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Abide with Me - 50 Favourite Hymns

from: Double Decca

Release Date July 08, 1996
I have often listened to church music thinking to myself is it all manifested in the same place and released under different titles? However this selection 'hits the spot' with some great renditions of worshipful music and if you like to listen to part singing then cd 1 is excellent. There also some lovely descants some of which i had not heard before, an inspiring selection. Excellent.

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Bach - Brandenburg Concertos

from: Universal Classics

Release Date March 03, 1995
I don't know much about classical music unlike the other reviewers for this CD. However, I was fortunate in that my mother bought me a record (remember them?) of Concertos no 1,3 and 5. You get

1. all 6 Brandenburg concertos beautifully played by English Chamber Orchestra. Normally albums of Bach's Brandenburg concertos only have three of the concertos. Having listened to a few of these, the quality of this CD is at least equal to those recordings in my opinion.

2. two additional concertos: the Concerto for Oboe, Violin and Strings and the Concerto for Flute and Strings. The first of these, as observed in the other reviews, is stunning.

I think this CD is fabulous to listen to and is a complete steal for ... Read More:

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The Best of Glenn Miller

by: Glenn Miller

Release Date February 05, 2003
Glenn Miller was a wartime orchestra leader who died in a mysterious airoplane crash, which is explained in the DVD documentary 'Glenn Miller's Last Flight' (*recommended). So, born in 51 as I was, his genre of music was more in tune with my parent's generation, but it overspilled, and we heard quite a lot of it via 78's and the wonderfully drawling James Stewart playing his role in 'The Glenn Miller Story' which seemed to be on TV back then quite often (now also on DVD!)
So, even though the music was cringeworthy as far as our peer's were concerned, (we wouldn't have been 'Hip' in the mid-60's if they knew we held a light for Glenn Miller!), but in all honesty, some of his music gave you the old adrenaline rush / backbone shiver, nevertheless.
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Young Hearts: Complete Greatest Hits

by: Steve Miller Band

Release Date September 29, 2003
Steve Miller was one of the highlights of any school or Uni disco in the mid to late seventies for us rockers. All the classics and more - they sound as good now as they did then - smooth production, great rhythm, and a back beat to make you boogie.
Turn up the volume and tear up the carpet.

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The Golden Years: 1938-1942

by: Glenn Miller

Release Date May 21, 2001
When you're tired of just "the best of" and don't want to go to the trouble to collect the complete Glenn Miller, this is about the best collection on the market. I'm still surprised to find items like the childish "Booglie-Wooglie Piggy" or "the Kiss Polka" included in the set ("Sweeter than the Sweetest" and "At the President's Birthday Ball" come to mind as musically better alternatives), but all in all there's a good balance between the swinging Mr. Miller and the more commercial things he waxed.
I still find it incomprehensible that Miller employed such mediocre singers (Marion Hutton and Ray Eberle), who are only palatable when they are singing together with The Modernaires, and therefore I find it a pity that the 1937-1938 Decca and Brunswick recordings, ... Read More:

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Thunder

by: Marcus Miller

Release Date August 04, 2008
Currently accredited on Amazon to just Miller, this IS Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten - bass maestros!
It's a collection of slick Jazz Funk with some "House" type moves and grooves. There are a couple of 'steadier' pieces, like "Milano" for instance, where Clarke's gentle bowed upright bass leads us in.
When you think of the electric bass - these are the men - well, there's Pastorius of course; but these guys represent an awesome trio.
I'll stick my neck out here, (right out!) and claim that it would appear to be Wooten who claims the crown. Although there is no direct credit as to who plays what and through which channel; if you are familiar with their styles, Victor has the edge. I may be right off base here (ha, ha) and it isn't a ... Read More:

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In the Mood - The Definitive Glenn Miller Collection

by: Glenn Miller

Release Date October 06, 2003
On what grounds this collection should be labelled the definitive GM collection is a mystery to me. Between 1935 and 1944 Miller and his various bands waxed some 300 titles, more than enough to fill some fifteen cd's. A lot of Miller's recorded output belongs on the dungheap of musical history, but there are also enough titles well worth hearing that strangely enough seldom find their way to cd-reissues.
So what we get here is the same redundant collection of "greatest hits" plus some inexplicable choices to fill the gaps: the childish "Booglie-Wooglie Piggy"; the insipid "Woodpecker Song" sung by the always out of tune Marion Hutton; the worst thinkable versions of "Imagination" and "I'll Never Smile Again" by any band; "The Nearness of You" where 'singer' Ray ... Read More:

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There'll Never Be Another

by: Max Miller

Release Date June 03, 2002
It is always difficult to get the flavour of comedy from another era. Max Miller was a massive artist in the 30s 40s and 50s so he must have had something about him

There are a few clips of his act on You tube so you can see him performing his act.

I now play this CD when I am on long journeys in my car. You get into it without interruption. His delivery is quite slow as he pauses between each section as the audience are anticipating him by laughing

He comes from a time when you could only use innuendo so your humour had to be a lot more subtle. He never used rude words of swore.

It was like Round the Horne on radio it was all in the mind. He didn't use funny voices but came out in his trademark outrageous suits. Even ... Read More:

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The Best of the Hightone Years

by: Buddy Miller

Release Date October 27, 2008
It is always difficult to get the flavour of comedy from another era. Max Miller was a massive artist in the 30s 40s and 50s so he must have had something about him

There are a few clips of his act on You tube so you can see him performing his act.

I now play this CD when I am on long journeys in my car. You get into it without interruption. His delivery is quite slow as he pauses between each section as the audience are anticipating him by laughing

He comes from a time when you could only use innuendo so your humour had to be a lot more subtle. He never used rude words of swore.

It was like Round the Horne on radio it was all in the mind. He didn't use funny voices but came out in his trademark outrageous suits. Even ... Read More:

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The Very Best of Frankie Miller

by: Frankie Miller

Release Date February 01, 1993
Do Yourself A BIG Favour ,BUY THIS ALBUM and treat Yourself to some of the Very Best HEARTFELT VOCALS EVER RECORDED.For anyone who has ever suffered a broken heart just listen to TRACK 13 'Tears',if you're missing your girl listen to TRACKS 1 & 2 'DARLIN' & 'WHEN I'M AWAY FROM YOU'. I cannot lavish enough praise on this compilation of the work of the CALEDONIAN SOUL BROTHER.