Big Choice [Import]

big choice [import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese limited edition reissue of the So-Cal punks' 1995 album includes four bonus tracks, 'Disconnected', 'Bikage', 'I Used To Think' & 'Not Enough'. Victory. 2004.

Big Choice,Face to Face,Jvc Victor,Punk,Rock

Big Choice [Import]

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Fats plays Fats
All Around Musical Force
Puts a smile on your face!
FATS WALLER, SECOND ONLY TO LOUIS ARMSTRONG!!!
FAT, HIP AND SWINGIN'

The Very Best of Fats Waller
Fats Waller
Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004X0AT
Release Date: 2000-09-12

Tracks:

Fats Waller Stomp
Handful Of Keys
The Minor Drag
Ain't Misbehavin'
I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (And My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me)
A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid
How Can You Face Me?
Viper's Drag
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
Dinah
Truckin'
When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful
I Got Rhythm
It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
Until The Real Thing Comes Along
The Curse Of An Aching Heart
Honeysuckle Rose
The Joint Is Jumpin'
Two Sleepy People
I'll Dance At Your Wedding
Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)
Your Feet's Too Big
All That Meat And No Potatoes
The Jitterbug Waltz

Product Description

1. Fats Waller Stomp
2. Handful Of Keys
3. Minor Drag, The
4. Ain't Misbehavin'
5. I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (And My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me)
6. Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid, A
7. How Can You Face Me?
8. Viper's Drag
9. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself A Letter)
10. Dinah
11. Truckin'
12. When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful
13. I Got Rhythm
14. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
15. Until The Real Thing Comes Along
16. Curse Of An Aching Heart, The
17. Honeysuckle Rose
18. Joint Is Jumping, The
19. Two Sleepy People
20. I'll Dance At Your Wedding
21. Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood, Mama)
22. Your Feet's Too Big
23. All That Meat And No Potatoes
24. Jitterbug Waltz, The

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Fats plays Fats.......2007-02-07

This is a delightful compilation of Fats' at his best. The remastering is excellent and I would recomend this CD to anyone wanting to listen to jazz piano playing - the CD is worth getting even if only for the scintillating improvisation of 'Aint Misbehavin'

All Around Musical Force.......2006-10-04

Fats Waller had a strong touch on the Keys, could write very good&had a distinctive voice that fueled so many tracks. his band was tight as well. he had such a feel good quality in his playing&overall vibe as a Musician.I got Rhythm is one song that never gets old from this collection. this is a very fully well represented compilation. Fats Waller doesn't get his full due as a all around force. this is a strong collection.

Puts a smile on your face!.......2005-08-02

Excellent compilation of Fats Waller's recordings...both solo piano tracks and with his band. He sings on some of the songs too...as always, his music making puts a smile on your face and gets your toes a tappin'!

FATS WALLER, SECOND ONLY TO LOUIS ARMSTRONG!!!.......2004-03-17

THOMAS FATS WALLER RULES! NO DOUBT ABOUT IT! THE MUSICIAN, A PIANIST AND VOCALIST, POSSESSES THE CHARISMA OF CAB CALAWAY, THE INNOVATIVE BRILLIANCE OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND THE DOWN AND DIRTY, NEW ORLEANS SWANKINESS OF THELONIOUS MONK.

SON OF A SOUTHERN BAPTIST MINISTER & A FEMALE PIANIST, VOCALIST AND ORGANIST, WALLER WAS OBVIOUSLY BORN INTO THE MUSICAL LIFE. FOR A MAN OF OVER 300 POUNDS, HE SURE KNEW HOW TO SWING. AND THE GUY WROTE OVER 400 SONGS, MANY MANY OF THEM HUGE HITS.

HE JUST MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD, DAMMIT!

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, WALLER'S GREATEST EFFORTS INCLUDE: YOUR FEETS TOO BIG, THIS JOINT IS JUMPIN', AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' AND CRAZY 'BOUT MY BABY.

FAT, HIP AND SWINGIN'.......2004-03-06

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

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So excited
It's NOT David Sanborn!
Seduction
In The "Seduction Zone"
Seduction by James Last

Seduction
James Last , and David Sanborn
Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Very Best of James Last

ASIN: B0009A6MWG
Release Date: 2005-08-02

Tracks:

Fantasy
Dancing Shadows
Vibration
Seduction (Love Theme)
Falling Star
So Excited
Night Drive
Glow
Infight
It's Over

Product Description

1. Fantasy
2. Dancing Shadows
3. Vibrations
4. The Seduction (Love Theme)
5. Falling Star
6. So Excited
7. Night Drive
8. Glow
9. Infight
10. It’s Over

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

So excited .......2007-07-08

I am so excited to have finally found this after 20 plus years of searching. This is the ultimate mood music!!! It is like Christmas in July!! I haven't been this excited since receiving Carol King Tapestry in 1972(or 1973) for Christmas!! I could just pee my pants!!!! I have to give credit to my adoring husband who found this for me and never even heard of James Last Band until I turned him on to it!! Thanks, honey....love you to bits!!

It's NOT David Sanborn!.......2007-01-28

It's actually Ernie Watts playing the alto sax solo on this version of "The Seduction." David Sanborn recorded this tune on his "Hideaway" album after the James Last Band version hit the charts. In fact, on earlier pressings of the "Hideaway" LP, "The Seduction" is not on it. It was added to a later pressing of the album as an afterthought, I suppose...

Seduction.......2007-01-04

My Mom wanted a particular song on this CD - I did not know when I ordered it that it would contain profanity and not the version that she heard on the radio. Would not recommend, there is no reason for profanity in a love song.

In The "Seduction Zone".......2006-11-21

Nowadays, in part due to the noodlings of Kenny G., it is common to dismiss instrumental pop and rock music as nothing more than glorified Muzak, even though quite a few of those instrumental records have endured over time. Such is the case with this album from German-born band leader and arranger James Last which was originally released in 1980.

Straddling the worlds of disco, synth-pop, new wave, and smooth jazz, this is a thoroughly underappreciated ten-track collection of instrumental pop. All but two of the tracks were composed either by Last himself or by his son Ronald Last, and are extremely inventive combinations of jazz-rock fusion influences and synthesizers. The two non-original ones both have their origins in Giorgio Moroder's score for the Paul Schrader-directed 1980 film AMERICAN GIGOLO. One of them is "Night Drive", whose main melody is derived from the Blondie song "Call Me" that is on the AMERICAN GIGOLO soundtrack. The other one, of course, is "The Seduction", this album's title track and that movie's haunting love theme, with an uncredited alto sax solo by David Sanborn. That track was widely played on the radio and actually peaked at #28 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1980.

Last's "band", so to speak, consists of a lot of great musicians, including string arranger Sid Sharp; drummer Rick Marotta; guitarists Robert "Waddy" Wachtel and Lee Ritenour; keyboardists Don Grolnick and Michael Boddicker; bassist Abe Laboriel; and sax maestro Ernie Watts. All combine on this album for a lush but not syrupy experience from a time when production gimmickry had yet to swamp the recording process. A hugely worthwhile album for anyone with a taste for instrumental pop and rock of a compelling kind.

Seduction by James Last .......2006-02-26

first of all my cd was deleveredvto my home in 3 days time i"ve been searching for this c.d. for the last 20 yrs I live in a very small town so we have no music stores for 70 miles away in Panama City Fl.a friend suggesed i try Amozon . com & presto it was here & to top it off it was delevered on my 48th bday what a basy present to myself arter searching off & on for the past 20 yrg Amozon.com is the GREATEST. Thank u so very much.Geneisse

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SOME OF ISB'S BEST MADE BETTER STILL
TISB-Wee Tam/Big Huge
Wee Tam and the Big Huge
The ISB at their very, very best in this SINGLE album
A High Water Mark of the ISB

Wee Tam / Big Huge
Incredible String Band
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U
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending/Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air

ASIN: B00006BC50
Release Date: 2002-09-10

Tracks:

Job's Tears
Puppies
Beyond The See
The Yellow Snake
Log Cabin Home In The Sky
You Get Brighter
The Half-Remarkable Question
Air
Ducks On A Pond

Tracks:

Maya
Greatest Friend
The Son Of Noah's Brother
Lordly Nightshade
The Mountain Of God
Cousin Caterpillar
The Iron Stone
Douglas Traherne Harding
The Circle Is Unbroken

Product Description

Disc 1: Wee Tam:
1. Job's Tears
2. Puppies
3. Beyond The See
4. Yellow Snake, The
5. Log Cabin Home In The Sky
6. You Get Brighter
7. Half-Remarkable Question, The
8. Air
9. Ducks On A Pond

Disc 2: The Big Huge:
1. Maya
2. Greatest Friend
3. Son Of Noah's Brother, The
4. Lordly Nightshade
5. Mountain Of God, The
6. Cousin Caterpillar
7. Iron Stone, The
8. Douglas Traherne Harding
9. Circle Is Unbroken, The

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

SOME OF ISB'S BEST MADE BETTER STILL.......2006-08-06

While the remastering is expert and reveals even more of the human warmth of this work, it's difficult to write about the music of Robin Williamson and Mike Heron for the simple reason that they pretty much created their own genre. Who will we compare to the Incredible String Band? The sources and reference points of and in their music are many and widespread. Typically filed under "FOLK", the music of The Incredible String Band was and is much more. A few years after the band broke up, Robin wrote of his interest in creating a "fusion" of different musical cultures, traditions and styles. Seen from this perspective, "Wee Tam / Big Huge" must be one of the first fully-realized examples of that fusion.

In a seemingly simple, quiet framework, ISB delivers a dazzling array of ideas about music and about humankind and our perceptions of the worlds in and around us -- what are we and what we are -- with diverse and complete musical authority. How else could you possibly pull off a song titled "Puppies" without being accused of creating kitsch? This is profoundly ambitious stuff. "Wee Tam / Big Huge" allows us to witness nothing less than the patchwork creation of a being in "Maya" who is comprised of the many archetypes of the human race: "businessmen his nervous system, no-hustle men his stomach" and, my personal favorite, "opinions are his fingernails". Here, as throughout this record, small metaphors create greater metaphors, leading to saturated meanings. Throughout, the lyrical content matches the musical innovation. Always poetic and illuminating, I'd question the typical "psychedelic" conclusion: this stuff is too aware and well worked out. Remember: "At bath time the hippies, in chains, they are crossing the hall..."

As a contrast to the long and almost tone-poem-like pieces such as "Maya" and "Job's Tears" and rollicking fiddle tunes like "Log Cabin Home", there are a pair of very short, haiku-like pieces that are as pure as they are beautiful. "Son of Noah's Brother" and the more remarkable, myth-imbued "Yellow Snake" demonstrate that condensed and concise poetry can be as powerful as the more elaborate and extended work.

There is also a sense of the sacred throughout, from the every day in "Air" and the wonderfully inventive "Duck's on a Pond" to the collage of religious and literary phrases that comprise the lyrics of "The Mountain of God". Through a rich mix of musical and cultural ideas, "Wee Tam / Big Huge" makes the monumental accessible, and the miniature profound without ever resorting to cloying sentimentality, cliche or the dead ends of blind faith. This is music of approachable, constant and everyday beauty. Music as easy to love today as it was when the world was new.

TISB-Wee Tam/Big Huge.......2006-02-22

The other reviews correctly describe the richness and beauty of these albums. Mystical yet fun, fascinating musical concepts, still fresh after so many years. Highest rating...BUT...while wonderful on the ears, terrible on the eyes. Bad job on the lyrics insert, which are truly microscopic to the point of being unreadable. I'm lucky to have the original vinyl for reading. Otherwise, get a high-powered microscope. Still, a gorgeous recording, as are all their early releases.

Wee Tam and the Big Huge.......2005-08-10

I had not heard this for thirty years. Many of the songs have stayed with me. The best recordings they ever did - before they got too self conscious. Still a classic - modern bands are just too cautious. They all want to be cool.

The ISB at their very, very best in this SINGLE album.......2005-06-03

`The Big Huge' and the `Wee Tam' are nominally two different albums by The Incredible String Band (TISB) when actually; they were released simultaneously in 1968 as if they were a double album where you could buy the two disks independently. The sense with which the two titles can be combined as `The Big Huge Wee Tam' is one small sign of how these two albums were always supposed to be seen as a single work, in much the same way as Dylan's `Blond on Blond' and the Beatles' `white album' are two phonographs in a single album.

It is due to this title combination that I always considered `The Big Huge' as the first of the two recordings. The second reason is because the first cut on this album, Williamson's `Maya' so completely captures the style and spirit of both albums. It also clearly connects TISB with the style of Donovan Leitch as exemplified in his song `Atlantis'. There must be some name for this kind of song in song writing circles, and I wish I knew it, as it is so distinctive in construction. Basically, it enumerates between eight and twelve things, generally people, in a group where each type serves a particular person or fits a role in the whole. The simplest example of such a song might be the `Do-Re-Mi Song' from `The Sound of Music'. Both `Maya' and `Atlantis' are much more complicated, but fit the same basic pattern.

`Maya' is doubly interesting in that it is almost certainly based on the famous illustration on the frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes' great work `Leviathan' on political philosophy, where the head of the sovereign sits on a body composed of smaller bodies.

This pair of albums may have been the high point of the TISB recording career. At the very least, together with `The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of the Onion' and `The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter', it created a body of work which at the very least insured the durability of the groups modest popularity well into the 21st century. And, I believe it is the last set of recordings they did in the style of original writing they established in `5000 Spirits...' With their next works, I detect definite changes in style and more independence from Mike Heron, as he released a solo album around this time.

I made the observation in a review of `The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter' that many of the songs can be heard as evening entertainment for children on their way to bed. I can strengthen this analogy with this album with the references to Tolkien's fiction in one or two of these songs. Add to this references to A. A. Milne's `Winnie the Pooh' and songs about caterpillars and I rest my case. Very few of their songs relate to that most favorite song subject, romantic love. Much more time is spent on adventure, discovery, tall tales, and nonsense rhymes.

For those of you who may be coming to TISB from encounters with Fairport Convention and The Pentangle, I suggest that TISB is the gold standard of original writing based on Celtic and other world folk traditions. Fairport Convention, especially Sandy Denny may have written some great songs and Jansch and Renbourn of `The Pentangle' are probably greater instrumentalists, but TISB conveys a folkish charm that is truer to the great 1960's counterculture spirit than any other band.

A High Water Mark of the ISB.......2003-12-16

This is a magical album (and yes, it is one album, as a reviewer below noted). There are songs here which feel simultaneously ancient and totally innovative, achingly beautiful and unfathomably mysterious -- at this moment I am thinking of the songs "The Circle is Unbroken" and "The Iron Stone." But really everything here is amazing. This is one of those albums where you feel that the artists were stretching every nerve and muscle, reaching out beyond themselves to grasp something which they had glimpsed. A masterpiece is made when they succeed, and that's what happened here. And the beauty is not just conceptual. Sure, these guys were picking up a bewildering variety of instruments they had never learned how to play, but they pull it off; it all works. And Williamson's voice... a careless listener will think he's just tunelessly jibbering sometimes, but he's not, he's not... His voice glides and modulates all over the place, always exactly where he wants it to be. This work was really a transcendent, watershed event. For myself, I find it has an intensity unrivalled by any of the Incredibles' other albums, though "U" and "5000 Spirits" and "Hangman's" are all essential listening as well. But this is really something special.

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good selection of tunes
KILLER Arrangements ARE Billy May
Definitive 50's Billy May

A Band Is Born/Big Band Bash
Billy May
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ASIN: B000055X29
Release Date: 2001-01-09

Tracks:

All Of Me
If I Had You
Charmaine
Unforgettable
Fat Man Mambo
Lean Baby
My Silent Love
There Is No Greater Love
I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
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When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
Lulu's Back In Town
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When Your Lover Has Gone
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Gone With The Wind
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Customer Reviews:

good selection of tunes.......2007-01-10

I realize this is not stereo but the transfer sounds tinny and not up to par with other mono cd's I've aquired.

KILLER Arrangements ARE Billy May.......2001-11-24

These two high-fidelity albums are finally, thankfully released by Collector's Choice. Thank God for them!!

To hear "Unforgettable" by just the May charts, makes the entire song new!! All those great Sinatra charts are reworked a bit, and do not need the vocalist at all!! These tracks are terrific, immortal and not dated in the least. The amount of talent, electricity and that GREAT '50s vacuum tube recording is abdundant in their remastering of the disc.

GRAB this while it is still in print. The ultimate CD to please just about anybody, will be a much-played addition to your library. Musicianship, talent, fun, and incredible beauty; it's ALL HERE!!

Definitive 50's Billy May.......2001-04-27

Collector's Choice music continues to try to out do themselves. This recent two LP issue on one cd contains two classic mid 1950's May records.

These wonderful sides contain many of Mr. May's greatest hits of the 1950's and there simply isn't any mediocre material. For those who lived during that period, it's nostalgia galore.

For those unaware, May's big band was noted for its first rate musicianship, straight-ahead driving swing interjected with intermittent twists of humor and surprises. The excellent production values of this cd coupled with its outstanding sound quality makes this cd a bargain value. Get it while it's still in print.

(Not) Your Standard Spike Jones Collection
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Great set of wartime rarities

Cure for the Blues

Standard Transcription Collection

(Not) Your Standard Spike Jones Collection
Spike Jones
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Binding: Audio CD

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Fonk

Spiked!: The Music of Spike Jones

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ASIN: B00007JR3K
Release Date: 2003-04-08

Album Description

Holiday blues comin' on? Well, put a spike in `em! Here's the zaniest, wildest and just plain sickest Collectors' Choice Music exclusive yet—79 tracks from Spike Jones and his City Slickers! These represent Spike's complete Standard Transcription sides, but these tunes are anything but standard; Mr. Jones brought his full bag of tricks for these non-commercial recordings (made in Hollywood during the early `40s). Add to that the fact that most of these have never been on CD or even LP, and any lover of Spike's mayhem-filled mixture of laughs and hot licks is going to flip over this set! Notes and great pictures accompany this 3-CD walk on the wacky side from the greatest novelty band of all time.

Customer Reviews:

Great set of wartime rarities.......2003-05-14

Spike Jones was the king of the novelty song performers, with hits like "Der Fuehrer's Face" and the parody version of "Sheik of Araby" becoming huge hits during World War II. This is a swell 3-CD set, gathering a full eighty-one of Jones' best tracks from his 1940s heyday, drawn from an extensive archive of radio broadcasts made for the Standard Transcription service. The tightness of his City Slickers band is amply demonstrated in these manic, kookily orchestrated performances. Toots, squonks, blatts and bleats whiz by at lightning speed, as one daffy song after another will delight devoted fans. Amazingly, Jones had the unusual, almost unique ability to perform a repertoire almost entirely made up of comedic material, and yet still be quite listenable and engaging. His jazz chops were hardly in question, and from time to time Jones would dash off a non-novelty ballad or two, just to give the rubes something to think about. Of course, just as often he would perform a song that *sounded* like a straight ballad, but would turn out to be another goof. (One great example of this is the sultry "Serenade To A Jerk," sung in slinky, burlesque tones by Myrtle Horwin.) This collection may seem a little overwhelming, but like his studio recordings, these radio performances have a certain brilliance and joie de vivre about them that will leave you enchanted. Definitely worth checking out!

Cure for the Blues.......2003-04-25

Here's the zaniest, wildest and just plain sickest Collectors' Choice Music exclusive yet-79 tracks from Spike Jones and his City Slickers! These represent Spike's complete Standard Transcription sides, but these tunes are anything but standard; Mr. Jones brought his full bag of tricks for these non-commercial recordings (made in Hollywood during the early `40s). Add to that the fact that most of these have never been on CD or even LP, and any lover of Spike's mayhem-filled mixture of laughs and hot licks is going to flip over this set! Notes and great pictures accompany this 3-CD walk on the wacky side from the greatest novelty band of all time.

Standard Transcription Collection.......2003-04-12

This collection has remastered material from the large stack of Standard Transcription discs from the early 1940's. There are many songs not recorded on RCA, many on the theme of wartime ("48 Reasons Why"), and the quality is excellent. The packaging is threadbare but this is an essential CD package for true music lovers.

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You helped with our 50th anniversary
Not quite titled correctly, but still nice to listen to
It Ain't All Instrumentals
It Ain't All Instrumentals
once there were greenfields

Instrumental Gems of the Fifties
Various Artists
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ASIN: B00001ZWD0
Release Date: 1999-10-19

Tracks:

Third Man Theme - Anton Karas Listen
Sam's Song Listen
Nola - Les Paul Listen
Laura - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra Listen
Down Yonder Listen
Delicado - Percy Faith & His Orchestra
Meet Mister Callaghan - Les Paul
Caravan - Ralph Marterie
Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?) - Percy Faith
Oh! - Pee Wee Hunt & His Orchestra
Melancholy Serenade - Jackie Gleason
April in Portugal - Les Baxter & His Orchestra
Ruby - Les Baxter Orchestra & Chorus
Dragnet - Ray Anthony Orchestra
Ebb Tide - Frank Chacksfield
Skokiaan - Ralph Marterie
High and the Mighty - Les Baxter Orchestra & Chorus
Crazy Otto - Johnny Maddox & the Rhythmasters
Melody of Love - Billy Vaughn
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Pi2%z Prado Orchestra

Tracks:

Unchained Melody - Les Baxter & His Orchestra
Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Moritat (A.K.A. Mack the Knife) - Dick Hyman
Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song) - Les Baxter & His Orchestra
Moonglow/Theme from "Picnic" - Morris Stoloff
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter
Song for a Summer Night - Mitch Miller & the Sing Along Gang
Shifting Whispering Sands - Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra
So Rare - The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
Portugese Washerwoman
Swingin' Shepherd Blues - Moe Koffman
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Raunchy - Ernie Freeman
Tea for Two Cha Cha - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
Peter Gunn Theme - Ray Anthony Orchestra
Only You (And You Alone) - Franck Pourcel
Quiet Village - Martin Denny
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[Untitled Track]

Customer Reviews:

You helped with our 50th anniversary.......2006-03-23

My husband and I have been married 50 years and our daughter wanted to make a DVD of our life and the music that we had. Our song when we were going together was "Young Love" by Sonny James. I was thrilled to death when we found it and she set it to our DVD with all the pictures. We used many of the songs as they were of our "era". Thank you so very much....it was fantastic.

Not quite titled correctly, but still nice to listen to.......2004-08-20

As a couple of other reviewers state, this CD set has a couple of items that I wouldn't call "instrumental." One, Percy Faith/Felicia Sanders on "The Song from Moulin Rouge," happens to be one of my all-time favorites, and the other, Billy Vaughn/Ken Nordine on "The Shifting Whispering Sands," is a fiendishly hard to find piece, especially if you are looking for the whole thing (it ran about twice as long as a typical '50s hit!) so I have to forgive the producers for their lapses.

Some of the songs on here overlap another CD I reviewed earlier, "Big Hits of the '50s," and I'd rather not have the overlap, but this is something hard to avoid these days. And it has some truly hard to find pieces (like the abovementioned "Shifting Whispering Sands," and the Dick Hyman version of "Moritat," which sounds totally different from the versions appearing under the name of "Mack the Knife"), so that even with that overlap, I'm glad I have both CDs in my collection.

Anyone who likes the pre-rock'n'roll era's music is sure to find some favorites on here. There are a couple of pieces where I'd consider that the version on this CD set is not the top version (It has Ralph Marterie's version of "Skokiaan" rather than the Bulowayo Sweet Rhythms Band's, and certainly Les Baxter's is not the definitive version of "Unchained Melody" -- but if you are stressing instrumentals, Baxter's would be the one you'd select, of course). But even in those cases, the versions did make the charts as well as the top versions, so they can be accepted. And over all, this is a nice set to listen to.

All in all, considering all the pieces I've mentioned, as well as the last Big Band pieces to chart (the '50s are certainly after the Big Band era, but Jimmy Dorsey had a hit with "So Rare" as late as the middle of the decade! And it's on this set.) This is a great collection.

It Ain't All Instrumentals.......2003-02-24

The people who be this CD out,should look up the word INTRUMENTAL.
If this word means singing. You have a CD set. Without the vocals this two CD set should have been out as a single CD.

It Ain't All Instrumentals.......2003-02-22

Someone should tell the people who put this CD set to look up the word Instrumental. It does not mean singing.

once there were greenfields.......2002-01-18

A truly amazing collection of wonderful music from the pre-rock days! This album has it all: Frank Chacksfields "Ebb tide" (1953), Nelson Riddle's Lisbon Antigua (#1 in 1956) and there's even the immortal, enchanting "April in Portugal" (#1 in 1955). Not to mention Percy Faith's "Delicado" - what a delicious toe-tapper it still is! Makes me go back to the days when really enjoyable music became big hits. OK, I'm pushing 60, so I'm prejudiced. But for a guy my age, this collection is priceless. If you're part of the post-war generation, don't hesitate, buy this CD. You won't regret it, instead, you will play it over and over. Yeah, it's true, they don't make hits like this anymore...

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Great music for the kids, big and small in your life.
Not as Good as "Big Trouble", but still great
A Classic
Feel-Good-Silly music that will make you tap your feet!
Great Children's Album

Mine!
Trout Fishing In America
Manufacturer: Trout Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003JXD
Release Date: 1994-08-31

Tracks:

Boiled Okra And Spinach
18 Wheels On A Big Rig
Mine!
Hall Of A Hundred Doors
Swimming Pool
Count On Me
Wishes
Carry Me
Five Little Ducks
I Can Dance

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Great music for the kids, big and small in your life........2006-01-07

AS another reviwer wrote, big trouble is a bit better album, but this one still packs a punch of fun fammily entertainment.
We have had trout fishing in our collection long before we had kids. Once you go Trout fisning you'll never want to buy another stupid sugarly popular character Fad CD.

Not as Good as "Big Trouble", but still great.......2003-01-12

Compared to most others who write children's music (if you've seen the Wiggles, you know what I'm talking about), Trout Fishing in America writes songs that are smart and funny.

While this album isn't as good as "Big Trouble", there are several tracks that are quite good. "Boiled okra and spinach" will stay in your head for a while, and "18 wheels on a big rig" is just a trip. Ever heard anybody count to 18 in roman numerals? Quickly?

This album still receives 5 stars when compared to most other children's music. Even though "Big Trouble" is my favorite, we enjoy "Mine!" very much.

A Classic.......2000-04-08

I first heard the "Big Rig" song while cruising in another family's car. I was hooked instantly -what a total riot! The other songs are terrific too, and the Trouts are wonderful musicians and great lyricists - wry, silly and tender. Do yourself a favor - introduce yourself, your family or just about anyone to the Trouts. This is one 'kids' CD that will not make you gag when you hear it. Get it - you won't be disappointed.

Feel-Good-Silly music that will make you tap your feet!.......2000-03-30

I have this and about 3 other albums from Trout...and I have no children. This music always puts a smile on my face and helps me deal with the ride home from work! This is definately a children's album, but if you can hand over your maturity, sing this at the top of your lungs....you will DEFINATELY have fun! Be careful...you might start humming "Mine!" while your walking down the halls at work!

Great Children's Album.......1998-11-26

As a 10 year fan of Trout Fishing in America, I can unequivocally say that this is my favorite band of all time. I see them live whenever they come thru Texas. This album is a good childrens album, with lots of songs you can sing along with (even if you don't have kids).

Tracks:

Isch Ka Bibble (I Should Worry)
It's Love I'm After
Did You Mean It?
'Cause My Baby Says It's So
Cry, Baby, Cry
So You Left Me For The Leader Of A Swing Band?
Music, Maestro, Please!
Ya Got Me
The Umbrella Man
(Gotta Get Some) Shut-Eye
Cuckoo In The Clock
I Promise You
Three Little Fishies
The Tinkle Song
The Merry Old Land Of Oz
Way Back In 1939 A.D.
Who's Yehoodi?
Alexander The Swoose (Half Swan-Half Goose)

Tracks:

'Til Reveille
(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover
A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal)
Who Wouldn't Love You
He Wears A Pair Of Silver WIngs
Jingle, Jangle, Jingle
Let's Get Lost
Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition
Strip Polka
Can't You Read Between The Lines?
Rosemary
Horses Don't Bet On People
Slowly
One-zy Two-zy (I Love You-zy)
Ole Buttermilk Sky
The Old Lamp-Lighter
On A Slow Boat To China
Woody Woodpecker

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Boop-Boop, Diddem-Daddem.......2007-05-12

I bought this collection for "Three Little Fishies", which song a friend of mine from college had included on a mix tape he made for me back in the mid-70s (which tape has long since disintegrated), and which had been stuck in a corner of my brain like a wad of gum for over 30 years. I didn't really know much about Kyser; but apparently, he was known for wearing a mortarboard onstage (as the professor of his "Kollege of Musical Knowledge"); for the musical trademark of having one line of the song sung at the beginning of the record, before the band took a verse and chorus; for having a veritable army of band singers all at once (including Ginny Simms, "Handsome" Harry Babbitt, and someone or something called Ish Kabibble); and for launching the career of Mike Douglas. Over the course of the 1930s and 40s, the Kyser outfit went from a "sweet" band (sort of Guy Lombardo-ish) to a "hot" swing band, all the while leaning towards novelty (witness "Who's Yahoodi", "Alexander the Swoose (Half-Swan Half-Goose)", and the aforementioned "Three Little Fishies") . Their music is workmanlike, if wholly unremarkable throughout, which is not to say it isn't fun -- it definitely is. Even swing fans will likely only need one Kay Kyser collection in their lives. I recommend this one.

This is how a "Best Of" should be..........2005-09-27

I'm trying to enhance my collection of recorded music from the period, but the 30s and 40s are a little before my time. So, I'm using Joel Whitburn's "Pop Memories" to guide me as I go about collecting this music.31 of the 36 tracks on these two discs are listed in Whitburn's book - a huge track-count and an admirable percentage of ORIGINAL, "Best Of" recordings. (It really bugs me if a recording isn't "the original".)Plus, Kyser and company's popularity at the time makes this one of the best musical investments I ever made.

Kay Kyser's Best Really IS..........2000-10-25

As a Kyser collector for 11 years, this double CD IS the most comprehensive collection I've seen yet from the Ol' Professor of Swing. What most people don't realize is many of the tracks here are alternate takes, which makes this even better! From his early recordings on Brunswick to later Columbia hits, Kay, Ish Kabibble and the other featured vocalists are well represented here. For more info on this once hugely popular, but almost forgotten Big Bandleader, go to kaykyser.net C'mon chillen, Yess Dance!

The Ol' Perfesser ..........2000-08-12

Not just PURE corn, this compilation contains many serious renditions of classics (Ole Buttermilk Sky, On a Slow Boat to China, etc.). The novelty tunes, frankly the reason that I bought the CD, cover the gamut of silliness. We all know "Three Little Fishies" but how many can say that they have a copy of "Horses don't Bet on People"! With 36 songs, on two CD's, you can be assured that you'll know all there is to know about Kay Kyser, avoiding any remedial Klasses at Kollege. (and Mike Douglas! He didn't have a voice when I watched his TV show as a kid. Apparently he DID when he worked with Kay.)

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The Complete Helen Forrest with Benny Goodman
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Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
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ASIN: B00005REPI
Release Date: 2002-03-12

Tracks:

Busy As A Bee
What's the Matter With Me?
What'll They Think Of Next
How High The Moon
Let's All Sing Together
The Fable Of The Rose
Shake Down The Stars
Be Sure
Yours Is My Heart Alone
The Sky Fell Down
It Never Entered My Mind
Once More
Buds Won't Bud
Devil May Care
I'm Nobody's Baby
I Can't Love You Any More (Any More Than I Do)
Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon
The Moon Won't Talk
Mister Meadowlark
I Can't Love You Any More (Any More Than I Do)

Tracks:

I Can't Resist You
Dreaming Out Loud
Li'l Boy Love
Nobody
The Man I Love
Taking A Chance On Love
Cabin In The Sky
Hard To Get
These Things You Left Me
More Than You Know
Yes, My Darling Daughter
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
I Left My Heart IN Your Hand
I Hear A Rhapsondy
It's Always You
Corn Silk
Birds OF A Feather

Tracks:

You're Dangerous
The Mem'ry Of A Rose
This Is New
Perfidia
Bewitched
Jenny
Lazy River
Yours
You Lucky People You
Oh! Look At Me Now
My Sister And I
Amapola
Good Evenin', Good Lookin'!
I Found A Million Dollar Baby
When The Sun Comes Out
When Your Heart's On Fire
Soft AS Spring
Down, Down, Down (What A Song)

Product Description

Disc 1:
1. Busy As A Bee (I'm Buzz, Buzz, Buzzin')
2. What's The Matter With Me?
3. What'll They Think Of Next?
4. How High The Moon
5. Let's All Sing Together
6. Fable Of The Rose, The
7. Shake Down The Stars
8. Be Sure
9. Yours Is My Heart Alone
10. Sky Fell Down, The
11. It Never Entered My Mind
12. Once More
13. Buds Won't Bud
14. Devil May Care
15. I'm Nobody's Baby
16. I Can't Love You Any More (Any More Than I Do)
17. Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon
18. Moon Won't Walk, The
19. Mister Meadowlark
20. I Can't Love You Any More (Any More Than I Do)

Disc 2:
1. I Can't Resist You
2. Dreaming Out Loud
3. Li'l Boy Love
4. Nobody
5. Man I Love, The
6. Taking A Chance On Love
7. Cabin In The Sky
8. Hard To Get
9. These Things You Left Me
10. More Than You Know
11. Yes, My Darling Daughter
12. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
13. I Left My Heart In Your Hand
14. I Hear A Rhapsody
15. It's Always You
16. Corn Silk
17. Birds Of A Feather

Disc 3:
1. You're Dangerous
2. Mem'ry Of A Rose, The
3. This Is New
4. Perfidia (Tonight)
5. Bewitched
6. Jenny - (previously unreleased)
7. Lazy River
8. Yours
9. You Lucky People, You
10. Oh! Look At Me Now!
11. My Sister And I
12. Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)
13. Good Evenin, Good Lookin'
14. I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store)
15. When The Sun Comes Out
16. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, (When Your Heart's On Fire)
17. Soft As Spring
18. Down, Down, Down (What A Song)

Format: CD

Big Choice
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Never too old....

Punk at it's Funken best!!!

Face To Face...

This CD kicks ass!!!

FACE TO FACE ROCKS

Big Choice
Face to Face
Manufacturer: Victory
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001BG3
Release Date: 1995-02-28

Tracks:

Struggle
I Know You Well
Sensible
A-OK
You Lied
Promises
Big Choice
It's Not Over
Velocity
Debt
Late
Untitled
Disconnected
Bikeage

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Never too old...........2003-11-17

When I originally bought this CD I was 19, single and a lover of good punk. I am now pushing 30, married, a mother of 3 and have run more in the direction of music a little more mellow. We recently moved to Hawaii from the mainland and I was having a couple cocktails while I was unpacking and hit my long lost box of "cassette tapes"heehee. I found all of the music I haven't listened to in ages...because of the simple fact that we only buy CD's now. Anyhoo, I decided to mosh down memory lane....I am buying back all of my Face to Face tapes on CD because they are a great band....no matter how old you get! 'Disconnected' is still the best! Enjoy!

Punk at it's Funken best!!!.......2001-12-17

This is Face To Faces second album. And it is a must have. This is not a [lousy] Band like All. Anyone that likes older punk like the Romoans or the Smiths would love this. This is another great Face to Face album. MUST HAVE

Face To Face..........2001-06-21

I am into punk music. When my brother introduced me to the idea of a punk band that didn't "use foul language"...I was kind of in doubt that they were an actual punk band. I love this CD, I ended up taking it from my brother and I listen to it all the time. It is worth the money...you'll never get tired of it!

This CD kicks ass!!!.......2001-02-14

This is Face to Face's 2nd album, and it is way better than the first! This album, Big Choice, gets you pumped up to do whatever you do that requires lots of energy. This is a kick-ass album to skate to, buts its not one of those backround crappy punk bands they play in the beginning of a tv show or something stupid like that, this CD you can sit down and listen to it, and it means very meaningful lyrics from one of the best punk bands, ever! You can listen to it over and over and these awsome songs such as "struggle", "sensible", "you lied" and "promises", and all the other sweet songs never get outplayed. "Don't Turn Away" was in '92, and "Big Choice" was released in '95. Face to Face put lots of effort into this album, almost 3 years, and they did a great freakin' job my friends! Face to Face's "Big Choice" is by far their best album, and I recommend you getting this album if you like punk and music to get to you pumped up!

FACE TO FACE ROCKS.......2000-07-30

THIS CD ROCKS. I'VE HAD IT FOR 4 YEARS AND I STIL LOVE IT. GO OUT AND GET IT TODAY.........PUNK ROCK!

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