Voices in Modern/Funny How Time Slips Away

The Four Freshmen (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collector's Choice
• ASIN: B000A7BB88
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #314,781 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. After You

2. Over The Rainbow

3. My Heart Stood Still

4. The Nearness Of You

5. Holiday

6. Stormy Weather

7. Street Of Dreams

8. We'll Be Together Again

9. Circus

10. Mood Indigo

11. It Happened Once Before

12. It's A Blue World

13. Funny How Time Slips Away

14. Graduation Day

15. Do You Really Love Me

16. Tears In Our Eyes

17. Hold Me

18. We've Got A World That Swings

19. Don't Make Me Sorry

20. My Baby's Gone

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

With this twofer, we complete our tour of the Four Freshmen’s Capitol album catalog, and what a tour it’s been, covering 7 releases and 14 albums! Winding up with these two albums is kind of fitting, too, because they look backwards and forward at the same time for a group that has never stopped changing and evolving, as they come at the beginning and the end of their Capitol recording career. In fact, Voices in Modern (1955) was their very first album for the label, and Funny How Time Slips Away (1964–an apt name, that) was their next-to-last; between them they boast 23 tracks of the kind of sophisticated harmony, sensitive arrangements and sense of fun that mark every Freshmen release. A Collectors’ Choice Music exclusive!

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Half wonderful, half disappointing, December 29, 2005

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Steve Emerine (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Voices in Modern/Funny How Time Slips Away (Audio CD)

This CD includes the first Four Freshmen Capitol LP, the wonderful "Voices in Modern," which made a generation of us sit up and take notice in the 1950s. And it also includes one of the group's last Capitol efforts, "Funny How Time Slips Away," which shows why Capitol let the Four Freshmen slip away from its label. All 12 of the "Voices" songs by Bob Flanigan, Don and Ross Barbour and Ken Errair were memorable. Despite the presence of "Graduation Day" and "Charade" and the great voices of Flanigan, Ross Barbour and Ken Albers, "Funny" contains a number of very forgettable tunes. Fortunately, the current Four Freshmen group, which has none of the original members, is closer to the original sound and concept than the offerings on the second half of this CD. If you don't have "Voices in Modern" on CD, get this and skip through the "Funny" part. "Mood Indigo," "It Happened Once Before," "After You," "It's a Blue World" and the other songs are well worth the price. But if you do have the "Voices" songs in this format, you can pass up this product. You'd be better off buying a CD by the new Four Freshmen or, better yet, seeing them when they come to your part of the world.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but they left off one song, March 11, 2010

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Art Lover (Fairview, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Voices in Modern/Funny How Time Slips Away (Audio CD)

"Voices in Modern" was their first major album and "Funny" the last from their best period. They sound great on both, but you can hear how much they refined things over the years by listening to "Funny" immediately after "Voices". You can also clearly hear how audio production values changed in that time frame. My only gripe is that the last song on "Funny" is mysteriously absent from the CD.