Mario Lanza Radio Shows 1951 [Import]

Lanza (Artist), Mckenzie (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 2000)
• Format: Import
• Label: On the Air Records
• ASIN: B000002XS8
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #656,582 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Be My Love [Intro Theme][Version]

2. Talk

3. Granada

4. Oh, Lady Be Good

5. Serenade (Rimpianto)

6. Talk (Intro)

7. Hello, Young Lovers

8. La Fiacre

9. Coca Cola Commercial

10. Because

11. Dizzy Fingers

12. Be My Love

13. Closing

14. Be My Love [With Introduction]

15. Funiculì, Funiculà

16. The Continental

17. A Vuchella

18. Fairyland

19. Coca Cola Commercial

20. I'm Falling in Love With Someone

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

CD, features Mario Lanza (Artist), Mckenzie (Artist).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars celesti aida, January 15, 2001

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m.e.belbis (chicago, ill) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mario Lanza Radio Shows 1951 (Audio CD)

Mario Lanza has the greatest voice Ive ever heard. His high notes thrills me until now. He really have a golden voice better than the three tenors and others combined,.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, June 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mario Lanza Radio Shows 1951 (Audio CD)

Lanza at his best. Better than the three tenors.Lanza truly has a golden voice from bottom to top. He express the songs supervely. not stiff like the three tenors.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lanza had far greater moments than these, November 25, 2001

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DJ McGovern "Derek McGovern" (Busan, South Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mario Lanza Radio Shows 1951 (Audio CD)

If you're looking for a representative collection of Lanza, then definitely give this one a miss. This is a mishmash of songs from two of the tenor's Coca-Cola Radio Shows of 1951, and none of them present the tenor at anywhere near his magnificent best. To make matters worse, only 9 of the 18 tracks actually feature Lanza; the rest are made up of mediocre orchestral and "guest singer" interludes.

Lanza's first-ever Coca-Cola Radio Show is included in its entirety. He sings Granada as his opening number, but after a good intro runs out of steam towards the end. Toselli's Serenade is reasonable enough, but the commercial version is superior. It's a similar case with Because and Be My Love. The former is sung with extraordinary gusto, but for a far more subtle version look no further than the sublime rendition featured in The Great Caruso.

Among the other selections is a badly arranged Torna a Surriento, which does not begin to compare with Lanza's 1955 version from Serenade (featured on The Legendary Tenor CD), an A Vucchella with some nice touches, but spoiled by a couple of sloppy moments, and a fun but trite Funiculi' Funicula' (in English) with lyrics imploring us to be "gay".

Save your money for far superior CDs such as When Day is Done or Opera [sic] Arias and Duets, reviewed elsewhere on this site.