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| Harry Belafonte - Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Band: Harry Belafonte Tracks: - Jump Down, Spin Around - Harry Belafonte - Suzanne (Every Night When the Sun Goes Down) - Harry Belafonte - Little Lyric of Great Importance - Chad Mitchell Trio - Chickens - Harry Belafonte - Vaichazkem - Chad Mitchell Trio - I Do Adore Her - Chad Mitchell Trio - Ballad of Sigmund Freud - Chad Mitchell Trio - I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain - Odetta - Water Boy - Odetta - Hole in the Bucket - Harry Belafonte - Click Song - Miriam Makeba - One More Dance - Harry Belafonte - Ox Drivers - The Belafonte Folk Singers - Red Rosy Bush - The Belafonte Folk Singers - Didn't It Rain - The Belafonte Folk Singers - Hene Ma Tov - Harry Belafonte - I Know Where I'm Going - Harry Belafonte - Old King Cole - Harry Belafonte - Bamba - Harry Belafonte Great songs, bad recording I like the songs on this CD. Unfortunately the recording is poor. This is a Live recording complete with audience. The recording of the songs is very quiet, while the sounds of the Audience clapping is very loud. To listen to the album, you have to keep turning up the sound to hear the songs and turning down the sound after every song because of the loud clapping. Song Power II! Like another reviewer, I too used to pull this out of my parents' lp collection and play it. Belafonte's energy, Strong voice, and diverse material made a lasting impact. It's great to see it available on cd. The sound is crisp and vivid, and doesn't break up in loud climaxes like the lp's sound did. I didn't much care for Odetta's material-sounds like a bad combination of 1920s blues and 1950s coffeehouse poetry--though I do like her fun duet with Belafonte on "There's a Hole in the Bucket". That song got our family through many a long road trip when I was young. South African Miriam Makeba sings an interesting Xhosa (IINM) song. Belafonte's backup singers make some great harmonies in their featured numbers, especially "The Ox Drivers". And Belafonte himself is just sparkling-the folks back then didn't know how good they had it! He sings a Sweet Scottish (English?) ballad, "I Know Where I'm Going". "Old King Cole", a military novelty song, is another tune that passed the time on long vacation trips. And his _con brio_ delivery of the Israeli song "Hene Ma Tov" is stirring. The only disappointment is the final song, an uproarious version of "La Bamba". Another performance of the song has been substituted for the one originally on the lp. The original version is so frenetic that Belafonte is practically gasping his lines. On this version the vocals are still very good, but not as exciting. Don't worry, though-if you've never heard the lp, you'll be content with this. Slightly different than the original... First off, let me just say I Love this album. My father had the original vinyl Double album and I listened to it all the time. I am a professional entertainer myself now and this album was certainly among my early influences...and my dad still has the Double LP. But this is also why I knocked a star off the review. The CD is not the same as the original album!!! For example, on the original LP Belafonte does not introduce Hene Ma Tov...he just starts singing it. Also the La Bamba track on the CD is obviously a completely different performance altogether! There is an extra verse and some vocalizing missing that Belafonte did on the original. Picky stuff I suppose, but since I searched for several years to find this CD and was thrilled that it was finally released, it was a slight dissapointment to not get the exact album I remembered from my childhood. I still Love the album...I just wish it hadn't been altered. Buy Harry Belafonte Belafonte Returns To Carnegie at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
