Harmony Encores / Your Requests

Chordettes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00005YKHS
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,295 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Carolina Moon

2. Basin Street Blues

3. Floatin' Down to Cotton Town

4. Drifting and Dreaming

5. Garden in the Rain

6. S'posin'

7. The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

8. Kentucky Babe

9. In the Sweet Long Ago

10. I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland

11. Angry

12. A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet

13. The Anniversary Waltz

14. Sentimental Journey

15. Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

16. They Say It's Wonderful

17. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

18. For Me and My Gal

19. I Believe

20. Down Among the Sheltering Palms

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Both from 1953. Includes Sentimental Journey; Carolina Moon; For Me and My Gal; Hello! Ma Baby; Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie; Basin Street Blues; The Anniversary Waltz , and 16 more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Harmony Heaven, September 15, 2005

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E. H. Parry (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harmony Encores / Your Requests (Audio CD)

Exquisite, technically superior a-capella singing in the barbershop (salon-shop?) style. The first 14 tracks, from 1952, convey the sweet style of the Chordettes working very closely together in highly-disciplined and balanced fashion. Their intonation is near perfect, the delivery superbly controlled.
The remaining 9 tracks come from 1954 after a slight change in personnel. The style of the Chordettes had begun to change and the sound is not as 'pure' as that from two years earlier. There is some forceful rendition, and the pitch does drift off-key at times. However there is some very clever performance of lighter numbers.
This is a quality compilation CD from Sony.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Barbershop Album, February 10, 2008

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DarWhisp (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harmony Encores / Your Requests (Audio CD)

Awesome compilation of barbershop standards, arranged by Walter Latzko, one of the top barbershop arrangers, and sung by the one of the best quartets, the Chordettes. There is a hard-to-find companion sheet music book, Harmony Encores, also the arrangements are available from the Barbershop Harmony Society. So if you want to make your own quartet, this is one good way to get started.