Twitty Bird and Conway are perfect together
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I had had this 33 1/3 album for years and was one of my favorites as I so love Conway and I so enjoyed Conway Twitty City and Twitty Bird.  Well, when downsizing I sold all my albums and that one  included...boo hoo...well, I found it again in CD form thankfully to Amazon and it is wonderful and I am most happy to have it again to listen too.
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George and Tammy were known as "Mr. and Mrs. Country Music." Recorded at the time of their divorce, the voices here beg to be united; bittersweet, but ultimately beautiful to experience. This album says in song what it's like to be in love, but not be able to stay married. If you want to hear them at their best, this is the one to buy.
(Though it was the B-side of the single, I about wore a hole through "Tattletale Eyes" on the juke at our local diner. Tammy's voice is incredible on that song.)
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All too often two geniuses share space and come up with an effort that is less than either would have produced alone.  This is not that album. This pairing is sublime...I don't know why anyone, after hearing this, would bother to record a version of Stars Fell on Alabama.  The rendition of Cheek to Cheek highlights both Armostrong's sassy chops and Ella's big band swing, and marries the two in an incredible way.  Oscar Peterson takes the an unusually subdued and minimalistic piano to excellent effect. There's not a weak or insipid cut on the entire album.
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If you have a former Thunderbirds Are Go CD, you will not regret having got this new item, because this disc enables you to hear ALL the music scores composed for this movie by Barry Gray, including the opening and ending title themes.  And if you have a former Thunderbird Six CD, I recommend you buy this disc, because some unreleased pieces of the incidental music are added here and furthermore, all the contents are recorded in STEREO this time.  This CD in limited numbers will give an entirely new experience for the fans of both the Thunderbirds feature films.
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I ordered these coasters when they came up as a "gold box" special.  These coasters are really lovely.  In case you can't tell from the tiny pictures, the birds on the coasters are:  a chickadee; a cardinal, a rose-breasted nuthatch, and a goldfinch.  The birds are posed in very natural positions.  Catherine McClung is a well-known bird painter that you may have seen on HGTV on "Modern Masters: White House Artisans".  She had been invited to paint a bird ornament for the White House in 2002.  (See more about her at her website at:  [...]) There is cork on the bottom of these coasters, so I do not consider them to be freezer, microwave or oven safe, as stated in the description here on Amazon.  They are not "coaster stone" that soaks up excess water.  They are simply beautiful painted coasters.  If you love birds like I do, then you will love these coasters.
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This album is so much fun.  Tim Noah has a very nice singing voice, and his songs are very creative and upbeat.  I loved singing along with them when I was a kid.  I think this item would be appropriate for all ages (except perhaps tweens and teenagers, since they're too "cool" for kids' songs), including adults who are kids at heart.  My favorite songs were "Wow Wow Wibble Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo!", "Musty Moldy Melvin", "I can do anything", and "I wanna do just what I please" (I don't know if the last 3 are the actual titles, but that's how the songs start).
320990
One of my favorite old groups. Free Bird has a really soaring mid point. Very mind wakening.
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It should be no surprise Emmylou Harris' angelic voice blends perfectly with the gruff rumble of Mark Knopfler's. If you've heard her great duo with similarly bassoed country artist Don Williams on Townes Van Zandt's elegant "If I Needed You," you could anticipate the perfect fit. And anyway, Emmylou's voice blends with everyone's. She is not only one of the most sought after duet partners in country music, but an iconic soloist who is on the short list of all time country greats.

In a time when Nashville demands you are only as good as your last video, she is no Emmylou come lately. When one recent female country artist cut her first album and was asked of her goals for the disk, she replied: "I just wanted to do something that wouldn't embarrass me in front of Emmylou Harris." Or as Knopfler himself put it during their release day appearance on Imus in the Morning, "When Emmylou sings a song, it stays sung."

Knopfler is a talented songwriter and an elegant guitar artist with a distinctive musical tone and style that, if described in literary terms, might be dubbed "Hemingwayesque." Just as Papa never used ten words when one perfectly chosen one would do, so too with Knopfler's guitar work. Knopfler's taste and economy is recognizable whether gunning out "Sultans of Swing" with Dire Straits or "Wild Theme" from his sound track of "Local Hero."

In other words these individually brilliant artists flat out define good taste and talent performing together.

Fittingly, "All the Roadrunning" does not up and shout at you, but comes at you with a quiet confidence. It is flash-free, as understated and tasteful as its participants. No one is showing off here, these are artists plying their craft. And just how good  that craft is may sneak up on you. We've had the title tune and "This Is Us" available as early teases--they may be the two most commercial tunes on the disk. No matter, MK and EH "filler" is better than most artists "A" Material.

As I keep playing the disk, I find new treats within. This is very, very good stuff, the 15-year-old single malt you keep in the back of the bar. It respects your intelligence and taste. It will never pounce on you like an overeager puppy. It expects you to find it, and find it you will.

One minor issue. Knopfler wrote all but the two songs Emmylou penned. And while most are very good, Emmylou has become a world-class songwriter herself, and I'd have liked to have heard more songs written by her.

Nevertheless, while her "Love and Happiness" is touching, the biggest goose bumps come from Knopfler's "If This is Goodbye." It is a stand-alone love song, a seemingly sweet and innocent ballad that could be a lover bidding a tentative farewell when romance  ends. The narrator is still in love, you think, his love object ready to walk away. Pretty standard stuff for love songs, particularly of the country variety.

But as Knopfler has explained, that is not the topic. "The famous last words" that "could never tell the story" were inspired not by fading love but by the last phone calls from the World Trade Center left on message machines. In that context, and sung by these artists, it is haunting.

This is a treasure of an album, one that can stand up not only to the ages, but to the very high standards the artists who recorded it have set for themselves.
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It's hard to imagine tighter harmonies, except possibly the Everly Brothers.  April and Beth deliver a set of great tunes.  (April is of course not the April Stevens who did "Deep Purple" with Nino Tempo in the 60s!)  The whole project was carefully put together from the song selection to the musicians to the arrangements.  The CD opens with the title track, a midtempo toe tapper.  The melody kind of slinks on "Walk On By," "Baby, I won't cry."  "Tuesday's Gone" is a pretty ballad with Sam Bush's fiddle, "My baby's gone with the wind."  Mike Henderson's toe tapper "Wherever You Are" has a classic sound; Sam Bush goes crazy on mandolin during the bridge.  You won't find more magnificent harmonies than those on the pretty melody of "Lonesome Wind."  "Yours In Tennessee" has a soft melody, "If you want a love that's ture & tender, remember your girl in Tennessee."  "Run to the Well" is a great Kim Richey tune about putting a fire out, "I do believe the Lord helps those who help themselves."  Tony Arata's song "Love Every Time" is beautiful with Gary Davis' bluesy guitar and Gary Smith tinkling the piano ivory.  "I'll Never Say Goodbye" is a slow Dolly tune with Parton's gorgeous supporting vocals.  My favorite track is another Kim Richey song with Sam Bush's mandolin percolating on "Those Words We Said," "I could drive a million miles & never drive them from my head."  "If I'm Gonna Be Lonely" is a gorgeous melody that you could almost hear Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris joining in spirit.  Mike Henderson's slide guitar stars on the Barry & Holly Tashian tune "Don't Kneel At My Graveside."  This is one of the most pleasant sets you'll hear in bluegrass/country music.  The sisters have put together a memorable set!  Enjoy!
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Fun with Becky and Nicki. Un-duplicated by any other duos with whom I'm familiar. Both wonderful singers, both lovely women. They give the impression that they'd also be delightful dinner companions. Which I can say from personal experience, is not true of a lot of pop divas.

Nice choices of songs, beginning with an original by Kilgore and Parrott; 'Two Songbirds of a Feather'. They also rescue the title song of a horrible movie, 'Valley of the Dolls'. Ditto for two songs from 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' that were sung by Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell; 'Two Little Girls from Little Rock' (Jule Styne and Leo Robins, in the B'way play) and Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Adamson's contribution to the movie version, 'When Love Goes Wrong'.

Add Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's 'It's a Woman's Prerogative' from St. Louis Woman. Also the Johnny Mandel tune 'El Cajon' with the inimitable lyrics of Dave Frishberg. Toss in 'Life Is So Peculiar' by Van Heusen and Burke. Season with 'S'Wonderful', 'Them There Eyes' and a couple of the other usual suspects. It's a feast.

The only disappointment was Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein's 'When I Grow Too Old To Dream'. Not that Becky and Nicki did anything wrong with it, but Ms Parrott defined that song with her piano accompanist Rossano Sportiello a few years ago on one of those Arbors Jazz Cruises. She'll never improve on that performance (which a visit to You Tube will show).

These two singers can make anything sound good. Even songs I've never liked, I'll give a listen when they do them.
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Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler are great together. Their voices are a perfect combination, both with voices that are a bit rough around the edges and full of honest emotion. Knopfler's guitar playing is also great but I wish the album gave him more chances to show it. Don't expect any early Dire Straits type guitar solos. I guess that's the backside of the coin of their being so perfect together - neither is given the chance to ever step up front and outshine the other.

The album sounds pretty much like you'd expect from Harris. It has beautiful songs, beautifully produced. The album may not be very engaging or musically innovative, but it certainly is beautiful.
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This is so perfect. It has the flight ticket and a few cards and aaaaaaa it's just perfection. Also, I finally listened to FISH from this album- which plays perfectly by the way- and it's such a bop. Overall, this is perfect.
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It seems that Steve and Eydie were that showbiz rarity - a couple who were truly happy in each other's company. Once married, they remained married to each other until they died. The two albums presented here, both from 1960, are perfect for such marital bliss.

These albums from 1960, produced by Don Costa, hark back to the thirties and forties both in style and song selection. There is a Christmas song on each of them, which is fine for a Christmas music junkie like myself, but won't suit everybody if they want to avoid such music out of season. That said, these are two magnificent albums, mostly sung as duets but with the occasional solo track.

Fantastic
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For those of you who have never heard of this duo, you're missing something special. And if you're facing the possibility of going more than a "Wee" bit insane or turning into a "Mommana-maniac"  if you hear some of the more well-known kids music one more time, TFIA is  for you. Their original songs--some rock, some folk, (an occasional tango)  and most just delightfully  silly,--have helped us happily survive many  long car rides. Buy the CD's- you won't be sorry. And if possible, see them  perform live, it's a lot of fun.
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Great country song when country was really country and not a cross-over with pop and rock.  Conway Twitty brings you to what country music is really all about.
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I've been hearing their music on a local radio program for the past few years, and I've searched for it in my local music store, but that was a vain effort.  Until one day I stumbled across this while shopping for another album. I knew right away-loving their work-that I was going to buy it. I love them so much-I purchased this instead of what I originally intended to buy. I love every song. Including their original compositions. They respect the old-time tradition, while at the same time giving it new life. "Streak o' Fat, Streak o' Lean" is proof of this, with Abigail Washburn doing the calling in Chinese. I never would have thought it, but it actually works. Another favorite of mine is the fiddle tune "Sisters of the Road". I also enjoyed  "Wallflower", "My Epitaph", and "The Birds Were Singing of You", as well as "Buonaparte", which is done in the style of old shape-note hymns. The other track worth checking out on here is the jazzy\blues-infused, "Easy in the Early( Until Sundown)". I highly recommend this album.
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It's amazing what can happen when you put two master musicians like Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery in the same room, as this classic album documents. Supported by players like drummer Grady Tate, Clark Terry, and Ray  Barretto, and arranger Oliver Nelson,  Jimmy & Wes go to town on  "The Dynamic Duo". "James & Wes", "Night  Train", and the cool spin they put on "Baby, It's Cold  Outside" make this album a joy to listen again and again. The  alternate take of "Road Song" at the end is the cream on the  cake, and in my opinion is even better than the originally issued take. One  of the first releases in Verve's excellent Master Edition series, the  packaging and remastered sound make this the definitive issue of this jazz  classic and one of my all time favorites.