There's nobody quite like the affable Texan Don Walser. His stellar yodeling alone has led critics to call him the "Pavarotti of the Plains" (Playboy) and "the greatest country singer in the world" (the Austin Chronicle). Walser honed his honky-tonk street cred during decades of playing Texas dance halls before he retired from his day job with the National Guard and promptly cut his well-received major label debut, Rolling Stone from Texas (1994). The Archive Series plucks two volumes' worth of material from earlier, mostly local releases. On such classic numbers as "Cattle Call," "Take Me Back to Tulsa," and "Long Black Veil," Walser shows his deep roots in old-time Western swing, with influences ranging from Lefty Frizzell and Webb Pierce to Ernest Tubb and Bob Wills.
Archive Series 2,Don Walser,Watermelon / Wea,Country,Country & Western,Pop
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The Archive Series, Vol. 2
Don Walser Manufacturer: Watermelon / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000000FEH Release Date: 1998-07-14 |
Tracks:
- Yodel Polka
- Waiting For A Train
- Side Men
- Two Stepping Lady
- Love Me
- Hill Country Waltz
- One More Drink
- Take Me Back To Tulsa
- All Around Cowboy
- Shelly's Winter Love
- Cowpoke
- The Long Black Veil
- Begging To You
- Rolling Stone From Texas
- Austin Waltz
- Fraulein
- Red Skin Gal
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There's nobody quite like the affable Texan Don Walser. His stellar yodeling alone has led critics to call him the "Pavarotti of the Plains" (Playboy) and "the greatest country singer in the world" (the Austin Chronicle). Walser honed his honky-tonk street cred during decades of playing Texas dance halls before he retired from his day job with the National Guard and promptly cut his well-received major label debut, Rolling Stone from Texas (1994). The Archive Series plucks two volumes' worth of material from earlier, mostly local releases. On such classic numbers as "Cattle Call," "Take Me Back to Tulsa," and "Long Black Veil," Walser shows his deep roots in old-time Western swing, with influences ranging from Lefty Frizzell and Webb Pierce to Ernest Tubb and Bob Wills.Customer Reviews:
Walser's most traditional, and best, recording.......2000-06-27
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The Stanford Archive Series: Lawrence Tibbett
Manufacturer: Delos Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000072P Release Date: 1997-05-20 |
Tracks:
- Carmen: Votre toast
- Pagliacci: Si puo? Si puo? Un nido de memori (Prologo)
- Pagliacc: Vesti la giubba
- Il Barbieri Di Siviglia: Largo al factotum
- On The Road To Mandalay
- De Glory Road
- Hallelujah Rhythm
- Shake Your Brown Feet, Honey
- Travelin' To De Grave
- The Packet Boat: The Roustabout
- Show Boat: Ol' Man River
- A Kingdom By The Sea
- Merry Mount: 'Tis An Earth Defiled
- Theodora: Defend Her! Heaven
- A Star Was His Candle
- The Crucifix
- Edward, Op. 1, No. 1
- The Star Spangled Banner
- De Glory Road: De Glory Road (Alternate Endings)
Tracks:
- Suomen laulu
- Rigoletto: Act 1: Pari siamo
- Rigoletto: Act 2: Povero Rigoletto!... La ra, la ra... Cortigiani, vil razza dannata... Miei signori...
- Otello: Act 1: Inaffia l'ugola (Brindisi)
- Otello: Act 2: Vanne; la tua meta gia vedo... Credo in un Dio crudel
- Otello: Act 3: Era la notte (Sogno de Cassio)
- Tannhauser: Act 1: Als du im kuhnem Sange
- Tannhauser: Act 3: WieTodesahnung Damm'rung... O du mein holder Abendstern
- La Traviata: Act 2: Mio figlio! Oh quanto soffri!... Di provenza il mar
- Il Trovatore: Il balen del suo sorriso
- TOSCA: Gia! Mi dicon venal
- Faust: Act 2: Buvons! Trinquons! Et qu'un joyeux refrain... Un rat plus poltron que brave... Le veau d'or
- Faust: Act 2: Merci de ta chanson! ... Dans les airs se brise!
- Songs From the Film 'Under Your Spell': Amigo - My Friend
- Songs From the Film 'Under Your Spell': My Little Mule Wagon
- Songs From the Film 'Under Your Spell': Under Your Spell
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He was handsome, hot, had a rich, distinctive voice and was a vulgar SOB, but you had to love baritone Lawrence Tibbett's audacity in falsifying a composer's intentions while he made the music as exciting and flashy as possible. This two-disc collection take from the Stanford University Archives covers his famous roles in Carmen and Barber of Seville, plus his forays into pop tunes and even his rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner." It's an interesting time capsule since Tibbett touch on so many media--even movies. But even though most of these recordings predate his vocal decline in the 1940s, it's mostly for fans only. --David Patrick StearnsCustomer Reviews:
The Stanford Archive Series: Lawrence Tibbett.......2007-02-12
Lawrence Tibbett: An artist for all generations........2005-10-20
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The Stanford Archive Series: Richard Crooks
Manufacturer: Delos Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000072Q Release Date: 1997-05-20 |
Tracks:
- Die schone Mullerin: Das Wandern
- Die schone Mullerin: Wohin?
- Die schone Mullerin: Halt!
- Die schone Mullerin: Danksagung an den Bach
- Die schone Mullerin: Am eierabend
- Die schone Mullerin: Der Neugierige
- Die schone Mullerin: Ungeduld
- Die schone Mullerin: Morgengruss
- Die schone Mullerin: Des M Blumen
- Die schone Mullerin: Thrnregen
- Die schone Mullerin: Mein!
- Die schone Mullerin: Pause
- Die schone Mullerin: Mit dem grautenbande
- Die schone Mullerin: Der Jr
- Die schone Mullerin: Eifersucht und Stolz
- Die schone Mullerin: Die liebe Farbe
- Die schone Mullerin: Die bose Farbe
- Die schone Mullerin: Trockne Blumen
- Die schone Mullerin: Der Muller und der Bach
- Die schone Mullerin: Des Baches Wiegenlied
- Serenade
- I Love Thee
- Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
- Passing By
- Clorinda
- L'Adieu du Matin
- I Love Thee
- For Music
- Hark How Still
- On Wings Of Song
Tracks:
- Charity
- The Student Prince In Heidelberg; Serenade
- The Desert Song; One Flower Grows Alone In Your Garden
- Sacrament (A Love Song)
- Prize Song, Act III
- Lohengrin: In fernem land, Act III
- Carmen: Hier am Herzen (Blumenarie), Act II
- Aida: O ware ich erkoren... Holde Aida (Celeste Aida) Act I, Scene I
- Elisir d'Amore: Heimlich aus ihrem Auge (Una furtiva lagrima), Act II
- Absent Yet Present
- Love's Old Sweet Song
- Die Nacht
- Morgen
- L'Arlesiana: E la solita storia (Lamento di Federico), Act II
- Comus: Prech Me Not Your Musty Rules
- Dearest Maiden, Hear My Song
- Friederike: O Maiden, My Maiden
- O Perfect Love
- For You With Love
- Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Cantata 147, No. 10)
- The Americans Come
- The Americans Come
- De Camptown Races
- Beautiful Dreamer
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Richard Crooks: A Fine Man and a Master Singer.......2006-06-23
The 2 CD set is a most welcome release, and I note that, for now at least, one seller has it available at the bargain price of $14.95. Collectors of the recordings of singers from the early years of last century please note, and snap it up while still on offer at such a modest cost.
These historic recordings have a bad habit of vanishing because too often there is insufficient apparent interest shown by potential buyers. I am relieved to have bought a copy and urge others to do so. Making due allowance for some poor quality recordings by today's high fidelity standards, there are wonderful treasures to enjoy indeed in this set.
A Richard Crooks Collection.......2003-12-06
Already, however, I had heard many of Crooks' 78-rpm recordings for RCA Victor. Crooks had retired in 1945, due to serious health problems, but he actually could still sing quite well, as can be determined by hearing some of the rare private recordings of Crooks singing at a wedding in 1968. Those recordings, included in this wonderful compilation, are proof that Crooks still had the same beautiful, lyrical voice which had so distinguished his singing over the years. Sadly, Crooks was already battling the cancer that would ultimately take his life in September 1972.
This two-CD compilation, prepared by the Stanford (University) Archives of Recorded Sound, goes back to one of Crooks' earliest recordings, an unreleased Columbia recording of "The Americans Come." It also includes some of his early Victor recordings. Among these is the "Serenade" from Rudolf Friml's "The Student Prince." (Crooks also sang with the Victor Light Opera Company in some of their medley recordings, which were so popular during the 1920's. One of the recordings is a medley of songs from "The Student Prince," in which Crooks alternates with another tenor, Lambert Murphy, on some of the solos.)
One of the amazing releases in this collection is Franz Schubert's "Die schone Mullerin," in which Crooks is wonderfully accompanied by Frank LaForge. Remarkably, Victor never issued these recordings. The only problem is that there are occasional flaws in the original masters, but the brilliant singing comes through.
Crooks often talked about singing in public when he was only 10 years old. Famed German contralto Ernestine Schumann Heink was present at the performance and, at the very end, she planted a big kiss on the boy, to his embarassment. Crooks also spoke of hearing Enrico Caruso sing at the Metropolitan Opera; he said that Caruso's recordings are like listening to the tenor in the lobby with the doors closed!
There are some interesting curiosities in this collection, too, such as some recordings of various operatic arias recorded in Germany and sung in German, regardless of the original language. However, operas were usually sung in German in Germany in the 1920's and 1930's, so Crooks was simply following the custom of the time.
There is also the double-sided 12-inch 78-rpm RCA Victor "Red Seal" disk that Crooks always said was his favorite: two famous arias by Richard Wagner, the "Prize Song" from "Meistersinger" and "En fernem land" from "Lohengrin." One marvels at not only the beauty and sweetness of Crooks' voice but his amazing diction. His training and experience in Germany served him well.
One of the special treats is hearing two Stephen Foster classics, "De Camptown Races" and "Beautiful Dreamer," sung with Bing Crosby on 1940's radio broadcasts. When this writer met Crooks in 1969, he told how he remained in touch with Bing, who lived a few miles north of him. It's clear that the two, very different singers admired each other and they also had some fun singing such songs.
Among Crooks' last commercial recordings was a new version of "The Americans Come," recorded in January 1945. This seemed particularly appropriate as World War II wound down to its terrible end. Sadly, Crooks' serious illness ended his wonderful musical career that year, but the surviving recordings on these two CD's are a lasting testimony to the abilities of this gifted singer who was also a wonderful human being.
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The Stanford Archive Series: Richard Bonnelli
Manufacturer: Delos Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000072R Release Date: 1997-05-20 |
Tracks:
- Hamlet: O vin, discaccia la tristezza (O vin, dissipe la tristesse)
- Roi de Lahore: Aux troupes du Sultan... Promesse de mon avenir
- Herodiade: Ce breuvage pourrait... Vision fugitive
- Faust: O sainte medaile... Avant de quitter ces lieux
- Andrea Chenier: Nemico della patria
- Ballo In Maschera: Alla vita che t'arrida
- Ballo In Maschera: Eri tu, che macchaivi
- La Traviata: Di provenza il mar
- Il Trovatore: Tutto e deserto... Il balen del suo sorriso
- Tannhaeuser: Blich' ich umher
- Tannhaeuser: Wie Todesahnung... O du mein holder Abendstern
- Tote Stadt: Mein Sehnen, mein Waehnen (Pierrotlied)
- La Barcheta
- Dank sei Dir, Herr
- The Two Grenadiers (Die Beiden Grenadiere)
- On The Road To Mandalay
- Danny Deever
- Come To The Fair
- Three For Jack
Tracks:
- Brockes-Passion: Chi sprezzando (Die ihr Gottes Gnad')
- Floridante: Alma mia
- Muzio Scevola: Volate piu dei venti
- Auf dem gruenen Balcon
- Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen?
- Lied vom Winde
- Op. 32, No. 1: Ich trage meine Minne
- Op. 19, No. 4: Wie solten wir geheim sie halten
- Das Huhn un der Karpfen
- Op. 43, No.2: Die Mainacht
- La vague et la cloche
- La Vie anterieure
- La pas d'armes du Roi Jean
- Op. 23, No.1: Les berceaux
- Op. 23, No. 2: Fleur jetee
- Les Anes du Caire
- Beauty, Passing Beauty
- Songs Of Travel: The Vagabond
- Songs Of Travel: Bright Is The Ring Of Words
- Songs Of Travel: The Roadside Fire
- Gifts
- The Bird Of The Wilderness
- The Donkey
- The Next Market Day
- A Ballynure Ballad
- Old Mother Hubbard (a la Handel)
- Border Ballad
- Op. 22, No. 4: A Banjo Song
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Priory LP Archive Series, Vol. 2
Manufacturer: Priory ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0001UM1J2 Release Date: 2004-01-01 |
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Priory LP Archive Series, Vol. 2
Manufacturer: Priory Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00064AFHS Release Date: 2004-10-26 |
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Priory LP Archive Series, Vol. 1 (2 CD Set) - David Hill plays the Organ of Westminster Cathedral, London (Liszt & Willan) & John Porter plays the Organ of St. George's Chapel, Windsor (works by Sidney Campbell, William Harris, etc.)
Manufacturer: Priory Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0001XAR0Y Release Date: 2004-04-27 |
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About this CD Set.......2006-04-25
DISK 1
David Hill plays the Restored Willis III Organ of Westminster Cathedral
1. Fantasia and Fugue on 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam Ferenc Liszt [27:01]
Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue Healey Willan
2. Introduction [04:03]
3. Passacaglia [08:20]
4. Fugue [04:43]
5. Adagio in D flat Ferenc Liszt [03:05]
6. Postlude in D Healey Willan [03:06]
DISK 2
John Porter plays The Organ of St. George's Chapel, Windsor
1. Gaudeamus Sidney Campbell [02:10]
2. Canterbury Interlude Sidney Campbell [04:54]
3. Impromptu Sidney Campbell [02:14]
4. Lento Sidney Campbell [02:48]
5. Pageantry Sidney Campbell [03:16]
6. Pastoral William Harris [03:07]
7. Flourish for an Occasion William Harris [04:37]
8. Reverie William Harris [02:22]
9. Fugue in G BWV577 'Jig Fugue' J.S. Bach [03:08]
10. Voluntary No. 5 in G William Walond [05:10]
11. Incantation pour un jour Saint Jean Langlais [05:15]
12. Alla Marcia Joseph Rheinberger [06:30]
13. Chant de Mai Joseph Jongen [05:33]
TOTAL PLAYING TIME [103:29]
A Priory Records Digital Recording
Recorded by Paul Crichton
Production: John Porter, Ian Hillier
Digital Mastering: Paul Crichton
Executive Producer: Neil Collier
Front Cover: Original LP Sleeves
Recorded in Westminster Cathedral on 18/19 January 1986
and in St. George's Chapel, Windsor on 10/11 January 1983
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