Back On the Train

1. Back on the Train

2. Trouble With Me

3. Alligator Man

4. Tell It Like It Is

5. I Don't Need You

6. City Limits

7. Vie Malheureuse

8. Stranger's Just a Friend

9. Money's All Gone

10. Dixieland Rock

11. Dark Hollow

12. Mojada Sin Licencia

13. Rockin' and Rollin' With Gran'maw

14. Sad Memory

15. Delia

16. Colinda

17. Careless Love

18. Bluebird Two-Step

19. You Don't Miss Your Water

20. Allons y Lafayette

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Back On the Train,Electric Bluebirds,Diamond Recordings,Pop,V/a Compilations

Average customer rating: "Lord, How Come Me Here" WOW! uhm......yeah right!! scadalise my name Broadway takes on the spiritual ...

Spirituals in Concert Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Amazing Grace: Jessye Norman The Essential Leontyne Price: Spirituals, Hymns & Sacred Songs Kathleen Battle · Wynton Marsalis ~ Baroque Duet / Anthony Newman · Orch St. Luke's · Nelson Kathleen Battle & Christopher Parkening ~ Pleasures of Their Company So Many Stars ASIN: B000001GDC Release Date: 1991-03-08

Tracks:

1. In That Great Getting Up Morning
2. Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass
3. Over My Head/ Lil' David
4. Oh, What A Beautiful City
5. Lord, How Come Me Here
6. I Believe I'll Go Back Home-Lordy, Won't You Help Me
7. Ride On, King Jesus
8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot-Ride Up In The Chariot
9. You Can Tell The World
10. Scandalize My Name
11. Great Day
12. Oh, Glory
13. Calvary-They Crucified My Lord
14. Talk About A Child
15. Gospel Train
16. My God Is So High
17. There Is A Balm In Gilead
18. He's Got The Whole World In His Hand

Customer Reviews:

"Lord, How Come Me Here".......2007-06-18

I must add, to the praises above, that Kathleen Battle's "Lord, How Come Me Here" is the best "quick" explanation of the long-lasting effects of slavery that I can think of. The line, "They sold my children away," says it all.

And the VERY funny "Scandelize My Name" is also worth the price of the total album!

Alinde O'Malley

WOW!.......2007-03-22

You know, after owning both the CD and VHS of this performance, and having been coached by Sylvia Olden Lee herself, it is no wonder why spiritual mean so much to me. And these two ladies bare their souls and bring these masterpieces to life! WOW!!!

uhm......yeah right!!.......2006-06-21

Clearly you are mistaken. I don't know who that guy is-the person below recommended-but there is NO COMPARISON to JESSYE NORMAN AND KATHLEEN BATTLE!!!! Jessye Norman herself has *30* HONARY DOCTRATES from places like Harvard, Juliard, Yale, Cambridge....I mean HELLO!!!! That guy had no where near the ease, the musicality or even the breath support as these two veterans show!! It is a beautiful CD though it came out in 1991 and I HIGHLY recommend it.

scadalise my name.......2004-10-29

this isn't that good specially after hearing William Warfeild sing it. You can find him at www.wlym.com

Broadway takes on the spiritual ..........2004-01-29

... takes it on and puts it on the canvas by the end of the first round.

I'm going to be the dissenting voice here: thank goodness I signed this disk out of the public library 'cause I'm sure not going to listen to it twice.

There is nothing wrong with the performances. Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle sing beautifully, and there's no problem with the pick-up orchestra under James Levine.

The problem, and it's huge, is the conception of the show and the musical arrangements. To make the video marketable, I suppose, the producers decided that the concert had to be big: big names, big arrangements, big effects. So we have eighteen spirituals given the musical theatre treatment, with a philharmonic chorus providing chain-gang sound effects, big brass, and big percussion -- including a chinese gong. A chinese gong in a spiritual??? Spare me! Almost every track turns out sounding like either a curtain-raiser or a big, end-of-act production number with cute and predictable modulations between some of the stanzas and the sort of curly-cue orchestral ornamentation typical of Broadway shows.

And you know what? It all kills the spirituals stone dead. The spiritual is one of those musical forms where less is more and very little is best of all. That's how they started, after all. That's how and why they worked for their original audiences, and that's why they were powerful enough to make the transition from folk song to art song. If you want to hear Battle sing spirituals that are irresistible, listen to the set on her Salzburg recital CD, also with Levine (ASIN B00000E31B). There, the music speaks for itself and speaks with a strength and a beauty that the tracks on this disk never approach.

Average customer rating: A fine reprise

Back On the Train Electric Bluebirds Manufacturer: Diamond Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000007YNL Release Date: 1997-04-23

Tracks:

1. Back on the Train
2. Trouble With Me
3. Alligator Man
4. Tell It Like It Is
5. I Don't Need You
6. City Limits
7. Vie Malheureuse
8. Stranger's Just a Friend
9. Money's All Gone
10. Dixieland Rock
11. Dark Hollow
12. Mojada Sin Licencia
13. Rockin' and Rollin' With Gran'maw
14. Sad Memory
15. Delia
16. Colinda
17. Careless Love
18. Bluebird Two-Step
19. You Don't Miss Your Water
20. Allons y Lafayette
21. Madame Etienne
22. Square Danin' Mama
23. Los Amores del Flaco
24. Waltz Across Texas

Customer Reviews:

A fine reprise.......2003-06-06

The Electric Bluebirds were a well known pub band in London in the early 80s. Bizarrely, they ended up adopting a Cajun style, and a unique most un-London swirling accordian / fiddle mix.

They released an eponymously titled album in 85 or so, which sank without trace partly because the band had effectively already split, partly because it got no airplay but mainly because the record company went bust.

I bought it at the time and played it to death - it was quite brilliant. Everyone who heard it promptly ran off to try and find a copy (which was not easy).

Most (all?) of the original album is on this CD, along with some earlier pub stuff which they clearly like and I don't, much.

Frankly, if the idea of a Cajun band from Deptford appeals in any way, then buy it. I cannot praise it too highly, and finding it has almost stopped me missing my Linn Sondek.

Average customer rating: History has been preserved for those who appreciate it...... Desert Song

Romberg: The Desert Song/ The New Moon/ The Blue Train Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Romberg, Sigmund | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000WOF Release Date: 1994-05-31

Tracks:

1. The Desert Song: Riding Song Of The Riffs
2. The Desert Song: French Marching Song
3. The Desert Song: Romance
4. The Desert Song: It
5. The Desert Song
6. The Desert Song: Eastern And Western Love
7. The Desert Song: The Sabre Song
8. The Desert Song: One Alone
9. The New Moon: Marianne Into Stout-Hearted Men
10. The New Moon: The Girl On The Prow
11. The New Moon: Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
12. The New Moon: One Kiss
13. The New Moon: Wanting You
14. The New Moon: Lover, Come Back To Me
15. The Blue Train: Bachelor Days
16. The Blue Train
17. The Blue Train: You've Got To Fit Your Step
18. The Blue Train: When A Girl Is In Love With A Man
19. The Blue Train: Eileen
20. The Blue Train: You'll Miss My Dancing
21. The Blue Train: Swiss Fairyland
22. The Blue Train: You Didn't Ask Me First

Customer Reviews:

History has been preserved for those who appreciate it.............2001-01-13

Unlike the other review, this is a recording that touches the soul of the true Broadway afficianado. Original cast recordings of musicals were not standard in the American Musical Theatre until the early 1940's. However, the London stage had been preserving original cast performances since the early 1900's. This album preserves two of the most popular operetta titles of all time - Romerg's Desert Song and New Moon.

The sound quality is poor by today's standards, but you are hearing the original London cast, usually in the original London theatre, with the original conductor and orchestrations. To a true musical buff, to hear the original interpretations is a walk in history.

We are very lucky to be able to hear Pearl London cast recordings of Desert Song, New Moon, Show Boat, Sunny, and Lido Lady. The only other archive type recordings are the historically accurate remakes by John McGlinn and Tommy Krasker. These recordings are lost to the human ear, other than the 78's in antique stores and these reissues.

So, if you appreciate the musical art form and the sense of history, you will truly appreciate this recording. If you're looking for the lush sounds and liberal interpretations of the 50's - move on - this isn't the recording for you. If Pearl is reading this - PLEASE get us some more 20's original cast recordings!

Desert Song.......2000-11-10

What a disappointment!! I remember listening to this when I was a child on a soundtrack my father had. This version sounds terrible. I don't know if its the CD or the singers that recorded this particular CD - but they've butchered the songs. The timing of the songs is TERRIBLE and they don't sound full and rich like they should. I was really disappointed. Its not worth the money.

Average customer rating:

Dressed To Kill Records Presents 12 Clash Tributes FEATURING: Gene October, Eddy Bop, Zero, Kristin De Beauvoir, The Pink Gun, P45, The Badgers, Parker I Fought The Law - Gene October , Hammersmith Palais - Eddy Bop , Tommy Gun - Zero , Police & Thieves - Kristin De Beauvoir , White Riot - Zero , Train In Vain - The Pink Gun , Rock The Casbah - Kristin De Beauvoir , Clash City Rockers - P45 , Complete Control - Zero , and Police On My Back - The Badgers / Should I Stay Or Should I Go - Parker / London Calling - Eddy Bop ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000QPTTME

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