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The Bible
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Be Thou Now Persuaded: Living In A Shakespearean World [Spoken Word]
: :Be Thou Now Persuaded may convince you of certain things--e.g., that Richard Burton and John Barrymore are as overrated interpreters of Shakespeare as Anthony Quayle and Albert Finney are underrated; or that if a little Shakespeare is good, a lot is not necessarily better--but it is by no means the audio equivalent of Harold Bloom's bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, the delightful polemic that inspired it. Where Bloom proceeds systematically through the bard's theatrical canon, Persuaded organizes some 180 Shakespearean sound bites, ranging from seconds to minutes in length, on four ...
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A Celebration of Sellers
: :Be Thou Now Persuaded may convince you of certain things--e.g., that Richard Burton and John Barrymore are as overrated interpreters of Shakespeare as Anthony Quayle and Albert Finney are underrated; or that if a little Shakespeare is good, a lot is not necessarily better--but it is by no means the audio equivalent of Harold Bloom's bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, the delightful polemic that inspired it. Where Bloom proceeds systematically through the bard's theatrical canon, Persuaded organizes some 180 Shakespearean sound bites, ranging from seconds to minutes in length, on four ...
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Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (Finian's Rainbow, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls)
: :By the time he'd turned his own Reprise Records label into a going concern in 1963, Frank Sinatra could happily stub out his cigarette on Tradition, then douse the ashes with the slurry of his double bourbon on the rocks. It's not that Sinatra didn't respect the Broadway musical; indeed, he'd done quite well by its ballads over the course of his storied career. But that haughty Tradition--well, she was just another dame who had to go. So Sinatra swiftly showed her the door. Teaming up with musical director Morris Stoloff, a Murderer's ...
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The Marx Brothers Sing & Play
: :By the time he'd turned his own Reprise Records label into a going concern in 1963, Frank Sinatra could happily stub out his cigarette on Tradition, then douse the ashes with the slurry of his double bourbon on the rocks. It's not that Sinatra didn't respect the Broadway musical; indeed, he'd done quite well by its ballads over the course of his storied career. But that haughty Tradition--well, she was just another dame who had to go. So Sinatra swiftly showed her the door. Teaming up with musical director Morris Stoloff, a Murderer's ...
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Threads of Glory: 200 Years of America in Words & Music
from: Umvd Labels
: :By the time he'd turned his own Reprise Records label into a going concern in 1963, Frank Sinatra could happily stub out his cigarette on Tradition, then douse the ashes with the slurry of his double bourbon on the rocks. It's not that Sinatra didn't respect the Broadway musical; indeed, he'd done quite well by its ballads over the course of his storied career. But that haughty Tradition--well, she was just another dame who had to go. So Sinatra swiftly showed her the door. Teaming up with musical director Morris Stoloff, a Murderer's ...
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The Shadow with Book(s)
: :By the time he'd turned his own Reprise Records label into a going concern in 1963, Frank Sinatra could happily stub out his cigarette on Tradition, then douse the ashes with the slurry of his double bourbon on the rocks. It's not that Sinatra didn't respect the Broadway musical; indeed, he'd done quite well by its ballads over the course of his storied career. But that haughty Tradition--well, she was just another dame who had to go. So Sinatra swiftly showed her the door. Teaming up with musical director Morris Stoloff, a Murderer's ...
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If You Go Away: The RCA Years 1965 - 1968
:Album Description:McKuen's complete 1960s RCA Victor recordings in this lavish 7CD box set! He's worked as a rodeo cowboy, lumberjack, and B movie actor. 'If You Go Away' concentrates on 4 fruitful years of McKuen's recording and songwriting career. Since the 1950s, he estimates, more than 200 albums have been released under his name and selections from his catalog of more than 1,500 compositions have been recorded by singers including Ray Charles, Petula Clark, Johnny Cash, and Frank Sinatra. This collection gathers Rod's six original albums for RCA released between 1965-'68, plus an ...
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L' Iliade et l'Odyssee
:Album Description:McKuen's complete 1960s RCA Victor recordings in this lavish 7CD box set! He's worked as a rodeo cowboy, lumberjack, and B movie actor. 'If You Go Away' concentrates on 4 fruitful years of McKuen's recording and songwriting career. Since the 1950s, he estimates, more than 200 albums have been released under his name and selections from his catalog of more than 1,500 compositions have been recorded by singers including Ray Charles, Petula Clark, Johnny Cash, and Frank Sinatra. This collection gathers Rod's six original albums for RCA released between 1965-'68, plus an ...
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Intégrale Des Entretiens Radiophoniques
:Album Description:McKuen's complete 1960s RCA Victor recordings in this lavish 7CD box set! He's worked as a rodeo cowboy, lumberjack, and B movie actor. 'If You Go Away' concentrates on 4 fruitful years of McKuen's recording and songwriting career. Since the 1950s, he estimates, more than 200 albums have been released under his name and selections from his catalog of more than 1,500 compositions have been recorded by singers including Ray Charles, Petula Clark, Johnny Cash, and Frank Sinatra. This collection gathers Rod's six original albums for RCA released between 1965-'68, plus an ...
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