I Love Everybody

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"I Love Everybody," is a return to Lovett's early Texas-cowboy-poet style. In fact, it's a return to those earlier songs. While all 18 tracks on the album are previously unreleased, most of them date from the 1980s when he was writing far more high-quality material than anyone was interested in recording. This is sure to please his longtime fans, who believe Lovett has never written a better song than the early efforts "If I Had a Boat" and "God Will." Lovett has raided his attic trunk and has found a surprising number of lost treasures.

One of those gems, "Skinny Legs," kicks things off with a confession of jealousy. If he only had skinny legs, a new Toyota and a cute rear end, the singer laments, he'd have a girlfriend like that boy over there. Lovett's dry, deadpan drawl falls on the bouncy, catchy melody with enchanting ease, and he refuses to use a single word more than he needs.

The lightly swinging arrangements are as simple as the songs; Lovett and his acoustic guitar are backed by John Leftwich on stand-up bass and either Kenny Aronoff or Russ Kunkel on drums. Cellist John Hagen is added to five cuts, fiddler Mark O'Connor to six, the Tower of Power Horns to one, a gospel quartet to three, and a choir featuring Rickie Lee Jones and Julia Roberts to two others. At least half a dozen songs are slight one-liners which didn't deserve revival, and they dilute the album's impact. Nonetheless this is a welcome reward for all those who believe the funny Lyle Lovett is the best Lyle Lovett. --Geoffrey Himes

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Assassins (2004 Broadway Revival Cast)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Unworthy of This Show
  • Great.
  • Deserves a place in your Sondheim Discography
  • Dashed high hopes
  • Letdown from the original
 Assassins (2004 Broadway Revival Cast)
Stephen Sondheim , Neil Patrick Harris , Marc Kudisch , Michael Cerveris , Denis O'Hare , and James Barbour
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ASIN: B0002B161Y
Release Date: 2004-08-03

Tracks:

  1. Everybody's Got The Right
  2. Ballad Of Booth
  3. Ladies And Gentlemen, A Toast!
  4. How I Saved Roosevelt
  5. What Does A Man Do...?
  6. Gun Song
  7. Ballad Of Czolgosz
  8. Unworthy Of Your Love
  9. I Am A Terrifying And Imposing Figure...!
  10. Ballad Of Guiteau
  11. Have It Your Way
  12. Another National Anthem
  13. Take A Look Lee
  14. Something Just Broke
  15. Everybody's Got The Right

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"Everybody's got a right/To their dream." So begins Stephen Sondheim's 1991 show Assassins--and in this case, said dreams involve killing an American president. The characters form a veritable rogues' gallery, including John Hinckley, Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth of course, but also half-forgotten luminaries such as Leon Czolgosz (who killed McKinley) and "Squeaky" Fromme (who aimed for Gerald Ford with an unloaded gun). While Sondheim's lyrics are trenchant as ever, his music, which ranges from Sousa pomp to clever little waltzes, is technically brilliant but also oddly uninvolving. (Many fans prefer the recording of the 1991 Off-Broadway version, though "Something Just Broke," which was added to the 1992 London production, makes its recorded debut here.) Still, there are several high points. In "Unworthy of Your Love," for instance, Hinckley and Fromme wax poetic about their unrequited love for Jodie Foster and Charles Manson, respectively, in a Burt Bacharach-style ballad that's deliberately (I hope!) sappy. And of course as with most Sondheim shows, the cast of this revival--Michael Cerveris, Mario Cantone, Becky Ann Baker, Marc Kudisch, Denis O'Hare--is very good. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Unworthy of This Show.......2007-03-01

Assassins is a masterpiece of American theatre. Through a revue of skits and songs, it examines ideas we don't want to face, and shows us the flip side of the American Dream. The score rates as one of Sondheim's best, and the overall effect, when the show is performed well, is incredibly powerful. For years, people have wanted to mount a production on Broadway.

Given this result, they needn't have bothered.

I am still amazed at how much this production got wrong. The principal cast is nothing short of dreadful: the acting is almost laughably overwrought; the pacing keeps getting disrupted by pauses held too long and lines spoken too slowly; some singers are frequently behind the tempo (notably Michael Ceveris as Booth), while others are painful to listen to (like Jeffrey Kuhn as Zangara and Mario Cantone as Sam Byck); the new orchestrations allow for more musicians in the pit, but are much less effective than the earlier arrangements.

To top it all off, this production includes "Something Just Broke", a song sung by the Ensemble as various "average" Americans of different time periods recalling where they were when the president was shot. The song was introduced in the London production, presumably for people who didn't understand the show to have something to latch on to, but it was mercifully kept out of the published vocal score and libretto. It's not a bad song in and of itself, but musically it does not fit in with the rest of the score, and dramatically it doesn't fit in with the rest of the script. Worse, it is placed right between the Kennedy assassination -- the climax of the show -- and the finale, thus skewing all the dramatic momentum and depriving the show of an effective resolution.

The result of all this is that the comic moments aren't funny, the powerful moments fail to move, and the wonderful music is left ho-hum.

I realize that the extraordinary cast of the original production of Assassins presents a dauntingly high standard for everyone else to compare to, but the college productions I've seen were better than this.

5 out of 5 stars Great. .......2006-11-08

What an amazingly talented cast! Neil Patrick Harris, Marc Kudisch, Alex Gemignani (The new Valjean in the revival of Les Miserables) and of course, the former demon barber of Fleet Street, Michael Cerveris (in the role that won him a Tony)...Just to hear these giants of musical theatre perform together as an ensemble alone is worth the price of this recording. This recording is so wonderfully done, and I can't recommend this enough.

'Unworthy of your Love' and 'The Ballad of Booth' are heartbreakingly beautiful, strange that I say that considering the subject matter, but it's true, those two songs alone will stay with you for days on end. The Ballad of Booth has poetic and tragic lyrics like 'Damn my soul, if you must, let my body turn to dust, let it mingle with the ashes of my country...What I did, I did well, and I did it for my country. Let them cry 'Dirty Traitor!', they will understand later...'. and the hauntingly gorgeous melody that goes with those lyrics is just so well, romantic! But then you have the tongue-in-cheek, slightly macabre numbers like 'The Gun Song' and 'Everybody's Got The Right' with lyrics like, 'Everybody's got the right to be happy. Life's not as bad as it seems! Everybody deserves a little sunshine...' and 'All you have to do is, move your little finger...and you can change the world!'

What a rollarcoaster of emotion! I mean, seriously, who else but Sondheim could pull that off and make it the brilliant masterpiece that it clearly is?

One of my biggest regrets is not seeing this during it's brief run in 2004. :(

5 out of 5 stars Deserves a place in your Sondheim Discography.......2006-07-28

Like other reviewers I was fortunate enough to see Roundabout's revival production but perhaps unfortunate that my total enjoyment of that production may bias my critical listening. I can't help but recall the proprietor (Marc Kudish) caressing a pistol into the hand of each assassin when listening to the opening Everybody's Got The Right.

However, while fans of Sondheim and musical theater will argue over every nuance, I find that both this and the original are excellent in their own way. Yes, the voices in the first recording are more refined, yet this recording seems to better capture the character's mannerisms in the vocal stylization, whether the twitchy madness of Guiteau (Dennis O'Hare) or the depressed howl of Sam Byck (Mario Cantone).

This is a worthwhile recording and one that provides me with a reprise of the excellent staging and acting of this quirky play.

2 out of 5 stars Dashed high hopes.......2006-07-14

Assassins is a fascinating and surprising show. You can't imagine a more unlikely topic for a musical and yet, when you hear and/or see the show, you can't help to be impressed by the entire production. Maybe if I'd never heard the original cast recording, I would have given this a higher rating, but, to be frank, this recording suffers in comparison to the original recording in nearly every way.

While the diction on this recording is often impressive...especially Neil Patrick Harris's...too often it is accomplished at the price of tempo. Too many times the musical director has made the choice to slow down portions of the songs to the point of sluggishness. Absolutely NONE of the performances is superior to the original. That doesn't mean that any of the newer performances are horrible, it's just that they don't measure up. The one who comes the closest is Neil Patrick Harris whom I find naturally charming and vulnerable in anything he does.

The best addition to this recording is Mario Cantone's rant as Sam Byck. Unfortunately, I can't recommend getting this recording based solely on that. The biggest mis-step is the omission of the full, final, Kennedy scene. Hearing it on the original recording for the first time is an absolutely thrilling and chilling experience. Not having it all here is a MAJOR disappointment.

Buy the original recording first and check this one out from the library.

3 out of 5 stars Letdown from the original.......2006-04-10

I have been a huge fan of Assassins since it first came out back in '91. While I've never had the pleasure of seeing the play in person, I've read it several times and listened to the original cast recording so often one can hardly believe it. So when I saw "Broadway Cast Recording" I was thrilled. Then I listened to it. I went from thrilled to appalled.

John Weideman, who wrote the music, seems to prefer the Broadway cast recording--at least he says so in its liner notes. I'm not sure why. While some of the songs are still excellent (like the Hinckley-Fromme duet "Unworthy of Your Love"), many of them are just plain painful to listen to. Most of the time the singing vaccilates between being totally flat of affect (most notably Moore in "The Gun Song") to hyperbolic melodrama. Booth mumbles to the point of near-unintelligibility in several songs; Zangara sounds eerily like the mob boss from 'Johnny Dangerously' that keeps calling everyone "farging bastages"; Moore sings nearly the whole time as if she'd OD'd on sedatives; and Guiteau sounds so stereotypically gay that GLAAD should be suing the producer.

It almost seems as if the cast are not sure what do do with their characters. The cast of the Original Cast Recording hit the characters perfectly--an outstanding mix of suffering, despair, anger and hostility. The Broadway cast can't seem to, in the language of the musical, "connect" to the characters. For me this is a huge failing, as the "charcaters" here are real individuals; if the performers can't connect to them, how can we be expected to?

There are also some content differences between this recording and the original. Several brief additions are made from elsewhere in the musical, and the new song "Something Just Broke" written for the Broadway revival is included on the recording. However, about half of the last act (which is included on the original) is cut out. Sadly, the material cut out is far more moving, unsettling and significant than the material added. Also, "Something Just Broke", while a fine song (and performed better than most of the rest of the material), unfortunately breaks up the natural link between the Kennedy assassination's triumphalist ending and the closing version of "Everybody's Got the Right".

I gave this three stars because I love Assassins. It is a brilliant and unnerving drama. But the Original Cast Recording is immensely superior to the Broadway Cast Recording in its ability to reveal this to the audience. I'm glad it was revived, and I'm glad it won three Tony awards--now it can get the recognition it deserves; but for me, I'll stick to the original version I fell in love with years ago. If only the Broadway recording has found a way to be "worthy of your love"...
I Love Everybody
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • garbage
  • His best work
  • Great album from big-haired wannabee
  • My First Lovett - I love it
  • Best Lyle Lovett CD!
 I Love Everybody
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ASIN: B000002ONW
Release Date: 1994-09-27

Tracks:

  1. Skinny Legs
  2. Fat Babies
  3. I Think You Know What I Mean
  4. Hello Grandma
  5. Creeps Like Me
  6. Sonja
  7. They Don't Like Me
  8. Record Lady
  9. Ain't It Somethin'
  10. Penguins
  11. The Fat Girl
  12. La To The Left
  13. Old Friend
  14. Just The Morning
  15. Moon On My Shoulder
  16. I've Got The Blues
  17. Good-Bye To Carolina
  18. I Love Everybody

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"I Love Everybody," is a return to Lovett's early Texas-cowboy-poet style. In fact, it's a return to those earlier songs. While all 18 tracks on the album are previously unreleased, most of them date from the 1980s when he was writing far more high-quality material than anyone was interested in recording. This is sure to please his longtime fans, who believe Lovett has never written a better song than the early efforts "If I Had a Boat" and "God Will." Lovett has raided his attic trunk and has found a surprising number of lost treasures.

One of those gems, "Skinny Legs," kicks things off with a confession of jealousy. If he only had skinny legs, a new Toyota and a cute rear end, the singer laments, he'd have a girlfriend like that boy over there. Lovett's dry, deadpan drawl falls on the bouncy, catchy melody with enchanting ease, and he refuses to use a single word more than he needs.

The lightly swinging arrangements are as simple as the songs; Lovett and his acoustic guitar are backed by John Leftwich on stand-up bass and either Kenny Aronoff or Russ Kunkel on drums. Cellist John Hagen is added to five cuts, fiddler Mark O'Connor to six, the Tower of Power Horns to one, a gospel quartet to three, and a choir featuring Rickie Lee Jones and Julia Roberts to two others. At least half a dozen songs are slight one-liners which didn't deserve revival, and they dilute the album's impact. Nonetheless this is a welcome reward for all those who believe the funny Lyle Lovett is the best Lyle Lovett. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars garbage.......2007-03-27

Lyle Lovettt began his recording career with three astonishing, poignant, funny, eerie, poetic crossover cds. The high points include his humorous bluesy sparring with Frances, his toying with his odd image, the breath-taking "Pontiac" which manages in a hundred words to knock the wind out of you, etc. How nice it would have been if he had continued executing deep, interesting work. Sadly, Lyle had other plans.

Instead his 4th, "Joshua Judges Ruth," was mediocre at best. By the 5th (this) he had accelerated into freefall, and really hit some all-time low mark for a collection of songs. 18 songs here and only one of them is any good. And he knows it because he puts the good one "Skinny Legs" first. Horrid lowpoints on the album inlcude "Penguins" "Fat babies" "Goodbye to Carolina" "Record Lady" "Hello Grandma" "Creeps like Me." What the hell is this stuff? It's not folk, it's not country. It's not alternative or rock. It's some horrible, horrible new genre. It seems like he accepted some sort of dare to record the stupidest things he's ever written, with a straight face. And if you fell for it, well, too bad for you.

Let's cut right to the insanely stupid lyrics to make the point:
I don't go for fancy cars / For diamond rings / Or movie stars / I go for penguins / Oh Lord I go for penguins / Penguins are so sensitive / To my needs.

Absolutely assinine! And the equally insipid "Fat Babies:"

I said I don't like hippies / And I don't like cornbread / And I don't like much / Fat babies have no pride / And that's okay / Who needs pride.

Mmm. You're really connecting with me Lyle.

Adjectives that come to mind when I think of this cd are exhausted, stupid, trite, rotten, heinous, masturbatory, indulgent, jaw-droppingly bad... and he continued in this vein, never to be relevant again. I hear some later work is good, but the immense bad will created by this CD prevents me from even considering a listen.

5 out of 5 stars His best work.......2005-11-28

Strip away the big band, vivacious backing vocals and sometimes amusing lyrics and Lyle Lovett is still one heck of a songwriter and singer. This CD proves it -- and is probably his finest work. Simple, mellow, yet profound, its perfect Saturday morning listening music. Enjoy with your favorite coffee and pajamas.

1 out of 5 stars Great album from big-haired wannabee.......2004-11-25

This album is among lyle's worst. The arrangements are all plodding and unimaginative. The musicians sound bored. Lyle is at his most pathetic and whiny. Listen, if ANY of the original Texas blues artists heard this guy singing like this and claiming to be from Texas, they would have shot him on the spot (not that I'm advocating violence, but they were a different breed). Fortunately (for Lyle) they've passed on. Its really Brittany Spears for a little more sophisticated crowd. Great for people with a lot of money who drive Subaru Foresters, wear Birkenstocks, SmartWool socks, listen to A Prarie Home Companion, and love nice safe unchallenging music.

5 out of 5 stars My First Lovett - I love it.......2004-10-21

I'm by no means a country music fan - I was shocked to find out that this was classified as country. Accoustically, this is a dynamic recording which adds to the dynamic musicianship going on in most of the songs.
I'm really writing this to add some praise for the song Sonja - which I find to be a fantastic example of his lyrics - alot of fun and alot more depth to it than it seems at first.

5 out of 5 stars Best Lyle Lovett CD!.......2004-09-02

This one is my favorite of all Lyle Lovett CD's. Almost every song is a gem! The wit of "Record Lady," the grace of "I Think You Know What I Mean.," the sharpness of "Skinny Legs" or the absurdity and fun of "Skinny Legs"...it's all gold, as you will find out when you buy or borrow "I Love Everybody."

We need more original songwriters like Lyle. He may be a loner, but he carries some profound messages.

Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (Live at Carnegie Hall 2001)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Wow!
  • Everyone Should Whistle
  • An amazing intro to the body of work of a true master
  • Beautiful, moving concert
  • ... and I love Barbara Cook
 Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (Live at Carnegie Hall 2001)

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ASIN: B000059LFF
Release Date: 2001-05-08

Tracks:

  1. Everybody Says Don't
  2. I Wonder What Became of Me?
  3. The Eagle and Me
  4. I Had Myself a True Love
  5. Into the Woods / Giants in the Sky (Malcolm Gets)
  6. Another Hundred People / So Many People (Malcolm Gets)
  7. Let's Face the Music and Dance / The Song Is You (duet with Malcolm Gets)
  8. Happiness
  9. Loving You
  10. You Could Drive a Person Crazy
  11. Not A Day Goes By / Losing My Mind

Tracks:

  1. Buds Won't Bud
  2. I Got Lost in His Arms
  3. West Side Story Segment: Something's Coming / Tonight (Malcolm Gets)
  4. Move On (duet with Malcolm Gets)
  5. Medley: Hard Hearted Hannah / Waiting for the Robert E. Lee / San Francisco
  6. Ice Cream
  7. Send in the Clowns
  8. The Trolley Song
  9. Not While I'm Around (duet with Malcolm Gets)
  10. Anyone Can Whistle

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Barbara Cook is one of today's most accomplished song stylists, and if you don't believe us, just listen to this live album. It's a master class in the art of singing. It documents an evening at Carnegie Hall during which Cook proved that she can dissect and extract the substance out of the simplest of lyrics. One of the best surprises is "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" (from Company), which is taken at an amiable trot and allows the singer to display its humor. Cook is not a swinging singer and uptempo is not her pace; give her a ballad, though, and she'll wring the last drop of emotion out of it. Her version of "Losing My Mind" (here paired with "Not a Day Goes By") is simply astonishing. The singer also performs songs that Sondheim has said he wished he had written, an awful lot of them by Harold Arlen. No complaints here. Guest Malcolm Gets solos on a few songs and duets with Cook on others, including "Let's Face the Music and Dance." This is classic material done masterfully by a classic singer. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Wow!.......2004-02-20

Having read the other reviews there is little more for me to add. I have been a Barbara Cook fan for a longtime and for me, this is one of her best concerts ever. I do, however, prefer the DVD. As with some other reviewers, I do not want to hear Malcolm Gets (as much as I like him) when I want to listen to Barbara. Her flawless interpretation of music is a hard act to follow for any singer! I managed to see this concert 4 times over a year and a half. Each time I saw her the voice was stronger and more assured (I would not have thought that possible). I can't help but think we will have the pleasure of hearing Ms Cook for many years to come. For those people who enjoyed his CD I strongly recommend purchasing the DVD. Barabara's rendition of So Many People is breathtaking (literally, I don't think I breathed once during the entire song). If you ever have opportunity to see her live - go! She has an ability to make you feel as if every song she sings and every word she speaks is directed to you alone. She can take a large venue and make it feel as intimate as your own living room. Having had the pleasure of meeting her I can say she is as youthful and pleasurable in person as she is in her performance.

5 out of 5 stars Everyone Should Whistle.......2003-10-11

After being privileged to attend this concert, I had to own the CD. Once a lyric coloratura and the original Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide, Ms. Cook has become (in her 70s) a true diva, blessed with a velvety, warm sound. Every note has meaning. Her high B-flat on "Ice Cream" is still the envy of any soprano today. Everyone should whistle after hearing the superb performances on this CD. Even better, though, is the experience of having been in the concert hall for the live performance. Brava, Ms. Cook!

5 out of 5 stars An amazing intro to the body of work of a true master.......2003-06-16

When I first bought tickets for the 'Mostly Sondheim' show on tour (in San Francisco) I figured it couldn't be too bad. Besides, I had only been exposed to a few of his songs (Anyone Can Whistle, Losing My Mind...) and had only seen "A Little Night Music". On the way out of the theater I immediately picked up this recording of the program. It is truly amazing. I immediately began listening to it and have barely put it down in the last few months. Furthermore, my Sondheim CD collection increased in size from an unflattering zero to five (and it's still growing)! This is an amazing introduction to the works of Stephen Sondheim, who is now my favorite modern musical composer). Buy this now if you don't already have it!

4 out of 5 stars Beautiful, moving concert.......2003-04-13

This is a wonderful CD set with a great selection of songs. I do want to express a slight reservation, however. Barbara Cook has been one of my favorite singers for a number of years and the way her voice defies time is extraordinary -- for her to be singing with such bright, beautiful tone in her mid-70s with no wobble or beat in the voice is an amazing achievment.

I do have to say that by 2001, when this concert was recorded, Cook seemed to have a lost a little bit of power and intensity in her singing. This is only natural for someone of her age. Her voice is still lovely, but you can sense her keeping it in reserve a bit. She's as expressive as ever, but compare the rendition of "I got lost in his arms" on this album to the one on her previous album recorded in 1999, "The Champion Season", and there's less urgency and vocal depth in her singing here. That said, the high B at the end of "Ice Cream" is sensational.

So, despite that caveat, this is, again, a wonderful album, a must for Cook fans, especially for the gorgeous renditions of songs I'd never thought I'd get to hear her perform: "Not a Day Goes By", "Happiness/Loving You", "San Francisco", etc. Buy it!

1 out of 5 stars ... and I love Barbara Cook.......2003-02-11

This recording is a disappointment for me. It is not her best work, and Malcolm Gets is uninspired. My biggest complaint however is the engineering of the recording. Throughout the speaking was to soft, the singing volumes uneven, and the applause deafening. I will be passing this CD on to friends, and will later donate it to my local library.
Sings Sondheim
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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  • a very disappointed fan
  • What a train wreck!
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ASIN: B00006JP2C
Release Date: 2002-10-29

Tracks:

  1. Opening
  2. Lesson #8
  3. Another Hundred People
  4. When?
  5. Someone Is Waiting
  6. Johanna
  7. Green Finch and Linnet Bird
  8. Pretty Women
  9. Finishing the Hat
  10. If You Can Find Me, I'm Here
  11. Live, Laugh, Love
  12. Live Alone and Like It
  13. Everybody Says Don't
  14. Rich and Happy, Part 1
  15. Our Time
  16. Broadway Baby
  17. Rich and Happy, Part 2
  18. Uptown, Downtown
  19. Liaisons
  20. Send in the Clowns
  21. Live, Laugh, Love (reprise)
  22. You Could Drive a Person Crazy

Tracks:

  1. Free
  2. Company
  3. Waiting For The Girls Upstairs
  4. Pleasant Little Kingdom/Too Many Mornings
  5. Not While I'm Around
  6. All Things Bright and Beautiful
  7. It Takes Two
  8. In Someone's Eyes
  9. Beautiful
  10. Losing My Mind
  11. Take the Moment
  12. Sunday

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Recorded live at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia, this double CD is one heck of an extensive tribute to Stephen Sondheim. Backed only by Paul Ford on piano, Mandy Patinkin gets through nearly three dozen songs penned by the Broadway master. Some are obvious (excerpts from Sunday in the Park with George, in which the singer created the title role), others less so ("If You Can Find Me I'm Here" from Evening Primrose). Patinkin is often mocked for his shivering falsetto, but here, it's actually when his voice explores a lower register that it falters. What's more interesting is when he tackles songs usually sung by women, such as Follies' "Broadway Baby" and Company's "Another Hundred People" and "You Could Drive a Person Crazy"--the latter hammed up so much that you can hear the chewing of the scenery. A distinctively mannered interpreter, Patinkin remains an acquired taste, but fans of his will be in heaven with this set. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sondheim recital.......2007-01-22

Probably the best way to approach these disks is to treat them like a recital in a concert hall. Rather as you would listen to a Schubert or Schumann song cycle. Taken together this way, we come to hear Sondheim as one of our finest composers, serious, comic, manic, depressive, always dead on target no matter what the subject matter. And Patinkin is perfect for these songs; he understands the meaning and value of every note and every word, just as a fine concert singer would do, and he makes his listeners understand, too. One of the most intriguing concept albums in recent memory, and a joy all the way through. Bob Finley, Palm Springs, CA.

2 out of 5 stars Also a very dissapointed fan.......2003-08-22

I too LOVE Mandy and Stephen Sondheim and own just about everything both has ever made! I also have been to 6 of Mandy's live performances. This was truly a big dissapointment to me. Every concert I have seen Mandy in has been filled with emotion and his personality just grabs hold of you for an evening of wonderful escape-ism. This to me was very un-entertaining and I actually became irritated after awhile of listening to it. It seemed to drone on with out the wonderful feelings and emotions and soaring voice that Mandy typically puts into his music. I gave this as a gift too (since my friend and I had missed Mandy at his Sondheim review in DC last year) and felt badly that I had. There are so many other great recordings of Mandy...Kidults, Saturday in the Park with George, The Secret Garden, Mandy sings Rogers & Hammerstien and Sondheim. This one has just sat on my shelf after I played it through twice hoping to warm up to it...while my other recordings are very worn out with years of playing!

2 out of 5 stars Adequate performance; poor entertainment.......2003-05-04

I received this disc the same day a "Philip Quast Live at the Donmar". The Quast disc has its own flaws (and I dont wish to compare the two performers) but it has been strung together in a more thoughtful manner, with witty imagination and using a more dangerous in the choice of songs, which is really where this disc fails. The songs here are generally enjoyable though rather standard, and the lack of cohesion (running the songs together doesnt count) means I just dip into the discs listening to a few favourites, rather than enjoying the whole show.

2 out of 5 stars a very disappointed fan.......2003-02-05

I have every recording Patinkin appears on, even if he's only on one track; I adore his voice, his flair, his emotion, his ability to deliver a song.

But (much of) this recording is disappointing, mainly because Mr. Patinkin's voice in the lower range sounds muddled and forced, as though he's lost ability to control it (however, the more falsetto sounds are as clear and sharp as ever).

And I don't care for the format of this performance. Live recordings should have live audience reactions: one (often unrelated) song after another without applause had me wondering when--if ever--was the audience was going to be allowed to react.

Also, while I've never had the privilege of attending a Patinkin concert, I imagined that--above all-- he would be passionate. Perhaps he was. But what (mostly) comes across on the CD is a somber--almost technical--performance.

I hope he's healthy, that mixed quality of singing on this recording was just a fluke, and that his next CD will be a Five-star as all his previous ones have been

2 out of 5 stars What a train wreck!.......2003-01-15

Hate to join the chorus of neigh-sayers, but jeeeez! I have to agree that with the exception of a few cuts (such as "Hyphenated Harriet") Mandy is a vocal bull in a china shop -- what he doesn't shatter he ... on. What should have been a tribute (I love Sondheim, but do we need ANOTHER anthology recording of oft sung songs?)is more like a wake. Mandy seems intent on becoming the male Ethel Merman -- if you can't hold the note, belt it out with a misplaced vabrato and maybe no one will notice. I REALLY wanted to like this recording, but is truly horrible. If the pipes are gone, Mandy, I hope you get back to acting.
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  • Sheri Petta - who would a thunk?
  • great music and "match"
  • Smooth Renditions
  • Beautiful Fresh New Voice
  • Magical!
 this is why
Sherry Petta
Manufacturer: Sherry Petta Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BUWE7G
Release Date: 2005-10-12

Tracks:

  1. If I Had You
  2. Until The Real Thing Comes Along
  3. I Wish You Love
  4. Falling For You
  5. Teach Me Tonight
  6. Fools Rush In
  7. Let Me Love You
  8. Summer Wind
  9. Watch What Happens
  10. Everybody Loves Somebody
  11. Waiting
  12. You Don't Know Me
  13. Blue Ain't Just A Color

Product Description

Sherry Petta sings popular standards and three originals soon to be favorites. Enjoy her textured velvet vocals on songs that will keep music in your heart. Tracks include Waiting, You Don't Know Me, If I Had You, Fools Rush In, Until the Real Thing Comes Along, Summer Wind, and more.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Sheri Petta - who would a thunk?.......2007-02-17

I heard a cut from Sheri Petta and enjoyed it so I ordered her only album and have played it over and over. She is gifted with a silky smooth syrupy voice - a torch singer with soul and perfect pitch - a real find.

5 out of 5 stars great music and "match".......2007-01-08

I believe Sherry has a beautiful voice, and her music is quite entertaining and enjoyable. I would like to hear and learn more...

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5 out of 5 stars Smooth Renditions.......2006-03-20

A superb CD. Silky voiced, smooth renditions of classic numbers excellently produced with very professional backing. Well worth a listen.

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful Fresh New Voice.......2006-01-22

Sherry Petta's music resonates with a fresh new sound. Her voice is clear and clean...reminds me of listening to jazz in a hot club, but without any smoky haze... a contemporary sound for today. I have given Sherry's CD as a gift to many friends and they all enjoy listening to it over and over again. The lilt in Sherry's voice is just charming. Buy this CD today for hours of listening pleasure.

5 out of 5 stars Magical!.......2006-01-18

You must buy this CD. While visiting Arizona recently, I heard a song from this CD on the radio. I figured the singer was some famous person, and then I heard the DJ say it was from an "upcoming star". Well he was right. This woman can sing! All of the songs put you in a calm, relaxing, and "feel good" state of mind. In short, Sherry Petta's music is magical! I highly recommend it.
Ultimate Irving Berlin, Vol. 1
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    		Ultimate Irving Berlin, Vol. 1
    Irving Berlin
    Manufacturer: Pearl
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    ASIN: B00005RKQR
    Release Date: 2002-02-26

    Tracks:

    1. The Jolly Bachelors: That Beautiful Rag
    2. Ziegfeld Follies Of 1911: Woodman, Spare That Tree
    3. Everybody's Doing It: Everybody's Doing It Now
    4. Hullo Ragtime: Hitchy Koo
    5. Hullo Ragtime: Snooky Ookums
    6. Hullo Ragtime: Alexander's Ragtime Band
    7. Watch Your Step: I've Gotta Go Back To Texas
    8. Watch Your Step: Settle Down In A One-Horse Town
    9. Watch Your Step: The Syncopated Walk
    10. Watch Your Step: My Bird Of Paradise
    11. Watch Your Step: Show Us How To Do The Fox Trot
    12. Watch Your Step: The Simple Melody
    13. Watch Your Step: The Always Follow Me Around
    14. Watch Your Step: Discoveries
    15. Watch Your Step: The Minstrel Parade
    16. Stop! Look! Listen! (Follow The Crowd): Beautiful Honolulu
    17. Stop! Look! Listen! (Follow The Crowd): England Every Time For Me
    18. Stop! Look! Listen! (Follow The Crowd): Teach Me To Love
    19. Stop! Look! Listen! (Follow The Crowd): I Love To Dance
    20. Stop! Look! Listen! (Follow The Crowd): The Girl On The Magazine
    21. Stop! Look! Listen! (Follow The Crowd): I Love A Piano
    22. Stop! Look! Listen! (Follow The Crowd): Until I Fell In Love With You
    23. Stop! Look! Listen! (Follow The Crowd): Father Wanted Me To Learn A Trade
    24. Stop! Look! Listen! (Follow The Crowd): Take Off A Little Bit
    I Love Everybody
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    		 I Love Everybody
    Johnny Hartman , and Oliver Nelson
    Manufacturer: Gambit Spain
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0009SQ6YW
    Release Date: 2005-06-20

    Tracks:

    1. Today I Love Eveybody
    2. T'Ain't No Need
    3. For the Want of a Kiss
    4. Girl Talk
    5. Old Black Magic/Matilde
    6. If I Had You
    7. When I Get the Time
    8. Goodbye, Goodbye
    9. I Cover the Waterfront
    10. Go Away
    11. As You Desire Me
    12. Mam'selle
    13. To Each His Own
    14. Sunday
    15. Alone
    16. Long Ago & Far Away
    17. I Should Care
    18. Little Girl Blue
    19. But Beautiful
    20. After You've Gone
    21. There's a Lull in My Life
    22. How Long Has This Been Going On
    23. I Thought About You

    Album Details

    It Isn't Often that a Jazz Singer of Johnny Hartman's Calibre is Placed Beside an Arranger as Gifted as Oliver Nelson. In Addition to the Los Angeles, September 28, 1966 "live Studio Date" with Nelson, this Release features the Incomparable Hartman Accompanied by Orchestras Directed by Jack Pleis (1966) and by Rudy Traylor (1958). This Release Marks the First Time that Hartman's 1966 Session with Jack Pleis is Available on CD.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Pilgrim's review.......2007-05-14

    This CD was ok, The CD's with Coltrane and Hartman and Live in Tokyo should be purchased first.
    Come on and Hear
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      		Come on and Hear

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      ProductGroup: Music
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      ASIN: B00004RD4V
      Release Date: 2000-01-01

      Tracks:

      1. Everybody's Doing It Now
      2. That's How I Love You
      3. When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam'
      4. Move Over
      5. Simple Melody
      6. At The Devil's Ball (First Version)
      7. At The Devil's Ball (Final Version)
      8. The Girl On The Magazine Cover
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      10. When It Rains, Sweetheart, When It Rains
      11. Settle Down In A One Horse Town
      12. Ragtime Violin/That Mysterious Rag/The International Rag
      13. If All The Girls I Knew Were Like You
      14. Stop! Look! Listen!
      15. I Want To Go Back To Michigan (Down On The Farm)
      16. That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune
      17. Ragtime Soldier Man
      18. The Apple Tree And The Bumble Bee
      19. Spring And Fall
      20. I Love A Piano
      21. They've Got Me Doing It Now
      A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1
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      		 A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1

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      ASIN: B000054BF6
      Release Date: 2001-04-17

      Tracks:

      1. This Year Of Grace: Dance, Little Lady
      2. This Year Of Grace: A Room With A View
      3. This Year Of Grace: Mary Make-Believe
      4. This Year Of Grace: Try To Learn To Love
      5. This Year Of Grace: Lorelei
      6. A Dream Of Youth (The Dream Is Over)
      7. Bitter Sweet: Zigeuner
      8. This Year Of Grace: World Weary
      9. Private Lives, Act 1, Love Scene: Someday I'll Find You
      10. Private Lives, Act 2, Scene: I Never Realised/If You Were The Only Girl In The World
      11. Half-Caste Woman
      12. Any Little Fish
      13. Cavalcade: Lover Of My Dreams (Mirabelle Valse)
      14. Cavalcade Vocal Medley: Soldiers Of The Queen/Goodbye Dolly Gray/Lover Of My Dreams/I Do Like To...
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      16. Noel Coward Medley: Parisian Pierrot/Poor Little Rich Girl/A Room With A View/Dance Little Lady...

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars The style is the man--and the song.......2001-05-02

      Many composers have chosen to perform their own material and commit it to discs, with mixed results. Only with Noel Coward do we feel that a good deal of the charm of his numbers lies in the very way he performs them. For proof, we now have the Naxos Nostalgia (8.120529), which dishes up 16 tracks of the ultra-refined son of W. S.Gilbert, giving us six selections from "This Year of Grace," one from "Bittersweet," a medley of treasures from his "Cavalcade," another from his other works, and a few other trifles that are better than most of what is written today.

      Add to all this two classical scenes with Coward and co-star Gertrude Lawrence from his "Private Lives," incredibly valuable for those local drama groups who butcher this work in that this CD can teach them the tone and rhythms that are essential in making this classic succeed.

      The subtitle of this set is "The Complete Recordings, Volume 1: 1928-1932." So we can look forward to future offerings featuring this fascinating composer-lyricist-performer. Thank you, Naxos, yet again.
      The Columbia Albums of Irving Berlin, Vol. 1-2
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        		The Columbia Albums of Irving Berlin, Vol. 1-2

        Manufacturer: Collectables
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B0000AHEU8
        Release Date: 2003-09-02

        Tracks:

        1. It's A Lovely Day Today/Blue Skies
        2. Maybe Its Because I Love/I Got Lost
        3. You'd Be Surprised/I'll See You In Cuba
        4. Always/Remember
        5. Shaking The Blues/Play A Simple/Alexander's
        6. Here's No Business/Got The Sun/Girl I Marry
        7. Say It Will Music/Cheek To Cheek
        8. It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow/ Now It Can Be Told
        9. This Year's Kisses/Be Careful! Its My Heart
        10. Lady Of The Evening/ Better Luck Next Time
        11. Steppin' Out With My Baby/ You're Just In Love
        12. Let's Face The Music/Say It Isn't So
        13. How Deep Is The Ocean/I Never Had A Chance
        14. Change Partners/Mandy
        15. You Can't Brush Me/Everybody Step/Waiting At The End
        16. Soft Lights/They Say It's Wonderful
        17. Puttin' On The Ritz/Marie
        18. I've Got My Love To Keep Me/Top Hat
        19. What'll I Do/All Alone
        20. A Pretty Girl/Isn't This A Lovely Day
        21. Lazy/I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep
        22. I'm Playing With Fire/Let's Have Another Cup
        23. Heat Wave/Let Yourself Go
        24. The Piccoline/No Strings

        Album Description

        Full Title - The Columbia Albums Of Irving Berlin Vols. 1 & 2. Composer, conductor, arranger Frank DeVol scored more than fifty movies and is best known as the composer for the theme songs for the TV series 'My Three Sons', 'The Brady Bunch' and 'Family Affair'. In the 1940s DeVol was an arranger for Dinah Shore, Tony Bennett, Rudy Vallee, Vic Damone and Doris Day. Frank DeVol received multiple Emmy Awards and Academy Award nominations for his extensive body of work. Irving Berlin's medleys featured are 'Always/Remember', 'A Pretty Girl/Isn't It A Lovely Day' and 'Say It With Music/Cheek To Cheek'. 24 tracks. Collectables 2003.

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