Barbara Cook - It's Better With a Band
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Artist: Barbara CookEdition: Music CD
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-11-18
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Intro/Sing A Song With Me
- I Love A Piano
- Inside
- Lullaby In Ragtime
- Them There Eyes
- Marianne (From The Grand Tour)
- The Ingenue
- Remember/Come In From The Rain
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Another Mr. Right Left
- Leonard Bernstein Medley: Simple Song (From Mass)/One Hand, One Heart (From West Side Story)/Some Other Time (From On The Town)/I Can Cook, Too (From On The Town)
- I Never Meant To Hurt You/I Never Knew That Men Cried
- It's Better With A Band
- Chant La Vie (Sing)/Sing A Song With Me
- If Love Were All
Music reviews of It's Better With a Band
Music Review: It's Better with Barbara Cook
Rating: 5 Stars
Barbara Cook has recorded a number of very fine albums over the years, but not one is half as enjoyable as this little treasure. "It's Better With a Band" is one of those recordings that I wouldn't ever want to be without. At the very least I like everything on this CD, but most of it I love. "I Love a Piano," "It's Better with a Band" and "Another Mr. Right Left" are wonderful, "Them There Eyes" is a treat. The Bernstein medley a gem. "The Ingenue" is a highlight - fast and funny. The finale couldn't be improved upon - "Chant La Vie (Sing)/Sing A Song With Me" delightful, followed by Coward's classic "If Love Were All." Everything seems to coalesce perfectly. I love this recording - and my 'dear friend' Barbara Cook too.
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All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Recorded live in 1980, this long-out-of-print album shows Barbara Cook about halfway through her Broadway ingénue beginnings and her current incarnation as cabaret's reigning empress. Her crystalline upper register is still in very good shape, but she also swings surprisingly hard--those who know only Cook's semi-operatic trills or her dramatic readings of Sondheim's art songs are in for a shock here. The contrast between the singer's tone and the brassy orchestra behind is startling from the very first number, Irving Berlin's "I Love a Piano," and it sustains the entire album. But what makes the album stand out is its mix of show tunes and pop songs. Take "Inside," for instance; cowritten by Peter Allen, it's something you'd expect on a Barbra Streisand record and yet Cook does such a fabulous job that it feels completely natural for her. The frantic glee of "Sweet Georgia Brown" (on which Cook scats) is even better. Add tracks such as Harry Nilsson's "Remember" and Laura Nyro's "I Never Meant to Hurt You," and you realize that what Cook is doing is pulling off the rare feat of "cabaretizing" pop tunes without sounding ridiculous. Fans of the more traditional Broadway repertoire aren't forgotten, especially with an ace Leonard Bernstein medley. It's Better with a Band is a gem and it's nice to have it around again. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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