Real Music for Real People

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
BBE Records in conjunction with DJ Language is proud to release the mixed compilation Real Music For Real People. The compilation features new, classic, and rare tracks by Nas, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Spacek, DJ Spinna, The Foreign Exchange, Platinum Pied Pipers, Bugz In The Attic, Roy Ayers, Patrice Rushen and a host of others.

DJ Language is one of New York City's premiere underground DJs. Renowned for rocking dance-floors from New York to Stockholm with smooth blending skills and an impeccable selection of tracks, Language spins the best deep underground dance classics, rare soul and funk along with new underground hip-hop, left-field Soul, Electro, Broken Beat and House. This is all found on Real Music For Real People.

DJ Language's blends are done in such a smooth and intelligent way that hipsters, soul heads, and b-boys alike will appreciate both his precise mixing and well put together tracklisting.

Real Music for Real People,DJ Language,Bbe,Broken Beat,Neo-Soul,Pop,Rap,Rap & Hip-Hop

Tracks:

Oklahoma!
Carousel
State Fair
South Pacific
The King And I
Cinderella Waltz
Flower Drum Song
The Sound Of Music

Customer Reviews:

Irresistible.......2005-07-29

From beginning to end this CD is pure delight. A great recording has great music, a great performance, and great sound; this one scores on all three counts.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's musicals dominated Broadway in the 1940s and 1950s, and American musical theater has produced no more consistently eloquent and durable voice than Richard Rodgers. From his fertile genius flowed a surprising number of memorable songs, many of which have passed into and become an accepted and beloved part of modern American culture.

This well-filled CD (77:36) features symphonic arrangements (all but two by Robert Russell Bennett) of the music from Oklahoma (1943), Carousel (1945), State Fair (1945), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), Flower Drum Song (1958), and The Sound of Music (1959). All the great tunes are here in suites from each musical that average 10-12 minutes in length. The arrangements are expert: rich, varied, and colorful. The performances are polished, idiomatic, and irresistible; Kunzel and this orchestra are thorough masters of this kind of material. And Telarc's sound (recorded 1991) is state-of-the-art (engineer Michael Bishop deserves to take a bow).

In short, there's nothing here to cloud your listening pleasure (the only quibble I can imagine is that some of your favorites may not last long enough), so it's hard for me to envision anyone with ears and a taste for music who wouldn't enjoy this CD. Warmly recommended. Finally, if you like this one as much as I do, you might want to know that the same team has produced a companion volume, the Lerner & Lowe Songbook for Orchestra.

"Some Enchanted Evening" with Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops.......2003-12-26

Erich Kunzel's Rodgers and Hammerstein anthology with the Cincinatti Pops Orchestra is one of the best and most ravishing instrumental Rodgers and Hammerstein albums of all time. With sumptuous arrangements and warm, natural Telarc recording, this glorious 77-minute CD presents sweeping, melodic arrangements of over 60 Rodgers and Hammerstein selections, spanning eight scores, and Kunzel allows the Pops to play with a characterful and polished understanding of the Rodgers and Hammerstein idiom. The disc is enough to cheer you up on a dull day and make you smile, and it might even want to make you feel like a convert to Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals.

This CD has all the scores arranged chronologically. The OKLAHOMA! suite that opens this disc promises a feast for the senses, Kunzel ably evokes the territory's "bright, golden haze" in the way he conducts the various excerpts, until you feel the atmosphere of the country charm of the show, and the love-affair between Curly and Laurey. Then, in CAROUSEL, he ably evokes the pathos of this tragic R&H masterwork, especially in the truncated Waltz, but he leads a wonderfully melodic "June is Bustin' Out All Over" and a devotional "You'll Never Walk Alone." Although this suite does not include Billy's pivotal Soliloquy, it includes "If I Loved You" as an expression of his love for Julie, and within minutes you could be soaked in the ups and downs of the show's mood.

After a brief STATE FAIR suite, with sweeping renditions of "It Might As Well Be Spring" and "It's a Grand Night for Singing", we are brought into the disc's showstopping highlights. These highlights are the excerpts from SOUTH PACIFIC, THE KING AND I, and THE SOUND OF MUSIC. But yet Kunzel conducts the rest of the disc until the various suites amount to a series of showstoppers. These three suites present wonderfully-arranged versions of their many familiar classic songs, with well-played solos. The SOUTH PACIFIC suite presents the songs in chronological order, yet preserves the atmosphere of the show at the same time. Kunzel ably brings out the romance in "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Younger than Springtime," and contrasts it with the exotic and dreamlike "Bali Hai'i" and the comic "There is Nothing like a Dame" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair". Although the suite ends quietly with a reprise of "Dites-Moi" rather than the reprise of "Some Enchanted Evening," within minutes we are swept into the KING AND I suite. Kunzel ably brings out the Oriental pathos in this score, and he captures the warmth of Anna's rapport with the King's Siamese children in "Getting to Know You", and with the King himself in "Shall We Dance." There is also romance in the love ballads "I Have Dreamed" and "We Kiss in a Shadow." Similarly, in the selection from THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Kunzel conducts this until the orchestra soaks itself in the atmosphere of this Austrian R&H score. This SOUND OF MUSIC suite has more of a feel of the score compared to the bonus track on Sony's reissued version of the Broadway recording. You can almost feel as if you are following the progress of the Trapp family and how it lifts its spirits with the joy of music. Kunzel gives us a soaring version of the title song, and spirited versions of "Do-Re-Mi" and "My Favourite Things." He balances it with the open-air quality of "Edelweiss" and "The Lonely Goatherd." Although this suite could have included "Something Good," the love ballad written for the film, the three recollections of the songs that were cut from the movie only last for a while. And, the towering version of "Climb Every Mountain" crowns this portion of the disc, and this sumptuously-produced recording. But, I should also mention the infectuous FLOWER DRUM SONG medley, where Kunzel turns this underrated score into a work of art, until it convinces you to buy the cast recording. And, don't forget about the brief CINDERELLA WALTZ, too, when Kunzel conducts it magically, until you feel like you are in the company of Cinderella and the Prince. He is able to show how this R&H score marked a comeback for R&H after the failiures of Me and Juliet, and Pipe Dream.

Overall, this glorious Rodgers and Hammerstein recording is guarunteed to make you want to pucker your lips out for a whistle or sing along (to paraphrase another revew for Kunzel's Disney Spectacular disc) - even if this recording is music only, and as long as you know the words to the songs (and you might know a large handful of them already.) There is always a certain magic in this fine CD that makes you feel like you're sitting in the theatre watching these musicals, until it makes you feel like it is truly, to borrow two R&H song titles, "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Something Wonderful" to be in Kunzel's company for this R&H offering. It would certainly be one recording that could make you feel willing to buy the complete cast recordings of the shows. And I guaruntee that it will make you feel willing to pull out your existing copies of the cast recordings to listen to them again. I also guaruntee that it will be a cornerstone in any Rodgers and Hammerstein collection, just as it is in mine. Recommended heartily to any Rodgers and Hammerstein enthusiast and to fans of Erich Kunzel's work. And, you can play it while reading the Richard Rodgers biography, Musical Stages, until Rodgers himself would count this as his favourite disc in the afterlife.

By the way, most of the arrangements for the suites on this CD were done by the veteran R&H orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett, and it surely adds to the appeal of this recording. This itself is enough to amount to the icing on the cake, since Kunzel conducts them well on here, and since this recording still allows the suites to have the original theatrical atmosphere. And, although this recording is like the Mauceri collection of the Rodgers & Hammerstein overtures in compiling orchestral suites of Rodgers & Hammerstein, I think that I like the Kunzel recording even more because Kunzel has more magic in his conducting of these suites.

Excellent!.......2003-04-08

This is one of the best Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops collections we own! A must for Rodgers and Hammerstein fans, too.

Great Arrangments.......2001-09-02

This is a first rate album with great arrangments and orchestrations. If you're a Rodgers and Hammerstein fan, you can't afford to miss this specatacular album

Average customer rating:

A bargain collection of showtunes

Golden Greats: Greatest Broadway Hits

Manufacturer: Golden Greats
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

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General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

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General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00005USEJ
Release Date: 2002-02-26

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.

Jazz Spectrum: Real Jazz for Real People

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Jazz Spectrum: Real Jazz for Real People
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Bbe / Beat Gen
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Latin Music | Styles | Music

Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music

Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music

Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music

Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005EBHL
Release Date: 1999-01-15

Tracks:

Night of the Wolf - Al Foster,
Jungle Fantasy - Sam Most
Yolk
Mandingo
Nightingale - Dee Felice Trio
Bossa Blue Port - The Birds of Paradise
Ooh Cha La La
Opus Three - Earl Washington
Cosbyianna - The Fat Albert Orchestra
Abscretions - Music Inc.
Dance Samba
Pigmy, Pt. 1 - Delegates
Sidewinder - Soul Society
A&T - Lionel Hampton
My Favorite Things - The New Swing Sextet
Hippopotamus - Yambu
Babalonia - Ricardo Marrero
Dindi - Janet Lawson
Tequila - Allen Toussaint
Billy's Ballet
Latin Strut - Joe Bataan

Average customer rating:

Middle of the road mixes
Nostalgic

Real Music for Real People
DJ Language
Manufacturer: Bbe / Beat Gen
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
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Memento
Midnight Soul, Vol. 3
1st Magic

ASIN: B0008KLVJQ
Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

DJ Mitsu - Intro
Chris Prolific feat. Ayo - Confusion
DNell Ive Heard About
Nas - War
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Appreciate
Koushik Be With
Abraham Magpie (Morgan Geist Remix)
Natalie Gardiner Cant Quit You Know
Spacek Slow Baby Dubb
DJ Spinna feat. The Free Radikalz Outta Time
The Foreign Exchange - Sincere
Greyboy w/ Bart Davenport To Know You Is To Love You (Platinum Pied Pipers Remix)
Platinum Pied Pipers 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
Great Weekend How Do You Feel
Black Spade Lie Low
Bugz In The Attic Booty La La
Roy Ayers - Tarzan
Patrice Rushen Havent You Heard (12 Version)
Beanfield Close To You (Maurice Fulton Remix)
LAL B.E.W Epilogue (Murr Long Edit)
Franky Boissy feat. Roland Clark Black Music (DJ Language Remix)

Album Description

BBE Records in conjunction with DJ Language is proud to release the mixed compilation Real Music For Real People. The compilation features new, classic, and rare tracks by Nas, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Spacek, DJ Spinna, The Foreign Exchange, Platinum Pied Pipers, Bugz In The Attic, Roy Ayers, Patrice Rushen and a host of others.

DJ Language's blends are done in such a smooth and intelligent way that hipsters, soul heads, and b-boys alike will appreciate both his precise mixing and well put together tracklisting.

Customer Reviews:

Middle of the road mixes.......2006-09-23

This is a selection of mixes some sampled and some orignal stuff, lacked the fat funky feel that I like to hear in mixed beats. DJ's have to remember that eventhough your are mixing beats, sounds and different genres the music still must take off in some direction and maintain some substance.

Nostalgic.......2006-08-08

The majority of the tracks on this cd are current, but DJ Language's mixing skills remind me of a time when radio stations had real djs, instead of loud mouthed clones.

The mixing on this cd is so smooth, that these diverse songs flow together like one long Steely Dan track. The range changes from song to song, but you'll never stop nodding your head.

If you like Vikter Duplaix, Little Brother, and Roy Ayers, then this cd is a no brainer. If you love music but don't have time to dig through the crates for progressive music, then Real Music For Real People will definetly help you out.

Americans In London 1947 - 1951: Original London Cast Recordings From Oklahoma! (1947) / Annie Get Your Gun (1947) / Carousel (1950) / Zip Goes A Million (1951)

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Review of Americans in London

Americans In London 1947 - 1951: Original London Cast Recordings From Oklahoma! (1947) / Annie Get Your Gun (1947) / Carousel (1950) / Zip Goes A Million (1951)
Oscar Hammerstein II , and Erich Mashwitz
Manufacturer: Encore
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000001ZRD
Release Date: 2000-01-01

Tracks:

Oklahoma!: Oh What A Beautiful Mornin'/The Surrey With The Fringe On Top/Out Of My Dreams
Oklahoma!: Kansas City/I Can't Say No/People Will Say We're In Love
Oklahoma!: The Farmer And The Cowman/Pore Jud Is Daid/It's A Scandal, It's An Outrage
Oklahoma!: Many A New Day/All 'Er Nothin'/Oklahoma!
Annie Get Your Gun: The Girl That I Marry/They Say It's Wonderful/There's No Business Like Show...
Annie Get Your Gun: You Can't Get A Man With A Gun/My Defenses Are Down/I Got Lost In His Arms
Annie Get Your Gun: Moonshine Lullaby/They Say It's Wonderful/Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
Annie Get Your Gun: Who Do You Love, I Hope?/Anything You Can Do/I'm A Bad Bad Man/I Got The Sun...
Carousel: June Is Bustin' Out All Over/Mister Snow/When The Children Are Asleep...
Carousel: If Loved You
Carousel: A Real Nice Clambake/Blow High, Blow Low
Carousel: What's The Use Of Wond'rin/My Little Girl/You'll Never Walk Alone
Zip Goes A Million: Saving Up For Sally
Zip Goes A Million: Ordinary People
Zip Goes A Million: Zipe Goes A Million/Running Away To Land/Zip Goes A Million
Zip Goes A Million: It Takes No Time To Fall In Love
Zip Goes A Million: Nothing Breaks But The Heart
Zip Goes A Million: Pleasure Cruise

Customer Reviews:

Review of Americans in London.......2006-03-09

The recording is excellent and replaces my old 78 recordings which I transferred to tape some years ago. But they have that horrible hissing noise which spoils my enjoyment of them.
It is to be observed that although the cast is American, the orchestras and conductors are British (except for Debroy Sommers). I know qite a bot about Deboy Sommers and Lew Stone, but can anyone fill me in about Reginald Burston?
The CD is great. Thank you to Amazon for this.

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Real Music For Abstract People, Vol. 1
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Silver Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Techno-House | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music

Techno-House | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000003SF9
Release Date: 1997-07-29

Tracks:

Crash
In It
Manic Depression
Connected
Shag - Freeform
All Girls Are - Lowground
Terrifying - Rude 66
One Day - The Mellowtrons
Battles Begin - Mark Broom
Minimal Mood [Live] - Unit Moebius
Vegetable Pie - Starfish, Starfish

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Symbiosis

Manufacturer: Subspecies
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CACZV0
Release Date: 2004-02-17

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Real Music for Real People

Manufacturer: Outsiders
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000E1AJ42

Product Description

Tracks... 1) The Whore Of ABC 2) Drug Test at 8 3) Push, Push, Pushie 4) Inglewood Jail 5) Stoned In Los Angeles 6) Rock 'n' Roll Chick (With A Bad Attitude) 7) I Just Wanna Funk Ya 8) Ernie The Cat 9) Blonde Adventure 10) Broke Dick Dog 11) Rock Star 12) I Never Got Over You 13) I'm A Fool (For A Selfish Girl With Perfect Breasts) 14) I'll Touch Yours (You Touch Mine) 15) Drive, She Said 16) I've Got My Eyes On You, Baby 17) Yummy Friend