Best Classic Broadway Vocalists
The warm, crooning tones of Perry Como are sure to lend a little extra Christmas cheer to this season's festivities. This collection brings together many of his classic seasonal recordings and some tracks even collectors will be delighted to find, including "Some Children See Him," recorded in 1954 but left off The Perry Como Christmas Album .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"These songs reflect all that I remember of Christmas, when Christmas was still Christmas!"
"Nice variety of songs -- in particular, I like Perry's version of "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.""
"Perry is the voice of my childhood singing these Christmas songs."
"Good old Perry Como and his songs ."
"Always liked Perry."
"Perry Como is one of those singers who just captures the magic of Christmas with the traditional songs sung perfectly."
Sony has used this "16 Most Requested" routine on a number of their easy-listening vocalists (including Sinatra and Andy Williams), but this one is special in that it takes the cream of Mathis's Greatest Hits album and rounds it out with his 1970s take on several movie theme hits, including Love Story and Romeo & Juliet.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Love listening to all the wonderful songs!"
"Very nice, that smooth, satiny voice will make for a nice evening with that someone special plus a glass of your favorite wine."
"I only wish the song he sang at the end of the '71 movie"Walking Tall" was included."
"Pretty much all of his best songs."
"All of your favorites in one album...you can't beat it for the price."
"Production quality is also excellent."
"Excellent collection and rendition of Johnny Mathis' songs."
"Love love the songs In this CD."
To celebrate 10 years as the world's most popular musical, the cast of Les Misrables threw a phenomenal birthday party at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1995.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This concert version is by far the best cd of the wonderful Les Mis."
"This is, for me, the definitive recording of the play."
"This particular cd/music is my husbands favorite...ever!"
"Its combination of rousing ensemble songs and poignant solo, duet and trio ballads is just right and this version includes some great extras, like 18 Jean Valjeans from around the world singing "Do You Hear the People Sing" in turn and together."
"This particular CD is full of beautiful voices and because it is the entire audio of the show, when listening you can fell you are sitting in the audience watching the show."
"Given as a gift and it was loved."
"Greatest musical of all time."
"I saw the 10th anniversary performance on PBS several years ago and just recently saw the movie."
Best Cabaret Vocalists
The album also topped many critics' "albums of the year" lists and gathered major music awards in the process, including eight Grammy Awards.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Her voice sounds even better than ever in this format. The combination of her voice and this music, along with the spaciousness of the sound, make for a great SACD."
"I highly recommend this CD if you love female vocalists - jazz, pop, country western - and to be introduced to a singer who will certainly make her mark on the music scene for years to come."
"Very talented, great voice and great songwriting as well."
"This record is perfect for laying on the floor on a warm afternoon with the sun shing through the window."
"A must have SACD for every Jazz collection!"
"Listened to this CD 50 times minimum."
"I love the mix of tunes on this album -- and Nora sings every song from her heart."
"One of my favorite vinyl records."
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It's the most successful musical of all time, the best-selling cast album ever-and now it sounds better than ever!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I was fortunate to see aproduction of the play and was thrilled to do so..Have been in love with it ever since i saw it...I love everything about it.."
"The music of Andrew Lloyd Webber is so soulful and beautiful it is hard to find anything negative about the opera."
"This is the best version of this amazing opera."
"An incomparable performance by Sarah Brightman."
"Although I love the 25th anniversary rendition much better than this original cast performance, that version would not be around without this one."
"If you like Broadway musicals, then Phantom of the Opera is one to see."
"Not much to say, the music speaks for itself."
"Saw it for the First Time Ever Last Saturday It Was Fantastic!!!"
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"Hamilton" - which transferred to Broadway following a sold-out run at The Public Theater in NYC - is the acclaimed new musical about the scrappy young immigrant Alexander Hamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Then avoid this album at ALL COSTS. Soon your family will start experimenting with this album and know Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton are more than just a trivia question from the Got Milk commercial from 1993. I'll leave it at this: I enjoyed this album enough to: -sing along with it. -move along with it. -make plans to fly out to Broadway to watch and support this show. -most importantly: find out more about Alexander Hamilton beyond the 1993 Got Milk commercial. I hope you enjoy this album as much as I have."
"This excellent cast album has it all: songs about desire, triumph, love, heartbreak, power, obsession, family, cheating, status, happiness and loss. After an eight year absence from visiting NYC, Hamilton has inspired me to book a plane ticket and a ridiculously expensive hotel room in the Big Apple just to see this show in the Fall."
"It's a brilliant pastiche of musical and poetic styles, all perfectly tailored to each particular character, yet woven into an intricate narrative that will inspire, entertain, and break your heart. I was privileged to see the show the week that it opened, and can't stop telling people about it, so I was beyond thrilled that the production team, including writer/performer Lin-Manuel Miranda and producer Ahmir Khalib Thompson (aka Questlove) chose to produce a full-length soundtrack that skipped nothing from the original show. Now an entire generation of theater-goers will arrive at Hamilton already knowing the music and words, and that's probably a great thing, because it's incredibly complex and fast-paced."
"When else does lively and engaging history get you singing about "when are these colonies gonna rise up?" Lots of hip-hop, rock, a little classical, ballads, and a touch of Motown--wonderful music that make history feel like it is happening right now. As history, you know how it ends, of course, but the feeling is so immediate, I actually found myself holding my breath to see if these colonies would win against the global superpower and cried when they did. There are no weak performances, but I want to give a shout out to Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr.as Aaron Burr, and Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler."