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Robert Shaw - Battle Cry Of Freedom (1962)

Robert Shaw - Battle Cry Of Freedom (1962)
  • Title: Battle Cry Of Freedom
  • Year Of Release: 1962
  • Label: RCA Gold Seal
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 50:05
  • Total Size: 224 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Thomas Pyle – The Battle Hymn of the Republic (05:24)
2. Robert Shaw – America (04:22)
3. Robert Shaw – America, the Beautiful (1991 Remastered) (04:31)
4. Robert Shaw – Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean (04:08)
5. Robert Shaw – God Bless America (04:21)
6. Robert Shaw – Yankee Doodle (1991 Remastered) (02:34)
7. Robert Shaw – Chester (1991 Remastered) (02:15)
8. Robert Shaw – The Bonnie Blue Flag (The South) (1991 Remastered) (01:22)
9. Robert Shaw – Lorena (The South) (1991 Remastered) (03:54)
10. Robert Shaw – Dixie (The South) (1991 Remastered) (01:30)
11. Robert Shaw – The Battle Cry of Freedom (The North (1991 Remastered) (01:48)
12. Robert Shaw – Tenting on the Old Camp Ground (The North) (1991 Remastered) (04:31)
13. Robert Shaw – When Johnny Comes Marching Home (The North) (01:08)
14. Robert Shaw – From the Halls of Montezuma: Marines' Hymn (1991 Remastered) (01:24)
15. Robert Shaw – Anchors Aweigh (1991 Remastered) (00:34)
16. Robert Shaw – The Wild Blue Yonder: U.S. Air Force (1991 Remastered) (01:02)
17. Robert Shaw – The Caissons Go Rolling Along (1991 Remastered) (01:11)
18. Robert Shaw – The Star-Spangled Banner (1991 Remastered) (03:57)

While most folks in the 1960s were being consumed by the unholy flames of rock & roll, a somewhat smaller sect was experiencing the wonders of stereo through the soft baton of Robert Shaw. Unlike Mantovani, Herb Alpert, and the Ray Conniff Singers, who saw the mining of the rock movement as a tool of survival, the Robert Shaw Chorale found inspiration in the songs of Robert Foster and in the increasingly popular realm of sea shanties and spirituals. Essentially, Shaw did for easy listening what Martin Denny and Esquivel did for exotica. Battle Cry of Freedom is exactly what you'd think it is. Eighteen hammy and meticulously arranged songs of patriotism, from "the Battle Hymn of the Republic" to "Dixie," are impeccably performed and often quite poignantly by the heavenly voices of the R.S.C. As the decades have progressed, 20th century easy listening has acquired a definite "kitsch" tag, however, nestled amid the soft polyphony of Robert Shaw and his Chorale is a hint of "coolness." After all, in the '60s, easy listening was the equivalent of 21st century indie pop.

Review by James Christopher Monger


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