Boston Blues

Great Live Album, but little disappointed.......2006-10-14

ONE OF THE GREATEST CONCERTS EVER RECORDED! PART 1 OF 3.......2006-05-18

Superb.......2004-08-17

The Mac at it's improv. best..........2004-01-24

This is the original Mac, at its very best live.

Turn it up, and listen to the Mac blown your minds.

It is definately a Mac Attack!!!

Average customer rating: Lockhart's Debut Recording with the Boston Pops "Runnin' Wild" will get you "In the Mood" for Big Band tunes Great fun! Okay, but lose the cover Swing at its best!

Runnin' Wild Harry Warren , Hoagy Carmichael , Walter Donaldson , Russian Traditional , Frankie Carle , Giuseppe Verdi , William Christopher Handy , Manning Sherwin , F.W. Meacham , Joseph Winner , Joseph C. Garland , Fred Buda , Timothy Morrison , Thomas Martin , John Pizzarelli , Lawrence Wolfe , Peter Chapman , Bruce Hall , Chester Schmitz , and Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Celtic Album Encore! / Lockhart, Boston Pops My Favorite Things: A Richard Rodgers Celebration American Visions Latin Album ASIN: B000003G5I Release Date: 1996-10-15

Tracks:

1. Runnin' Wild
2. A String Of Pearls
3. Moonlight Serenade
4. Chattanooga Choo-choo
5. Nearness Of You
6. My Blue heaven
7. Timothy Morrison: Song Of The Volga Boatmen
8. Sunrise Serenade
9. (I've Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo
10. Serenade In Blue
11. The Anvil Chorus
12. St. Luis Blues March
13. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
14. American Patrol
15. Little Brown Jug
16. In The Mood

Customer Reviews:

Lockhart's Debut Recording with the Boston Pops.......2004-08-13

"Runnin' Wild" will get you "In the Mood" for Big Band tunes.......2003-11-08

1996's Runnin' Wild is a collection of songs made famous by Big Band era orchestra leader Glenn Miller, whose civilian and later Army Air Force bands provided audiences with music to dance to (and love to) before and during World War II. Before his mysterious death in December 1944, Miller's band and featured vocalists gave the world such beloved swing standards as "In The Mood," "Chattanooga Choo-Choo," "A String of Pearls," and his signature theme, "Moonlight Serenade."

Listen to this album, close your eyes, and the Boston Pops Orchestra transports you back to the 1940s, with young men in uniform dancing with either their wives, sweethearts, or USO girls to the fast-paced "Runnin' Wild"...gently swaying the sweet "A String of Pearls" (featured in the film The Glenn Miller Story)...or sharing that last sweet bit of lovemaking to the slow beat of "Moonlight Serenade."

Of the 16 selections, "Moonlight Serenade" is the one I am most familiar with, having heard it as incidental music or "source" material in so many World War II movies or documentaries. It's slow, gentle, romantic yet sensual, and it's the only "Glenn Miller" song actually written by the bandleader. Originally titled "Now I Lay Me Down to Weep," it was a big hit in 1939 and was the theme song for both Miller's and Tex Beneke's bands. The Pops' performance of it captures its air of nostalgia perfectly, and the clarinet solo by Thomas Martin is simply fabulous.

Modern standards singer John Pizzarelli and The King's Singers show their stuff on several tracks, most vividly so in "Chattanooga Choo-Choo," which was another chart-topping hit for Miller in 1941, the year the U.S. entered World War II. Pizzarelli has a way of channeling the great vocalists of the era, with his easy-to-listen voice and flawless delivery. The King's Singers are wonderful backup in other songs, including "Serenade in Blue" and "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo."

As a soloist, Pizzarelli shines in the more romantic (and slower) "The Nearness of You," a song that might have been on a serviceman's mind when reading a letter from his wife or girlfriend.

Another sentimental favorite where Pizzarelli performs well is 1940's "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square," a song introduced in Britain and popularized not only by Glenn Miller but also Guy Lombardo and Sammy Kay.

Several genres also get the Glenn Miller treatment, such as opera (Verdi's "The Anvil Chorus," from Il Trovatore), vaudeville ("My Blue Heaven") blues ("The St. Louis Blues March") and even Russian traditional songs ("Volga Boatmen").

So if you want to get "In the Mood" and have a good time listening to a fun Boston Pops Orchestra album, Runnin' Wild is definitely worth getting.

Great fun!.......2000-11-02

Okay, but lose the cover.......2000-05-31

What happens with much of what the Pops attempt here is goofy. The cover art, is I presume, similar to the old Arthur Fiedler covers where he wore a funny coat or hat and tried to look less symphonic and more silly. Give it up.

The strength of the Pops is the traditional, predictable format and arrangements that are as easy to identify as your own child. That too is the unfortunate part of the Pops. There needs to be a little something new here.

So if you enjoy the traditional string arrangements and percussion of the Pops this will not disappoint you. If you are trying to get a youngster excited about this music you might more easily find an elevator and listen to the musak.

Classical arrangements, novelty music and patriotic songs are the best the Pops can provide. The swing music just doesn't do it for me.

Runnin' wild? Maybe with a walker.

Swing at its best!.......2000-01-08

Average customer rating: its playing live again This is what you call LIVE! Derringer Rocks DERRINGER ROCKS!! Essential Listening For All Derringer Fanatics

Live at the Paradise Theater Boston, Massachusetts: July 7, 1978 Rick Derringer Manufacturer: Phoenix Rising ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock Guitarists | Rock | Styles | Music Rock Guitarists | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Live Albums | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Derringer Live If I Weren't So Romantic, I'd Shoot You/Face to Face Live at Cheney Hall King Biscuit Flower Hour Spring Fever/Sweet Evil ASIN: B00004OCFZ Release Date: 2000-03-21

Tracks:

1. Let Me In
2. It Ain't Funny
3. Teenage Love Affair
4. Lawyers, Guns And Money
5. Midnight Road
6. EZ Action
7. Attitude
8. Beyond The Universe
9. Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo/You Really Got Me
10. Roll With Me
11. Back In The U.S.A./Long Tall Sally

Customer Reviews:

its playing live again.......2006-08-15

This is what you call LIVE!.......2004-08-19

Derringer Rocks.......2003-09-02

DERRINGER ROCKS!!.......2002-06-24

Essential Listening For All Derringer Fanatics.......2000-03-30

Average customer rating: A nice collection

Greatest Hits of the 70's Toto , Money , Argent , Spirit , and Boston Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music | Dance Pop | Easy Listening | General | Oldies | Traditional Vocalists Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Southern Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Arena Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Box Sets | Stores | Music General | Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music Hard Rock & Heavy Metal | Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music Classic Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music Similar Items: Hard to Find 45s on CD, Volume 8: 70's Pop Classics ASIN: B00005B8R9 Release Date: 2001-04-24

Tracks:

1. I'll Supply The Love - Toto
2. Baby Hold On - Eddie Money
3. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) - Meat Loaf
4. Hold Your Head Up - Argent
5. Nature's Way - Spirit
6. Livin' Thing - Electric Light Orchestra
7. Peace Of Mind - Boston
8. Surrender - Cheap Trick
9. Are You Ready? - Pacific Gas & Electric
10. Sweet Jane - Mott The Hoople
11. Magnet And Steel - Walter Egan
12. Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
13. The Lonely One - Dave Mason

Tracks:

1. Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas
2. Avenging Annie - Andy Pratt
3. The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies
4. Brandy (You're A Fine Girl) - The Looking Glass
5. You're Only Lonely - J.D. Souther
6. Still Alive & Well - Johnny Winter
7. Thunder And Lightning - Chi Coltrane
8. Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
9. Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
10. Baby Love - Mother's Finest
11. Street Corner Serenade - Wet Willie
12. Roll With The Changes - REO Speedwagon
13. (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Tracks:

1. House At Pooh Corner - Loggins & Messina
2. Cover Of The Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
3. Hallelujah - Sweathog
4. Come And Get Your Love - Redbone
5. Arizona - Mark Lindsay
6. You Better Think Twice - Poco
7. Get It On - CHASE
8. I Can Help - Billy Swan
9. Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
10. Rock On - David Essex
11. Oye Como Va - Santana
12. American Girls - Rick Springfield
13. Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian) - The Raiders
14. Panama Red - New Riders Of The Purple Sage

Customer Reviews:

A nice collection.......2002-10-05

This one was very well done, as I expected--it's from Sony.

I also got "70's Pop Hits [BOX SET]" (Sony), a three CD set, also very well done, with maybe a half-dozen duplications of tracks on "Greatest Hits of the 70's [BOX SET]." The "Pop Hits" set did have one track that was in mono, which wasn't so much a disappointment as it was just plain odd, considering how good the rest of it sounded.

I give them both five stars for the price and quality of recording.

Fuzzy Curmudgeon

Average customer rating: Haunting and beautiful Takes Guts To Make A Soundtrack Such As This Absolutley Atrocious Mostly it just doesn't work Escape from the Wolves...

Mystic River Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Film Scores | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Million Dollar Baby Eastwood After Hours: Live At Carnegie Hall Music for the Movies of Clint Eastwood Unforgiven: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Mystic River (Widescreen Edition) ASIN: B0000DBK8C Release Date: 2003-10-21

Tracks:

1. Mystic River - Main Title
2. Abduction
3. Communion/Katie's Absence
4. Jimmy's Anguish
5. Meditation #1 - Piano
6. Orchestral Variation #1 Of The Music From Mystic River
7. Escape From The Wolves
8. The Morgue
9. Brendan's Love Of Katie
10. Meditation #2 - Piano
11. Dave's Past
12. The Confrontation
13. The Resolution
14. A Full Heart
15. Meditation #3 - Piano
16. Orchestral Variation #2 Of The Music From Mystic River
17. Theme From Mystic River
18. Cosmo - Kyle Eastwood
19. Black Emerald Blues - Kyle Eastwood

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Customer Reviews:

Haunting and beautiful.......2005-05-27

Takes Guts To Make A Soundtrack Such As This.......2004-12-03

Absolutley Atrocious.......2004-12-02

Mostly it just doesn't work.......2004-06-27

Escape from the Wolves..........2004-06-15

The Boston Orchestra does a marvelous job of capturing the mood and the total essence of the film. They know when to hold back and when to be forceful with their instruments. I found them to be very relaxing and full of subtle tension at the same time. There is a definite theme that can be established throughout this score, as you'll hear certain patterns through a good majority of the tracks.

As always, the people who will enjoy this the most are the people who have already seen the movie. I love to listen to scores because I get to relive the movie through them. Especially if they're something extremely memorable and hypnotic. I found this score to be both of that, although I will admit right now that it is most likely something that won't be playing non-stop in my stereo. It's nice to listen to it every now and then, though. It's just nothing that screams out to me, "Play me again! Play me again!" My favorite tracks are "abduction," "Jimmy's anguish," "orchestral variations #1 (and #2),"Dave's past," "Brendan's love of Katie," "the confrontation," "the resolution," and "the full heart."

Here's a great pointer for you potential buyers. If you have not already purchased the DVD and you are curious about the score, spend a little extra dough and buy the 3 Disc Deluxe Edition of "Mystic River." The third disc is actually the audio CD of that very score. All of the same exact tracks are included that you can find on the score that is sold separately. That's what I did, and I'm glad that I spent a little more to buy the Deluxe Edition of the film.

All in all, I think Clint Eastwood has done a great job of composing a solid score that does a great job of nailing the film's mood and tone. Again, this is mainly recommended to those who really loved the film, although people who love listening to great music composed by a great orchestra might want to check it out as well. The original motion picture soundtrack of "Mystic River" is a nice and haunting listen. -Michael Crane

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