Swingin Out West

1. Dinah

2. Cow Cow Boogie

3. I'm Afraid of Cows

4. What'll I Do

5. Deed I Do

6. Sleepytime Down South

7. After You've Gone

8. Don't Fence Me In

9. Across the Alley from the Alamo

10. Exactly Like You

11. Honeysuckle Rose

12. Cowboy's Sweetheart

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.

Average customer rating:

Wonderful music
Really good music
Swingin Fun
Cutsie Yuppie stuff,get the real thing

Swingin Out West
Cow Bop
Manufacturer: Blujazz Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0002IQC0C
Release Date: 2004-08-24

Tracks:

Dinah
Cow Cow Boogie
I'm Afraid of Cows
What'll I Do
Deed I Do
Sleepytime Down South
After You've Gone
Don't Fence Me In
Across the Alley from the Alamo
Exactly Like You
Honeysuckle Rose
Cowboy's Sweetheart

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful music.......2005-11-04

I really like this CD. Great songs, I espcially like "Afraid of Cows" - too funny. I hope they put out another CD.

Really good music.......2005-11-04

Finally! Something I can stand to listen to. Really toe tappin and fun, my kids even like it. Amazing guitar work, great sax and fiddle, all my favorites. Thanks Cow Bop

Swingin Fun.......2005-11-04

I can't stop listening and singin to this CD - these guys are grea, wishthey would come and play in my town!

Cutsie Yuppie stuff,get the real thing.......2004-11-17

This is a CD for people who wish that Western Swing could be minimized and cutsified, and reduced to sufficiently suburban whiteness.

Western swing musicians were deep into what Louis Armstrong even filtered through the minstrel Emmett Miller taught. Listen to the Dinah here. If you are into Louis, you realize the one great performance by Louis we have filmed is his Dinah in the early 1930s before he broke his lip in Denmark. Tommy Duncan, the great singer of Western Swing, struggled to get as close to that Dinah as possible. Louis never let anythign go you see every possible note coming in his singing let alone his trumpet playing which only came when my man was announced "I'm ready" meaning that he was high enough on the marijuana he insisted on to perform.

Tommy Duncan in his Tiffany performance strains and does this. The girl scout who is the vocalist here, does everything cutsie, except a few slow lounge torch tunes which are delivered at a level any supper club songstress could sing.

Western swing swung and burned precisely because it went for the dope infused wildness and uncontained frenzy and swing of Black jazz mixed with the country madness induced by much loco weed in the West.
It wasn't polite jazz for yuppies. That is what cowbop is.

Having said that the guitarist, the saxophone player, and the bassist are worth hearing to get ideas of what this record could sound like if this was a Western swing record. Even the most conservative western swing band leaders saw the center of their music having the soloists go mad, go wild, try something that was uncontained.

This record is contained.

If you want to see young white serious musicians creating great Western swing music on a par or superior to the originals, please buy the first four or five albums by the Hot Club of Cowtown.

Now this CD isn't bad if you pick it up on a fund raising table for a cause you support and it costs you only five bucks or less as it did me.

Otherwise, buy the real thing. Check my see about me banner abover to see my listmania list called "Western swing what is is and What it isn't" Despite the good musicians on this record, this isn't.

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