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Anything Goes - Rebecca Luker Sings Cole Porter | 
 enlarge | Artist: Rebecca Luker
Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music
New (2) Collectible (2) from $39.98
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 148931
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 030206203028
EAN: 0030206203028
ASIN: B00005PJ9A
Release Date: October 9, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Anything Goes | | • | After You, Who? | | • | Night and Day | | • | Ridin' High | | • | True Love | | • | The Leader of a Big Time Band | | • | You Do Something to Me | | • | Dream Dancing | | • | I Am Loved | | • | Ah, Fong Lo! | | • | Don't Fence Me In - Rebecca Luker, Fletcher, Robert H. | | • | In the Still of the Night | | • | I Like Pretty Things/Where Oh Where? | | • | Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye |
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This disc isn't nearly as prim and proper as its opening. Accompanied by a ragtime orchestra, Rebecca Luker begins the title tune with the air that she'd actually find a glimpse of stocking shocking, before Patrick Brady's arrangement breaks into full swing. Luker's pure soprano (best known for leading-lady roles in The Secret Garden, the Sound of Music revival, and Hal Prince's Show Boat) never regresses into true bawdiness in that song, but she sounds absolutely lovely on the 14 Cole Porter gems included on this album. She's ably assisted by guests Emily Loesser, Sally Mayes, and Brent Barrett. "In the Still of the Night" causes time to stand in place, and "Dream Dancing" will transport you away.... --David Horiuchi
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Poor Accompaniment May 24, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree with the reviewer who complained that the orchestrations are too loud and too brassy. A recording studio is not the Broadway stage, and frankly I doubt that Porter's tunes were arranged this obtrusively even for the stage.In addition, though Luker has a very good voice, her rendering of these numbers is uneven. The phrasing seems odd in places, almost too stylized, and flat in others. Overall a disappointing CD, even though Ms. Luker's basic talent is obvious.
 Anything Goes - Rebecca Luker Sings Cole Porter May 12, 2007
Amazing! You have to get this album. Rebecca Luker's voice is wonderful. Her version of these classic songs is superb.
 She's No Barbara Cook July 15, 2006
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I just don't get it. A trained soprano voice well suited for Showboat, but for her to take on Cole Porter is ludicrous. I get no sense of his lyrics at all. In fact I hate hearing it done this way. Barbara Cook had the beautiful voice and the sense of what she was singing. Ms. Luker is only half a loaf.
Great, but not perfect January 15, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Rebecca Luker is one of the greatest singers of the current generation gracing the Broadway theaters. Her liquid soprano voice floats along on two of the best musical recordings ever made, EMI's BRIGADOON and the original cast of THE SECRET GARDEN. Here's an entire CD of Ms. Luker singing the best of Cole Porter. She's backed up by some other people whose work I enjoy: musical director and arranger Patrick Brady, singers Brent Barrett and Sally Mayes, and producer Bruce Kimmel. Two of the theater's greatest directors also play small parts: John McGlinn is listed in the "Thanks" section, and Hal Prince wrote the (extremely sparse) liner notes.
Five of these tracks are absolutely wonderful: "I Am Loved," an up-tempo duet with Barrett; "True Love," the famous ballad from HIGH SOCIETY; the comical combination of "I Like Pretty Things" and "Where Oh Where?"; an authentic-sounding country-western rendition of "Don't Fence Me In;" and the heart-breakingly beautiful "Every Time We Say Goodbye."
As in other recordings (such as some Varese Sarabande Broadway anthologies and Encore's THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE), Ms. Luker occasionally breaks into a slightly more nasal voice and over-emphasizes her R's. While I'm sure the effect is intentional, I wish she'd use this technique more sparingly. Don't get me wrong: all the tracks are beautiful, and most lovers of Porter and/or Ms. Luker will be more than satisfied with every selection. It's just that since I have such high expectations for anything involving Rebecca Luker, I am slightly disappointed with a few of the tracks.
i listen to this night and day! June 24, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Rebecca Luker has shone onstage ever since her Broadway debut as Christine in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. Since then, she has gone on to play Maria in The Sound of Music and is currently starring as Marian Paroo in The Music Man. She is famous for her clear, beautiful soprano, and her vocal talent is fully exhibited on this recording. Rebecca shines on "After You, Who?", "Night and Day", "Ridin' High", "Everytime We Say Goodbye", and the title track. Backed by creative orchestral arrangements on such classic tunes as "You Do Something To Me" and with the help of such talent as Emily Loesser, Sally Mayes, and Brett Barret. Rebecca has chosen a fine arrayment of songs to flatter her beautiful voice. This CD is recommended to Luker, Porter, and jazz fans alike, but also those with an appreciation for outstanding vocal talent.
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