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The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair

The Langley Schools Music Project Sixun Format: Audio CD

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Ever since NPR aired an excerpt of this 1976-77 school project, it's been selling like, well, cookies at a bake sale! Imagine a gym in western Ontario full of 60 children aged 9-12, singing the pop hits of the day and discovering inside themselves for the first time a love of pop music the joy and wonder of these kids is palpable! Then add in some Carl Orff-like percussion, and rudimentary bass and guitar, and the whole thing even takes on some avant-garde dimensions. Trust us, you've never heard God Only Knows; Space Oddity; Rhiannon; Wildfire or the Long and Winding Road sound like this!

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Language: : English
Product Dimensions : 5 x 5.75 x 0.45 inches; 3.36 Ounces
Manufacturer : Bar/None Records
Item model number : 1996214
Original Release Date : 2001
Date First Available : December 7, 2006
Label : Bar/None Records
ASIN : B00005Q6NP
Number of discs : 1

Best Sellers Rank: #57,969 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #28,976 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #41,708 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)

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java paladin

Can't decide if its more fun to listen or sing along

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2019

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I heard about this album on 99% Invisible. I purchased it as soon as I got home and really can't stop listening to it! Sound quality is not the greatest but, that's part of it's charm. I feel like I'm back in elementary school, riding in the back seat of my sister's VW Beetle, squished in between 2 of her friends and singing along to the radio.

The two solos are just incredible.

Listen for the heart and soul quality - not the audio quality. You won't be disappointed.

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Blind Dad

Elementary school kids singing in the gym back in 1976? Wonderful!

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2017

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I really like this CD. It is a collection of 70's era songs recorded by the Langley School Music Project - an elementary school music class in British Columbia. It was recorded around 1976. My favorite track is the cover of the Eagle's song "Desperado" sung by a nine year old girl. I actually think it has more emotion and angst than the original Eagle's version. The rest of the songs range from entertaining to moving and they all bring a smile to my face as I listen. It's hard for me to think that the kids singing on this CD are in their late 40's as I write this, they will always remain innocent children singing their hearts out to me.

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There is just something wonderful and haunting about the music on this CD

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2012

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Several years ago I was alerted to this CD by a segment Scott Simon featured on the NPR radio program "Saturday Edition". I was so intrigued that I immediately ordered a copy throught Amazon. I am usually not an impulsive purchaser but the whole concept of the music creation and the startling exceptional renditions of old "war horse" songs - well, I could not resist. I was not disappointed.

The whole concept sounds so bogus that to explain it is just lame - but here goes. In the mid 70's a music teacher, Hans Fenger, in a rural Canadian school district decided that he would start a project where the students would use improvised instruments, sing pop songs, record the songs and sell the LP recording to fawning parents and other students. Flash forward almost 30 years and the album with wonderful notes is issued on CD and....well, you have to listen to the songs. This also sounds lame, but there is just something wonderful and haunting about the music on this CD in the context of the time and place and methods of it's creation.

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I can't help getting tears in my eyes each time I listen.

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2006

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I cannot adequately describe the experience of hearing these recordings. They will touch most deeply, those who love and understand children and love and cherish the gifts that music brings to them and that children bring to us. Nevermind that the songs were unconventional for school music and unconventionally taught (thank goodness!). The heart and yearning, simplicity and joy with which these songs are sung, knowing how they were taught, will change your day. It's all well described in the pamphlet including, how these kids from 3 tiny, rural, Canadian elementary schools were brought together to learn to sing. Their avante garde music teacher was a rock musician/guitar teacher & took the job in this remote, rural district with no music program. He needed steady pay for the arrival of a new baby. The recording is the best that could be managed with the funds but is part of the character that leaves nothing lacking. The kids and parents paid for the cost of the recording which was only meant for friends and family. We're all SO glad someone found and re-published it!

Can you imagine a 9 year old girl singing Desperado with such tenderness and meaning that it far exceeds the original artists interpretation? Hear it for yourself. This CD is well worth the price. Especially since there's fund set up to compensate the kids (now, long since adults) as they are located.

Don't miss this wonderful gem.

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Jonathan Rimorin

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Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2002

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I love this album. I'm playing it loud now, and I'm struck by how big the sound is. I'm playing it loud for the third time in a row, I love the unearthly quality of the children's voices, I love the uncanny shimmering of the Orff orchestration. I love the shy silences that still the heart in "Mandy" and "In My Room." I've had this album for, oh, eight months now, and I listen to it constantly: I've played "Desperado" and "Space Odyssey" over the phone for friends. This is an album which inspires fierce devotion, and fierce argument. My brother right now is skipping tracks, and he was laughing drunkenly at what he called its corniness and kitschiness. I hate him. Oh wait, he's just gotten to "Desperado" now; and now he's suddenly quiet, just standing there and listening, so there may be hope in our family yet.
In short, if you're not too cynical or cool for something almost embarrassingly sincere, give this a try. Listen to it by yourself, it may not be for company or social listening.

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Steffan Piper

Lost and Found ... Finally!

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2005

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I had this album on my server since 1999 and in the good old `Hay Days' of file-sharing (wow, not that long ago), I was always surprised at how often the songs were downloaded, and these were just the un-mastered, straight from vinyl transfers.

I am very pleased that this is now available to the general public to discover, or rather rediscover as so much time has passed since this was conceived and redistributed.

The highlights for me were: Space Oddity, Band on the Run & God Only Knows, which are all haunting, disturbing and very moving.

I was just recently reading about the life of Antonio Vivaldi, and how he had composed the bulk of his music to be preformed by children, (profound similarity) mostly the Opera's, but the thought occurred to me that this is what music should be and we're lucky to have even heard it. Count your blessings, as I press play. Hopefully, you'll do the same, and pass the word.

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Erikka Mutton

Groovy

Reviewed in Canada on April 13, 2018

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This is a pretty fun album. I bought it after hearing Rhiannon on Here and Now and was pleasantly surprised it's Canadian. I loved the version so I bought the cd.

I find it hard to listen to all the way through because of the sound quality ( a lot of children singing in a gym for the most part) but it's super fun in bite sized pieces.

Darin J. Addison

Amazing!

Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2013

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This is such a great recording. I wish I had a music teacher like Hans Fenger and we had the opportunity to record these songs.

まんべ

出たあ！

Reviewed in Japan on April 15, 2004

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雑誌で紹介されてずっと探していました。
ようやく手に入り耳を傾けると・・・・
鳥肌が立ちました！
上手いとか下手とかじゃなく、それを通り越したなんともいえない感触。
そして懐かしさ。
少女の歌うデスペラードは最高です。

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S1W

非常時持ち出しアルバム

Reviewed in Japan on July 7, 2012

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「非常時持ち出しアルバム」とか「無人島レコード」とかの言葉があるが、まさしくその一枚。

10代前半、洋楽を聞き始めたころのワクワク感、70年代中頃の中学校時代、音楽の時間にビートルズを歌って周囲から浮いてしまったことなどなど、自分の経験と重ね合わせて聴いてしまった。素晴らしい先生にめぐり合い、一生懸命歌い演奏するこの生徒たちにジェラシーさえ感じてしまう。

皆さん書かれているように少女たちの歌うソロは最高、完全にオリジナルを超えてしまっている。この二曲を聴くためだけでも購入の価値あり。

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林のり子

少女が唄う Desperado が印象深い

Reviewed in Japan on April 19, 2013

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数年前に友人からプレゼントされ、カントリーを唄う
頼りない子供たちの声に感動。家でこのCDをかけると、
例外なく ”いいナ、このCD！” ということでお誕生祝い、
結婚祝いに使いたいと思い、お願いしました。
少女が唄う Desperado は印象深いのですが、”In America、
小さな３つの願い”でもアイルランドの少女が Desperado を
唄う場面があり、繰り返し見入って、聞き入ってしまいます。

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