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The 1991 compilation San Francisco and Other Jeanette MacDonald Favorites (not to be confused with an earlier LP, Jeanette MacDonald Sings "San Francisco" and Other Silver Screen Favorites) provides a thorough MacDonald best-of for the CD era. MacDonald's recording career closely tracked her film career; it began in 1929, the same year her debut film, The Love Parade, premiered, and ended (except for a handful of later re-recordings) in 1950, the year after her last film, The Sun Comes Up, appeared. During that period, she undertook 35 recording sessions that produced just over a hundred finished masters, many of them songs she also sang in her movies. This 74-minute, 22-track collection culls one-fifth of those tracks, including such signature songs for her as "Beyond the Blue Horizon" and "San Francisco," as well as her solo renditions of "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" and "Indian Love Call," songs she sang in duets with her most frequent screen partner, Nelson Eddy. In the popular imagination, she remains so associated with Eddy that it is worth pointing out that he is not heard on this album. Rather, this is the musical story of MacDonald without Eddy, performing songs from films in which he did not appear, such as The Firefly (annotator Bill Rosenfield's liner notes notwithstanding), Smilin' Through, and The Vagabond King, as well as arias from the operas that occupied much of her time in the 1940s, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette and Faust. European copyright law, which allows recordings more than 50 years old into the public domain, has resulted in a flood of unlicensed, mostly low-quality MacDonald CDs into the marketplace, many of which have found their way into American record stores. This disc, however, contains recordings remastered from the original parts, and thus presents the material in the best possible sonic quality, circa 1991. This could well be the definitive MacDonald compilation available, and certainly the only one that can be recommended without reservation.
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Robert Russell Bennett, Conductor - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Alberto Pestalozza, Composer - Alberto Pestalozza, Lyricist - RCA Victor Orchestra, Performer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Rudolf Friml, Composer - Rudolf Friml, Lyricist - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Otto Harbach, Lyricist - Otto Harbach, Composer - Russ Case and His Orchestra, Performer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Rudolf Friml, Composer - Rudolf Friml, Lyricist - Herbert Stothart, Composer - Herbert Stothart, Lyricist - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Russ Case and His Orchestra, Performer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Rida Johnson Young, Lyricist - Rida Johnson Young, Composer - Victor Herbert, Lyricist - Victor Herbert, Composer - Robert Russell Bennett, Conductor - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - RCA Victor Orchestra, Performer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Rida Johnson Young, Lyricist - Rida Johnson Young, Composer - Victor Herbert, Composer - Victor Herbert, Lyricist - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Maximillian Pilzer, Conductor
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Jeanette MacDonald, Vocal - Oscar Hammerstein II, Composer - Oscar Hammerstein II, Lyricist - Giuseppe Bamboschek, Conductor - Sigmund Romberg, Lyricist - Sigmund Romberg, Composer
(P) Originally Recorded Prior to 1972 All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Jeanette MacDonald, Performer - Oscar Hammerstein II, Composer - Oscar Hammerstein II, Lyricist - Giuseppe Bamboschek, Conductor - Sigmund Romberg, Lyricist - Sigmund Romberg, Composer
(P) Recorded prior to 1972. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Herbert Stothart, Conductor - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Edward Elgar, Composer - Edward Elgar, Lyricist
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Rudolf Friml, Arranger - Robert Russell Bennett, Conductor - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Performer - Nelson Eddy, Vocal - Oscar Hammerstein II, Composer - Oscar Hammerstein II, Lyricist - Otto Harbach, Composer - Otto Harbach, Lyricist
(P) Recorded prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Robert Russell Bennett, Conductor - Walter Jurmann, Composer - Walter Jurmann, Lyricist - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Bronislaw Kaper, Composer - Bronislaw Kaper, Lyricist - RCA Victor Orchestra, Performer - Gus Kahn, Lyricist - Gus Kahn, Composer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Stephen Adams, Lyricist - Stephen Adams, Composer - Frederic E. Weatherly, Lyricist - Frederic E. Weatherly, Composer - Maximillian Pilzer, Conductor
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Schertzinger, Lyricist - Schertzinger, Composer - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Revelers and Orchestra, Performer - Nathaniel Shilkret, Conductor
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Robert Russell Bennett, Conductor - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Frank Harling, Lyricist - Frank Harling, Composer - Leo Robin, Composer - Leo Robin, Lyricist - RCA Victor Orchestra, Performer - Richard A. Whiting, Lyricist - Richard A. Whiting, Composer
(P) Originally Recorded Prior to 1972 All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Harry B. Smith, Lyricist - Harry B. Smith, Composer - Victor Herbert, Lyricist - Victor Herbert, Composer - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Russ Case and His Orchestra, Performer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Rudolf Friml, Composer - Robert Russell Bennett, Conductor - Brian Hooker, Lyricist - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - RCA Victor Orchestra, Performer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Herbert Stothart, Conductor - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - RCA Victor Concert Orchestra, Performer - Leo Délibes, Composer - Leo Délibes, Lyricist
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Traditional, Lyricist - Giuseppe Bamboschek, Conductor - Charles Gounod, Arranger
Originally Recorded 1939. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Antonín Dvorák, Composer - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Natalie MacFarren, Arranger - Robert Armbruster, Conductor
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Giuseppe Bamboschek, Conductor - Charles Gounod, Lyricist - Charles Gounod, Composer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Faust (Charles Gounod)
Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Giuseppe Bamboschek, Conductor - Charles Gounod, Composer - Charles Gounod, Lyricist
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Giuseppe Bamboschek, Conductor - Charles Gounod, Lyricist - Charles Gounod, Composer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Gustave Charpentier, Composer - Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano - Saint-Pol-Roux, Librettist - Giuseppe Bamboschek, Conductor
Originally Recorded 1939. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Album review
The 1991 compilation San Francisco and Other Jeanette MacDonald Favorites (not to be confused with an earlier LP, Jeanette MacDonald Sings "San Francisco" and Other Silver Screen Favorites) provides a thorough MacDonald best-of for the CD era. MacDonald's recording career closely tracked her film career; it began in 1929, the same year her debut film, The Love Parade, premiered, and ended (except for a handful of later re-recordings) in 1950, the year after her last film, The Sun Comes Up, appeared. During that period, she undertook 35 recording sessions that produced just over a hundred finished masters, many of them songs she also sang in her movies. This 74-minute, 22-track collection culls one-fifth of those tracks, including such signature songs for her as "Beyond the Blue Horizon" and "San Francisco," as well as her solo renditions of "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" and "Indian Love Call," songs she sang in duets with her most frequent screen partner, Nelson Eddy. In the popular imagination, she remains so associated with Eddy that it is worth pointing out that he is not heard on this album. Rather, this is the musical story of MacDonald without Eddy, performing songs from films in which he did not appear, such as The Firefly (annotator Bill Rosenfield's liner notes notwithstanding), Smilin' Through, and The Vagabond King, as well as arias from the operas that occupied much of her time in the 1940s, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette and Faust. European copyright law, which allows recordings more than 50 years old into the public domain, has resulted in a flood of unlicensed, mostly low-quality MacDonald CDs into the marketplace, many of which have found their way into American record stores. This disc, however, contains recordings remastered from the original parts, and thus presents the material in the best possible sonic quality, circa 1991. This could well be the definitive MacDonald compilation available, and certainly the only one that can be recommended without reservation.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:52
- Main artists: Jeanette Macdonald
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: RCA Gold Seal
- Genre: World Europe French Music
(P) 1991 BMG
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