Ready Or Not...Here's Godfrey [Import]

ready or not...here's godfrey [import]

Track Listings
1. Irresistible Me (Women Around The World)
2. Middle Income Frustrations
3. Block Busting
4. Arthur Uncle
5. Misinterpretations Cary Grant Is The White Godfrey Cambridge
6. The Rent A Negro Plan
7. I Love Barry
8. Movies
9. Method Acting

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Godfrey located his rather beefy frame somewhere to the left of Bill Cosby in the mid-'60s, setting the stage for the Richard Pryors to come with gentle but pointed observations of the way blacks view whites and each other. Check out some of the titles of these routines-this was pretty daring stuff back in the mid-'60s, 'The Rent-a-Negro Plan', 'Block Busting', 'Irresistible Me (Women Around the World)', 'Middle Income Frustrations', 'Arthur Uncle', 'Misinterpretations-Cary Grant is the White Godfrey Cambridge', 'I Love Barry', 'Movies', and 'Method Acting.' A #42-charting album from 1964, on CD for the first time. Laugh.com. 2002.

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Ready Or Not...Here's Godfrey [Import]
Ready or Not...Here's Godfrey Cambridge
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Great comedy CD where are the others?
 Ready or Not...Here's Godfrey Cambridge
Godfrey Cambridge
Manufacturer: Laugh.Com/Fontana
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007MAJ6
Release Date: 2003-01-21

Tracks:

  1. Irresistible Me (Women Around The World)
  2. Middle Income Frustrations
  3. Block Busting
  4. Arthur Uncle
  5. Misinterpretations Cary Grant Is The White Godfrey Cambridge
  6. The Rent A Negro Plan
  7. I Love Barry
  8. Movies
  9. Method Acting

Album Description

Godfrey located his rather beefy frame somewhere to the left of Bill Cosby in the mid-'60s, setting the stage for the Richard Pryors to come with gentle but pointed observations of the way blacks view whites and each other. Check out some of the titles of these routines-this was pretty daring stuff back in the mid-'60s, 'The Rent-a-Negro Plan', 'Block Busting', 'Irresistible Me (Women Around the World)', 'Middle Income Frustrations', 'Arthur Uncle', 'Misinterpretations-Cary Grant is the White Godfrey Cambridge', 'I Love Barry', 'Movies', and 'Method Acting.' A #42-charting album from 1964, on CD for the first time. Laugh.com. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great comedy CD where are the others?.......2007-03-04

Godfrey Cambridge is halfway between Bill Cosby and Dick Gregory. Like Cosby, Cambridge tells stories more than jokes and like Gregory there is a very acute awareness of the racial struggle of the time. Like Cosby, Cambridge's material has aged well, aside from a few cultural references that are lost 40 years later, like Gregory sometimes the rage is subtle and in a black velvet glove.
Vaughan Williams: The Poisoned Kiss [Hybrid SACD]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Urgently recommended despite some production missteps
 Vaughan Williams: The Poisoned Kiss [Hybrid SACD]

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000DIGLL
Release Date: 2003-11-25

Tracks:

  1. Overture
  2. No. 2. Opening Chorus: 'Secret Are The Sounds...'
  3. No. 3. Scena. Gallanthus: 'What's That?'
  4. No. 4. Scena. Angelica: 'Day Is Dawning'
  5. No. 5. Duet. Gallanthus: 'It's Really Time...'
  6. No. 6. Ensemble. Hob, Lob And Gob: 'Here We Come...'
  7. No. 7. Duet And Chorus. Dipsacus: 'I'm A Sorcerer Bold'
  8. No. 8. Duet. Amaryllus: 'It's True I'm Inclined...'
  9. No. 9. Ensemble. Tormentilla: 'Hush, Lovely Cobra'
  10. Amaryllus: 'Desist, Lest You Die!'
  11. No. 10. Duet. Amaryllus: 'I Know We See...'
  12. Amaryllus: 'Blue Larkspur In A Garden'
  13. No. 11. Ensemble. Dipsacus: 'Who's In My Forest?'
  14. Dipsacus: 'North Wind, South Wind'
  15. Tormentilla: Angelica?
  16. Amaryllus And Gallanthus: 'O, Come To Our Arms'
  17. No. 12. Song. Tormentilla: 'O, Who Would Be...'
  18. No. 13. Finale. Dipsacus: 'All Is Ready!'
  19. No. 14. Introduction
  20. No. 15. Chorus: 'Here We Come'
  21. No. 16. Song And Chorus. Angelica And Flower Girls: 'By All The Powers...'
  22. No. 17. Trio. Lob: 'Ho There!'
  23. No. 18. Duet. Angelica: 'It Does Not Apear...'
  24. No. 19. Trio. Third Medium: 'If You Want To Escape'

Tracks:

  1. No. 20. Chorus: 'Tormentilla! Tormentilla!'
  2. No. 21. Song And Duet. Tormentilla: 'There Was...'
  3. No. 22. Ensemble. Amaryllus: 'Twas Here It Bade...'
  4. No. 23. Serenade. Amaryllus: 'Dear Love, Behold...'
  5. No. 24. Duet. Tormentilla: 'Sleeping Or Waking'
  6. Tormentilla: 'You Must Not Kiss Me'
  7. No. 26. Finale. Tomentilla: 'Too Dark For Me...'
  8. No. 27. Introduction
  9. No. 28. Trio. Mediums: 'Behold Our Mystic...'
  10. No. 29. Ensemble. Empress: 'Monstrous Vision!'
  11. No. 30. Ballad. Empress: ' When I Was Young...'
  12. No. 31. Ensemble. Empress: 'You Can Leave Us'
  13. No. 32. Duet. Tormentilla: 'Is My Love Alive?'
  14. Empress: 'Love Breaks All The Rules...'
  15. No. 33. Invocation. Empress: 'Imps And Demons'
  16. No. 34. Ensemble. Empress: 'Come, O Gentle Powers'
  17. No. 35. Duet. Empress: 'Can You, Can You Remember'
  18. No. 36. Quartet. All: 'Love In A Hut...'
  19. No. 37. Sextet. First Medium: 'Horrid Monster!'
  20. No. 38. Duet. Gallanthus: 'It's The Proper Thing To Do'
  21. No. 39. Finale. Chorus: 'Love Has Conquered!'

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Urgently recommended despite some production missteps.......2007-01-07

This premiere recording makes some very beautiful music available for the first time. The opera was first performed in 1936, and Vaughan Williams continued to make revisions into the mid 1950s. The music is representative of the composer's mature style. In the opera's later version given here, Evelyn Sharp's original book was revised by Ursula Vaughan Williams.

The Poisoned Kiss is a romantic comedy, a fairy tale about the triumph of true love over revenge. The opera is not through-sung; rather, the dramatic action is carried forward by dialogue in a manner reminiscent of Gilbert and Sullivan or the West End. At times, the witty, good-naturedly sarcastic text and playful rhyme schemes are reminiscent of Noel Coward.

The musicians are just about ideal. Hickox leads a luscious performance, capturing by turn the music's pastoral beauty and (not very threatening) irony. The singers are of uniformly high quality, with the characterization and fresh voices of James Gilchrist and Janice Watson as the young lovers deserving special mention. Anne Collins's fruity, wide-vibratoed contralto at times seems to be a musical caricature, but it works nicely in the role.

The production has two major flaws. First, the sound image is placed rather distant from the listener. I felt as if I were sitting towards the back of the auditorium and wanted to move up closer to the stage. The SACD's surround mode did add compensatory perspective and body to the sound, as well as a little extra punch to the thunder, cat shrieks, and other fairy-tale sound effects. The two-channel version sounded significantly flatter and more distant. Second, almost all of the dialogue has been omitted. It would have been enjoyable to hear the music in its dramatic context. Indeed, the abrupt juxtaposition of musical numbers that in performance would be separated by dialogue and a shift of dramatic tone is sometimes jarring. With less than an hour on each disc (and with singers who display such fine diction and acting skills), this is a major missed opportunity. Fortunately, the dialogue is printed in the libretto.

Despite these quibbles, this set is still urgently recommended!
Ready Or Not Here I Come
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    Manufacturer: Hookup/Entertainment
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000CADCH6
    Release Date: 2002-04-30

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