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asv various 1904 - 1920
asv various 1904 - 1920
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS / CHART TOPPERS OF THE TWENTIES (5292) |
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All 25 songs on this disc were at Number One for five weeks or more.
[Item Code: 24364 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / CLARINET MARMALADE (5132) |
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25 great jazz clarinettists in original mono recordings.
[Item Code: 10777 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / HITS OF '20s: WHEN MY BABY SMILES AT ME (5520) |
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Ted Lewis' number one hit song provides the appropriate title for this collection of hits from the 1920s, the first of ten CDs that will make up The Roaring Twenties. This contains two bonus tracks that have never been released in any form: "The Original Dixieland One-Step" by Lopex & Hamilton and "I Love The Land Of Old Black Joe" by Vaughn DeLeathl. The compilation features Paul Whiteman, Ben Selvin, Art Hickman, Joseph C. Smith, Al Jolson, Bill Murray, Eddie Cantor, Frank Crumit, Marion Harris and others.
[Item Code: 37729 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / MOCK MOZART (5649) |
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It will not have escaped the attention of anyone remotely interested in music that 2006 is Mozart year; he was born in Salzburg 250 years ago. Recordings of his sublime music have of course been legion - but we can safely say that none compares with Living Era's tribute, Mock Mozart. It is described as a 'diverting collection of parodies, take-offs, send-ups, performances in good and bad taste, mixed with genuine tributes'. The title and tone are set by Peter Ustinov's extraordinary array of voices and noises, Mock Mozart, and continued by Victor Borge's perennially hilarious Mozart Opera. Adaptations range from Raymond Scott's lively In An 18th-Century Drawing Room to no fewer than four interpretations of Rondo alla turca (by Red Ingle, Henri Rene, Hazel Scott and Martha Eggerth & Jan Kiepura). Alec Templeton and Benny Goodman show us how Mozart Matriculates, and the wonderful Florence Foster Jenkins brings new meaning to the term 'off-key'. What would Mozart have made of it all? He would surely have relished the Comedy Harmonists' tender singing of 'Mozart's Lullaby' (oh, except that was written by somebody else!)
[Item Code: 59513 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / SMOKE, SMOKE, SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE (5302) |
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a pack of 25 vintage songs about smoking, feat. Mildred Bailey, Connee Boswell, Bing Crosby, Flotsam & Jetsam, Benny Goodman, Red Ingle, Peggy Lee, Mills Bros., Glenn Miller, Dinah Shore & many others
[Item Code: 27295 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / THE SONGS OF VICTOR HERBERT (5340) |
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Compilation takes the listener through all of the immortal songs by musical theatre pioneer Victor Herbert, feat. hit songs from shows like "Babes In Toyland," "The Red Mill," "Naughty Marietta" & more. By the time Naughty Merietta, his best remembered show, first saw the light in 1910, Victor Herbert was already the darling of large and adoring American society audiences. His compostions for the stage have a sweet and melodious simplicity and contain that germ of communication which made the operas of this genial, fully Americanised Irishman, instantly successful. Wisely, he wrote of the massess and additionally cassed in on a certain studied Irishness. His prestigious Salon Orchestra recorded salon and genre music dance novelties whic filled a lucrative niche in the Victor company's popular catalogue of pre-Paul Whiteman days.
[Item Code: 28683 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / THE SPIRIT OF RAGTIME (5256) |
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25 tracks from 1910-47, feat. Louis Armstrong/Earl Hines, Sidney Bechet, Mutt Carey, Bunk Johnson, Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Muggsy Spanier, Art Tatum, James P. Johnson, Jack Teagarden +
[Item Code: 22569 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / THOSE FABULOUS VOCAL QUARTETS - IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (5623) |
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In the pioneering days of the gramophone vocal quartets were among the most popular forms of recorded entertainment. The genre was dominated by three such quartets, The Haydn, The American and The Peerless. Between them they notched up 236 record hits! Today they are largely forgotten, yet so many of the songs they introduced are still with us. In The Good Old Summertime uniquely showcases this aural slice of history. The first nine tracks are all big hits by The Haydn Quartet, including Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet (top for 11 weeks) and By The Light Of The Silvery Moon (9 weeks). The foursome contained such individual stars as baritone Reinald Werrenrath (50 solo hits) and lead tenor Harry MacDonough (99 solo hits), who was later replaced by the greatest star of the age Billy Murray (169 solo hits - see ASA 5608). Murray also sang tenor with The American Quartet, among whose 10 hit tracks here is the decade's greatest smash, the two million-selling Casey Jones. The quartet also had individual stars such as baritone Steve Porter (13 solo hits) and tenor John Young (10), but The Peerless Quartet (eight tracks including that perennial barbershop favourite Sweet Adeline) was even more star-studded. In addition to notching up 108 hits as a quartet, Henry Burr, Albert Campbell, Arthur Collins and Frank Stanley registered an incredible 333 further hits in solos or duets!
[Item Code: 59716 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / TO MOTHER, WITH LOVE (5351) |
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a bouquet of 25 vintage songs from 1918-45, feat. Andrews Sisters, Gene Autry, Franklyn Baur, Bobby Breen, Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, Morton Downey, George Jessel, Joe Peterson, Dick Todd & others
[Item Code: 27963 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / TRANSPORTS OF DELIGHT (5584) |
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Trains and boats and planes . . . the infinite variety of transports of delight seems to have inspired an infinite variety of popular songs. Recently Vintage Trains - Songs of the Steam Age (ASV 5610) presented 25 songs and pieces of light music about trains; here now is its companion volume Transports Of Delight which offers an extraordinary array of 26 ditties depicting the joys of travel by every conceivable means. Opening with Leroy Anderson's lively Sleigh Ride, the journey transfers to boat for Ada Jones' 1912 Row, Row Row, then on through a sequence of 24 others performed by a host of great stars of the past. There's Bing Crosby (Red Sails In The Sunset . . .), Doris Day (The Deadwood Stage . . . [the most recent, 1953]), The Andrews Sisters (The Ferryboat Serenade), Fred Astaire (Flying Down To Rio), Al Bowlly (Sailing On The Robert E, Lee), Judy Garland (The Trolley Song), Fats Waller (Us On A Bus) and so many more, travelling by everything from buggy (Frank Crumit) to rocket ship (Hank Snow), before finally coming back down to earth with the beautiful philosophy of Paul Robeson's Wagon Wheels. This delightful anthology is completely without competition in the current catalogue.
[Item Code: 57954 CD: $11.00] |
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