Half as Much

Half as Much

ASIN: B000294RW6

Track Listings

1. Fiddlin' Boogie [1949]

2. Barbecue Rag [1949][Instrumental]

3. No Not Now [1949]

4. Shy Baby [1949]

5. Mississippi [1950]

6. Saturday Night Rag [1950][Instrumental]

7. Whole Hog or None [1950]

8. Honey Do You Love Me - Huh? [1950]

9. Good Ol' Alabam [1951]

10. All You Gotta Do Is Whistle [1951]

11. String Steeling [1951][Instrumental]

12. Between a Rock and a Hard Place [1951]

13. Lou'siana Serenade [1951][Instrumental]

14. Half as Much [1951]

15. Texas Swing [1951]

16. We've Come a Long Way Together [1951]

17. When You're Tired of Breaking Other Hearts [1952]

18. What's the Matter With My Heart [1952]

19. On the Okefenokee [1952]

20. Time and a Half Time [1952]

See all 29 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Fiddlin' Boogie
Barbecue Rag [Instrumental]
No, Not Now
Shy Baby
Mississippi
Saturday Night Rag [Instrumental]
Whole Hog or None
Honey Do You Love Me - Huh?
Good Ol' Alabam
All You Gotta Do Is Whistle
String Steeling [Instrumental]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Lou'siana Serenade [Instrumental]
Half as Much
Texas Swing
We've Come a Long Way Together
When You're Tired of Breaking Other Hearts
What's the Matter With My Heart
On the Okefenokee
Time and a Half Time
No, Not Now - Curley Williams, Hank Williams
Leave Me Alone With the Blues
Grandma's Turned Over Again
Woe Is Me
Georgia Boogie
Blue Melody
Good Ol' Alabam [Alternate Take]
All You Gotta Do Is Whistle [Alternate Take]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place [Alternate Take]

Product Description

1. Fiddlin' Boogie
2. Barbecue Rag
3. No Not Now
4. Shy Baby
5. Mississippi
6. Saturday Night Rag
7. Whole Hog Or None
8. Honey Do You Love Me - Huh
9. Good Ol' Alabam
10. All You Gotta Do Is Whistle
11. String Steeling (instrumental)
12. Between A Rock And A Hard Place
13. Lou'siana Serenade
14. Half As Much
15. Texas Swing
16. We've Come A Long Way Together
17. When You're Tired Of Breaking Other Hearts
18. What's The Matter With My Heart
19. On The Okefenokee
20. Time And A Half Time
21. No Not Now (& HANK WILLIAMS)
22. Leave Me Alone With The Blues
23. Grandma's Turned Over Again
24. Woe Is Me
25. Georgia Boogie
26. Blue Melody
27. Good Ol' Alabam
28. All You Gotta Do Is Whistle
29. Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Format: CD

Half as Much
Average customer rating:

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Half as Much
Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers
Manufacturer: Bear Family
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music
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Western Swing | Country | Styles | Music
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Doo Wop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0001WELY8
Release Date: 2004-04-19

Tracks:

Fiddlin' Boogie
Barbecue Rag [Instrumental]
No, Not Now
Shy Baby
Mississippi
Saturday Night Rag [Instrumental]
Whole Hog or None
Honey Do You Love Me - Huh?
Good Ol' Alabam
All You Gotta Do Is Whistle
String Steeling [Instrumental]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Lou'siana Serenade [Instrumental]
Half as Much
Texas Swing
We've Come a Long Way Together
When You're Tired of Breaking Other Hearts
What's the Matter With My Heart
On the Okefenokee
Time and a Half Time
No, Not Now - Curley Williams, Hank Williams
Leave Me Alone With the Blues
Grandma's Turned Over Again
Woe Is Me
Georgia Boogie
Blue Melody
Good Ol' Alabam [Alternate Take]
All You Gotta Do Is Whistle [Alternate Take]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place [Alternate Take]

Customer Reviews:

"NO Questions", just buy it !.......2004-07-22

Curley Williams - I'll make this simple : I just purchased both of his CDs. It says that these are all the songs that he recorded with his Peach Pickers. If you are a REAL fan of 40s and 50s Western Swing this is some of the best music ever recorded. It reminds me somewhat of Spade Cooley but Curley's vocals are the best I have ever heard ( I think he has it over both Tex Williams and Tommy Duncan). These 2 CDs will be the best start or the finest addition to anyone who knows and loves real Western Swing. Lets face it not all Country Music Fans are real Hillbillys, this music is for us who are the "Real Thing". This is a must have ! "ENJOY"

Half Winter Half Spring in the Unreal City

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Half Winter Half Spring in the Unreal City

Manufacturer: Marigold
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAKAFS
Release Date: 2004-04-13

Tracks:

Opening Song
Champion of the Spelling Bee
Half Winter, Half Spring in the Unreal City
These Are Your Complaints
Putting Like a Genius
Dia de los Muertos
Thanks Elsie
Trying to Keep the Cicadas Away
Tequila Bomb
Run and Hide
Osaka Blues(featuring Maiko Nishikawa)

The Essential Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber

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The Essential Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber

Manufacturer: Metro Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Putting It Together: A Musical Review

ASIN: B000B9G6O4
Release Date: 2005-10-03

Tracks:

Phantom of the Opera/All I Ask of You
By Jeeves/Half a Moment
Beautiful Game/All the Love I Have
Jesus Christ Superstar/I Don't Know How to Love Him
Phantom of the Opera/Think of Me
Aspects of Love/The First Man You Remember
Starlight Express B'way/Starlight Express
Starlight Express/Only You
Tell Me on a Sunday/Unexpected Song
Aspects of Love/Seeing Is Believing
Beautiful Game/Our Kind of Love
Tell Me on a Sunday/The Last Man in My Life
Phantom of the Opera/Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
Sunset Boulevard/Too Much in Love to Care
Tell Me on a Sunday/Tell Me on a Sunday
Aspects of Love/There Is More to Love
Evita/Don't Cry for Me Argentina
Aspects of Love/Love Changes Everything

Tracks:

Sunset Boulevard/With One Look
Evita/Another Suitcase in Another Hall
Cats/Memory
Jesus Christ Superstar/Could We Start Again Please?
Requiem/Pie Jesu
Phantom of the Opera/Angel of Music
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)/Close Every Door
Jesus Christ Superstar/Gethsemane
Whistle Down the Wind/Whistle Down the Wind
Sunset Boulevard/As If We Had Never Said Goodbye
Starlight Express/U-N-C-O-U-P-L-E-D
Phantom of the Opera/The Point of No Return
Aspects of Love/Anything But Lonely
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat/Any Dream Will Do
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat/There's Me
Jesus Christ Superstar/Pilate's Dream
Evita/High Flying Adored
Phantom of the Opera/Music of the Night

Tracks:

Cats/Macavity
Jesus Christ Superstar/Heaven on Their Minds
Evita/Rainbow High
Starlight Express/Rolling Stock
Phantom of the Opera/The Phantom of the Opera
Jesus Christ Superstar/Hosanna
Evita/Oh What a Circus
Phantom of the Opera/Masquarade
Starlight Express/Starlight Express
Jesus Christ Superstar/King Herod's Song
Evita/Buenos Aires
Cats/Jellicle Cats
Sunset Boulevard/Sunset Boulevard
Jesus Christ Superstar/Everything's Alright
Cats/Mr. Mistoffelees
Phantom of the Opera/Prima Donna
Cats/The Jellicle Ball
Jesus Christ Superstar/Jesus Christ Superstar

Album Details

Lovesongs, Ballads and Show Stoppers. 54 Tracks, Including Some Brand New Titles Released Here for the First Time.

Average customer rating:

Okay, but kind of disappointing
Not quite what I expected...
Some great performances, some not so great...
Disappointed
Musical Talent at Its Best

The Essential Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber

Manufacturer: Metro Music
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005Y47E
Release Date: 2002-02-22

Tracks:

Any Dream Will Do
Close Every Door
Heaven On Their Minds
Everything's Alright
Gethsemane
I Don't Know How To Love Him
Jesus Christ Superstar
Could We Start Again Please?
Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Another Suitcase In Another Hall
Buenos Aires
Rainbow High
High Flying Adored
Memory
Jellicle Cats
Mister Mistofeles
Unexpected Song
Last Man In My Life
Rolling Stock
U-N-C-O-U-P-L-E-D

Tracks:

Only You
Starlight Express
There's Me
Pie Jesu
Angel Of Music
Masquerade
Wishing Somehow You Were Here Again
All I Ask Of You
The Phantom Of The Opera
Music Of The Night
Love Changes Everything
The First Man You Remember
Seeing Is Believing
As If We Never Said Goodbye
Sunset Boulevard
With One Look
Too Much In Love To Care
Half A Moment
Whistle Down The Wind
Our Kind Of Love

Album Description

Full title, 'Essential Songs Of Andrew Lloyd Webber'. UK budget-price compilation. 40 superlative performances featuring songs from every one of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musicals. Guest artists include John Barrymore, Issy Van Randwyck, Dave Willetts, Maria Friedman, Kim Criswell, Graham Bickley and the National Symphony Orchestra. Housed in a slipcase. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Okay, but kind of disappointing.......2006-04-17

This isn't a bad recording, but the tracks are not the actual performances off of any cast recording of any of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals. The reditions of the songs on the disc are of varying quality. Some are pretty good. Some are borderline awful.
It is a good collection for inexpensively getting a lot of Andrew Lloyd Webber's most popular songs in one place and having them there to be able to listen to get the idea of what a certain song sounds like and is about. It isn't the collection of definitive recordings for certain roles. In fact in a couple examples, I wonder if the performer fully understood the context of the song he or she was singing &/or what it was about. Overall, the album is good, for the most part, if not excellent.

However, the liner notes for "The Essential Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber" is another matter. I don't mean to be unkind, but the author of the comments on the different tracks (one Rexton S. Bunnett) is blatantly WRONG in multiple instances. I don't mean just in nit-picky details, but in major plot details/context of songs, like the fact that Bunnett identifies "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" as being sung by "our heroine" (who he does not even identify by name as Christine Daae) as she thinks about her lover, not as being sung about Christine's dead father. He also says that the Phantom has found his perfect love and "Angel of Music" in Christine... because HE is the Angel of Music who Christine believes has been sent to her by her dead father, and because although the Phantom is obsessed with Christine, that relationship is far from "loving" (even if Christine shows him compassion. I feel like these (and a couple other mistakes) are major plot points to get wrong. A good amount of the commentary reads as if Bunnett might have written it at the last minute, fudging his way through entries on musicals of which he had little knowledge; like what an essay I might write on a book I never read for my college class but had quickly looked up on Cliff's Notes would sound like. In terms of sheer editing, there are spelling mistakes, run-on sentences and spacing errors ("Any DreamWill Do")in the liner notes. Where was the copy editor?
And the most frightening fact of all, under Bunnett's credentials, it says "Harper Collins has just published his revision and updating of the Collins Book of the Musical."
I am being very critical, but I think that for a widely-released CD it is reasonable to expect the liner notes to be at a professional level, as they were most likely supposed to be.

Not quite what I expected..........2005-04-23

I was looking for a CD of the original performances and this CD doesn't have them. I suppose it was my fault for not looking closer, but the songs just weren't the same. Personally, I was not impressed. If you don't care that they aren't the originals then it is nice to listen to.

Some great performances, some not so great..........2005-04-18

This CD is actually pretty good, considering you get 40 songs for less than $16. Let's evaluate the pros and cons.

Pros:

Two classic songs that are performed excellently are Phantom of the Opera and I Don't Know How to Love Him.

Of course you want to compare Phantom to the classic Michael Crawford/ Sarah Brightman version. Well, guess what? This version is BETTER. The woman has a deeper voice than Brightman, and her singing style is just awesome. The ending of this version (you know, the "Sing, my angel of music, sing for me!") is different, but in a good way... I think.)

And of course, the standard for I Don't Know How to Love Him is Yvonne's version. This version is different, but it grew on me quickly. This version has a country feel to it, almost. Somehow it works and sounds great.

There are a lot of great performances in this collection. My favorites include: Heaven on Their Minds, Everything's Alright, Could We Start Again Please, Another Suitcase in Another Hall, Buenos Aires, Rainbow High, Only You, Starlight Express, Angel of Music, Masquerade, All I Ask of You, Half a Moment, and Whistle Down the Wind. I think they're all great versions of their more famous counterparts.

Cons:

First of all, there are some technical problems that are kind of disappointing. A few of the songs have a very echoey sound. Any Dream Will Do, Another Suitcase in Another Hall, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, and There's Me are the songs that come to mind that are the worst in this regard. It isn't really bad, just enough to be slightly annoying, more so when the volume is turned way up on your CD player.

A few songs are worthy of skipping over when listening to this collection. In my opinion, Superstar, Sunset Boulevard, and Gethesmane are the biggest disappointments.

Superstar just doesn't cut it for me. The singer really overdoes it, making it overstylized... really makes you yearn for Murray Head. I can't stand listening to it. Just my opinion.

Sunset Boulevard is one of my very favorite musicals, so I was really hoping that the singer would do justice to its title song. Unfortunately I don't think he did. You can't help but compare it to Alan Campbell's fantastic version. This guy has a very choppy way of singing, when I'm used to it being sung so smoothly. Maybe it would grow on me, but I don't think I'll give it a chance to. However, that last note is much stronger than Alan Campbell's. It doesn't make up for the rest of the song, though.

Finally, Gethsemane. The inevitable fact is that NO ONE can sing this song like Michael Ball. This guy tries, he really does. But he doesn't have the right voice or the right style. So please listen to Michael Ball's performance of Gethsemane if you want to know how breathtaking of a song it can be. It's on the Royal Albert Hall DVD, and I'm sure he's got it on one of his CDs.

Anyway, overall, this is a good CD if you like quantity over quality. Don't buy it for the classics, you'll probably end up disappointed with many of them. Buy it for the lesser known songs. You probably won't like every song, especially if you're a big ALW fan, but for the price, it's worth it.

If you want classic versions of classic ALW songs, you might prefer something like "The Very Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Broadway Collection".

Disappointed.......2005-03-11

The singer(s)does not do justice for the lyrics. It was grating to the ears. Save your money for the originals.

Musical Talent at Its Best.......2003-01-03

What a pleasure to hear a collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beautiful music from such wonderful voices accompanied by an outstanding symphony. This sensational CD is a treasure to own.