Song's Best Friend: the Very Best of [Import]

Product Description
Som Livre. 2004.

Song's Best Friend: the Very Best of,John Denver,Som Livre,Brazilian,World Music

Average customer rating: Still singin' those mountain ballads after all these years

Best of the Carter Family The Carter Family Manufacturer: Prism Platinum ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Old-Time Country | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Appalachian | North America | International | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Can the Circle Be Unbroken?: Country Music's First Family Greatest Hits 1927-1934 Wildwood Pickin' Sara & Maybelle Carter The Carter Family: 1927-1934 ASIN: B00004KRZF Release Date: 2005-06-07

Tracks:

1. Keep on the Sunny Side
2. Wildwood Flower
3. Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow
4. Anchored in Love
5. Worried Man Blues
6. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
7. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
8. My Clinch Mountain Top
9. Foggy Mountain Top
10. Little Darling Pal of Mine
11. Sailor Boy
12. When I'm Gone
13. Single Girl , Married Girl
14. Rambling Boy
15. Mountain of Tennessee
16. My Old Cottage Home
17. Wandering Boy
18. In the Valley of the Shenandoah
19. Storms Are on the Ocean
20. Meet Me by the Moonlight Alone
21. Dying Soldier
22. Lonesome Valley
23. Chewing Gum
24. Jimmie Rogers Visits the Carter Family

Customer Reviews:

Still singin' those mountain ballads after all these years.......2006-12-05

Country music fans today, just listen to the music and enjoy it for what it is, but did we ever really think about the starts of country music? Who started it? What kind of songs did they sing? Were they any good? Did their children follow in their footsteps and were they sucessful?
So many questions!! This CD is the answer. The first family of country music was the Carter Family, A.P., Sara, and Maybelle of Clinch Mountain, VA. But they were much more than mountain hilbillies who liked to party on friday nights. They wrote songs about lost love, the place they knew and loved, and most of all, just fun songs.
We start off with the legendary. "Keep on the Sunny Side," the Carter's theme song. This song is basically about how if we just look on the bright side of things, they aren't so bad after all. "Storms and clouds will in time pass away, and the sun again will shine, bright and clear."
Hey June Carter fans? Did you know where "Wildwood Flower" came from? It was from the good ol' Carter Family! Actually, it was one of their first hits, probably the most reknown carter family song in the world. About lost love, it's a song you'll want to sing 24/7!
"Worried Man Blues," is my very favorite Carter Family song. It has a catchy tune, and a good beat. The song is about a man who is sentenced to go to prison, but he has no idea what he's done. Filled with fun and laughter, this will become and family favorite.
"My Clinch Mountain Home," tells you alot about the Carter's backaround history. It reflects the carter's lives from "Ole Virginny."
"Foggy Mountain Top," is a great song. It features Sara's yodeling, and Maybelle's great guitar pickin'. This song, like "My Clinch Mountain Home", secretly shares backaround information about life as a Carter as well.
Ah, "Single Girl, Married Girl," the Carter's first hit, and undoubtfully their most sucessful. This is a solo for Sara, and also a solo for her autoharp.
In "My Old Cottage Home," A.P. does most of the singing, which is rare since he usually only did backup. Very similar to "My Clinch Mountain Home," but also very different. It's one of my favorites, so yuo will proabaly liek it too.
"The Valley of Shanandoah," is a very sad song. It tells a story about how a man fell in love with a beautiful girl in the past summer and promises to return to her next year so they can be married. Sadly, when the man returns, he finds that his true love had passed away into the great kingdom above. Teh song may be sad, but it capture your heart.
"Chewing Gum," is a really fun song to sing, and it really helps past the tiem away. A song that Sara wrote when she was a child, "Chewing Gum," features many funny lines that will make you laugh out loud as if you were watching Hee-Haw!
If you buy this CD, it's liek hearing the Carter's story through music. It's truly any country msuic fan's treasure. Be sure to read my other revies for June Carter Cash's "Press On", "Wildwood Flower", "Keep on teh Sunyn Side: Her life in Music, and "Live Recordings from the Lousiana Hayride."

June

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Song's Best Friend: The Very Best of John Denver John Denver Manufacturer: Som Livre ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music | General Christmas | Today's Deals | Box Sets | Children's Music | Classical Instrumental | Halloween | Hanukkah | Kwanzaa | Opera & Vocal | Pop Instrumental & Easy Listening | Pop Vocal International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Unplugged Collection ASIN: B00079LWK6 Release Date: 2005-01-24

Tracks:

1. Leaving, On A Jet Plane
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Sunshine On My Shoulders
4. Poems, Prayers And Promises
5. Eagle And The Hawk
6. Rocky Mountain High
7. Farewell Andromeda
8. Annie's Song
9. Back Home Again
10. Sweet Surrender
11. Thank God I'm A Country Boy
12. I'm Sorry
13. Calypso
14. Fly Away
15. Looking For Space
16. Like A Sad Song
17. My Sweet Lady
18. Perhaps Love
19. Shanghai Breezes
20. Wild Montana Skies

Album Description

Som Livre. 2004.

Album Details

Leaving on a Jet Plane, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" E "Rocky Mountain High", "Annie«s Song", Etc...

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Superhits: Early '70s Classics (Time Life Music) Sailcat , Wadsworth Mansion , The DeFranco Family w/ Tony DeFranco , Hurricane Smith , Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose , Mark Lindsay , Edward Bear , Bobby Bloom , Joe Smith and the Believers , and Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell Manufacturer: Time Life Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000THM0XO

Product Description

Song list: 1. ABC - The Jackson 5 2. Coconut - Nilsson 3. Motorcycle Mama - Sailcat 4. Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels) - Jim Croce 5. Rock and Roll Lullaby - B.J. Thomas 6. Without Love (There is Nothing) - Tom Jones 7. Sweet Mary - Wadsworth Mansion 8. Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo 9. Heartbeat-It's a Lovebeat - The DeFranco Family featuring Tony DeFranco 10. Oh Babe, What Would You Say? - Hurricane Smith 11. Lean on Me - Bill Withers 12. Treat Her Like a Lady - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose 13. We Gotta Get Uou a Woman - Runt 14. Hitchin' a Ride - Vanity Fare 15. Montego Bay - Bobby Bloom 16. You've Got a Friend - James Taylor 17. Walk a Mile in My Shoes - Joe South and The Believers 18. Arizona - Mark Lindsay 19. The Candy Man - Sammy Davis Jr. 20. Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell 21. Last Song - Edward Bear 22. The Guitar Man - Bread

Average customer rating: Great compilation A disappointment

DRG 25th Anniversary Show Stopping Performances Manufacturer: Drg ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Previn, André | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Curtains (2007 Original Broadway Cast) Barbara Cook at the Met with Special Guests ABC (Adler, Bock, Coleman) 110 in the Shade (2007 Broadway Revival Cast) The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B00005Q6IN Release Date: 2001-10-23

Tracks:

1. A Day In Hollywood A Night In Ukraine: Just Go To The Movies - Priscilla Lopez/David Garrison/Frank Lazarus/Stephen James/Peggy Hewett/Kate Draper
2. Babes In Arms: I Wish I Were In Love Again - Christopher Fitzgerald Jessica Stone
3. Pal Joey: Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered - Patti LuPone
4. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend - KT Sullivan
5. Nunsense: I Just Want To Be A Star - Christine Anderson
6. Louisiana Purchase: Wild About You - Debbie Gravitte & New York Voices
7. Oil City Symphony: Beaver Ball At The Bug Club - Mike Craver/Mark Hardwick/Debra Monk/Mary Murfitt
8. Falsettoland: The Baseball Game - Michael Rupert/Chip Zien/Faith Prince/Janet Metz/Heather MacRae/Stephen Bogardus
9. Very Good Eddie: Isn't It Great To Be Married? - Virginia Seidel/Spring Fairbank/Charles Repole/Nicholas Wyman
10. The Fantasticks: A Perfect Time To Be In Love - Harvey Schmidt
11. Call Me Madam: You're Just In Love - Tyne Daly/Lewis Cleale
12. Taking My Turn: Fine For The Shape I'm In - Margaret Whiting/Marnie Nixon/Cissy Houston
13. A Party With Betty Comden & Adolph Green: The French Lesson - Betty Comdon/Adolph Green
14. The Madwoman Of Central Park: Better - Phyllis Newman
15. Greenwillow: Never Will I Marry - Anthony Perkins
16. Song Of Singapore: I Can't Remember - Loretta Swit & Company
17. Tintypes: Elite Syncopation/I'm Goin' To Live Anyhow, 'Til I Die - Lynne Thigpen
18. I Love My Wife: Someone Wonderful I Missed - Joanna Gleason/Ilene Graff
19. The Good Companions: The Pleasure Of Your Company - Malcolm Rennie/Christopher Gable
20. Forbidden Broadway 20th Anniversary: Liza One-Note - Christine Pedi
21. Meet Me In St. Louis: The Trolley Song - Donna Kane & Ensemble

Tracks:

1. 4 Guys Named Jose...And Una Mujer Named Maria!: Feel It - Philip Anthony/Henry Gainza/Allen Hidalgo/Ricardo Puente
2. Fame - The Musical: There She Goes!/Fame - Natasha Rennalls & Ensemble
3. Do Re Mi: What's New At The Zoo? - Heather Headley/The Animal Girls
4. High Society: Once Upon A Time/True Love - Melissa Errico/Daniel McDonald
5. Tenderloin: Artificial Flowers - Patrick Wilson
6. State Fair: Driving At Night/Our State Fair - Company
7. Kiss Me, Kate: Were Thine That Special Face - Brian Stokes Mitchell
8. Black And Blue: Black And Blue - Linda Hopkins/Ruth Brown/Carrie Smith
9. The Green Bird: O Foolish Heart - Company
10. Out Of This World: From This Moment On - Marin Mazzie/Gregg Edelman
11. The Boys From Syracuse: This Can't Be Love - Davis Gaines/Sarah Berry
12. Snoopy!!!: Poor Sweet Baby - Pamela Myers
13. SeesawNobody Does It Like Me - Michele Lee
14. March Of The Falsettos: I Never Wanted To Love You - Michael Rupert/Stephen Bogardus/Alison Fraser/Chip Zien/James Kushner
15. Lunch: Perfectly Alone - Carol Burnett
16. 3hree: Foolish Dreamin'/Something Beautiful/Real Enough To Change My Mind - Jessica Molaskey/Will Gartshore/Rachel Ulanet
17. Lucky In The Rain: Love Me As If There Were No Tomorrow - Barbara Cook
18. Godspell: All Good Gifts - Sal Sabella & Company
19. The Act: Walking Papers - Liza Minnelli & Company

Customer Reviews:

Great compilation.......2002-05-10

I don't actually own this particular compilation, however, since I own nearly every recording represented on these discs...I think I'm qualified to comment. This is a wonderful representation of the high quality of work that DRG Records does.
The previous review is way off the mark. This is definitely not a waste of time or money. This is 25 years of preserving Broadway shows, Off-Broadway shows, studio recordings (mostly from the city center concerts), etc. So what if they "aren't as good as the original", DRG is preserving many recordings and artists that other mainstream labels don't or won't. You have wonderful recordings from Brian Stokes Mitchell, Nathan Lane, Debbie Gravitte, Tyne Daly, Anthony Perkins, Joanna Gleason, Marin Mazzie, Carol Burnett, Heather Headley, Patti LuPone, Barbara Cook, etc., and many of these are from Original Cast Recordings just as they appeared on Broadway. This is an excellent sampler of the work going on at DRG. No...I'm not an employee...just an avid listener and collector of theatre recordings.

A disappointment.......2001-12-15

There's a reason you've probably never heard of most of the songs and shows on this album, not to mention most of the artists. This is a second-rate collection of second-rate numbers performed by mostly second-rate artists. In the case of the shows that were revivals, the performances on the original cast recordings were better. Don't waste your money.

Average customer rating: Revised Mixes, but otherwise good

A Song's Best Friend: The Very Best of John Denver John Denver Manufacturer: Bmg Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music | General Christmas | Today's Deals | Box Sets | Children's Music | Classical Instrumental | Halloween | Hanukkah | Kwanzaa | Opera & Vocal | Pop Instrumental & Easy Listening | Pop Vocal Country | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Song's Best Friend - John Denver Remembered Christmas in Concert An Evening with John Denver ASIN: B0002TKFGS Release Date: 2004-10-04

Tracks:

1. Leaving, On a Jet Plane
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Sunshine on My Shoulders
4. Poems, Prayers and Promises
5. Eagle and the Hawk
6. Rocky Mountain High
7. Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
8. Annie's Song
9. Back Home Again
10. Sweet Surrender
11. Thank God I'm a Country Boy
12. I'm Sorry
13. Calypso
14. Fly Away
15. Looking for Space
16. Like a Sad Song
17. My Sweet Lady
18. Perhaps Love - John Denver, Pldo Domingo
19. Shanghai Breezes
20. Wild Montana Skies - John Denver, Emmylou Harris

Tracks:

1. Leaving, On a Jet Plane
2. Weight
3. Annie's Song [Acoustic Mix]
4. Calypso (Acoustic Mix)
5. Amsterdam

Album Details

2004 Euro Collection with Several Unreleased Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Revised Mixes, but otherwise good.......2005-10-22

I ordered this based on the fact that all of the songs (except the three from the 1980's) were remixed from the original session tapes. This was fantastic news for me, as I have loved these tunes since the day I was born, but (like every other music buyer) have only been handed the same limp mixes from day one, in various degrees of tape hiss.

So, it came today, and I popped it in.

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" comes on. WOW! There is a bass line to this song!!! The fidelity is incredible! Hmmm...that instrument is louder than originally....but hey, I like it!

"Rocky Mountain High" comes on. Wow! The fullness is great....the guitars have life to them......They even fixed that vocal glitch on the "He Climbed Cathedral Mountains" line. This is great---wait a minute! What did he say? That line is different! Hold On! Some of this is an alternate vocal track!

"Back Home Again" comes on. What the hell??? Why is there a drum kit way up in the mix on this? Where is the subtlety of the original mix? This is absurd.

So goes the whole CD....some differences are mild-to-non-exsistant, and some just change the particular song into something different than we remember.

There is a bonus disc that comes with this CD which contains "Calypso" and "Annie's Song" in acoustic remixes (read: the actual master recordings with almost everything dropped except the guitars and vocals), an early lesser-quality demo-take of "Leavin' On A Jet Plane", and two other unreleased tunes. The second disc is not essential by any stretch.

So, basically, RCA/BMG had a good chance to finally make these somgs come alive after years of subjecting us to the same worn-out, hiss-filled 1970's mixes, but instead, we get tracks which can be justifyibly called "alternate versions".

Instead of a remixed greatest hits, we get something more closely resembeling The Beatles "Anthology" series.

Good to buy for the completeist, but the casual fan should stick to the original 3 volumes of JD's Greatest Hits.

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Best of Broadway: The Music of the Night Manufacturer: Reader's Digest ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Weill | Weill, Kurt | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Broadway & Vocalists | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Soundtracks | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Best of Broadway: The Impossible Dream Best of Broadway: There's No Business Best of Broadway: Anything Goes Best of Broadway: Till There Was You Best of Broadway: Tomorrow ASIN: B00006314E Release Date: 2002-03-12

Tracks:

1. The Phantom Of The Opera: The Music Of The Night
2. Fiddler On The Roof: Medley: Sunrise, Sunset / If I Were A Rich Man / Matchmaker, Matchmaker
3. The Gay Divorce: Night And Day - The Romantic Strings Orchestra
4. Very Warm For May: All The Things You Are - The Romantic Strings Orchestra
5. Lady, Be Good: The Man I Love - The Romantic Strings Orchestra
6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend - Rita Williams
7. My Fair Lady: The Rain In Spain
8. Three Penny Opera: Pirate Jenny
9. Miss Saigon: The Last Night Of The World
10. Grease: Summer Nights
11. Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: Any Dream Will Do
12. The Music Man: Goodnight, My Someone

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Song's Best Friend (Very Best) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002ZLFLG Release Date: 2004-10-19

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Song's Best Friend (Very Best) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00030EK7G Release Date: 2004-10-19

Album Description

International edition features alternate artwork to the US version (Definitive-All Time Greatest Hits) & features a different title. BMG are proud to release the digitally remixed & remastered 'A Song's Best Friend - The Very Best of John Denver'. This 2-CD set features all Denver's greatest hits such as 'Leaving On A Jet Plane', 'Annie's Song', 'Take Me Home, Country Roads', & 'Rocky Mountain High', not to mention 5 newly discovered & never released tracks, 'Leaving On A Jet Plane' (previously unreleased demo version), 'The Weight' (previously unreleased cover version), 'Annie's Song' (previously unreleased acoustic mix), 'Calypso' (previously unreleased acoustic mix) & 'The Port Of Amsterdam' (previously unreleased cover version), on a special bonus disc. 2004.

Average customer rating:

Song's Best Friend: The Very Best of John Denver John Denver Manufacturer: Bmg ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music | General Christmas | Today's Deals | Box Sets | Children's Music | Classical Instrumental | Halloween | Hanukkah | Kwanzaa | Opera & Vocal | Pop Instrumental & Easy Listening | Pop Vocal Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000666R8W Release Date: 2004-12-06

Tracks:

1. Leaving, On A Jet Plane
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Sunshine On My Shoulders
4. Poems, Prayers And Promises
5. Eagle And The Hawk
6. Rocky Mountain High
7. Farewell Andromeda
8. Annie's Song
9. Back Home Again
10. Sweet Surrender
11. Thank God I'm A Country Boy
12. I'm Sorry
13. Calypso
14. Fly Away
15. Looking For Space
16. Like A Sad Song
17. My Sweet Lady
18. Perhaps Love (Duet With Placido Domingo)
19. Shanghai Breezes
20. Wild Montana Skies (Duet With Emmylou Harris)
21. Leaving On A Jet Plane (Babe I Hate To Go) (Previously Unreleased)
22. Weight (Previously Unreleased)
23. Annie's Song (Previously Unreleased Acoustic Mix)
24. Calypso (Previously Unreleased Acoustic Mix)
25. Armsterdam 9live At London Palladium)
26. Love Again (Duet With Sylvie Vartan)
27. Follow Me (Previously Unreleased Remix Version)

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring Two Bonus Tracks: 'amsterdam', and 'follow Me', and a Bonus CD with Previously Unreleased Tracks and Alternate Versions of Other Songs.

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