Cybill: Songs from the Cybill Show

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
While Cybill Shepherd is best known as a model and actess, she is also an accomplished singer. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Cybill started singing with her church choir at age eight, and began studying voice at sixteen. She has performed sold out concerts blending rock, blues, ballads and standards. Cybill has recorded seven albums, including Mad About The Boy AKA Cybill Getz Better with Stan Getz and Vanilla with Phineas Newborn, Jr., and Somewhere Down The Road, featuring the title cut with Peabo Bryson. Her recent CD, Talk Memphis To Me, a musical homecoming inspired by the sounds of Memphis, is Cybill's proudest musical endeavor. Cybill's latest release Cybill: Songs From The Cybill Show is a collection of songs and comedy soundbites from her hit sitcom Cybill. Currently Cybill performs her cabaret act to audiences across the country.

Album Description
Cybill Shepherd is at her comedic best with this collection of songs and soundbites from her hit sitcom Cybill. It's a definite "must have" for Cybill show fans.

Liner Notes: by Cybill Shepherd

"Nice Work If You Can Get It" has always been one of my favorite songs written by George Gershwin. I had to fight to use it as the Cybill Show theme song because my co-producers wanted me to do Peggy Lee's "I'm A Woman" instead. "Toasted Chickies" was the first of numerous bogus radio spots I would sing on the show. On this one, I got a job imitating a chicken for a snack food jingle. It didn't go so well! "Funny How Time Slips Away" is from the last episode of the first season when my first ex-husband Ira wanted to reconcile with me and my second ex-husband Jeff wanted whoever he could get. Burt Reynolds and everybody else just wanted a big bar fight. "Granny's Snack Cakes" was another snack food jingle, but this time I'm an angel on roller skates. Listen and you'll hear the skates just before I fly into the willing arms of a local union member. "Secret Love" is a great song to frame the montage of date scenes with my brief and secret fling for two episodes, played by Chad Everett. It's an old favorite that I've sung for years. I actually had no trouble getting the producers to put it in the show, maybe because I wasn't singing on camera. Thanks to Ronald Reagan we now know that ketchup is a vegetable, and on "Coulson's Vegetable Soup" I get to play a life-size tuber. It was an eighteen carrot performance. In "That's Life" I dance on a sushi bar and finish a performance I started twenty-some years earlier. As a scantily clad island babe, my "Twin Coconuts" steal the show. I use my chest voice so well. Maryann and I prove that "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" when we venture to Japan and cavort with the repressed wife of a Japanese CEO and a very large Sumo wrestler who has a crush on me (not literally!). The studio insisted that I sing the exact Japanese translation provided by the music publisher. I have included that version here. However, the studio decided not to include my Japanese singing in the episode because they feared a lawsuit from the publisher. Why? Judge for yourself. Maryann gets a whole lot more "Respect" when I impersonate her at her high school reunion. Although I was flushed with anticipation, my career was going down the pipes when I took a job as a singing toilet and sang "The Potty Song". But later that same episode things were looking up as I get to belt out a rousing high B-flat on "St. Louis Blues" at a local club. I just sang a few phrases of "One Boy" in the third show of the fourth season, but here is the full version of the song. "Hi De Diddle" is a bawdy song from a dream sequence where time, gender and familial relations are totally skewed. This acoustic version of "Talk Memphis To Me" was intended to go with some wonderful video footage the network refused to air. "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" was to have been my swan song, my farewell to my fans, but it was cut out of the last episode by the studio. For the details, read my upcoming book, Cybill Disobedience to be published by Harper Collins late 99. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" was way too expensive to use in the foreign version or syndication so I came up with "Gonna Make It" as an alternative. I have no idea if they are actually using "Gonna Make It" in the foreign version as I've never seen my show outside the USA. They tell me the chances of syndicating the show are slim. Oh well, I guess I won't be able to afford that ranch after all. Yes folks once again, the Cybill Show theme song, "Nice Work If You Can Get It".

A Personal Note From Cybill Shepherd:

Dear Fans, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to entertain you. I'm grateful for every one of the 87 episodes of the Cybill show. I would like to have done 87 more but it probably would have killed me.

Love, Cybill

Tracks:

Nice Work If You Can Get It
Toasted Chickies
Funny How Time Slips Away
Granny's Snack Cakes
Secret Love
Coulson's Vegetable Soup
That's Life
Twin Coconuts
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Respect
The Potty Song
St. Louis Blues
One Boy
Hi-De-Diddle
Talk Memphis To Me
Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
Gonna Make It
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Reprise)

Album Description

Cybill Shepherd is at her comedic best with this collection of songs and soundbites from her hit sitcom Cybill. It's a definite "must have" for Cybill show fans.

Liner Notes: by Cybill Shepherd

"Nice Work If You Can Get It" has always been one of my favorite songs written by George Gershwin. I had to fight to use it as the Cybill Show theme song because my co-producers wanted me to do Peggy Lee's "I'm A Woman" instead. "Toasted Chickies" was the first of numerous bogus radio spots I would sing on the show. On this one, I got a job imitating a chicken for a snack food jingle. It didn't go so well! "Funny How Time Slips Away" is from the last episode of the first season when my first ex-husband Ira wanted to reconcile with me and my second ex-husband Jeff wanted whoever he could get. Burt Reynolds and everybody else just wanted a big bar fight. "Granny's Snack Cakes" was another snack food jingle, but this time I'm an angel on roller skates. Listen and you'll hear the skates just before I fly into the willing arms of a local union member. "Secret Love" is a great song to frame the montage of date scenes with my brief and secret fling for two episodes, played by Chad Everett. It's an old favorite that I've sung for years. I actually had no trouble getting the producers to put it in the show, maybe because I wasn't singing on camera. Thanks to Ronald Reagan we now know that ketchup is a vegetable, and on "Coulson's Vegetable Soup" I get to play a life-size tuber. It was an eighteen carrot performance. In "That's Life" I dance on a sushi bar and finish a performance I started twenty-some years earlier. As a scantily clad island babe, my "Twin Coconuts" steal the show. I use my chest voice so well. Maryann and I prove that "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" when we venture to Japan and cavort with the repressed wife of a Japanese CEO and a very large Sumo wrestler who has a crush on me (not literally!). The studio insisted that I sing the exact Japanese translation provided by the music publisher. I have included that version here. However, the studio decided not to include my Japanese singing in the episode because they feared a lawsuit from the publisher. Why? Judge for yourself. Maryann gets a whole lot more "Respect" when I impersonate her at her high school reunion. Although I was flushed with anticipation, my career was going down the pipes when I took a job as a singing toilet and sang "The Potty Song". But later that same episode things were looking up as I get to belt out a rousing high B-flat on "St. Louis Blues" at a local club. I just sang a few phrases of "One Boy" in the third show of the fourth season, but here is the full version of the song. "Hi De Diddle" is a bawdy song from a dream sequence where time, gender and familial relations are totally skewed. This acoustic version of "Talk Memphis To Me" was intended to go with some wonderful video footage the network refused to air. "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" was to have been my swan song, my farewell to my fans, but it was cut out of the last episode by the studio. For the details, read my upcoming book, Cybill Disobedience to be published by Harper Collins late 99. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" was way too expensive to use in the foreign version or syndication so I came up with "Gonna Make It" as an alternative. I have no idea if they are actually using "Gonna Make It" in the foreign version as I've never seen my show outside the USA. They tell me the chances of syndicating the show are slim. Oh well, I guess I won't be able to afford that ranch after all. Yes folks once again, the Cybill Show theme song, "Nice Work If You Can Get It".

A Personal Note From Cybill Shepherd:

Dear Fans, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to entertain you. I'm grateful for every one of the 87 episodes of the Cybill show. I would like to have done 87 more but it probably would have killed me.

Love, Cybill

Customer Reviews:

Cybill Show Fans Rejoice.......2002-06-05

This "soundtrack" if you will is such a wonderful remembrance of this fun short-lived sitcom starring Cybill Shepherd. I love the fact that they added the little commercials that her character "Cybill Sheridan" made to makes ends meet, throughout this CD. I can visualize each and everyone as I hear them again and occasionally find myself laughing out loud at work much to my co-workers surprise I'm sure! If you were/are a fan of this great sitcom (currently shown on the Oxygen channel by the way) you will enjoy every song on this CD. I highly recommend this to buyers. P.S. I don't know if "Talk Memphis to Me" ever became the "theme song" for Tennessee but if it hasn't it certainly should be, it's absolutely beautiful like the singer herself.

Play this and reminisce on Cybill: The Sitcom.........2002-02-14

Play this and reminisce on Cybill: The Sitcom, as this is the soundtrack to her popular U.S television show with songs and classic soundbites included.

With lots of strong & varied styles the whole CD gels together beautifully giving you an 18 track delight to enjoy over and over which is exactly what I have done since getting this.

It's hard to have favourites as Cybill sings a long list of classic songs but the shows signature tune NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT is a polished piece of perfection, with AIN'T IT FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY being fun, SECRET LOVE is a slick swingy make-over of the Doris Day hit, as for Sinatra's THAT'S LIFE I have waited for this one since she performed it live on U.K television, RESPECT is high with attitude. As for Cybill's self penned tear jerker TALK MEMPHIS TO ME it is an absolute stunner, don't confuse this new gospel version to the one cut for her 1998 album.

Stephen...

Play this and reminisce on Cybill: The Sitcom.........2002-02-14

Play this and reminisce on Cybill: The Sitcom, as this is the soundtrack to her popular U.S television show with songs and classic soundbites included.

With lots of strong & varied styles the whole CD gels together beautifully giving you an 18 track delight to enjoy over and over which is exactly what I have done since getting this.

Absolutely fabulous!!.......1999-10-17

A must have for any Cybill fan. Her rendition of "That's Life" blows me away. This CD contains songs performed on Cybill's sitcom and brings back great memories of what a hilariously funny show it was.

First Class Music and Entertainment.......1999-07-21

Cybill does it again: this is the most creative, versatile and funny album I know. Very entertaining, it stands on its own and lifts your spirits. Moreover, the music is a great tribute to the Cybill Show. Recomendable not only for all fans of Cybill but also for those of great music!

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