Poor Little Rich Girl

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Album Description
UK compilation for one of Hollywood's most enduring icons. 40 tracks, '(Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You', 'When You Wore A Tulip', 'In-Between', 'Over The Rainbow', 'Love', 'Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis', 'I'm Just Wild About Harry', 'F.D.R. Jones', 'A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow', 'The Trolley Song', 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas', 'Friendship', 'For Me And My Gal', 'Fly Me To The Moon', 'I'm Always Chasing Rainbows', 'But Not For Me', 'That Old Black Magic', 'Poor Little Rich Girl', 'Sweet Sixteen', 'I've Got Rhythm', 'The Boy Next Door', 'On The Atchison , Topeka And The Santa Fe', 'Embraceable You', 'Waltz With A Swing/Americana', 'Easy To Love', 'Down On Melody Farm', 'Sun Showers', 'D'Ya Love Me', 'I'm Nobody's Baby', 'Got A Pair Of New Shoes', 'Yours And Mine', 'Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart', 'Ten Pins In The Sky', 'The Joint Is Really Jumpin' Down At Carnegie Hall', 'All I Do

Tracks:

Where Are The Songs We Sung?
Mrs. Worthington
A Room With A View
Josephine
Poor Little Rich Girl
Parisian Pierrot
You Were There
Medley: I Travel Alone
Why Does Love Get In The Way?
Never Again
If Love Were All
Matelot
Sigh No More
I Saw No Shadow On The Sea
Dance, Little Lady
Uncle Harry
The Party's Over Now

Customer Reviews:

Unsurpassed vocal artistry!.......1999-08-14

These selected Noël Coward songs are beautifully rendered. Mr. Conrad's singing is unique and of an artistic caliber seldom heard in any genre let alone in popular and stage music. He sings as if he's lived these songs, all the wit and pathos of Coward's writing manifested with immediacy and heart. Mr. Merrill's piano accompaniment is also wonderful. Listen to the enticing play with rhythm that occurs between these two artist. This album will last. I only wish there were many more like it.

Richard Conrads singing is heavenly.......1999-06-14

The Beautiful Melodies of Richard Conrad make these Noel Coward songs so wonderful. I just loved it!

Noel Coward without Noel.......1999-06-10

Coward was not only a clever chap with lyrics ("Mad Dogs and Englishmen") and now and then with a hauntingly beautiful melody ("Some Day I'll Find You"), but he was also a masterful interpreter of his own songs. On this Newport offering, we must be content with Richard Conrad, a pleasant singer who makes this Coward-sans-Coward concert very easy to take. Running a little short at 52:04 minutes, this CD gives us 17 tracks of vintage and not so vintage Coward that is a wonderful salute to the man by "the acclaimed Coward stylist...in celebration of Sir Noel's 100th birthday" (as the liner notes say). With a capable piano accompaniment, Conrad's delivery is well sung (perhaps a bit too well, compared with Coward's famous non-singer delivery); but as with most offerings of this kind, do not attempt the whole disc at one hearing. Perhaps someone will put out a "Sons of Gilbert" program with Coward, Porter, Wodehouse, and Larry Hart lyrics. Perhaps.

A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1

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The style is the man--and the song

A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1

Manufacturer: Naxos
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Mad Dogs & Englishmen: Complete Recordings, Vol. 2
Mad About the Boy: Complete Recordings, Vol. 3
Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence
The Queen

ASIN: B000054BF6
Release Date: 2001-04-17

Tracks:

This Year Of Grace: Dance, Little Lady
This Year Of Grace: A Room With A View
This Year Of Grace: Mary Make-Believe
This Year Of Grace: Try To Learn To Love
This Year Of Grace: Lorelei
A Dream Of Youth (The Dream Is Over)
Bitter Sweet: Zigeuner
This Year Of Grace: World Weary
Private Lives, Act 1, Love Scene: Someday I'll Find You
Private Lives, Act 2, Scene: I Never Realised/If You Were The Only Girl In The World
Half-Caste Woman
Any Little Fish
Cavalcade: Lover Of My Dreams (Mirabelle Valse)
Cavalcade Vocal Medley: Soldiers Of The Queen/Goodbye Dolly Gray/Lover Of My Dreams/I Do Like To...
Cavalcade, Epilogue: Toast To England
Noel Coward Medley: Parisian Pierrot/Poor Little Rich Girl/A Room With A View/Dance Little Lady...

Customer Reviews:

The style is the man--and the song.......2001-05-02

Many composers have chosen to perform their own material and commit it to discs, with mixed results. Only with Noel Coward do we feel that a good deal of the charm of his numbers lies in the very way he performs them. For proof, we now have the Naxos Nostalgia (8.120529), which dishes up 16 tracks of the ultra-refined son of W. S.Gilbert, giving us six selections from "This Year of Grace," one from "Bittersweet," a medley of treasures from his "Cavalcade," another from his other works, and a few other trifles that are better than most of what is written today.

Add to all this two classical scenes with Coward and co-star Gertrude Lawrence from his "Private Lives," incredibly valuable for those local drama groups who butcher this work in that this CD can teach them the tone and rhythms that are essential in making this classic succeed.

The subtitle of this set is "The Complete Recordings, Volume 1: 1928-1932." So we can look forward to future offerings featuring this fascinating composer-lyricist-performer. Thank you, Naxos, yet again.

Noel Coward Songbook
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a voice teacher and early music fan

Mad dogs and an Englishman called Ian

Coward the Composer, Quite Charming without the Camp

COWARD'S THEATRE SONGS

Noel Coward Songbook
Ian Bostridge
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Schubert: Winterreise

ASIN: B00006HM8Z
Release Date: 2002-09-17

Tracks:

I Travel Alone
Parisian Pierrot
Poor Little Rich Girl
World Weary
Mary Make-Believe
A Room With A View
Dance, Little Lady
If You Could Only Come With Me
I'll See You Again
Zigeuner
The Dream Is Over
Any Little Fish
Twentieth Century Blues
Mad Dogs And Englishmen
Let's Say Good-bye
Something To Do With Spring
The Party's Over Now
Someday I'll Find You
Never Again

Customer Reviews:

a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-03-25

I have always admired the nonchalant and somewhat dry humor of Noel Coward lyrics, not to mention the interesting twists and turns that his music often takes, I admire Ian Bostridge for attempting his songs and doing a "bang-up" job of it! A quote from Ian Bostridge prior to making this recording:"My first concern while contemplating a disc of Noel Corward songs was finding a voice for them,,,,,,We need to remember that, in Coward, we have not only a formidable playwright and screenwriter, but also the English equivalent of Irving Berlin or Cole Porter". After I heard this from Bostridge (on an interview on ABC) I began to appreciate the songs much more than previously.There is much philosophising going on as in "I Travel Alone" and some are quite humorous as in "Mad Dogs and Englishmen". One has to listen more than once to get it all, but it's worth the time. And I definately think that Ian found the voice to sing them.Do I prefer Bostridge singing classical??Of course!!!!!But I still enjoy a break now and then and I'll take this disc for that reason.

Mad dogs and an Englishman called Ian .......2005-09-02

I must say that I approached this album as a fan of Ian rather than Noel Coward (and admittedly still don't really have a good idea of who the man is). So in terms of Ian's singing, I like it a lot. He has a wonderfully dextrous voice and a clear tone, complemented by Jeffrey Tate on the piano and the soprano Sophie Daneman for several numbers.

Generally I find myself unable to appreciate the work of classical singers who do crossover albums, but Ian is an exception. It has been said elsewhere that he may lack a robustness in his voice, but here in fact, one would not wish for an overpowering tenor. He isn't at all overblown, unlike many other singers in crossovers. The lightness of his voice lends a kind of intimacy to these recordings, as if he were singing in a café or an at-home musical evening.

The material is, of course, a departure from Schubert, &c., but he handles it well. However, I do think that he has a better emotional feel for the 19th century German romanticists and the 20th century British classical composers (i.e. Britten). This recording is pleasant but it seems to me to lack the emotional depth of Ian's Schumann in particular - a perceived deficiency that might lie with the composer Coward rather than the performer.

I like to listen to this CD when I want to listen to Ian sing, but am not in the mood for his more serious/depressing recordings (a la Schubert & Britten). The lyrics are pretty inane, the same goes for the songs themselves - melodically speaking - but Ian makes them special. So four stars.

Coward the Composer, Quite Charming without the Camp.......2002-11-18

I love this CD. I have a collection of Noel Coward performing his major songs, and I found it entertaining, but frankly I was never much drawn to it after the initial novelty wore off. I never really appreciated Coward as a composer because his campy persona and limited vocal talents got in the way. I bought this CD as a gift for a big Coward fan, and I am ashamed that I have not yet given it to him because I enjoy it so much. Bostridge is a really fine tenor. The beauty and subtlety of his voice bring out the beauty of Coward's melodies and the wit of his lyrics without overwhelming them with a heavy and mannered "classical" style, which is the bane of most such "crossover" CDs. The CD is also beautifully recorded. Outstanding songs include "I Travel Alone," "Parisian Pierrot," "World Weary," and "A Room with a View." Bostridge also has just the right touch with the goofier songs like "Mad Dogs and Englishmen," "Something to do with Spring," and "Any Little Fish." I highly recommend this CD to anyone who enjoys witty cabaret songs in general and Coward in particular. It really did give me a new and greater appreciation of Coward's considerable talents as a composer.

COWARD'S THEATRE SONGS.......2002-09-30

Sometimes musical artists should NOT attempt cross-over albums. I am a huge fan of Jessye Norman, Leontyne Price and Joan Sutherland, but their ventures into "popular" music were, at best, misguided and, at worst, heavy-handed and pretentious. Although Ian Bostridge does not embarrass himself, there is no question that he should stick to more "serious" music and leave musical comedy to other singers.

Tracks:

(Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You
When You Wore A Tulip
In-Between
Over The Rainbow
Love
Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis
I'm Just Wild About Harry
F.D.R. Jones
A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
The Trolley Song
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Friendship
For Me And My Gal
Fly Me To The Moon
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
But Not For Me
That Old Black Magic
Poor Little Rich Girl
Sweet Sixteen
I've Got Rhythm

Tracks:

The Boy Next Door
On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe
Embraceable You
Waltz With A Swing/Americana
Easy To Love (Porter)
Down On Melody Farm
Sun Showers
D'Ya Love Me
I'm Nobody's Baby
Got A Pair Of New Shoes
Yours And Mine
Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
Ten Pins In The Sky
The Joint Is Really Jumpin' Down At Carnegie Hall
All I Do Is Dream Of You
Your Broadway And My Broadway
Meet The Beat Of My Heart
Alone
Ever Since The World Began/Shall I Sing A Melody?
On The Bumpy Road To Love

Album Description

UK compilation for one of Hollywood's most enduring icons. 40 tracks, '(Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You', 'When You Wore A Tulip', 'In-Between', 'Over The Rainbow', 'Love', 'Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis', 'I'm Just Wild About Harry', 'F.D.R. Jones', 'A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow', 'The Trolley Song', 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas', 'Friendship', 'For Me And My Gal', 'Fly Me To The Moon', 'I'm Always Chasing Rainbows', 'But Not For Me', 'That Old Black Magic', 'Poor Little Rich Girl', 'Sweet Sixteen', 'I've Got Rhythm', 'The Boy Next Door', 'On The Atchison , Topeka And The Santa Fe', 'Embraceable You', 'Waltz With A Swing/Americana', 'Easy To Love', 'Down On Melody Farm', 'Sun Showers', 'D'Ya Love Me', 'I'm Nobody's Baby', 'Got A Pair Of New Shoes', 'Yours And Mine', 'Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart', 'Ten Pins In The Sky', 'The Joint Is Really Jumpin' Down At Carnegie Hall', 'All I Do

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding compilation of Judy's lovely music.......2002-09-02

This British budget compilation is far better than it's budget status would suggest. The only flaw (if there is one) is that there is no information about the actual recordings, though the liner notes do provide a reasonable biography for those unfamiliar with Judy's story. However, all the essential songs are here and plenty more besides - forty tracks in all.

To name just a few of the classics here - When you wore a tulip, Over the rainbow, For me and my gal, On the Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fe, I'm nobody's baby, Zing went the strings of my heart - so many wonderful songs, all sung beautifully by Judy in her crystal clear voice, which still sounds great sixty years or so later, despite the limitations of recording techology back then.

If you are unfamiliar with Judy's music, this is a great place to start. If you already have some, check the track listing. As there are so many great songs here (and not just those I named), you may still want this collection.

To anybody who enjoys music by the great ladies of the thirties and forties, Judy Garland is essential. At the price (even the American import price), you won't find a better compilation than this - it's great value for money.

Poor Little Rich Girl
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Poor Little Rich Girl

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000T9DDLK
Release Date: 2007-08-07

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Poor Little Rich Girl

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Binding: Audio CD

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