Battle Cry of Freedom

Battle Cry of Freedom

by Shaw,Robert
Battle Cry of Freedom

Battle Cry of Freedom

by Shaw,Robert

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Overview

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. ~ James Christopher Monger

Product Details

Release Date: 06/06/1991
Label: Rca
UPC: 0090266081424
Rank: 140738

Tracks

  1. The Battle Hymn of the Republic
  2. America
  3. America the Beautiful
  4. Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean
  5. God Bless America
  6. Revolutionary War Medley: Yankee Doodle
  7. Revolutionary War Medley: Chester
  8. Civil War Medley: The Bonnie Blue Flag
  9. Civil War Medley: Lorena
  10. Civil War Medley: Dixie
  11. Civil War Medley: The Battle Cry of Freedom
  12. Civil War Medley: Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
  13. Civil War Medley: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
  14. Service Songs Medley: From the Halls of Montezuma
  15. Service Songs Medley: Achors Aweigh
  16. Service Songs Medley: The Wild Blue Yonder
  17. Service Songs Medley: The Caissons Go Rolling Along
  18. The Star Spangled Banner

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Robert Shaw Chorale   Primary Artist
Robert Shaw   Primary Artist,Conductor
Florence Kopleff   Contralto (Vocal)
Thomas Pyle   Baritone (Vocal)
Raymond Murcell   Baritone (Vocal)
James Stover   Tenor (Vocal)
James Wainner   Tenor (Vocal)

Technical Credits

Bernard Keville   Engineer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Henry Carey   Composer
Franz Gruber   Composer
Samuel A. Ward   Composer
Julia Ward Howe   Composer
Geoerge D. Lottman   Composer
Anthony Salvatore   Engineer
Robert Russell Bennett   Arranger
Andre Gauthier   Supervisor,Digital Remastering
Katharine Lee Bates   Composer
William Billings   Composer
D.T. Shaw   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Francis Scott Key   Composer
John Pfeiffer   Reissue Producer
Joseph Habig   Producer
Rance Allen   Composer
Public Domain   Composer
William Steffe   Composer
J.J. Stelmach   Art Direction
John Stafford Smith   Composer
Tom Dietrich   Cover Design
S. Smith   Composer
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