Fapy Lafertin may not be as well known Stochelo Rosenberg or Bireli Lagrene, but aficionados of Gypsy jazz guitar have regarded him as one the true masters of the style since he first arrived on the scene in the late 1960s. On Fine & Dandy he showcases his relaxed, melodic manner of playing on a well-chosen selection of tunes including David Grisman's composition "Tango for Django," the charming waltz "Caravene Rabouine," and Lafertin's own homage to Django Reinhardt, "Aurore." Lafertin is joined by Tim Kliphouse, an excellent fiddler who plays with considerable panache. The flurry of impeccably executed notes on lively tunes like "How High the Moon" and "Charleston" show that Lafertin and Kliphouse have technique to burn, but they reveal their true command of the music on the slower selections such as "I Can't Get Started." Fine & Dandy is state-of-the-art Gypsy jazz from one of the finest musicians to ever pick up a Selmer guitar. --Michael Simmons
Fine and Dandy,Fapy Lafertin Quintet & Tim Kliphouse,Iris Music,Int'l & World Music,Jazz,Pop,Post-Bop,World Music
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Fine and Dandy (2004 Studio Cast) (World Premiere Recording)
Kay Swift , Carolee Carmello , Gavin Creel , Andrea Burns , Mark Linn-Baker , John Pizzarelli , Ann Hampton Callaway , and Jessica Molaskey Manufacturer: P.S. Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001XAQDM Release Date: 2004-05-25 |
Tracks:
- Overture (Orchestra)
- Machine Shop Opening (Mark Linn-Baker & Ensemble)
- Rich or Poor (Gavin Creel & Jennifer Laura Thompson)
- Fine and Dandy (Carolee Carmello & Mario Cantone)
- Sing High (Male Ensemble)
- I'll Hit a New High (Andrea Burns & Male Ensemble)
- Starting at the Bottom (Gavin Creel)
- Can This Be Love? (Carolee Carmello)
- Fordyce (Ensemble)
- Let's Go Eat Worms in the Garden (Gavin Creel, Carolee Carmello & Ensemble)
- Etiquette (Mark Linn-Baker & Ensemble)
- The Jig-Hop (Andrea Burns & Ensemble)
- Can This Be Love? (reprise) (Jennifer Laura Thompson & Gavin Creel)
- Wedding Bells (Ensemble)
- Nobody Breaks My Heart (Carolee Carmello)
- Nature Will Provide (Deborah Tranelli)
- Finale Ultimo (Carolee Carmello & Ensemble)
- Up Among the Chimney Pots (Natalie Douglas)
- Can't We Be Friends? (John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey)
- Whistling in the Dark (Jack Donahue)
- Once You Find Your Guy (Ann Hampton Callaway)
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Mary Rodgers is usually heralded as musical theater's sole woman composer, but this new recording of a long-lost gem introduces us to another brilliant member of Broadway's thin female ranks: Kay Swift. Collaborating with her husband, lyricist James Paul Warburg (writing as Paul James), Swift penned a splendid collection of tunes-in turn touching, daffy, percolating and tender-for this 1930 show. Taking place in the unlikely setting of a tool-and-die factory, Fine and Dandy is a bubbly jazz age musical full of melodic invention and lyrical twists. Fans of the Gershwins' 1920s oeuvre will adore this world-premiere recording, and in fact George is namechecked in the wonderful title track, in which Carolee Carmello and Mario Cantone compete in spirited one-upmanship. The CD also includes four songs written by Swift between 1929 and 1950; like Plain and Fancy, they serve to remind us that Swift was one of Broadway's unsung heroes. --Elisabeth VincentelliDescription
The classic 1930 musical comedy in its world premiere recording, featuring a 28-piece orchestra and a cast of Broadway and jazz greats. An amazing roster of talent including Carolee Carmello (Kiss Me Kate, Parade), Gavin Creel (Thoroughly Modern Millie), Mario Cantone (Assassins and TV's Sex & The City), Mark Linn-Baker (A Year With Frog and Toad and TV's Perfect Strangers) and Jennifer Laura Thompson (Urinetown, Footloose) # is joined by bestselling jazz artists Ann Hampton Callaway, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, all in loving tribute to one of the few female composers from the first half of the 20th Century: the legendary Kay Swift. With a new biography of the composer, entitled Fine and Dandy: The Life and Work of Kay Swift, due out June 1 from Yale University Press, this new recording is sure to attract the attention of Broadway and jazz music-lovers everywhere. Overture (Orchestra), Rich or Poor (Gavin Creel & Jennifer Laura Thompson), Fine and Dandy (Carolee Carmello & Mario Cantone), Machine Shop Opening (Mark Linn-Baker & Ensemble), Starting at the Bottom (Gavin Creel), Can This Be Love? (Carolee Carmello), I'll Hit a New High (Andrea Burns & Male Ensemble), Picnic Song (Ensemble), Let's Go Eat Worms in the Garden (Gavin Creel, Carolee Carmello & Ensemble), Can't We Be Friends? (John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey), Up Among the Chimney Pots (Natalie Douglas), Whistling in the Dark (Jack Donahue), Etiquette (Mark Linn-Baker & Ensemble), The Jig-Hop (Andrea Burns & Ensemble), Nobody Breaks My Heart (Carolee Carmello), Can This Be Love? (reprise) (Jennifer Laura Thompson & Gavin Creel), Wedding Bells (Ensemble), Waltz (Deborah Tranelli), Finale Ultimo (Mario Cantone, Carolee Carmello & Ensemble), Once You Find Your Guy (Ann Hampton Callaway)Customer Reviews:
Dandy.......2005-05-06
Don't know if a revival of the show would be successful, but it sounds as though it needs one bravura comedian to put it over big. Back in the 1930s they had Joe Cook. Who is Joe Cook's equivalent today? Someone like Will Ferrell I guess--gulp.
WOW Simply the best reconstructed show album to date!!.......2005-02-23
More than Fine, and More than Dandy!.......2004-09-18
Having said that...this recording is tremendous. Kay Swift's music comes to life through the talented and spectacular voices, most notebly of Gavin Creel and Carolee Carmello. I think I listen to their duet (Track 10), at least once a day. The whole thing is just pure broadway fun, the way it used to be! The only bad thing about this c.d. is that you wished they had staged this musical, so that you could go see it live!
Not To Be Missed.......2004-05-31
fabulous discovery!.......2004-05-29
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Fine & Dandy
Teddy Wilson Manufacturer: Hep Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000001MCV Release Date: 1995-12-07 |
Tracks:
- Sentimental And Melancholy
- This Is My Last Affair
- Carelessly
- How Could You?
- Moanin' Low
- Fine And Dandy
- There's A Lull In My Life
- It's Swell Of You
- How Am I To Know?
- I'm Comin' Virginia
- Sun Flowers
- Yours And Mine
- I'll Get By
- Mean To Me
- Foolin' Myself
- Easy Living
- I'll Never Be The Same
- I've Found A New Baby
- You're My Desire
- Remember Me?
- The Hour Of Parting
- Cocquette
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Fine & Dandy
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004VM9H Release Date: 2006-03-14 |
Tracks:
- Fine And Dandy
- Over The Rainbow
- Manhattan
- Moonlight In Vermont
- I Can't Get Started
- Amanda
- Stardust
- Can't Help Lovin' That Man
- We'll Be Together Again
- Greensleeves
- Tournesol
- Talk Of The Town
- You Go To My Head
- Nature Boy
- The Nearness Of You
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Fine and Dandy
Fapy Lafertin Quintet & Tim Kliphouse Manufacturer: Iris Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00008US1H Release Date: 2003-06-10 |
Tracks:
- Eveline
- Blue Lou
- Tango for Django
- Lover man
- Coquette
- Fine & Dandy
- Aurore
- I love you
- Caravane Rabouine
- Exactly like you
- Charleston
- I cant get started
- How high the moon
- Fleur de lavande
Amazon.com
Fapy Lafertin may not be as well known Stochelo Rosenberg or Bireli Lagrene, but aficionados of Gypsy jazz guitar have regarded him as one the true masters of the style since he first arrived on the scene in the late 1960s. On Fine & Dandy he showcases his relaxed, melodic manner of playing on a well-chosen selection of tunes including David Grisman's composition "Tango for Django," the charming waltz "Caravene Rabouine," and Lafertin's own homage to Django Reinhardt, "Aurore." Lafertin is joined by Tim Kliphouse, an excellent fiddler who plays with considerable panache. The flurry of impeccably executed notes on lively tunes like "How High the Moon" and "Charleston" show that Lafertin and Kliphouse have technique to burn, but they reveal their true command of the music on the slower selections such as "I Can't Get Started." Fine & Dandy is state-of-the-art Gypsy jazz from one of the finest musicians to ever pick up a Selmer guitar. --Michael SimmonsCustomer Reviews:
Fantastic! Fapy Swings!.......2004-03-12
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Fine and Dandy
Debbie Reynolds Manufacturer: Dot ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000KJTJF8 Release Date: 2007-01-29 |
Tracks:
- A Shine On Your Shoes
- You're The Cream In My Coffee
- Sing Something Simple
- Ain't We Got Fun
- Give Me The Simple Life
- Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
- Fine And Dandy
- I Want To Be Happy
- Gimme A Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?
- Pick Yourself Up
- Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
- Gotta Have Me Go With You
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Sounds of the Circus - Volume 27
Manufacturer: Whitmarsh Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001M3XA6 Release Date: 2004-01-25 |
Tracks:
- Silver Jubilee (Fradeneck)
- Bacchanale (Saint-Saens)
- Yackety Sax (Randolph)
- Visalia Galop (Richards)
- Asia Minor (Cobb)
- Hi, Neighbor! (Owens)
- Bolo Rag (Gumble)
- El Toro (Noris)
- Green Eyes (Memendez)
- El Rancho Grande (Uranga)
- Smeary Ike (Losey)
- King Of The Air (Melson)
- La Cucaracha (Tailor)
- Everything I Have Is Yours (Lane)
- That's A Plenty (Pollack)
- Havana Heaven (Dostal)
- Fine and Dandy (Swift/James)
- Let Me Entertain You (Styne)
- Imperator (Vandercook)
Album Description
This is pure unadulterated circus music from the Golden Age of the American Circus, backed up by information on how the music was used by the circus. The listener can imagine a circus from the opening right through to the end of the show. Each number is presented with all the excitement of music played at the circus.
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Fine and Dandy
Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra Manufacturer: Montpellier ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000P7V4BC Release Date: 2007-06-19 |
Tracks:
- Hawaiian Warchant
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- Sam's Song
- Begin the Beguine
- Blues (From An American In Paris)
- I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
- Stumbling
- Little Boogie
- Takin' a Chance On Love
- No Can Do
- In a Little Spanish Town
- Dinah
- Guatemala
- Non Stop Riff
- Eister Song
- Fine & Dandy
- Some Of These Days
- Wilhelmina
- Moonlight Serenade
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Fine and Dandy: The Complete Recordings
Everpresent Fullness Manufacturer: Rev-Ola ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00013BOJC Release Date: 2004-04-05 |
Tracks:
- Fine and Dandy - Everpresent Fullness
- Wild About My Lovin' - Everpresent Fullness
- Leavin' California - Everpresent Fullness
- You're So Fine - Everpresent Fullness
- Rider - Everpresent Fullness
- Way She Is - Everpresent Fullness
- My Girl Back Home - Everpresent Fullness
- Darlin' You Can Count on Me - Everpresent Fullness
- Yeah! - Everpresent Fullness
- Somewhere I Don't Know Where I'm Bound
- Lonesome Tears
- Rovin' Kind
- Do Da Da
- Susie Q
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Everpresent Fullness
- Doin' a Number [*] - Everpresent Fullness
Album Description
Full Title - Fine & Dandy - The Complete Recordings. A Sunset Strip classic. A cross between The Poor, The Turtles, & Buffalo Springfield, with a poppy edge. Features 16 remastered tracks including previously unreleased pop gems from Warren Zevon, along with one bonus track, 'Doin' A Number'. Includes fold out sleeve with extensive liner notes, track-by-track commentary, photos & memorabilia. Rev-Ola. 2003.Customer Reviews:
Lost Chapter In Folk-Rock History Lovingly Restored.......2004-12-08
This CD collects all the surviving recordings by his answer to The Lovin' Spoonful, Turtles, et al. The Everpresent Fullness (hereafter, EPF) were signed to the Turtles' label, White Whale Records. They were the victims of classic label indifference. The anticipated hit single, a Spoonful-esque refitting of the 1930 standard "Fine And Dandy," didn't happen, due to the horror expressed by the song's co-author, Paul James. In retrospect, this number is one of the group's weakest sides. It could've been a hit, as it was indeed commercial.
With their ace in the hole foiled, the band made a handful of other recordings, none of them catching fire on the national charts. And then, as a final bizarre coda, the label issued their four-year-old LP in 1970, long after the group was history.
The full story of the band, complete with Paul Johnson's recollections, is told in this disc's lavish foldout booklet.
The music itself is continually pleasant, more country than rock, with a strong hint of pre-electric Dylan and Kingston Trio-era commercial folk. While it's not groundbreaking, it's enjoyable, solid material.
Some goodies include a very Beatlesque early Warren Zevon composition, "The Way She Is," and some good originals from Paul Johnson, the choicest item being the minor-keyed, driving "The Rovin' Kind," which strikes me as a perfect meeting ground of folk music and rock 'n' roll.
The EPF do well with '60s folk staples like "Sometimes I Don't Know Where I'm Bound" (Tom Paxton) and "Leavin' California (Richard Farina). A version of Buddy Holly's "Lonesome Tears" manages to sound old-fashioned and au courant at the same time. Its blend of Everly-esque harmony vocals and spacey-strummy backing (with the pre-requisite electric 12-string solo) is charming and oddly moving.
With the original LP among the rarest rock 'n' roll artifacts, this long-overdue reissue is more than welcome. It's no masterpiece, but, as said, it's solid and pleasing. It doesn't have to be PET SOUNDS, nor does it want to. The EPF are a strong missing link in California rock of the '60s.
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Fine 'n Dandy
Royal Dutch Jazz Band Manufacturer: Timeless ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000K1YE06 |
Product Description
Bugle Boy March; The Gypsy; Chinatown, My Chinatown; Delia's Gone; Fidgety Feet; Mood Indigo; Ole Miss; Heartaches; Blues my Naughty Sweetie; Some of these Days; You're Driving Me Crazy; Limehouse Blues; Royal Garden Blues; Hey Look Me Over.
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Fine and Dandy
Barbara Lea , and Keith Ingham Manufacturer: Challenge ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000005R3Z Release Date: 1996-10-01 |
Tracks:
- Mah Lindy Lou
- When in Rome
- Fine and Dandy
- I Dream Too Much
- Killing Time/On Second Thought
- Blue Again
- Come To Baby, Do
- How High the Moon
- Walking By the River
- Pettin' and Pokin
- Love is a Simple Thing
- My Silent Love
- I'd Rather Call You Baby
- The Morning After
- Just a Little Lovin'
- Lost In A fog
- How Little We Know
- Lullaby Of The Leaves
- Pick Yourself Up
Customer Reviews:
Frank from Maine.......2004-01-21
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