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Nelson Eddy (Artist), Jeanette MacDonald (Artist), Sigmund Romberg (Composer), Richard Rodgers (Composer), Rudolf Friml (Composer), Ken Darby (Composer), Jerome Kern (Composer), Robert Russell Bennett (Conductor), Nathaniel Finston (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett, Nathaniel Finston
• Composer: Sigmund Romberg, Richard Rodgers, Rudolf Friml, Ken Darby, Jerome Kern
• Audio CD (January 1, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Encore
• ASIN: B000001ZRF
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #339,583 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Carousel in the Park

2. It Doesn't Cost You Anything to Dream

3. Close as Pages in a Book

4. Fireman's Bride

5. The Big Back Yard

6. When You Walk in the Room

7. Isn't It Romantic?

8. Love Me Tonight

9. Golden Days

10. Drinking Song

11. Deep in My Heart, Dear

12. Serenade

13. Just We Two

14. Come Boys

15. One More Mile to Go

16. Raindrops on a Drum

17. Love Is the Time

18. Nearer and Dearer

19. Tell Me With Your Eyes

20. Russian Easter Hymn

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nelson Eddy on CD - always a pleasure, August 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Change Partners (Audio CD)

It's always a pleasure to find Nelson Eddy's wonderful voice on CD and this one has some of the harder-to-find pieces in it, including collaborations with Jane Powell and the wonderful mezzo Rise Stevens. The recording of "The Whale Who Sang at the Met" is a must for any collector as are the excellent recordings (better than on the movie) for "Northwest Outpost". The baritone singing opposite Jeanette MacDonald also has an excellent voice (though his name temporarily escapes me)

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent CD!, March 28, 2004

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Mrs Baldwin (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Change Partners (Audio CD)

This is an excellent collection of the Screen Sweethearts of the 30's, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, *not* singing together, in the 40's (except for a few of Jeanette's songs).

For Jeanette, it has numbers from Up In Central Park: Carousel in the Park, It Doesn't Cost You Anything to Dream, Close as Pages in a Book, Fireman's Bride, The Big Back Yard, When You Walk in the Room. She and Robert Merrill sing these together and on their own, and very charmingly, too. There are also Love Me Tonight, Isn't It Romantic, and Beyond the Blue Horizon.

For Nelson, he sings music from The Student Prince with Rise Stevens: Golden Days, Drinking Song, Deep in my Heart Dear, Serenade (which is BEAUTIFUL!), Just We Two, and Come Boys. He also sings all the songs from Northwest Outpost - thankfully, without Ilona Massey! Also, the Willie the Whale segment from Make Mine Music is on this CD - just as it is in the movie, with the narration and everything - it's great! (The Tristan und Isolde part is not included, however - not sure what the reasoning is behind that.) He also sings a duet with Jane Powell - Why Do I Love You? from Show Boat.

I say this is a must for fans of Nelson and/or Jeanette, not to mention Rise Stevens!

I particularly enjoy "When You Walk in the Room". It's a charming little tune, with ridiculous but adorable lyrics! "Fireman's Bride" is very funny also - Jeanette barely sounds like herself!

I hope this will help others to choose this CD - it's a pity there's not a list of the titles here!

2.0 out of 5 stars extremely poor re-mastering, December 21, 2004

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Uomo Universale "Meester van Breukelen" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Change Partners (Audio CD)

I listen to many (re-mastered) historical recordings. Jeanette MacDonald is certainly one of my most favorite sopranos. For some reason, I haven't been able to find a decent, or even acceptable, re-mastering of her recordings.

While this one certainly contains many valuable tracks, the re-mastering is horrid. The songs sound stripped yet still maintain a great deal of distracting noise. I conjecture that the re-mastering was done simply by increasing the bass and decreasing the treble.