Stay Awake Various Interpreta: Various (Tribute): Amazon.ca: Music

1. Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor's Life For Me)/Little April Shower... - Ken Nordine, Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Natalie

2. Baby Mine - Bonnie Raitt & Was (Not Was)

3. Heigh Ho (The Dwarfs Marching Song) - Tom Waits

4. Stay Awake/Little Wooden Head/Blue Shadows... - Suzanne Vega, Bill Firsell, Wayne Horvitz

5. Castle In Spain/I Wonder - Buster Poindexter & The Banchees Of Blue , YMA Sum

6. Mickey Mouse March - Aaron Neville

7. Feed The Birds/Whistle While You Work/I'm Wishing... - Garth Hudson, NRBQ, Betty Carter, The Replacements

8. Someday My Prince Will Come - Sinead O'Connor

9. Pink Elephants On Parade/Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Harry Nilsson

10. Second Star To The Right - James Taylor

11. Desolation Theme/When You Wish Upon A Star - Ken Nordine, Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Ringo St

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4.0 out of 5 stars Disney Music For All Ages, Jun 30 2007

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This recording is a fabuous way to introduce children to various music genres and artists. While the songs are familiar to young and old (er!), the arrangements are unique and intriguing. Although some of the cuts may be a bit uneven, ultimately this collection can be put into the classics category - the songs are timeless and many of the artists are icons in the music world. Both of my children (8 years apart) listened to and loved this CD while they were growing up - they still love it. Highlights - Los Lobos' swinging, rocking redition of "I Wanna Be Like You" (The Monkey Song) and Tom Waits growling "Heigh Ho". Snow White would have swooned!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Don't close your eyes, July 12 2004

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This album features various types of performers doing Disney songs. It is a pretty uneven album. Some of them are good, some of them are not so good. Different people will like different performances, depending on their taste. My favorites are by Tom Waits, Buster Poindexter, Aaron Neville, Sinead O'Conner, Sun Ra and Harry Nilsson. There were some performances I didn't really care for, but I won't mention what they are. One problem that I had with this CD is that many of the songs are connected together as "medleys". So that makes it hard to skip around and just listen to your favorite songs. You may have to sit through something you don't like to get to something you do like.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stands the test of time, Jun 19 2004

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I taped this album off of vinyl from the college radio station where I spun tunes in 1988, and while I preferred much more rough-around-the-edges grunge music at the time, I had a soft spot for the whole album.

My tastes mellowed out in the following 15 years (just a bit) but still this cassette keeps coming out of the drawer year. The subtle, talented and completely original takes on the Disney movie songs manage to imprint the artists' vision while still retaining the original magic of the movies (you can picture in your mind a group of seven dwarves who all look like Tom Waits chanting Heigh-Ho). Then last year, I found myself singing "Blue Shadows" in the manner of Syd Straw and "Stay Awake" in the manner of Suzanne Vega as lullabies to my daughter at bedtime. This album stands the test of time, so of course I finally have to have it on CD.

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