Really Rosie (1975 Television Special)
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Composer: Carole KingEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1999-05-25
Music Label: Sony Wonder (Audio)
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- Really Rosie
- One Was Johnny
- Alligators All Around
- Pierre
- Screaming And Yelling
- The Ballad Of Chicken Soup
- Chicken Soup With Rice
- Avenue P
- My Simple Humble Neighborhood
- The Awful Truth
- Such Sufferin'
- Really Rosie (Reprise)
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Free Music Review: An Instant Classic, For Children And Adults
Hit: 5 Stars
The only album during Carole King's "Golden Years" which did not earn her a gold record. "Really Rosie" quickly became a classic though for children and adults alike...and remains so even 25 years later. The soundtrack for a 30-minute TV special with animation and lyrics by Maurice Sendak, the album contains all of the original music plus four extra tracks which did not appear in the TV program.The tunes on "Really Rosie" are not only positively joyous and highly infectious, but they allow King to do things with arrangements and vocals which you would not ordinarily hear in her other music. It is constantly full of wonderful surprises. Each song weaves into the next with King's two-fisted piano style in firm control.
Best tracks? Impossible to choose. Certainly all of the tracks used for the TV special are among the best. Two songs "Pierre" (the story of a boy who didn't care) and "Chicken Soup with Rice" stand out as two of the most inventive melodies King has ever written.
Just listen and laugh and cry...and listen to it all over again! Some of us have been doing it for 25 years!
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Carole King's 11 songs for the Really Rosie TV special (it originally aired in 1975) came from characters found in Maurice Sendak's books The Sign on Rosie's Door and Nutshell Library, but it can easily be argued that the characters never really lived until given voice by King. Ostensibly the story of Rosie--a little girl from Avenue P, who, dontcha know, is a star just waiting to be discovered--there are other delightful characters here, including Johnny ("who lived by himself and liked it like that!") and Pierre (who learns to care after being eaten by a lion). There are also a couple of straight-up educational songs: one an alphabet song (the wonderfully alliterative "Alligators All Around"), the other a calendar song ("Chicken Soup with Rice"). Great music that's delightful for children and parents alike, Really Rosie remains a family favorite for all the right reasons. --Randy Silver --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.Carole King's 11 songs for the "Really Rosie" TV special (it originally aired in 1975) came from characters found in Maurice Sendak's books The Sign on Rosie's Door and Nutshell Library, but it can easily be argued that the characters never really lived until given voice by King. Ostensibly the story of Rosie--a little girl from Avenue P, who, dontcha know, is a star just waiting to be discovered--there are other delightful characters here, including Johnny ("who lived by himself and liked it like that!") and Pierre (who learns to care after being eaten by a lion). There are also a couple of straight-up educational songs: one an alphabet song (the wonderfully alliterative "Alligators All Around"), the other a calendar song ("Chicken Soup with Rice"). Great music that's delightful for children and parents alike, Really Rosie remains a family favorite for all the right reasons. --Randy Silver
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