Live and Lively [Live]

Track Listings

1. Show Me

2. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man

3. Get Out of My Life, Woman

4. Wooden Spoon

5. That's Life

6. Love Is a Hurtin' Thing

7. Don't Give Up

8. Woman's Hands

9. You're Gonna Thank Me, Woman

10. Papa Was, Too

11. Skinny Legs and All

Live and Lively,Joe Tex,Get Back Italy,Funk,Pop,R&B,Soul,Southern Soul

Live and Lively [Live]

Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta BOO-2!
Average customer rating:

Wonderful CD for toddlers and up

awesome cd!

Katherine Dines is the best!

Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta BOO-2!
Katherine Dines
Manufacturer: Hunk Ta Bunk Ta
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Royal Bee

ASIN: B00000G1SF
Release Date: 1995-01-15

Tracks:

Its Amazing What You Can Do With Your Brain!
All You Have To Do Is Try
Itchy Itchy Owie Owie Boo Boo
Muscle and Bone
Hey Sam!
All The Way Around The World
No Way Jose!
The Mighty Tree Of Life
The Goobaws
My Best Friend
Read A Book
We Dont Ever Have To Say Goodbye

Album Description

12 imaginative songs that carry engaging messages about the world in which we live. The lively acoustic pop-production motivates little minds and bodies to have fun and to become the best they can be.

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful CD for toddlers and up.......2006-06-02

My three year old son loves this CD and listens over and over. We heard Itchie Itchie Ow one morning and he was singing it that afternoon and I knew we had to get the CD. My husband and I enjoy her voice as well, soft, calming and melodious - easy tunes to remember and about things to which kids can relate. She is somewhat similar to Laurie Berkner but Katherine's songs seem to have more relevance, i.e., kids understand muscles and bones and what itchies and owies are. I agree with the other reviewers; you will be listening several times a day so good thing adults enjoy as well!!

awesome cd!.......2006-05-10

My children and I saw Katherine Dines at our library. She is wonderful! We bought two cd's and this is our favorite! Myself my children and all the kids in the neighborhood love her cd's (3-10yr olds). They always ask for it in the car. Muscle and Bones and Hey Sam are hands down the favorites of this cd. I really enjoy listening myself. You won't be disapointed with this cd.

Katherine Dines is the best!.......2000-09-25

My 2-year-old son has had this CD since he was 10 months old, and he loves it! If Mama doesn't play "Sam" (his name for it) at least once a day, she's in trouble! The songs are easy to learn and remember, the tunes are memorable and--great for this adult who has to listen to it over and over--enjoyable! Dines has a real gift for entertaining children as well as educating, and this collection is one of her best.

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Abe Schwartz -- King of Yiddish Music
Old-Time American Roots Klezmer Music
Joy, Joy, Happy, Happy
Close your eyes and you're at a Jewish wedding
Time warp

Klezmer King
Abe Schwartz
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000066401
Release Date: 2002-04-30

Tracks:

Russishe Shehr - Abe Schwart'z Orchestra
Ch'Sidishe Nigunim (Hasidic Melodies) - Boibriker Kapelle
Die Reize Nuch Amerika (The Trip To America) - Abe Schwartz's Orchestra
Die Greene Cousine (The Greenhorn Girl Cousin) - Abraham Moskowitz
Russian Scissors - Oriental Orchestra
Dovid'l Bazetzt Die Kalleh (Little David Seats The Bride) - Dave Tarras
Gelebt Und Gelacht (Live And Laugh) - Phillip Greenberg
T'Kias 'Shofer Blosen' (Blowing The Ram's Horn) - Sam Beckerman
Hurra! Far Unzer Held Levine (Hurray! For Our Hero Levine) - Irving Grossman
Der Shtiller Bulgar (The Quiet Bulgar) - Jewish Orchestra
Roumanian Doina - Abe Schwartz & His Daughter, Miss Schwartz
Zorg Nit Mama (Don't Worry, Mama) - Abe Schwart'z Orchestra
Hora Midor De Romania (Roumanina Hora) - Unknown Orchestra
Nit Die Hagode, Nor Die Kneidlech (Not The Haggadah, But The Matzo Balls) - Abraham Moskowitz
Frauen Liebe (Lady Love) - Abe Schwartz Orchestra
Akdomes Un Af B'ri (At The Beginning And Daybreak) - Boibriker Kapelle
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Der Automobile - Morris Goldstein
Yosel - Abe Schewartz's Orchestra
A Galitzianer Tenzil (Galician Dance) - Sam Beckerman
Die Boibriker Chasseneh - Pt. 1 (The Boibrik Wedding) - Boibriker Kapelle
Russian Sher - National Dance - Russkij Orkestr 'Novinka'
Mameniu, Liubeniu (Mama, My Beloved) - Abraham Brandwein
Fihren Di Mechutonim Aheim-Tanz (Escorting The Parents Of The Bride And Groom Home) - Naftule Brandwein
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Amazon.com

It would be impossible to overstate Abe Schwartz's influence on the development of klezmer music in America. He was a fine violinist and pianist, an excellent composer, an arranger who added modern instruments like saxophones and banjos to the Old World sound, and a bandleader with a nose for talent who helped launch the careers of Dave Tarras and Naftule Branwein, among others. The Klezmer King collects 25 tracks from the 75 or so sides that Schwartz recorded for Columbia between 1917 and 1935. Schwartz was remarkably versatile, and the selections include traditional dance tunes like "Roumanian Doina," Yiddish pop tunes such as "Die Greene Cousine," which was later a hit for Benny Goodman as "My Little Cousin," and sly social commentary like "Der Automobile." Also here are three versions of the old melody "Russian Sher," which were recorded in 1917, 1927, and 1935. Listening to them, you can trace Schwartz's style as it evolves from its European roots to a more American version of klezmer. The sound quality of these rare recordings is outstanding; there are almost no clicks, pops, or hiss to mar the music. The Klezmer King is an essential recording from one of the pioneers of New World klezmer. --Michael Simmons

Customer Reviews:

Abe Schwartz -- King of Yiddish Music.......2007-02-22

Abe Schwartz was an American klezmer pioneer who discovered such talents as Dave Tarras and Naftule Brandwein as well as inspiring the contemporary klezmer revival bands. Don't miss this collection of his original recordings.

Old-Time American Roots Klezmer Music.......2004-04-15

Abe Schwartz and his orchestra developed and defined klezmer music in America from the mid-1920s up until the 1940s and early '50s. If the beginning sounds of American roots klezmer music is of interest, this is the CD you want. I find that half-way through, my mind wanders. It sounds too schmaltzy for me. I love Central European and Balkan style music ... this CD has diluted versions of this styling. This CD contains Central/East European "cross over" music that is becoming Americanized. In reality it is not quite either, besides the violin, there is the requiste clarinet, other instruments are saxaphone, tuba, piccolo, alto sax, bass sax, drums, and other percussions. The music occasionally sounds like a Balkan Brass band ... fortunately the longing and nostalgia of the klezmer sound, the Jewish roots are evident in all the tracks. The 'sher', 'doina', and 'hora' are types of dance music played by this famous composer, bandleader, and fiddler. My favorite is "Escorting the Parents of the Bride and Groom Home" ("Fihren Di Mechutonim Aheim-Tanz') which features Naftule Brandwein on the clarinet. His improvisations and glissandos are brilliant. The famous klezmer clarinetist, Dave Tarras, is also featured on many of these recordings. "Hasidic Melodies" ("Ch'sidishe Nigunim") is one of my favorite examples of his playing. His command of the clarinet and the creative musical phrasing is phenomenal. "The Greenhorn Girl Cousin" ("Die Green Couisine") is famous for the music, lyrics, and message which brought to the public's attention the bad working conditions in the sweatshops, the first job of immigrants arriving in the USA. It is a catchy tune with Abe Schwartz featured on the violin and Abraham Moskowitz singing the vocals. Spin-offs of this song were written by many including one by Benny Goodman. Overall, if discovering and investigating early klezmer roots music is your goal, this CD will meet your criteria with highest expectations. Otherwise, give me "The Klezmatics", "The Klezmer Conservatory Band" or any modern klezmer group which expresses the music in a more explosive and exciting manner. For me, the modern sound is much more appealing than the early roots which is on this CD. Erika Borsos (erikab93)

Joy, Joy, Happy, Happy.......2004-02-05

I came to Klezmer music via Izaak Perlmann's "In the Fiddler's House," which is one of my all time favorite CDs. I'm just learning about the genre, via other Amazon reviewers, so have just recently arrived at this and other "Klezmer roots" CDs (Dave Tarras, as another reviewer mentions, is also excellent). It's just exceedingly harmonious, well orchestrated, tightly knit music, transported from the old world to the new. The tradition lives on, and an increasing number of us goyim are coming to appreciate it. Sound quality, these can't compete with modern recordings like those of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, or the Klezmatics, but it will definitely give you an idea of where they learned from. Mazaltov!!

Close your eyes and you're at a Jewish wedding.......2003-03-31

If you've ever heard new groups like the Yiddish Cup Klezmer Band and The Klezmatics and marveled at how they got all those great old tunes, look no further. Abe Schwartz, the Klezmer King is now available on CD. Before this, 78 RPM records these were remastered from was the only place you could hear him.

The Klezmer King album is old, both in sound and style. But keep in mind that clarinet klezmer is more of an American thing. This music is a generation or two removed from the original originals. Songs called Russian Sher and Roumanian Doina indicate that, just like today, wedding musicians from the old country were jamming the hits of the day as well as the "Jewish" stuff.

But it was guys like Schwartz, Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers, whom the new wave learned from. But unlike the younger versions, these melodies don't seem to have jazz-like improvisation. They are straight ahead rollickers, heavy on catchy rhythm and melody. There are a total of twenty-five tracks on the album and most are short and fast.

The instruments employed are the violin, played by Schwartz, the clarinet and horns. The beat is so danceable that you forget there's no percussion. That's traditional, because back in the old country, if the klezmorim had any percussion at all it was just a bass drum.

For you Yiddish speakers, The Klezmer King is not all instrumental. There are tracks that start with lively shouts as well as straight singing pieces like Mameniu Liubeniu or the satirical Hurra Far Unzerheld Levine.

Then there's Die Bolbriker Chasseneh, which has Schwartz introducing a bride and groom in between slow music. He raises his voice, half speaking and half singing in rapid-fire Yiddish. Then he gasps out that the couple is now officially married and the band breaks into fast, bouncy jamming. Close your eyes and you can imagine you're one of the guests. That goes for most of the tunes here.

If you didn't know the difference between a bulgar and freilach and nigun before, you better start learning. Abe Schwartz taught long of young folks about what it takes to be a king of klezmer. Companion CDs of Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers are available from Legacy Recordings.

Time warp.......2002-08-11

Listening to the 25 old but timeless cuts on this set of remastered Yiddish greats provides many layers of enjoyment. In hearing these long-forgotten tunes, one enjoys clarinet and violin strains influenced by ancient melodies and traditions. And some will recognize varied renditions of old favorites. The 6th cut, for example, Dovid'l Bazetzt die Kalleh, is engrained into my memory from Jewish Music, a Benedict Silberman recording, circa 1955, of Yiddish orchestrations.

The music is all decidedly Eastern European. The Roumanian Doina, for example, played by Abe Schwartz (violin) and his daughter, strongly resembles the brilliant Rom music generated by the same region.

No wonder. Born in Bucharest, Romania, Abe Schwartz (1881-1963) emigrated to the U.S. with his parents in 1899 and became the most influential composer, fiddler and bandleader to shape and define modern U.S. klezmer groups. He arrived in the musical establishment via an acquaintance from small jobs with David Nodiff, a part-time composer and so-called A&R (for artist and repertoire) man for Columbia Records, who helped bring klezmer and other ethnic musicians to record companies. Nodiff hired Schwartz in 1917 to find new Jewish talent and head up instrumental recording sessions.

This recording provides some of the time and style progression of Yiddish American music from 1917, when Schwartz recorded Russian Scissors for Columbia with the Oriental Orchestra. In 1927, he recorded the same tune again as Russishe Shehr, in a brassier rendition played by his own orchestra. Still a later 1935 version can be heard in Russian Sher National Dance, the 22nd cut, recorded with the Orkestr Novinka. (And that is the most recent recording here.) The musical and stylistic progressions from 1917 and 1918 through 1935 are admirably explained in an accompanying 8-page pamphlet.

This is not the jazzy stuff many will remember from the 1940s and 1950s. It came before the Barry Sisters, before Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras. Abe Schwartz was their mentor.

Tracks:

Time Flies
Hey Jimmy
Up Up Up
Tumbleweed
Burnin' Moonlight
Standing At The Wall
Life Is A Miracle
My Life
Can't See The Light
I'll Be There For You
I Used To Be Lonesome
Forever Young

Album Description

MoonHouse Records is an artist-owned label in Austin Texas, representing Albert and Gage, Christine Albert, and The Red Willow Band. We have a number of projects in the works, and several releases scheduled for 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Burnin Moonlight Shines.......2001-07-29

Albert and Gage sing harmony with passion. Their songwriting is touching and the cover songs they sing such as "Forever Young" and "My Life" seem to be written for them.

Albert and Gage defy classification adding to the charm of their appeal. The original songs such as "Can't See the Light", "Hey Jimmy" and "I'll be There For You" touch my heart and bring occasional goosebumps as I listen to them.

Tracks:

Show Me
Do Right Woman
Get Out Of My Life Woman
Wooden Spoon
Thats Life
Loves A Hurtin Thing
Dont Give Up
A Womans Hands
Youre Gonna Thank Me Woman
Papa Was Too
Skinny Legs And All
Ill Never Do You Wrong
Ode To Billie Joe
At The Dark Dark End Of The Street
Funny How Time Slips Away
Engine Engine No 9
Skip A Rope
Green Green Grass Of Home
Set Me Free
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
A Womans Hands (Bonus Track)
Ill Make Everyday Christmas (For My Woman) (Bonus Track)
Men Are Getting Scarce (Bonus Track)

Album Description

UK reissue combines two of the Southern soul artist's out-of-print Dial Records classics, 'Live & Lively' & 'Soul Country' (both originally released in 1968) with three bonus tracks, 'A Woman's Hands', 'I'll Make Everyday Christmas' & 'Men Are Getting Scarce'. 2002.

Album Details

Joe Tex was One Helluva Man who Could Belt Out a Song with all the Soul of a Preacher's Grace and the Sensuality of the Slickest Singer. Far Ahead of his Time, These Are Two Albums from his Post Atlantic Records Years.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Remaster but MONO!.......2006-07-12

It is great to have available again these two fine albums by Joe Tex. Nice horn arrangements and wonderful performances by all. The only problem is that all selections are MONAURAL when I know for a fact that they were originally released in STEREO. That is the reason I gave this cd only 4 stars.

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Intelligent, witty, energetic...
You made it this far, Just go ahead and buy it
ingenious, eclectic and hilarious

Titanic
Jim Infantino
Manufacturer: Gadfly
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Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

Intelligent, witty, energetic..........2002-07-14

I caught Jim Infantino, by accident, years ago at SolarFest in New Hampshire (or Vermont), I can't remember. I went to catch the "main act," a jazz bassist.

Jim stole the show for me. With a sardonic-type enthusiasm, a tongue-in-cheek approach toward his own music, he introduced "She's Dead," as a folk love song, burst into an infectious rap at one point, and seemed to just have a lot of fun on stage. Titanic captures some of that, although until you've caught the act live, I imagine it would be impossible to truly appreciate him. A group of friends of mine recently went to see Big Ego in NYC- all of them came home with CD's. It really is that much fun. Buy it. Sing along.

You made it this far, Just go ahead and buy it.......2000-03-29

I bought this CD on a hunch and because Jim was mentioned on the moxyfruvous page. It hasn't left my CD changer since and that was sixmonths ago Great lyrics, great music, great players, a few tears and plenty of laughs. This all live collection ranges from folk ballads and sing alongs done with Jims wonderful voice and guitar, to full band tunes with samples, raps and solid drums and Chapman stick (a 10 string two handed bass type instrument). Jims Big ego are helping bring folk music into the 21st century. END

ingenious, eclectic and hilarious.......1998-08-24

I have been a fan of Jim Infantino's since I first heard him in a cafe in Cambridge, MA about ten years ago. Although I have heard him most often solo, this CD combines his ingenious songwriting and verbal wit with a killer collection of musicians who truly complement the songs. This is easily one of my favorite CDs - quirky, sweet at times, rocking, and funny as hell.

The Jason Myers Trio: Cookin' at Houston's

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The Jason Myers Trio: Cookin' at Houston's
Jason Myers
Manufacturer: Key Player Music Productions
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ASIN: B000CADQ9U
Release Date: 2002-06-25

Tracks:

Cookin' at Houston's
Three Little Words
You Don't Know Me
Honeysuckle Rose
I'm Just a Lucky So and So
Just Squeeze Me
Lady Be Good
I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
Jatp Blues
Lil' Darlin'
Bringin' It on Home
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Live! In the Wine Country
The Cajun Coyotes
Manufacturer: The Cajun Coyotes
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Lacassine Special (Trad.)
Grand Bosco (Trad.)
Alligator Bayou (Schweers, ASCAP)
Porte d'En Arriere (D.L. Menard, BMI)
Tolan Waltz (Trad.)
Quo' Faire (Ardoin, Fontenot, BMI)
Tou' Mande Pour Toi (Modeliste, Neville, Porter, Nocentelli, B
Allons a Lafayette (Trad.)
Jolie Blond (Trad.)
Hot Tamale Baby (C. Chenier, BMI)
Ma Chere Bassette (Trad.)
Flammes d'Enfer (Trad.)

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Live & Lively
Howie MacDonald
Manufacturer: Tidemark
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000HA6BV0

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1 CD with 11 songs.

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Live at the Montray Music Festival
Lee Logan & the Original Driftors
Manufacturer: Gospel Express Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CA8E8I
Release Date: 2005-06-28

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