockabilly bands I was not familiar with, but I was severly dissapointed. The quality of the tracks on this cd are mediocre at best and some are just downright bad, the two standout tracks are red hot and real gone by the spinouts(great tune, good hook, excellent slap bass, guitar interplay)The other standout is girl of my dreams,by peter and the wolves very Elvis, Maries the Name era early sixties sounding. The majority of the other tunes are just dowright pitiful.If you are new to the rockabilly scene, a few helpful suggestions, The Stray Cats, The Blasters, Robert Gordon, The Planet Rockers, Sun era and 56-59 Elvis, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, the list goes on and on of better spent dollars on QUALITY rockabilly music, apologies to these artists, but if this is the current state of rockabilly, please somebody help us!!!!!!

Really Happy About Buying This CD.......2005-08-22

If you are a Rockabilly fan and just want to have a few CD's in your collection, then this is definitely a great place to start. I love rockabilly, but aside from one Stray Cats CD I didn't own a rockabilly CD until I found this one. It has a little bit of everything and it never gets tiresome. An awsome CD.

Fantastic Rockabilly.......2004-01-10

My comments mirror exactly what Jack Barry said in his review. I I have always loved rockabilly music, but I have found that most of the modern bands do not quite get it right. They seem to over-do it a bit, and get too wild. But this is not the case with Rockabilly Rumble CD. This is the best compilation album of modern rockabilly music that I have ever heard.

It is a sampler of the various artists on the Golly Gee and Raucous Labels. Every track is great - some are terrific. My favorite bands are the Slingshots, Spinouts, Ralph Rebel, Peter & The Wolves, Riverside Trio, Rebel Rockers, and Jive Romeros.

The liner notes identify the particular album each track was taken from. I then went back onto the Amazon website to see if my favorite items were available. I ended up placing an order today for 5 additional CDs (2 of them are by Ralph Rebel). So this can serve as a warning that this experience can get expensive. However it is well worth the price for this terrific rockabilly music. I am now looking forward to receiving the individual CDs by these great artists.

Aphrodite
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King of beats and improv

Surprisingly good, gets annoying at the end

fine craft

The funkiest Drum & Bass I have ever heard !

love those funky beats

Aphrodite
Aphrodite
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Egil Music Presents: Urban Jungle

The 6ixth Session

Urban Junglist

At Close Range: Mix CD

ASIN: B000020610
Release Date: 1999-10-26

Tracks:

Interlude
Cross Channel
Spice (Even Spicier)
B.M. Funkster
Interlude
Rincing Quince (Slider Mix)
Style From The Dark Side '99
Interlude
Cool Flight
Stalker
King Of The Beats
Listen To The Rhythm
Music's Hypnotising (Re-Charged)
Woman That Rolls
Summer Breeze

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As a guy who puts out 12-inch jungle singles on a regular basis, Aphrodite has found himself in a rut in the three years leading up to this release. As the partycentric "jump-up" style he favors began settling into a formula, he cranked out three or four duff tracks for every dance-floor stormer he's come up with. By this point, his disdain for experimentation is beginning to seem less like a principle and more like a dodge. Nearly every track that emerges from his camp relies on the same tambourine loop and wobbly bass line--though with a different rap sample thrown in to distinguish them. So consider his stateside debut album something of a surprise. Jumbling together tracks old and new, Aphrodite has put together an absolutely convincing summary of what he does and why. From "B.M. Funkster," which blatantly samples the O'Jays's "Money," to "Summer Breeze," which roughs up the immortal Seals & Crofts pop tune, Aphrodite doesn't exactly court subtlety. This is unapologetic dance music, too committed to moving the crowd to advance the science of jungle technology. When it doesn't work it has nothing else going for it to keep your interest. But when it's on--and this record is on--the music doesn't need anything else. --Jeff Salamon

Album Details

Gavin King (Aka Aphrodite), Renowned Remixer for Such Diverse Greats As: Tribe Called Quest, Ice Cube, Luniz, Jungle Bros, Nine Inch Nails and Moby. His First Album for V2 Records; Compilation of Highlights from the Aphrodite Rec Vaults.

Customer Reviews:

King of beats and improv.......2003-12-30

Highlights:
The first track I really like on this album is the first track on the album, which is one of three interludes, also known as "Tower Tronic". It is a very relaxing instrumental, and it captures the spirit of Enya in a drum and bass rhythm. It makes for an interesting introduction, and it is probably my favorite track on the album.

The second track I really like is called Spice. it doesn't have very many lyrics, but I like the few it does have. I like the repeated and sporadic whispering of the word "spice". This track is my favorite track that isn't an interlude. It has a magical sort of quality to it.

The last favorite of mine is called Woman That Rolls. It has a very good beat, and it is hella catchy. I like the sound clip that he mixes in the song where he says "I need a woman that rolls with my arrangement".

What first time listeners might think/experience:
Most people have never heard or even heard of drums and bass/jungle. What it is is techno sounds with the sounds of a drum kit and a heavy beat, with a lot of emphasis placed on the beat. Instrumentation is more important than lyrics are in the genre. The songs are usually either completely instrumental or there isn't much to the lyrics, which often are something that is repeated and remixed into the song over and over, often in different ways.

An unexperienced listener would probably say that this guy stuck a bunch of musical tracks in some sort of imaginary sound blender, put the lid on, turned on the blender, and then, suddenly, ripped the cover off.. The resulting sound would be an Aphrodite track. Yes, that is what it sounds like on the surface... Everything seems sporadic, varying, unplanned.. but you may realize that it sounds professional.. it sounds alright.. It doesn't sound like a total piece of S#!T.. at all.. It is beautiful and great.. It's because he knows what he is doing..

For experienced listeners:
Simply to say, this guy is the master of improvisation. He knows all the rules.. he follows them.. yet, to your ears, it sounds like he's breaking rules, because there is so much going on. I've noticed one important feature. AT LEAST ONE beat/melody at a given remains constant. It may be hard to notice at times, but it is always true. The reason it is so hard to notice is because there are up to around 5 other tracks being played that are varying at a given time... What is weird and special about Aphrodite is that even in the variations there is much consistency.. if you listen closely enough you can tell that there was a lot of planning, practice, and preparation involved in this guy's work. I given Gavin a lot of credit because he knows his improv.. he obviously had musical training and education... Not only that, but he makes something so consistent seem so varying.. so inconsistent... he's really good at fooling people's ears.. especially someone who doesn't listen closely.

That's about all. Happy listening.

Surprisingly good, gets annoying at the end.......2003-07-22

Not being the biggest d&b fan, I was completely suprised to be enthralled by this album at the outset. What a groove, great bass track, never boring, seldom repetitious. Until the end of the album, where it seemed to fall a little short (otherwise, 5 stars). A worthy purchase nonetheless.

fine craft.......2002-05-03

Finally, somebody told a story. That is all i have to say.

The funkiest Drum & Bass I have ever heard !.......2001-10-03

I am usally only into Breaks and some Trance but this CD is different from any other D&B mix I have ever heard. It is funky as hell and rocks the house. You do not have to be a fan of this genre to enjoy this CD. It is unique and very good.
If you have two ears and and an understanding for good electronic music you will enjoy this one.

love those funky beats.......2001-09-06

Aphrodite is a master of funky jungle, and this disk is nonstop.

Tracks:

Cause I Love You
Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes)
A Love Of My Own
(Mama, Mama) Wish Me Good Luck
I'll Bring It Home To You
What A Fool I've Been
I've Got No Time To Lose
A Boy Named Tom
A Woman's Love
How Do You Quit (Someone You Love)
Stop! Look What You're Doing
Let Me Be Good To You
B-A-B-Y
What Have You Got To Offer Me
Something Good (Is Going To Happen To You)
When Tomorrow Comes
Tramp
Lovey Dovey
I'll Always Have Faith In You
Pick Up The Pieces
I've Fallen In Love
I Like What You're Doing (To Me)

Customer Reviews:

Can a real Carla Thomas stand up please?.......2001-11-02

Carla Thomas was essentially a balad singer in heart who started with "Gee Whiz" and "Mama,Mama Wish Me Good Luck",just to be pushed in more commercial vein of "Stax" sound,the role of sexy seductive soul-godess that never suited her and lady herself (in liner notes) noted that 1966. was the moment when her music became more hit-heavy but strangely detached from her real personality.As the result,this 22 songs-compilation is almost a schizoprenic split of personality between early,young and romantic Thomas and later horn-bass-rhytm drenched "Stax" product,hit material that perhaps showed more of Thomas acting ability than her real vision of herself as a singer."Stax" was excellent company that produced exciting and energetic music,but it was a man's world (Sam & Dave,Otis Redding,Isaac Hayes...) and Thomas sweet voice & gentle personality would have much better suited to Dionne Warwick/Diana Ross/Mary Wells style - I have impression that while she gave "Stax" its first big kick with "Gee Whiz",the company slowly but surely pushed her in the back while changing music direction towards rhytmic numbers and her "Gee Whiz" was more of a past relic than something the company wanted to pursue.True,the second part of this CD compilation is recognisable "Stax" music but I can't shake the feeling that Carla Thomas was not there completely and she had just listen Isaac Hayes instructions.

GEE WHIZ.......2000-01-03

this song gee whiz was one of the most moving love songs ever to come out of my radio in my 1957 chevy while watching the submarine races at plumb beach Bklyn NY with my girl...

I Remember the Artist.......1999-12-29

I was in college with Carla Thomas at Tenn. State University in Nashville, TN. in 1960-61. I remember her singing at a talent show there and really thought she was great. I felt that she would turn professional with the great voice she had. My brother also knows her father, Rufus Thomas.

Léhar: The Land of Smiles; The Merry Widow; The Count of Luxembourg (Highlights)

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Arguably "The Best" English "Merry Widow "

Léhar: The Land of Smiles; The Merry Widow; The Count of Luxembourg (Highlights)

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Arguably "The Best" English "Merry Widow ".......2006-09-12

This is the "Merry Widow" with English translation by Christopher Hassel sung by June Bronhill. I loved this rendition ever since I first heard it in about 1960. What's to love? First the translation is the best I've heard. The language doesn't sound "stilted" as some others. And, you can understand almost every word sung. Plus, the famous song, "Vilja" has some wording that moves me every time I hear it: The soprano sings, "Love me and I'll DIE for you!" with the word "die" somewhat emphasized. I don't know, there's just something "powerful" about someone saying they'd "die" for love! AND, at the end of "Vilja" the chorus and soprano raise to a crescendo hitting a high note together. In many renditions the chorus is heard but not the soprano on the final high note. In THIS version, the soprano, June Bronhill, can be heard rising to the final high note with an incressing crescendo and fortissimo louder than the chorus and holding the final high note---which gives a very thrilling effect as she holds that final note, I assure you!

The "problem" is that this June Bronhill, Reid, and Hassel version is hard to find on CD. For example, this CD is made in Holland and "there is one left" so it says on Amazon. But, if you can find it, I think it would be very much worth a listen. Then, after hearing it, if you think there's a "better" Merry Widow, please let ME know! Thanks. Email:boland7214@aol.

How We Got Over: Sacred Songs of Gee's Bend

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How We Got Over: Sacred Songs of Gee's Bend

Manufacturer: Tinwood Media
ProductGroup: Classical
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000M5GDY0

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Gee's Bend is a small rural community nestled into a curve in the Alabama River southwest of Selma, Alabama. Founded in antebellum times, it was the site of cotton plantations, primarily the lands of Joseph Gee and his relative Mark Pettway, who bought the Gee estate in 1850. After the Civil War, the freed slaves took the name Pettway, became tenant farmers for the Pettway family, and founded an all-black community nearly isolated from the surrounding world. During the Great Depression, the federal government stepped in to purchase land and homes for the community, bringing strange renown as an "Alabama Africa" to this sleepy hamlet. The town's women developed a distinctive, bold, and sophisticated quilting style based on traditional American (and African American) quilts, but with a geometric simplicity reminiscent of Amish quilts and modern art. The women of Gee's Bend passed their skills and aesthetic down through at least six generations to the present. In 2002, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in partnership with the nonprofit Tinwood Alliance, of Atlanta, presented an exhibition of seventy quilt masterpieces from the Bend. The exhibition, entitled "The Quilts of Gee's Bend," is accompanied by a documentary video on the Gee's Bend quilters and a double-CD of Gee's Bend gospel music from 1941 and 2002. CD 1 contains 18 recordings made in July 1941 by Robert Sonkin. CD 2 features 19 recordings made by Steve Grauberger in 2002. The 16 page booklet contains notes by Matt Arnett and photographs of the quilters and their quilts.

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West Side Story (Ms)
Leonard Bernstein
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000084H8X
Release Date: 2003-05-13

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Perhaps the Best Bach Orchestration EVER
Markevitch's Elegant 'Musical Offering' Orchestration

Bach/Markevitch: The Musical Offering
Lyndon-Gee , Arnhem Po , and Bach
Manufacturer: Marco Polo
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ASIN: B0000X7KEQ
Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

I. Ricercare A 3 Voci
Tema
Canon A 2, Cancrizans
Canon Perpetuus Super Thema Regium
Per Motum Contrarium
Canon In Unisono
Per Motum Contrarium (Quaerendo Invenietis)
Per Motum Contrarium: Inversus Var. Vae
Fuga Canonica In Epidiapente
Per Augmentationem Contrario Motu
Canon Per Tonos
Canon Perpetuus A 4
Largo
Allegro (With Orchestral Interpolations)
Andante
Allegro Giusto ('Canon Concertante', I.E. Canon Perpetuus)
Tempo Di Giga
IV. Fuga (Ricercar) A 6 Voci

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Perhaps the Best Bach Orchestration EVER.......2005-07-31

(Note Bene: If you are new to The Musical Offering, as I was before purchasing this recording, read the book "Evening in the Palace of Reason" to learn the inside story of this fascinating work. As well as a dio biography with alternating chapters on Bach and Frederich the Great (whose motives for instigating this work, as the author claims, may have been suspect and bordering on the sadistic, as was Frederich's wont), the author gives an invaluable insight on the inner workings of this piece and what Bach may have been truly trying to communicate in it. If reading about Bach's life bores you, skip those chapters. The book is well worth it regardless. (Frederich's life was both more eventful and profoundly more disturbing.))

In 1949-50, Igor Marketvitch rearraned some of the canons in this fascinating work of Bach's to form them into a theme-and-variations movement and orchestrated the whole piece for antiphonal strings, cor anglais, bassoon, flute and harpsichord. The trio sonata, which Bach wrote with Frederich the Great's prowess on the flute in mind, is left as an instrumental piece for flute, solo violin and harpsichord after an introductory for foll strings. The Ricercar for three voices, which Bach improvised for Frederich on a theme the monarch provided and may have been intended to be deliberately impossible for Bach to treat in his polyphonic style, is an opening movement and the Ricercar for six voices, which Frederich also requested but Bach wrote later, realizing doing so on the sxpot was far above even his improvisatory powers, is used as the finale for the whole work.

Christopher Lyndon-Gee states in the notes state that Nadia Boulanger, Marketvitch's teacher, completed the harpsuchord part for Markevitch's fellow student Dinu Lipatti to play but Lipatti died before Boulanger was finished. Lyndon-Gee complains that this keyboard part is anachronistic due to its being overly
pianistic but it works perfectly fine for me as a consort for the
other two instrumentalists.

The whole arrangement is extremely tasteful, much lighter in overall approach than most Bach orchestral arrangements while adding color and texture. The effect is like seeing a set of expert watercolors instead of the the bright oils of Stokowski et al. Lyndon-Gee writes that Markevitch was happy with this arrangement -- for good reason -- and recorded it himself twice.

Lyndon-Gee was familiar to me from his excellent Naxos recordings of George Rochberg's Violin Concerto and Fifth Symphony, and he does an equally fine job here -- perhaps a little too stately at times but perfectly acceptable. The Arnhen Philharmonic, which was new to me, is an extremely adept group whose clarity and tone -- just dry enough to complement Bach's music but with a wonderful tone in ensemble passages -- is perfect for this piece

Don't hesitate on this disc. Buy it.

Markevitch's Elegant 'Musical Offering' Orchestration.......2004-05-16

Igor Markevitch (1912-1983) is known to us these days almost exclusively as a conductor; some will remember him as an excellent teacher of conducting and composition. But few have heard his music, not surprisingly since he stopped composing at age 29 and did not promote his music much after that. He wrote, 'I would say to you, very frankly, that I am objective enough to claim that there is music which needs to be heard before mine, and for which the need is more urgent. Apart from that, if my works are good enough, they can wait: and if they cannot wait, it is pointless to play them.' Thanks to Marco Polo the time has come to hear his music. This is volume 7 of a project to record his complete orchestral music. And if I'm not mistaken, the one I've been most waiting for (having only ever heard a portion of it, 'L'Envol d'Icare,' before) is next in line, his moving 'Icare,' generally acknowledged to be his masterpiece.

This CD contains Markevitch's elegant orchestration (and completion of the unfinished portions) of one of Bach's miraculous final works, 'The Musical Offering.' Many artists have made completions and orchestrations of the work, beginning with Johann Philipp Oley in 1763 and including such masters as Webern and Busoni. I have long loved the orchestration recorded by Karl Munchinger and coupled with Graeser's completion of 'Art of Fugue.' But that is a performance in high romantic style with lush strings and 19th-century expression. Here, however, we have a much leaner sound, partly due to Markevitch's orchestration and partly due to the style of playing exercised by the Arnhem Philharmonic under Christopher Lyndon-Gee, whose recordings I've come to treasure in recent months.

I'm not musicologist enough to comment about Markevitch's completions of the missing portions of Bach's work. All I can say is that they sound right and satisfying to me. He reorders the movements and conflates the randomly organized canons into a single movement. The work was originally published, along with the two separate Ricercars on the same theme, as '1. Two Fugues, 2. a Sonata, and 3. various Canons.' Markevitch inserts one of the canons (No. 8) into the Sonata as its fourth movement prior to the Gigue. He terms the conflated remaining nine canons as 'Theme with Variations,' doubling one of them (Quaerendo invenietis) into linked versions, one of which is the inversion of the other. (I'm paraphrasing from the excellent booklet notes written by conductor Lyndon-Gee.) The two Ricercars stand as the opening and closing movements of what now looks like this: 1. Ricercar a 3, 2. Theme with Variations (the Canons movement), 3. Sonata, 4. Ricercar a 6. I have to say this makes for a very satisfying experience.

I've probably played this disc a dozen times now. It has haunted me even in my sleep. (I suppose some will want to psychoanalyze that, but so be it.) This is incredible music, as I'm sure all will agree, and this completion and performance serve it well.

TT=54:55

Heartily recommended.

Scott Morrison

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