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Innocence and Despair by The Langley Schools Music Project (CD, 2001)

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Title: Innocence and Despair. Artist: The Langley Schools Music Project. Format: CD. © DirectToU LLC. Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys). God Only Knows (The Beach Boys). In My Room (The Beach Boys). I Get Around (The Beach Boys).

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Record Label
Bär/None Records
UPC
0032862012228
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20046052499

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Artist
The Langley Schools Music Project
Format
CD
Release Year
2001
Release Title
Innocence and Despair
Genre
Rock

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Item Length
5.77in
Item Height
0.38in
Item Width
4.95in
Item Weight
0.22lb.

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Number of Discs
1
Notes
Ever since NPR aired an excerpt of this 1976-77 school project, it's been selling like, well, cookies at a bake sale! Imagine a gym in western Ontario full of 60 children aged 9-12, singing the pop hits of the day and discovering inside themselves for the first time a love of pop music the joy and wonder of these kids is palpable! Then add in some Carl Orff-like percussion, and rudimentary bass and guitar, and the whole thing even takes on some avant-garde dimensions. Trust us, you've never heard God Only Knows; Space Oddity; Rhiannon; Wildfire or the Long and Winding Road sound like this!
Tracks
1.1 Venus and Mars/Rock Show (Paul McCartney ; Wings) 1.2 Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys) 1.3 God Only Knows (The Beach Boys) 1.4 Space Oddity (David Bowie) 1.5 The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles) 1.6 Band on the Run (Paul McCartney ; Wings) 1.7 In My Room (The Beach Boys) 1.8 I'm Into Something Good (Earl-Jean/Herman's Hermits) 1.9 Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers) 1.10 I Get Around (The Beach Boys) 1.11 Mandy (Barry Manilow) 1.12 Help Me, Rhonda (The Beach Boys) 1.13 Desperado (The Eagles) 1.14 You're So Good to Me (The Beach Boys) 1.15 Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond) 1.16 To Know Him Is to Love Him (Teddy Bears) 1.17 Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac) 1.18 Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphy) 1.19 Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day) (Klaatu/The Carpenters)
Number of Tracks
19

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4 out of 5 stars
by jmsoneillNov 06, 2012
Much innocence, hardly any despair: popular songs poignantly rendered.
These recordings are already 35 years old; the children who sang the popular songs have long since moved on. Yet their performances remain poignant. "Innocence and Despair" suggests what they left behind on tape, although despair is not really descriptive. I wonder what a reunion would bring? Take "Desperado," for instance. What meaning did school children derive from the lyrics? Nevertheless, the innocence of their rendition takes the song to places neither the Eagles nor Linda Ronstadt could reach. Where would they take it now, at midlife, having experienced, perhaps, more despair than innocence?
5 out of 5 stars
by edanne96104-2Mar 06, 2019
Wonderful!
Absolutely wonderful! There's nothing like it (to the best of my knowledge) on earth. I wish I would have purchased it when it was released. I've been missing out all these years.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
5 out of 5 stars
by londonmidnight-...May 02, 2020
A rare find. They don't make them like this anymore.
This cd is a rare find. Actually recorded in the mid-70's. I heard a fragment of In My Room on the Good Girls television show a while ago and was immediately intrigued. Wonderful, childlike versions of wonderful songs.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
5 out of 5 stars
by candoknowhowDec 07, 2008
Buy this NOW before it goes OOP and slips into ********
At about the same age as these school kids were playing "Light as a feather, stiff as a board" they were enjoying performing this astounding collection of 60s-70s pop/rock classics. Listen to this to transport yourself to those simpler times when you did'nt wake up worried about traffic and taxes and significant others but instead you ran practicly everywhere you went in a world where trees were huge cloud-hugs and you felt the sun shine on your smiles. Back when everyone did'nt try so dang hard to be "COOL".
5 out of 5 stars
by _TH4UPRMQ2a@Del...Aug 08, 2011
Best children record ever
This amazing cd is something that everyone with children should listen to. A fine piece of unexpected art. Thanks, Hans Fenger!

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Innocence and Despair by The Langley Schools Music Project (CD, 2001)

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Much innocence, hardly any despair: popular songs poignantly rendered.

Wonderful!

A rare find. They don't make them like this anymore.

Buy this NOW before it goes OOP and slips into ********

Best children record ever

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