Kites Are Fun (Mlps) [Import, Limited Edition]

The Free Design | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 22, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Limited Edition
• Label: Jvc Japan
• ASIN: B000065ECQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #811,742 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Kites Are Fun

2. Make the Madness Stop

3. When Love Is Young

4. Proper Ornaments

5. My Brother Woody

6. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)

7. Don't Turn Away

8. Umbrellas

9. Michelle

10. Never Tell the World

11. Man and a Woman [From A Man and a Woman]

12. Stay Another Season

13. Kites Are Fun [Single Version]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of 1960s pop harmony, July 28, 2002

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Richard Roland (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kites Are Fun (Mlps) (Audio CD)

I grew up with this album on LP (it was my parents') and to this day I am still haunted by the music, the arrangements and lyrics on it. Chris Dedrick is a wonderful composer, not to mention an incredible vocal arranger, and with his siblings has presented a debut album that is brimming with artistry and an evident pure love of what vocal harmonies can do. As a founder and vocal arranger of my own vocal group, I have turned to my "Kites Are Fun" album for inspiration. Even their covers of well-known tunes (my favorite being "59th Street Bridge Song") are re-presented in a whole new fresh light. I'm glad to know that they have recently reunited, recorded and released a new CD (which sounds great). Along with "The Singers Unlimited" and very early "The Manhattan Transfer", "The Free Design" must go in the vocal group hall of fame.

3.0 out of 5 stars Kites Are Fun Import Release, February 24, 2005

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Gerard Fleming (Yorktown, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kites Are Fun (Mlps) (Audio CD)

If you are a Free Design Fan, you'll definitely like the CD, especially if you have not heard the material for a number of years. Where the disc falls short is in the re-mixing. I have the original vinyl and I heard distict differences in the CD. I don't know if they had the original masters in Japan, but not only are the mixes different, but the first note of the bass solo in the beginning of Kites Are Fun is distorted. It sounds like someone was riding the levels and brought down the volume on the bass by the third note.

All that being said; the disc does sound good overall.

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of 1960s pop harmony, July 29, 2002

By 

Richard Roland (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Kites Are Fun (Mlps) (Audio CD)

I grew up with this album on LP (it was my parents') and to this day I am still haunted by the music, the arrangements and lyrics on it. Chris Dedrick is a wonderful composer, not to mention an incredible vocal arranger, and with his siblings has presented a debut album that is brimming with artistry and an evident pure love of what vocal harmonies can do. As a founder and vocal arranger of my own vocal group, I have turned to my "Kites Are Fun" album for inspiration. Even their covers of well-known tunes (my favorite being "59th Street Bridge Song") are re-presented in a whole new fresh light. I'm glad to know that they have recently reunited, recorded and released a new CD (which sounds great). Along with "The Singers Unlimited" and very early "The Manhattan Transfer", "The Free Design" must go in the vocal group hall of fame.