Stay Forever [CD-single] [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
First single off the quirky alternative rocker's 2000 album, 'White Pepper'. Tracks, 'Stay Forever', 'Who Dat?' (non-LP) and 'The Grobe'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Tracks:

On A Clear Day
A Cock-Eyed Optimist
Hello, Young Lovers
Here I'll Stay
My Fair Lady Shuffle: Overture/Wouldn't It Be Loverly/Let A Woman/Just You Wait/Poor Professional...
Getting To Know You
Living In The Shadows
Bewitched
I Have Dreamed
My Funny Valentine
Camelot Suite: Camelot/The Simple Joys Of Maidenhood/How To Handle A Woman/If Ever I Would...
Crazy World
If I Loved You
Edelweiss
The Sound Of Music

Customer Reviews:

5 STARS AND THEN SOME !!.......2006-02-10

Oh Julie, the songs you sang on this CD are superb. I wish you could still give us that joy. If you can only sing in the low registers, give us jazz!! You can do it I just know you can!!

Pretty Sad, .......2005-10-27

Hollywood veteran Julie Andrews has had a glorious career, but not without its downsides. Her legend is built on "The Sound of Music" and "Mary Poppins" and other glorious roles. Her abilities as a singer were never impressive or great, her voice often sounded weak, but she always knew how to sing around her very limited vocal range. On this collection she performs some of the greatest Broadway tunes ever written and even though she does a good job, her voice just doesn't hold up against many of these tunes. Her warmth is felt all over the album, in "Here I'll Stay" she wraps her gentle, but narrow, voice around it and in "My Funny Valentine" she sticks to the lower register of her voice. However, in the re-recording of her classic "Sound of Music" and in "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" her voice fails her, it often sounds thin and airy and it's actually quite sad to listen to. When all is said and done Julie Andrews remains a great talent, and most of that talent is largely due to her amazing capability as a performer and her genuine warmth.

I FELL IN LOVE WITH JULIE ALL OVER AGAIN.......2005-06-25

As a young kid growing up in the Philippines I remember my Dad playing his state-of-the-art Aiwa tape recorder back in the 60s and hearing Julie Andrews' voice - truly the voice of an angel! Now, hearing these songs again with adult ears I fell in love with her voice all over again !

A Great Julie Andrews CD.......2002-01-27

If you are a fan of Dame Julie's and musicals, this is the cd for you. It is a compilation of songs from prevously released albums; The King and I, The Music of Richard Rodgers, Here I'll Stay, and Victor/Victoria, Original Broadway Cast Recording.
I found the material to be very well put together giving the listener selections from My Fair Lady, Camelot, The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria and others. What more could you want?
As for Ms. Andrews, she is superb. There is simply no one like her. I have heard comments that prior to the infamous throat surgery she was unable to handle the difficult material and hit those high notes. This is just not true. All you have to do is listen to these songs recorded in the early 90's to know that she still had a marvelous voice. Lets hope that one day she will be able to sing and record again. If not, these may be her last recordings so treasure them.

The My Fair Lady suite is wonderful and Ms. Andrews definitely hit the high note at the end of "I Could Have Danced All Night".
Her version of "Edelweiss" and "The Sound of Music" are lovely.
Also worth listening to is "Living in the Shadows" written for the Broadway production of Victor/Victoria so you won't find it on the movie soundtrack. The lyrics are by Leslie Bricusse who also penned "Crazy World", which is another great selection on this cd.

Overall this is a cd worth having in your collection, so buy it today. Otherwise you are missing out.

Climbing Every Mountain with Mary Poppins.......2002-01-22

Julie Andrews and her music have been an inspiration to me
every since I stepped into a theater and watched Mary Poppins
(many years ago). I admire her talent and her voice on this CD. I know it is not as clear a voice as she used to have but I still enjoy listening to her. I listen to this CD when I want a "pick me up" and am proud to have it as part of my collection.

Michael Feinstein with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

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Musical Wit in an Orchestral Setting
A Cabaret Singer Grows Up
This cd is about average, it could have been better
Fabulously Fantastic!
Michael has done it again

Michael Feinstein with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Feinstein , and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Manufacturer: Concord Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005Q6LL
Release Date: 2002-05-07

Tracks:

The Folks Who Live On The Hill
The Best Is Yet To Come
Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
By Myself
Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
Stormy Weather
Laura
On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
Love Is Here To Stay
How Deep is The Ocean?
Somewhere
I Won't Send Roses

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If there's a precious tone to Michael Feinstein's interpretations of the American songbook, it probably stems from a fervent dedication to preserving the original context of his material. This is, after all, a musician who spent many of his formative years in personal service to the late Ira Gershwin. This collection further underscores that commitment, with the lush sound of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (augmented by the piano trio of Alan Broadbent, who also provides all but one of the arrangements here) adding considerable dramatic resonance to Feinstein's performances.

While singers from Sinatra and Streisand to Fitzgerald and Bennett have imbued many of these songs with considerable dollops of jazz, blues, and their own strong personas, Feinstein mines melancholy jewels like "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year," "How Deep Is the Ocean," and "By Myself" for all their introspective emotion. "Somewhere" pays tribute to Bernstein with glorious, unabashed melodrama, while "Laura" (one of the most recorded songs of all time) gets recast in something approaching its original intent via an arrangement written for this recording by composer David Raksin. Feinstein himself penned the album's notes, paying careful tribute to each composer represented and noting that all were Jews, yet their music came to represent a richly American spectrum that included black and white and encompassed jazz, the theater, and even classics in its scope. There's a lesson herein, and one that spans more than mere history and musical archaeology. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Musical Wit in an Orchestral Setting.......2004-01-04

The one problem a record collector encounters when he has an album too many of one artist, is the tendency of the artist to sing the same songs in succeeding albums/settings. Feinstein, who I consider as the leading proponent in reviving the American Popular Song standards to its unfettered glory is backed by a philharmonic orchestra in this album with the musical direction of conductor Alan Broadbent. And yes, he sang some songs that were sung in sparse and acoustic settings in his previous albums. As usual, just like any cabaret singer who never really sings the same song twice (listen to the grand old dames of cabaret like Julie Wilson and Mabel Mercer), Feinstein delights in the varied ways he can see a song in different contexts. Having said that, I thought he was a bit overly cautious in exploring his rich bari-tenor (sorry for this oxymoron but that is the word to apply to his voice) in soaring the vocal lines of Kern's The Folks Who Live on the Hill. Other than that, he was at his wittiest and conversational (not to mention just plain beautiful) voice when singing I Won't Send Roses and he can revisit the Bernstein/Sondheim Somewhere without evoking the famous version of uber diva Barbra Streisand. If you like good crooning vocals in a grand and orchestral setting, this is the album to listen or give as a gift -- you/they won't regret it.

A Cabaret Singer Grows Up.......2003-03-14

"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is." -Noel Coward

Like Coward, Mr. Feinstein seems to understand the power of popular, romantic song when flung into the void of an apparently cold universe by an all too human, understated voice...I first heard Michael Feinstein sing and play the piano umpteen years ago in the mad, bad '80s. At that time, I found his choice of material from the great 20th Century American composers refreshing & interesting, his skills as a pianist were good, and his diction to be above average. Yet his voice at that time was a bit weak--there was too much bravura nonsense, too much vibrato and he may have been too young for some of the songs that he sang at the time.

Well, we've both matured, (I hope), and Mr. Feinstein has delivered a remarkably smooth, yet heartfelt performance on this album. I'm particularly impressed by his vocal smoothness and emotional restraint, especially on "Love is Here to Stay", "How Deep Is the Ocean", "Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year" & "I Won't Send Roses". Mr. Feinstein appears to really understand the depth of feeling that these words and music evoke in him and us. The vibrato is there when needed, but the ripeness of a mature singer is beginning to be heard on his recordings and the Israeli Philharmonic simply gives his singing wings. The only song that doesn't seem to fit is "Stormy Weather"--I kept hearing Lena Horne in my mind's ear, rather than a polished cabaret singer. I hope that Feinstein continues to grow in vocal power and subtlety as he does here. A lovely album for sophisticated romantics.

This cd is about average, it could have been better.......2002-08-18

First I would like to say i'm a Michael fan. I own all his catalog. Even though i'm a fan there are some things about this cd that I find in bad taste. Please let me explain!

I know it is hard to always be creative. There are just so many ideas to go around and then you have to start duplicating others. This is known as copying what others have done.

For this cd I felt like some of the arrangements were too long. For example, Laura as it was performed hear is a six minute song. It really should have been done in two minutes. I'm an engineer and I edited this version of Laura to run two minutes and it is just perfect. Sometimes less is really more. Also, I felt that some of the other songs didn't really have top notch arrangements attached to them. If the arrangements would have been better I whould have had no choice but to bring out the 5 star rating for this project.

To talk a little bit about the voice of Michael is my pleasure. His voice seems to be getting better with age. I have always liked Michael's voice and will continue to do so.

I will give this cd a favorable recommendation!

Fabulously Fantastic!.......2002-07-21

Feinstein has outdone himself with this collection!! He is in fine fettle with songs that only He can do justice! His interpretations and stylings are beyond compare and trust you will not be disappointed with this recording!! Feinstein is simply fabulously fantastic!

Michael has done it again.......2002-07-12

S'Wonderful, S'Marvelous.

If there is one thing you can say about Michael Feinstein it's that he knows how to put over a song. His new cd is absolutely magnificent, these are the only words to describe it.

Somewhere, By Myself, Stormy Weather and the rest of the songs are beyond compare. Do yourself a big, big favour and don't miss out on this cd; you'll love it.

Hello Master
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She's got balls.

Great Rock Record

Hello Master

Manufacturer: Indica Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BQVS18
Release Date: 2005-11-15

Customer Reviews:

She's got balls........2006-01-16

Each time we enter a new year at Peacedogman.com,one of our albums fights against the MASTODONS and MARS VOLTAS of the world to make the top ten strictly for highway speedin' crankability. As you may have guessed, I'm pretty sure this PRIESTESS disc wins the prize.

Think THE CULT's "Electric" swirled with LEPPARD's "High & Dry" and you're in the correct vicinity. Buy it!

Great Rock Record.......2005-12-16

If you like rock music, you will love this album. It's a massive, classic sounding record. Big drums, thick guitars, great songs.

Priestess are from Montreal, Canada and "Hello Master" is their debut which currently is only released in Canada. Priestess usually get compared to Motorhead (who they've toured with) and Queens Of The Stone Age.

Unfortunately amazon.com doesn't have any audio samples of the songs, but you can hear a few of the tracks at Priestess' website: www.priestessband.com

Key tracks on the album are: Talk To Her, Run Home, Lay Down, The Shakes, Time Will Cut You Down, No Real Pain.

Rita Hayworth & Friends: Songs from the Movies

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Rita Hayworth & Friends: Songs from the Movies

Manufacturer: Bianco
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005K28A
Release Date: 2001-05-29

Tracks:

Dearly Beloved
I'm Old Fashioned
Shorty Georges
Shwo Must Go On
Somehow/After the Races Are Over
Make Way from Tomorrow
Long Ago (And Far Away)
Poor John
What Does an English Girl Think of Yank
You Excite Me
Boy I Left Behind
Cry and You Cry Alone
Reprise-Tonight and Every Night
Let's Stay Young Forever
They Can't Convince Me
This Can't Be Legal
Reprise-Let's Stay Forever Young
People Have More Fun Than Anyone

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It's WEEN-derful!
rubber ducky, you're the one...
Great single, even better bonus track

Stay Forever
Ween
Manufacturer: Mushroom Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Even If You Don't

ASIN: B00004WYIB
Release Date: 2000-09-26

Tracks:

Stay Forever
Who Dat?
Grobe

Album Description

First single off the quirky alternative rocker's 2000 album, 'White Pepper'. Tracks, 'Stay Forever', 'Who Dat?' (non-LP) and 'The Grobe'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Includes Previously Unreleased Track 'Who Dat?'.

Customer Reviews:

It's WEEN-derful!.......2001-04-19

Of course like all things Ween, this is a must have. The song Who Dat? is the real gem here. Those in the know are aware of the bounty of b-sides and rare tracks that are in the Ween arsenal, and this just adds to it.

Coming from a wholly unique place (at least from my perspective) this delicious slab of music has that little "something" that all Ween music emanates. The down side? I've never heard (or heard of them doing) this tune in concert. But other than that, i guess i'd agree with the other reviewer that it would have been nice to have on White Pepper (like the Japanese pressing), but what the hell, i'm just glad it exists.

One of my favorite tunes from one of my favorite bands that has a plentiful supply of greatness to choose from. And if you haven't heard Stay Forever or the Grobe (doubtful - I'd imagine this is for completists rather than casual newbies) then you're in for a double treat. For the big mamba jamba, go get WHITE PEPPER (and then the rest of their catalog) and see why Ween is the greatest band that exists on the planet right now. And of course, you will not see a better live show anywhere either. HAIL YEAH, MANG!

rubber ducky, you're the one..........2000-08-22

What else can be said about this tune...it rocks. The essence of boognish oozes through it. The bluegrassy tunes oozing down my spine made me have to pinch a loaf...i think the brothers meant that to happen. Back to Basom brings vivid depictions of the end song for the John Travolta 70's movie, Bubble boy, and John Denver shooting up. I swear, I can almost feel the young Travolta wishing to be released from his captive bubble while hearing this tune. That, and I look for my weedeater. Who Dat. Yes, how prophetic, who dat...for, when you think, who really is dat? Is it your baby's daddy? No, just ween. This one should've been on white pepper. My only disappointment is that this is an import, and amazon feels the need to charge almost the same price as the album for it. Of course, one could always check out weenradio to hear who dat...oh, maybe i've said too much...

Great single, even better bonus track.......2000-08-09

Some may say that Stay Forever is a little too soft for ween music, lacking crazy synth. effects, bizarre lyrics, and ripping solo's, etc. But, this just goes to show that Ween can make any type of music and make it sound incredible....now for the bonus track, i love it. Who Dat? alone, makes this cd single worth buying. i just wish they put it on White Pepper so i didnt have to buy this cd to listen to it. And the Grobe from White Pepper makes the cd even better...so all in all, great music, so buy the cd.

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Important Historical Recordings: the First Great Trombonist!
a great find
a fantastic example
Arthur Pryor Forever
One of the greats

Trombone Soloist of the Sousa Band

Manufacturer: Crystal Records
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ASIN: B000009M2N
Release Date: 1997-09-30

Tracks:

Blue Bells Of Scotland
Intermezzo-Forever
We Won't Go Home Until Morning
Stay In Your Own Back Yard
Parisian Melodies
Prince Of Pilsen: Message Of The Violet
Little Nell
Stabat Mater: Cujus Animam
My Old Kentucky Home
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Love's Enchantment
The Holy City
One Sweetly Solemn Thought
Nancy Brown: Congo Love Song
Non E Ver
Love Thoughts Waltz
The Low Back'd Car
Navajo
Sergeant Brue: Dearie
Aida: Celeste Aida
Come Down From The Big Fig Tree
Oh, Dry Those Tears
Pagliacci Selection
Love Me And The World Is Mine
Polka Fantastic

Customer Reviews:

Important Historical Recordings: the First Great Trombonist!.......2004-09-17

This CD is a compilation of only a very few of the literally thousands of recordings Arthur Pryor made as a trombonist during a span of about 20 years. Since they date to the earliest days of recording technology--all of the works here are from 1901-1911--the sound quality is terrible compared to our modern recordings. Although all sorts of manipulations were used to improve the sound, including the combining of two different copies of the same recording, there is still a significant amount of hiss, crackle, and pop--it's more like a bowl of Rice Crispies than a newly recorded CD. If you can think of it like listening to an old Victorola it has a certain amount of charm, but surely some listeners will be immediately put off by the distortion, which admittedly lessens in the later works. Add to this the logistical problems of recording at the turn of the last century--only a limited amount of players could gather around the equipment--and it becomes clear that we aren't really hearing what an audience member at the time would have heard during a live performance of Sousa's Band. In fact, the band comes off quite poorly here--in The Blue Bells of Scotland they can barely keep up with Arthur Pryor, and their ensemble playing is poor in many places to an extent that's hardly credible for what was widely believed to be the best band in the world.

But of course one doesn't buy a CD like this to hear the accompaniment, or to listen to the sound quality. The only reason is to hear Arthur Pryor, surely the first great trombone soloist, in what is a wonderful piece of turn-of-the-century Americana. Pryor was the son of a bandmaster and learned to play all sorts of instruments (violin, cornet, alto horn, string bass, and valve trombone!) at an early age and was given his first slide trombone some time after his 11th birthday. He became a trombone virtuoso in the face of overwhelming difficulties--not only did a kick from a mule result in partial paralysis of his face, but also the trombone he'd been given was damaged and could only use the first two positions. In overcoming these seeming adversities through an astonishing work ethic he developed many of the features which made his performance so special: his characteristic constant shimmery vibrato created by "waving" his jaw; and an amazing embouchure (lip muscle strength) which allowed him to play every chromatic pitch using only those two positions (normal trombone technique employs 7!). Pryor revolutionized trombone technique and set a new standard, not only at home in America, but also abroad during his many European tours with the Sousa band and his own ensemble. One of his trombones, covered in engraving and with the characteristic unusually small bore he favored, can still be seen on display at the Interlochen School of the Arts outside of Traverse City, Michigan.

Featured on the CD are 26 Pryor performances, a few with piano, 10 with the Sousa Band, and 12 with Pryor's own ensembles. The music ranges from Italian opera arias (Verdi's Celeste Aida) to American popular songs of the day (Foster's My Old Kentucky Home) and contains a good portion of Pryor's own compositions and arrangements. Among my favorites are Pryor's The Patriot-Polka and Polka Fantastic, both clever pieces with amazing trombone performances. A real oddity is We Won't Go Home Until Morning (known to me as The Bear Went Over the Mountain) "played in four octaves"--it's exactly what it says it is. After a short piano introduction, Pryor plays the melody unaccompanied and unadorned in a high octave, then an octave lower, another octave lower, and finally in pedal tones. The whole thing has a real carny atmosphere, as if P. T. Barnum were hiding just around the corner. Van Alstyne's Navajo also captures this air of a time long gone, when Americans were wide-eyed and innocent and the world was never far from a Saturday afternoon near the bandstand.

Of special note are the unusually thorough notes in the programme booklet. Daniel E. Frizane supplies terrific biographical notes, from which I gleaned much of the information above; articles about the recordings and the Arthur Pryor performances are supplied, as well as an engineer's note describing the equipment and techniques used to restore the recordings. It's clearly a labor of love from all concerned.

a great find.......2002-11-10

If you're a trombonist, you've heard of that crazy song, Blue Bells of Scotland, and you may have noticed the name of the composer, Arthur Pryor. You may not know that he was a trombonist himself(!) and played in the John Philip Sousa band for many years, and then had his own band afterwards. Pryor was a famous name in the trombone world, and he wrote many pieces featuring a solo trombone; most of them are featured here.

If you want to buy this album to hear fantastic trombone playing so fast it'll blow your socks off or so pretty in a ballad you fall right to sleep, this is not the album for you. It is a recording produced from an OLD master (you may recall the Sousa band was at the turn of the 20th century), and with trombone playing that is not the style thought of as 'pretty' by today's ear. If this describes you, look for some of these same songs (blue bells, thoughts of love, fantasic polka), recorded by some of today's trombone virtuosos - Christian Lindberg, Mark Lawrence, Joe Alessi, etc. to find a more modern sound.

If, however, you want authentic period music, this is about as authentic as you can get. The trombone style is choppy when fast, and not as connected for slow tunes also, and the band accompaniment is the same way; that was the popular style of the time. It is nice to hear these pieces and realize how the composer intended them to be played (because he's the one playing them).

So, good for novelty purposes, bad for high quality recording of highest quality trombone playing

a fantastic example.......2002-07-17

Arthur pryor's trombone playing in this exellent assortment of pieces recorded in the late 1800's gives both beginner and expert players fastastic insight on how to improve their playing. Arthur pryor will undoubtedly go down as one of the world's greatest trombonists of all time....and to actually hear him play is an awesome experience.

Arthur Pryor Forever.......1999-12-17

I play trombone, and I have listened to this album, and I think it's wonderful. The sound is not very good, as it is a VERY VERY VERY old original recording, but it is an absolute must have for any trombonist. What can I say, I love it.

One of the greats.......1999-12-17

This is a must buy for any trombonist. I play trombone, and Arthur Pryor is, in my opinion, the all-time best trombone performer, and song writer that I have yet encountered. I have played the Blue Bells of Scotland, and it is wonderful.