Sentimental Journey

sentimental journey

Track Listings
1. Sentimental Journey
2. Moonlight in Vermont
3. Wonderful World
4. Spanish Eyes
5. Unforgettable
6. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
7. Meditation (Meditação)
8. Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)
9. Stormy Weather
10. On the Sunny Side of the Street
11. Summertime
12. Georgia on My Mind
13. As Time Goes By
14. Moon River

Sentimental Journey,Kelly Stewart,Avalon (Rock Bottom),Easy Listening,Pop,Rock/Pop

Sentimental Journey
Sentimental Journey
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Nostalgia
  • Beegie is Great
  • Wonderful!
  • "Beegie Adair Salutes World War II Classics (2006) ... Village Square Music"
  • Best-ever "cocktail piano"
 Sentimental Journey
Beegie Adair
Manufacturer: Village Square
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000E117JS
Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

  1. GETTING SENTIMENTAL OVER YOU
  2. BEGIN THE BEGUINE
  3. MOONLIGHT SERENADE
  4. CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO
  5. SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
  6. I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN
  7. A STRING OF PEALS
  8. IT'S BEEN A LONG, LONG TIME
  9. AT LAST
  10. IN THE MOOD
  11. YOU'LL NEVER KNOW
  12. I'LL BE SEEING YOU

Product Description

Best selling jazz pianist, Beegie Adair, salutes the Greatest Generation with jazz trio renditions of World War II classics.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Nostalgia.......2007-05-31

As a singer, I'm always looking for new (or old) material and in this wonderful CD, Sentimental Journey, by the incomparable Miss Beegie Adair, I've found fabulous new presentations of matchless WW2 songs. There are 12 songs on this CD and I've taken 6 of them for my own interpretation. These are the nostalgic songs that our parents danced and romanced to in the 40's and they're just as beautiful today. Beegie brings them to life again, not that they ever went away, but to listen to her brilliant playing of I'm Getting Sentimental Over You; Sentimental Journey; It's been a Long,Long Time; You'll Never know and I'll Be Seeing You is a very moving experience. Long live Brilliant Beegie !!

5 out of 5 stars Beegie is Great.......2007-04-11

Beegie Adair is one great jazz pianist. If you like jazz and like WWII music, buy this CD.

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful!.......2006-10-16

This is the best. It's so pleasing to listen to. I had heard it twice before I purchased it and remember thinking what cheerful, uplifting music it is. It lifts my mood each time I play it. Someone mentioned that it was good dinner music, I would whole heartedly agree. In fact, I am online now to buy one for my sister for her birthday. She is an artist, she wants to have this on while she works.

5 out of 5 stars "Beegie Adair Salutes World War II Classics (2006) ... Village Square Music".......2006-09-24

If you haven't discovered Beegie Adair yet, fasten your seat belt cause here we go under the banner of Village Square Music ... Beegie Adair continues to be the master of interpretation of the songwriters pen ... her latest release "SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY" is joined by Roger Spencer (bassist) and Chris Brown (drummer) --- as they perform twelve greatest standards of the World War II era ... Light jazzy arrangements of classic big band hits are presented with the signature and style we've come to love.

Song Titles:

1. Getting Sentimental Over You (Bassman/Washington)
2. Begin The Beguine (Cole Porter)
3. Moonlight Serenade (Miller/Parish)
4. Chattanooga Choo Choo (Gordon/Warren)
5. Sentimental Journey (Brown/Green/Homer)
6. I'll Never Smile Again (Lowe)
7. A String Of Pearls (Gray)
8. It's Been A Long, Long Time (Cahn/Styne)
9. At Last (Gordon/Warren)
10. In The Mood (Garland)
11. You'll Never Know (Gordon/Warren)
12. I'll Be Seeing You (Fain/Kahal)

Don Wolff of KMOX Radio ("The Voice of St. Louis") is considered one of the foremost Jazz aficionados in the St. Louis area, plays a mixture of fast and mellow tempo Jazz that keeps his listeners tuned in for hours ... Known as "Mr. I Love Jazz" after his theme song, "I Love Jazz" by Louie Armstrong, Don Wolff explores the origins of Traditional Jazz, Swing and Ballads, Dixieland, and the Big Bands during his show from 9:00 pm to 1:00 am ... Don's show includes interviews with national and local musicians, features on Jazz events in and around St. Louis and listener requests ... many interviews with Beegie Adair over the years, they can be heard in 40 states plus, as they all feel the same way we do about her music --- we love you Beegie!

This album plays like fine wine and flows very easily on the ears ... once again Jack Jezzro (producer) and Greg Howard (execuive producer) comes through with a must have for all music lovers and fans of Beegie --- Arrangements take on many moods with the same sensitivity and tender loving care as her previous albums --- This is why I'm once again giving Beegie Adair another five [5] star review --- she's a precious commodity that gives many collectors joy in the world of music --- Classic Standards, keeps you coming back for more in the style of Beegie Adair.

Total Time: 44 mins on 12 Tracks ~ Village Square 3055 ~ (1/10/2006)

5 out of 5 stars Best-ever "cocktail piano".......2006-07-09

For those who don't know her, Beegie Adair has made the best albums ever created, in a class of music that used to be called "cocktail piano". Unlike the great jazz pianists that require close attention while listening (Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, Hampton Hawes, etc), she makes music that's quiet and relaxing, but with much more class and intelligence than Muzak, elevator music, or schlocky pop-cover instrumentals. It's the perfect background music for working at a computer, making or having drinks or dinner, or talking with friends. If you'd like some of that in your collection, she's as good as you'll ever find. "I'll Take Romance" is the album I would recommend most highly; this would be a good second, if you try that and want more.
I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • What you get is what you see
  • Incredible! Incredible! Incredible!
  • An Awesome Journey
  • Stellar
 I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey
Regina Carter
Manufacturer: Verve
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000F5Z6UE
Release Date: 2006-06-13

Tracks:

  1. Anitra's Dance
  2. Little Brown Jug
  3. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
  4. Sentimental Journey
  5. You Took Advantage Of Me
  6. St. Louis Blues
  7. A-Tisket, A-Tasket
  8. Blue Rose
  9. This Can't Be Love
  10. How Ruth Felt
  11. There's A Small Hotel
  12. I'll Be Seeing You

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Violinist Regina Carter recorded I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey following her mother's death. A tribute to her mom, it features period songs she was fond of. But far from wallowing in sentimentality, it's a spirited work of reflection featuring vocals by the irrepressible Dee Dee Bridgwater on two songs, including a freewheeling "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," and the charismatic Carla Cook on three tunes, including a darkly glowing "St. Louis Blues." Teaming to warmly atmospheric effect part of the time with clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera and accordionist Gil Goldstein, Carter readily avoids easy nostalgia, whether basking in the childlike delights of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," "Little Brown Jug" and "Anitra's Dance" (the Peer Gynt classic, taken from the great '30s bandleader John Kirby's arrangement), or the more sophisticated of emotion of Duke Ellington's "Blue Rose" and "I'll Be Seeing You." Produced by John Clayton, the album doesn't rise to the heights of Freefall, Carter's 2001 duo recording with pianist Kenny Barron, but its easygoing qualities win out over the slick high conceptualism of some of her other efforts. --Lloyd Sachs

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars What you get is what you see.......2007-06-13

As the title of the album and the somewhat, well, kitschy cover indicate, this CD is indeed a sort of sentimental journey through the musical past... From my point of view, it is only a pitty the affair is not a little less sentimental and a little more swinging.

Regina Carter has a beautiful tone, but I feel she is not really a swinger (I guess more modern forms of jazz are more her domain). The accordeonist Goldstein also weighs things down a bit, but this still doesn't mean you shouldn't buy this CD, particularly if you're not a die-hard fan of really swinging violinists (ellegant Stephane Grappelli, rugged Ray Nance, joyous Svend Assmusen and others).

And, to ensure at least 4 stars for this album, there is the versatile Cuban Paquito D'Rivera, who at times really shows adequate swinging passion on his clarinet and finally, but by no means unsignificantly, there are two tracks with Dee Dee Bridgewater who can really cook a swinging storm with her voice and push the other musicians to their limits and beyond ...

All in all, not a bad CD, falling somewhere between nostalgia and swing.

5 out of 5 stars Incredible! Incredible! Incredible!.......2007-03-09

Regina Carter is perhaps the most amazing jazz violinist of this period.I have all of her recordings and this is one of my favorites. I just can't get tired of it.

5 out of 5 stars An Awesome Journey.......2006-08-19

My husband and I love it. Ms. Carter plays with such emotion. She is truly an artist who can interpret a piece of music and make it her own. We are so glad that she went back into the studio to record after the recent death of her Mom.
This recording rates right up there with Rhythms of the Heart and Paganini: After a Dream.

5 out of 5 stars Stellar.......2006-07-25

Regina Carter's violin appears in places with Mary J. Blige (My Life cd) and and Wynton Marsalis (Blood on the Fields), so you could say her versatility is unquestionable. I love to notice where artists like her show up discretely in liner notes in a variety of places and listen to their chameleon-like virtuosity evolve through their own choices. She has recorded some fabulous music with her violin but here she seems to find her own sincere voice and her own spiritual sentimentality without geting too wax nostaligic (for example on "A-Tisket A-Tasket"). My favorite track is "How Ruth Felt" because it's both awkward and grounded at the same time and seems to capture some of the relationship she must have had with her late mother to whom she dedicated the cd.
Sentimental Journey: Capitol's Great Ladies of Song, Vol. 2
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Take A Sentimental Journey
  • Classy ladies singing classy tunes!
  • A strange, but pleasant collection
  • great intro
 Sentimental Journey: Capitol's Great Ladies of Song, Vol. 2
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Capitol
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000DRDC
Release Date: 1992-03-10

Tracks:

  1. Sentimental Journey - Dinah Shore
  2. I Had The Craziest Dream - Helen Forrest
  3. Well All Right (Tonight's The Night) - The Andrew Sisters
  4. I'll Never Smile Again - Keely Smith
  5. Five O'Clock Whistle - Mavis Rivers
  6. And The Angels Sing - Martha Tilton
  7. I Don't Know Enough About You - Peggy Lee
  8. Shoo Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy - June Christy
  9. Green Eyes - Helen O'Connell
  10. No Love, No Nothin' - Ella Mae Morse
  11. You Do - Margaret Whiting
  12. You've Got To See Mamma Ev'ry Night (Or You ...) - Kay Starr
  13. Trav'lin Light - Billie Holiday
  14. I've Heard That Song Before - Helen Forrest
  15. I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) - Keely Smith
  16. And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine - Anita O' Day
  17. Shoo-Shoo Baby - The Andrew Sisters
  18. (It Will Have To Do) Until The Real Thing Comes... - June Hutton
  19. Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too) - Peggy Lee
  20. I'll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
  21. Cow-Cow Boogie - Ella Mae Morse
  22. It's Been A Long, Long Time - June Christy
  23. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You - Helen O'Connell
  24. Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief - Betty Hutton
  25. Take The 'A' Train - The King Sisters
  26. I'll Be Seeing You - Jo Stafford

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Take A Sentimental Journey.......2007-07-12

Another fabulous compilation of the music of another time. This one is as great as Volume 1. Another winner!!

5 out of 5 stars Classy ladies singing classy tunes!.......2005-09-26

After watching a T V commercial with the song "Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" playing in the background, I wanted my daughters to hear the complete song. We found this and I was very pleased to see that it included more of the beautiful songs from that era with many more of my personal favorites such as "Sentimental Journey", "I Don't Know Enough About You" and "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief". Being a child of the sixties, these songs were popular before my time...but having been raised with an appreciation of the big band classics, I knew most of the tunes on this volume and wanted to give my daughters the same opportunity. It's great nostalgic music, with a wonderful variety of songs and artists. I highly recommend this musical...sentimental journey...back in time.

4 out of 5 stars A strange, but pleasant collection.......2005-02-24

This CD is one of a number of CDs issued by Capitol with similar content; there is at least one other featuring female singers, and at least one specializing in male singers. The first thing to notice is that some singers are represented doing songs that other singers made famous, and even other singers who are on the CD as well. For example, Dinah Shore does Doris Day's "Sentimental Journey" while June Christy in turn does Dinah's "Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy"! Another recording by Dinah Shore is, to be sure, one of a song she made famous, "I'll Walk Alone." But the version on this CD is not her 1944 hit version, but a much later recording (though this is not concealed in the liner notes). Obviously, much of what drove the selection of recordings for this CD was the availability of the song on Capital. Still, listening to the CD, I enjoyed all the performances, and consequently have to rate it as better than simply "OK" -- thus giving it 4 stars.

5 out of 5 stars great intro.......2000-06-17

grreat recording. was one of the first cds i bought years ago. introduced me to nancy wilson, june christy and ella mae morse great singers each one ..also garland kay starr way too many to mention all great. check out capitol sings series as well. great musid for any time.
Doris Day's Sentimental Journey/Latin for Lovers
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Classic 1965 recordings
  • Simply Timeless
  • One word is all I need: Beautiful!
  • Voice without peers
  • Doris recorded great albums while the Beatles took over USA
 Doris Day's Sentimental Journey/Latin for Lovers
Doris Day
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ASIN: B00005R1PB
Release Date: 2001-11-27

Tracks:

  1. The More I See You
  2. At Last
  3. Come To Baby, Do!
  4. I Had The Craziest Dream/I Don't Want To Walk Without You
  5. I'll Never Smile Again
  6. I Remember You
  7. Serenade In Blue
  8. I'm Beginning To See The Light
  9. It Could Happen To You
  10. It's Been A Long, Long Time
  11. Sentimental Journey
  12. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
  13. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
  14. Meditation
  15. Dansero
  16. Summer Has Gone
  17. How Insensitive (Insensataez)
  18. Slightly Out Of Tune (Desafinado)
  19. Our Day Will Come
  20. Be True To Me (Sabor A Mi)
  21. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizas, Quizas, Quizas)
  22. Be Mine Tonight (Noche De Ronda)
  23. Por Favor

Album Description

Doris Day's biggest hit, 'Sentimental Journey' was recorded while she was a vocalist in Les Brown's band in the mid-1940s. Highlights from these two original albums on one compact disc include 'Fly Me To The Moon' and 'The More I See You.' (Collectables)

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Classic 1965 recordings.......2007-01-13

Highly polished, studio recordings -- with a bit too much reverb for me. It was all the rage at the time. My opinion are the recordings she made with Nelson Riddle and Harry Zimmerman are better. The "Sentimental Journey" track on this recording is probably the one you know and love from radio play.

5 out of 5 stars Simply Timeless.......2005-03-09

Growing up with Doris Day music and movies, I knew the simple fact that here was a woman that could sing, act, dance, look beautiful and make me smile or tear up with each performance. Then one evening a year ago I was watching a performance of my daughter's High School Ball Room Dance team (which is now a hot sport amongist teenagers) perform, and a song came on they were dancing to that blew me away. When I asked the coach who was singing it, I found out it was Doris Day's recording of "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps". No girl next door here, this song simply sizzled. The other tunes on this CD are great, but for this song alone I would buy this. Doris Day movies or music are simply timeless.

5 out of 5 stars One word is all I need: Beautiful!.......2004-06-25

This is not the first Doris Day CD someone should buy; you should start with one of her greatest-hits CDs such as "Golden Girl" (which I've earlier reviewed). But if, after listening to this, you decide you want to hear more of that great voice, this should be one to get early. It's truly a beautiful example of what Doris could do.

Most of Doris Day's big hits were in the 1950s; this CD represents a Doris Day of about 10 years later. It is a combination of two LPs which she recorded two months apart in 1964 and Columbia released (the second-recorded one first!) in 1965. So it's a slightly more mature Doris Day, but just as nice to listen to as the Doris of the 1950s.

The two LPs combined in this CD are actually two quite different sets of tunes. "Doris Day's Sentimental Journey" consists of a collection of songs that were old standards even in 1964, plus a remake of her very first hit, the title tune of the album, done in a rather different style from the 1940s version. "Latin for Lovers" contains a number of songs that were mostly fairly new in 1964 (some of which might be called standards now!) with Latin origins. (Some were composed by the man who introduced the bossa nova to the USA, Antonio Carlos Jobim.) Only one of the songs on "Latin for Lovers" was one I'd heard Doris do: "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" ("Quizas, Quizas, Quizas" in the original Spanish). All the songs on both LPs, now on one CD, reminded me of why I've always considered Doris my favorite singer; every single one is done beautifully.

What more can I say? Of course it gets 5 stars! I wish I could give it six!

5 out of 5 stars Voice without peers.......2003-06-25

I remembered her voice as just one of those flashy voices from Hollywood movies.Alas,those were mostly in mono and simply had yet to discover the true virtue of her voice.

Then in Amsterdam I found some great soundtracks with old works from Henry Mancini.Next to his works was some this rather shy album of Doris Day.

When I heard her interpretation of * Three coins in the fountain & Quiet nights of quiet stars *,I couldn't believe my ears. Her voice has such profound timbre with such grade delicacy of
the acoustic instrument, one just brought to life by finest artisan alive. Her voice is so vibrant and resonant like any voice I have heard before.

I asked my friends at my home to listen some music on my system and I asked them who is finest female voice on the planet? Some said Billie Holiday , Ella Fitzgerald....list goes on.

With some reservation I said for me it is from now on Doris Day.
Needles to say that made them laugh until they have heard sheer delicacy of her voice.

Without any reservation,with experience in classical music and Jazz, her voice is among finest voices, period. It is a great pity that she didn't extend range of her materials more into demanding materials of Jazz standards. I'm scare to think what kind of the treat that would be.

Her voice is like a finest High-End audio instrument, depending only on quality of material. If you treat the same with care it will reward you with delight. Ribbon speaker owners and those with generally fine systems, listen for these two songs on
this album. It will define you standards, what can you expect in human voice. In this case. exquisite,profound and unique voice of Doris Day.

In today mediocrity of quality in almost every sphere of human awareness,let her voice remind you that some things posses a true substance.

5 out of 5 stars Doris recorded great albums while the Beatles took over USA.......2003-06-01

The first album on this twofer, Sentimental journey, was recorded in 1964 and was something of a nostalgia trip for Doris - truly a sentimental journey back to the songs of the forties. The title track is a re-recording (and updating) of the song that provided Doris with her biggest hit during her days with Les Brown. Some may regard the new version as sacrilege, but I love it, as I also love the original.

The album begins with The more I see you. Originally an American hit for Dick Haymes, Chris Montez had an international hit with his cover in the sixties. I remember you was originally a top ten hit for Jimmy Dorsey but Frank Ifield had a huge sixties hit with it around the world, going to the very top of the UK charts. At last and Serenade in blue were popularised by Glenn Miller. Among the other songs here, you can listen to covers of Come to baby do (another song Doris originally recorded with Les Brown), I'll never smile again (Tommy Dorsey), I'm beginning to see the light (Harry James), It could happen to you (Jo Stafford) and It's been a long long time, which topped the 1945 charts in America via two different versions (Bing Crosby, Harry James).

The second album on this twofer, Latin for lovers, recorded in 1963, features a mix of standards and songs of Latin origin, all given a gentle bossa nova rhythm. On Be mine tonight, Doris actually sings a verse in Spanish - the only time she ever did that. Of the standards, Fly me to the moon and Our day will come are the best known. One of the Latin songs, Perhaps perhaps perhaps (a translation of Quizas quizas quizas) became popular in the UK as a consequence of its use in a TV commercial. This is an excellent album that sets its own mood.

Doris could not compete with the Beatles for sales, although she continued to record albums of the highest quality - and they have stood the test of time.

In the UK, these two albums were issued on separate twofers - Sentimental journey was coupled with What every girl should know, while Latin for lovers was coupled with Love him.
Sentimental Journey
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Ringo is so much fun
  • beautiful
  • Ringo- the trendsetter
  • NOSTALGIC RETRO CLASSIC
  • With the Beatles kaput, Ringo tentatively goes solo
 Sentimental Journey
Ringo Starr
Manufacturer: Capitol
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ASIN: B000007MVU
Release Date: 1995-08-29

Tracks:

  1. Sentimental Journey
  2. Night And Day
  3. Whispering Grass
  4. Bye Bye Blackbird
  5. I'm A Fool To Care
  6. Stardust
  7. Blue, Turning Grey Over You
  8. Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing
  9. Dream
  10. You Always Hurt The One You Love
  11. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
  12. Let The Rest Of The World Go By

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Ringo Starr's early post-Beatle solo efforts revealed an artist who seemed to revel in both his newfound artistic freedom and the chance to prove just how underestimated he may have been. While John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison were making music not dissimilar to their recent Beatles past, Starr undertook two wildly disparate projects, this Tin Pan Alley tribute to some of the American songbook's most cherished standards (cut to please his parents, according to legend) and the straightforward country & western collection Beaucoups of Blues. Though it confounded many a critic at the time of its release, Journey has a relaxed, strangely melancholy feel, even if Ringo seems to be occasionally waltzing through some of the arrangements (undertaken by an all-star roster of producer/arrangers, including George Martin, Elmer Bernstein, Quincy Jones, and Paul McCartney). Hardly the greatest post-Beatles release, but certainly one of the oddest and least expected. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Ringo is so much fun.......2007-05-06

I first bought Sentimental Journey in the early 70s on vinyl and was pleasantly surprised.
I was very pleased to see it released on CD!
If you are a fan of the Fab Four, this CD is a must. Although Ringo is obviously not a great singer, he is quite enjoyable and fun to listen to. You can tell he was having a great time recording this material and actually does quite well. A very good selection of material and out of all the tracks there were only maybe 2 that I did not particularly care for the arrangement(s), but I would still recommend purchasing this CD.
It is one of which I will never tire of listening (and enjoying). Tip of the hat to Ringo for forging on with the project when there was probably not a lot of encouragement. He did well.

5 out of 5 stars beautiful.......2006-03-16

This is a beautiful album that does just what it implies in the title. It takes you on a sentimental journey of beautiful music and memories of times gone by. Ringo is a talented drummer, but I also love to listen to him sing!

4 out of 5 stars Ringo- the trendsetter.......2006-02-12

Long before it was fashionable for rock stars to record albums of American standards, Ringo released this in 1970. Linda Rondstadt, Boz Scaggs and Rod Stewart were all just getting their "rock" careers started and doing this type of work was many years away for all of them.
As for Ringo's standards, they are well chosen (many would turn up on later standards releases) and well produced by the likes of George Martin, Paul McCartney, and Quincy Jones. Ringo sings them well , maybe surprisingly well to some, and proves he can drum to something other than rock. He hasn't done another set of standards but it would be welcome.

4 out of 5 stars NOSTALGIC RETRO CLASSIC.......2005-03-21

Ringo and Harry (Nilsson) did it long before Rod Stewart's "Great American Songbook" collection. A great song is just that! It lives and thrives as it passes from generation to generation. Call it tradition, call it historic, I call it pure fun even with the archaic electronics which adds to the album's "dated" quality. My mother, God bless her curly permed head, turned me on to some great music! (She would buy the records after I would whine about 'needing' to hear something/anything) This record was easy to get her to buy because of the song selections. It certainly remains a "Sentimental Journey". It was and is a moment in time...the Beatles were passing into the future, Ringo took a look back before moving forward.

4 out of 5 stars With the Beatles kaput, Ringo tentatively goes solo.......2005-02-22

The fact that Ringo Starr is often deemed "the luckiest man in show business" for having joined the Beatles shortly before they were to start conquering the world is quite an apt one. As Ringo himself often claimed, he was never the cracker-jack songwriters his 3 fellow Beatles were (John & Paul were already wonderful, while George struggled a bit before becoming a fabulous songwriter), and often relied on them to write songs for Ringo to sing on Beatles' albums to compensate for his unique, limited voice. When the Beatles disbanded, Ringo was fearful of the future without guys like them to help him along. So when he began work on his first solo album, he opted to go a sort of safe route by covering the classics, songs that were popular before or just after he was born. Hence, 1970's SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.

Ringo wanted to record the album for his parents and relatives, who were always proud of his success, and wanted to pay them back for inspiring his love of music. While Ringo would often call on his former Beatle mates & other famous friends to help him record future efforts, SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY only features a cast of thousands in the arranging department. All of them help a singer like Ringo wrap his voice around songs that may have been recorded numerous times before, but it is always interesting to see which singer is the one giving them a fresh face.

The title track was the song that made Doris Day a huge star, and I'll bet she was proud to hear Ringo acquit himself well on here. The arranger of the moment is Richard Perry, who would graduate to producer on Ringo's first "original" solo albums 1973's RINGO & 1974's GOODNIGHT VIENNA. With the oodles of standards albums that came out last year, it is surprising this one was not as attempted so much as say "Night & Day" or "Stardust" (yes, Ringo would do those, too).

Cole Porter's "Night & Day" was one of his most seductive works, and you would think that Fred Astaire owns this song & nobody else can touch it. Well, that is true in Ringo's case, but again, he does not embarrass himself at all, and with it being the first song he recorded for SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, the tone was probably set for the rest of what came.

"Whispering Grass [Don't Tell The Trees]" is a real diamond in the rough simply for it being one of the least-known tunes on the album. Because of this, Ringo actually manages to make this song one of his own, having a 36-piece orchestra behind him to help out. I wonder if the Ink Spots' original classic was what spurred Ringo to try this one.

Joe Cocker had already done a distinctive version of Eddie Cantor's "Bye Bye Blackbird" the previous year, but Ringo still manages to do the same with a more traditional approach, banjo and all. However, the double-tracking of Ringo's voice does modernize the song a little bit, especially since such a recording trick was pure science-fiction in Cantor's day.

Ted Daffan is one of country music's most underheralded personalities, having been a big star in the 1940s, back when it was still called "hillbilly music". He was also a fine songwriter, with "I'm A Fool To Care" being one of his jewels. Perhaps it was Les Paul & Mary Ford's hit recording that caught Ringo's ear, and encouraged him to try this country-tinged one on for size. Somehow, Ringo's offbeat voice is perfectly suited for this genre.

Where to begin with "Stardust", that Hoagy Carmichael song that is truly the standard of
standards? Surely, Ringo knew he would never steal this song from anyone, least of all, Nat King Cole, whom Hoagy claimed did it the best. However, Ringo has never tried to be earth-shattering with his music, just simply wanting to have fun. If that was the case with his "Stardust", mission accomplished. At least Ringo had Paul McCartney as the arranger in question, with more than a little help from producer George Martin.

Fats Waller's "Blue, Turning Grey Over You" is much more like it, with another lost classic of sorts, and a brassy, swinging approach that finds Ringo succeeding again beyond all expectations. Louis Armstrong had popularized this song, and seeing as he was still alive when Ringo recorded it, I wonder if he dug Ringo's cover of a truly forgotten classic.

The Four Aces' "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" was one of Ringo's favorite songs growing up, as he mentioned in THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY book, so recording this probably was a labor of love for him. With master producer & arranger Quincy Jones at the helm, Ringo again does his best to put his signature on it, getting some ample help from organist Billy Preston & a smaller 16-piece orchestra along the way.

Ringo's delivery of "Good Night" on the WHITE ALBUM showed he could do the "Uncle Ringo" persona with a lullaby to soothe the listener on their way to dreamland. He does so again on Johnny Mercer's "Dream", which also seems to exemplify the easygoing nature of Ringo himself. Even with the Beatles becoming a thing of the past, Ringo could not have been that scared of what he was going to do next. Not when he had old friends like George Martin to arrange this classic.

"You Always Hurt The One You Love" was co-written by Doris Fisher, who also collaborated on "Whispering Grass", and here Ringo gets a bit more melancholy with a song that is the polar opposite of the one coming after this. However, the much more upbeat instrumentation is rather jarring, making for an ill fit. Perhaps the only song on here that does not succeed totally.

"Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" is my favorite entry on SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY because, this time around, a peppy lyric is matched wonderfully with an equally-so arrangement by the late film composer Elmer Bernstein. Ringo's enthusiasm is beyond infectious, and I bet he enjoyed particularly the ending with the violin and bird noises. Cute!

SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY then heads for home with "Let The Rest Of The World Go By", written by Ernest Ball of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" fame. Obviously, Ringo is no Dick Haymes, though they have similarly deep voices, but Ringo still creates an appropriate sense of contentment with a song again playing to his real-life happy-go-lucky attitude, albeit with a more sedate arrangement that still manages to fit.

Ringo Starr would continue going the covers route on his follow-up of country greats BEAUCOUP OF BLUES (1970), so even if he was unsure of what to do after the four-headed monster of the Beatles separated, he was at least not going to stay idle. Although Ringo did begin work on his song "It Don't Come Easy" during the sessions with George Martin producing, that version remained unreleased, and when released as a single the next year, it would be a complete overhaul from what I have heard. While Ringo's post-Beatles solo career would not really get underway for 3 more years, SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY shows that Ringo was at least going to succeed on his enthusiasm and his aim to keep working somehow or another. In the end, I am sure Ringo's parents were prouder still to see their song sing the songs they enjoyed for a change.
Most Beautiful Melodies of the Century: Sentimental Journey
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  • Great music
Most Beautiful Melodies of the Century: Sentimental Journey
Various Artists
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ASIN: B00000I58O
Release Date: 1999-05-18

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  1. Sentimental Journey - Les Brown And His Orchestra
  2. Always
  3. Theme From 'Terms Of Endearment'
  4. Can You Feel The Love Tonight? - Floyd Cramer
  5. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons - Romantic Strings And Orchestra
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  7. Killing Me Softly With His Song
  8. Theme From 'Love Story' (Where Do I Begin) - Henry Mancini
  9. The Wind Beneath My Wings - Roger Williams
  10. We're All Alone
  11. (I've Had) The time Of My Life
  12. Yesteday Once More

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great music .......2007-05-06

Reader's Digest has put together great songs and used th best orchestras to play them.
Sentimental Journey
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A Classic Swan Song
  • And what a great journey it is
  • We miss you dear Rosie!
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 Sentimental Journey
Rosemary Clooney
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ASIN: B00005MKGD
Release Date: 2001-08-14

Tracks:

  1. That Old Black Magic
  2. I'm Glad There Is You
  3. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
  4. You Go To My Head
  5. And The Angels Sing
  6. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
  7. I'm The Big Band Singer
  8. You Belong To Me
  9. I'll Be Around
  10. I've Got The Right To Sing The Blues
  11. Ya Got Class
  12. Rockin' Chair
  13. The Singer
  14. They Can't Take That Away From Me
  15. Sentimental Journey
  16. I Cried For You/Who's Sorry Now?/Goody Goody (Medley)

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Rosemary Clooney's renaissance on Concord continues with Sentimental Journey, her 20th-plus disc for the label. This set of standards and two new set pieces recalls her pre-"Come-On a My House" days while asserting her ongoing strength at 73. Clooney moves from various shades of romance ("That Old Black Magic," "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe") to a display of comic timing ("Ya Got Class") that suggests she could've developed a second career on the "legitimate" stage. Supple solos by Matt Cowan (tenor sax) and bandleader Matt Catingub (alto) bring further depth to the likes of "And the Angels Sing" and "You Belong to Me." The single most affecting track, though, is an "I'll Be Around" that finds Clooney accompanied by Catingub's solo piano--a finer tribute to Frank Sinatra, who defined the song on In the Wee Small Hours, than the two stolid odes to him and the craft. --Rickey Wright

Album Description

Subtitled - The Girl Singer and Her New Big Band with Big Kahuna and the Copa Cat Pack. This project grew out of Clooney's month-long residence at Feinstein's at New York's Regency Hotel, where she was accompanied by Matt Catingub's band with the funny, sassy Latin name. Catingub's been a busy musician in Hawaii for years, & his 12-piece outfit is a perfect fit for Clooney's crisp, deliberate style. He's in good company considering that she's shared stages with Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, & Woody Herman. The centerpiece is the title track, which longtime pianist/arranger John Oddo created to maximize intimacy, punctuated by big brassy exclamation points between verses. Concord Jazz. 2001.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Classic Swan Song.......2005-09-17

Tremendous final effort by Rosemary Clooney, returning to her big band roots. Wonderful selection of songs, which she performs in her brilliant, insightful style.

5 out of 5 stars And what a great journey it is.......2003-07-11

This is yet another outstanding CD by the great Rosemary Clooney! Her voice, smooth as silk, takes us on a journey back in time to the world of big bands and girl singers. Among the best tracks on this collection are AND THE ANGELS SING, HAPPINESS IS JUST A THING CALLED JOE, and, of course, the title track. Her talent is amazing and I certainly miss her!
This is a must for any Rosemary Clooney fan!

5 out of 5 stars We miss you dear Rosie!.......2002-08-15

Like so many of her fans, the passing of this legendary vocalist hit me very hard.

I was listening to the bulk of this CD at work and realized what a great talent Rosie truly was. In this Grammy-nominated effort, she demonstrated her magnificent way with a lyric, and the song selection (backed by Matt Catingub's solid Big Kahuna band) was first-rate. Loved the duet with Matt on "Ya Got Class!!!"

Ms. Clooney knew the intent of a song and was musically true to each composer's work, in her own fashion. Sadly, there aren't many of the great interpreters of classic pop singing - Tony Bennett, Steve and Eydie, Robert Goulet, and so on - left.

5 out of 5 stars Talk about a velvet voice ..........2002-07-10

Listened to this CD and absolutely enjoyed it. Almost felt as if I were sitting at a table in some nightclub, watching her as well. Well done!

5 out of 5 stars ROSIE WILL DEFINITELY BE MISSED.......2002-07-01

Like all other Rosemary Clooney fans, I was deeply saddened over the weekend when I put the radio on & one of the headline news stories mentioned her passing after a battle with lung cancer. I feel as if I've lost a good friend & now I find myself pulling out just about all of her albums(due in part to the fact that there is no longer any NY radio station that plays American Popular Standards). Hopefully sometime in the near future we will see more collections(especially boxed sets)of even more of Rosie's wonderful music. Let's not forget come Christmas time to watch the classic film White Christmas-it will have even more meaning this year. Rest In Peace, old friend, I am sure you are having a blast up there with your sister Betty, as well as dear friends like Bing, Frank, Dean, Perry & many others of their ilk. Heaven must have one helluva chorus, especially with the addition of latest member, Rosemary Clooney. This music MUST be collected & preserved, so whether you've been a fan for many years or just discovering Rosie's music, at least you can take heart in knowing there is a huge treasure trove of music to choose from. Very highly recommended!
Sentimental Journey: Live at the University of New Orleans
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 Sentimental Journey: Live at the University of New Orleans
Fats Domino
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ASIN: B000HT1WTM
Release Date: 2007-03-13

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  1. I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday 2.25
  2. I'm Walking 2.52
  3. Ain't That A Shame 2.22
  4. The Fat Man 2.28
  5. I Wanna Walk You Home 2.39
  6. Walking To New Orleans 3.06
  7. Your Cheating Heart 3.24
  8. Please Don't Leave 3.44
  9. Whiskey Heaven 3.30
  10. Going To The River 2.34
  11. What A Price 2.12
  12. Poor Me 3.04
  13. Jambalaya 8.58

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  1. Blueberry Hill 2.32
  2. My Girl Josephine 1.53
  3. Let The Four Winds Blow 6.50
  4. Margie 2.04
  5. Another Mule Kicking In Your Stall 5.12
  6. I'm In Love Again 3.32
  7. Rosemary 2.42
  8. Valley Of Tears 2.45
  9. The Sheik Of Araby 1.52
  10. I'm In The Mood For Love 2.54
  11. Mardi Gras In New Orleans 2.16
  12. When The Saints Go Marching In 3.53
  13. Sentimental Journey 5.12

Album Description

In the spring of 1986, Fats Domino was one of the first inductees into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and Rolling Stone journalist Kurt Loder noted, 'Domino was an unabashed apostle of fun and good feelings . . . His lusciously slurred delivery, set atop a classic Crescent City musical base thick with saxophones and clumps of block-chord piano, created an atmosphere of foot-tapping amiability. Fats seldom deviated from this patented style but the style itself was endlessly appealing.' It was as Loder wrote, 'the distinct sound of a city'. And that city was New Orleans. Sentimental Journey features 16 hits, recorded live at The University of New Orleans in 1987!

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5 out of 5 stars Very Satified with purchase.......2007-05-13

I have been buying music from Amazon for a long time and have been very satisfied with the products I have purchased I will continue to buy fron them . They are tops in my opinion. Alfred Vann
Sentimental Journey, Vol. 2
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Good selection of late '40s/early '50s material
  • 2nd CD in an essential series
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ASIN: B00000330R
Release Date: 1993-06-15

Tracks:

  1. Far Away Places - Bing Crosby
  2. Manana (Is Soon Enough For Me) - Peggy Lee
  3. Love Somebody - Doris Day & Buddy Clark
  4. Buttons And Bows - Dinah Shore & Her Happy Valley Boys
  5. Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend) - Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra
  6. The Tennessee Waltz - Patti Page
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  8. That's My Desire - Frankie Laine
  9. A Little Bird Told Me - Evelyn Knight & The Stardusters
  10. Again - Mel Torme
  11. If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake - Eileen Barton
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  14. A Tree In The Meadow - Margaret Whiting
  15. Goodnight Irene - Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra/The Weavers
  16. Music! Music! Music! - Teresa Brewer
  17. Mam'selle - Art Lund
  18. Linda - Buddy Clark

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Good selection of late '40s/early '50s material.......2004-07-02

The period covered by this CD is a little strange; 1947 to 1950, so the earliest part of the fifties is included as well as most of the last half of the forties. But in fact, 1947 to 1957 was a unified period in popular music, so even if this collection doesn't mesh with the "decades" popular in classifying music, it's a reasonable period to cover. My own introduction to popular music came in 1948, so this CD contains many of the earliest memories I have of pop songs. This collection includes some of the best (even though a couple were already in my collection via other CDs I've ordered recently, but that's hard to avoid!)- every one of these a big hit in the 1947-1950 period that it covers.

This is an excellent collection for people interested in the post-Big Band, pre-Rock'n'Roll era of music.

5 out of 5 stars 2nd CD in an essential series.......2003-11-17

The entire four-CD series "Sentimental Journey" changed my life. These are all worth owning for the liner notes alone, which illuminate the era of big vocalists in American pop music, and these CDs run the gamut from ridiculous to sublime. On the ridiculous side, it's hard to imagine that "Love Somebody" or "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" were ever hits, but I have grown to love them specifically for their awkwardness. On the sublime side, Bing Crosby's "Far Away Places" and Patti Page's "Tennessee Waltz" (a song that refers to itself!) are classics, and all the cuts sound pristine. Bonus trivia: the song "Linda" is about Linda McCartney.
Stage Door Canteen Disc 2
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    		Stage Door Canteen Disc 2
    frankie carle , les brown , doris day , franck sinatra , merry macs , al dexter and his troopers , the ink spots , benny goodman , mills brothers , and glenn miller etc
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