“When I think back to the multitude of stars in the “Scala” troupe, each having his own particular style, I realise that Chevalier reunites the whole lot. He is Paulus, Mayol, Polin, Dranem, Fragson and others all in one.” Jacques-Charles. This first 2-CD set anthology features Maurice Chevalier's recordings from 1919 to 1930. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.
• As Brigham Young University's newest official a cappella group, Byu Noteworthy is a nine-voice, all-female ensemble that seeks to entertain and uplift audiences worldwide. • Over the past decade the group has produced highly acclaimed recordings, toured throughout the United States, appeared on NBC's "The Sing-Off," and won the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. • The thirteen tracks on the a capella group's eponymously titled album feature a range of contemporary popular material written or co-written by Freddie Mercury ("Crazy Little Thing Called Love"), Annie Lennox ("Into The West"), and Beyoncé ("Listen) to a Bulgarian Folk Song ("Ergen Deda") as well as songs more properly appropriate to those of Mormon background and faith.
FORTY YEARS: THE ARTISTRY OF Tony Bennett, originally released in 1991, has been updated and expanded to reflect the last 10 years. The result is FIFTY YEARS: THE ARTISTRY OF Tony Bennett. In addition to the inclusion of an entire extra disc of recent recordings, the package includes new photos and new essays, including track-by-track reflections written by Tony.
“When Georges sings you can hear kisses fly through the air.” Frederic DARD, quoted by Janine Guetary Dany Lallemand has compiled three CDs of material which cover Georges Guetary's early career including his great hits. From his first, pre-war recordings to the days when he was a star, both in France (“La route fleurie”) and internationally (“An American In Paris”), this selection comes as a timely reminder that Georges Guetary was a key-personality in the world of French Chanson and music-hall.
Claude COLOMBINI
"Popular song is as significant and as important as the most beautiful pieces of work. Through songs which are and have been sung by the masses, we may discover the feelings and emotions of a nation, both in times of trouble and happiness" Maurice CHEVALIER, 1947. This second 2-CD set anthology features Maurice Chevalier's recordings from 1930 to 1949. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.
An actress as much as a singer, Germaine Montero was the perfect incarnation of her texts, whether they were songs or poems; better than anyone, she succeeded in highlighting their rhythms, their spirit and their musical qualities. And she was ideally suited to perform them: she could reach inside the heart and shape of a word, and grasp its meaning and colour. Every one of the 96 titles in this anthology compiled by Jean Buzelin and Marc Monneraye is an illustration of the art of perfect performance. Patrick Fremeaux
Actriz y cantante, Germaine Montero encarna a la perfección textos y canciones como poemas de los cuales era capaz de expresar el ritmo, la musicalidad y el espíritu mejor que nadie. Ella fue la interprete ideal de aquellas obras, sabiendo entrar en el corazón de la palabra y del verbo para entender su sentido y su color. Los 96 títulos juntos en esta antología de Jean Buzelin y Marc Monneraye, son ejemplo de su arte perfecto de interpretación. Patrick Fremeaux
(2-CD set) During the thirties and forties, the ladies singing in the big swing bands sparked the triumph of the music hall which swept the entire planet. Features songs from Helen Ward, Georgia Gibbs, Maxine Sullivan Gone With The Wind, Bea Wain, Gail Reese, Mildred Bailey, Martha Tilton, Billie Holiday, Judy Ellington, Helen Forrest, Pauline Byrne, Helen O'Connell, Marion Hutton, Anita Boyer, Lena Horne, Jo Stafford, Helen Forrest, Pat Cameron and many others.
"Hollywood legend Judy Garland left her mark on 20th century American art through her movies, stage performances, radio and songs. Her peerless ‘Over the Rainbow’ was voted ‘song of the century’ and five of her recordings entered the Grammy Hall of Fame. Lawrence Schulman presents an exceptional anthology with the first album featuring Judy Garland’s greatest hits and the second offering titles from private collections which have never been issued previously. The rarity of these recordings compensates the quality of sound which is inferior to studio recordings. A new aspect of this timeless icon from America’s Golden Age." Patrick Fremeaux
FReMEAUX & ASSOCIeS ISSUES 25 NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD JUDY GARLAND TRACKS
French Label Unveils 79-Year-Old Film Soundtracks and 72-Year-Old Radio Broadcasts
Fremeaux & Associes is proud to announce the release of a new box set of two compact discs Judy Garland: Classiques et Inedits 1929-1956 [Judy Garland: Classic and Previously Unreleased Recordings 1929-1956] that contains forty Judy Garland recordings, most of which have been unavailable for up to seven decades. Culled from studio sessions and private collections from around the world, the anthology, whose tracks were trans-ferred by Grammy Award winner Jon M. Samuels in New York and remastered by Art & Son Studio in Paris, has been in preparation for over a year. It includes well-known and lesser-known Garland classics, but also collectors’ items many of which are previously unreleased, such as her screen debut at First-National—Vitaphone Pictures in 1929, 20 rare radio appearances of which 19 are new on CD, the first re-lease of a song she herself composed, and surround sound reproductions done for the set’s director, Lawrence Schulman, by the Australian sound engineer and award-winning radio host Robert Parker shortly before his death in 2004.
The two tracks that open the first CD, "Blue Butterfly" and "Hang on to a Rainbow", are both from Vitaphone discs done by the 7 ½ Frances Gumm for early talkies in 1929 – almost a decade before "Over the Rainbow"! The collection encompasses all the labels for which Garland recorded during her career, from the earliest Decca side "Stompin’ at the Savoy", to her last MGM recording Get Happy, and beyond to her Columbia and Capitol sessions. Of special interest on the first CD are "Send My Baby Back to Me", "Heartbroken", "Without a Memory", and "Go Home, Joe", all recorded in 1953. Robert Parker, well-known for extracting stereo from vintage jazz and popular recordings, transferred them from DJ vinyl 78s into surround in 2002. This is the first time any Garland studio session has been heard in surround. A regular guest on the radio during her movie heyday, Garland sometimes tried her hand at standards and novelty numbers she never performed on film or record. These coveted collectors’ items, released sparingly over the years, make up the collection’s second CD, which includes her first preserved radio appearance from 1935 wherein she belts "Broadway Rhythm", as well as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" in 1938, "Goody Goodbye" in 1939, "In Spain They Say “Si-Si”" in 1940, "Daddy" in 1941, and "You and I" in 1951. Other new items to be savored are "Love’s New Sweet Song", a song Garland herself composed with husband David Rose in 1941 for a radio show, and a never-before-heard private record of her performing "Someone to Watch Over Me" for a Democratic Party dinner in 1944. “The fact that so many Garland radio performances have never been released so many decades after their broadcast is astounding” states Schulman.
The 32-page brochure in French and in English contains liner notes by Schulman, as well as a detailed discography. Fremeaux & Associes, founded by Patrick Fremeaux and Claude Colombini, and recipient of the Grand Prix in honorem of the Charles Cros Academy, has built a catalogue over the years of some 25,000 references distributed in 32 countries. With of over 1000 awards, the label takes pride in striving to rehabilitate the sound heritage of the 20th century to make our collective memory permanently available to future generations.
God Will Delight is a joyful celebration of David Haas and Lori True’s contribution to the world of congregational song. This compilation of eighteen of David and Lori’s most cherished works—taken from their most popular recordings—includes such classics as “You Are Mine,” “One Lord,” “A Place at the Table,” and “Blest Are They." The music of God Will Delight will stir your soul and move you to raise your voices in praise.
