Girls Night Out

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This is the companion CD to Canada-based CMT's live-concert television special recorded in March 1999, and it features four of the most-popular female artists of 1990s contemporary country--all of whom are not coincidentally BMG labelmates. If nothing else, it's an accurate snapshot of Nashville at the turn of the century: spunky two-steppers and heart-tugging ballads of widely varying quality; an album cover full of flawlessly airbrushed women in fetching poses; and a sonic production that's usually as airbrushed as the album cover. All four women have considerable vocal talent, although Evans seems to know best how to use it. The question, as usual, comes down to the ratio of country elements to adult-contemporary pop, and even when a fiddle or steel guitar pops up, it too often seems like a contrivance. Unfortunately, the pabulum has a tendency to obscure the real meat here, which is often quite rewarding. Problem is, even the spiciest of meals is lost when it falls on deadened taste buds. --Marc Greilsamer

Girls Night Out,Sara Evans,Martina Mcbride,Mcready,Morgan,Bmg Special Prod.,Country,Country & Western,Pop

Average customer rating: Great CD Simply the Best Inconsistent, but mostly excellent "Celebration" is not strong enough a word A maginificent evening, a magnificent album

Sondheim - A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992 Concert Cast) Stephen Sondheim , Betty Buckley , Paul Gemignani , Patti LuPone , Liza Minnelli , and Bernadette Peters Manufacturer: RCA Victor Broadway ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Sondheim, Stephen | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Hadley, Jerry | ( H ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Musical Theater | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music 1990-1999 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Musicals | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sondheim Evening: A Musical Tribute (1973 Concert Cast) Side By Side By Sondheim (1976 Original London Cast) Send in the Clowns: The Ballads of Stephen Sondheim Sondheim - A Celebration at Carnegie Hall Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall ASIN: B000003FDW Release Date: 1993-02-23

Tracks:

1. Symphonic Sondheim: Sweeney Todd--orchestra, Jerry Hadley ("Johanna"), Eugene Perry,Herbert Perry ("Pretty Women")
2. Evening Introduction--Bill Irwin
3. Loveland/Getting Married Today--Ensemble, Jeanne Lehman, Mark Jacoby, Madeline Kahn
4. Waiting for the Girls Upstairs--George Lee Andrews, Michael Jeter, James Naughton/Love, I Hear--Michael Jeter/Live Alone and Like It--James Naughton
5. Someone Is Waiting--Richard Muenz/Symphonic Sondheim: Barcelona--orchestra
6. Being Alive--Patti LuPone
7. Good Thing Going--The Tonics
8. Losing My Mind/You Could Drive a Person Crazy--Dorothy Loudon
9. Our Time--Boys Choir of Harlem/Children Will Listen--Betty Buckley
10. Anyone Can Whistle--Billy Stritch
11. Water Under the Bridge--Liza Minnellli, Billy Stritch
12. Back in Business--Liza Minnellli, Billy Stritch, Ensemble

Tracks:

1. Symphonic Sondheim: Comedy Tonight--Bill Irwin, orchestra
2. Sooner or Later--Karen Ziemba
3. Pretty Lady--Mark Jacoby, Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry
4. Green Finch and Linnet Bird--Harolyn Blackwell
5. The Ballad of Booth--Patrick Cassidy, Victor Garber
6. Broadway Baby--Daisy Eagan
7. I Never Do Anything Twice--BETTY
8. With So Little to Be Sure Of--Jerry Hadley, Carolann Page
9. Not a Day Goes By--Bernadette Peters
10. Remember?--Ron Baker, Peter Blanchet, Carol Meyer, Bronwyn Thomas, Blythe Walker (Quintet)/A Weekend in the Country--Kevin Anderson, George Lee Andrews, Mark Jacoby, Beverly Lambert, Maureen Moore, Susan Terry, Quintet
11. Send in the Clowns--Glenn Close
12. Old Friends--Liza Minnelli
13. Sunday--Bernadette Peters, Broadway Chorus

Customer Reviews:

Great CD.......2006-08-06

This is a wonderful double CD of fabulous musical numbers performed by theatre greats and directed by a legandary musical director.

Simply the Best.......2005-06-29

First, to the person who criticizes the recording b/c of "Broadway Baby." Daisy Egan (who sings in in this recording) sounds like she's 10 becuase she IS young. She had just appeared on Braodway in Secret Garden and won a Tony for it. It's a joke...Broadway BABY...hello, it's a joke.

In a compilation of songs like this you're always going to have tracks that you prefer over others, but the majority of the renditions in this CD are great. This is simply one of the best collections of Sondheim out there. You get interpretations that span from "classical" (Green Finch), to bordering on insane (Anything Twice). This is to demonstrate how versatile this composer really is.

In my opinion, some of the best renditions are "Not a Day Goes By," "Anyone Can Whistle", "Girls Upstairs Medley," "Losing My Mind/Drive a Person Crazy," and "Weekend inthe Country." Makes me wish I had been there to witness it first hand.

If you love Sondheim and enjoy hearing Broadway performers, get this CD. A great recording.

Inconsistent, but mostly excellent.......2004-03-21

I am sure no knowledgeable person would deny how absolutely perfect all these songs are. However, the performances on this album are extremely inconsistent. It will go from an excellent rendition (Waiting for the Girls medley, Sunday, With So Little To Be Sure Of, Sooner or Later, Green Finch, Send in the Clowns, Pretty Lady) to the weird (I never Do Anything Twice), to the bad (Broadway Baby, Our Time). I still have absolutely no idea how they managed to butcher one of the best songs ever written--Good Thing Going--and turn it into smooth jazz elevator music. Why would they give Broadway Baby to someone who sounds like she's 10? That said, Liza Minelli, Glenn Close, Karen Ziemba, Dorothy Laudon and the "Waiting for the Girls" performers are all very good. And ending with Bernadette Peters and "Sunday" ends the set on a absolutley fabulous note.

"Celebration" is not strong enough a word.......2003-04-30

This review is by Crosley.

I have been a major Sondheim fan for quite some time, and I finally obtained a copy of this album. I was blown away by the excellent cast and phenomenal selection of music. It is obvious how much work went into this production, considering that this is the live recording of a one time show, and it's flawless. The songs cover all of his shows with the exception of "Passion," which was released 3 years after this show. Also, the shows for which he wrote only lyrics are ommited, like West Side Story, Gypsy, etc. Thus, you can find material from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Merrily we Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins.

There are two striking things about this CD (besides the music and performers themselves). First of all, some of the songs are completely stylistically reworked. The most obvious are "Good Thing Going" and "I Never do Anything Twice." Both are traditionally very ballady with a piano accompaniment, but here they have been redone as jazzy tunes. The result is excellent. Such reworkings demonstrate that Sondheim writes music for virtually any style, and in these cases, across several styles. It's a great example of his variety. The other interesting thing is how many songs have overlapping melodies of songs from different shows. Case in point, "Our Time" and "No one is Alone" are sung seperately by the Harlem Boys Choir and Betty Buckley (the original Grizabella in Webber's atrocious "CATS," although Buckley was excellent) respectively, and then combined. Putting these two songs together offer different meanings to each, and the music is only enhanced. Another example, the trio of "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs," "Love, I Hear," and "Live Alone and Like It" are sung in that order, and then the latter two are combined. Again, the meanings of the songs change, this time in an almost narrative style, and offering different takes on love in the same montage. Lastly (at least for this review, there are more), Dorothy Laudon's (the original Ms. Hannigan in Annie) combination of "Losing my Mind" and "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" is brilliant. Those who are familiar with these songs will wonder how exactly they fit, but trust me, they do. She swtiches back and forth between melodies to create a number that starts poignant and beautiful, and soon moves to become uproariously funny. Both the song reworkings and overlapping melodies of unrelated songs are all for the better.

I recommend this recording to anyone wanting to get better acquainted with some of Sondheim's best work, or those already familiar who want to hear a tour de force of phenomenal music. It has been said that Sondheim is a masterful lyricist (which he is), but lacks real talent for music. This CD is the final proof that such critics are wrong. His music may take a few listenings to get into, contrary to Webber or Wildhorn, but unlike those two, he doesn't cater to the audience. He challenges them to think outside of traditional musical theater in a glorious repertoise of shows that reach for a smarter, more sophisticated form.

A maginificent evening, a magnificent album.......2001-12-16

There's something to be said for the first concert you ever see at Carnegie Hall. I was fortunate enough to have this be my first. This entire evening was devoted to his genius and the performers did not disappoint.

This wonderful double CD shows off the best and brightest of the musical theatre composer and it is, as one person put it, "an embarassment of riches." With songs from his finest works done in amazing arrangements (listen to that harmony in "We Had a Good Thing Going"!) combined with fabulous performers this is a Sondheim lovers delight.

My favorite song is, without a doubt, Dorothy Louden and her wonderful medley of "Losing My Mind" into "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" followed very closely by the recently departed Madeline Kahn singing "Getting Married Today."

Average customer rating: 1999's "What Does It Take" in a new, reincarnated format

Girls Night Out Candy Dulfer Manufacturer: Bmg Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Saxuality Sax-A-Go-Go For the Love of You What Does It Take? Live in Amsterdam ASIN: B00002DDAJ Release Date: 1999-09-20

Tracks:

1. Girls Night Out
2. 2025
3. Fred's Joint
4. Mr. Slim
5. Island Lady
6. Nikki's Dream
7. So Cool
8. Dance 'Till You Bop
9. No Problem
10. I'm The One
11. Soullala
12. What Does It Take (To Win Your Love For Me)
13. Cookie

Album Description

Import only 2001 release with two added bonus tracks, 'What Does It Take (To Win Your Love For Me)' & 'Cookie'.

Album Details

New 1999 Full Length from the Sultry Sax Player.

Customer Reviews:

1999's "What Does It Take" in a new, reincarnated format.......2003-04-29

Essentially, this album is nothing more than an import version of 1999's "What Does It Take" with a different name, new artwork & two new songs: Girls Night Out (Track 1) & Dance 'Till You Bop (Track 8). If you're, like I am, a die hard fan of Ms. Dulfer's, the latter will be enough to convince you to purchase this album. And what about that eye catching artwork? It looks SO fabulous!!

Average customer rating: Girls Night Out: 4 Talented Ladies ~Girls Night Out~ Pretty good Exceptionally Soothing An excellant intoduction to Ms Evans

Girls' Night Out Sara Evans , Martina McBride , and Mindy McReady Manufacturer: Bmg Special Product ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs Under $7 | Contemporary Country | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Contemporary Country | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Country | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: No Place That Far Real Fine Place Three Chords and the Truth Born to Fly Restless ASIN: B000021YLG Release Date: 1999-10-12

Tracks:

1. Cryin' Game - Sara Evans
2. Almost New - Sara Evans
3. Three Chords and the Truth - Sara Evans
4. Independence Day - Martina McBride
5. 'Til I Can Make It on My Own - Martina McBride
6. Happy Girl - Martina McBride
7. Ten Thousand Angels - Mindy McCready
8. Over and Over - Mindy McCready
9. Long, Long Time - Mindy McCready
10. Heart That Jack Broke - Lorrie Morgan
11. Go Away - Lorrie Morgan
12. Good as I Was to You - Lorrie Morgan

Amazon.com

This is the companion CD to Canada-based CMT's live-concert television special recorded in March 1999, and it features four of the most-popular female artists of 1990s contemporary country--all of whom are not coincidentally BMG labelmates. If nothing else, it's an accurate snapshot of Nashville at the turn of the century: spunky two-steppers and heart-tugging ballads of widely varying quality; an album cover full of flawlessly airbrushed women in fetching poses; and a sonic production that's usually as airbrushed as the album cover. All four women have considerable vocal talent, although Evans seems to know best how to use it. The question, as usual, comes down to the ratio of country elements to adult-contemporary pop, and even when a fiddle or steel guitar pops up, it too often seems like a contrivance. Unfortunately, the pabulum has a tendency to obscure the real meat here, which is often quite rewarding. Problem is, even the spiciest of meals is lost when it falls on deadened taste buds. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Girls Night Out: 4 Talented Ladies.......2002-08-04

CMT Canada had a special called GIRLS NIGHT OUT which featured Martina McBride, Mindy McCready, Lorrie Morgan and Sara Evans, and this CD was the result of it. This is a pretty good sample of what each singer has to offer, 3 songs a piece from each of them. Sara Evans sings "Cryin' Game", "Almost New" and "Three Chords And The Truth", which are captivating performances in the traditional country genre, much more than her current music. Martina McBride sings "Independence Day," along with the Tammy Wynette classic "'Til I Can Make It On My Own" and the upbeat "Happy Girl", showing off her fiery vocals and spirit. Mindy McCready probably best exemplifies the rock-hybrid that is modern country music, but her "Ten Thousand Angels," followed by "Over And Over" and a nicely done version of the Linda Ronstadt classic "Long, Long Time" are well worth repeated listening. "Over and Over" shows Mindy's incredible range from her opera training she received from age 9 to age 16. Then we have the veteran in country music, Lorrie Morgan. She delivers here with "The Heart That Jack Broke," "Go Away" and "Good As I Was To You". Overall if you're a fan of country music and want an introduction to these ladies music, join the GIRLS NIGHT OUT. If you enjoy captivating performances full of emotion and range, this is your CD as well, or even if your just a hardcore fan, you'll want this CD.

~Girls Night Out~.......2001-10-25

I'm not much a music fan of country music. But this CD is good! I really enjoyed Martina McBride's music on here! She sing's good. The other girl's sang good too. My favorite songs are Cryin' Game and Indipendence Day!!!! Buy this CD, if you like Country or if you just enjoy any kind of music.

Pretty good.......2001-04-20

This is a good cd. It has 4 artists on it. I recognized Martina McBride and Sara Evans, but the other 2 I'd never heard of. Martina Mcbride, of course, was awsome. And so was Lorrie Morgan. The other two artists were OK, I didn't relly like Sara Evans' song, Three Cords and the truth. Which is strange, because I usually love Sara Evans. The other artist, Mindy McCready, didn't really have any songs that sparked my interest. But, all in all, I liked this cd.

Exceptionally Soothing.......2000-06-11

With the talents of all 4 ladies, this CD is comprising of great tune after great tune. Sara Evans has an exceptional voice and her song "Three Chords and the Truth" is just amazing. A CD recommended for all.

An excellant intoduction to Ms Evans.......1999-10-21

This is one of the better /Albums in my collection. All 4 women present good material. Ms. Evans voice has great range. Mindy's 3 songs are among her best work. Martina's Independence Day is a classic,among the best of the very best ever recorded. Lorrie's songs are good, an her Albums almost always have a least one powerful emotion driven ballad.

Average customer rating: God is truely shining out of her heart Excellent WONDERFUL Really Good SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Totally Funny

Havin' a Girls' Night Out Chonda Pierce Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Spoken Word | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Have I Got a Story for You Be Afraid... Be Very Afraid Four-Eyed Blonde Yes & Amen On Her Soapbox ASIN: B0000062IN Release Date: 1998-04-14

Tracks:

1. A Girls' Nite Out/Men & Duct Tape/Mother Cracks Me Up!/A Mother's Prayer
2. Take My Life, Please!/You In Me/I'll Tell The World

Customer Reviews:

God is truely shining out of her heart.......1999-07-02

I was blessed with seeing Chonda Pierce recently at Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock, NC. It was an unforgettable performance. Each of her stories can touch everyone in her audience. She tells of personal tragedy with the blessing of laughter. If only more of us who have suffered a tragedy could show her strength through humor it would be a happier world. Her song "A Mother's Prayer" will leave you humbled at her love and respect for her mother.

Excellent.......1999-06-17

IF you are looking for some clean Christian humor, you will find it with Chonda Pierce. She hits home with her stories of everyday occurances, and her song about her mother is wonderful. What a way to spend time in your car!

WONDERFUL.......1999-05-01

Chonda's "Second Row, Piano Side" was great. Even though I'm a guy it was really funny.

Really Good SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......1999-01-30

This song has a very good tune, and interesting word

Totally Funny.......1998-12-31

I am from the North Carolina area. I first heard Chonda on TNN. While living in Georgia I had the opportunity to meet her in person. This CD is totally funny. I listen to it at least twice a week.

Average customer rating: Girls Night Out: 4 Talented Ladies ~Girls Night Out~ Pretty good Exceptionally Soothing An excellant intoduction to Ms Evans

Girls' Night Out Sara Evans , Martina McBride , and Mindy McReady Manufacturer: Bna Entertainment ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: No Place That Far Real Fine Place Three Chords and the Truth Born to Fly Restless ASIN: B00000I7HI Release Date: 1999-03-02

Tracks:

1. Cryin' Game - Sara Evans
2. Almost New - Sara Evans
3. Three Chords And The Truth - Sara Evans
4. Independence Day - Martina McBride
5. 'Til I Can Make It On My Own - Martina McBride
6. Happy Girl - Martina McBride
7. Ten Thousand Angels - Mindy McCready
8. Over And Over - Mindy McCready
9. Long, Long Time - Mindy McCready
10. The Heart That Jack Broke - Lorrie Morgan
11. Go Away - Lorrie Morgan
12. Good As I Was To You - Lorrie Morgan

Amazon.com

This is the companion CD to Canada-based CMT's live-concert television special recorded in March 1999, and it features four of the most-popular female artists of 1990s contemporary country--all of whom are not coincidentally BMG labelmates. If nothing else, it's an accurate snapshot of Nashville at the turn of the century: spunky two-steppers and heart-tugging ballads of widely varying quality; an album cover full of flawlessly airbrushed women in fetching poses; and a sonic production that's usually as airbrushed as the album cover. All four women have considerable vocal talent, although Evans seems to know best how to use it. The question, as usual, comes down to the ratio of country elements to adult-contemporary pop, and even when a fiddle or steel guitar pops up, it too often seems like a contrivance. Unfortunately, the pabulum has a tendency to obscure the real meat here, which is often quite rewarding. Problem is, even the spiciest of meals is lost when it falls on deadened taste buds. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Girls Night Out: 4 Talented Ladies.......2002-08-04

CMT Canada had a special called GIRLS NIGHT OUT which featured Martina McBride, Mindy McCready, Lorrie Morgan and Sara Evans, and this CD was the result of it. This is a pretty good sample of what each singer has to offer, 3 songs a piece from each of them. Sara Evans sings "Cryin' Game", "Almost New" and "Three Chords And The Truth", which are captivating performances in the traditional country genre, much more than her current music. Martina McBride sings "Independence Day," along with the Tammy Wynette classic "'Til I Can Make It On My Own" and the upbeat "Happy Girl", showing off her fiery vocals and spirit. Mindy McCready probably best exemplifies the rock-hybrid that is modern country music, but her "Ten Thousand Angels," followed by "Over And Over" and a nicely done version of the Linda Ronstadt classic "Long, Long Time" are well worth repeated listening. "Over and Over" shows Mindy's incredible range from her opera training she received from age 9 to age 16. Then we have the veteran in country music, Lorrie Morgan. She delivers here with "The Heart That Jack Broke," "Go Away" and "Good As I Was To You". Overall if you're a fan of country music and want an introduction to these ladies music, join the GIRLS NIGHT OUT. If you enjoy captivating performances full of emotion and range, this is your CD as well, or even if your just a hardcore fan, you'll want this CD.

~Girls Night Out~.......2001-10-25

I'm not much a music fan of country music. But this CD is good! I really enjoyed Martina McBride's music on here! She sing's good. The other girl's sang good too. My favorite songs are Cryin' Game and Indipendence Day!!!! Buy this CD, if you like Country or if you just enjoy any kind of music.

Pretty good.......2001-04-20

This is a good cd. It has 4 artists on it. I recognized Martina McBride and Sara Evans, but the other 2 I'd never heard of. Martina Mcbride, of course, was awsome. And so was Lorrie Morgan. The other two artists were OK, I didn't relly like Sara Evans' song, Three Cords and the truth. Which is strange, because I usually love Sara Evans. The other artist, Mindy McCready, didn't really have any songs that sparked my interest. But, all in all, I liked this cd.

Exceptionally Soothing.......2000-06-11

With the talents of all 4 ladies, this CD is comprising of great tune after great tune. Sara Evans has an exceptional voice and her song "Three Chords and the Truth" is just amazing. A CD recommended for all.

An excellant intoduction to Ms Evans.......1999-10-21

This is one of the better /Albums in my collection. All 4 women present good material. Ms. Evans voice has great range. Mindy's 3 songs are among her best work. Martina's Independence Day is a classic,among the best of the very best ever recorded. Lorrie's songs are good, an her Albums almost always have a least one powerful emotion driven ballad.

Average customer rating:

Girls Night Out Various Artists Manufacturer: Green Hill Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Corinne Bailey Rae ASIN: B000FQ4IXO Release Date: 2006-05-01

Tracks:

1. Ladies Night (Kool & The Gang)
2. September (Earth, Wind & Fire)
3. Got To Be Real (Cheryl Lynn)
4. Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry)
5. Disco Inferno (The Trammps)
6. Love Train (The O'Jays)
7. Best Of My Love (The Emotions)
8. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine (Lou Rawls)
9. Boogie Wonderland (Earth, Wind & Fire)
10. Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye)
11. It's Raining Men (The Weather Girls)
12. Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) (C+C Music Factory)

Product Description

Grab the girlfriends...roll the windows down...hit the dance floor...and paint the town! Whether cruising to your favorite nightspot, throwing a party or just hanging out and having fun, this fabulous collection of dance music will get your groove on for an unforgettable night out with the girls! No guys allowed!

Average customer rating: What a recording!

Sondheim - A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Highlights from the 1992 Concert Cast) Manufacturer: RCA Victor Broadway ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Sondheim, Stephen | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Musical Theater | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music Vocal Pop | Live Albums | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music 1990-1999 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Musicals | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall Sondheim - A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992 Concert Cast) Company - A Musical Comedy (1970 Original Broadway Cast) Into the Woods ASIN: B000003FEM Release Date: 1993-02-23

Tracks:

1. Symphonic Sondheim: Sweeney Todd
2. Company: Loveland - Getting Married Today
3. Follies: Waiting For The Girls Upstairs - Love, I Hear - Live Alone And Like It
4. Company: Being Alive
5. Merrily We Roll Along: Good Thing Going
6. Merrily We Roll Along: Our Time - Children Will Listen
7. Dick Tracy: Back In Business
8. Sweeny Todd: Green Finch And Linnet Bird
9. Follies: Broadway Baby
10. Merrily We Roll Along: Not A Day Goes By
11. A Little Night Music: A Weekend In The Country
12. A Little Night Music: Send In The Clowns
13. Sunday In The Park With George: Sunday

Customer Reviews:

What a recording!.......2000-06-29

I only wich I could have been at Carnegie Hall that night! Come on, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli, Karen Ziemba, James Naughton, and so much more! After i bought this highlights album I knew I had to get the full 2-CD set. It's great cause it's live, the orchestrations are Heaven, and you will feel like your in new york in the audience. Buy it enjoy it and if you like it is much as I do buy the Video of the performance!

Average customer rating: Haunting mediocre Great album. a little odd Worked for The Cure tribute not for The Smiths

String Quartet Tribute to the Smiths S. Morrissey , J. Marr , and Eric Gorfain Manufacturer: Vitamin Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Tributes | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The String Quartet Tribute to Morrissey String Quartet Tribute to the Cure Whisper String Quartet Tribute to New Order and Joy Division The String Quartet Tribute to Depeche Mode The String Quartet Tribute to R.E.M. ASIN: B00008J2SO Release Date: 2003-03-18

Tracks:

1. Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me
2. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
3. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
4. How Soon Is Now
5. William, It Was Really Nothing
6. Back To The Old House
7. There Is A Light That Never Goes
8. This Charming Man
9. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
10. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
11. Not This Time (Original Composition)

Product Description

1. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
2. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
3. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
4. How Soon Is Now
5. William, It Was Really Nothing
6. Back To The Old House
7. There Is A Light That Never Goes
8. This Charming Man
9. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
10. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
11. Not This Time (Original Composition)

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Haunting.......2006-02-22

I'm giving this compilation 3 stars not because it isn't good...but because I feel that the String Quartet didn't take advantage of The Smiths catalogue. I was disappointed to see that some of my favorites were not covered. Maybe for volume 2?

Other than that...it was mostly beautiful. The cover of "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" was particularly good. In fact, they managed to make it even more
melancholy than the original! I didn't even know that was possible.

mediocre.......2004-06-20

This CD sounds like a good idea, but on hearing it I was disappointed. The string quartet doesnt seem enough for a lot of these songs, maybe with a few more instruments in there it could work. It also seems, like many other string quartet tribute CDs, that these people playing the songs are not fans of the band, they don't seem to get into the music, or understand what makes it great. This CD is only nescassary for hardcore smiths fans that already have their albums.

Great album........2004-04-04

This is a wonderful album if you truly are a "Smiths" fan. The strings do an excellent job of masking as Morrissey's voice. However, even if you aren't a fan of The Smiths, the melodies are enjoyable. Johnny Marr will go down as a gifted guitarist/writer (as all his Guitar magazine accolades). People who aren't fans or are "Morrissey-jaded" wouldn't like this or probably anything else not Morrissey. Oh yeah, that's right I said it!!!

a little odd.......2003-10-05

Uh, this is wierd. It is like Morrissey and the Smiths covering Metalica. It just doesn't fit. Even so, for the hardcore Smiths fan it is worth the buy. Back To The Old HOuse was enjoyable, but I would suggest that you listen to the versions of other artists. And who chose the playlist? Crappy at best.

Worked for The Cure tribute not for The Smiths.......2003-09-08

The String Quartet's tribute to The Smiths doesn't quite work as well as the tribute to The Cure. Maybe it's because the music from The Cure is much more colorful and has more layer and works wonderfully well with string instruments. However, without Morrisey's voice the string music doesn't work well.

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1. Overture la Cenerentola - Thomas Schippers
2. Symphony No. 4 in a ''italian'', I. Allergro Vivace'' - David Zinman
3. Scherzo [From Midsummer Night's Dream]
4. Scherzo [From Symphony No. 9 ''Choral''] - Alberto Lizzio
5. Finale to Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major - Richard Kapp, Michael Ponti
6. Presto [From ''Summer'']
7. Toreadors - Alfred Scholz
8. Sabre Dance
9. Slaconic Dance Op. 46 No. 8 in G Minor - Antal Dorati
10. Petrouchka: Shrove Tide Fair
11. Petrouchka: Russian Dance
12. Rite of Spring: Augurs of Springs, Dances of the Young Girls
13. Concerto for Orchestra: Finale
14. Piano Concerto No 2 in BB, III Rondo - Alfred Brendel,

Average customer rating: Selectively Worthwhile Monstrously good!

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1. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
2. Sleepers Awake (Cantata 140)
3. Arioso
4. Eleanor Rigby
5. Here, There And Everywhere
6. With A Little Help From My Friends
7. As Far As I Can See
8. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
9. Nuages
10. Rite Of Strings
11. Stardust
12. Happy Birthday Bill Monroe
13. Jack Rabbit Trail
14. Soldier's Night Out
15. Two Girls From Galax

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Selectively Worthwhile.......2006-01-22

This chestnut from Butch Baldassari's Nashville Mandolin Ensemble is a mixed bag. Parts of it are very much worth a listen. I particularly like their rendition of the Allman Brothers classic "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," and while their take on Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" isn't transcendent, it's pretty sharp. It's especially noteworthy how much sound the ensemble is able to get out of only six instruments with a fairly narrow range of sound.

But not all of it bears up to repeated listening. The "Bluegrass" section of the album is worthwhile, but the "Bach>>Beatles" part is awkward. The renditions of "Sleepers Awake" and "With a Little Help From My Friends" sound really thin, and the "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring," one of the more enduringly moving pieces from Bach's body of work, comes across as kind of sleepy. The sound the ensemble gets out of their instruments is big, but not varied, and especially on the three classical pieces that kick of the album, the effect is an unearned sense of being almost tepid.

Because it's fairly inexpensive, this album is probably worth getting for the second half of the playlist, which is very much listenable. But if you're going to play the album more than once you need to be selective in your listening. Worthwhile but spotty, this album is a valiant addition to the canon of mandolin music, but not something that will rest permanently in your CD changer.

Monstrously good!.......2005-05-25

Playing Time - 50:51 -- With over a decade under their belts, The Nashville Mandolin Ensemble has now trimmed down to a tight-knit and lean sextet for their fourth album, a presentation of 15 numbers recorded live at Vanderbilt University. The group features mando-family instruments (mandolins, mandola, mandocello) supplemented with 5-string viola, guitar and bass. The artists include Butch Baldassari, Stephan Dudash, Walter Carter, John Hedgecoth, Van Manakas, and David Spicher. In keeping with the program and album's title ("Bach, Beatles, Bluegrass"), the album opens with three neat classical Bach compositions, followed by three meaty selections from John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

The "bluegrass" is much more than just that with tunes from the genres of jazz, Gypsy, swing, Dawg, new acoustic and old-time music. Contempoary compositions from mandolinist Charlie Provenza and guitarist Roger Hudson are first-rate-and-a-half. It's amazing to hear what these hot pickers do with a number like "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," written by Dickey Betts, who was lead guitarist with the Allman Brothers in the sixties and seventies. Then, they can also evoke images of a moonlit evening at a café in Paris with their simply dee-lish appeteaser, "Nuages" from Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. It's a joy to hear musicians of this caliber take on a wide range of material from "Stardust" to "Happy Birthday, Bill Monroe." Ensemble member Butch Baldassari contributes a bouncy original "Jack Rabbit Trail," which provides some icing for this mandocake. Not losing sight of their roots, two traditional numbers close out the album. Walter Carter, mandola player, is deserving of special recognition for his quality and classy arranging of seven of the songs. For a live recording, the sound quality is excellent and fortunately no annoying audience applause is included. This album is monstrously good, and it is further proof that Nashville currently sports one of the finest mandolin ensembles in the world. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now)

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1. Guitar Legend: The RCA Years
2. Hey You
3. High Mileage [Enhanced CD] [Enhanced]
4. Highways and Honky Tonks
5. Honky Tonk Amnesia: The Hard Country Sound Of Moe Bandy
6. Hot Piece of Grass
7. I Love Everybody
8. Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs
9. Juice/Quiet Lies [Original recording remastered]
10. Killin' Time

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