Love on the Range

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File this former Great Western Orchestra with Asleep at the Wheel, Emmy Lou Harris, her pal Ian Tyson and Torch & Twang-era k.d. lang--clean-scrubbed, respectful of tradition, and sophisticated in an unstudied, wholly natural way. First single, "Rockabilly Heart," has a kick in its heels; the spirit of Bob Wills inhabits "Old Fashioned Love;" she herself pens some cowboyography of her own, on, "Cowgirl's Lullaby." "This album is a joy," says Ian Tyson in the liner notes. We agree. --Jeff Bateman

Tracks:

America the Beautiful
All Quiet on the Potomac Tonight
Ballad of the Green Berets
On Top of Old Smokey
Coyote Warrior
Semper Fidelis
Breeze from Alabama
Onward Christian Soldiers
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
Patriot
Sweet Betsy from Pike
Marines' Hymn
America Is
When Johnny Comes Marchin' Home
Happy the Soldier
American Trilogy
Home Sweet Home
Washington Post March
Enraptured I Gaze
Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
Yellow Rose of Texas
Over There
Simple Gifts
Liberty Bell
Star Spangled Banner

Tracks:

God Bless the USA
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Katy Cruel
I Vow to Thee My Country
King Cotton
Beautiful Dreamer
America
American Patrol
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Beauty
Mohican Dream
Red, White and Blue
Some Folks
Liberty Song
Pomp and Circumstance
Hail to the Chief
Bennington Rifles
Peace on the Battlefield
I've Been Working on the Railroad
Under the Double Eagle
Red River Valley
My Country 'Tis of Thee
Camptown Races
Wild Blue Yonder
Hands Across the Sea
Fanfare for the Common Man

Tracks:

Stars and Stripes Forever
Living in America
Home on the Range
Old Colony Times
Clementine
Invincible Eagle
Ring Ring de Banjo
Yankee Doodle
Largo from "The New World"
To a Wild Rose
Hail Columbia
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Gettysburg
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Capitan
Prairie Daughter
Little Brown Jug
Marching Through Georgia
Entertainer
Steamboat Around the Bend
Revolutionary Tea
Cassions Keep Rollin' Along
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
Amazing Grace
Grand Old Flag

Tracks:

God Bless America
National Emblem
Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me
Anchors Away
Oh, Susannah
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Toast
Dixie
St. Louis Blues
Appalachian Spring
Bonnie Blue Flag
Old Hundreth
Swanee River
Battle Cry of Freedom
U. S Field Artillery
Sidewalks of New York
Chester
Auld Lang Syne
Kingdom Come
My Old Kentucky Home
Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Shenandoah
Abraham's Daughter
This Land Is Your Land

Customer Reviews:

not to great.......2007-04-04

We were disappointed with this CD, but for the price I guess we can't expect much. I didn't care for the new style presentation of the songs. I like a more traditional rendering.

Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$.......2005-06-22

I red the comments of two other people who have bought this 4 CD BOX SET and it is not really so bad. I will even add that there are some excellent tunes. However, I must agree with the fact that few tunes seem to have been recorded 40 or 50 years ago, mainly when you hear the scratches of an old turntable but it is just 2 or 3 tunes. Furthermore, if you do not know American music, it is a good BOX SET to buy if you consider that you received 4 CD for 4$ including 100 tunes. On these 4 CD, I have heard some orchestration that I have never heard before and I consider that they are different but interesting. Any way, after hearing these 100 tunes, you will say to yourself that you like this tune, this other tune, this other tune and so on and you will be able to buy a more expensive CD with the tunes that you like. However, I have bought many CDs in the last few weeks and as you know, there are always some tunes that you like and some tunes that you do not like on every CD that you will buy. So, don't buy it at 25$ but at 4 or 5$ dollars, it is a very good choice for 100 tunes.

You get what you pay for........2004-07-04

You get what you pay for. The singers put their own spin on the singing of each song. If you didn't hear the words you would not recognize some of them. Even some of the music sounds like a bad recording of music played on a turntable. Definitely not worth the price.

Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ..........2004-07-04

I wish this review had been here when I was thinking of purchasing it. I guess you get what you pay for. If you are thinking of buying this, you are better off recording your own CDs (or at least buying one that you can listen to a sampling of the songs). This album includes songs that were mere recordings of the songs playing on an old record player. It's almost so unbelievable that it is funny.

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Mormon Tabernacle and Vocal Majority
Great Music
two excellent choral ensembles strut their stuff

Voices in Harmony
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Manufacturer: Sony
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God Bless America

ASIN: B0000026G5
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

How Great Thou Art
Ode To Music
The Vocal Majority: Sweet Hour Of Prayer
The Long Day Closes
I'll Walk With God
Suddenly You're Older
Love At Home
I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked
The Windows Of The World
One Voice
The Lost Chord
Danny Boy
Home On The Range
Nearer My God To Thee

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Mormon Tabernacle and Vocal Majority.......2006-11-10

This has got to be one of the most incredible musical presentations that I've ever experienced. These two groups together in concert effect more joy, sorrow, remorse, nostalgia, victory, hope and power in 30 minutes that most of us experience in years. Amazing!

Great Music.......2001-01-19

With the incredible proliferation of rock, and now rap music, this album is a great example of what music can me - simply beautiful. The MTC is, as always, splendid, and the Vocal Majority is truly wonderful. This a great album of sacred and secular songs, beautifully performed, and a genuine pleasure to hear.

two excellent choral ensembles strut their stuff.......1999-02-16

This CD features two renowned groups in some of their best work. The MTC, of course [of chorus], is known around the world. Vocal Majority is less global in its familiarity but equal in its skill. For my part, I prefer the sound of an all-male ensemble. This is not to gainsay the MTC, however: only a preference. If you want to hear two great groups performing a popular array of songs, this choice will not disappoint.

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Superb singing, superbly restored

Legendary Voices: Leonard Warren II
Leonard Warren
Manufacturer: Preiser Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000067CSD
Release Date: 2002-10-29

Customer Reviews:

Superb singing, superbly restored.......2003-09-08

This is, without question, the best restoration of monaural opera singing that I have ever heard, and it's one of my favorite collections of songs to boot. I've been looking for Leonard Warren on CD for years, and for the sea shanties in particular. Now I've finally found them, and they're the closest thing to a stereo recording of Leonard Warren that you will ever hear.

You will be astonished, not only with Mr. Warren's magnificent baritone, but with the incredible cleanliness of the disc. You won't hear a pop, scratch, or click in any of the sea shanties--remarkable, given that they were recorded in 1947. Yes, they are monaural, so they don't have as much "presence" as a stereo recording, but the orchestra, chorus, and Mr. Warren himself are as clear and as sonorous as if they were recorded today. Every note and nuance has been restored.

Tracks:

Texas Trilogy (Yellow Rose Of Texas, Streets Of Laredo, Deep In The Heart of Texas)
Roundup In The Spring
Sage & Cedar I
Home On the Range
Commutin
Annie Laurie/Bad Half Hour
Irish Tune From County Derry (Danny Boy)
Santa Rose Serenade
Throwback
West Of Yesterday
(Ghost) Riders In the Sky
Horses, Dogs, And Cowboys
Cowboy Love Song
Sage And Cedar II
Shenandoah
Around the Campfire From A Prairie Portrait

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Tracks:

If God Only Knew
Playing For Keeps
Thanks For Asking
As Tall As Grandpa Stands
Moving On From Here
Cradled In Green
Happy To Be On The Planet
Some Windows
Mama Loves Me
Walk Me Down To The River

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Real Verdi singing
Leonard Warren Had a Great Voice
A great collection
A magnificent collection
One of the Richest High Baritones of the Century...

Opera Arias & Concert Songs

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ASIN: B00004U1BY
Release Date: 2000-05-30

Customer Reviews:

Real Verdi singing.......2006-05-08

Thomas Hampson should be tied down and forced to listen to this great artist sing Verdi, THE WAY IT SUPPOSED TO BE SUNG. He would learn about phrasing, breath control, power, tone, artistry and drama all at the same time. Hampson can't carry Maestro Warren's scores for him.

Leonard Warren Had a Great Voice.......2005-11-02

I just read some reviews here that said the sound quality was not good on all the songs contained in this collection. Up to now I only have heard three of the songs on Disc 1...but they exemplify great singing. Those three songs from Pagliacci, The Barber of Seville, and La Traviata make this set worth buying in and of themselves. I read that Mr. Warren died at 49 years of age during an actual performance while singing on stage at The Metropolitan Opera House! That's quite a story! This set looks alittle expensive but I usually buy used---in this case $10 off the new price. I will listen some more to the rest of the set and ammend my review if necessary. But, for now, I'm very glad I purchased a sample of the beautiful voice and musical and dramatic artistry of Leonard Warren. Email:boland7214@aol.

A great collection.......2004-10-12

Leonard Warren was part of two great traditions: Firstly, from a tradition of American Baritones, featuring the likes of Robert Merrill, Cornell MacNeil, and more recently, Sherrill Milnes. Secondly, and sadly, from a tradition of opera singers who died when they should have been at the height of their powers: a list that includes Ettore Bastianini, Mario Lanza and countless others.

This collection shows the artistry of Leonard Warren. On the first cd, is the work most people would recognize Warren for, Rigoletto, Iago, with a few roles he didn't normally play thrown in, such as Escamillio, and most interestingly, Wolfram from Tannhauser.

The second cd is fun only if, like me, you like to hear opera singers singing, and singing well I might add, in a different medium. On this cd, Leonard Warren sings sea shanties, Irish songs, religious songs, all with that marvelous instrument of his. It was a side of Leonard Warren I Was excited to hear, to hear this American Baritone singing in English for once.

It's fantastic to see an artist of his calibre getting the recognition he deserves, and the two cds are an excellent purchase.

A magnificent collection.......2003-04-25

Warren was a superstar. His voice of supreme power and lovely sound was so versatile. He could sing Verdi like Verdi always wished his wonderful music to be sung and he could sing American songs with the patriotic passion they should convey. This collection is magnificent.

One of the Richest High Baritones of the Century..........2001-09-08

Leonard Warren possessed an unusual voice; a lyric baritone with the fullness of a powerful basso cantante. His high notes traveled into the upper baritone stratosphere, with a beauty matched to my ears only by Riccardo Stracciari... and he sang them with an ease most tenors can only envy. (And I love the tenor voice, don't make any mistake about that!) Listening to this two CD set brought one thing forth to my mind- Leonard Warren flat out enjoyed singing and he enjoyed spreading that fabulous feeling far and wide.
Listen to his renditions of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the four sea shanties gracing this disc, and America the Beautiful. How many singers have ever rendered these old songs with such enthusiasm and beauty? To my ears, few can compare. A Little Bit of Heaven is a charming little piece of nostalgia for old Ireland, with perfectly placed high notes that provide a baritone counterpoint to the marvelous Scottish and Irish tenors that have graced our ears throughout this century. The sound on most of the songs is clear, showing off Warren's voice to his and the listeners' advantage.
Now we come to the opera arias and there's a rich assortment on display here. The Gounod Faust aria is from a rare Russian concert recording and is gorgeous, though it's accompanied by a piano. (Nothing against pianos, but I wanted the full orchestra. On other selections in the songs CD, the piano works superbly. Just a matter of personal taste.) The classic Scintille Diamant from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman shows off his upper range, as he hits the high G-sharps with authority and ease. One of my favorites is the great aria from Verdi's MacBeth, in which Warren gets it all together. MacBeth's humanity is rarely on display in this version of the drama, but here it is in spades, along with his arrogance, fear, and anger at being attacked. "Birnam Wood on the march indeed!" The ease and fullness of the high notes, which are all in service to one of Warren's greatest characterizations, are a wonder.
Don't get the idea that only his high notes sounded good, or that Warren was a bellowing beast. He floated a pillowy pianissimo that has to be heard to be believed. The only other baritone voice that compares in this respect, of those whom I have heard, is Cornell MacNeil. I regret that there seems to be no great baritone duets these two great singers could have engaged in, like Verdi provided for bassos in Don Carlos. Does anyone out there remember either of the two great performances by Ghiaurov and Talvela of the King Philip/Grand Inquisitor duets under either Stein or Solti?
Back to Leonard Warren...
In terms of sound on the opera selections, the later, the better, though most of the pieces sound fine. I must agree a bit with an earlier reviewer in the case of Il Balen, from Verdi's Il Trovatore. The sound is fuzzy, bloated, and unclear, at least on my machine... but most all the others sound fine on the same machine. What happened? I had several versions of this great aria on LP, and I do remember one of them being well below the sonic standard of any of the others. The version on the old Cellini conducted complete recording with Bjoerling and Milanov sounded fine, as did the version he recorded with Leontyne Price and Richard Tucker. Why have this one, which does a disservice to the singer and the CD as a whole? And where is his incredible Per me ora fatale from the same opera? Even hearing a badly recorded version of Leonard Warren performing this aria would be a thrill. His singing of Il Balen is excellent- it just sounds foggy. Except for that, I would recommend this set to anyone interested in Warren's singing who might not have many of these recordings on CD. If you have virtually all of them, why bother with this set... unless there's a song you just cannot live without?
The Otello excerpts are exceptional, and there's the treats of his Nemico della patria (Andrea Chenier by Giordano) and Di Provenza (La Traviata) which are my favorite versions of these arias.
To those who might love the singing of Sherrill Milnes and Thomas Hampson, Leonard Warren should be heard and savored for what he was: an American original we can all be proud of.

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Let Me Love You
Rena Scott
Manufacturer: Amor Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002SPPH8
Release Date: 2004-08-17

Tracks:

Love Thang
Let Me Love You
Good to Me
Day and Night
I Know It's Right
Remember
Move On It
Plaything
Not Forever
I'll Keep Coming Back

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Love on the Range
Cindy Church
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ASIN: B000001CW3
Release Date: 1995-12-26

Tracks:

Rockabilly Heart
Road To Home
Old Fashioned Love
My Wishing Room
Walking The Dog
Cowgirl's Lullaby
Love On The Range
This October Day
Tonight He's Mine
Maybe We Should Stay Strangers
I Thought We Were Falling In Love
Ride Cowboy Ride

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1. Rockabilly Heart
2. Road To Home
3. Old Fashioned Love
4. My Wishing Room
5. Walking The Dog
6. Cowgirl's Lullaby
7. Love On The Range
8. This October Day
9. Tonight He's Mine
10. Maybe We Should Stay Strangers
11. I Thought We Were Falling In Love
12. Ride Cowboy Ride

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File this former Great Western Orchestra with Asleep at the Wheel, Emmy Lou Harris, her pal Ian Tyson and Torch & Twang-era k.d. lang--clean-scrubbed, respectful of tradition, and sophisticated in an unstudied, wholly natural way. First single, "Rockabilly Heart," has a kick in its heels; the spirit of Bob Wills inhabits "Old Fashioned Love;" she herself pens some cowboyography of her own, on, "Cowgirl's Lullaby." "This album is a joy," says Ian Tyson in the liner notes. We agree. --Jeff Bateman

The Art of Theodor Uppman: Radio Broadcasts, 1954 - 57

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Souvenir of a distinguished American vocal artist
Magnificent performances of appealing repertoire

The Art of Theodor Uppman: Radio Broadcasts, 1954 - 57

Manufacturer: Video Artists Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00004U1BT
Release Date: 2000-06-06

Tracks:

Do Not Go, My Love
Nancy Hanks
Danny Boy
Colorado Trail
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Pilgrim's Song
Lonesome Song Of The Plains
Un Ballo in Maschera: Eri tu
Bright Is The Ring Of Words
Home On The Range
Because I Were Shy
Le Roi de Lahore: Promesse de mon avenir
Shoes
A Chloris
Open Thy Lattice, Love
The Glendy Burk
Tu lo sai
Did You Ever Cross Over To Snedon's?
Carmen: Toreador Song
Dedication
Zueignung
Jaroslav Kricka
Rigoletto: Cortigiani! vil razza

Customer Reviews:

Souvenir of a distinguished American vocal artist.......2002-03-05

Theodor Uppman's distinguished career ought to have assured him a greater degree of name recognition among American singers than seems to have happened. A mainstay in the lyric baritone repertory at the Met for almost three decades, he is best known for the creation of the title role in Britten's Billy Budd.

This recording catches Uppman in his vocal prime, in opera and song repertory both familiar and unfamiliar, and reminds us that he had a well-schooled, evenly produced voice of considerable tonal beauty. He was also a sensitive interpreter within a certain range. The more familiar operatic excerpts, such as the arias from "Rigoletto" and "Carmen," reveal certain limitations in his ability to pour out refulgent sound that perhaps explain why he did not essay these roles onstage--in the Toreador Song in particular, Uppman indulges in some unlovely blustering, surprising given his concern with maintaining integrity of musical line elsewhere.

Nevertheless, this is a highly enjoyable album, with some unusual repertory. The sound is acceptable period mono and reproduces the voice vividly, the orchestral accompaniments acceptably.

Magnificent performances of appealing repertoire.......2000-08-31

I was drawn to this CD because of the interesting and varied repertoire. Theodore Uppman was not familiar to me, so I had no idea it would be such a beautiful voice with such evenness through the registers, such clear diction, and such sincere and wholehearted involvement with the music. What a find!

The disc is a collection of digitally remastered radio broadcast performances from the Bell Telephone Hour between 1954 and 1957. Hence, the repertoire is intended to appeal to a wide audience, ranging from folk song arrangements ("Danny Boy", which one expects to be beautiful, and "Home on the Range", which surprised me by how good it can sound when sung by a real artist) through Stephen Foster and Alec Wilder to melodic French and Italian opera arias. I don't think there's a single bad performance on the CD, given that the artistic norms are those of the 50's, so "Tu lo sai", for instance, which is the only pre-19th-century piece in the collection, is sung in a romantic style that brings out the lovely melody rather than in the lighter style that we have come to expect since the early-music revival.

If you have any desire to hear rarities like Katherine Davis's setting of Rosemary Benet's "Nancy Hanks", Kurt Weill's setting of Whitman's "Beat! Beat! Drums!", or Celius Dougherty's setting of Carl Sandburg's "Colorado Trail" you absolutely cannot go wrong buying this CD. You will probably never hear them sung better. Among the more mainstream repertoire, I was particularly impressed by Strauss's "Zueignung", which is performed beautifully with attention to the text and phrasing, rather than as a chance to blow away an audience with a big sound (which is how I often hear it sung). Ironically, Jaroslav Kricka's "The Albatross", which was one of the unusual pieces I particularly wanted to hear on this CD, was good, but I didn't like it as well as the performance in French by Povla Frisch, which is the the first one I heard. It is worth noting that Tchaikovsky's "Pilgrim's Song" and Robert Franz's "Widmung" are also sung in English. This may have had as much to do with considerations of audience as of Uppman's linguistic capabilities, because the pieces he does sing in French, German and Italian show that he is comfortable singing in these languages.

I don't know what sort of recording technology was used for these live radio broadcasts originally, but digital remastering can only make up for so much. The sound quality is never annoying (i.e. there are no scratches, pops, or fuzzy spots), but the orchestra does have the sort of flattened, homogeneous sound that, for example, a 50's-era movie soundtrack may have. I didn't find this a hindrance to my enjoyment (in fact it gave it an appealing "period" flavor), but I suppose it might bother some people.

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