Goody for You

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About the Artist
Band members:
Jerry Grillo--Vocals
Lynne Arriale--Piano
Steve Davis--Drums
Tom Wakeling--Bass

Album Description
Jazz Vocal with Piano, Bass, and Drums

Tracks:

Overture
Bored with Widowhood
Letting in the Sunshine
Revuedeville
Persuading Tommy
Sweet Inspiration
Vivian Van Damm
Goody Goody
After the Ball
Shilling for the Hour
Joyride
Fall of France: La Marseillaise
Blitz: Bombing/The Grecian Frieze/Defiance
Babies of the Blitz
Blue Nightfall
Girl in the Fan
All the Things You Are
Elegy
Sails of the Windmill
Girl in the Little Green Hat

Customer Reviews:

Mrs Henderson Presents.......2007-05-16

A very enjoyable and at times funny movie. Judi Dench gives one of her best perfomances with excellent support from the other cast members. This is a movie one could watch several times and never tire of it. AAA+++

Absolutely infectious!!!.......2007-03-28

From start to finish, MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS is the finest collection of solid standards and George Fenton's own recreated time-period evocations,fully fleshed and skillfully performed and recorded.The talents of singer Will Young will not go unnoticed, especially in his heartbreaking rendition of ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE.Your toes will be tapping,your lips will be smiling and you will be glad that this soundtrack and wonderful film are yours!You will be transported to WW2 England and you will be humming these tunes day and night.

A Creation and Recreation of Nostalgia.......2006-04-23

George Fenton has put together a musical score for the completely delightful MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS that is a combination of original music deeply influenced by the time of the film (London during WW II) and some of the best 'old favorite songs' from that time. In the film the music is always present, whether in the performances on the Windmill Theater stage or in the lyricism of the acting by Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins and crew.

Fenton includes such terrific oldies as Johnny Mercer's 'Goody Goody', Charles Harris' 'After the Ball', Noel Gay's 'Letting in the Sunshine', Frank Loesser's 'Blue Nightfall', and Jerome Kern's 'All the things you are'. He segues these pieces with his own fine orchestrations and the result is a score that not only enhances the mood of the film, but one that stands alone as a recording. The various performers include Camille O'Sullivan, Charlene Ford, Ciaran Connolly, Elise Audeyev, Frances Garvey, Frank Lawson, Joseph McMurray, Kate Power, Matthew Hart, Melody Squire, Rachel Lawrence, Sir Thomas Allen!, Sophie Brown, The O'Brien Sisters, Vanessa Barmby, Vicki Davids, and Victoria Hay.

This is a recording to conjure up memories not only of a successful film but also of a time when music conveyed a lot of emotion during times of stress. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, April 06

Mrs. Henderson Presents.......2006-03-24

Met ALL my expectations, having seen/loved the film - especially the orchestration, arrangements, and vocals. Sound quality superb.
I've played this CD for others - of all age groups - all agree it's a defininte winner.

Upbeat and Fun!.......2006-03-22

Love this CD for the nostalgia! My favorite track is "All the Things You Are" by J.Kern and O.Hammerstein. This year's Oscar telecast produced a montage of film clips to this track including the last scene from "Mrs. Henderson Presents" and it was so emotion granting as is the song. Many of the other songs are from a time period right before WWII, but they are just fun and upbeat -- it was the depression, people needed to be uplifted with such such songs as "Letting in the Sunshine" and "Goody Goody." Judi Dench was asked by someone in the bleachers at the Oscars how it felt to be nominated this year for Mrs. Henderson, and she answered back, "just listen to the soundtrack darling!" How great is that???!!!!

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Enchanting folk songs (taken a few at a time)
A Must For All Britten Admirers

Britten: Folk Song Arrangements
Felicity Lott , Philip Langridge , Christopher van Kampen , Benjamin Britten , Carlos Bonell , and Graham Johnson
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Bryn Terfel - The Vagabond & other songs by Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Finzi & Ireland
English Song Series 3

ASIN: B0007ORDUE
Release Date: 2005-03-22

Tracks:

The Salley Gardens
Little Sir William
The Bonny Earl O' Moray
O Can Y Sew Cushions?
The Trees They Grow So High
The Ash Grove
Oliver Cromwell
Greensleeves - Philip Langridge
I Wonder As I Wander - Philip Langridge
The Crocodile - Philip Langridge
The Plough Boy
There's One To Soothe
Sweet Polly Oliver
The Miller Of Dee
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
O Waly, Waly
Come You Not From Newcastle?
Pray Goody - Philip Langridge
The Brisk Young Widow
Sally In Our Alley
The Lincolnshire Poacher
Early One Morning
Ca' The Yowes
The Holly And The Ivy
Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?
The Deaf Woman's Courtship

Tracks:

Avengin And Bright
Sail On, Sail On
How Sweet The Answer
The Minstrel Boy
At The Mid Hour Of Night
Rich And Rare
Dear Harp Of My Country!
Oft In The Stilly Night
The Last Rose Of Summer
O The Sight Entrancing
La Noel Passee
Voici Le Printemps
Fileuse
Le Roi S'en Va-T'en Chasse
La Belle Est Au Jardin D'amour
Il Est Quelqu'un Sur Terre
Eho! Eho!
Quand J'etais Chez Mon Pere
I Will Give My Love An Apple - Carlos Bonell
Sailor-Boy - Carlos Bonell
Master Kilby - Carlos Bonell
The Soldier And The Sailor - Carlos Bonell
Bonny At Morn - Carlos Bonell
The Shooting Of His Dear - Carlos Bonell
German Folk Song: The Stream In The Valley - Christopher van Kampen
Unidentified Folk Song Setting - Christopher van Kampen

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Enchanting folk songs (taken a few at a time).......2006-06-24

Britten made numerous folksong arrangements over the years--the reviewer below summarizes them very well. Here are 52 for tenor voice accompanied by paino, harp, or guitar--there's also a Vol. 2 in addition to this double CD. Only a few items, like The Minstrel Boy and Greensleeves, are likely to sound familiar to American listeners unless they already know Britten's arrangements. He adds subversive harmonies that can be dissonant and distrubing; at other times the arrangements are a bit twee. Philip Langridge has a more mellifluous tone than Peter Pears, for whom almost all the songs were set. This makes the recital easy listening, but the simple tunes quickly become too much of a good thing--it's better to listen to a handful at a time.

Persoally, I like the Irish and Scottish folksongs the best, because of their haunting modal harmonies, and the harpist Ossian Ellis is a marvelous accompanist for several of them, but there's lots to choose form here. The chief drawbacks are two: Langridge was a bit too old by 1995 to keep an unpleasant wobble out of his tone at loud volume, not to mention that he is peculiarly humorless in the comic songs. Second, Graham Johnson is an unimginative accompanist without rhythmic vigor, which compares unfavorably to Britten's own classic recordings, in both mono and stereo, with Pears. Yet for all that, there are many lovely songs here, and they are now available, transferred from the Collins Classics label to Naxos at bargain price.

A Must For All Britten Admirers.......2005-04-09

Many lovers of Benjamin Britten's music have no idea that he made extraordinary arrangements of many folksongs. And although this 2CD set is part of Naxos's 'English Song Series' and although it mainly contains songs from the Britain (and Ireland), Britten also set French and American folksongs and they are included here as this issue comprises all his voice-and-piano folksong settings. (He also made voice-and-orchestra versions of some of the songs here but they are not included.) His interest in poetry was intense, and as a friend has commented, 'Britten's knowledge of the obscure corners of English poetry would have put many a professor of English to shame.' His interest in making these settings lasted his entire composing life. Over the years he made six numbered collections: Vols 1, 3, 5 & 6 are primarily British (and some American) folksongs; Vol. 2 French; Vol. 4 Moore's Irish Songs. Also included here are several scattered single songs and songs published posthumously for a total of 52 songs in all. They are parceled out between two of the greatest English singers of the day: soprano Dame Felicity Lott and tenor Philip Langridge. They are mostly accompanied by the best English accompanist since Gerald Moore, pianist Graham Johnson. (One group are accompanied by guitarist Carlos Bonell, and a couple feature cellist Christopher van Kampen.)

The piano accompaniments are generally rather spare, tending not to call attention to themselves, but on closer listening one realizes that Britten has used his own easily identifiable harmonic and structural sense (not surprisingly, one of Britten's favorite devices, the canon, occurs repeatedly), always in pursuit of bringing out the literal meaning and, even more so, the psychology of the song at hand. For instance, he mimics the harp in 'Dear Harp of our Country' and 'The Last Rose of Summer' and the spinning of the mill-wheel in 'The Miller of Dee' or of the spinning wheel in 'Fileuse.' There is the yearning upward interval used to accompany the girl's name in 'Sally in Our Alley.' There is the sad tolling of the bell in 'At the mid hour of the night,' the indecisive alternating chords in 'O Waly, Waly.' Many of these songs are familiar, but many are obscure, at least to this writer. Each is so aptly set that one discovers new things on each listening. Some old favorites, like 'Sail On, Sail On' and 'The Ash Grove' are given fresh colorings. I was amused to realize that that silly Monty Python send-up, 'The Lumberjack Song,' uses (approximately) the tune of 'The Foggy, Foggy Dew' (set here to a melody different than the one I know from my youth).

The performances, not surprisingly, are about as good as they get. I cannot forget the sound of Janet Baker's voice in 'O Waly, Waly,' but this is no criticism of Lott's version, which is also touchingly effective. Langridge, whose diction is a marvel, is similarly effective in such favorites as 'The Plough Boy,' 'The Foggy, Foggy Dew,' and 'The Minstrel Boy.' Is there a more sensitive accompanist than Graham Johnson? I don't think so. I will admit that am not fond of the guitar (clearly my own idiosyncratic taste) but Carlos Bonell is effective in his accompaniment of Vol. 6, which includes 'I will give my love an apple' and 'Bonny at Morn' among others. At the end of CD2 is a song with cello obbligato played by Christopher van Kampen, and an unknown folksong that, in the absence of text, is given to the cello. The texts, too, are worth studying for their folk-wisdom. I was particularly struck by this line from 'Pray Goody': "Remember when the judgement's weak, the prejudice is strong." ('Pray Goody' also has an especially effective piano accompaniment that requires virtuosic control by the pianist.)

Anyone interested in the music of Britten really ought to own this set. It is an aspect of his art that should not be missed.

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Lynne Arriale and Jerry Grillo

Goody for You

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Tracks:

Secret Love
Goody Goody
Autumn Leaves
Willow Weep For Me
When Sunny Gets Blue
What A Difference A Day Made
I Ain't Got Nuthin' But the Blues
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
They Can't Take That Away From Me
The Shadow of Your Smile
I've Got The World On A String
Moonlight In Vermont

Album Description

Jazz Vocal with Piano, Bass, and Drums

Customer Reviews:

Lynne Arriale and Jerry Grillo.......2003-05-06

It's a perfect combination of talent.

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