Music CD - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers: Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers At RKO: Motion Picture Soundtrack Anthology

	Music CD: Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers At RKO: Motion Picture Soundtrack Anthology Artist: Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers List Price: $31.98 Our Price: $23.34 Your Save: $ 8.64 ( 27% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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Tracks: 1. Flying Down to Rio - Fred Astaire, Youmans, Vincent 2. A Needle in a Haystack - Fred Astaire, Conrad, Con 3. Night and Day - Fred Astaire, Porter, Cole 4. The Continental - Fred Astaire, Conrad, Con 5. No Strings (I'm Fancy Free) - Fred Astaire, Berlin, Irving 6. Isn't This a Lovely Day? - Fred Astaire, Berlin, Irving 7. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails - Fred Astaire, Berlin, Irving 8. Cheek to Cheek - Fred Astaire, Berlin, Irving 9. Let's Begin - Fred Astaire, Kern, Jerome 10. I'll Be Hard to Handle - Fred Astaire, Kern, Jerome 11. I Won't Dance - Fred Astaire, Fields, Dorothy 12. I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket - Fred Astaire, Berlin, Irving 13. Let's Face the Music and Dance - Fred Astaire, Berlin, Irving 14. I'd Rather Lead a Band - Fred Astaire, Berlin, Irving 15. Let Yourself Go - Fred Astaire, Berlin, Irving
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0081227295721 Format: Soundtrack Label: Rhino / Wea Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Rhino / Wea Release Date: 1998-02-17 Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: La Belle Comment: while the songs and the performers are terrific,the overall effect is somewhat unsatisfying without the images.It is as though it was recorded off a television set.The rating is not for the wonderful words and music(5) ,but for the audio quality(okay,no more) Freds best;'flying down to rio, needle in a haystack ..a foggy day'Ginger 'lets call the whole the thing off..pick yourself up'... Oh hell, 5 stars. Customer Rating: Summary: American standards sung by the best Comment: This 2-cd set is the best I've ever bought--I'm so glad someone decided to put songs from the Astaire/Rogers movies together. All the songs from their movies are included, and the quality of the sound is excellent. The best thing though, to my mind, is that the songs are exactly the same as they are in the movies -- that means the phrasing and movement of the songs are the same, dialogue is included, the taps are included, its great! Thank you! Customer Rating: Summary: An Exellent 2 CD Set Of Original FRED AND GINGER MUSIC! Comment: Well, yes, I was one of those kids who took tap dancing and ballroom dancing lessons mostly due to Fred and Ginger movies along with keeping my twin brother and I out of mischief. But now to this extraordinary double CD set! First, there is a lot of charming music in this collection which has excellent sound quality. The songs include not just the singing parts but also the dancing parts. So, you can visualize the duo dancing while your eyes are closed just listening. Plenty of excellent music is included. All of the big hits. There is also a nice booklet included with plenty of info about the songs, movies and Fred and Ginger. There are also plentiful "Behind the scenes" pictures. So OK, the song "The Piccolino" is not included in this set. It's just that Rhino Records could not buy the rights to the song for a "Fair" price (in Rhino's opinion). But, since the overall double CD set is just so wonderfully put together, you don't even really notice it, folks. This is a real treasure of song, dance and memories taking you back to a time when the only things that seemed "dirty" were your knees as you were trying to dance like Fred Astaire. OVERALL RATING: A- Customer Rating: Summary: This is wonderful Comment: I've kept thid for threeyears.It was my first cd I ever got.Fred dose a beautiful job.On they cant take that away from me.But in the booklet they talk mostly about ginger.And they even say that some of Fred's dances are silly!Also how unfair that Fred was given top billing not Ginger.Outside of the way they talk in the book.This is a wonderful cd. Customer Rating: Summary: Fun stuff from Hollywood's golden era Comment: After years of success on the Broadway stage, Fred & Ginger started off their movie careers in 1933 with the frothy comedy, "Flying Down To Rio," and went on to make ten films for the RKO studio, each of which, naturally, included plenty of high-class hoofing and Tin Pan Alley songsmithing. This generous 2-CD set gathers nearly all the musical numbers from these films -- "Top Hat," "Gay Divorcee" and others -- along with some incidental dialogue and even extended passages with the ratatatat-tarrrump!! of Astaire's tapdancing. It's classic material, with lively versions of some of the biggest standards of the 'Thirties (Astaire's films were often used as vehicles to introduce pop hits to a mass audience...) There's also a roughness and informality to these recordings that many folks might find appealing, as the music is lifted straight from the actual films, and that's part of the charm... Okay, so maybe we have to admit that Ginger Rogers was a terrible singer, but Astaire's gentle crooning more than makes up for it, and all of these old tracks are tremendously entertaining, as well as historically rich. Recommended! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: During the "talkies'" first decade, Hollywood quickly rivalled Broadway as a major platform for the best pop music, and no franchise underlined this potential better than the Astaire/Rogers musicals released by RKO Pictures. Ironically, that golden age of musicals preceded the introduction of LPs, so it's been left until now for the release of this comprehensive two-CD anthology, which extracts classic vocal performances of classics from Irving Berlin and the Gershwins, among others, slighter but no less charming novelty songs, and brief dialogue excerpts. For fans, it's the mother lode, but even more casual listeners will be reminded of Astaire's deceptively plain yet indelible voice, and Rogers' own warm, engaging style. --Sam Sutherland