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Ding Dong on High Street

Advantages: Enjoyable listening
Disadvantages: Will not appeal to everybody

...It is called Voices at the door. The CD has 17 tracks. All are unaccompanied except the last one and I will say more about this later. The tracks are:- 1. How Beautiful Upon The Mountains 2.08 2. While Shepherds Watched/Hail Chime On 3.29 3. Curly Hark/Newtons 3.16 4. While Shepherds Were Watching 2.36 5. Holy Well 4.36 6. Bodmin Wassail 2.27 7. Barwell Old Hark 3.39 8. Time To Remember The Poor 4.13 9. While Shepherds Watched/Liverpool 2.31 ...
...12. George Dunn's Wassail 3.00 13. First Good Joy Our Mary Had 4.04 14. Star Of Bethlehem 3.51 15. Adam Lay Ybounden/Deo Gracias 1.52 16. Jacob's Well 3.32 17. Ding Dong Merrily On High 3.12 Total running time is 54.13 minutes The tune for track 17 is a rather old one first published in 1589 though these words were not written for it until 1924. There is a booklet giving details of the performers and details of the carols themselves included ...

Coloneljohn 12.12.2007 · Read full review
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"Pour Myself A Cup Of Ambition"

Advantages: Many of Dolly's greatest hits are included
Disadvantages: Only 21 songs, so some hits are missing

Dolly Parton is one of the most successful country singers of all time. Whilst staying true to the music of her Smokey Mountain roots she has also crossed over into the realms of pop as well as acting, and her catchy tunes and heartfelt lyrics have appealed to people from all walks of life throughout the four decades of her career. THE 'IRON BUTTERFLY' SPREADS HER WINGS "I'm proud of my humble beginnings, the fact that dreams can come true for just ...
...Dolly Rebecca Parton was born the fourth of twelve children in 1946 to a mother married at fifteen and a moon-shiner sharecropping father, who paid the doctor who attended Dolly's birth with a bag of cornmeal. She grew up in a run-down one room mountain cabin in Locust Ridge, Tennessee, soaking up the influences of her country surroundings. She was taught gospel music and the old mountain songs of Appalachia by her mother and grandmother, and began ...

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Can't Fight the Moonlight

Advantages: Nice songs, great voice, duets
Disadvantages: None

...win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Since her debut, Rimes has won many major industry awards, which include two Grammys, three ACMs, one CMA, twelve Billboard Music Awards, and one American Music award. In addition, Rimes has also released ten studio albums and four compilation albums through her record label of 13 years, Asylum-Curb, and placed over 40 singles on American and international charts since 1996. She has sold over 50 million albums ...
...with touselled hair. The Best of LeAnn Rimes is a greatest hits album. It was released in 2004. It is the international edition of LeAnn Rimes Greatest Hits, released in the US in 2003. The album peaked at #2 on the UK charts, becoming her highest-charting album there. Worldwide, album has sold over 2.5 million copies. One of my favourite tracks on the album is the first song, Can't Fight the Moonlight. I think this is probably because it was featured ...

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good music

Advantages: great voice and songs
Disadvantages: none

To me this is the best CD that Shania Twain has released. i will go on now to tell you abit about it: ABIT ABOUT SHANIA TWAIN Shania twain was born August 28th in 1965, and was actually born Eilleen Regina Edwards, and was the daughter of Sharon and Clarence Edwards, who seperated was she was 2 years old. Her mother remarried a man called Jerry Twain, who later adopted Eilleen, which made her become Eilleen Twain. She was brought up in Timmins, ...
...Longshot. When her mother and Step-father were killed in a terrible car accident on November 1st 1987, When Shain was just 22. She then put her music career on hold. Then in 1993, she released her first album named after herself. This was the start of a long career for her, she went on to release several more albums. THE ALBUM The album was released in 1998, and consists of 16 songs: 1) Your still the one (3.33) - This song shows the true talents ...

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Night Visiting

Advantages: Bella has a beautiful and clear voice.
Disadvantages: There are one or two tracks which i'm not sure about

'Night Visiting' is Bella Hardy's first album. All eleven tracks are written, performed (fiddle and vocal) and produced by Bella. Excerpts of all her tracks can be heard at 'www.bellahardy.com' and she is sometimes played on Mike Harding's Radio 2 show (Wednesday 1900-2000) Bella has a clear and beautiful voice. Her music is in the style of English Folk comparable to Kate Rusby and Cara Dillon. Jim Moray, (Sweet England) is currently listening to ...
...website. Her lyrics are imaginative and story-telling as if handed down through centuries. Her instrumentals include the fiddle, melodeon, viola, harp, accordian, whistles and concertina. I love her album, and often listen to it, I bought it from her website and it arrived immediately. My favorates are 'Heart Hill' which is beautifuly sad and Young Edmund which is a very folky story of separated lovers. ...

indexicality 27.10.2007 · Read full review
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