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A Day to Remember - Instrumental Music for Your Wedding Day

by: O'Neill Brothers

Release Date April 25, 2002
I purchased this CD for my 78 yr old mother, a widow, who is getting remarried this Sept. and needed some recorded music to play before the ceremony and for the processional and recessional. She absolutely loves the CD and plays it over and over and over! It is a beautiful CD and I would highly recommend it for anyone needing this type of music.

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Greatest Hits: Broadway

from: Sony

Release Date October 29, 1996
A nice sampler. I bought it primarily for "Together, Forever" from Gypsy, though its nice to have the Broadway version of "Send in the Clowns (I believe by Glynis Johns). But it is just a sampler, and fans of Broadway music are probably better served buying the full original cast recordings.

CD-Charts Position 3
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Let Yourself Go

by: Kristin Chenoweth, Jule Styne, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Jeanine Tesori, Kurt Weill, Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Ricky Ian Gordon, Richard Dworsky, Lawrence Ellington Duke / Brown, Harry Warren, Bobby Troup, Jason Alexander, Irving Berlin, Rob Fisher, The Coffee Club Orchestra

Release Date May 29, 2001
The first time I saw Kristin Chenoweth in a movie was the TV "Music Man". Just lately I listened to the "Wicked" soundtrack, and after that, I've been listening to Kristin's CDs whenever I can. This one is a jazzy, Broadway-type CD with fun, engaging songs. She's a different type of singer, and while not everyone might enjoy her voice, I really do. If you like Broadway, jazz, drama, romance, or just fun, catchy songs, this is a CD for you.

CD-Charts Position 4
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Show Boat: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1951 Film)

by: Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II

Release Date May 23, 1995
This soundtrack of the 1951 MGM film version is my favorite recording of SHOW BOAT, even though, in typical Hollywood fashion, several songs from the stage version are truncated or completely missing. Kern's complex melodies cry for a symphonic sound far beyond the capabilities of a Broadway pit orchestra and Conrad Salinger's orchestrations played by the incomparable MGM Studio Orchestra with its superb string section are astonishingly beautiful, especially evident in the generous instrumental underscore cues included on this Rhino expanded CD. Howard Keel has the perfect voice for Ravenal and makes the best case for this role being sung by a baritone rather than a tenor. Although some may have issues with Kathryn's Grayson's excessive vibrato ... Read More:

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Lanza: Greatest Hits

from: RCA

Release Date April 11, 1995
Excellent product. CD just as described and fast delivery. Love Mario Lanza and his voice.

CD-Charts Position 6
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Somewhere over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals

by: Various Artists

Release Date June 04, 2002
This C-D contains remastered music from many of the
best musicals I remember from my youth. The only
thing I miss is the video because at times there is
only the sound of tapdancing.
I enjoy singing along with the music while driving
my car. Just as good as singing in the shower!

CD-Charts Position 7
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The Mario Lanza Collection (3CD)

from: RCA Victor

Release Date November 12, 1991
I don't know how this could be any better. Mario sings like an angel and I love most of the selections. I have thoroughly enoyed listening to my cd's, over and over.

CD-Charts Position 8
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Enchantment

by: Georges Bizet, Richard Rodgers, Michel Legrand, Leo Delibes, American Traditional, Erik Satie, British Isles Traditional, Jerome Kern, Johann II Strauss, Lucy Simon, David Foster, Sian Edwards, John Clark, Eric Rigler, Frank Ricotti, John Parricelli, Mark Hammond, Paul Keogh, Michael Thompson

Release Date October 09, 2001
I recommend this album for anyone who loves opera, contemporary, pop, and classical music. Although this album was made years ago when Charlotte was just 15, she has since released a hit pop album with a string of hits, had a baby and a hit T.V. variety show, she has recently stated that she's looking into acting again, and getting a role in an opera in the theater, releasing a new classical album, and a new pop album! This record is a great way to get ready for what Charlotte will be hitting us with next!

CD-Charts Position 9
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Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series)

from: Sony

Release Date October 19, 2004
Of course there should have been much more. I remember there been a Metropolian Opera series called CAST ALBUMS- 100 YEARS that was put out for a limited time only and had like five volumes.
As Peter Filichia noted they left out SHE LOVES ME, BRIGADOON and SWEENEY TODD. Also nothing from PACIFIC OVERTURES, BIG RIVER, CHESS, CRAZY FOR YOU, JEKYLL & HYDE, TITANIC, THE SCARLET
PIMPERNEL, FOOTLOOSE- THE MUSICAL, THE FULL MONTY, URINTOWN...
But they couldn't have put it all. I would have done without Lee Remick's
"Anyone Can Whistle", because the show was a flop. I guess because it was Sondheim's first "serious" show...

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Mulholland Drive: Original Motion Picture Score

by: Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch

Release Date October 09, 2001
There are a few lesser tracks, but all in all every bit as entertaining, quirky and surreal as the film itself. Moody, dark '50s-'60s L.A. period piece, film noir.