You Sing The Hits of CABARET (Karaoke) [Karaoke]

Karaoke | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 2000)
• Original Release Date: January 1, 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Karaoke
• Label: Pocket Songs
• ASIN: B0001FBRCE
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,611 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Willkommen

2. Mein Herr

3. Don't Tell Mama

4. Maybe This Time

5. Perfectly Marvelous

6. Two Ladies

7. It Couldn't Please Me More

8. Tomorrow Belongs To Me

9. Why Shouldn't I Wake Up?

10. The Money Song

11. If You Could See Her

12. Cabaret

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Some Good, Some Bad, Mostly awful, August 13, 2005

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James Jarrell (Gainesville, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Sing The Hits of CABARET (Karaoke) (Audio CD)

The actual tracks with the singers singing on them are dreadful. I have the 1999 Studio Cast starring Jonathon Pryce and I'm positive that is who is singing on these tracks. At any rate, it is one of the most awful group of performances of this score that I have heard.

The karaoke tracks are pretty good, but they're incomplete. Where is "Married"? Where is "Don't Go"? Where is "What Would You Do?" Where is "So What"? There's just way to much missing to call this the "Hits of Cabaret".

Also, some of the tracks have way too much rubato tailored to the performers who sing on the other CD. In a real performance of this show, there is NEVER that much rubato, and if there is, it's certainly not done the way they do it here.

I have been using this CD to help my high school students rehearse for a production of CABARET, and it's been a great help, but it is so incomplete and incongruent that you're better off creating midi tracks.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well Done, February 25, 2008

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J. Meadowbrook (Marburg, Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Sing The Hits of CABARET (Karaoke) (Audio CD)

My search for this product took some time and I am a completely satisfied customer. The purpose of a karaoke version of "Cabaret" for me is to help guide an academic 10th school class in Germany to perform a few songs at their year-end party for themselves/parents/form (homeroom) teacher (the show is intended to be a surprise; a compliment and a thank-you to the form/homeroom teacher, who worked with these children for three years). I'm not a teacher, I'm a parent representative. I was hoping to find an instrumental CD that would not only have songs from the original musical, but also from the film. I wanted to use "Willkommen", "Mein Herr" (from the 1972 film score) and "Cabaret". Lyrics are being partially rewritten (Kander and Ebb might be amused) to accommodate the situation. For example, from "Mein Herr", the kids will be singing "farewell mein lieber Herr" (dear gentleman), "you've been a fine Lehrer" ("Lehrer" being the German word for "teacher", and yes...it rhymes).

This is a karaoke two-disc set, one CD complete with voice and intrumental (for learning and practice), the second CD is instrumental (backround tracks and we are likely to use it during the party performance). Both discs have the same 12 tracks (one with and one without vocals). This is very useful for our project because practicing in school (don't forget, it's a surprise) isn't convenient. It's pretty difficult to get a "secret orchestra" together. The kids can practice in small groups outside of school with the "backround tracks" CD during their spare time with lyric sheets.

The CD which I purchased and received was as described by the Amazon ad. It contained the songs listed in the ad (which was a prerequisite for me). I had calculated shipping and customs time before ordering and the item arrived within the estimated time. I expected the item would be sent from the U. S. A., but to my surprise it came from New Zealand! I guess I could say the price was fair. Of course the voices aren't close to those of Minelli and her colleagues, nor is the intrumental part equalled to the National Symphony Orchestra or any other pros, etc, but would you really expect otherwise? And no, there are no tapdancing sound effects, nor any other Broadway or West End sound effects. The CD (this product) doesn't try to overdo it, it does the best that it can and keeps it simple, yet "complete Kander and Ebb" (re: the many different versions of "Cabaret"). I hope that the company "Pocket Songs" continues with their product-line called "You Sing the Hits Of..." and they continue to have a relationship with Amazon. My husband asked me a few weeks ago..."where'd you finally get it?"...I said "Amazon". Thank you for your time.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely wonderful sound and songs, January 27, 2006

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A. Scott - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Sing The Hits of CABARET (Karaoke) (Audio CD)

This is the best karaoke version of a musical I've ever heard. Nothing sounds synthesized, as it usually does on these discs. It sounds like they recorded it with an actual orchestra, and it sounds beautiful.
"Mein Herr" and "Maybe This Time" use the arrangements and instrumentation from the 1972 film. The other ten tracks use the orchestration from the original 1966 Broadway production. All of them sound exactly like they do in the shows--no cheesy electronic sound.
I especially like "Sitting Pretty" because it contains all the extra music material that unfortunately wasn't included on the original Broadway cast album: the features and introductions for the different showgirls, their nation-specific theme music, and the tap dancing breaks. Usually, karaoke CD's will cut out dance breaks, but with "Cabaret," they actually restored that long-lost music.
"Cabaret" has been my favorite musical for years, and I was thrilled that this CD was so wonderful. It really does Kander and Ebb's songs justice by keeping the original music and orchestra sound in tact. Of course the singers on the vocal tracks aren't as good as actual actors that you would find on a real cast recording, so you should still buy a (or, like I did, eleven) soundtrack(s), but if you want fabulous backing tracks that you can sing along to, I highly recommend this item.

And to James Jarrell, who also reviewed this, it is called "You Sing the Hits of Cabaret" because it contains the HITS of Cabaret. I don't think that the Fraulein Schneider songs you listed could really be considered "hits." And "Don't Go" wasn't even in any of the New York productions, except for the 1987 revival, which only ran for 261 performances and never produced a cast album.