Eileen Farrell

[TC Chris]

The big recording studios have discovered that they can mine their vaults and reissue remastered versions of recordings. I just bought a 16-CD set of Eileen Farrell discs. She was an American soprano from the '50s and '60s who flipped back and forth between classical and pop successfully. It's Sat. so I'm listening to some pop discs, American classics with Luther Henderson conducting a studio orchestra. I've got the current one, I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues, on LP also.

Chris Campbell

[electra225]

This is the toughest forum I have ever seen to get a conversation started about music. We work on record players, for pity's sake. What do we play on record players? Records. What materials is on records? Music. Why this group won't talk about recordings and recorded music is a mystery to me. I know music is a personal thing. Nothing worse than having to suffer thru hearing music you don't care for. Chris, I'm sorry I don't have more appreciation for opera and classical music. I was raised differently I reckon. My wife likes Beverly Sills. That comment is about all I can offer in the way of participating in this topic. Maybe we should start a topic and have members list their musical preference. I know of only one other member on this forum that is into country music.

[TC Chris]

Ferrell was interesting because she got her start as a pop radio singer. That made it easier for her to switch back after her classical career took off. She doesn't sound like she's slumming.

Her blues were of the pop-music variety, tunes from the American Songbook, and not the black blues that I'm listening to right now on the weekly "Juke Joint" broadcast.

A bit earlier Nick Spitzer played "Sweet and Dandy," the wonderful song from Toots and the Maytals. I had to run inside and turn it up to neighbor-annoying levels. It was in the soundtrack to The Harder They Come, the movie that introduced me and lots of others to reggae. Some music does not get old.

Chris Campbell