Deep Red

Deep Red

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Highly anticipated debut from the UK's top purveyor of cinematic electronica! ''Just like DJ Shadow with the Private Press, Baxter has made a record that seems to perfectly adapt itself to the ebbs and flows of the listener's life.'' - MOJO. Shadow Records. 2003.

Tracks:

Oh, Shenandoah (Traditional)
He's Goin' Away (Traditional)
Skip To My Lou (Traditional)
Steal Away (Spiritual)
Wayfarin' Stranger (Traditional)
Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me? (Traditional)
Pretty Saro (Traditional)
Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
Black Is The Color (Traditional)
Red River Valley 9 (Traditional)
Nelly Bly (Stephen Foster)
My Lord, What A Mornin' (Spiritual)
Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair (Stephen Foster)
Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen Foster)
Single Girl (Traditional)
Deep River (Spiritual)
Buffalo Gals (Cool White [John Hodges])
The Water is Wide (Traditional)
Black Sheep (African-American lullaby)

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding.......2007-06-06

Robert De Cormier's remarkable arrangement and Marie Spar Dymit's and Lynette Johnson's pure vocals of "Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier" are well worth the price of the entire CD.

Incredible..Worth 30 stars.......2007-05-16

The Dale Warland Singers are my benchmark by which I judge all other choirs. The uniformity of sound, blend, and precise entrances, uniformity are incredible - almost inhuman. Excluding the all male Chanticleer from the roster, this was the finest choir in America. Now that they have broken up, buy all of their CD's you won't be disappointed!

Superb singing matched with superb arrangements.......2004-07-03

A project like this one inevitably highlights the skill of arrangers, and Dale Warland has selected some of the most talented anywhere. Most of these selections will be familiar to listeners, but I doubt most people have heard, for example, "Red River Valley" in Carol Barnett's haunting version here, and ditto for her magnificent "Deep River."

The disc opens with a spectacular, panoramic "Shenandoah" that takes maximum advantage of the Dale Warland Singers' refined sound, and things only get better (if that's possible). Other favorites are a cheery, fizzing "Nelly Bly" and Mark Keller's strong reworking of Stephen Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More."

Throughout the recording, the freshness of the arrangements is matched by the irresistible singing. This group is known for its outstanding performances and recordings, but this must be counted as one of their all-time best. The sound quality is terrific, capturing the gorgeous blend and precision of the group in a natural-sounding acoustic. Just stunning.

Beautiful music.......2003-07-03

I bought this CD after hearing a few of the recordings on our local NPR radio station. I was not disappointed in any of the selections. Very beautiful.

Beautiful Music, Yet There Is No There Here.......2003-01-13

The Dale Warland Singers (DWS) are among the relatively few musical professionals, who by their aesthetic standards and demonstrated artistry, have taken the less traveled and narrow road to exemplary artistic excellence.

The sound quality and acoustics are excellently engineered in this 20-bit original recording. The most delicately blend and inflection of the singers' voice can be heard. This sheaf of choral works has once existed in real space and time in the kaleidoscopic folklife of past generations. In recording the "Blue Wheat", the 40-member DWS, the creme de la creme of professional choral ensembles, has elevated the common oral tradition of American folk music into a rarified choral art form a capella "in the style of the chapel."

If the soul of the DWS is a capella singing, then Warland and the arrangers are the wings of the same soul. Among the kapellmeisters whose arrangements have graced this folksong anthology are the late Norman Luboff and Roger Wagner. Also included in this album are contemporary arrangements by other esteemed composers: John Rutter (conductor of The Cambridge Singers), Carol Barnett (the DWS resident composer from 1992 to 2001), and Stephen Paulus.

Gertrude Stein is famous for saying of her childhood home, Oakland, California, "When you get there, there's no there there." Purportedly, Stein opined this city by the San Francisco Bay lacked a defining sense of place. Bel canto notwithstanding, the folk melodies of "Blue Wheat" invoke a longing for something no longer possible. The abyss between the America today and the its past is impossible to bridge. Already, we have yielded to the abstractness of political correctness. Our past is either neglected, actively destroyed, or selectively museumed. We do not live in an understood land and culture. There is no there here in the presence of this music. It is only the poignancy of the moment that these beautifully rendered tunes live in our mind. We have to accept this reality as part and parcel of our rootlessness.

Tracks:

No Stopping For Nicotine
Sacramento
Flashdance
Swallow Me
Awake Enough
Everybodys Wearing My Head
Say Hello
Dreams feat. Stevie Nicks
Dub Shepherd
Sexy Ill
Sergio's Theme
In Love With A Friend
Deep Dish vs Dire Straits "Flashing For Money" (Sultan Radio Edit) * Bonus Track

Tracks:

Flashdance (The Guetta & Garraud F*** Me I'm Famous Remix)
Flashdance (Hoxton Whores Remix)
Say Hello (Rock Mix)
Say Hello (Angello & Ingrosso Remix)
Say Hello (Paul Van Dyk Remix)
Say Hello (Dylan Rhymes Acid Thunder Remix)
Say Hello & Flashdance Videos (ECD)

Album Description

The first new studio album from Deep Dish since 1998's release of Junk Science, George Is On features 14 new studio tracks including the amazing dancefloor filler "Flashdance". "Say Hello" is set to follow in its footsteps. The album also features an interpretation of "Dreams", which has been rerecorded with Stevie Nicks herself. There are also two tracks with long time collaborator Richard Morel, and further appearances from Anousheh Khalili - the vocalist on "Say Hello" and "Flashdance".

Customer Reviews:

Great DJ's...Mediocre "Producers".......2007-03-18

I was pretty excited about Deep Dish's second studio album. In my opinion, when these guys mix as a duo, they are difficult to top. Anyone who has had the pleasure of listening to them live would probably agree unless they don't like house and progressive house music. Unfortunately, I don't think their amazing mixing skills translate into the world of producing.

I'm not sure what I was expecting from this album. Probably something a little closer to the tracks featured in their amazing four disc set, Global Underground 025:Toronto.

George is On contains four tracks that I actually enjoy. The rest are very mediocre and a couple are fairly lame.

If you love GU021:Moscow and GU025:Toronto and expect similar tracks on this album...you will be DEEPly disappointed. I was.

deep dish without the fire.......2006-12-03

first> i have to say i've always admired deep dish for being the
masters-of-the-trade that they truly are. they rate in the highest echelon
of dj/remixers modern music has seen. their ability to take some plainly
palatable music and push it to the edge is legend just as is their ability
take some pretty wild experimental stuff and pull it back to some digestable,
needless to say, danceable middle-ground.
but this album lacks in more than one department and it has nothing to do with
artistic freedom-of-choice....or perhaps it has everything to do with it.
i actually think it has to do with fear.
the fear of not being ALL that one can be and becoming less than what you were
yesterday.
the album sports a silly title and cover to begin with.
there is the obvious attempt to be political and fashionable at the same
time.
the jumping in the air in posed-mannered excitement in asian track-suits
is more teen-age than new-age or future-core age or
even old-age (wise-age).
then again i'd be excited too if i got stevie nicks in my studio.

the songs...(and it's always about the songs) are simply lacking here.
there's so much talent here all put to very little use.
it's like ten most-crafty carpenters driving in a finish-nail in a coner piece of
baseboard....but the industry> being what it is....
everyone puts some huge halogens on it and exclaims...miracle.
morel sounds like he's going through the motions here
and i've found him to be often intriguing if not downright gutsy.
the girls do well but are never pushed....even some vocal-effect to
magnify the edge could've done wonders in many places.
nicks sounds good and the song is good (well...a classic to be sure)
it's clean minimal interpetation has it's appeal but again even that could've and
should've been pushed.
oddly enough a song from the 70s is the best to be found on this 2006 album.
some of the songs are just plain bad.

i haven't checked disc 2 yet but that's not what this cd is about....
i don't think.
this is about deep dish offering up supposedly original music.
i saw them live last year where they managed to push much of their program into
a domain which i myself (having grown up with iggy and the stooges and
blue cheer and bowie gabriel every form of pop punk disco and electronic
music imagineable)
experienced as extremely edgy....their set was as sonically aggressive
as anything i've ever encountered (great lights too) perhaps even to the
point of hostile.
i won't say i didn't enjoy the show as i felt in many ways it served as a
metaphor for (or protest against) george bush and america's invasion and
continued assault on iraq.
perhaps a stretch on my part but these weren't happy times and deep dish
wan't about to deny it.

so for this album to show almost no fire...very little in the way of edge
outrage or
urgency.....i hate to say it but they actually sound scared.
perhaps my biggest complaint here has to do with their constant reliance
on these delicately limp acoustic guitar-sounds/samples to sweeten the equation
as if to cover for the fact that there's no material here.
at least a few sounds coming from some of the great devices available to
us....ya know?....a little guitar-ish w/a little cosmic twinkle twang
whhheeeeoooouoummmmmrrrr??!!
i will always love deep dish and this album is in
no way able to knock them off their well-deserved place in history...
their pedestal> but
for those of you who need to find out what works gained
them their place in electronic music's hall-of-fame.....
skip this and pick almost anything else of theirs.

they are gods.....but if you know anything of earth-mythology.....
well...they are gods!

mcc>

Lackluster.......2006-03-24

When left to their own devices Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi, who form Deep Dish, tend to overlook the punch needed in crafting a compelling dance song--even when the punch is already there. Unlike their cover of the Fleetwood Mac classic "Dreams" (featuring Stevie Nicks) and the brilliant "Say Hello" their minimalist approach in production style is very much an attribute, however becomes a bore for most of "George Is On" (the duos follow up to 1998's "Space Junk"). That case is best supported by the album's third track, "Flashdance," which is really a cover of Shandi's "He's A Dream" from the film and soundtrack of the same name.

If anyone has heard "He's A Dream" would know that the verses sung on the song lead up to a wicked blast of a chorus, but here DD thought it would be better to drop the chorus altogether, thus making the song anti-climatic; which leads me to believe that DD lack not only the production skills to re-produce an effective cover, if not a better one ("Dreams" aside), but do not have the skills of real musicians to know when progession is needed.

"George Is On" is pretty much a spotty and flawed effort that's demonstrative of how ego takes precedence over real talent and the need to strive to out-do yourself and your limitations when your name becomes a brand and is all you need to get by. I'm assuming that's why DD covered Dire Straits 1985 gem "Money for Nothing."

Daft Punk and Fat Boy Slim fused with Moby in a House Set.. A++++++.......2006-03-12

"George Is On" from Deep Dish lands with a wonderful feeling throughout the entire album to give it a sound possibility of a perfect score that it so well deserves in the same landmark tradition of Mobo's "Play" or Fatboy Slim's "You've come a long way baby" but more akin to the groundbreaking "Homework" from Daft Punk. Let it grow on you and then let it grow some more and more and more.... This is Alpha soundworkz that makes the dead wanna dance and angels sing in beat. Wow, wow, wow, wow... SAY HELLO!! SAY HELLO!! TRICK IN TIME!!! My feet are on fire...

A new feel for these classic virtuousos.......2006-01-10

Bravo!!! Not a "mix" more of an album, taking after felix da housecat's "Devin Dazzle". Also it kinda has that 80's feel to it as well, but thats the direction of things lately. I love it, another great one. I would never have anything bad to say about Deep Dish, they just kik serious ass.

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Quantity Over Quality
Mediocre
One Hundred Greatest TV Themes
Pretty close to original recordings
Really Good Collection

One Hundred Greatest TV Themes

Manufacturer: Silva America
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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All-Time Top 100 TV Themes
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NBC: A Soundtrack of Must See TV
Six Million Dollar TV Themes

ASIN: B00005Y49F
Release Date: 2002-08-27

Tracks:

The A-Team - Nic Raine
The Addams Family - Nic Raine
The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe - Nic Raine
Airwolf - Derek Wadsworth
The Avengers - Mike Townend
Barnaby Jones - Jerry Goldsmith
Batman - Nic Raine
Battlestar Galactica - Nic Raine
Baywatch - Derek Wadsworth
Beverly Hills 90210 - Derek Wadsworth
Bewitched - Nic Raine
Between The Lines - Mark Ayres
The Bill - Nic Raine
Bonanza - The Philharmonia Orchestra
Brideshead Revisited - Derek Wadsworth
Buck Rogers In The 25th Century - Nic Raine
Burke's Law - Derek Wadsworth
Cagney And Lacey - Derek Wadsworth
Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons - Mark Ayres
Casualty - Mark Ayres
Cheers - Mark Ayres
Dallas - Nic Raine
Dangerman (Secret Agent) - Mike Townend
Doctor Who - Mark Ayres
Doctor Kildare - Jerry Goldsmith

Tracks:

Doogie Howser, M.D. - Derek Wadsworth
Dynasty - Nic Raine
The Equalizer - Derek Wadsworth
Falcon Crest - Derek Wadsworth
Fireball XL-5 - Derek Wadsworth
The Fugitive - Nic Raine
Hawaii 5-0 - Mike Townend
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Nic Raine
The High Chaparral - Nic Raine
Highway To Heaven - Derek Wadsworth
Hill Street Blues - Derek Wadsworth
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Mark Ayres
The Incredible Hulk - Derek Wadsworth
Jason King - Mike Townend
Jesus Of Nazareth - Paul Bateman
Joe 90 - Derek Wadsworth
Johnny Staccato - Derek Wadsworth
Knight Rider - Derek Wadsworth
Kojak - Mike Townend
L.A. Law - Derek Wadsworth
Land Of The Giants - Nic Raine
Little House On The Prairie - Derek Wadsworth
Lonesome Dove - Nic Raine
Lost In Space - Nic Raine
Lou Grant - Derek Wadsworth

Tracks:

Magnum, P.I. - Derek Wadsworth
A Man Called Ironside - Mike Townend
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Derek Wadsworth
M*A*S*H - Nic Raine
Miami Vice - Mark Ayres
Mike Hammer - Derek Wadsworth
Mission Impossible - Mike Townend
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Nic Raine
The Munsters - Derek Wadsworth
Murder She Wrote - Derek Wadsworth
Newhart - Derek Wadsworth
North And South - Derek Wadsworth
Northern Exposure - Derek Wadsworth
NYPD Blue - Mark Ayres
The Outer Limits - Nic Raine
Perry Mason - Mike Townend
The Persuaders - Mark Ayres
Peter Gunn - Mike Townend
Police Squad - Nic Raine
The Prisoner - Mike Townend
Quantum Leap - Derek Wadsworth
Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) - Mike Townend
Red Dwarf - Mark Lambert
The Rockford Files - Mike Post
Roseanne - Dan Foliart

Tracks:

The Saint - Mike Townend
Seaquest DSV - Nic Raine
Space 1999 - Derek Wadsworth
Star Trek - Mike Townend
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Derek Wadsworth
Star Trek: Voyager - Nic Raine
St. Elsewhere - Derek Wadsworth
The Streets Of San Francisco - Nic Raine
Stingray - Barry Gray
Taxi - Derek Wadsworth
Thunderbirds - Derek Wadsworth
Thirty Something - Derek Wadsworth
The Time Tunnel - Nic Raine
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - The Philharmonia Orchestra
The Twighlight Zone - Nic Raine
Twin Peaks - Derek Wadsworth
U.F.O. - Derek Wadsworth
The Virginian - Nic Raine
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea - Nic Raine
Wagon Train - Paul Bateman
The Waltons - Jerry Goldsmith
The Wild Wild West - Derek Wadsworth
Young Riders - John Debney
Xena: The Warrior Princess - Paul Bateman
The X-Files - Mark Ayres

Customer Reviews:

Quantity Over Quality.......2007-01-15

As a musician myself, I know too well that one of the most important ingredients in ANY performance (live or recorded) is passion. The recordings here generally lack the same passion and sheer drama of the originals. Much of the instrumentation has been reduced to a cheezy, thin, plastic synthesized replica. The performances are simply a watered-down lackluster version of the classic originals. If it were not for the sheer volume of tracks compiled here, I would have rated the comp only "one star".

Mediocre.......2006-05-17

The sound quality for this collection isn't much better than the samples offered by Amazon.

One Hundred Greatest TV Themes.......2005-08-06

I have watched almost all the shows that are on these 4 cd's. Many were made before I started watching TV. Most I've seen once or twice before.

Pretty close to original recordings.......2005-07-24

Definitely not as good as the originals. You'll probably notice the slight differences since it's stuff you saw and listened to every week or everyday in reruns growing up, but it's still an amazing collection.

Really Good Collection.......2004-07-11

I bought this in part because it had soundtracks to tv shows that are unavailable. My husband and I watch aome British programming. Many of the theme songs are for what seems like obscure British shows. That said; it has been enjoyable to hear music that I would normally never hear. Some music does sound tinny; some are very very rich, and some music is derived from actual preformances from the original artists. I think this is worth buying because is has a wonderful blend of music. The pieces are full soundtracks so they includes the parts of the theme song which are often edited out. I think the orchestra's who preformed the music did a great job. I have MonsterMania which redoes the soundtracks to the Godzilla movies. The interpretation is less heavy and stark than the preformance we associate with the original soundtrack; but I regard it as a new way to appreciate the music and all the componets which make the song unique.

The Songs of Robert Burns / Songs of the Hebrides

Average customer rating:

Elegance in sound
Scottish Songs for a Lifetime
Simply exquisite!
Love and frustration

The Songs of Robert Burns / Songs of the Hebrides

Manufacturer: Dutton Labs UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Decca Years: 1955-1975
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ASIN: B0006840KC
Release Date: 2005-05-10

Customer Reviews:

Elegance in sound.......2007-05-13

McKellar has one of the finest tenor voices I have heard. There is a range that is broad, while keeping a very masculine sound. I learned that he was trained classically and gave up opera after a season or two to do concert singing. These songs have lush or spare orchestral arrangements as the occasion demands. They are dramatic, even Hollywood-like, arrangements verging on schmalt, but a second hearing convinced me that he was among the finest tenors of the 20th century and the arrangements are "just right."

Scottish Songs for a Lifetime.......2007-05-12

If I was to be only able to carry one CD with me to a desert island, this one might be my choice. The poetry of Robert Burns is entirely inspiring. The vocal performance of McKellar is adequate to Burns' work. The orchestration is rich and appropriately simple. These songs will "stick to your ribs" and leave you longing for a visit to the old sod to personaly perceive the beloved ambiance they evoke.

Simply exquisite!.......2007-05-06

Who can sing like this today? Vocalion has done it again -- two of Kenneth McKellar's wonderful Decca recordings from 1961 and 1962 brought together for a wonderful vocal treat. There are things the lover of the English art song and ballad cannot be without -- Jennifer Vyvyan's lovely renditions of Michael Head's Foxgloves and Roger Quilter's Love's philosophy; Eileen Farrell's stentorian Sing to me by Sydney Homer; John Mark Ainsley's rhapsodic performance of Quilter's Go, Lovely Rose, and Kenneth McKellar singing Land of Heart's Desire, Sleeps the Noon in the Deep Blue Sky and Robert Burns' My love is like a red, red rose. Happily, these songs are preserved on this terrific release. McKellar had a wonderful, powerful and lyric tenor voice. His operatic and oratorio singing is moving on top of being very musical -- dynamics, portamento, etc., scrupulously observed and artistic; however, his sining of art songs, folk songs and ballads is exemplary and always, underscored ALWAYS moving and right on the mark. McKellar had a real affinity for this music and it simply erupts from the grooves (oops, I'm dating myself)!

The Songs of Robert Burns is lovely -- I defy anyone to listen to McKellar's rendition of My love is like a red, red rose, and come away without a tear in the eye. In my opinion, however, the true gem is the release of McKellar's Songs of the Hebrides. Vocalion includes McKellar's spoken introductions to these songs and it is incredible. One might think that it would sound trite, but McKellar is right on the mark and the introductions make the songs that much more memorable. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser is surely smiling down from heaven as this is the most beautiful and atmospheric recording of her Songs of the Hebrides. McKellar scales down his powerful voice for Land of Heart's Desire and it is ravishing. No one comes away unmoved. Again, who can sing like this today? I tried to think of any tenor or baritone singing today that could come close to this kind of a performance -- I could not think of one. Thank you Vocalion for bringing these performances back to light. Speaking of the recording, it is lush, with that beautiful early stereophonic sound preserved. For the lover's of the art song, ballad or folk song, you MUST have these performances.

Love and frustration.......2007-03-08

This recording has some wonderful Scottish songs by a super Scottish tenor. The difficult part for me is that I need the sheet music to go with one of the songs, but I had no luck locating it anywhere. There are other versions of the song ("My heart's in the highlands") available but none like this one. Is there any chance you could help me find it??

Sincerely,
Lyndall

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good
predicatable, unoriginal, a bit dated but great.
a trip to the movies inside your head

Deep Red
Deadly Avenger
Manufacturer: Shadow Records
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ASIN: B00009L1T2
Release Date: 2003-06-03

Tracks:

We Took Pelham
Punisher
In Search Of The Pimpmobile
The Quest Part 1
Blade
Day One
Lopez
The Quest Part 2
Love Sounds
Skit
Black Sun
Deep Red
Outro

Album Description

Highly anticipated debut from the UK's top purveyor of cinematic electronica! ''Just like DJ Shadow with the Private Press, Baxter has made a record that seems to perfectly adapt itself to the ebbs and flows of the listener's life.'' - MOJO. Shadow Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

good.......2007-06-14

good cd just have to listen to it

predicatable, unoriginal, a bit dated but great........2004-04-02

This album is not for those who are looking for anything original or groundbreaking, nor is it the most memorable of records. In spite of this it is a very fine album with some tracks that are so beutiful they really make the hairs on the back of you're neck stand up.
If this LP was a car it would be a Volkwagen Golf. Safe, boring, rather dated, predictable and not much to look at. However, it is still a really fine and solid car.

a trip to the movies inside your head.......2003-06-09

this is definitly a must buy album.even though a few of the tracks sound a bit too similar you wont skip through any of them.cinematic beats at their best.

Average customer rating:

The Most Beautiful Recorded Tenor Voice?
Very, very truncated.
incomplete pleasure
Finally available on CD!

Babes in Toyland / The Red Mill
Victor Herbert , Kenny Baker , and Eileen Farrell
Manufacturer: Decca Broadway
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Release Date: 2002-07-30

Tracks:

Opening - From Babes in Toyland (Herbert & MacDonough) with Kenny Baker and Karen Kemple
Toyland
Floretta
Never Mind Bo-Peep, We Will Find Your Sheep
March of the Toys
I Can't Do the Sum
Go To Sleep, Slumber Deep
Song of the Poet
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Moonbeams
In the Isle of Our Dreams
Because You're You
Every Day is Ladies' Day With me
The Streets of New York

Customer Reviews:

The Most Beautiful Recorded Tenor Voice?.......2005-06-22

Is any recorded, tenor, singing voice as lovely as Kenny Baker's? As a child, I often heard him during the 1930s on the Jack Benny show, but have scarcely thought of him since. Amazon.com offers him on four CDs: BABES IN TOYLAND, LOVE WALKED IN, THE STARLIT HOUR and WEILL FROM BERLIN TO BROADWAY. Over the years, I have heard the recorded voices of many tenors, mostly operatic. Their fine voices were excellently trained, often to a wider range and more difficult music. But note for note, their sound as recorded is not I think as sheerly beautiful as Kenny Baker's. A splendid, unspoiled, unstrained, natural gift, put to disciplined and tasteful use! His enunciation is remarkably clear, and his musical line, perfectly smooth. He makes each song a different story, as in the six pieces here from BABES IN TOYLAND.

My claim is easy to test. This website has CDs with excerpts for listening to the best tenors of the 20th century, including Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Giovanni Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli, Tito Schipa, Richard Tauber, Richard Crooks, Jussi Bjoerling, Morton Downey, Mario Lanza, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicolai Gedda, Jan Peerce, Leopold Simoneau, Fritz Wunderlich, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras. Of course, the earlier the career, the greater the damage to the recorded voice from primitive technology. Heard live, who knows which voice was most beautiful? But at least we have what earlier centuries could only imagine: lasting copies of live performances. Listen to Kenny Baker's voice on tracks 2 and 8 of BABES IN TOYLAND, and then compare.

The numbers from THE RED MILL will make you want to hear more. This operetta, also composed by Victor Herbert, was first produced in 1906, three years after BABES IN TOYLAND. "Moonbeams" (well sung by Eileen Farrell) is lovely; "Because You're You" (a duet between Farrell and Felix Knight) is quite simple but surprisingly affecting. The last two are the best: "Every Day Is Ladies' Day with Me," and "In Old New York." They are patter songs, perhaps inspired by, and surely as deft, as the ones that Gilbert and Sullivan were writing two decades earlier. Both are sung by Wilbur Evans, in a rich baritone, with perfect enunciation and marvelous comic flair. Great fun!

The selections on this CD were recorded in 1944 and 1945, then released in 1946 on both 78s and 10" LPs. For this CD, they were remastered from wartime lacquered-glass originals. Baker and Evans emerge in radiant form, surely much closer to live sound than reached our family radio via AM transmission 65 years ago. The orchestral and choral sound is less attractive. Poorly miked?

Very, very truncated........2002-12-09

The scores of Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland" and "The Red Mill" are lovely classics, but the incomplete scores represented by this Decca Broadway remastering of its antiquated 78s are not the best reprentation. My advice: wait for the John McGlinn "Babes in Toyland" to be released. As for "The Red Mill", you'd do better to pick up the Ohio Light Opera's double-CD from Albany Records.

incomplete pleasure.......2002-11-09

Two terrible mistakes keep this from 5 stars.. BABES IN TOYLAND is not complete as they are missing the delightful IN THE TOYMAKER'S WORKSHOP. Why? In THE RED MILL they use a butchered take of EVERY DAY IS LADIES DAY WITH ME. Again, why?
John McGlinn will be out with a complete BABES soon - and there is a lot of music in it - so you may want to wait.

Finally available on CD!.......2002-08-01

Decca's 1946 album of selections from Victor Herbert's celebrated musical was a welcome addition to record libraries, covering most of the major songs plus some of the delightful dance music. The album was reissued as a ten-inch Lp in 1949. A later reissue in 1957 dropped 4 songs to fit the score on one side of a twelve-inch Lp backed by six selections from Herbert's THE RED MILL. That pairing is reproduced here but the CD contains the complete BABES IN TOYLAND program! It's nice to have it back too! Nice of Decca to give us this early Christmas present this year. But BABES IN TOYLAND is a score that enchants all year round. How strange that no other complete recording exists.

Tracks:

(You Got Me In Between) The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
I've Got The World On A String
I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
Public Melody No. 1
When The Sun Comes Out
Hittin' The Bottle
Let's Fall In Love
Let's Put Our Heads Together
Now I Know
As Long As I Live
Rasin' The Rent
Blues In The Night
Down With Love
Over The Rainbow
It's Only A Paper Moon
Bud's Won't Bud
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
Stormy Weather
Kickin' The Gong Around
Two Blind Loves
That Old Black Magic
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
Ill Wind
Get Happy

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One of America's great songwriters.......2001-03-09

Amid the Cole Porters, Irving Berlins and George Gershwins of the world, Harold Arlen tends to be forgotten. And yet, when the greatest song of the 20th century was recently voted on by a distinguished panel of critics, whose song came out on top? Mr. Arlen's (Over the Rainbow). Here is a superb cross section of Harold Arlen songs by a cast ranging from Judy Garland to Bing Crosby to Ethel Waters, spanning decades and spanning a wide range of styles, from jazz to ballads, poignant to funny. Although the sound is not ideal, as many of the recordings date from the 30's and Pearl's objective in remastering has always been to achieve the fullest musical sound rather than to reduce surface noise, this is a minor complaint given the rich and mind-opening selection of great music found here.

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The End of a Great Band
Ok but not Great
Great Album
Not the same old folk music
Awful Music Detected

Music.Detected_
Deep Forest
Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000068QWX
Release Date: 2002-07-30

Tracks:

India
Endangered Species
Soul Elevator
Computer Machine
Yuki Song (feat. Beverly Jo Scott)
Beauty In Your Eyes
Elemental (feat. Beverly Jo Scott)
Far East
Deep Blue Sea (feat. Anggun)
Will You Be Ready (feat. Angela McCluskey & Chitose Hajime)
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Endangered Species (remix radio edit) - Galleon

Album Description

13 tracks with a remixed version of 'Endangered Species' (Galleon remix radio edit). 2002 release.

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The End of a Great Band.......2006-11-15

Until recently there were only two bands whose CDs I would buy the day they were released without a second thought: Deep Forest and Baka Beyond. The list has shortened now to Baka Beyond. Music Detected is such a huge disapointment that I suspect it was a misdirected effort to win the American audience. I hope Deep Forest was holding it's communal nose while recording this awful mess. And let's all hope they go back to the music they love and ignor the bad marketing advice they seem to be getting.

Ok but not Great.......2006-04-27

Music Detected does have a few great songs in an otherwise mediocre release. There isn't much continuity or fluidity from track to track, it just seems all slapped together. This creates a flow which is not very smooth but rather a rough ride on high waves.

There are a couple of gems hidden in the shuffle including "Yuki's Song" and the simple & short but brilliant "In the Evening". Download these 2 tracks and skip the CD. Better yet buy Blank & Jone's "Relax" 1 or 2 CD's, Conjure One's "Extraordinary Ways" or any of the Digital Moodz releases.

Great Album.......2006-04-14

This album introduced me to Deep Forest. I come from listening to trance, techno, and house, so this was a nice combo of world and electronic. Two great and often spiritual types of music combined to one. There seems to be a message of the effect of technology on human nature.

My favorite tracks are "Computer Machine", "Deep Blue Sea", and "Endangered Species".

"Computer Machine" feels a little more soulful and urban than usual. One of the reasons I enjoy thisis because for some reason I enjoy the sound of highly compressed voice.

"Deep Blue Sea" is nice because it's very smooth and makes me feel happy and free during a warm summer day.

"Endangered Species" is cool because it feels like rock, house, folk music mixed into one.

I recommend this album to anyone who enjoys house, trance, or world/folk.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Not the same old folk music.......2005-12-17

Some the reviews seem more to punish Deep Forest for the drastic change of musical course from the folk music found in the first three studio albums. This is hard rock, almost metal, and it's very good (not classic 5 but definitely keeper 4).

Awful Music Detected.......2005-09-10

I am a big Deep Forest fan and I tried to like this horrible cd. I gave it at least 10 full listens and finally gave up and sold it to a used cd shop for a few dollars. It was quite unpleasant to listen to. The first three cds are very enjoyable and the live cd puts it all together, but Music Detected was simply disgusting. I would give it a NO STARS rating if that was an option.

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Kool DJ Red Alert Presents...

Manufacturer: Next Plateau
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Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined

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immerse yourself in this
beautiful music sadly mistaken for another band, yet brilliant....
What is this?
the soft - loud confusion
don't concentrate on anything

Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
Mono
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ASIN: B0002ZDVR2
Release Date: 2004-10-05

Tracks:

16.12
Mere Your Pathetique Light
Halcyon (Beautiful Days)
2 Candles, 1 Wish
Ode
The Sky Remains The Same As Ever
Lost Snow
A Thousand Paper Cranes

Album Description

Tokyo's Mono is a peculiar group. While most bands offer up their sincerest and most genuine recordings in their infancy and spend the rest of their careers trying desperately to rediscover their youthful energy, Mono's trajectory has been quite the opposite. This flourish of hopeful creativity was captured by Steve Albini in the form of the eight pieces that make up their third album Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined. More lush and orchestral than previous recordings, the album couples an overall slow-melting ambience with a thunderous drive that reaches far greater heights than the band's earlier work.

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immerse yourself in this.......2006-05-19

listen to it straight through, all at once. remember what a music experience used to be. let them take you somewhere new. let it build. there is magic here. if you have an adventurous spirit or seek something new, soulful and slightly dangerous, then please give this a try. there is yet hope for guitar bands. but think of the creative explorations of 'godspeed you black emperor' rather than the lame redundancy of 'lynyrd skynyrd'.

beautiful music sadly mistaken for another band, yet brilliant...........2006-03-26

Obviously, there are 2 bands called Mono. This one is the one that creates brilliant pieces of music that could be best described as among the post-rock movement. You can hear a lot of Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai in these recordings, but Mono has imprinted it's own signature self into the music so that it explores other realms of music rather than dwell in the genre of its influences. The cello is a great aid to adding a serene flow to the already smooth, beautiful pieces of music.

So listen to "16.12", "Halcyon (Beautiful Days)", and "Lost Snow" and you won't be dissapointed. Serene, lush, instrumental rock that needs to be heard to be understood.

What is this? .......2006-01-26

How could Formica Blues be so good and Walking Cloud so bad? The first two tracks sounded like trying to listen to music standing next to a moving train. The symbols are intolerable. Then the third track sounded pretty good until they started blasting without warning right in the middle of the tune. I tried listening to the fourth tune, gave up a ejected the CD.
They truly sound like a high school band in a garage trying to learn to play.

the soft - loud confusion.......2005-09-19

hello all.

i feel that 'walking cloud' is a very beautiful record, and deserves to be heard by many in its entirety. the sound-bites on amazon do not really do this record justice. a few seconds of 'halcyon' cannot truly tell the beauty of that song.

concerning what some other people have mentioned regarding this album, and some other records whose sound is akin to Mono's (explosions, godspeed, mogway, etc.), i have to say that to speak of the 'soft-loud-soft'ness of these records seems very superficial to me. yes, all these albums have their peaks & valleys if you will, but these seem to me to be intrinsic in the 'story-telling' of each record. to me it is very much like a baring of the soul, revealing all the good-bad, light-dark, the beautiful and the ugly.

in his 'decline of the west', oswald spengler wrote regarding classical music that the people of this time turned to instrumental music so that 'they might better express their relationship with God'. it seems that this is happening all over again with musicians who fall under the dubious umbrella of 'post-rock'. all seem to be trying to better express their relationship, perhaps not with god, but with themselves, no? personally, it does seem to me that their is something akin to religious ecstacy in some of these recordings, but this would be better left undiscussed, as i do not know any of these musicians personally.

this all being said, 'walking cloud' is a rather beautiful record, and i look forward to more releases from these very talented & beautiful people.

don't concentrate on anything.......2005-09-01

yes, it's repetitive. that's been said. listening in the record store bored me to tears until i started doing something else. but this *is* good music for studying.. great for drawing - that's a reccommendation. i can't imagine setting them apart from Mogwai, though, especially in terms of what happens melodically as well as a similar approach to sonics and engineering in general, anyway...

yes, listen to tracks before you get it. get a few. play them and do something else. see how you feel.

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