Sunday, January 2, 2011

Music CD #1

John Mellencamp



John Cougar
  1. "A Little Night Dancin'" – 3:43
  2. "Small Paradise" – 3:40
  3. "Miami" – 3:53
  4. "Great Mid-west" – 4:29
  5. "Do You Think That's Fair" – 4:48
  6. "I Need a Lover" – 5:35
  7. "Welcome to Chinatown" – 3:59
  8. "Sugar Marie" – 4:16
  9. "Pray for Me" – 3:30
  10. "Taxi Dancer" – 5:02
  11. "Take Home Pay" (2005 re-issue bonus track) – 3:10


The Lonesome Jubilee
  1. "Paper in Fire" – 3:51
  2. "Down and Out in Paradise" – 3:37
  3. "Check It Out" – 4:19
  4. "The Real Life" – 3:57
  5. "Cherry Bomb" – 4:47
  6. "We Are the People" – 4:17
  7. "Empty Hands" – 3:43
  8. "Hard Times For An Honest Man" – 3:27
  9. "Hotdogs and Hamburgers" – 4:04
  10. "Rooty Toot Toot" – 3:29
  11. "Blues from the Front Porch" (2005 re-issue bonus track) – 2:02


Big Daddy
  1. "Big Daddy Of Them All" – 3:31
  2. "To Live" – 3:18
  3. "Martha Say" – 3:41
  4. "Theo And Weird Henry" – 4:49
  5. "Jackie Brown" – 4:03
  6. "Pop Singer" – 2:48
  7. "Void In My Heart" – 2:30
  8. "Mansions In Heaven" – 3:06
  9. "Sometimes A Great Notion" – 3:33
  10. "Country Gentleman" – 3:17
  11. "J.M.'s Question" – 3:40
  12. "Let It All Hang Out" (B.B. Cunningham/McEwen/Master/Hunter) – 3:11
  13. "Jackie Brown (Acoustic Version)" (2005 re-issue bonus track) - 4:24



Dance Naked
  1. "Dance Naked" – 3:00
  2. "Brothers" – 3:14
  3. "When Margaret Comes To Town" – 3:20
  4. "Wild Night – 3:27
  5. "L.U.V." – 3:01
  6. "Another Sunny Day 12/25" – 3:02
  7. "Too Much To Think About" – 3:02
  8. "The Big Jack" – 3:23
  9. "The Breakout" – 3:37
  10. "Wild Night" (2005 re-issue bonus track) - 3:19




 
Whenever We Wanted
  1. "Love And Happiness" – 3:53
  2. "Now More Than Ever" – 3:43
  3. "I Ain't Ever Satisfied" – 3:36
  4. "Get A Leg Up" – 3:47
  5. "Crazy Ones" – 4:01
  6. "Last Chance" – 3:39
  7. "They're So Tough" – 4:17
  8. "Melting Pot" – 4:47
  9. "Whenever We Wanted" – 3:42
  10. "Again Tonight" – 3:17
  11. "Love And Happiness (London Club Mix)" (2005 re-issue bonus track) - 6:33



John Mellencamp
  1. "Fruit Trader" (Mellencamp) - 3:57
  2. "Your Life Is Now" (Mellencamp/Green) - 3:59
  3. "Positively Crazy" (Mellencamp/Green/York) - 4:09
  4. "I'm Not Running Anymore" (Mellencamp) - 3:26
  5. "It All Comes True" (Mellencamp/Green) - 3:58
  6. "Eden Is Burning" (Mellencamp) - 3:50
  7. "Where The World Began" (Mellencamp/Green) - 3:29
  8. "Miss Missy" (Mellencamp) - 3:40
  9. "Chance Meeting At The Tarantula" (Mellencamp) - 4:05
  10. "Break Me Off Some" (Mellencamp/Moe Z M.D./Green) - 4:10
  11. "Summer Of Love (Mellencamp/York) - 4:01
  12. "Days Of Farewell" (Mellencamp/Myers) - 3:12



Melissa Etheridge


Your Little Secret
  1. "Your Little Secret" – 4:19
  2. "I Really Like You" – 4:09
  3. "Nowhere to Go" – 5:53
  4. "An Unusual Kiss" – 5:21
  5. "I Want to Come Over" – 5:25
  6. "All the Way to Heaven" – 4:54
  7. "I Could Have Been You" (Etheridge, Shanks) – 5:56
  8. "Shriner's Park" – 5:23
  9. "Change" – 4:37
  10. "This War Is Over" – 6:57



Respect- A Century of Women in Music 

CD Front

 Rhino Records compiled a deluxe five-CD box set giving props to female artists who made music history during the 20th century. Spanning 1909-1998, R-E-S-P-E-C-T's 114 songs include nearly every genre of popular music, voicing the struggles, stereotypes, and successes that have helped to define 'The Year of the Woman,' a ubiquitous catch-phrase used to describe successful female artists since the early '90s. Tori's Silent All These Years is included on Disc 5, entitled, "Hip-Hop, Pop, and Passion."

Artists include Sophie Tucker, Anna Chandler, Paula Cole, Sarah McLachlan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Mahalia Jackson, Ethel Merman, Patsy Cline, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Tina Turner, Dolly Parton, Joan Baez, Fleetwood Mac, Laurie Anderson, the Go-Go's, the Pretenders, Blondie, Sinead O'Connor, k.d. lang, Queen Latifah, Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe, Billie Jean King, and Anita Hill. Featuring an original painting by artist Christine Haberstock on the cover, the collection is beautifully packaged in a journal-sized burgundy velvet-colored box that includes eight postcards featuring other illustrations by Haberstock and lyric quotes from some of the set's songs. The extensive liner notes penned by female authors and journalists, offer the women's perspective on the evolution of women in music.

 

 

5 CD Box Set
Rhino Records 75815
$69.98
1999

Disc One - Broadway, Blues, and Truth
By The Light Of The Silvery Moon - Ada Jones
Some Of These Days - Sophie Tucker
Carry Me Back To Old Virginny - Alma Gluck
She's Good Enough To Be Your Baby's Mother And She's Good Enough To Vote With You - Anna Chandler
Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds
I'm A Jazz Vampire - Marion Harris
My Man - Fanny Brice
Devilish Mary - Roba Stanley
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - Marian Anderson
See See Rider Blues - Ma Rainey
Beale Street Blues - Alberta Hunter
Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
I Wanna Be Loved By You - Helen Kane
Gotta Feelin' For You - Joan Crawford & the MGM Studio Chorus
Love Me Or Leave Me - Ruth Etting
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - Bessie Smith
Am I Blue? - Ethel Waters
Calamity Jane (from the west) - Adelyne Hood & Vernon Dalhart
Kentucky Miner's Wife (Ragged Hungry Blues) (Parts 1 & 2) - Aunt Molly Jackson
Bucking Broncho (My Love Is A Rider) - The Girls Of The Golden West
When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain - Kate Smith
I Like A Guy What Takes His Time - Mae West
You're The Top - Ethel Merman

Disc Two - Torch, Twang, and Swing
I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart - Patsy Montana With Prairie Ramblers
Pretty Polly - Coon Creek Girls
Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
A-Tisket-A-Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald With Chick Webb & His Orchestra
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
Me & My Chauffeur Blues - Memphis Minnie
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - Andrews Sisters With Vic Schoen & His Orchestra
Let Me Off Uptown - Gene Krupa & His Orchestra With Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge
Stormy Weather - Lena Horne With Lou Bring & His Orchestra
Sentimental Journey - Les Brown & His Orchestra With Doris Day
Move On Up A Little Higher - Mahalia Jackson
Cuanto Le Gusta - Carmen Miranda
Buttons And Bows - Dinah Shore & Her Happy Valley Boys
Philadelphia Lawyer - Rose Maddox & The Maddox Brothers
Black Coffee - Sarah Vaughan
Satisfied - Martha Carson
The Tennessee Waltz - Patti Page With Jack Rael & Orchestra
Come On-A My House - Rosemary Clooney
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells
(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Ruth Brown
Ricochet (Rick-O-Shay) - Teresa Brewer
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds With Orchestra directed by Joseph Gershenson
Big Long Slidin' Thing - Dinah Washington
Tweedlee Dee - LaVern Baker
The Wallflower - Etta James & "The Peaches"
My Boy Elvis - Janis Martin
Walkin' After Midnight - Patsy Cline

Disc Three - Shoop-Shoop, Motown, Get Down, Sister
Maybe - The Chantels
Fever - Peggy Lee With Jack Marshall's Music
Funnel Of Love - Wanda Jackson
Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles
Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee
Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas
Hello Stranger - Barbara Lewis
You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore
The Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte-Marie
My Guy - Mary Wells
Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) - The Shangri-Las
Too Many Fish In The Sea - The Marvelettes
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Son Of A Preacher man - Dusty Springfield
Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick)
Stoned Soul Picnic - Laura Nyro
Both Sides Now - Judy Collins
To Be Young, Gifted And Black - Nina Simone
Bold Soul Sister - Ike & Tina Turner
Clean Up Woman - Betty Wright
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers
You're So Vain - Carly Simon
So Far Away - Carole King
I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton

Disc Four - Rock to Electric Shock
Move Over - Janis Joplin
You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt
I've Got To Use My Imagination - Gladys Knight & The Pips
The Pill - Loretta Lynn
Boulder To Birmingham (Live) - Emmylou Harris
Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez
Crazy On You - Heart
I Love Playin' With Fire - The Runaways
X Offender - Blondie (Deborah Harry)
You Make Loving Fun - Fleetwood Mac (Christine McVie & Stevie Nicks)
Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
She Works Hard For The Money - Donna Summer
We Belong Together - Rickie Lee Jones
Show Some Emotion - Joan Armatrading
Typical Girls - The Slits
It Tango - Laurie Anderson
Walking On Thin Ice - Yoko Ono
Our Lips Are Sealed - The Go-Gos
Identity - X-Ray Spex (Poly Styrene)
Precious - The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde)

Disc Five - Hip-Hop, Pop, and Passion
Hero Takes A Fall - The Bangles
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
Roxanne's Revenge (Street Version) - Roxanne Shanté
Tramp - Salt-N-Pepa
Ladies First - Queen Latifah Featuring Monie Love
People Have The Power - Patti Smith
Thing Called Love - Bonnie Raitt
Passionate Kisses - Lucinda Williams
The Emperor's New Clothes - Sinead O'Connor
Silent All These Years - Tori Amos
Constant Craving - k.d. lang
The Wheel - Rosanne Cash
Possession - Sarah McLachlan
Legs - PJ Harvey
32 Flavors - Ani DiFranco
Where Have All The Cowboys Gone - Paula Cole
Polyester Bride - Liz Phair

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Duckman (1 of 6)

Duckman Season 1 Episode 1



I, Duckman
Season 1 Episode 1
Aired date: Sat, Mar 5, 1994
Plot: We are introduced to Duckman, who's ignored by his family and feels under appreciated, he is searching for something to be remembered by. The agency receives a package that contains a bomb that goes of in the office. Duckman is happy someone cared enough to try and kill him so he visits the sender in prison. Only that suspect also receives a package.
 


Duckman Season 1 Episode 2


T.V. or Not to Be
Season 1 Episode 2
Aired date: Sat, Mar 12, 1994
Plot: Duckman is watching a TV program, but the family takes over the set when Mother Mirabelle's Home Miracle Network program starts airing. The family demands that Duckman help find Mother Mirabelle's stolen painting that helps create miracles. Duckman reluctantly agrees, but he is skeptical until he experiences his own miracle.



Duckman Season 1 Episode 3


Gripes of Wrath
Season 1 Episode 3
Aired date: Sat, Mar 19, 1994
Plot: A comment Duckman makes at the unveiling of a new supercomputer, named Loretta, makes the world a better place to live in, for a while anyway.


Duckman Season 1 Episode 4


Psyche
Season 1 Episode 4
Aired date: Sat, Mar 26, 1994
Plot: Feeling inadequate and hard up, Duckman gets a bill job. The detectives then get a job researching the lives of two large breasted women, but Duckman runs away from it. Seeking further help, takes him into his psyche where he confronts what has really been troubling him. 


Duckman Season 1 Episode 5


Gland of Opportunity
Season 1 Episode 5
Aired date: Sat, Apr 9, 1994
Plot: Duckman receives the adrenal gland of a daredevil via a transplant at an amusement park clinic. The new gland gives him loads of confidence.


Duckman Season 1 Episode 6


Ride the High School
Season 1 Episode 6
Aired date: Sat, Apr 16, 1994
Plot: Duckman receives a letter offering Ajax a chance to go to a boarding school for gifted children. After visiting Ajax's current school, Duckman decides that Ajax must go to the boarding school. The family begins to miss Ajax's presence. Cornfed decodes one of Ajax's letter's and they go to the school to bring Ajax back, but it turns out the school is a front for Duckman's arch-nemesis, ""King"" Chicken.


Duckman Season 1 Episode 7

A Civil War
Season 1 Episode 7
Aired date: Sat, Apr 23, 1994
Plot: Duckman is jealous when everyone showers Cornfed with their attention, so he fires him while working their next case, which involves the ""murder"" of the owner of a Steak and Waffle on a Stick factory.


Duckman Season 1 Episode 8

Not So Easy Riders
Season 1 Episode 8
Aired date: Sat, Apr 30, 1994
Plot: Duckman receives a letter from the IRS. The IRS agent is tough and Duckman is given 24 hours to pay $29,587.42 in back taxes. After asking his family for help and being rejected and lectured, Duckman tries anything. When he can't raise the funds, he and Cornfed go on the run and then on the road. Bernice falls for the IRS agent who's staying at the house waiting for Duckman to call. 



Duckman Season 1 Episode 9

It's the Thing of the Principal
Season 1 Episode 9
Aired date: Sat, May 7, 1994
Plot: Bernice is worried about Ajax, who's not been eating and has been sent to the principal every day this week. Duckman and Cornfed go undercover in the school to find out what's up with Ajax. It turns out that Ajax is in love with the vice principal and she's in love with him. They take off together with plans to get married, south of the border. Duckman and Bernice pose as a couple and go after them.


Duckman Season 1 Episode 10

Cellar Beware
Season 1 Episode 10
Aired date: Sat, May 21, 1994
Plot: Bernice decides they're going to act together as a family. For their first activity together, she invites the neighbors over for the monthly meeting of the block association. When a home security expert shows up, his pitch gets Duckman to buy the most elaborate security system, the ""Interlopen Fuhrer 2000,"" which of course doesn't do the job and then Duckman fixes it...


Duckman Season 1 Episode 11

American Dick
Season 1 Episode 11
Aired date: Sat, May 28, 1994
Plot: The Duckman detective agency, the only agency not affected by the nationwide detective strike, becomes the focus of TV show American Dicks who are looking to solve their 100th case. Eventually, Duckman gets a case; the mission is to find the mayor.


Duckman Season 1 Episode 12


About Face
Season 1 Episode 12
Aired date: Sat, Jun 4, 1994
Plot: Duckman calls 911 in an emergency and falls in love with the voice on the other end of the line. When they meet, her looks leave a whole lot to be desired. Then she gets a complete makeover that changes her life.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Symphonies of Dvořák

Symphonies of Dvořák

During Dvořák's life, only five of his symphonies were widely known. The first published was his sixth, dedicated to Hans Richter. After Dvořák's death, research uncovered four unpublished symphonies, of which the manuscript of the first had even been lost to the composer himself. This led to an unclear situation in which the New World Symphony has alternately been called the 5th, 8th and 9th. This article uses the modern numbering system, according to the order in which they were written.
Symphony No. 1 in C minor was written when Dvořák was 24 years old. Later subtitled The Bells of Zlonice after a village in Dvořák's native Bohemia, it shows inexperience but also genius with its many attractive qualities. It has many formal similarities with Beethoven's 5th Symphony (for example, the movements follow the same keys: C minor, A flat major, C minor, C major), yet in harmony and instrumentation, Dvořák's First follows the style of Franz Schubert. (Some material from this symphony was reused in the Silhouettes, Opus 8, for piano solo.)
Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 4, still takes Beethoven as a model, though this time in a brighter, more pastoral light.
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 10, clearly shows the sudden and profound impact of Dvořák's recent acquaintance with the music of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt; there is no scherzo. (A portion of the slow movement was reused in the sixth of the Legends, Opus 59, for piano duet or orchestra.)
Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 13, still shows a strong influence of Wagner, particularly the second movement, which is reminiscent of the overture to Tannhäuser. In contrast, the scherzo is strongly Czech in character.
Symphony No. 5 in F major, Op. 76, and Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60, are largely pastoral in nature, and brush away nearly all the last traces of Wagnerian style. The Sixth, published in 1880, shows a very strong resemblance to the Symphony No. 2 of Brahms, particularly in the outer movements, though this similarity is belied by the third-movement furiant, a vivid Czech dance. This was the symphony that made him internationally known as a symphonic composer.
Symphony No. 7 in D minor of 1885, Op. 70, is sometimes reckoned to exhibit more formal tautness and greater intensity than the more famous 9th Symphony. There is emotional torment in the Seventh that may reflect personal troubles: around this time, Dvořák was struggling to have his Czech operas accepted in Vienna, feeling pressure to write operas in German, and arguing with his publisher. His sketches show that the Seventh cost him much hard work and soul-searching.
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, is, in contrast with the Seventh, characterized by a warmer and more optimistic tone. Karl Schumann (in booklet notes for a recording of all the symphonies by Rafael Kubelík) compares it to the works of Gustav Mahler. As with the Seventh, some feel the Eighth is the best of the symphonies. That some critics feel it necessary to promote a symphony as "better than the Ninth" shows how the immense popularity of the Ninth has overshadowed the earlier works.
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, may be better known by its subtitle, From the New World, and is also called the New World Symphony. Dvořák wrote it between January and May 1893, while he was in New York. At the time of its first performance, he claimed that he used elements from American music such as spirituals and Native American music in this work, but he later denied this. The first movement has a solo flute passage reminiscent of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", and one of his students later reported that the second movement depicted, programmatically, the sobbing of Hiawatha. The second movement was so reminiscent of a negro spiritual that William Arms Fisher wrote lyrics for it and called it "Goin' Home". Dvořák was interested in indigenous American music, but in an article published in the New York Herald on December 15, 1893, he wrote, "[In the 9th symphony] I have simply written original themes embodying the peculiarities of the Indian music." Neil Armstrong took a recording of the New World Symphony to the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission, the first Moon landing, in 1969, and in 2009 it was voted the favourite symphony in a poll in by ABC Classic FM in Australia.

Friday, December 10, 2010

11-001 Summary

A is for Alibi Audio Books
by Sue Grafton


CBSRMT CD # 1 of 22 Episodes 1-64


Duckman 1of6

Episode 1-12 


The Walking Dead

Books 1-24



Walking With Dinosaurs Complete BBC Series


Symphonies of Dvorak
     Symphonies 1-9


Sherlock Holmes Audio Books
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four
Adventures

Sherlock Holmes

 
Sherlock Holmes Collection 
first 3 books
Audio





* "A Scandal in Bohemia"
* "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League"
* "A Case of Identity"
* "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
* "The Five Orange Pips"
* "The Man with the Twisted Lip"
* "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"
* "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
* "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"
* "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"
* "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet"
* "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"

Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs is a six-part documentary television mini-series that was produced by the BBC, and first aired in the UK in 1999. The series was subsequently aired in North America on the Discovery Channel in 2000.  It is the first entry of the Walking with... series and used computer-generated imagery and animatronics to recreate the life of the Mesozoic, showing dinosaurs in a way that previously had only been seen in feature films.


10 Hrs total includes specials.

Sue Grafton

When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated philanderer. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California town of Santa Teresa had a reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access, and opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect. The jury thought so too. 

Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her late husband.

A trail that is eight years cold. A trail that reaches out to enfold a bitter, wealthy, and foul-mouthed old woman and a young boy, born deaf, whose memory cannot be trusted. A trail that leads to a lawyer defensively loyal to a dead partner -- and disarmingly attractive to Millhone; to an ex-wife, brave, lucid, lovely -- and still angry over Fife's betrayal of her; to a not-so-young secretary with too high a salary for too few skills -- and too many debts left owing: The trail twists to include every turn until it finally twists back on itself with a killer cunning enough to get away with murder.