Golden Years Of Song, The - Cliff Adams Singers (The)

Advantages: Great jazz tunes from the Golden Age
Disadvantages: None

...-performed and fluid love song. Sadly the female singer with the honey-dripping tones is not credited on this CD. There's Harry James and his Orchestra with a waltz time piece called Carnival of Vencie, with some trumpet playing that is straight out of the trumpet section of a classical orchestra. There's Moonlight in Vermont sung by Ella Fitzgerald. If you haven't heard her sing, hear this song and you'll know why Ella Fitzgerald is so well-loved to this day by people from all over the year. Prisoner of Love by Teddy Wilson is good, solid jazz fare. A simple rhythm, slightly muted trumpet and lilting piano. Eventually, the music is joined by a female singer with a voice that is slightly reminiscent of Mae West. Closing Hour Blues by Meade Lux Lewis is a blues jazz cross-over. Somehow the crackles from the original master recording just add... Read review

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Advantages: lovely christmassy songs
Disadvantages: he has re mixed a lot of them

...is expected to a be a traditional song. 11) Santas list, this is Cliffs new song for this year and the words are as ever brilliant. 12) When a child is born, this 70s song always remind me of its orginal singer and I do not think that anyone can touch old Johnny Mathis. 13) Come to us, another song that has been edited and dubbed and music added. 14) The Christmas song, By nearly getting to the end of this cd, I am now finding that all the new songs are beginning to sound the same, sorry Cliff. 15) We should be together, a bit of a slow one and the title tells you all. 16) Winter wonderland, Walking in a Woollies Winterland, whoops I mean Winter Wonderland. Brilliant song, not as fast as the original but good. 17) The millennium prayer, this is the one that started all the controvesy off a couple of years ago with the bbc... Read review

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Advantages: Simply super
Disadvantages: None

...Firewater made albums throughout the late 90's and early 2000's and they made some pretty good stuff but nothing compares to the new album "The Golden Hour", back in 2004, the singer A. Todd (formerly of Cop Shoot Cop) split up with his wife and was dumped by his record company. Todd packed his bags and headed out on a 3 year trip of Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and Israel. He had originally intended to go to Afghanistan but due to bombings and danger, he only got as far as the Karkorum Highway. He suffered illness and robbery on his trip but also had a great time playing with plenty of talented local musicians. The songs on this album were written during that trip and have a distinct flavour, the basis of them were written with a collection of musicans and have been re-done for the album with an array of talent including... Read review

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