Lass With the Delicate Air [Import]

Julie Andrews | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 11, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Japanese Import
• ASIN: B00005V27E
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #830,215 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. As I Went A-Roaming

2. London Pride

3. The Floral Dance

4. These Precious Things

5. Where'er You Walk

6. Pedro, the Fisherman

7. Tally-Ho!

8. If My Songs Were Only Winged

9. The Lass with the Delicate Air

10. Canterbury Fair

11. To a Wild Rose

12. O the Days of the Kerry Dancing

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Julie at 22: That Voice, May 11, 2009

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Josh Thomas "Author of 'Murder at Willow Slough'" (West Lafayette, IN, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Lass with the Delicate Air (Audio CD)

I never expected to see this album again, after first hearing it decades ago. Julie Andrews at 22, with all these lovely old ditties!

There isn't much hint here of the movie star she finally became, but to people like me who love every phase of her career, this CD's a gem, remastered, sounding great, imported from Japan. Julie the English girl! Americans were Rocking Around the Clock while she was still losing her virginal heart at the Canterbury Fair. The reissue is definitely a time warp, but if you're a Julie fan, buy it anyway - because a central aspect of her appeal has always been her Englishness, and that's what this album spotlights.

She was once named the best female speaker of the English language. This might have ticked off the Queen, but Her Majesticalness wasn't doing Lerner and Loewe 8 times a week.

Here we have 12 favorite songs from prewar Britain, even Victorian Britain, sung fresh and new to remind you of those gentler, more civilized times in a simpler world.

Is this great stuff? Maybe not, though it's charming and sweet. The arrangements by Irwin Kostal hold up well and the sound is a lot better than those scratchy old LPs gathering dust.

I bought this CD for one song above others, though it's surprising how many I remembered from a few hearings of the original issue; I wanted Julie at 22 singing "London Pride." It just conveys something essential to English people, a simple little song about the sights and sounds on the city streets and a flower that grows every spring. She featured it on her U.S. concert tour in the late '80s, along with a bit of video of her screeching above the clouds in Sopranoland at the age of 12. The song couldn't possibly be a crowd-pleaser in Ohio but she sang it anyway - as simple and sincere as she renders it here.

If you like this woman, if she's ever made you glad you were alive, then come and meet her when she was only 22, before she became the biggest star on the planet. Hear her when she was still just a girl. I'd be very surprised if you don't fall in love all over again for the Lass with the Delicate Air.

(Then you can watch "SOB" and see her boobies.)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lass with the delicate tones!!, July 20, 2005

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Michael Thomas (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lass With the Delicate Air (Audio CD)

A truly lovely recording! I bought this recording on the strength of having bought JA SINGS. And this is equally as fine as the other. Mind you, it's not SOUND OF MUSIC, STAR! or even VICTOR/VICTORIA, but it does have a hint of DARLING LILI about it. My favourite number, and there are many on there, is PEDRO THE FISHERMAN, a wonderful rendition from an early Andrews!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Julie Andrews recording from the 1950s, March 13, 2006

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Rad63 (Toledo, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lass With the Delicate Air (Audio CD)

I purchased the LP version in the fifies. I really enjoyed the recording, both the song selection and voice. I copied my LP to MP3 to transfer into my ipod but after all the years and replaying, the sound had deteriorated. I hope that a CD reprint becomes available so that I and others can fully enjoy this beautiful recording.