Get Up With It [Original recording remastered]

Get Up With It [Original recording remastered]

Get Up With It [Original recording remastered]

ASIN: B00004VWA5

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Issued just before Miles Davis entered the dark years of his retirement in 1975, Get Up with It includes tracks recorded between 1970 and 1975, and offers a roster of stars from throughout that period: Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, John McLaughlin, Dave Liebman, Steve Grossman, Sonny Fortune, Pete Cosey, Billy Cobham, and Al Foster. Though something of a mixed bag, the disc does contain two of Davis's most important compositions. "He Loved Him Madly," dedicated to Duke Ellington, is a slow, almost novelistically developed meditation on Ellington's life and work, more than 30 minutes of music. "Rated X" is a buzzing, rattling essay on studio minimalism, and one that prophetically links world music and hip-hop, even before there was a name for such repetitive, incremental musics. Among the other tracks here, "Calypso Frelimo" offers some splendid Davis trumpet, a corrective for those who thought he had lost it by that time. Now digitally remastered, with a brighter sound, Get Up with It seems something of a summing up of Davis's great electrical period of 1970-1975. But it also hints at things to come when he made his comeback in the 1980s. --John F. Szwed

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Best of Broadway: Some Enchanted Evening
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  • Some Enchanted Evening is enchanting!
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ASIN: B00006314M
Release Date: 2002-03-12

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5 out of 5 stars Some Enchanted Evening is enchanting!.......2002-07-26

This album takes you on a stroll down memory lane, enchanting all the way. It is relaxing and soothing listening, and will be great background music for a candlelit dinner for two, an evening party with a mix of ages and backgrounds, or just to sing with while you get some work done. The orchestration is excellent and the performances wonderfully smooth. A hit for everyone!
This Is the Army & Call Me Mister
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    ASIN: B00006J9M1
    Release Date: 2002-11-19

    Tracks:

    1. Overture: This Is The Army, Mr. Jones/I Left My Heart At The Stage Door/Canteen/That Russian Winter/This Is The Army, Mr. Jones (Reprise) - All-Soldier Chorus
    2. This Is The Army, Mr. Jones - Irving Berlin & Chorus
    3. I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep - Private Stuart Churchill
    4. I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen - Corporal Earl Oxford
    5. Dialog With Staff Sergent Ezra Stone, Corporal Philip Truex & Private Julie Oshins - Staff Sergent Ezra Stone
    6. The Army's Made A Man Out Of Me - Staff Sergent Ezra Stone
    7. What The Well Dressed Man In Harlem Will Wear - Corporal James 'Stump' Cross
    8. How About A Cheer For The Navy - All-Soldier Chorus
    9. American Eagles/With My Head In The Clouds - Soldier Chorus
    10. Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning - Irving Berlin
    11. My British Buddy - Irving Berlin & Chorus
    12. This Time - Cote Glee Club
    13. Going Home Train - Lawrence Winters & Male Chorus
    14. Along With Me - Danny Scholl
    15. Little Surplus Me - Betty Garrett
    16. The Red Ball Express - Male Quartet
    17. Military Life - Harry Clark
    18. Yuletide, Park Avenue - Betty Garrett
    19. When We Meet Again - Paula Bane
    20. The Face On The Dime - Lawrence Winters
    21. South America, Take It Away - Betty Garrett
    22. Call Me Mister - Bill Callaghan
    This Is the Army / Call Me Mister / Winged Victory
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Fine music, tone-deaf pricing from Vivendi
    • At long last and timely to boot
    		 This Is the Army / Call Me Mister / Winged Victory
    Irving Berlin , Harold Rome , and Moss Hart
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    ASIN: B0000A9D1N
    Release Date: 2003-07-29

    Tracks:

    1. Overture - Irving Berlin
    2. I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep - Irving Berlin
    3. I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen - Irving Berlin
    4. Ihe Army's Made A Man Out Of Me - Irving Berlin
    5. The Army's Made A Man Out Of Me - Irving Berlin
    6. What The Well Dressed Man In Harlem Will Wear - Irving Berlin
    7. How Bout A Cheer For The Navy - Irving Berlin
    8. American Eagles - Irving Berlin
    9. Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning - Irving Berlin
    10. Going Home Train - Harold Rome
    11. Along With Me - Harold Rome
    12. Little Surplus Me - Harold Rome
    13. The Red Ball Express - Harold Rome
    14. Military Life - Harold Rome
    15. Yuletied, Park Avenue - Harold Rome
    16. When We Meet Again - Harold Rome
    17. The Face On The Dime - Harold Rome
    18. South America, Take It Away - Harold Rome
    19. Call Me Mister - Harold Rome
    20. Winged Victory - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra
    21. My Dream Book Of Memories - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra
    22. The Whiffenpoof Song - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra
    23. The Army Air Corps - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Fine music, tone-deaf pricing from Vivendi.......2007-05-09

    "This is the Army" is the first, and by far the greatest. When the word historic has lost all meaning this revue truly was -- perhaps the biggest show-biz charity fundraiser ever (for the Army Emergency Relief, which exists to this day), an incalculable morale booster on two fronts, a show whose too-small number of black players nonetheless helped break down the military's color barrier. It also sired the first major-label musical cast album; Decca rushed it into production at the end of July, 1942 to beat the AFM's notorious recording ban. That (and perhaps some reticence with an untested genre) may explain why the public only got four 10" 78s, shorter than they should have been. (Victor rushed its own studio recording into print as well, with mediocre arrangements and Fats Waller.) The following year Decca atoned for its mistake when it declared peace with the musician's union to record "Oklahoma!", making the cast album a permanent part of our musical lives. If we got only a fraction of what must have been it must have been tremendous. On the evidence this was Irving Berlin's finest score to date, and after the slog through multiple continents with a war hardened company he dug deep and wrote "Annie Get Your Gun." The tragedy is that no one tried to revive this show when enough of the boys were still alive, say in the eighties; perhaps Berlin, by then a hopeless recluse, turned it down. As touching and as stirring as these songs are it is preposterous that this score has remained all but buried since the last production in 1945. That this show is inextricably tied to a war is no excuse; the memory of a brave generation deserves better.

    We go inevitably downhill from there, starting with the first track of "Call Me Mister", a postwar show with a lighter touch, and a lighter songwriter in several ways. Harold Rome could write a mean lyric, and he was good at the sort of situational humor that worked with topical shows, but despite his ambitions -- at the end of his career he foolishly adapted "Gone with the Wind" -- he just could not write the fine ballad that would have put him in the first rank. So where "This is the Army" can move the soul "Mister" just sits there, despite a haunting tribute to the "Face on the Dime." Its comic relief saves the day and it's pretty good as a recording too, as it's from 1946, and gives us a flavor of the old-time Broadway sound that makes these early albums so appealing. The four concluding sides of incidental music from Moss Hart's play "Winged Victory" are negligible. These are from David Rose, author of "Holiday for Strings" and patron saint of easy listening (until he wrote "The Stripper" and no doubt caused Red Skelton to swallow his kaddidlehopper). As might be expected from a man Spike Jones parodied he writes the most self-important music with the most showoffy grandiose charts, undercutting whatever patriotic feeling it had. His orchestral yelling even makes "The Army Air Corps" ("Off we go into the wild blue yonder") tiresome, a true negative achievement. It's easy to see why this has never been revived -- and never could be.

    Despite its shortcomings of production (and in the last two works of inspiration), this is a fine and valuable recording. Which brings us to Vivendi. When the company revamped its cast-album catalog it decided to price these completely amortized albums at full-line-plus. It's especially galling here as all the selections from "This is the Army" and "Winged Victory" and at least one from "Call Me Mister" have enough surface noise and distortion to indicate they're likely from commercial pressings. Maybe Mr. Bronfman Junior needed the money for his ultimately failed investment; but such gouging underscores the contempt the record business has for its customers, whom it sees as saps whose pockets will empty endlessly when it grabs them face down by the ankles. The public is now richly returning the favor by tuning itself out to the majors and its endless parade of tunelessness. For all the gold-chained clan's howls of denial it isn't good for the record trade -- and in the end, by eviscerating the one stable source for new music, it isn't good for us.

    5 out of 5 stars At long last and timely to boot.......2003-09-01

    Having scored a triumph during World War I with his "Yip Yip Yaphank," Irving Berlin was a natural to be asked to create a similar revue for World War II, and the all-male "This Is the Army" did very well. An original cast recording came out in 1942. The very next year, the Air Force got its chance with Moss Hart's "Winged Victory." Four of the songs appeared in boxed set of 78 rpm discs. When it was all over, the returning GI was saluted in yet another revue called "Call Me Mister." That original cast album appeared in 1946. Now you can hear them ALL on a single Decca CD (BOOOO831-02).

    There is a soundtrack recording from the film "This Is the Army" that is extremely fuzzy, making this Decca release far preferable, all the more so because it does give us the original all-soldier cast that included Irving Berlin himself singing (more or less) his immortal "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." Other songs include "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen," "How About a Cheer For the Navy," and "American Eagles."

    The focus here is how men made the transition from civilian to military life, and most of the problems they faced are mentioned in the opening number, "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones." We must also note with some sadness that the real problems of joining an army are never explicit, but the purpose of the show was to reassure and not to look at the "dark side of the force."

    "Winged Victory" originally contained only two discs holding four songs: "Winged Victory," "My Dream Book of Memories," "The Whiffenpoof Song," and "The Army Air Corps." That last one thrilled my generation whenever it was played over the radio and especially during the wartime films; and it has lost none of its potency over the years. (The line about going "down in flame" still chills.) This was also the first military revue that included women, a fact which makes it even more of an historical document.

    In 1946, Harold Rome lent his talents to putting together a revue for those returning to civilian life. Early in the war, Dinah Shore was able to praise "A Boy in Khaki," but Vaughn Monroe later in the war sang about looking forward to wearing "Just a Blue Serge Suit." I have a particular fondness for this set, because I owned a copy as a boy, played it to death, and eventually lost track of it. I never knew there was a 1950 LP version which included "This Is the Army," and I spent years trying to find the company that held the copyright that would get it onto a tape or (later on) a CD. So 57 years after the album first was released, my prayer has been answered!

    The first number, sung by Lawrence Winters (a great portrayer of Porgy, by the way), takes place aboard a "Going Home Train" and is replete with optimism. A sketch in which a group of men are waiting to be assigned work for the day included Winter's rendition of "The Red Ball Express" on which the Black GIs carried supplies to the troops. He is the only one denied work at the end of the scene. We had an even older enemy than the Nazis to face.

    A young newcomer named Betty Garrett delighted audiences with "Little Surplus Me" and "Yuletide, Park Avenue" in which many of the New York shops are mentioned in Christmas carol style. But it was her rendition of "South America, Take It Away" that brought down the house and raised her to stardom.

    You get the expected comic number, "Military Life," sung by Jules Munshin (remember him from the film "On the Town"?) and two other men, while Winters sings "A Face on a Dime," a song that needs some explaining to those who were born after the minting of the "Roosevelt Dime." "Along With Me" and the full version of "When We Meet Again" are the ballads, while the title song acts as a finale number.

    The press release announces, "Decca Broadway Salutes the Troops With the CD Release of Three World War II Musical Revues." The current situation, I am sure, helped prompt the release of this set; but whatever the reason, I am absolutely delighted it is finally available. The songs are mostly excellent examples of their kind, the lyrics for the most part clever and powerful, the historical value great. I really suggest that History Departments take notice and get a copy. All the textbook accounts of the war never give the human side of things, and this CD will go a long way to letting the present young generation know how we faced all-too-familiar problems back then.
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    Tracks:

    1. Oklahoma!: Oh What A Beautiful Mornin'/The Surrey With The Fringe On Top/Out Of My Dreams
    2. Oklahoma!: Kansas City/I Can't Say No/People Will Say We're In Love
    3. Oklahoma!: The Farmer And The Cowman/Pore Jud Is Daid/It's A Scandal, It's An Outrage
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    14. Zip Goes A Million: Ordinary People
    15. Zip Goes A Million: Zipe Goes A Million/Running Away To Land/Zip Goes A Million
    16. Zip Goes A Million: It Takes No Time To Fall In Love
    17. Zip Goes A Million: Nothing Breaks But The Heart
    18. Zip Goes A Million: Pleasure Cruise

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    5 out of 5 stars Review of Americans in London.......2006-03-09

    The recording is excellent and replaces my old 78 recordings which I transferred to tape some years ago. But they have that horrible hissing noise which spoils my enjoyment of them.
    It is to be observed that although the cast is American, the orchestras and conductors are British (except for Debroy Sommers). I know qite a bot about Deboy Sommers and Lew Stone, but can anyone fill me in about Reginald Burston?
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