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Blue Skies

Kiri Te Kanawa (Artist), Nelson Riddle (Artist) Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

1	Blue Skies
2	Speak Low
3	It might as well be Spring
4	Here's that rainy day
5	I didn't know what time it was
6	Yesterdays
7	So in love
8	How high the moon
9	True Love
10	Gone with the wind
11	When I grow too old to dream
12	The folks who live on the hill

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.96 x 5.43 x 0.39 inches; 3.53 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Polygram Records
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 25, 2007
Label ‏ : ‎ Polygram Records
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000041QX
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #147,976 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #2,085 in Vocal Non-Opera
- #3,126 in Easy Listening (CDs & Vinyl)
- #4,237 in Chamber Music (CDs & Vinyl)

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Blue Skies

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2022

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Kiri has a beautiful operatic voice. But her normal signing voice is unexpecticed.
I just found Kiri and cannot get my fill of her voice. Her DVDs of her opera roles are wonderful too.

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Paul Peden

Just the right mix of Mood and Magic

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2012

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This is the kind of album you can play as tasteful accompaniment for a gathering, or can give full attention to for a true listening experience. I am not a Nelson Riddle can do-no-wronger. I find his legendary arrangements to really only be as great as the singer they are done for. But this is one of the times when it is sublime because the singer is simply divine. Kiri Te Kanawa is the greatest classical star of her generation, and on this particular outing into the popular realms, which she has spent quite a lot of time in, the result is gorgeous, evocative, and nuanced. She uses the rich lower register of her glorious soprano to interpret the songs, each with her unmatched and ever-present gift of always giving life but never imposing her own ambitions upon the material.

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Lou B.

Not quite what I expected

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2011

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from the talented arranger Nelson Riddle. I do like this album but I must admit that this is the only time that
I wasn't really blown away by Riddle's music. And as much as I admire Miss Kanawa's talents as a soprano I don't think she really quite pulled it off. But still, compared to the music of today this is still like a breath of fresh air and I am glad I got this album as it fills an important gap in my collection of Mr. Riddle's music. His albums with Linda Ronstadt are much more satisfying but that shouldn't put anyone off from getting this album.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2015

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This was the first Kiri Te Kanawa album I ever bought when it was LP. Now I have all of hers on CD and was thrilled to find this available to purchase. The service was Excellent and top notch customer service.

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alfred k. lum

Great collaboration between Te Kanawa and Riddle

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2017

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Kkiri's great vocals are enhanced by Nelson Riddle's superb arrangements on this, the very last album he arranged and produced I

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Carrie Louise Hames

Kiri te Kanawa Blue Skies

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2012

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OK have this on 331/3 record. It's happy music sung with sensitivity and panache great orchestration by nelson Riddle and Dame Kiri has a blissful mezzo in this lounge music selection.

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Dr. H. A. Jones

Kiri goes 'pop' with Nelson Riddle

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2012

This was the last project that Nelson Riddle was able to complete in 1985 with New Zealand opera star Kiri Te Kanawa before his death. Provided you like Kiri's voice, I think she does a good job singing popular ballads and Nelson's arrangements are as inventive as ever. He continues in somewhat the same vein as the arrangements he did for the trio of LPs that he made with pop singer Linda Ronstadt.

Here Kiri sings 12 songs by some of the greatest of American popular composers and lyricists of the 20th century. The title track is from Irving Berlin, and on other tracks we have Kurt Weill (`Speak low'), Rodgers and Hart (`I didn't know what time it was'), Rodgers and Hammerstein (`it might as well be string'), Cole Porter (`True love') and others of equal greatness. This is an album I treasured on LP and now I play it just as much on CD.

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SaguaroGeorge

A winner, a big winner.

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2013

If Kiri Te Kanawa sang popular songs under a pseudonym, she would be recognized as one of the greatest pop singers of all time. But because we know that she is an opera star, and that therefore when she sings these songs she is doing "cross-over," she's just a curiosity in this context. Well, I know that she is an opera star, I even know something about her growing-up as my wife was U.S. Consul General in Auckland where Kiri sang in night clubs and people still speak of her as the local, home-town girl, and I still think that she is one of the greatest pop singers of all time. I also think that Nelson Riddle was among the very best arrangers of such music. Put the two of them together, and you have a winner. This is a winner.

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John McDermott

A lovely collection of American standards by Te Kanawa and ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2016

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A lovely collection of American standards by Te Kanawa and Nelson Riddle, tasteful jazz-inspired arrangements with Kiri Te Kanawa singing in her natural voice. A revelation and a treat. The songs 'Blue Skies' and 'How High the Moon' stand out.

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Clubman

Return of as old friend

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2019

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Was given a cassette of this album about 30 years ago and it gradually wore out with playing. Wonderful songs, singing and arrangements. CD sound better than the tape did (obviously)

Big Ronno

excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2021

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Lovely CD

ladyErnestine

Indémodable

Reviewed in France on April 6, 2020

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Toujours sublime ! J'avais découvert ce disque il y a trente ans, je le retrouve en qualité laser avec autant de bonheur !

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Michel

Excellent disque.

Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2019

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Personnelle.

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