Glass Onion: Songs Of The Beatles (2003) (Import)

Product Summary UPC: 05050466149626 Release Date: 11/12/2006 Buy.com Sku: 63952832 Item#: M24N2H Format:  CD Song Listing   Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Glass Onion ~ Arif Mardin ------ 2. Savoy Truffle ~ Ella Fitzgerald ------ 3. Day Tripper ------ 4. Word ~ Harvey Averne ------ 5. Hey Jude ~ Clarence Wheeler ------ 6. Something ~ Wade Marcus ------ 7. Come Together ~ The Meters ------ 8. Drive My Car ~ Black Heat ------ 9. All You Need Is Love ~ Freedom Sounds ------ 10. Long & Winding Road ~ Aretha Franklin ------ 11. And I Love Her ~ King Curtis ------ 12. Carry That Weight ~ Carmen McRae ------ 13. Hard Day's Night ------ 14. Get Back ~ Shirley Scott & The Soul Saxes ------ 15. I Saw Her Standing There ~ Little Richard ------ 16. Good Day Sunshine ~ Roy Redmond ------ 17. Got To Get You Into My Life ~ Ella Fitzgerald ------ 18. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ~ Bill Cosby ------ 19. Let It Be ~ Aretha Franklin ------ 20. Yesterday ~ David Newman ------ 21. Here Comes The Sun ~ Charles Wright ------   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info GLASS ONION is a fun and endearing collection of Beatles covers by a variety of jazz and R&B artists. These takes--some novelty numbers, and some inspired performances in their own right-- amount to loving tributes. "Day Tripper," "Come Together," and "Drive My Car" are among the hits. Beatles covers are a dicey proposition: There's not a chance of surpassing the original, so the temptation is to instead twist and subvert the songs to their extremes, more often than not rendering the flawless melodies unrecognizable and unlistenable in the process. Glass Onion: Songs of the Beatles largely avoids the common pitfalls -- assembling 21 tracks from the Atlantic and Warner jazz and soul catalogs of the late '60s and early '70s, the performances bend the Fab Four's classics without breaking them, offering consistently fresh and inventive takes on songs practically everyone knows by heart. There are a few big names -- Aretha Franklin covers both "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road," while Ella Fitzgerald delivers a superb reading of "Savoy Truffle" -- but many of the standout performances come courtesy of cult favorites, including Charles Wright ("Here Comes the Sun") and the Meters (a blistering version of "Come Together"). ~ Jason Ankeny   Technical Info Release Date : 02/10/2003 Original Release Date : 2003 Catalog ID : 5046614962 Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 50504661496264    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray