She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina

She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Label: Vanguard Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio Cassette
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 015707931144
EAN: 0015707931144
ASIN: B000000EKN


Release Date: 1993-03-20

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Tracks:

  1. Rollin' Mill Man
  2. Smack Water Jack
  3. Sweet September Morning
  4. She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina
  5. Bells
  6. Helpless
  7. Moratorium
  8. Surfer
  9. Song of the French Partisan
  10. Soldier, Blue [Title Song from the Avco-Embassy Picture, Soldier]
  11. Now You've Been Gone for a Long Time

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars An overlooked great song.......2005-12-15

When a good song bounces around your head since the 1960's, you know it's a classic. And that's certainly true of all the famous songs on this album. But for me, "Now you've been gone for a long time" is one of Buffy's most beautiful songs ever, never mentioned in fans' favorite song lists, and one that really lets her vibrato take on a role of underscoring the emotional content of the love song. It's delicate and profound, ethereal and mysterious...and the lyrics don't rhyme. Isn't that amazing! I love it. Buy this album...buy all of her albums...and listen to them for the next hundred years.

5 out of 5 stars Get the CD, record, cassette and 8 track.......2001-07-21

This is the album that made me an ardent Buffy fan twenty years ago when I was in my late teens. I assumed for a long time that it was everyone's favorite, until I realized that she has more than a dozen classic albums. These days, even though I have her entire collection, including her timeless Coincidence and Up Where We Belong albums, I probably listen to Quiet Places the most. However, there is still something so magical about the Ballerina album that sets it apart from the rest of her oeuvre. Her recording of "Song of the French Partisan" is so moving and picturesque that it was honestly ten years before I realized that the recording was done with only voice and guitar. I was only six when the movie Soldier Blue came out, so I didn't run across that one until adulthood either, but the title song, featured on Ballerina is equally stirring. The initial connection with this album really came with "Sweet September Morning", which I am sure I heard on the radio as a child. For me at least, the song speaks to a joyous spirituality; literally finding Jesus, or a love of a different sort. The theme has a charming ambiguity to make it interesting and it is certainly accessible enough for airplay. In my early thirties, after a night of drinking, nothing soothed the soul more than Buffy's cover of Neil Young's "Helpless" and the haunting "Now You've Been Gone For a Long Time". This album just doesn't get old. These days, I would consider her Spanish "The Surfer" to be a favorite. Her work with Neil Young's band Crazy Horse would be incentive enough for most people to get this album, but be aware that you are in for so much more.

5 out of 5 stars An album of scope and attainment.......2000-09-24

I first bought this record 25 years ago and subsequently replaced it with the c.d. Few artists could match the range and strength of what is her most complete recording. The fact that Buffy wrote about half the album and the choices she made in selecting songs to cover, make this a certain Desert Island Disc. HIGHLIGHTS:1 The stunning version of Neil Young's Helpless with it's thumping drums, lamentive lyric and authorative vocal. Buffy expresses the meaning of the song so well. 2 The Surfer, Stratospheric vocal-has to be heard to be believed. 3 Song of the French Partisan- earily melancholic. 4 Now You've Been Gone-An acoustic treat. Other delights await. One of my all-time favourite album's from an artist who truly deserves the epithet.

4 out of 5 stars Buffy's Best Collection.......2000-06-24

Buffy is often forgotten among the group of female singers, like Joan Baez and Judy Collins, who sang protest songs in the 70's but Buffy is among the best. The war protest songs "Moratorium" and "Song of the French Partisan" are some of the most moving in the collection. "Soldier Blue" gives a lump in the throat when you listen. The title track "She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina" touches everyones sense that their hopes and dreams when they were young were never met. All the tracks are a pleasure to listen to, but each listener will have a sense that one or two speak for their soul.

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