Christmas Memories

Track Listings

1. Joy to the World - Richard Smallwood

2. Sweet Jesus - Vanessa Bell Armstrong

3. Silent Night - Daryl Coley

4. Go Tell It on the Mountain - The Canton Spirituals

5. First Noel - Virtue!

6. Away in a Manger - Maurette Brown

7. O Holy Night - Tarralyn Ramsey

8. O Come All Ye Faithful - Twinkie Clark, Twinkie Clark-Terrell

9. Christ the King - Albertina Walker

10. Special Gift - John P. Kee

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Music for a Darkened Theatre, Vol. 2: Film & Television Music
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Priceless, at any price

Good overview

Great Music!!!!!!!!!

Very nice for a Danny Elfman collection

Bring on Volume 3

Music for a Darkened Theatre, Vol. 2: Film & Television Music

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Edward Scissorhands: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

ASIN: B000002P4P
Release Date: 1996-12-03

Tracks:

Edward Scissorhands Suite: Main Titles
Edward Scissorhands Suite: Storytime
Edward Scissorhands Suite: Suite
Edward Scissorhands Suite: Suburbia-Barber
Edward Scissorhands Suite: The Grand Finale
Dolores Claiborne Suite: Main Titles
Dolores Claiborne Suite: Vera's World
Dolores Claiborne Suite: Flashback
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To Die For Suite: Main Titles
To Die For Suite: Suzie's Theme
To Die For Suite: Busted
To Die For Suite: Wheepy Donuts
To Die For Suite: Finale
Black Beauty Suite: Main Titles
Black Beauty Suite: Baby Beauty
Black Beauty Suite: Jump For Joy
Black Beauty Suite: Frolick-Sick
Black Beauty Suite: Bye Bye Jerry
Black Beauty Suite: Memories
Black Beauty Suite: End Titles
Batman Returns Suite:Birth Of A Penguin
Batman Returns Suite: Trouble Suite
Batman Returns Suite: The Finale
Batman Returns Suite: End Titles

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Mission Impossible Suite: Trouble
Mission Impossible Suite: Looking For Job
Mission Impossible Suite: Betrayal
Sommersby Suite: Main Titles
Sommersby Suite: Return Montage
Sommersby Suite: Finale-End Titles
Dead Presidents Suite: Main Titles
Dead Presidents Suite: Daughter
Dead Presidents Suite: Montage
Dead Presidents Suite: Nam
Dead Presidents Suite: Nightmare
Nightmare Before Christmas Suite: Overture
Nightmare Before Christmas Suite: Jack And Sally Suite
Nightmare Before Christmas Suite: Christmas Eve Montage
Freeway Suite: Main Titles
Freeway Suite: On The Road
Freeway Suite: Back In The Car
Shrunken Heads Suite: Main Titles
Television Odds 'N Ends Suite: Amazing Stories 'Family Dog'
Television Odds 'N Ends Suite: Amazing Stories 'Family Dog'
Television Odds 'N Ends Suite: Amazing Stories 'Mummy, Daddy
Television Odds 'N Ends Suite: Barkley Superhero 'Nike Commercial'
Television Odds 'N Ends Suite: The Flash 'Theme'
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Television Odds 'N Ends Suite: Beetlejuice - Animated Tv Series 'Theme'
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Untitled
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This Is Halloween (Original Demo For Nightmare Before Christmas)

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A delightfully buoyant, mock-creepy collection of film scores from Hollywood's first and best call for quirk, strangeness, and charm. Focusing on Elfman's post-1992 work (much of it for director Tim Burton), this 2 CD set features excerpts from Edward Scissorhands, To Die For, and Batman Returns, among other lesser items. -- Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

Priceless, at any price.......2007-07-06

Years ago, watching peter Jennings cover the funeral procession of Princess Diana, my soul was captured by some hauntingly beautiful music that at times played in the background. So began my mission to find out what it was, who wrote it and how I could get it. After some correspondence with the network I was put in touch with the woman who "put together" that part of the programming. All she could remember is that it came from the movie "Black Beauty". THEN I found out how many versions of that had been made lol. With determination, I finally found it, and had a local music store order it for me.
There are no words to describe what this music does to me. I did try listening to some of the other tracks, but they didn't even come close. I rate this music right up there with the 1971 score for "Jane Eyre" by John Willams... and that's pretty high :D

Good overview.......2007-04-18

Very nice overview of Elfman work. Insufficient by itself but worth having along with the full soundtracks. Bonus disc is a nice extra.

Great Music!!!!!!!!!.......2005-09-08

I Love Danny Elfman's music so much that I have started my own collection of the soundtracks that he composed. For a while, I was trying to find the "Beetlejuice" theme song from the TV show, but thanks to this release, I finally have it!!! Keep up the good work Elfman!

Very nice for a Danny Elfman collection.......2005-08-02

Music For A Darkened Theater, Vol.2 is a great cd!!! I love all of the tracks on both cd's,but my fav. ones are the t.v. scores and the This Is Halloween demo!!! If you love this,then i recomend looking at all the actually albums on this cd and his other works!!!! good job,Danny Elfman.

Bring on Volume 3.......2005-05-04

The liner notes and "This is Halloween Demo" on this compilation are well worth the CD price by themselves. Danny comments on each of the tracks on the CDs which is a rare and ego-free look at what a composer thinks of his own work.

Edward Scissorhands is magical, Black Beauty is a rollercoaster of emotion, and Dolores Claiborne makes me want to find the nearest piano. This is not a "Most Popular" compilation, rather it aptly showcases Danny Elfman's (and Orchestrator, Steve Bartek's) brilliance and wide range of style.

Every suite has an Elfman signature, such as the layered complexity which never sounds overdone, or the use of a choir as an instrument.

This (and Volume 1) are examples of the work of a modern day composer who consistently stands out as one of the best.

If you like this and have the spare cash, grab the individual scores from some of the movies he has worked on, including "Men In Black", "Spiderman", "Batman", "Batman Returns", "Nightmare Before Christmas", "Edward Scissorhands", "Mars Attacks" and so many more.

Time-Life Music: Treasury of Christmas - Holiday Memories

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Disappointing
Wonderful!
Classic Christmas
Two of the same disc
Not as good as the original

Time-Life Music: Treasury of Christmas - Holiday Memories
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Manufacturer: Time Life Records
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ASIN: B00006D2T8
Release Date: 2002-09-17

Tracks:

Do You Hear What I Hear - Bing Crosby
Hark The Herald Angels Sing - Nat King Cole
Its Not The Presents Under My Tree - Eva Cassidy
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Dean Martin
Little Saint Nick - Beach Boys
Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby and David Bowie
Please Come Home For Christmas - Charles Brown
Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt
The Chipmunk Song - The Chipmunks
The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
White Christmas - Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
Winter Wonderland - Anne Murray

Tracks:

A Holly Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives
Christmas Auld Lang Syne - Bobby Darin
Christmas Is A Feeling In Your Heart - Andy Williams
Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano
Frosty The Snowman - Gene Autry
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland
Ill Be Home For Christmas - Bing Crosby
Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Perry Como
Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms
Silent Night - Dinah Washington
Silver Bells - Earl Grant
This Time of Year - Brook Benton

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Even though it includes some of the same songs, this isn't the Time-Life Christmas collection advertised annually on TV. It's actually a budget version of that anthology, and not a bad deal at all. Some may argue it's missing the two Elvis Presley tracks found on the three-CD TV version. Others will contend that any self-respecting Christmas music aficionado probably already owns (or should own) Elvis's wonderful '57 Christmas Album. What's attractive about this one is it gathers a lot of classic singular performances in one place--a tad too much Bing Crosby, perhaps, but also the original hit versions of "Jingle Bell Rock," Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby," Burl Ives's "Holly Jolly Christmas," and the Drifters' "White Christmas" (the blueprint for Elvis's version). This is a terrific cross section of seasonal sounds. --Bill Holdship

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.......2007-01-09

I purchased this item from the television ad the year it was released directly from Time-Life. As a result of getting divorced, I needed to repurchase this great set I had bought from Time-Life years ago. After seeing the price for the bundle and recognizing the album covers, I was elated to finally get a new set for myself. Upon receipt, I immediately discovered that it is not "As Seen on TV" at all. the song selection is a fraction of the original, with a different discograpghy, but still the same album covers.
The songs are indeed great classics, however, if you have experienced the original "As Seen on TV" set that was released in 2001 you, too, will be as disappointed and left feeling rather robbed.

Wonderful!.......2006-12-17

I am a music lover and to me and my family the Christmas season is a time that the joyful and heartfelt music of the time should be heard from near and far, this collection fits the bill to do just that. In it you will find so many songs that you grew-up with and hearing them will touch a cord in your heart and bring to memory the joy of the season. I highly recommend this collection and hope you will be as enriched with it as my family is. Merry Christmas!

Classic Christmas.......2006-11-27

Christmas music lovers, you've found your collection. Much like the excellence of 'Ultimate Christmas,' Time-Life's 'Treasury of Christmas' should be a vintage favorite. Popular songs by Perry Como, Gene Autry, Andy Williams, and Judy Garland provide a goldmine of heartwarming holiday favorites. Some may find the collection to contain too much Bing, but I personally think that's an asset--rather than a liability. "Do You Hear What I Hear?" is a magnificent gem. Bing's voice soars to the star with spare but excellent accompaniment that provides an excellent alternative to the perennial "White Christmas". The highlights are essential: Dean Martin's "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," Burl Ives "Holly Jolly Christmas," Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad," The Beach Boys "Little Saint Nick," and the original favorite version of "Jingle Bell Rock" all assemble a thoughtful, vintage stocking stuffer for any C.D. collection. The lesser songs are all as mellow and accomodating as a roaring fire and a cup of egg nog or hot buttered rum. If you go no further, and want just one Christmas album, this is the one to get. Unless you like a mixture of the progressive and the traditional, then 'Ultimate Christmas' is the C.D. to buy. Then, again, most people would do well to have both. I have no regrets.

Two of the same disc.......2005-12-31

I would imagine the discs are good. i was very excited to listen to it on christmas morning. Disc Two seems good, I wouldn't know about disc one as I opened this on Christmas day to find two of disc 2. Nice.

Not as good as the original.......2005-12-13

A great Christmas CD but in terms of comparing it to the original, it falls short; I grew up listening to the original compilation and thought that by buying this new one, the best songs would be on it but I was wrong. I know that "favorites" are subjective so I will only be so bold as to say that I prefer the former version. In short this CD is still a festive and fun one at that!

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FROM ONE CHRISTMAS LOVING JEW TO ANOTHER.... *smile*
Barbra shines...
Barbra Streisand: Christmas Memories (2001)
You'll never forget this Christmas
Have Yourself An Ecumenical Christmas!

Christmas Memories

Manufacturer: Sony
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Release Date: 2001-10-30

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What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
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What's a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn cum internationally renowned pop diva doing releasing a(nother) Christmas album? Well, maintaining a long-lived American tradition, for one thing. But then, this companion piece to Barbra Streisand's 1967 A Christmas Album has a mature, jazzy charm and sometimes smoky atmosphere that don't exactly conjure chestnuts roasting by an open fire. Just as Streisand has always used music as a stepping stone to something more ambitiously dramatic, she's used the holiday season here as an excuse to explore rich emotional sentiments, if not necessarily sentimentalism itself. As on its 1960s forebear, her choice of material here is mostly as fresh as it is surprising. Among the contemporary More Usual Suspects (David Foster's "Grown-up Christmas List," "A Christmas Love Song," and "Christmas Mem'ries" by Alan and Marilyn Bergman) are gems familiar ("I'll Be Home For Christmas," "What Are You Doing Christmas Eve?") and rare (Sondheim's updated "I Remember," "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe"). While not bathos-exempt (see "Closer"), Streisand's rich, ever-expressive voice masterfully drives a collection that stretches from "Ave Maria" (Schubert's, this time) to the ecumenical timeliness of "One God." --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

FROM ONE CHRISTMAS LOVING JEW TO ANOTHER.... *smile*.......2006-12-20

I ABSOLUTELY agree with L.SHIRLEY but read so many reviews since that I forgot what she said LOL.... but I also agree with the boring aspect of this album mentioned by another, though Barbra's actual SINGING can never be ''boring''.... Oh, yes.... Shirley said this is NOT for a party [back to that in a moment].....

Ok, look, there is nothing bad to be said about Barbra, she's magnificent and I have EVERYTHING she's done....all her films first on tape, then updated with DVD's then all her albums on records, then tapes, now CD's [please stop inventing new formats, I'm going broke]. I, like Barbra... am Jewish [not religious] and even come from Flatbush Brooklyn [went to Midwood, not Erasmus though close], so I take offense at a comment of someone really resenting a Jew making a Christmas album! Christmas is everyone's holiday and my favorite OF the year, and favorite TIME of year, and if our greatest female singer of all time can't leave her stamp on it, then we're really in trouble on this planet [we are anyway]........

Now, my only beef is that I want Christmas to be upbeat. I want all happy, funny songs on an album for a party or just getting into a great mood [as Shirley implied] and another when feeling dreamy and alone or with someone. I make MANY of my own CD's with all Mathis' upbeat songs and slow ones, separately [the greatest MALE vocal quality and range that ever lived] and also Sinatra in his ring a ding ding mode songs so I don't understand why the music industry can't comply with that and do the same. When I'm in a great mood and getting dressed for a party or having one, of COURSE I want all the fast, happy, cheerful Christmas [and other] songs ONLY playing and not intercepted with slow depressing ones.....

I bought this CD long ago and just hadn't gotten around to her "A Christmas Album" yet. Wanting Christmas from her, I just grabbed one, and now years later playing it again on Christmas, am SO disappointed because it isn't upbeat with the traditional FUN songs, so ordered the other one tonight, although it too has a couple with the religious bent so I guess we're out of luck and my search brought no better results, and I guess these are the only two. I would want an ALL spiritual album from her as well because those songs are also beautiful, but for when the time is appropriate to listen to it, and separately. Of course this is beautiful [nothing she does isn't the best there is], but my complaint is for the producers of albums not catering to different MOODS, and not separating the song genre's on different whole albums, not just for holiday albums, but all of them. This [and the other one] is not what I play when wanting to feel good and in a great Christmas mood. It's just because I have to have everything she does, and it's nice when sitting and relaxing during Christmas or with someone special at a quiet time. Barbra.... let's hear about Rudolf's nose, jingle bell rock, toyland, winter wonderland, marshmallow world, needing a little christmas, letting it snow, santa coming to town, beginning to look a lot like Christmas, it being the 'most wonderful time of the year, and so MANY more! Lighten UP! lol I gave it 5 stars because other than all of the above, the album and 'she' is magnificent for what it is.... a mixture of moods.

Barbra shines..........2005-11-19

This is a must-have for any Streisand fan AND/OR those who love Christmas and winter. The songs are varied, and the imagery is fabulous. Barbra wraps her beautiful vocals around I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS MEM'RIES, and CHRISTMAS LULLABYE and the tears start to flow; she handles IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE MISTLETOE with ease, and I love the Barbra Mandrell original. Then, there are the visions of snow and bare trees and vast sky as she sings I REMEMBER and SNOWBOUND. And AVE MARIA, CLOSER, and ONE GOD add the spiritual feel and reverence for this time of year that are important to all of us. Masterfully-written songs and lush orchestration make this a signature Barbra recording. Give yourself a gift this Christmas. This is one present you will enjoy "unwrapping" the entire season.

Barbra Streisand: Christmas Memories (2001).......2005-08-20

In October of 2001, Barbra Streisand released her thirty-ninth album entitled, CHRISTMAS MEMORIES. This would actually be Barbra Streisand's second Holiday album, since THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM in 1967. This Christmas album lives up to the reputation of Barbra's first Holiday album and it really puts me into that Christmas mood.

I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
As much as I love Barbra's rendition, Frank Sinatra's rendition, although I am not Frank fan, is so much better and more Christmas-E. I love his rendition.

A CHRISTMAS LOVE SONG
A great song with a the strong Holiday spirit.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR'S EVE?
Well, I'll be with my family in Haddonfield, NJ, where my father's Beatles' band will be playing from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm (NJ-Philly time), an hour away from the year of 2006.

I REMEMBER
Great.

SNOWBOUND
Great.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE MISTLETOE
Beautiful.

CHRISTMAS LULLABY
This is another Christmas Spirit filled song.

CHRISTMAS MEM'RIES
The album's title track, but with a slightly different spelling. Great song.

GROWN-UP CHRISTMAS LIST
Both Barbra Streisand & Amy Grant have their own renditions of this song and both of them are simply beautiful.

AVE MARIA
Great.

CLOSER
Beautiful.

ONE GOD
This song title is very true. There is only one God and that God is God, Himself. Beautiful song.

CHRISTMAS MEMORIES is the Holiday album for everyone: Children of all ages, Teens, Adults, Senior Citizens. This album is very pleasing and it will most certainly put you into the Holiday Spirit. Pick up a copy of Barbra's second Christmas album. Oh, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

You'll never forget this Christmas.......2004-12-21

Buying this CD will surely make your Christmas one to remember. I am a great fan of Streisand and I have grown with her voice since I was 10 years old. I bought her first CHristmas Album when I was 15 and it was thrilling...so you can imagine how thrilled I was to get hold of her second piece of artistic work...her voice is angelic as she sings Ave Maria (I wish she could have sung it during my wedding Mass).
This is not a CD for just the festive season but for all seasons!! Thanks Barbra for making a wonderful Christmas

Have Yourself An Ecumenical Christmas!.......2004-12-14

I'm so glad I read the Amazon critic Jerry McCulley's review above before I posted my own. I was about to use the same, "What's a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn doing recording a Christmas album?" line. So much for originality on my part. Of course, as McCulley notes, it's hardly Streisand's first attempt at a holiday album, and in fact, her 1967 release A CHRISTMAS ALBUM is considered a classic of the genre. CHRISTMAS MEMORIES is a much different album, however. For one thing, most of the tracks are NOT traditional carols or well-known holiday themed pop songs. Sure it begins with "I'll Be Home For Christmas," and it does include the seasonal-but-not-really-Christmas standard "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" There's a classical nod with Schubert's "Ave Maria" (done her way, with some brassy coloration here and there--a little nose thumbing toward the critics of CLASSICAL BARBRA, perhaps?). But most of the material on the album is actually not your standard Christmas album fare. In fact, much of it was totally unfamiliar to me. So much the better, I'd say: who doesn't welcome a surprise at Christmas?

It almost doesn't matter if songs like Marilyn and Alan Bergman's "Christmas Mem'ries" and "Christmas Love Song" or David Foster's "Grown Up Christmas List" actually become standards or not. They're well suited for Streisand, and that's what matters at the end of the (Christmas) day.

Since I'm only just getting around to this album in 2004 (I'm admirer, but not really a hardcore fan), I didn't immediately notice the release date was three years ago. The fact that this album was in fact recorded in 2001 seems somehow significant (even if it actually was recorded BEFORE September 11). The melancholy edge to many of the songs seem all the more poignant in light of the horror this nation and the world endured that year. Coincidence? Well, Barbra dedicated the album to a recently deceased friend (Stephan Weiss, husband of designer Donna Karan), and the whistfulness of at least some of the songs was no doubt related to that loss. But they took on an even more universal significance in light of the tragedy of 9/11. Streisand was never really the rockin'-around-the-Christas-tree type, but the relative somberness of her second holiday album turned out to be eerily appropriate for the year of its release.

What's also almost uncannily appropriate is the final track, "One God." For a "nice Jewish girl," or rather a sophisticated Jewish woman and artist to do an honest Christmas album, some kind of acknowledgement that she is stepping outside of her own tradition is necessary. But reminding the listener of the universality of the truths behind the major religions is neither inappropriate nor "unseasonal." While there are those who might object to the inclusion of an ecumenical anthem like "One God" (at least on a Christmas album), others will find it a solace in the song's openhearted embrace of all humanity. It may have been inadvertent, but it was a message we needed during the holidays in 2001. We still do.

The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 1

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The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 1

Manufacturer: Albany Records
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ASIN: B0000049MK
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

Slow March
There Is A Certain Garden
In Autumn
Friendship
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Mirage
An Old Flame
Qu'il m'irait bien
Chanson de Florian
My Native Land
World's Wanderers
Abide With Me
Christmas Carol
Scotch Lullaby
Through Night And Day
A Perfect Day
A Night Song
In The Alley
My Lou Jennine
William Will
From 'Amphion'
Nature's Way
Far From My Heavenly Home
Ein Ton
Marie
Song
Memories
Waltz
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Son Of A Gambolier

Critic's Choice: Leonard Maltin's Best Movie Themes of the '90s

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A great CD for those who appreciate movie themes

Critic's Choice: Leonard Maltin's Best Movie Themes of the '90s

Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004SVHW
Release Date: 2000-04-25

Tracks:

Critic's Choice Theme
Titanic Suite: Distant Memories/Southampton/Rose/Take Her To Sea Mr. Murdoch
Basic Instinct: An Unending Story
Maverick Suite
The Firm: Main Title/Ray's Blues
Ed Wood: Main Title
Shakespeare In Love Suite: The End/The Beginning Of The Partnership
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Orchestral Suite
The Mask Of Zorro Suite: The Plaza Of Execution/Zorro's Theme/Love Theme
Saving Private Ryan: Hymn To The Fallen

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First Knight Orchestral Suite: Arthur's Fanfare/Main Title/End Credits/Camelot/Arthur's Farewell
Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control: Eternal Future II
As Good As It Gets
The English Patient: Rupert Bear/As Far As Florence
American Beauty: Dead Already/Any Other Name
Braveheart: End Credits
Life Is Beautiful: Buon Giorno Principessa/Abbiano Vinto
John Grisham's The Rainmaker: Kelly's Theme
The Lion King Orchestral Suite
Schindler's List: Theme From Schindler's List/Jewish Town/Remembrances

Customer Reviews:

A great CD for those who appreciate movie themes.......2000-10-06

I enjoyed this CD because Leonard Martin does a good job in selecting the scores of movies that are special in itself, outside from the context of the movie. His selection is diverse, in the sense that it includes scores of not only the big blockbusters of the 90s (Titanic, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart), but also of the movies that have already been forgotten (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, and The Rainmaker). There is reasoning behind such a selection, according to Martin: "Some scores wear well over time and provide a rewarding experience long after the movie begins to recede in one's memory."

Martin selects the scores from a variety of film genres (drama, dark comedy, suspense,for example) which translates into a well rounded compilation of musical pieces (classical,spanish-inspired, blues, etc). He also includes liner notes reagrding each selection and composer, which serves as a brief, yet interesting, background regarding each selection.

The only qualm that I have with the CD is the abscence of some of my personal favorites, which are certainly memorable both as films and as scores. Reagarding such statements Martin states that "Lists, of course, are highly arbitrary and designed to provoke argument." Moreover, Martin acknowledges that selections are not the only great scores of the past decade; they are, however, among his favorites. I definitely agree with him on this statement.

Tracks:

Carol Of The Bells
O Come All Ye Faithful
Have Yourself A Merry Christmas
Angels We Have Heard On High
Away In A Manger
Greensleeves
O Holy Night
We Three Kings
Amazing Grace
The First Noel
Silent Night
Jingle Bells
Hark The Herald Angels Sing
Little Drummer Boy
Holly And The Ivy
Little Town Of Bethlehem
The Christmas Waltz
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Auld Lang Syne

Customer Reviews:

Christmas Memories-Jim Bajor.......2004-12-15

Jim Bajor's music is so relaxing and easy to listen to. I have a copy of his "Christmas Memories" that I have on tape. I bought it many years ago in Michigan, but I have not recieved a copy of it on CD. Hopefully, soon I will have a copy on CD.

A Sophisticated Christmas CD.......2004-07-20

From the beautiful cover to the shimmering sound of every single note of the piano this is the quintessential solo piano Christmas CD. The arrangements are fantastic and modern, and the execution flawless. Bajor pulls of the trick of being simple and complex at the same time. A must for your Christmas CD collection.

The Perfect Christmas CD.......2004-07-20

This is the perfect CD for background listening during the Holiday Season. Jim Bajor's unique treatments of tradional Christmas songs is truly refreshing and a must for the Christmas Season. I would highly reccommend this CD.

not one of the top 100 Christmas cd's out there.......2003-12-13

There are a few hundred Christmas cd's that i like better than this one, I'll pass... This is kind of boring, if your into easy listening or you need some background msuic that will be talked over, ok then get it, if you want to actually sit down and listen to it, skip thsi one...

Crappy Memories.......2003-11-29

This is a cd that you must NOT hear. It is that BAD........,

This is be the second Jim Bajor cd that I've had to toss in the waste basket. It is a lot worst than the other one I owned.

Jim does a horrible job with this cd. He murders these beaufitul Christmas songs in a horrifyingly hostile way and out of key manner. He makes these evergreens(they ahave already been covered by everyone and tghier uncle) sound worst than imanginable.

Do your self a favor and stay the HELL away from this cd. It will make your holidays a living hell. Tel lyou what buy this and give it to your worst enemy, no I take that back, that's too mean!

Christmas Memories
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Christmas of Old

Clearest, Most Beautiful Christmas Songs

Classic Recordings of Classic Songs

Evie's Christmas music

Christmas Memories
Evie
Manufacturer: Word -- Word --
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000311X

Tracks:

Come On Ring Those Bells
Christmas is Especially
Come, Adore
Peace on Earth
Away in a Manger
Mary's Boy Child
O Little Town of Bethlehem
A Thousand Candles
Move Me Closer
The First Noel/Joy to the World
Christmas, A Happy Time
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
No Room/Have You Any Room
A Tiny Little Baby
O Holy Night
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Shiloh Has Come
O Come All Ye Faithful
Silent Night

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Christmas of Old.......2004-01-01

This music reminds me of Christmas as a child before I knew about the commercialism! Evie sings every song just a bit differently and with more feeling than other artists on Christmas recordings. Some of the songs I had never heard before and I find myself humming them year-round!

Clearest, Most Beautiful Christmas Songs.......2003-06-27

I have never before or since heard the songs of Christmas sung with such clarity and beauty. Evie can hit the high notes and sing O Holy Night like nobody can. Just relax and let the Spirit of the Living God bless you as you listen to these precious songs.

Classic Recordings of Classic Songs.......2001-08-16

My parents have been fans of Evie for almost as long as I can remember, so I grew up listening to most of the songs on this CD every Christmas. When I moved out, I bought this CD so I could keep hearing them. It never fails to put me in the Christmas mood, even in the summer, and I joking say it's not Christmas until you've heard Evie sing "Come On, Ring Those Bells."

This CD takes most of the songs from her two Christmas records and combines them with 4 new songs written and performed for this collection. These new songs are good, but still don't match up to the "classics." My biggest complaint is that they didn't include all the songs from side 2 of "Come On...."

The majority of the songs are traditional carols, but the original or rarer songs are magnificent. Aside from the one I've already mentioned, I love "No Room," "A Tiny Little Baby," and "A Thousand Candles," a Swedish carol that Evie translated into English. The arrangements of the traditional carols are marvelous as well, especially "O Holy Night" and "O Come, O Come Emmanuel."

This CD is a great way to put yourself in the holiday spirit. It's one of my favorites from my Christmas collection and I recommend it to anyone.

Evie's Christmas music.......2001-07-02

This is my favorite album of Christmas music. The songs are Christ-centered, and Evie has a beautiful voice. The first time I heard her version of Oh Holy Night it instantly became my all-time favorite Christmas song. That was over 20 years ago and I haven't changed my mind.

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Connecting with Ives
AN OLD FRIEND
THE consummate Ives song specialist.
beyond words . . .
Great music to great lyrics

Charles Ives: Songs

Manufacturer: Nonesuch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 1

ASIN: B000005IVT
Release Date: 1992-05-07

Tracks:

The Housatonic at Stockbridge (1921)
Memories (1897) A - Very Pleasant; B - Rather Sad
From
The Things Our Fathers Loved (1917)
Ann Street (1921)
The Innate (1916)
The Circus Band (1894)
In the Mornin' (1929)
Serenity (1919)
Majority (1921)
Thoreau (1915)
At the River (1916)
The Indians (1921)
The Cage (ca. 1906)
Like a Sick Eagle (ca. 1920)
A Christmas Carol (1897)
A Farewell to Land (1925)

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Connecting with Ives.......2005-12-22

For years I was fascinated with the legend (eccentric, brilliant, rich, cantankerous, possibly crazy) of Charles Ives, but I found his music a little elusive. I admired it but never felt much connection. Until I bought this recording and finally "got" Ives.

Other reviewers go into admirable detail and explain just why this disc is so good. I agree with all of them and say that if you have any interest in this great American composer you should check this one out.

AN OLD FRIEND.......2005-07-15

I bought this on vinyl before the advent of CD's It was wonderful then. It still is.

THE consummate Ives song specialist........2004-08-17

There I was recently, in a recording studio with a small but select number of Ives experts. (I was just an invited guest, hardly an expert.) We were spending the day listening to tapes of an Ives centennial celebration concert whose 30th anniversary, coincidentally, just happens to be today, August 17.

Of the works performed in that concert, I was quite taken by the soprano's rendition of "Memories," a 2-part song Ives wrote in 1897 while a Yale undergraduate. I thought it a "magic" moment when, in the first ("Very Pleasant") part of the song, one can bust one's gut laughing, while, in the second ("Rather Sad") part, the soprano had the seeming ability to "rip your heart out"with her ability to capture a sense of nostalgia.

Noted Ives scholar and biographer Jan Swafford describes these two songs as typical of the "Victorian parlor songs" of their era, after the model set by Stephen Foster. Stuart Feder, another Ives scholar and biographer, suggests, in his "The Live of Charles Ives," that the "rather sad" part might allude to Ives's mother. But it is a fact that Ives had barely recovered from the shock of his father's death that had sent him reeling just a few years before. Speaking strictly for myself, I can envision the image of George Edward Ives in the words

"I can see him shuffling down
"To the barn or to the town
"A-humming."

So, perhaps in light of that "read" of mine regarding George Edward Ives, my reaction is understandable. And the soprano's rendition was indeed superb. Regardless, and in any event, one of the Ives experts present at the session said to me, "Aren't you forgetting Jan DeGaetani's recording of the song?"

Well, d'oh! Sure enough, I had forgotten about it. For all the many months I've had this album listed as one of the "essential" Ives recordings, I've managed to fail to comment on it beyond a brief Listmania description. So it's not inappropriate that I use the 30th anniversary of the above-noted Ives concert as a "take-off" for finally commenting on what is unquestionably the finest album of Ives songs ever.

Jan DeGaetani had an illustrious career (regrettably cut short by an all-too-early death from leukemia). A singer of great versatility who essayed works from John Dowland to George Crumb, including a personal favorite that includes song cycles by Hector Berlioz and Gustav Mahler, she will nonetheless always be identified with the songs of Charles Ives, thanks to this album.

This collection contains as wide a variety of Ives songs over his song-writing career as one could imagine in a single-CD album, from the early "The Circus Band" (1894) to "In the Mornin'" (1929, Ives's final essay in the genre).

A few of the songs ("The Housatonic at Stockbridge" [1921], "The Cage" [1906]) represent "Ives the recycler" at his best; they are vocal settings of larger-scale works that Ives had originally written for chamber (or theater) orchestra forces. In fact, "The Housatonic at Stockbridge" (from "Three Places in New England") is a tour de force for vocalist and pianist, endeavoring as it does to capture the impressionism of the orchestral version. DeGaetani and Gilbert Kalish, her superb accompanist who has performed many Ives keyboard works on his own, do indeed turn in a bravura performance in this difficult-to-capture sense of impressionism.

Elsewhere, DeGaetani makes the singing of songs that are by turns atonal, full of awkward interval leaps and of difficult meters seem like child's play, with totally secure vocal technique and intonation. And she perfectly captures the sentimentality of the "easier" songs that, in the hands of a lesser artist, would come across as "vocal marginalia." There is little of Ives that I consider to be such marginalia; it is simply a matter of infusing the songs with the spirit that Ives had endowed them with. And DeGaetani nails every one of them.

Which brings me full circle to "Memories." DeGaetani, like the unnamed soloist of 30 years ago today who reminded me that I had this unfinished business to attend to, will make you laugh until you bust a gut. And then she'll rip your heart out. Just as I believe these two song parts were meant to do.

Needless to say, a keeper!

Bob Zeidler

beyond words . . ........2003-03-24

Wonderful. I could give many technical and musical reasons why this recording is so good but . . . These songs are amongst the best of Ives' works and this presentation is a benchmark in quality.

Great music to great lyrics.......2001-10-13

Like Schubert and Schumann, Ives chose to set the words of fine poets to music -- music of real distinction. Fischer-Dieskau recorded an lp of Ives' songs years ago, but I don't think DG has reissued it. Meanwhile, this is an excellent collection of very approachable Ives. Fischer-Dieskau or not, I wouldn't be without this cd. DeGaetani-Kalish are unbeatable in this music.

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Christmas Memories-Bill Medley

Christmas Memories
Bill Medley
Manufacturer: Vesper Alley
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000E9D7
Release Date: 1997-10-14

Tracks:

Christmas Memories
White Christmas
Little Drummer Boy
The First Noel
The Christmas Song
SIlent Night
I'll Be Home For Christmas
The Lord's Prayer
Grown-Up Christmas List
Away In A Manger
O Holy Night
Silver Bells

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Christmas Memories-Bill Medley.......2006-09-15

If you are looking for a Christmas CD but not done in the usual way but the Bill Medley way, this is for you. His voice and the Medley touch to some Christmas favorites are Righteous and beautiful and the best song is the one he and his daughter, McKenna, do together and at the end what they "say" to each other is very heart warming. If you are a Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley fan then you must have this in your collection, I listen to it in the other months of the year not just Nov. and Dec. Merry Christmas the Bill Medley way.

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Winter Memories
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Medalist Entertainment
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000DESI2
Release Date: 2002-07-19

Tracks:

White Christmas - Bing Crosby
O Holy Night - Nat King Cole
O Little Town of Bethlehem - Johnny Adams
I'll Be Home for Christmas - Frank Sinatra
I Wish Everyday Could Be Like Christmas - Brook Benton
O Tannenbaum - Nat King Cole
Christmas Song - Frank Sinatra
Ave Maria - Mario Lanza
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Nat King Cole
Here Comes Santa Claus - Gene Autry
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Bing Crosby
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Frank Sinatra

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1. Joy to the World - Richard Smallwood
2. Sweet Jesus - Vanessa Bell Armstrong
3. Silent Night - Daryl Coley
4. Go Tell It on the Mountain - The Canton Spirituals
5. First Noel - Virtue!
6. Away in a Manger - Maurette Brown
7. O Holy Night - Tarralyn Ramsey
8. O Come All Ye Faithful - Twinkie Clark, Twinkie Clark-Terrell
9. Christ the King - Albertina Walker
10. Special Gift - John P. Kee