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Título: Dean Martin

Subtitular: El rey de la pista [The King of the Track]

Autor: Online Studio Productions

Narrador: uncredited

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 31 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 11-17-15

Editor: Online Studio Productions

Categorías: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Resumen del editor:

Dino Paul Crocetti, su verdadero nombre, fue un inigualable cómico, actor y cantante estadounidense, que desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX hizo reír a muchas generaciones de estadounidenses. Junto con Jerry Lewis, otro notable cómico, hicieron las delicias del público de su tiempo. Su influencia se siente hasta hoy.

Please Note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: The Journey

Author: Adrian Jeens

Narrator: Andrew Sims

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-04-15

Publisher: Adrian Jeens

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The wonderful sound of the group of boy vocalists called LIBERA, who have sung all around the world in front of presidents, the pope, and several thousand fans, and who frequently appear on television and radio, is explored in this new book. This is the story of how it all started, from a small church choir in Norbury, South London in the 1970s, through to Angel Voices during the 1980s and 1990s, to what they are today as LIBERA. Under the guidance of the composer, Robert Prizeman (known also for his role within the BBC's long-running religious television show Songs of Praise), the listener will learn how LIBERA has grown to become a household name across the world.

Members Reviews:

Good to know more of Libera

Listening to Libera is one thing, but knowing how it started is something magical. Indeed, you'll learn more of Libera through reading to the pages of Adrian Jeens, the Journey. So, if you really love Libera and want to know more about them, buy this book.

Concise and enjoyable!

After reading this book I came away with notion that Robert Prizeman is a genius. I doubt there are many people that could do what he has done over the past decades. I hope he keeps the "spark" for years to come!

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Title: The Great Works of Sacred Music

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Charles Edward McGuire

Format: Original Recording

Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-23-15

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 94 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Western classical music is one of humanity's most sublime artistic traditions. This musical language - encompassing genres from symphonic and instrumental music to choral works and opera - was created through the meeting of art and faith.

The lineage of sacred works produced some of the greatest masterpieces in Western art and created the foundation of the Western musical canon. This phenomenal tradition includes works of genius such as:

Beginning with medieval chant, discover how its single musical line evolved into polyphony (music with multiple simultaneous melodies). You'll also learn how the religious reformations of the 16th century compelled composers to create new musical genres and to make religious texts more intelligible. Additionally, observe how 17th-century composers blended sacred styles with genres such as opera, producing music of dramatic and unforgettable beauty.

As a fascinating counterpoint to the music itself, you'll explore the sociological background of its writing and performance. Sacred works were often commissioned by important clerical and aristocratic patrons, and composers were challenged to write music that was not only religiously edifying but also entertaining and publically successful. Over time, sacred music moved beyond church walls to become appreciated in secular venues as autonomous works of art.

You'll hear stunning musical excerpts covering over 1,200 years of music, from medieval chant to the massive sacred works of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Members Reviews:

A Worthy Course

This is the fifth music appreciation course I have taken from the Great Courses. I had no experience with music appreciation before beginning my education through these series of lectures. If you are like me and have little or no musical background, then I do not recommend starting with this particular course because the professor assumes some basic knowledge of terminology and music history. I strongly recommend beginning with Professor Greenburg's How to Listen to and Understand Great Music course before moving on to this one. If I have a complaint about this particular course, it would be that it is too short. The main topic omitted, which the professor openly admits, is music designed for congregational singing. In other words, this course focuses on music designed to be sung to the audience rather than music to be sung by the audience. So, this course omits most familiar religious songs commonly heard in church services. I wish the course was expanded to include enough lectures to incorporate this topic. That being said, this is still a wonderful course, and I learned a great deal such as the history of Handel's Messiah and Haydn's Creation. I purposely timed when I listened to this course so I could listen to the last lecture close to Christmas. The last lecture is by far the best and is dedicated to the history of Christmas music. The professor does a great job explaining the development of the Christmas music tradition.

Enlightening and Enjoyable

Any additional comments?

Although some of the musical analysis was beyond my complete understanding, I enjoyed it and learned. Beyond that, the history, background and excerpts were most enjoyable.

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Title: The Dresden Manuscripts

Subtitle: Unearthing an 18th Century Musical Genius

Author: David Wilson

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-15

Publisher: Skyboat Media, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

A fascinating journey to rediscover the music of a composer who was lauded in his day yet forgotten soon after, The Dresden Manuscripts chronicles David Wilson's 30-year quest to locate, reconstruct, and perform the music of Johann Adolf Hasse, a composer who, along with his equally famous wife, mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni, had close personal associations with Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, and Gluck.

Members Reviews:

History, music, and a personal story

The book moved right along: a window on the past in eastern Europe, insight into the life of an academic musician, historical notes on the baroque and classical periods in music, and a wonderful travel log. At times the author seemed to whine a bit, at others he tried to act the saint. The reader was not my favorite. But I still recommend this book, especially if you plan to visit Dresden or Vienna.

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Title: Reflections: A Tribute to Larry Adler

Author: Gary Italiaander

Narrator: Gary Italiaander, Ruth Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-15

Publisher: ACX

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

In celebration of Larry Adler's extraordinary life, photographer Gary Italiaander, who was a personal friend, has produced this amazing book that includes memories by his colleagues, family, and friends.

Larry Adler, a world famous mouth organist, raised the harmonica to an orchestral instrument. His extensive repertoire of classical and popular music included his own compositions and those written for him by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud, and Arthur Benjamin.

His film score Genevieve was nominated for an Academy Award. He performed with major orchestras and enjoyed great success with his one-man shows.

"His music was only one part of a complex character who commanded devotion for his gifts as a storyteller." - The Guardian

Members Reviews:

My idol and a FANTASTIC book!!!!

I've been an Adler fan since first hearing him on an old 78rpm record on my mom's old wind up victrola in the 1970's. This made me fall in love with the mouth organ (aka harmonica) & start playing it myself, eventually getting a chromatic one just like he played. This book is SO well written, and SO wonderful a read, that i only have one complaint. And that is that it's too short! Don't get me wrong. I mean that even if the book went on forever, it would STILL be too short! I bought the kindle version, as over 2,000 bucks for a book is a bit much. I don't know what's going on there. I'm seeing odd pricing like that a LOT here on amazon. To make a long story longer, if you are an Adler fan, you need this book! :)

UPDATE: The price for the physical book has now been changed to a MUCH more reasonable price. I guess reviews DO get read sometimes. :)

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Title: Looking for Lady Dee: A Punk Rock Mystery

Author: Johnny Angel Wendell

Narrator: Johnny Angel Wendell, Desiree Duffy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-15

Publisher: x+z publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Looking for Lady Dee is a one-of-a-kind story paralleling the career of a second-wave punk band (Thrills) with the disappearance of one of its fans. The story of the late 70s, early 80s popular music scene is the backdrop.

Author Johnny Angel Wendell tells all with pinpoint accuracy and wicked detail. Lurid, vivid, and relentless in its descriptions of rock music's unholy triumvirate (sex, drugs, and the music itself) from an author who lived it and survived, and his cohorts, many of whom did not. The author recounts, as the 23-year-old Johnny Angel, his history in the movement as a sullen, surly squirt leaning very much on negative charisma and impulsive street smarts to get ahead in the demi-monde of Punk/New Wave. And the disappearance of his love, a very good girl gone very bad, Ms. Dee McClain.

As the 50-something Johnny Angel Wendell, he's contacted online by Ms. McClain's best friend from the same music scene, Linda "Vivienne DeMilo" Boudreaux, and together they piece together Dee's story through hard work and a bit of old fashioned chicanery. What happened to their mutual friend leads them to places they never dreamed existed - and in many ways, they thought they'd seen it all! Inspired by writers like Raymond Chandler, Lester Bangs, Bukowski and Dennis Lehane, Looking for Lady Dee is not another middle-aged lookback at a wasted youth, but a hard-nosed twisting and turning tome of discovery and resolution.

Members Reviews:

Looking for a fun read? Then start with Looking for Lady Dee!

If you are looking for one of those plastic rock and roller autobiographies, look elsewhere. But if you are looking for a very fun read, then Looking for Lady Dee is one to pick up. Wendell tells the story as if he were a modern day bard spinning you a tale you wonât soon forget. The vivid descriptions, from the hole in the walls the leading character would stay at to the dingy dark rooms his band, the Thrills, played at, you soon feel like you are actually there. And the characters, like I said, you will feel transported there, and the characters will feel so real, that you will (by the end of the book) get to really like and hate some of them (like the infamous Nick Rowland).

Looking For Lady Dee is really a two-for-one deal here. Youâre not just getting what it was like to be a punk rocker, where you see what it was like to have a band in the heydays of punk in the late 70âs to the early 80âs, you also get a mystery tale thrown in revolving around the fate of a former lover/band mate. The whole book actually takes place in the present and in the past, where the various points in time connect, which I have to say this is hard to do without easily screwing up the whole story, but the author manages to pull it off exceedingly well.

The author is actually a prolific writer of both articles and song. It now looks like heâs entered the realm of books. Johnny Angel Wendell, this reader hopes you donât get lazy and stop writing more tales. Looking forward to see what else that chaotic cauldron of creativity comes up with next.

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Title: Keep a Knockin': The Story of a Legendary Drummer

Author: Charles Connor, Ziv Biton

Narrator: Royal Jaye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-15

Publisher: Waldorf Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook is loaded with untold stories about drummer Charles Connor and his road to rock 'n' roll history. Playing with legends like Roy "Professor Longhair" Byrd, Smiley Lewis, Guitar Slim, and Jack Dupree (then Shirley and Lee) was just his launch pad before touring with Little Richard and his band, The Upsetters - with whom he created his signature drum intro in "Keep-a-Knockin." He would go on to work with other music icons such as Lloyd Price, James Brown, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, the Original Coasters, "Big" Joe Turner, Larry Williams, Don Covay, "Papa" George Lightfoot, Larry Birdsong, and more.

Members Reviews:

Excellent read. Loved it!

Great story. Superb narration. Felt like a roadie along for the historical musical journey. Interesting perspective from a drummer's view. Liked how historical events were chronicled along the ride. The introduction to famous musicians and workings of band road trips was exciting

Could Have Been Much Better

This book should have and could have been much better. Narration was irritating and the intentional use of background sounds(noise) was distracting. Not enough about the music and too much about drugs and alcohol...."I was provided this audiobook at no charge by the author, publisher and/or narrator in exchange for an unbiased review via Audiobook Blast."

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Title: American Legends: The Life of Billie Holiday

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Edith Moulson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

"Don't threaten me with love, baby, let's just go walking in the rain" (Billie Holiday)

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

If Billie Holiday wanted to become a jazz singer, she chose the best of all eras in which to attempt it. A wave of great jazz and jazz/pop crossover artists swept over the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s, generating a golden age for the genre. This wondrous jazz era represented both black and white master artists, men, women, vocalists, and instrumentalists, and Billie Holiday has stood the test of time as well as any of them, despite struggling with an environment that easily could have doomed such aspirations.

Emerging from such a powerful group of talented vocalists was not easy. The woman who has come to represent a model of great, instinctive jazz singing came from nowhere, had nothing, and virtually had no one who was truly helpful in her background. She was raw and untrained, but went forward, regardless, with limited and quirky vocal gifts, the likes of which had never been heard in the highest circles of jazz. This especially was true among women, where perfection of phrasing and a smooth style of delivery stood as the unspoken guidelines of vocal success. No female counterpart of Louis Armstrong, one of Holiday's idols, was ever going to survive in the female jazz world for long, except perhaps as a novelty.

Members Reviews:

Anybody else catch the Charles Osgood files on the CBS Radio Network today about this famed jazz singer?

I had just started this book yesterday and finished this morning before heading into work which made it all the more remarkable when I heard tell of a brief mention of her on the radio as I was driving. Such a short, tragic life so full of promise but marred by poverty, rape, alcohol and heroin addiction. Glad she is still getting some recognition today and I plan on going home this evening and listening to more of her musical works including "Strange Fruit" , "Lover Man" and "Crazy He Calls Me" among others. One quote from 'Lady Day' I liked before I start the work day, "I'm always making a comeback, but nobody ever tells me where I've been." Very good book!

The woman, the legend!

An amazing account of her life. She was exceptional and yet so sad. If she wasn't being hurt she couldn't proform and this lead to the end of her life. Such a shame for the world to lose that beautiful voice. An awesome read.

easy read - insightful history

Painful, enlightening, insightful. She never knew the impact she had. The respect and influence was mostly realized after her death.

Good read

Love these books, they give one a grounding on the subject including all relevant facts with out being too long.

This book is another great example, interesting reading

American Legends: The Life of Billie Holiday

Great summary of a unique artist.

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Title: Riff-Raff, Rebels & Rock Gods

Subtitle: An Extreme Memoir from the Golden Years of Rock

Author: Garry Bushell

Narrator: Garry Bushell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-15

Publisher: Litopia

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Riff-Raff, Rebels & Rock Gods chronicles the rise of the most exciting generation of British music and musicians the world has ever seen - before or since. In rapid succession came Ska, New Mod, anarcho-punk, Oi, and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. A firestorm of incendiary music, created and performed by geniuses and madmen. What a time to be a music journalist! At the heart of this rock tsunami was SOUNDS magazine. And at the heart of SOUNDS was your narrator, Garry Bushell. Like his idols, Garry lived every day as if it was his last. Which it nearly was. Fed heroin in India by Hanoi Rocks. Going to chokey with the Angelic Upstarts. Getting his eyebrows shaved off by Ozzy Osbourne. All in a day's work for Garry. These were truly days of glory. The Specials. The Selecter. 2-Tone visionary Jerry Dammers. Garry was right there at ground zero. The Exploited. Twisted Sister. Rose Tattoo. Iron Maiden. A unique explosion of raw and exciting bands, giant characters and radical ideas. You'll meet them all. Riff-Raff, Rebels & Rock Gods is a brilliant new memoir from a leading rock journalist about the golden years of rock music: a unique moment when Rock Gods really did bestride the earth. Or thought they did.

Members Reviews:

Just horrid

I love autobiographical books especially about music or musicians . However this was just horrible & just vile in places. I found the part when it described the murdering of a cat near the beginning extremely upsetting. I couldn't even finish listening to the end.

Sometimes Hilarious

If you could sum up Riff-Raff, Rebels & Rock Gods in three words, what would they be?

Honest , Funny, Cutting edge. I always used to get Sounds, every week from about 1978 until it finished. Mr Bushell was always funny in his reviews and interviews with the stars and not so well known of the day.

What did you like best about this story?

Remembering the way he would write the brtal truth about his exploits with the musos, Legendary drinkers Pete Way , Ozzy et al come across as comedians on stage and after seeing them a few times its true, they are a bunch of nutters. Pete is a really nice guy, i've met him a couple of times, offered him a free drink once and he refused !!! he was busy though. The Iron Maiden section is great and even the bits about Ska bands are goood to listen to although the musics not my pint of bitter. The relentless piss taking of the hapless Ross Halfin (Gross Halfwitt) is a joy to behold

What does Garry Bushell bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you had only read the book?

Even more humour the way he reads it, I could invisage meself in a pub with Gal telling me these stories over several pints of Courage Directors and some cheese n onion crisps.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Laughed all the way through it, at some moments i had to pull the wagon into the side of the road and laugh.

Any additional comments?

If you liked Sounds in the 70's /80's, get this , its just what it used to be about, even down to the NME knocking, i did buy that thing once when they had AC/DC on the cover in the 90's. only time ever. Sounds was a big influence on my musical tastes and Geoff Barton and Gary were probably the biggest 2 writers that did influence me.

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Title: The Last Tour

Subtitle: Love, Laughter, and Tears: In Memory of Ron Eckerman

Author: Carolyn Day

Narrator: Carol Purdom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-17-15

Publisher: Carolyn Day

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

This is a true story of retired music manager Ron Eckerman's last few years of life. Ron was haunted for several years by a recurring nightmare about the date of his death. After his wife left him on their anniversary, he felt that his life was over and he would die alone. He then found true love and happiness through a strange twist of fate with Carolyn, 18 years his junior. He put the fears of his dream behind him and began his new life with his new love. Only a year and a half later, he was suddenly diagnosed with AML, acute myeloid leukemia, a fast growing bone marrow cancer. He was given a poor prognosis and a short life expectancy, and was faced with the possibility of his nightmare becoming a reality.

Written by his wife and caregiver, this is a heartfelt testament of love and sacrifice, and what two people endure when they know they have limited time left together.

Ron Eckerman's career included touring with and managing popular music acts of the 70's including Fleetwood Mac, Humble Pie, Loggins and Messina, Foreigner, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and many others. He was Lynyrd Skynyrd's tour manager during 1976-77 and was a survivor of their plane crash in 1977. He was the author of Turn it Up! Love, Life, and Death, Southern Style, released in 2011 and re-released in his memory in 2014, in which he chronicled his time with the band and described the guilt that he felt for many years because of the deaths of four friends in the crash.

During the most important "tour" of his life - his one year battle with leukemia - he was very close to death several times and bounced back miraculously. The odds were stacked up against him, but he continued to be optimistic and refused to give up hope. Ron and Carolyn learned to find joy in the simple things in life and made the best of being confined to a hospital room for almost a full year. This isn't just a cancer story with a sad ending. It's a story of dreams, destiny, living every second to the fullest, and never giving up hope.

Members Reviews:

Prepare to laugh, cry, and be in a zone.

Where does The Last Tour rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

#1 - This is an incredible story. I read the book, too, several months ago, but when you hear the audio book it makes you focus on details you may have missed while reading.

What other book might you compare The Last Tour to and why?

I can't think of one that comes close to comparing. I am excited to see the movie when it comes out.

What does Carol Purdom bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

She did very well and it was very consistent. You can really feel the authors emotions and feelings. You feel like you know both the author and Ronnie by the end of the book.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

both laugh and cry, and made me feel like i was in a zone, very focused

Any additional comments?

I recommend it to anyone who has any feelings at all. It will bring out all your emotions and make you feel like you know the two main characters.

Touching heartfelt love story

This book keeps the readers attention.