1912: Waitin' on the Levee

Various Artists (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 17, 2002)
• Original Release Date: April 4, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Archeophone Records
• ASIN: B000068RMY
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #245,198 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Down by the Old Mill Stream (Harry Macdonough and Chorus)

2. Oh, You Beautiful Doll (American Quartet)

3. Snap Your Fingers (Al Jolson)

4. I'm Going Back to Dixie (Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan)

5. I Love You Truly (Elsie Baker)

6. Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee (Ada Jones and Billy Murray)

7. Red Pepper: A Spicy Rag (Fred Van Eps)

8. Moonlight Bay (American Quartet)

9. When I Was Twenty-One and You Were Sweet Sixteen (Albert Campbell and Henry Burr)

10. Whispering Hope (Alma Gluck and Louise Homer)

11. The Ragtime Violin (American Quartet)

12. It's a Long Lane that Has No Turning (Columbia Quartet)

13. Roamin' in the Gloamin' (Harry Lauder)

14. Love Is Mine (Enrico Caruso)

15. That Haunting Melody (Al Jolson)

16. I'm Afraid, Pretty Maid, I'm Afraid (Ada Jones and Walter Van Brunt)

17. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (Heidelberg Quintet)

18. In the Land of Harmony and Stop Stop Stop (medley) (Guido Deiro)

19. Ring Ting-a-Ling (Ada Jones)

20. If You Talk in Your Sleep, Don't Mention My Name (Billy Murray)

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great old songs, September 1, 2005

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Mary Knasinski (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1912: Waitin' on the Levee (Audio CD)

This CD might not be for everyone, but for fans of long-ago music the way it should be performed, it's wonderful - I play it a lot - it's incredibly catchy and, while very much a product of its time, still demonstrates the quality of those old melodies. "Oh You Beautiful Doll" and "Moonlight Bay" are great old choruses, and I find a whole new side to Al Jolson in these very early records (the 1913 CD has another set of songs.) He's funnier and less "corny" than perhaps people think of him. And I hate to admit it, but the tearjerker "When I was 21 and You Were Sweet 16" did make me cry. Listen to CD's in this series often enough and it's as if those days a hundred years ago aren't quite so far away.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really great!, November 28, 2006

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Max - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1912: Waitin' on the Levee (Audio CD)

If this music is your type of thing (and of course, it isn't EVERYONE'S type of thing anymore), this disc is for you. Actually, ALL of the discs put out by Archeophone are fantastic. They manage to find very good-sounding discs and clean them up just enough to sound good but not ruin the music. (In other words, yes, there's some crackle here and there, but at least the music sounds clean and crisp instead of muffled, as can often happen with noise reduction.) If you're interested in more of their CD's, look them up on Amazon or go to their web site (which is the name of the company, plus .com). They've got samples of every track on every one of their discs.

I have almost all of their discs, so I have this review up on all of them.