Moon Venus [Limited Edition] [Import]

Product Description
Second Album from the Duo Consisting of Voice Actors Fumihiko Tachiki and Toshiyuki Morikawa. Comes with a Dvd Including Promotional Footage.

Tracks:

Act 1: Pirate Jenny - Charlotte Rae
Act 1: I'm A Stranger Here Myself - Jodi Stevens
Act 1: Economics - Jane A. Johnston
Act 1: Is It Him Or Is It Me? - Pam Dawber
Act 1: Barbara Song - Linda Purl
Act 1: Lullaby - Kathryn Skatula
Act 1: That's Him - Nancy Dussault
Act 1: Don't Look Now - Sharon Lawrence
Act 1: Apple Jack - Norm Lewis
Act 1: Speak Low - Sally Kellerman
Act 1: September Song - Rod McKuen
Act 1: Ice Cream Sextet - David Holladay

Tracks:

Act 2: Wouldn't You Like To Be On Broadway? - David Holladay
Act 2: What Good Would The Moon Be - Melissa Dye
Act 2: It Never Was You - Hugh Panaro
Act 2: We'll Go Away Together - Hugh Panaro
Act 2: Tschaikowsky - Jack Noseworthy
Act 2: The Saga Of Jenny - Carole Cook
Act 2: Surabaya Johnny - Tim Curry
Act 2: My Ship - Shirley Jones
Act 2: Mack The Knife - Loretta Devine
Act 2: Lost In The Stars - Brock Peters

Customer Reviews:

Kurt Weill: Re-discovery..........2006-11-10

I am so impressed and pleased to have found this recording on Amazon.com. I am always amazed when I find these seemingly obscure recordings, and thrilled to know they exist. What a wonderful history of our musical world---and what a chance to hear interesting, challenging, and unusual performances from so many well-known people. The songs live on--the composer is 'new' again, and this recording becomes part of history re-discovered. Thank you Amazon.com for your continued professionalism and for having these recordings available.

Incredible Live Album.......2002-02-10

This incredible concert (which i attended) benefitting The Actors' Fund of America, contains some absolute MUST performances for any Broadway collector.

For me, the highlights are HUGH PANARO ("It Never Was You"), NANCY DUSSAULT ("It's Him") and TIM CURRY singing "Surabaya Johnny" in German!

Tracks:

Mile After Mile
Bilbao Song
Stay Well
Life, Love And Laughter
My Ship
Green-up Time
The Little Gray House
Blues Potpourri
September Song
All At Once
Le Roi d'Aquitaine (Waltz)
Foxtrot Potporri
Alabama Song
Lied Der Jenny
Speak Low
It Never Was You
What Good Would the Moon Be
Tango Ballade
Kanonen-Song

Amazon.com

Here's a disc of 19 familiar and unfamiliar Kurt Weill songs arranged for dance band and played by an expert group of specialists in Roaring Twenties band music. They're led by singer-conductor-composer H.K. Gruber, whose previous recordings include Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper. The result is a start-to-finish delight. From the first notes, you're beamed back in time to one of those sleek transatlantic passenger liners, sitting in an art deco ballroom watching elegant couples in tuxedos and ball-gowns swirl by while the band plays hits from Weill's German and Broadway triumphs. Sure, the venom is leached from the originals, but who needs agitprop when you're on a dance floor? The arrangements are by a variety of hands, hired by Weill's European and American publishers with his approval to get more mileage from his musical theater works. They're delightfully square rhythmically and formulaic in transferring Weill's music to conventional dance bands, but the music still holds up and is fun to hear in its new clothes. A special treat is the eight tracks with Max Raabe, whose light tenor and falsetto singing preserve the spirit of Weill's songs, as well as perfectly mimic the boy band singers of times gone by. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

SAIL ON, KURT!.......2006-04-23

I wouldn't take offence here oh, Weill purists! These reconstructions are charming and harmonically reverent to their originals, more than could be said for many versions of the Weill Songbook through the decades, including Lou Reed's friendly `adaptation' of the September Song's chord progression and melodic line!

Shoenberg and Webern expressed their disdain of Weill's music; curiously, Arnold had also disclosed a secret wish of having his own audiences walk back home "whistling his tunes", oh, don't ask why... You can certainly whistle, hum and sway your partner now, as the transatlantic's bouncy dancehall sails on just as Kurt, Lotte and the lot of them did when escaping the lethal hounds of early 30s Berlin.... the-next-little-dollar bound.

Not at All Vile Weill.......2001-08-13

The ever versatile HK Gruber has done it again digging up these gorgeous dance arrangements for Weill's music--proving, if anything, Weill's versatility. Anyone familiar with the Capriccio historical Weill recordings will be aware of the long tradition of dance bands taking Weill's music as the lead for dance music or pop music incarnations (all the way up through the more obvious appropriations familiar to Americans: Mack the Knife and September Song). Hardly MUZAK arrangements (listen to the delicate violin in track 17's "What Good Would the Moon Be" to hear what I mean), this generous helping of 19 songs offers a chance to see Weill through a delightfully different but entirely compatible lens. Max Raabe provides the ideal vocal compliment on 8 of the tracks, his tenor floating effortlessly into his head voice suggesting a "period" sound reminiscent of Bing Crosby. The import title for this disc is "Charming Weill," and that modest adjective expresses the least of its virtues.

ELEVATOR MUSIC.......2001-05-23

This is a very strange CD: why would anyone want to take the quirky rhythms and melodies of the great Kurt Weill and "tame" them into dance arrangements? Certainly one has listened to (& even perhaps admired) dance arrangements of composers from Victor Herbert to Cole Porter to Jerry Herman, but these are all, if you will, main stream composers-- men whose music sounds good in original Broadway or Hollywood arrangements and just as good (or almost as good) as played by a dance band...think "Begin The Beguine" as done by Fred Astaire on film or "Begin The Beguine" done by Jo Stafford with the Paul Weston Orchestra.

But Weill was an innovator: a man who can still be listened to experiencing the thrill of something fresh and new. One immediately thinks of his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht in Germany: "Threepenny Opera" and "The Rise & Fall Of The City of Mahagonny" or "The Seven Deadly Sins", etc. his American opera, "Street Scene" with Langston Hughes or his American musical plays: "One Touch of Venus" with Ogden Nash or "Love Life" with Alan Jay Lerner, etc. The songs on this CD all deserve great recordings from the "Alabama Song" to "September Song" but they turn into a kind of flattened elevator music instead of having fresh interpretations or even more traditional ones. What happens is that the longing in "What Good Would the Moon Be" and the romance of "Speak Low" and the raucousness of "Bilbao Song" are all much too similar and much too easy.

Tracks:

The Threepenny Opr: Mack The Knife - Harald Paulsen With Orch
The Threepenny Opr: Cannon Song - Harald Paulsen With Orch
The Threepenny Opr: Pirate Jenny - Lotte Lenya With The Lewis Ruth Band/Theo Mackeben
The Threepenny Opr: Babarasong - Lotte Lenya With The Lewis Ruth Band/Theo Mackeben
The Threepenny Opr: Lied Von Der Unzulanglichkeit Menslichen Strebens - Bertolt Brecht With Theo Mackeben And His Orch
Happy End: Mandalay Song - Lewis Ruth Band
Happy End: Surabaya Johnny - Lotte Lenya With Pno
Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Moon Of Alabama - Lotte Lenya With The Three Admirals And Orch
Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Denn Wie Man Sich Bettet - Lotte Lenya With Pno
Knickerbocker Holiday: September Song - Walter Huston With Orch/Maurice Abravanel
Knickerbocker Holiday: There's Nowhere To Go But Up - David Brooks With Orch/Maurice Abravanel
Knickerbocker Holiday: The Scars - Walter Huston With Orch/Maurice Abravanel
Lady In The Dark: One Life To Live - Gertrude Lawrence With Orch/Leonard Joy
Lady In The Dark: The Princess Of Pure Delight - Danny Kaye With Orchestra/Maurice Abravanel
Lady In The Dark: And Other Russians - Danny Kaye With Chor And Orch/Maurice Abravanel
Lady In The Dark: The Saga Of Jenny - Gertrude Lawrence With Chor And Orch/Leonard Joy
Lady In The Dark: My Ship - Gertrude Lawrence With Chor And Orch/Leonard Joy
One Touch Of Venus: I'm A Stranger Here Myself - Mary Martin With The 'One Touch Of Venus' Orch/Maurice Abravanel
One Touch Of Venus: Westwind - Kenny Baker With The 'One Touch Of Venus' Orch/Maurice Abravanel
One Touch Of Venus: Foolish Heart - Mary Martin With The 'One Touch Of Venus' Orch/Maurice Abravanel
One Touch Of Venus: Speak Low - Mary Martin/Kenny Baker With The 'One Touch Of Venus' Orch/Maurice Abravanel
One Touch Of Venus: That's Him - Mary Martin With The 'One Touch Of Venus' Orch/Maurice Abravanel
Ulysses Africanus: Lost In The Stars - Walter Huston With Orch/Victor Young
Ulysses Africanus: Lover Man - Lotte Lenya With Pno
One Touch Of Venus: Very, Very, Very - Kurt Weill
One Touch Of Venus: Wooden Wedding - Kurt Weill
One Touch Of Venus: Jersey Plonk - Kurt Weill
One Touch Of Venus: The Trouble With Women - Kurt Weill

Average customer rating:

In A Word.......Superb
MISSIN' YOU
Heir apparent to Heart's throne

New Moon Rising
Venus & Mars
Manufacturer: Avex Trax Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000J9XZ
Release Date: 1997-02-14

Tracks:

Dancing on the Highwire
Leave Well Enough Alone
Bless a Brand New Angel
Killer Love
Last Time
One Heartbeat at a Time [*]
Last Chance Cafe
Making Out Like a Bandit
Wanna Wanna
Accident'ly on Purpose
Tomorrow Dosen't Matter Tonight
Dying for Your Love [*]
When Did We Become History
Live for the Summer

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring Bonus Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

In A Word.......Superb.......2002-07-04

Put the talents of a songwriting Duo together with Diana DeWitt and Mark Free[Ex-King Kobra, Signal, Unruly Child]and you have all the Ingredients of one Superb Audio Experience.

Robin & Judithe Randall are one of the most respected songwriting teams since lennon/McCartney, and rightly so.
This CD has it all...Great Songs, Great production,great Artists.

The Import price is most probably the only thing stopping you from buying it.....this is one of the best Investments you will ever make.
A Classic CD deserving its legendary status...and a perfect example of what a AOR/Melodic Rock Album should sound like.

Perfection....Doesn't get better than this!

MISSIN' YOU.......2001-01-09

GOSTARIA DE RECEBER INFORMAÇAO SOBRE A MUSICA "MY DARLING I'M MISSIN' YOU" DE VENUS & MARS QUE NAO ESTÁ NESTE CD.COMO E ONDE CONSEGUIR UM CD COM ESTA MUSICA?

Heir apparent to Heart's throne.......2000-07-28

For those whose life has been empty and devoid of purpose since Canadian sister act Heart have retired from the rock arena there now is a bright light at the end of the tunnel. This light goes by the name of Venus & Mars, which is not as one might surmise a mixed double, but a female duo comprised of singer Diana DeWitt and keyboard player/songwriter Robin Randall. When it comes to claiming the legacy of being the world's foremost female fronted AOR outfit, they are the most likely candidate. Not only do they cater to the same target audience, but what is most striking is Diana DeWitt's extraordinary voice, which is a dead ringer for Ann Wilson's. Whereas on "Grand trine" (their excellent 1994 debut album) her vocals sounded decidedly less polished, the likeness some four years later is downright uncanny !

Venus & Mars are in no way inferior to their illustrious rolemodels. Clocking in at nearly an hour, the 14 tracks on "New moon rising" rival the best of Heart's all-time classics. Apart from the top notch songwriting (prime contributors were Robin's mother Judithe Randall and one William Hanna), the impeccable musicianship and crystal clear production (for which a total of eight additional producers were responsible) make for one hell of an album. The booklet lists a seemingly endless lineup of guest musicians, who provide a solid rhythm section and tasty guitarwork to supplement and enhance Robin Randall's delectable keyboards and Diana DeWitt's intense vocals, which range from soothing to powerful. In sublime tracks such as "Dancing on the highwire", "Leave well enough alone" and "Making out like a bandit" Diana and Robin prove that they can rock with the best of them. But just as easily this terrific tandem can turn on the style and go for subtle and refined in gems like "Bless a brand new angel" and "Accident'ly on purpose". The CD also features a cover version of "The last time", a track off Mark Free's fantastic 1993 "Long way from love" album, for which at the time all songs were composed by Robin & Judithe Randall. (Like the familiar anthem "Someday you'll come running", which was included on the "Grand trine" album.) But to single out these songs would be selling the others short. Once again i'm glad to say that there are no tracks that fail to deliver.

Tracks:

Venus [Original Version]
Venus [Don Pablo's Remix]
Under the Moon of Love
When

Customer Reviews:

Buy something else.......2000-02-14

This CD consists of 2 songs by Showaddywaddy and 2 by Shocking Blue. The Showaddywaddy songs are workman-like, mediocre 50's-style male vocals. The first Shocking Blue song is the famous "Venus". The second, a so-called remix of "Venus", consists of "Venus" played through one-and-a-half times, overlaid by cutesy rap-type noises that someone in the 2 to 3 year-old range could find amusing. There are many Shocking Blue CDs available with much more Shocking Blue material on them, some of which cost less than this hideous thing.

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Errollyn Wallen will break your heart and put it back together again.
Appropriate Title for Sharp Performances on a Bumpy Road

Moodswings

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006OJQXM
Release Date: 2005-04-26

Tracks:

My Mood Swings
Until...
The Abyss
Venus Flytrap
I've Seen It All
Shallow Footsteps
Song
Gotham Lullaby
I Never Went Away
Swearing At The Moon
When Darkness Comes
Dumptruck
Daedalus
Real Emotional Girl

Amazon.com

The brilliant Brodsky Quartet is at it again, offering entertaining, virtuosic collaborations with stars of the pop music world with which both classical and popular music lovers will be equally entranced. Whether it's lolling strings underpinning Meredith Monk's enchanting, wordless syllables or assisting Jacqui Dankworth in a torch-like ballad (The Abyss) or nervous pizzicati to go along with a song by Sting, the ear is constantly being treated to a new surprise: if a quartet of strings and a voice can do it, they do it here. Errolyn Wallen and the Brodskys offer a languid ballad called "Daedalus," while Bjork puts her usual, original (if vaguely tiresome) stamp on "I've Seen It All." The CD opens and closes with songs sung by Elvis Costello whose unique, vibrato-filled voice remains remarkably expressive; the last number, "Real Emotional Girl," is a Randy Newman song in which the strings of the Brodskys feel and put across the singer's anguish in equal partnership. A one-of-a-kind CD. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

Errollyn Wallen will break your heart and put it back together again........2006-05-01

Errollyn Wallen's track, Daedalus, will break your heart and put it back together again. This is a quiet, absolutely beautiful testament to her power, verve and finesse as a composer. Genius.

Appropriate Title for Sharp Performances on a Bumpy Road.......2005-06-06

The Brodsky Quartet remains as audacious as ever with their new recording. This time out, the intensely dramatic string quartet spent time in select UK schools where they composed new songs with schoolchildren. Those are presented here alongside the quartet's arrangements of songs by more established writers such as Elvis Costello, Sting, Björk and Ron Sexsmith. The result could have been a mess, but it's not. Far from it, it's a soulful and sometimes challenging album adhering together rather tenuously as an avant-garde theatrical album. There are several peaks and valleys throughout, though luckily the high points make this a worthwhile disc to get.

Sting's performance of his gypsy ballad, "Until...", sounds especially influenced by Kurt Weill, as does Björk's familiar dirge, "I've Seen It All", from her 2000 cinematic foray with Lars von Trier, "Dancer in the Dark". Jacqui Dankworth lends a languorous vocal to Kate Curtis' and Will South's "The Abyss" and the more funereal "Song" by Daniel Monk. And a nice surprise is the Gershwin-inspired "I Never Went Away" by Richard Rodney Bennett, though it does feel a bit out of place among the more experimental music. Truth be told, some tracks are plain odd, such as Meredith Monk's "Gotham Lullaby" with its random yelps and minor-chord la-la's and Errollyn Wallen's meandering, overlong "Daedalus", a rather pretentious art song. The schools provide two of the highlights here: "Swearing at the Moon" by Arieh Miller of JFS in London, and Venus Flytrap by students from Blatchingham Mill School in Hove. Both songs are performed by Ian Shaw, whose biting vocal mixes well with the discordant string arrangements. Elvis Costello frames the recording with the jaunty opener, "My Mood Swings" and his closing cover of Randy Newman's "Real Emotional Girl", a slow, heartbreaking ballad with Newman's trademark observations. The quartet itself performs with their brio intact, applying a lot of color and texture to the songs.

Average customer rating:

A genius worthy of Weill...finally...

Stay Well

Manufacturer: Antes
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000521Y7
Release Date: 2000-11-21

Customer Reviews:

A genius worthy of Weill...finally..........2002-04-14

Allfolter approaches Weill with the same no-nonsense, visceral and unsentimental clarity that is required of an artist creating Loge in Twilight of the Gods, along with the enigmatic sensitivy of the Act III Tristan.

Throw in the gift of being able to belt one out with the best of them and it works. It works Big Time. This man is a genius. Not even Lenya delivers the Bilbao Song so well -- and I felt, in 2002, that I was hearing September Song for the first time. There isn't one clunker on the whole c/d.

Tracks:

"Guess How Much I Love You" (A Special Reading by Sam McBratney)
Brahms Lullaby
Twinkle
Simple Gifts
Silver Is The Moonlight
The Better Part of Me
Over The Moon
Hush Little Baby
The Water Is Wide
Gaelic Lullaby
Little Angel
Day Is Done

Tracks:

Moon Song
Mother Nature Sings
Gentle Rain
By The River
Meadowland Melodies
Clouds
Beyond The Sky
Attunement
A Warm Breeze
Streams
Starry Nights
Nurture and Nature

Tracks:

In Minuet Style - Hubert Parry
Variation No. 9 (Nimrod)Edward Elgar
Intermezzo from Momentum Suite - Peter Hope
Of Foreign Lands And People
Child Falling Asleep
Dreaming
Sunrise from Daphine et Chloe - Ravel
Prelude in G Flat Major, op 7 - Heino Kaski
Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel - Humperdinck
Lyric Pieces - No. 5 Cradle Song - Grieg
Venus, The Bringer of Peace - Holst
Largo from the New WOrld - Dvorak

Album Description

3CD music collection inspired by the best selling book. "Guess How Much I Love You" is a story - a tale of the reassuring bond of love between a parent and a child.

3CD Vinyl Packaging

Customer Reviews:

AWESOME.......2006-11-11

I got this for my grand daughter and decided to open it un and listen it to it before I sent it to her. I loved it so much that I kept this copy for myself and bought another one for her. I also bought one to give as a baby shower gift! The songs and music on these CD's are just so nice! I find them VERY relaxing and peaceful. I think this should be a must for every baby. My grand daughter loves it. It immediately calms down a fussy baby. You can't put a price on that!

Calming and Soothing for your little love.......2005-05-19

I love this CD collection. My son loves to cuddle and listen to soothing and dulcet tones of the author reading the story. By the second track he is getting drowsy and by 5th one, the eyes are closed. It's the only CD that keeps him entertained till he falls asleep in the crib. The other CD's are great at stopping cranky moods. I don't know what it is about this collection but it's just made for little ears!

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Venus, Meet the Moon
Blue Spark
Manufacturer: Good-Ink Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000M06R0K
Release Date: 2003-08-19

Tracks:

Hard Part
Killing Kind
Truth
I'm Coming Through
No Surprise
Chloe
Bitter Cold
Celia's Mansion
Bella Luna
She Won't Talk to Me
Back in Your Arms
Grandma

Product Description

'"Venus, Meet the Moon" is the second release from the Seattle-based Blue Spark, led by Garth Reeves (ex-Goodness member). It's a collection of songs that's at once timeless and yet undeniably modern: strong voice up front, solid musicianship, grounded in the best of influences. It would be tempting to mutter the words "alt-country" while listening to it, but that would be doing a disservice to the layers of heartfelt soul and big, glorious rock and roll that's all over the place. It's a record chock full of organ, horns, and guitar solos that actually take you somewhere, accompanied by a voice that can take you just about anywhere.

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Moon Venus
2HEARTS
Manufacturer: Universal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009V1ET6
Release Date: 2005-08-15

Album Details

Second Album from the Duo Consisting of Voice Actors Fumihiko Tachiki and Toshiyuki Morikawa. Comes with a Dvd Including Promotional Footage.

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