Las #1 en Norteño

Track Listings

1. Morir de Amor - Conjunto Primavera

2. Falsas Ilusiones - Los Huracanes del Norte

3. Medias Parejo - Los Rieleros del Norte

4. Tómame O Déjame - Grupo Exterminador

5. Amor Prohibido - Polo Urias

6. Palomos - Priscila y Sus Balas de Plata

7. Acabo de Enterarme - Dinastia Nortena

8. Prisioneros de Tus Ojos - Norteños de Ojinaga

9. Por Una Mejor Bonita - Los Capos de Mexico

10. Chubasco - Carlos y José

11. Coyote - Oro Norteño

12. Corazoncito Tirano

13. Virginidad - Hermanos Vega

14. Besos y Copas

Las #1 en Norteño,Various Artists,Fonovisa,Norteño

Las #1 en Norteño

Tracks:

Sei Lob Und Preis Mit Ehren
Erbarme Dich
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
Ertot' Uns Durch Dein' Gute
Ich Ruf' Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ
Kommst Du Nun, Jesu, Vom Himmel Herunter
Lab Mein Herz Die Munze Sein
Dein Blut, Der Edle Saft
'Air On A G String'
Cello Concerto In G Major
Cello Concerto In G Major
Cello Concerto In G Major
Cello Concerto In D Major
Cello Concerto In D Major
Cello Concerto In D Major
Cello Concerto In D Major
Was Gott Tut, Das Ist Wohlgetan
Aria From Goldberg Variations
Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme

Customer Reviews:

Simply the Best.......2005-05-31

I can only say, that as far as I am concerned, this is just some of the best music I have ever heard.... Im guessing this is the way Bach intended his music to sound in the first place, and who better for that than the AMO and Koopman...and of course YO YO... if u love classic music, you are absolutly going to LOVE this cd..I highly recommend it

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A NEW DAY IN VEGAS
As good as the show
A New Day....Live in Las Vegas
Wonderful
Great as always

A New Day...Live In Las Vegas
Celine Dion
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
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Customer Reviews:

A NEW DAY IN VEGAS.......2007-06-13

This show that Celine does in Vegas, is a must see show. She is outstanding, and performs outstanding. She wears the most beautiful clothes. I have seen her show 8 times, and going in August, and have tickets for her last show on Dec. 15th. This will be the show of all shows in Vegas. There will never be an other singer that will TOP CELINE DION. Susan

As good as the show.......2007-01-10

This CD is great to listen to and even better after seeing the performance in person. My only regret is that there seems to be a couple of songs missing from the CD that she sings during her show in Legas.

A New Day....Live in Las Vegas.......2006-11-10

Without a doubt Celine is a great singer, she has a voice as beautiful as Barbra Streisand. I really enjoy listening to her.

Wonderful.......2006-11-10

This CD reminds me of when my husband and I went to see her recently. I love the CD. It captures the moment for me. I listen to it All The Time. I have recommended it to everyone I know.

Great as always.......2006-08-04

Celine's songs are always very good; however, still awaiting the DVD of the entire Las Vegas show; not the bits and pieces as was included with the CD.

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A Man and His Art - Magnificently Captured
What can you say - it's Segovia!
EVERYBODY KNOWS
Immortal guitar
WOW

Art of Segovia
Andres Segovia
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
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ASIN: B00006B66L
Release Date: 2002-10-08

Tracks:

Andante
Andantino
Lento
Romance De Los Pinos
Madronos
Serenata Burlesca
Variations On A Theme From Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'
Mesto E Calmo
Theme, Variations & Finale
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Capriccio Diabolico, Op.85
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If My Complaints
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Aria E Corrente
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Menuet In G Major
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No.7 In A Major
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Allegretto
Tres Calme Et Doucement Expressif
No.4 In E Flat Minor
5. Asturias. Leyenda - Preludio
7. Zambra Granadina
Estudio Sin Luz
Allegro Con Brio

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DG has put together a fascinating compilation of Segovia's art that reminds us what a protean figure he was. Segovia single-handedly put the instrument on the map by making classical guitar concerts popular events, broadening the instrument's repertory through commissions and transcriptions, and convincing even doubters that it could be a vehicle for serious music. He's heard here in brief pieces recorded between 1952 and 1969. Even in those made when he was well into his 70s, his fingers remain nimble and interpretations lively. Listening straight through, one hears many all-time Segovia favorites as Turina's Sevillana and Albeniz's Asturias and Zambra Granadina and renews appreciation for path-breaking composers like Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He wrote extensively for Segovia and his Capriccio diabolico and Tonadilla are pieces of real substance. Disc two is largely made up transcriptions and it's amazing how well so many of them work on the guitar, at least under Segovia's magic fingers. Thus the transformations of Bach's violin music and even a Chopin Prelude sound idiomatic, and the gorgeous melodies of the Canzonetta from Mendelssohn's Op. 12 String Quartet are irresistible here. An entrancing set. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

A Man and His Art - Magnificently Captured.......2007-04-06

This 2-CD set produced by Deutche Grammmophon and first released in 2002 is one set of the hundreds that could have been or the dozens that actually have been made and sold successfully all over the world. The exceptional feature of this particular collection is not, of course, the performer. Quite to the contrary, the miraculous consistency of stylings and performance are amongst the most remarkable aspects of the man who was, arguably, the 20th Centry's virtuoso supreme of the classical guitar, Andres Segovia (1893-1987.) Rather, it is the collection itself - the pieces chosen to be produced on this one set - this, to steal a German word, gestalt. While his style did not remain constant throughout his long life and career, by the time he had developed his most masterful skills that included doing his own arrangements - the era represented on this particular set (1951-1960) - his playing had become completely his own - unchallenged and unmatched by even other clearly great guitarists with whom he shared this era.

There are a total of 31 pieces played on these CDs and while a playlist would be an unnecessary use of space here, a list of the composers represented is not. More than the specific pieces Segovia gives us here, the range of composers chosen by the compilers and editors - with each piece rearranged by Segovia himself, tells us a great deal about his interests, talents and musical range. These composers include:
Isaac Albeniz, Johann Sebastian Bach, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, John Dowland, Manuel de Falla, Cesar Franke, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Edvard Grieg, George Frederic Handel, Felix Mendelsohn, Frederico Moreno Torroba, Modest Mussorgsky, Nicolo Paganini, Felipe Pedrell, Manuel Ponce, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Joaquin Rodrigo, Albert Roussel, Domenico Scarlatti, Alexander Scriabin, Segovia's own composition of Estudio sin luz, Fernando Sor, Francisco Tarrega, Joaquin Turina and Heitor Villa-Lobos. A truly magnificent and broad ranging collection held together by Segovia's unique personal style, approach and sound.

Largely self-taught, Andres Segovia did things with a guitar that others only imagined. He didn't just play Bach, for example - music written for an entirely different type of instrument (keyboards.) He went a step further, and recorder Bach's keyboard lessons written for his students (the Two and Three Part Inventions) and made them sound as if they had been written for the guitar! His artistry is evident to even the casual listener and in this collection, any devote of classical guitar and/or of Segovia as an individual artist, will not be disappointed.
Perfect listening for anytime. Hypnotic and, simply, unsurpassed. A necessary addition to any serious classical guitar collection.

What can you say - it's Segovia!.......2007-02-10

I saw Segovia perform live in my youth. What a treat! Anyone who loves Classical Guitar should love this collection.

EVERYBODY KNOWS.......2007-01-13

EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT ANDRES SEGOVIA WAS/IS THE WORLD'S GREATEST CLASSICAL GUITAR PLAYER. THIS CD IS A COMPILATION OF HIS RECORDINGS FROM THE THE EARLY 50'S TO THE LATE 60'S. HIS GUITAR MASTERY IS UNQUESTIONED AND HE IS AN INSPIRATION. I WISH I COULD PLAY GUITAR LIKE ANDRES SEGOVIA (BUT I CAN'T AND I NEVER WILL!).

Immortal guitar.......2006-08-02

Two CD's with Segovia's immortal music - an incredible treat at a great price!

WOW.......2006-02-23

Even though there is hiss from the original analog recordings this one is a must. Segovia! What more can you say. Anyone who likes classical guitar will love this.

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What Might Have Been
Ouch!
wow...
Oh, How I Wanted To Like It.....
MARY WEISS: LIVING GODDESS/MYSTIC

Dangerous Game
Mary Weiss
Manufacturer: Norton
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Myrmidons of Melodrama
Tied & True
Back to Black
Twelve
We'll Never Turn Back

ASIN: B000N3SSQC
Release Date: 2007-03-27

Tracks:

My Heart Is Beating
Nobody Knows (But I Do)
Break It One More Time
Stop and Think It Over
Cry About the Radio
You're Never Gonna See Me Cry
Dangerous Game
Don't Come Back
I Just Missed You
Stitch in Time
Tell Me What You Want Me to Do
Heaven Only Knows
I Don't Care
You Can Stay with Me

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While Mary Weiss's name isn't familiar to the masses, her records with the Shangri-Las in the 1960s left an indelible mark on the cultural map. "Leader of the Pack," "Remember (Walking in the Sand)," and a string of other hits had her unmistakable voice blasting from radios and record players across the land. Just 18 when their last hit fell off the charts, Weiss, disillusioned from bad business deals, virtually disappeared. Now, 40 years later, comes her first solo album. Backed by Greg Cartwright and his band Reigning Sound, the songs (most of them penned by Cartwright) have their roots in the '60s, but eschew Spectorish sheen and density for a harder-edged sound. If the early-era Rolling Stones had been fronted by Debbie Harry, they'd have landed quite near this relentless 40-minute party. The few covers include an Ellie Greenwich/Jeff Barry chestnut, "Heaven Only Knows." Smartly paced, a few ballads offer some breathing room before the rhythm pumps up again. --David Greenberger

Album Description

The leader of the pack is back! Mary Weiss, the lead singer of the Shangri-Las, returns with a bang on her first recordings in four decades! Mary tackles thirteen originals by today's top songwriters plus reclaims Heaven Only Knows, backed by Memphis fan faves the Reigning Sound! Produced by Billy Miller and Greg Cartwright, this record started making noise as soon as session details began to filter out! Mary's return to the stage coincides with this release, slated for dates in Cleveland and at SXSW in Austin TX. You've spent a lifetime with 'Leader Of The Pack', 'Remember (Walking In The Sand)', 'Give Him A Great Big Kiss', 'Out In The Streets', and 'I Can Never Go Home Anymore'-- now get ready to blast forth with a brand new collection of Mary Weiss classics. The voice, the attitude, the magic that is... Mary Weiss.

Customer Reviews:

What Might Have Been.......2007-06-30

Let's just suppose for a moment that Mary Weiss had been recording for the last forty years between Remember (Walking in the Sand) and, to pick one song from Dangerous Game (the title track one of my least favorites on the CD, BTW), Nobody Knows, where would she rank in the collection of great women singers? Top Ten, easy. Probably Top Five. This is a terrific work -- the sixties, the eighties and a little 21st century punk on one disc. The rockers (current favorite Don't Come Back) are better than the slow ones, but downloaded or bought in CD form, this long-overdue return is way worth the money. And a big thumbs up to the band, Reigning Sound. Their urgent, hard-edged playing adds a lot to the Weiss vocals. Great stuff.

Ouch!.......2007-06-22

A friend of mine picked this up on vinyl along with The Pipettes EP. We played the Pipettes and liked it and agreed it was decent power pop with tight vocal harmonies in the Brill Building mold but with more modern themes to it and a slight sense of cheekiness. Then we put on the Mary Weiss album. At first we thought that the record was mastered at the wrong speed. Either that or Nico came back from the grave with a Queens accent. The songs were trying way to hard to capture the sound and feel of the early 60's that they are almost a parody. Maybe the production team responsible for this drivel should listen to the Pipettes and take some notes. But then again it's Norton records and they are just too cool for that.
Let's face facts, Mary Weiss was not a very good singer back then and she is not one now, plus she hasn't been on the business end of microphone since she sang back up on Aerosmith's version of "Remember (Walking In The Sand)" back in the 70's. Ronnie Spector has been continuously working for the past 30 plus years not that she has put out anything spectacular but she kept her chops up. When you do a comeback you should do something that no one expects not a pastiche of past glory. There is a reason why the whole "Girl Group Sound" died as quickly as it did, as great as some of the stuff was most of it was trite, meaningless and designed to have a short shelf life. I know I am in the minority here but I just had to say something.

wow..........2007-06-22

The last surviving Shangri-la has released a new album! Gosh, it's like finding out that the Last Scion is writing an autobiography.

If you were male and anywhere within hailing distance of puberty when the Las were in their prime, then you knew what TOUGH looked like and - far, far, far more to the point - what it was supposed to sound like.

I grew up in Jersey, hard by the refineries along the Kill van Kul. It was a time of transition. The hoods were beginning to lose their dominance and Rock 'n' Roll was shifting away from its foundations. Surf music was on the rise; pop sounds were taking over the charts...the British Invasion was still over the horizon. But, girl groups were still hitting the charts.

Into this maelstrom, the Shangri-Las stepped with an appearance and sound that was like nothing else. Looking tough as nails and sounding sweet as wine, the Las were the girls you yearned to date but you knew you never would because they would always be dating someone older.

It didn't stop you loving them and living the mini-operas that were their songs.

Over the decades since they disbanded, it had been quiet. Fakes toured under the group name; three of the Las passed on; they were denied entry to the Rock and Roll hall of Fame - H*ll, that's a bigger honor than getting in these days.

Then, a note in the music press: Mary Weiss is recording an album.

I approached this album with great trepidation. 40 years after the fact, what could one hope and pray for, let alone expect? After all, The Who are a virtual parody of themselves and Roger has - d*mm*t to H*ll and back again - lost his voice. Ronnie Spector had that ghastly album and then followed it with that way-too-many-drinks-before-the-presentation speech at the Rock Hall Induction dinner. The Stooges? Well, that's the reason to have some hope, isn't it?

And so, I bought the album.

You know what? It's good...really, really good. Maybe it is even great. But, what was surprising for me was that my first reaction wasn't about Mary. It was, instead, about the astonishing band backing her and writing a good portion of the songs. It's the Reigning Sound and they bring a stripped down simplicity to these sounds that - while at odds with the Spectorish/Brill sound that Shadow Morton (A GENIUS!) used with the Las in the 60s - bring an underpinning of maturity and wisdom to Mary's presentation.

This is probably the best thing that could have occurred! While I would crawl through glass and whatever else to hear her do Las songs, the intimacy of this album's production is every bit as important as the singer and the band.

It's good to see and hear someone who clearly, without a doubt, looks back on their life and can smile about all the times and places and people that were experienced. Something else: the voice is better than ever!

Mary: you did great! Please don't wait another 40 years.

Oh, How I Wanted To Like It............2007-06-12

If just for the pleasure she provided with The Shangri-las, I really wanted to like this CD. It wasn't as if I hadn't been warned by some, but I went ahead anyhow. She still has the voice, just not the songs. Mediocre. After awhile, you begin to think thet you're listening to a community theatre soundtrack to Grease 2007. It's not her fault, it just that the Red Bird production team is long gone.

MARY WEISS: LIVING GODDESS/MYSTIC.......2007-05-23

I haven't heard this yet, sorry. I will get around to it. I heard some snippets on an interview with Mary Weiss on NPR. My main interest here and now is in the Shangri-las recordings. First off, my musical tastes are typical 60s-70s, Animals, Yarbirds, Them, Stones, Spirit, Zombies, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Bonzos, Fugs, Zappa, Moodies, Beefheart, Velvets, Nico, Blondie, Alice Cooper. Pretty typical, but I have little conecpt that any music was actually made beyond 1980. Finding new music for me is like discovering the Blues Magoos, Electric Prunes, Downliners Sect, Kalidescope, Autosalvage. I am planning on discovering Iggy Pop soon. Yea. Maybe Van Halen, too. Not kidding. Anyway, I never really paid much attention to the 60s girl groups as individual artists. It never really mattered to me who sang Leader of the Pack, My Boy Friend's Back, or Solider Boy. Although the songs themselves are some of my favortite radio plays, just like much of the top 40 of 71-74. Know what I mean? It's the song. These weren't 'artists.' Funny thing happened on the way to discovering Mary Weiss the artist and icon. A few months before I heard Mary Weiss on NPR about this release, I had heard Walkin' in the Sand and was determined to hear more of this group. I'd heard of the Shangri-las but it didn't really mean anything to me. Gratefully that song has not been overplayed, so I was able to set out to discover something new. I bought the 20th Century CD and heard some really great stuff. Then I heard the Mary Weiss interview a couple months later. It all seemed so strange. She said she was inspired to make this CD by Iggy Pop who said 'life happens in 7 years cycles,' This concept of 7 year cycles is a completely mystical idea. Being drawn to such ideas myself, I had to hear more of the Shangri-las. I had already noticed something quite unusual in this music. They were not ordinary pop songs. There was something higher in them. I could not quite put my finger on it. So I got the outstanding Myrmidons of Melodrama CD. As I listend more and more, I discovered this consistent strain of mystical / Religious / psychological ideas in these songs. Take for example the concept of time in the them. The concept of time is approached in a circular or buddist way as opposed to linear time. The boy has gone away, but by Remembering Walking in the Sand, he becomes an eternal present. Linear time is made circular. This concept is again shown in the song What is Love, where the boy will "be there for the rest of time." There are miracles: boys. Lots of praying: Freudian wishful thinking. The song Train From Kanasas is about past time, pressing not so much on present time, but on future time, as the problem of the train coming into town is never resolved but again remains locked in an eternal present. Right Now and Not Later Baby, again an eternal present. The future is always a forever. This would appear more christian than mystical or buddist, but the idea that it's being sung by a girl on the threshold of consciousness, she seems limited as yet by her immaturity. It is sung by a girl in liminality - betwixt and between - where forever can exist because she is only now just begining to understand. She doesn't know so much as heaven does. But she naiviely knows more than she does and can only speak in these more christian terms at such a young age. She can Never Go Home, but it's only her way of understanding the theshold of consciousness that she has not fully crossed yet. The song Past Present and Future speaks for itself. The problem is not the future; it's approaching consciousness. Also, she's not so terribly affected by the realities of war yet, except that a few boys have 'gone overseas.' War isn't even mentoined, but we get the hint. They won't be boys for long, but she doesn't know it yet, and neither does America. These boys exist only in imagery now, and will forever. They are something more and other than what they really are. Out in The Streets, Mary is becoming conscious of an over-mothering tendency that won't allow the boy to live by is own nature or maybe even grow up. There is only one evil: interfering with someone else's own nature, individuality and future. He remains an image, something more than the real person. Also the songs while catchy and kitchy are not overly-melodic to become bubble gum or even ordinary pop. There is something extrordinary here. This music is the genuine proto-punk. It's not Lou Reed or Iggy Pop or Elvis or Frank Sinatra or Edgar Allan Poe (Reed's weird idea) or Baudilaire or Jesus. The one thing they all have in common is a mother. That mother is Mary Weiss. Hey, Mary, when's a memoir coming out? You got a lot to say. I have a movie part for you, leading lady as a psychologist. Don't be surpried if you hear from me in the future. Haw haw.

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Great Spanish- Children Music
excelente!
Great Music, Not typical "kiddie" music
GREAT MUSIC
EL MEJOR DISCO PARA NINOS!!!

Las 100 Clasicas de Cri Cri, Vol. 1
Cri-Cri
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El Conejito Enfermo
Los Enanos Toreros
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La Cocorica
Minuet De Los Pajaros
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Customer Reviews:

Great Spanish- Children Music.......2007-06-02

I grew up listening to Cri Cri and I was ecstatic to see this collection available online. I highly recommend this collection! I love playing the CDs right before I put my one-year-old to sleep... it helps calm him down, and he falls asleep shortly after. It is also a great collection to play when you have children in your car. It is a collection I hope to pass on from generation to generation and hope many more see the value and appreciate this timeless music.

excelente!.......2007-04-10

no me había dado cuenta que tiene 2 discos!! qué oferta tan buena!! y trae un librito contando la historia de Cri Cri...

Great Music, Not typical "kiddie" music.......2007-03-16

I bought this, worried about the type of music I would find based on the cover images - the bright silly graphics are typically on bad, ear-aching music for children. But this music is pleasant for adult and child. If you want high-pitched children singing along though, this is not the CD for you. Unfortunately, there are no lyrics in any language, which I greatly wanted.
Overall, a nice cd and would purchase again.

GREAT MUSIC.......2007-01-17

I am fan of Cri-Cri since I was a little kid. His music is very good and my kids love too. This is a children spanish music CD. Cri Cri (Francisco Gabilondo Soler-Cri Cri born in México and he dies 16 year ago -1990-)

EL MEJOR DISCO PARA NINOS!!!.......2007-01-16

IF YOU'RE A CRI-CRI FAN...THIS IS THE BEST!!!

MY BABY LOVE'S IT!!

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: Music From The Motion Picture

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A must have for "Fear and Loathing" fans
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JohnnyLongStreet
my favorite things

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: Music From The Motion Picture
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A Drug Score-Part 3 (Flashbacks) - Tomoyasu Hotei & Ray Cooper
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Customer Reviews:

A must have for "Fear and Loathing" fans.......2007-01-10

I love this cd because of the dialogue from the movie before each song. It is so funny and has some great music.

Old School.......2006-11-11

This CD not only has the funniest diolouge out of the movie but it has awsome music, its great for back round music at a party.

Great Soundtrack to a Fantastic Film.......2005-11-06

I love the movie, and I love the soundtrack. The only disappointment was the absence of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" by the Rolling Stones. Everytime I hear that song I think of Raoul Duke speeding off leaving the insanity and chaos of Vegas behind him and desperately searching for sanctuary. But other than that, its an amazing soundtrack. I especially enjoy the audio clips from the film that play prior to each song.

JohnnyLongStreet.......2005-10-31

It is true that this is a great collection of songs.

With that said, here are two complaints:

1) The audio snippets from the movie are built into the tracks, so they're tougher to skip through.

2) The audio transfer is terrible. Somewhere in the process, either at the transfer or the mix, the audio thinned out. There's a really weak bass end, and everything sounds thin and tinny.

Not that it ruins the experience, but for someone who's actually into how music sounds, you might look elsewhere.

my favorite things.......2005-09-16

this is in response to the comment above: the song youre thinking of is called "my favorite things" by The Lennon Sisters. I dont know why they didnt put it on the album, they should have. anyway, thats the name of the song.

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Las mejores canciones pero no se de que mundo me hablas.
No fue lo ke esperaba
COMO TODO LO QUE GRABA, EXCELENTE

Las Mejores Canciones Del Mundo
Ricardo Montaner
Manufacturer: EMI Latin
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000MGTFE4
Release Date: 2007-02-06

Tracks:

Echame a mi la culpa
Solo otra vez
Oh que sera
Procuro Olvidarte
Hoy tengo ganas de ti
Me cuesta tanto olvidarte
Lucia
La fuerza del corazon
Nostalgias
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Diablo y Alcohol
Lady

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Las mejores canciones pero no se de que mundo me hablas........2007-05-12

La verdad que el cd suena muy bien cuando pongo el equipo al mango la calidad de la produccion es muy buena, las canciones aunque viejitas tienen el estilo del mejor cantaoutor de hispanoamerica, Ricardo Montaner tiene la mejor voz de toda latinoamerica, Hace tanto que Montaner tenía ganas de grabar un cd de tango y en este cd se da el lujo de cantar un tangazo como Nostalgias que la verdad me parece excelente aguante Argentina carajo!, enfin, este cd tiene canciones de autores de las Américas y España, de todas formas para muchos generaciones jovenes estas canciones va a ser como nuevas, enfin por mi parte yo recomiendo este cd.
Con respecto a las canciones no son 13 como amazon publica en la páguina web son solo 12 y el tema Me cuesta tanto olvidarte no existe en el cd.

No fue lo ke esperaba.......2007-05-08

Realmente me esperaba mucho mas y solo me gustaron 4 canciones del disco.

COMO TODO LO QUE GRABA, EXCELENTE.......2007-04-25

Ricardo Montaner tiene una magia, que todo lo que graba, ya sea compuesto por el o por otro, una vez lo graba, ten por seguro que será un éxito. No pudo darle un mejor titulo a este disco que LAS MEJORES CANCIONES DEL MUNDO, porque sí fueron las mejores, pero una vez interpretadas por él, no sólo te transportas al pasado, sino que Ricardo hace muy de él estas versiones. No se van a arrepentir de tenerlo en su colección.

The Vienna I Love, Waltzes From My Heart

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André Rieu - The Vienna I love - Waltzes From My Heart
Excellent choice
Pop Strauss, et al
Depressed? Listen to this!

The Vienna I Love, Waltzes From My Heart
Johann Strauss Orchestra
Manufacturer: Philips
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ASIN: B000001GBL
Release Date: 1997-01-14

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If Rieu is not the most outstanding purveyor of Viennese waltzes and similar light-hearted fare, he is certainly the most popular and well-known. There are plenty of fun pieces on this album, although, to be just a tad pedantic, more of it is Italian and French than remotely Viennese. But it's all fun, and it's all well-played. --Sarah Bryan Miller

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Music different from title.......2007-05-26

The title of this CD was misleading. I wanted an entire CD of Viennese waltzes to play at a party, and was disappointed that there were marches, etc. on the CD. A better title would've been "The Vienna I Love, Music From My Heart".

André Rieu - The Vienna I love - Waltzes From My Heart.......2006-07-17

The music is so upbeat and you are automatically in a good mood. It is a real pleasure listening to this CD and it is done frequently.

Excellent choice.......2006-05-03

I am really a rock music fan but I enjoy this version of light classical music. It may not be for the serious classical music enthusiast, but it is still considered excellent light entertainment. What a way to introduce classical music to a wider audience!

Pop Strauss, et al.......2004-04-30

I was looking for truly Viennese renditions of Strauss waltzes. Though unrelentingly upbeat, this isn't it. There are medleys of Strauss, Offenbach, Rossini, and everyone else imaginable. It's a pop version of what was once pop on its own. I know Strauss isn't serious classical fare, but this trivializes it.

Depressed? Listen to this!.......2002-09-25

Having one of those ho-hum days just like that little round guy on the Zoloft commercial? Place this on your CD, press start, and don't fight it! You will be dancing around the living room (provided you don't fight it, just let it go!). Musically, it is a very fine piece from a very fine artist. It can totally transport you. So many of the tunes you will know from TV commercials, (Rheingold Beer) etc. It is a solid beautiful collection of tunes that can stir the soul. I know it sounds schmaltzy, but if it can make you feel better,why not try it?

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One of Savall's finest
Nearly every night for 6 months!
Diáspora sefardí / Hespèrion XXI

Diáspora Sefardí

Manufacturer: Alia Vox Spain
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00004RBWV
Release Date: 2000-03-14

Tracks:

El Moro De Antequera
Levantose El Conde Nino
El Rey De Francia
Por Alli Paso Un Cavallero
Por Que Llorax Blanca Nina
La Guirnalda De Rosas
Nani Nani
El Rey Que Tanto Madruga

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Las Estrellas De Los Cielos
En La Santa Helena
A La Una Yo Naci
Improvisacion
Paxarico Tu Te Llamas
Yo Era Nina De Casa Alta
Longe De Mi Tu Estaras
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The Sephardic Jews, scattered through the world after their expulsion from Spain in 1492, kept alive for centuries not only their language, Ladino, but an extraordinary repertory of "folk" songs, many of them quite sophisticated. As Ladino culture began to slowly fade away over the course of the 20th century, musicologists collected and transcribed these melodies from Ladino-speaking communities in Sarajevo, Sofia, Salonika, Smyrna, Jerusalem, and other cities. Beginning in the 1970s, these extraordinary songs were revived (to considerable excitement) for concert audiences--a revival sparked in large part by a 1976 recording by Hesperion XX. This now-legendary early music ensemble, renamed Hesperion XXI for the new century, has returned to the music of the Sephardic Diaspora with this beautifully produced and packaged release. Disc 1 contains eight songs performed lovingly by the magnetic Montserrat Figueras (who sings with an appropriately unstudied tone). The second disc includes eight more melodies performed instrumentally; the choice of instruments reflects the influence of the Muslim-ruled areas where the Sephardim settled with the oud, rebab, and qanun (Middle Eastern equivalents of the lute, fiddle, and dulcimer) performing alongside harps, lutes, flutes, and frame drums. (Inexplicably, however, the final track of this second CD--an improvisation for the sarod and tabla--sounds nice but feels completely foreign to the theme of this release.) It may have been more effective programming to mingle the vocal and instrumental tracks across the two CDs rather than segregating them. --Matthew Westphal

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One of Savall's finest.......2004-05-19

Hespérion XXI (formerly Hespérion XX, but renamed to honour the new century) is one of the most accomplished ensembles specialising in the early music of the Iberian peninsula. It is one of the ongoing collectives led by the formidable Jordi Savall, renowned for his interpretations on the viol da gamba. The members are always changing, which makes the ensemble simply a name for a grouping of artists and interpreters of this immensely rich musical heritage, yet always under Savall's masterful direction. Diaspora Sefardi is a double-CD of music of the Sephardic Jews, a diverse culture originating in Spain and later settling in countries around the Mediterranean after their expulsion from most of Spain in 1492. Never losing sight of their basic identity as Jews or their awareness of their Spanish origins, the Sephardic culture gradually incorporated numerous influences from the peoples among whom it evolved: from the Arab culture of north Africa, from the Turks, Greeks, Bulgarians, Rumanians, Serbocroats, etc. In short, Sephardic music is an amazing blend of all these influences, immediately recognisable for its unique manifestation of this diversity.

Led by the impeccable soprano Montserrat Figueras, a generous collection of sephardic romances resides on disc one, and ten instrumental pieces are found on disc two. Savall (performing on lira, viola and rebab) is joined by some virtuoso players here: Pedro Estevan on percussions, Yair Dalal on oud, Andrew Lawrence-King on arpa doppia, Pedro Memelsdorff on flutes, and a handful of others on psaltry, qanun, laud, sarod and medieval harp. This recording differs in kind from other interpretations (by Savall or by countless other interpreters of this music) in that it employs a more diverse instrumentation that lies beyond the standard western European grouping of percussion, viol, flutes and harps, and rather embraces the instrumentations of eastern influences of this music (oud, qanun, sarod, etc.).

Disc one, subtitled "Por que llorax blanca nina" (Why do you weep fair child?) is a selection of beautiful songs, mostly from 16th and 17th century documents, though all of them look back much earlier to a very old tradition of songs. Montserrat Figueras is full of vitality, her breathtaking voice and accomplished techniques show her complete mastery of this challenging material.

Disc two, "Las estrellas de los cielos" (The stars in the sky), is a diverse collection of instrumental pieces, interpreted and performed to perfection by this ensemble. This second disc is the real jewel here. Even in the complexity of rhythms, fostered by Pedro Estevan's challenging techniques, the rhythms are extremely accessible, allowing the listener to move around within the multifaceted and subtle instrumentations. Some are traditional dance pieces, while others more meditative reflections and variations on the music of the popular romances.

Listening to this music is always a rewarding enterprise. Full of surprises, it never provokes the same response twice. This release comes highly recommended for the curious listener. It comes beautifully packaged with lyrics and an informative essay by Paloma Diaz-Mas.

Nearly every night for 6 months!.......2003-05-01

After owning this CD for about 4 years, when my newborn daughter needed bedtime soothing I grabbed this (the 2nd CD). We listen to it nearly every night and I am never bored with it. It only bothers me a little when I find it getting stuck in my head during the day. I still enjoy sitting in the dark listening to it after 6 months. Beautiful moving music.

Diáspora sefardí / Hespèrion XXI.......2000-11-13

En este disco Jordi Savall y su grupo retoman el trabajo que emprendieron en discos anteriores sobre la música de origen judío ("Secular music from christian and jewish Spain" y los dedicados a la Sibila). El primer disco está compuesto por obras vocales que pertenecen a distintas expresiones de la diáspora judía a través de Europa, pero todas en ladino (lengua de los sefarditas o judíos españoles), interpretadas con una gran variedad de instrumentos (percusiones, flauta dulce, salterio, arpa, laúdes, etc.) sobre las que se alza la voz de Monserrat Figueras, que maneja bastante bien el estilo y el dramatismo requeridos, a pesar de que a mi juicio su interpretación es poco variada, y no se distingue tanto de sus versiones de música barroca italiana, por ej. El segundo disco trae sólo obras instrumentales, en las que se da un mayor espacio a la improvisación y la ornamentación, lo que considero bastante pertinente pare este tipo de música, y que realmente está muy bien lograda en este caso, permitiendo trabajar toda suerte de matices (el uso del aire por parte del flautista Pedro Memmelsdorff, por ejemplo). En todo caso, es necesario señalar que éste es un disco muy fresco, donde realmente se percibe un compromiso emotivo de los músicos con las obras, que pertenecen a un repertorio bastante poco trabajado en el campo de la música antigua, y sobre el cual todavía debe quedar mucho por investigar.

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I forgot how beautiful teenage angst was!
MARY WEISS: LIVING GODDESS/MYSTIC
Mini soap operas set to music
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ASIN: B0000073R4
Release Date: 1995-04-17

Tracks:

Remember (Walking in the Sand)
It's Easier to Cry
Leader of the Pack
What Is Love? - The Shangri-Las, The Shangri-Las
Give Him a Great Big Kiss
Maybe
Out in the Streets
Boy
Give Us Your Blessings
Heaven Only Knows
Right Now and Not Later
Train from Kansas City
Never Again
I'm Blue
What's a Girl Supposed to Do?
Dum Dum Ditty
You Cheated, You Lied
I Can Never Go Home Anymore
Bull Dog
Long Live Our Love
Sophisticated Boom Boom
He Cried
Dressed in Black
Past, Present, and Future
Paradise
Love You More Than Yesterday
Wishing Well
Hate to Say I Told You So
Give Him a Great Big Kiss [Take]
How Pretty Can You Get?
Revlon Endorsement
Good Taste Tip from Mary Weiss
Dating Courtesy Tip from Mary Weiss

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I forgot how beautiful teenage angst was!.......2007-07-16

Transistor radio hot summer nights hanging on car hoods on the streets in the city. The girls sure look good in their shorts and tight blouses! Will you go steady with me? Wanna make out? Oh, the bliss - and the agony! Who wrote these songs? What a great sound! Phil Spector didn't do everything worthwhile in the '60's, nor did the Beatles. Undervalued as kitsch, this is pop music made with great passion. A great rediscovery for this baby boomer!

MARY WEISS: LIVING GODDESS/MYSTIC.......2007-05-23

First off, my musical tastes are typical 60s-70s, Animals, Yarbirds, Them, Stones, Spirit, Zombies, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Bonzos, Fugs, Zappa, Moodies, Beefheart, Velvets, Nico, Blondie, Alice Cooper. Pretty typical, but I have little concept that any music was actually made beyond 1980. Finding new music for me is like discovering the Blues Magoos, Electric Prunes, Downliners Sect, Kalidescope, Autosalvage. I am planning on discovering Iggy Pop soon. Yea. Maybe Van Halen, too. Not kidding. Anyway, I never really paid much attention to the 60s girl groups as individual artists. It never really mattered to me who sang Leader of the Pack, My Boy Friend's Back, or Solider Boy. Although the songs themselves are some of my favortite radio plays, just like much of the top 40 of 71-74. Know what I mean? It's the song. These weren't 'artists.' Funny thing happened on the way to discovering Mary Weiss the artist and icon. A few months before I heard Mary Weiss on NPR, I had heard Walkin' in the Sand and was determined to hear more of this group. I'd heard of the Shangri-las but it didn't really mean anything to me. Gratefully that song has not been overplayed, so I was able to set out to discover something new. I bought the 20th Century CD and heard some really great stuff. Then I heard the Mary Weiss interview a couple months later. It all seemed so strange. She said she was inspired by Iggy Pop who said 'life happens in 7 years cycles,' This concept of 7 year cycles is a completely mystical idea. Being drawn to such ideas myself, I had to hear more of the Shangri-las. I had already noticed something quite unusual in this music. They were not ordinary pop songs. There was something higher in them. I could not quite put my finger on it. So I got the outstanding Myrmidons of Melodrama CD. As I listened more and more, I discovered this consistent strain of mystical / Religious / psychological ideas in these songs. Take for example the concept of time in them. The concept of time is approached in a circular or buddist way as opposed to linear time. The boy has gone away, but by Remembering Walking in the Sand, he becomes an eternal present. Linear time is made circular. This concept is again shown in the song What is Love, where the boy will "be there for the rest of time." There are miracles: boys. Lots of praying: Freudian wishful thinking. The song Train From Kanasas is about past time, pressing not so much on present time, but on future time, as the problem of the train coming into town is never resolved but again remains locked in an eternal present. Right Now and Not Later Baby, again an eternal present. The future is always a forever. This would appear more christian than mystial or buddist, but the idea that it's being sung by a girl on the threshold of conscoiusness, she seems limited as yet by her immaturity. It is sung by a girl in liminality - betwixt and between - where forever can exist because she is only now just begining to understand. She doesn't know so much as heaven does. But she naiviely knows more than she does and can only speak in these more christian terms at such a young age. She can Never Go Home, but it's only her way of understanding the theshold of consciousness that she has not fully crossed yet. The song Past Present and Future speaks for itself. The problem is not the future; it's approaching consciousness. Also, she's not so terribly affected by the realities of war yet, except that a few boys have 'gone overseas.' War isn't even mentoined, but we get the hint. They won't be boys for long, but she doesn't know it yet, and neither does America. These boys exist only in imagery now, and will forever. They are something more and other than what they really are. Out in The Streets, Mary is becoming conscious of an over-mothering tendency that won't allow the boy to live by is own nature or maybe even grow up. There is only one evil: interfering with someone else's own nature, individuality and future. He remains an image, something more than the real person. While the songs are catchy and kitchy, they are not overly-melodic as to become bubble gum pop. There is something extraordiary here. This is genuine proto-punk. It's not Lou Reed or Iggy Pop or Elvis or Edgar Allan Poe (Reed's weird idea) or Baudilaire or Jesus. The one thing they all have in common is a mother and that mother is Mary Weiss. Hey Mary, when's a memoir coming?

Mini soap operas set to music.......2005-04-16

That's how co-producer Jeff Barry describes the songs of the Shangri-Las and it's a good description. Certainly, their music was different from anything else around at the time and nobody else has been able to emulate them since.

Only two of their singles made the UK charts although one of them did so on three completely separate occasions. They did better in America, where they had eleven hits, three of which made the top ten. But unlike some of their contemporaries, their B-sides and album tracks are also fascinating with very few covers (although the impressive He cried is a cover of She cried by Jay and the Americans). George Morton, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich between them wrote many of their songs including all the famous hits.

Their most famous song, Leader of the pack, made it to number one in America. It stalled just outside the top ten in Britain, possibly hampered by the success of another motorcycle death song (Terry by Twinkle), which made the UK top five just before Leader of the pack was released in Britain. Re-released in 1972, the song made the UK top three. In 1976, it again made the UK top ten.

The only other Shangri-Las track to make the UK charts is Remember walking in the sand, which was a UK top twenty hit. It made the top five in America but the liner notes give a wonderful description of a seven-minute demo version featuring (maybe) a young Billy Joel on piano. Sadly, that demo version is not included on the compilation.

Of their other American hits, I can never go home anymore made the top ten, Give him a great big kiss made the top twenty, Give us your blessings made the top thirty and Long live our love made the top forty. Four minor hits (Maybe, Right now and not later, He cried, Past present and future) complete their American chart statistics, although they bubbled under with Sweet sounds of summer (not included here) after they switched record labels following the demise of Red Bird, the label on which all their classic recordings were released.

Notable B-sides include Paradise (written by Nilsson for the Ronettes), Train from Kansas City, Heaven only knows, Sophisticated boom boom and Dressed in black. Among their best album tracks are What's a girl supposed to do (also recorded by Lesley Gore), Never again and Sophisticated boom boom.

All those tracks and plenty of others can be found on this magnificent compilation, which even includes some commercials and public notices that you might think would be best avoided. Not so - even these are great performed by the Shangri-Las.

The Shangri-Las were truly unique and this is the best compilation of their music.

Exceptional tribute to girl-group greats.......2002-10-13

The Shangri-Las, together with producer Shadow Morton, carved out a truly unique sound among the girl-groups of the early '60s. Not only were their songs darker than the rest, but Shadow Morton's production, though perhaps not up to the maniacal standards of Phil Spector's, had an unusual sense of invention. Lead vocalist Mary Weiss not only had the bad-girl lyrics and image, but the voice to put across the songs' melodrama. RPM's 33-track 1994 release (and it's re-configured, 2002 reissue, RPM 506) is far-and-away the best collection of the group's material that's ever been made available.

Included among the tracks are the group's best known hits ("(Remember) Walkin' in the Sand" "Leader of the Pack" "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" "I Can Never Go Home Anymore"), lower-charting singles (a cover of the Chantels' "Maybe," "Out in the Streets," "Give Us Your Blessing," "Right Now and Not Later," "Long Live Our Love," "He Cried," "Past, Present and Future") and superbly selected B-sides and album tracks.

Highlights include Barry & Greenwich's love torn "The Train From Kansas City" (featuring one of their best-ever lines, "I'll be back in the time it takes to break a heart," rendered by Weiss with a wrench of the heart that lingers long after the song ends), Morton's truly bizarre spoken-jazz "Sophisticated Boom Boom" (covered by ex-Box Top Alex Chilton in his solo live set), Ike Turner's fabulous "I'm Blue," and Harry Nilsson's "Paradise."

Morton's production often used sound-effects (like the train of "Train From Kansas City" and seagulls of "(Remember) Walkin' in the Sand"), though at times his arrangements sounded more like Phil Spector's work with The Crystals ("The Dum Dum Ditty," complete with castanets), or even Motown ("Right Now and Not Later," with running bassline, organ, horns and vibraphone). The variety among these tracks is all the more impressive for the short period of time in which they were created.

The songs, filled with over-the-top melodrama, could still be quite chilling. From teens driven to a grisly death by their parents disapproval ("Give Us Your Blessings") to the fractured present of an apparent rape victim ("Past, Present and Future"), the Shangri-Las lived up to this disc's title, "Myrmidons of Melodrama." RPM digs deeply into the vault to extend this collection beyond the group's well-known Red Bird releases. Also included are an alternate version of "Give Him a Great Big Kiss," along with a pre-Red Bird single ("Wishing Well"), and a quartet of radio spots featuring Mary Weiss discussing everything from good taste and dating courtesy to Revlon.

What's missing (and only because they physically wouldn't fit on the CD) are the group's other pre-Red Bird single ("Simon Says"/"Simon Speaks") and their two latter-day singles for Mercury ("Sweet Sounds of Summer" and three other sides). Unfortunately, the only way to accumulate everything is to get this disc (RPM 136), the revised version (confusingly issued in 2002 with the same title, but a slightly different track selection (including, apparently, additional true stereo mixes), a different cover, and a new stock number: RPM 506), and Polygram's "The Best of the Shangri-Las."

With its stellar track selection and detailed, well-illustrated, humorous liner notes, this disc (or the revised RPM 506 version) is the first one to buy, whether you're just interested in digging past the well-known hits, or you're starting on the road to fanatical completist. RPM's slogan says it all: "By collectors, for collectors." 'Nuff said.

Drama Queens.......2001-11-05

Probably more so than any other sixties girl group The Shangri-las have suffered at the hand of poor quality CD reissues that usually make their music sound like it was recorded down the end of a very long corridor. RPM promised vastly improved sound quality with this release and they deliver (well they do their best given the quality of the source material).

This CD offers a mega 33 tracks, practically everything the Shangs recorded (except for the live version of `Twist and Shout', but trust me, you'll live) and even includes several absolute obscurities such as `Paradise', `Wishing Well' and `Hate To Say I Told You So', all of which are fab. All the regular Shangri-Las favourites are here including `The Leader Of The Pack', `Give him A Great Big Kiss', `Give Us Your Blessings', `Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)' and the list goes on. I particularly like the numbers where the girls really let loose their primal wailing like on "He Cried", "Dressed In Black" and "Out In The Streets". Their brand of effect laden tragi-pop is without equal, there's so many great songs on here it's pointless trying to list them all and work out what makes them so great.

The liner notes are comprehensive and as an added bonus you also get four radio ads that lead-La Mary Weiss recorded in the sixties, and she offers "good taste" tips no teen would want to be without. But the burning question is : how do you dance to this? Answer: Close, very, very close.

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