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Title: Family Songbook by Readers Digest Editors, Readers Digest ISBN: 0-89577-002-4 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: July, 1981 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great chording
Comment: This is a great songbook for the indtermediate player. The arrangements are full of wonderful rich harmony chording that is not hard to follow. I love a great deminished 7th chord and this book has it. I own five of the Readers Digest song books and whish I had more. In particular I would suggest "The Treasury of Great Showtunes" from this same series.
Rating: 4
Summary: Has a lot of standards, but arrangements are pretty simple
Comment: I bought this because I wanted a book that had a lot of the standards. It does. I like to play and sing with my kids (toddlers) and with extended family on different occaisions. I like that it has different holiday songs, ("When Irish Eyes are Smilin'") some patriotic stuff ("America") and plain old songs ("By the light of the Silvery Moon." ) I do wish that the arrangements were a little more difficult...I am not really a great player (one year of lessons in Junior High) but I found myself putting in extra chords and endings. But I am not sophisticated enough to really know what I am doing here, so I have to make it up. Some of the the Gershwin stuff was better, but still cut down. I would call it just beyond beginner. It reminds me of the kind of stuff you hear kids play at piano lessons (year 2). Still, even I am confortable with adding a little here and there, so you can too. OR if you just want to open the page and play a whole new song with few or no mistakes, a novice will like it. Plus it has many songs you would like in an anthology and a nice spiral-like binding--hence the 4 stars above. Overall, a nice book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Book is okay if you are looking for "I only have eyes for U
Comment: I didn't know what was in this book because it was shrink-wrapped at Borders but took a chance b/c it was on sale. It is NOT for beginners. I was looking for a book with fun songs for me to play on the piano w/my 2.5 year old daughter, but this is not what we were looking for! It may be what you want though.
Here's the contents: There are 8 categories of songs: Down Memory Lane (Roaring 20s, World War I, Jazz Age), All-Time Broadway Hit Parade (Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter), Great Music from the Movies (Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart), Swing Years (late 30s and early 40s, Louis Armstrong, Guy Lombardo), Treasury of Operetta & Semi-Classical Hits (Victor Herbert, Sigmund Romberg), Gaslight Varieties, Greensleeves, and Music to Lift the Spirits (anthems, hymns).
The book says each song has been arranged for piano, guitar and organ. It says the arrangements can be easily adapted to any treble-clef C instrument such as accordion, chromatic harmonica, violin, flute, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, recorder, marimba and xylophone.
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Title: Reader's Digest Treasury Of Great Show Tunes by William L. Simon, Readers Digest ISBN: 089577495X Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Treasury of Best Loved Songs by Readers Digest, Reader's Digest ISBN: 0895770075 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: July, 1981 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Popular Songs That Will Live Forever by Readers Digest, Reader's Digest ISBN: 0895771047 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: August, 1982 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Reader's Digest Merry Christmas Songbook: With Lyric Booklet by Readers Digest, Readers Di ISBN: 0895771055 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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Title: The Reader's Digest Children's Songbook by Readers Digest ISBN: 0895772140 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: 01 March, 1986 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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