Just the Way I Am

Just the Way I Am

Just the Way I Am

ASIN: B00008FTQI

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1. Just the Way I Am
2. Little Bird
3. Mama Say a Prayer
4. My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
5. In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
6. In the Ghetto
7. Daddy Come and Get Me
8. Carroll County Accident
9. Gypsy, Joe and Me

Just the Way I Am,Dolly Parton,Special Music,Country,Country-Folk,Progressive Country,Traditional Country
Assassins (2004 Broadway Revival Cast)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Unworthy of This Show
  • Great.
  • Deserves a place in your Sondheim Discography
  • Dashed high hopes
  • Letdown from the original
 Assassins (2004 Broadway Revival Cast)
Stephen Sondheim , Neil Patrick Harris , Marc Kudisch , Michael Cerveris , Denis O'Hare , and James Barbour
Manufacturer: P.S. Classics
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002B161Y
Release Date: 2004-08-03

Tracks:

  1. Everybody's Got The Right
  2. Ballad Of Booth
  3. Ladies And Gentlemen, A Toast!
  4. How I Saved Roosevelt
  5. What Does A Man Do...?
  6. Gun Song
  7. Ballad Of Czolgosz
  8. Unworthy Of Your Love
  9. I Am A Terrifying And Imposing Figure...!
  10. Ballad Of Guiteau
  11. Have It Your Way
  12. Another National Anthem
  13. Take A Look Lee
  14. Something Just Broke
  15. Everybody's Got The Right

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"Everybody's got a right/To their dream." So begins Stephen Sondheim's 1991 show Assassins--and in this case, said dreams involve killing an American president. The characters form a veritable rogues' gallery, including John Hinckley, Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth of course, but also half-forgotten luminaries such as Leon Czolgosz (who killed McKinley) and "Squeaky" Fromme (who aimed for Gerald Ford with an unloaded gun). While Sondheim's lyrics are trenchant as ever, his music, which ranges from Sousa pomp to clever little waltzes, is technically brilliant but also oddly uninvolving. (Many fans prefer the recording of the 1991 Off-Broadway version, though "Something Just Broke," which was added to the 1992 London production, makes its recorded debut here.) Still, there are several high points. In "Unworthy of Your Love," for instance, Hinckley and Fromme wax poetic about their unrequited love for Jodie Foster and Charles Manson, respectively, in a Burt Bacharach-style ballad that's deliberately (I hope!) sappy. And of course as with most Sondheim shows, the cast of this revival--Michael Cerveris, Mario Cantone, Becky Ann Baker, Marc Kudisch, Denis O'Hare--is very good. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Unworthy of This Show.......2007-03-01

Assassins is a masterpiece of American theatre. Through a revue of skits and songs, it examines ideas we don't want to face, and shows us the flip side of the American Dream. The score rates as one of Sondheim's best, and the overall effect, when the show is performed well, is incredibly powerful. For years, people have wanted to mount a production on Broadway.

Given this result, they needn't have bothered.

I am still amazed at how much this production got wrong. The principal cast is nothing short of dreadful: the acting is almost laughably overwrought; the pacing keeps getting disrupted by pauses held too long and lines spoken too slowly; some singers are frequently behind the tempo (notably Michael Ceveris as Booth), while others are painful to listen to (like Jeffrey Kuhn as Zangara and Mario Cantone as Sam Byck); the new orchestrations allow for more musicians in the pit, but are much less effective than the earlier arrangements.

To top it all off, this production includes "Something Just Broke", a song sung by the Ensemble as various "average" Americans of different time periods recalling where they were when the president was shot. The song was introduced in the London production, presumably for people who didn't understand the show to have something to latch on to, but it was mercifully kept out of the published vocal score and libretto. It's not a bad song in and of itself, but musically it does not fit in with the rest of the score, and dramatically it doesn't fit in with the rest of the script. Worse, it is placed right between the Kennedy assassination -- the climax of the show -- and the finale, thus skewing all the dramatic momentum and depriving the show of an effective resolution.

The result of all this is that the comic moments aren't funny, the powerful moments fail to move, and the wonderful music is left ho-hum.

I realize that the extraordinary cast of the original production of Assassins presents a dauntingly high standard for everyone else to compare to, but the college productions I've seen were better than this.

5 out of 5 stars Great. .......2006-11-08

What an amazingly talented cast! Neil Patrick Harris, Marc Kudisch, Alex Gemignani (The new Valjean in the revival of Les Miserables) and of course, the former demon barber of Fleet Street, Michael Cerveris (in the role that won him a Tony)...Just to hear these giants of musical theatre perform together as an ensemble alone is worth the price of this recording. This recording is so wonderfully done, and I can't recommend this enough.

'Unworthy of your Love' and 'The Ballad of Booth' are heartbreakingly beautiful, strange that I say that considering the subject matter, but it's true, those two songs alone will stay with you for days on end. The Ballad of Booth has poetic and tragic lyrics like 'Damn my soul, if you must, let my body turn to dust, let it mingle with the ashes of my country...What I did, I did well, and I did it for my country. Let them cry 'Dirty Traitor!', they will understand later...'. and the hauntingly gorgeous melody that goes with those lyrics is just so well, romantic! But then you have the tongue-in-cheek, slightly macabre numbers like 'The Gun Song' and 'Everybody's Got The Right' with lyrics like, 'Everybody's got the right to be happy. Life's not as bad as it seems! Everybody deserves a little sunshine...' and 'All you have to do is, move your little finger...and you can change the world!'

What a rollarcoaster of emotion! I mean, seriously, who else but Sondheim could pull that off and make it the brilliant masterpiece that it clearly is?

One of my biggest regrets is not seeing this during it's brief run in 2004. :(

5 out of 5 stars Deserves a place in your Sondheim Discography.......2006-07-28

Like other reviewers I was fortunate enough to see Roundabout's revival production but perhaps unfortunate that my total enjoyment of that production may bias my critical listening. I can't help but recall the proprietor (Marc Kudish) caressing a pistol into the hand of each assassin when listening to the opening Everybody's Got The Right.

However, while fans of Sondheim and musical theater will argue over every nuance, I find that both this and the original are excellent in their own way. Yes, the voices in the first recording are more refined, yet this recording seems to better capture the character's mannerisms in the vocal stylization, whether the twitchy madness of Guiteau (Dennis O'Hare) or the depressed howl of Sam Byck (Mario Cantone).

This is a worthwhile recording and one that provides me with a reprise of the excellent staging and acting of this quirky play.

2 out of 5 stars Dashed high hopes.......2006-07-14

Assassins is a fascinating and surprising show. You can't imagine a more unlikely topic for a musical and yet, when you hear and/or see the show, you can't help to be impressed by the entire production. Maybe if I'd never heard the original cast recording, I would have given this a higher rating, but, to be frank, this recording suffers in comparison to the original recording in nearly every way.

While the diction on this recording is often impressive...especially Neil Patrick Harris's...too often it is accomplished at the price of tempo. Too many times the musical director has made the choice to slow down portions of the songs to the point of sluggishness. Absolutely NONE of the performances is superior to the original. That doesn't mean that any of the newer performances are horrible, it's just that they don't measure up. The one who comes the closest is Neil Patrick Harris whom I find naturally charming and vulnerable in anything he does.

The best addition to this recording is Mario Cantone's rant as Sam Byck. Unfortunately, I can't recommend getting this recording based solely on that. The biggest mis-step is the omission of the full, final, Kennedy scene. Hearing it on the original recording for the first time is an absolutely thrilling and chilling experience. Not having it all here is a MAJOR disappointment.

Buy the original recording first and check this one out from the library.

3 out of 5 stars Letdown from the original.......2006-04-10

I have been a huge fan of Assassins since it first came out back in '91. While I've never had the pleasure of seeing the play in person, I've read it several times and listened to the original cast recording so often one can hardly believe it. So when I saw "Broadway Cast Recording" I was thrilled. Then I listened to it. I went from thrilled to appalled.

John Weideman, who wrote the music, seems to prefer the Broadway cast recording--at least he says so in its liner notes. I'm not sure why. While some of the songs are still excellent (like the Hinckley-Fromme duet "Unworthy of Your Love"), many of them are just plain painful to listen to. Most of the time the singing vaccilates between being totally flat of affect (most notably Moore in "The Gun Song") to hyperbolic melodrama. Booth mumbles to the point of near-unintelligibility in several songs; Zangara sounds eerily like the mob boss from 'Johnny Dangerously' that keeps calling everyone "farging bastages"; Moore sings nearly the whole time as if she'd OD'd on sedatives; and Guiteau sounds so stereotypically gay that GLAAD should be suing the producer.

It almost seems as if the cast are not sure what do do with their characters. The cast of the Original Cast Recording hit the characters perfectly--an outstanding mix of suffering, despair, anger and hostility. The Broadway cast can't seem to, in the language of the musical, "connect" to the characters. For me this is a huge failing, as the "charcaters" here are real individuals; if the performers can't connect to them, how can we be expected to?

There are also some content differences between this recording and the original. Several brief additions are made from elsewhere in the musical, and the new song "Something Just Broke" written for the Broadway revival is included on the recording. However, about half of the last act (which is included on the original) is cut out. Sadly, the material cut out is far more moving, unsettling and significant than the material added. Also, "Something Just Broke", while a fine song (and performed better than most of the rest of the material), unfortunately breaks up the natural link between the Kennedy assassination's triumphalist ending and the closing version of "Everybody's Got the Right".

I gave this three stars because I love Assassins. It is a brilliant and unnerving drama. But the Original Cast Recording is immensely superior to the Broadway Cast Recording in its ability to reveal this to the audience. I'm glad it was revived, and I'm glad it won three Tony awards--now it can get the recognition it deserves; but for me, I'll stick to the original version I fell in love with years ago. If only the Broadway recording has found a way to be "worthy of your love"...
Broadway: America's Music 1935-2005
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    ASIN: B000B8I93Q
    Release Date: 2005-10-18

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    Just the Way I Am
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Dolly in the sixties - some of her best songs
    • Just Great
    • JUST THE WAY SHE IS
    • Always the Best!
    • Will have to do for now
    		 Just the Way I Am
    Dolly Parton
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    ASIN: B00003L9HQ
    Release Date: 1999-12-21

    Tracks:

    1. Just The Way I Am
    2. Little Bird
    3. Mama Say A Prayer
    4. My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
    5. In The Good Old Days
    6. In The Ghetto
    7. Daddy Come And Get Me
    8. The Carrol County Accident
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    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Dolly in the sixties - some of her best songs.......2002-07-13

    These recordings, made between 1967 and 1970, were not successful for Dolly at the time, although she was successful as duet partner of Porter Wagoner. Seven of the nine songs were written by Dolly.

    The first two songs (Just the way I am and Little bird) are brilliant upbeat, happy songs, yet it is the seven extremely sad songs that follow which show Dolly's real qualities.

    My favorite track (indeed, my favorite Dolly song - and I've heard them all) is My blue ridge mountain boy. It is about a girl yearning for the boy back home, instead of the ones she meets in the city.

    Mama say a prayer and Daddy come and get me are also songs about someone yearning to be back home because of problems with men.

    In the good old days is a bittersweet song about her childhood experiences.

    Gypsy Joe and me is a song about death for all three.

    The Carroll county accident is a cover of a Porter Wagoner hit about a road accident, but with a twist.

    In the ghetto is the Mac Davis song made famous by Elvis. I enjoy both versions (I am a huge fan of both Elvis and Dolly) but I think Dolly has a better feel for the song. Listen to both and judge for yourself.

    If you are a fan of Dolly's early seventies music, particularly if you enjoy Coat of many colors, you'll like this. If you find that song too depressing, you should give this a miss.

    5 out of 5 stars Just Great.......2000-07-16

    What a pleasure to see this record on cd. There's not a bad song on here, and a number of gems. The title track, "Just the Way I Am," is a rollicking introduction to this cd, which is a showcase of her talents at their best and most diverse. "Mama Say a Prayer" (the best track on this cd, in my opinion) is reminiscent of Dolly's earliest recordings; "Gypsy, Joe and Me" is a classic Dolly story song. Notable, also, is "In the Good Old Days," "Little Bird," and "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy."

    In Alanna Nash's biography, Dolly lamented that she never got to sing with Elvis, and that thwarted ambition is poignantly evoked in her cover of "In The Ghetto." It sits nicely with "Carol County Accident," probably my second favourite track. I like the cover, too: an exuberant, plump Dolly who is just the way she is.

    4 out of 5 stars JUST THE WAY SHE IS.......2000-06-17

    IM GLAD TO SEE SOME OLD DOLLY ALBUMS BEING PUT ONTO CDS!I LOVE ALL THE SONGS ON THIS CD! MY FAVORITES ARE "JUST THE I AM" AND" GYPSY,JOE AND ME" HEY BUDDHA,IF YOUR READING THIS,PLEASE RELEASE THESE DOLLY ALBUMS ON CD! "NEW HARVEST,FIRST GATHERING-DOLLY,DOLLY,DOLLY-GREAT BALLS OF FIRE AND MY TENNESSEE MOUNTIAN HOME! "

    5 out of 5 stars Always the Best!.......2000-06-10

    I agree....let's see some more of the older recordings not on CD.....Dolly always makes every song her own. Really want to see "New Harvest, First Gathering" with AppleJack.......most of the old timers on that song are gone but not forgotten. Thanks Buddah for re-mastering all of these great classic albums!

    4 out of 5 stars Will have to do for now.......2000-01-09

    This reissue of a fairly obscure budget Parton compilation would seem pretty pointless if it weren't for the fact that it rescues several solid songs from the out of print limbo they have been in for several years. Chief among them are the title track, the harrowing "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy," the presumably autobiographical "In The Good Ol' Days," and the sharp example of Parton's story telling capabilities in "Gypsy, Joe, and Me." One can gripe about the mere 25 and a half minute running time (in an age when CDs can hold 80 minutes of music), the complete lack of liner notes, as well as the tacky and embarrassing cover photos, but the remastered sound is impressive and the list price can't be beat.

    One hopes that the indivivdual albums that originaly contained these songs will be made available again soon, but for now this will have to do.
    Just the Way I Am
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      		Just the Way I Am
      Dolly Parton
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      ASIN: B0000038QA
      Release Date: 1996-03-26

      Tracks:

      1. Just the Way I Am
      2. Little Bird
      3. Mama Say a Prayer
      4. My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
      5. In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
      6. In the Ghetto
      7. Daddy Come and Get Me
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      • A wonderful collection of show tunes .
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      5 out of 5 stars A wonderful collection of show tunes ........1998-12-06

      Lost in Boston II is the second group of songs that have been put on an album that were cut from well known musicals. It is better than the first Lost in Boston- only because the songs collected here have nary a loser(okay,"It Was Always You" from Applause sounds like a theme from a 70's Tv show- but it's still tuneful and endearing).Some listeners may be familair with some of these songs from the Ben Bagley compilations, but for me many were complete revelations. For example, I had heard only negative things about the score to Grand Hotel- then I played the showstopper cut from the show called" Flaemmchen the Flame Girl" - and I now would like to hear what was not cut! The same applies to the team of Jones and Schmidt. When I heard the gorgeous song, "Thousands of Flowers" I immediately went to buy the final score of "I Do I Do"... The first two Lost in Bostons confirmed how underrated this song team truly is. The liner notes are informative and to the point but as with all good stuff, they leave you wanting more.Don't miss this CD. It is better than many complete Broadway musical scores!
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        The Biograph Girl: A New Musical
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          ASIN: B00004YRAE
          Release Date: 2000-12-05

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          1. The Moving Picture Show
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          15. One Of The Pioneers
          16. Put It In The Tissue Paper
          17. Finale
          Melodies: The 1955 Walden Sessions
          Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
          • A different world
          • Boring
          		 Melodies: The 1955 Walden Sessions

          Manufacturer: Harbinger
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          1. Gershwin Rarities: The 1953/1954 Walden Sessions
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          ASIN: B00005YAZP
          Release Date: 2001-05-29

          Tracks:

          1. Can't Help Singing - David Daniels, Christina Lind
          2. I'm Old Fashioned
          3. All the Things You Are - Jay Harnick
          4. Will You Marry Me Tomorrow, Maria? - David Daniels
          5. All Through the Day - David Daniels, Christina Lind
          6. In the Heart of the Dark - Warren Galjour
          7. Pick Yourself Up - Jay Harnick
          8. Way You Look Tonight - David Daniels
          9. Folks Who Live on the Hill - Christina Lind
          10. High, Wide and Handsome - Warren Galjour
          11. Dearly Beloved - David Daniels, Christina Lind
          12. Up With the Lark
          13. Just Let Me Look at You - Warren Galjour
          14. Here Am I - Christina Lind
          15. Go Little Boat - David Daniels
          16. All in Fun
          17. Fine Romance - David Daniels, Christina Lind
          18. Don't Ever Leave Me
          19. Sweetest Sight That I Have Seen - Christina Lind
          20. Our Song - Warren Galjour

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars A different world.......2004-03-07

          There's an innocence about this album, originally recorded in the early 1950s. Arrangements charming, and the voices of June Ericson and Warren Galjour respectively sweet and stalwart.

          Note : The David Daniels who sings on this album is an altogether different person from the Countertenor David Daniels who wasn't born or even thought of in 1955. Amazon listings, heal thyself.

          Best songs: Just Let Me Look at You; Up With the Lark. Kern at his most melodic.

          3 out of 5 stars Boring.......2003-06-16

          I got thi CD to hear David Daniels. He is nothing special on this CD (in contrast to later in his career where he is A#1) and I guess it's a nice CD, but did nothing for me.
          Just the Way I Am
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            		Just the Way I Am
            Angel
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD
            ASIN: B000PBI29U

            Album Review:

            1. Ka-Ching! [Import]
            2. Keyed Up
            3. Kickin' the Hillbilly
            4. Labyrinths [Import]
            5. Let an Old Racehorse Run
            6. Light in the Forest
            7. Live at Hillbilly Ranch [Live]
            8. Lost & Found
            9. Love Won't Let Me/Angels on Waiting [CD-single]
            10. Make Something of It

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