Search - Kate Smith :: God Bless America

Here is the track listing for the 3 cd set

DodgyUSA | Jamaica Plain, MA United States | 08/30/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"CD 1

When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain

Shine On Harvest Moon

Some Sunday Morning

Say It Over And Over Again

Embraceable You

Beautiful Dreamer

The Last Time I Saw Paris

Stay As Sweet As You Are

Makin' Faces At The Moon

Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

Who Cares? (As Long As You Care For Me)

Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen

Easter Parade

I'm Stepping Out With A Memory Tonight

The Continental

Time On My Hands

Snuggled On Your Shoulder

Rose O' Day (The Filla-Ga-Dusha Song)

You Call It Madness

I Got Rhythm

When My Ship Comes In

I Cried For You

Now Is The Hour

We'll Meet Again



CD 2

(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover

I Don't Want To Walk Without You

Be Careful It's My Heart

If I Have To Go On Without You

How Do I Know It's Real?

Love, You Funny Thing

I Only Have Eyes For You

Tears On My Pillow

Somebody Loves Me

I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)

Just A Prayer Away

Ridin' High

Along The Santa Fe Trail

Sioux City Sue

There's A Gold Mine In The Sky

Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby)

Mother Machree

When You Wish Upon A Star

You'll Never Know Sweetheart

It Had To Be You

If I Had My Life To Live Over

Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

It's Never Too Late (To Say You're Sorry)

Somebody Else Is Taking My Place

Anniversary Song



CD 3

Seems Like Old Times

There Goes That Song Again

Imagination

Time Was

Bless This House

The Woodpecker Song (based on Reginalla Campagnola)

One Dozen Roses

Blues In The Night

My Melancholy Baby

River, Stay `Way From My Door

Don't Fence Me In

When The Roses Bloom Again

Ask Anyone Who Knows

Two Dreams Met

And There You Are

I Threw A Kiss In The Ocean

Memory Lane

The Miracle Of The Bells

When I Lost You

Don't Worry `Bout Me

It All Comes Back To Me Now

Maybe It's Love

You Didn't Have To Tell Me (I Knew It All The Time)

Too Late

God Bless America"

WRONG SONG LISTINGS!!!!! ALL WRONG!

Victor Vail | Rockville, MD USA | 08/26/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Kate Smith was a true landmark in American music. No one sang like she did. She recorded for decades - without her voice failing (like so many other singers). And yet, she has been so grossly misrepresented on CD's. Her greatest body of work (in my opinion) is the work she did for RCA (several albums in the 1960's), when her voice was rich beyond belief - and orchestrations lush, contemporary, well recorded. BUT... where are these albums on CD? A few have surfaced, but only a few - and what HAS surfaced has NOT been re-mastered. In fact, much of what has resurfaced on CD is WORSE sounding than the original albums. The lady deserves much better than this. She gave us a lifetime of all-out singing. It's a shame.



This new CD is both a "must-have" and a "disappointment."



A "must-have" because there is simply not much out there for Kate - and this 3 CD set has many songs that have not appeared on other CD compilations.



A "disappointment" for many reasons... No liner notes. No photos. The track listing on Amazon (and practically EVERY website & music store!) is TOTALLY incorrect. The ONLY song in the Amazon.com listing that Kate sings on this set is "God Bless America". She sings NONE of the other songs.



The CD is also disappointing because NONE of the songs were re-mastered. The audio level varies from song to song. Some songs sound pretty good, with her voice WAY up front... while the next song will be so low, you can't understand what she's singing/saying. Many of the songs sounded better/clearer on the albums. By the way, most of these songs were 78 rpms. Only a few appeared on albums - nothing more recent than 1954 (Kate's Capitol Records album).



I was going to give a complete listing of songs, but hey - there are 75 songs on this CD. Way too many to list. There are some VERY early Kate Smith songs on this (Shine On Harvest Moon, for instance), and up to Who Cares (which I'm pretty sure is the version off her Capital Records album, 1954).



I will say, though, it was a joy to hear Seems Like Old Times, Bless This House, Some Sunday Morning, Beautiful Dreamer, etc. Her voice is strong, secure (as always) - but definitely more dated sounding than the volume of work she did for RCA.



Do I recommend this CD? Yeah. It's Kate, after all - and 75 songs for this price is a real bargain. Just don't expect good sound. (I'm actually thinking about running this through my home computer to adjust volumes, clean up the muddy sound on a lot of it, and burn a copy for my own use.) It's at least SOMETHING - until RCA gets off their ... and puts out a Kate Smith collection worthy of the woman.



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