You Sing The Hits of CABARET (Karaoke)

Label: Pocket Songs
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 077712811101
EAN: 0077712811101
ASIN: B0001FBRCE

Release Date: 2000-01-01

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Tracks:

Willkommen
Mein Herr
Don't Tell Mama
Maybe This Time
Perfectly Marvelous
Two Ladies
It Couldn't Please Me More
Tomorrow Belongs To Me
Why Shouldn't I Wake Up?
The Money Song
If You Could See Her
Cabaret

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Customer Reviews:

Very Satisfactory.......2007-03-19

Not being familiar with Karaoke, I nonetheless needed some tracks from Cabaret for our talent show at school. The review I read here said the instrumentation on this CD was of good quality, not tinny or computerized like some Karaoke. I totally agree. The liner notes also include all the lyrics, so you don't need a Karaoke machine to get those. I would have liked to see the length of time for each of the tracks on the liner notes, but that's a small matter.

Absolutely wonderful sound and songs.......2006-01-28

This is the best karaoke version of a musical I've ever heard. Nothing sounds synthesized, as it usually does on these discs. It sounds like they recorded it with an actual orchestra, and it sounds beautiful.
"Mein Herr" and "Maybe This Time" use the arrangements and instrumentation from the 1972 film. The other ten tracks use the orchestration from the original 1966 Broadway production. All of them sound exactly like they do in the shows--no cheesy electronic sound.
I especially like "Sitting Pretty" because it contains all the extra music material that unfortunately wasn't included on the original Broadway cast album: the features and introductions for the different showgirls, their nation-specific theme music, and the tap dancing breaks. Usually, karaoke CD's will cut out dance breaks, but with "Cabaret," they actually restored that long-lost music.
"Cabaret" has been my favorite musical for years, and I was thrilled that this CD was so wonderful. It really does Kander and Ebb's songs justice by keeping the original music and orchestra sound in tact. Of course the singers on the vocal tracks aren't as good as actual actors that you would find on a real cast recording, so you should still buy a (or, like I did, eleven) soundtrack(s), but if you want fabulous backing tracks that you can sing along to, I highly recommend this item.

And to James Jarrell, who also reviewed this, it is called "You Sing the Hits of Cabaret" because it contains the HITS of Cabaret. I don't think that the Fraulein Schneider songs you listed could really be considered "hits." And "Don't Go" wasn't even in any of the New York productions, except for the 1987 revival, which only ran for 261 performances and never produced a cast album.

Some Good, Some Bad, Mostly awful.......2005-08-14

The actual tracks with the singers singing on them are dreadful. I have the 1999 Studio Cast starring Jonathon Pryce and I'm positive that is who is singing on these tracks. At any rate, it is one of the most awful group of performances of this score that I have heard.

The karaoke tracks are pretty good, but they're incomplete. Where is "Married"? Where is "Don't Go"? Where is "What Would You Do?" Where is "So What"? There's just way to much missing to call this the "Hits of Cabaret".

Also, some of the tracks have way too much rubato tailored to the performers who sing on the other CD. In a real performance of this show, there is NEVER that much rubato, and if there is, it's certainly not done the way they do it here.

I have been using this CD to help my high school students rehearse for a production of CABARET, and it's been a great help, but it is so incomplete and incongruent that you're better off creating midi tracks.

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