Customer Reviews

25th Anniversary

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I have been a Beach Music lover for over 40 years. This is one of the all time beach music CD's. It offers something for all age groups. I learned to dance listening to the Embers and dancing has become a way of exercising for those of us over 50.
I have other Embers music but this puts the best of the best together. I will be giving the 2nd CD I ordered to one of my closest friends for Christmas as a little something extra. Keep on Dancing to those golden tunes.

It is a wonderful collection of all the great beach music. I have been searching for a good Beach Music CD and now that others have heard it they want one too.

Being brought up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, I feel closer to home everytime I pop this tape in. I actually worked in the Embers Beach Club in Atlantic Beach, NC when I was a teenager, and these hits bring back so many great memories. If you're a fan of beach music and just dig doing the shag in the sand, you're gonna love this.

Excellent collection of good beach music. The medley that is on the CD is really good. This is a collection that my wife and freinds really use at all our parties....brings back really good memories of Ocean Drive and cold Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer !

Of all the original Embers cds, this is the best, and encompasses most of their most popular songs. Anyone who likes Beach Music, Myrtle Beach, The Shag Dance, and is over 40 will find this cd brings back old memories and thrills the heart. I can't recommend it enough.

There are a few more songs to hear on the I Love Beach Music smaller cd, and Live at the Sands completes it. But this one is the most important.

I do NOT recommend the new group that calls themselves the Embers. Craig Woolard and Jackie Gore have their own bands now, and where the lead singers go, you should follow. See their websites at www.legendsofbeach.com and www.craigwoolard.com

Jan Chilton
Myrtle Beach Web Design
Little River, SC

Have heard the Embers live some years ago and wanted the best of their music. Well, this has the best on one CD!

Some of the selections here are pretty great songs - standards like "Canadian Sunset" and "Far Away Places", which was a minor hit nationwide and the only real hit the Embers had outside of their home turf of the southeast. But any Embers original compositions such as "I Love Beach Music" are examples of
"Carolina Beach Music", music so awful that outside of the the two Carolinas, Georgia, maybe Virginia, no one knows what it is or could stand to listen for long. While in the majority of the known universe, the term "shag" refers to the sex act, the ironic thing is that "shag" refers to something altogether different in the Bible-Belt extremist conservative southeastern US (and thank God, nowhere else), that being a sped-up swing dance done to mostly really bad local R&B music performed by really talentless groups of the region.

While the word "shag" speaks to the sex act, the shag dance is definitely a mood-killer for any normal human being. You've got to see it done to see what a total sexual turn-off this dance is - it's about as sexy as a Texas two-step, yet an entire culture of mediocrity that only exists in the south Atlantic has grown up around this effeminate, laughable Lindy done at warp-speed. It's definitely more embarrassing to witness when performed by a male of the species, but is still pathetic when done by anything with two legs.

Notwithstanding their on-stage outfits of the period, the Beach Boys music of their golden days in the 1960's had much too much class and sophistication to qualify as beach music (plus, you can't shag dance to it), but those unsuspecting people who move to the southeast from other parts of the US or world always assume that is what is meant by "beach music". Maybe that is true in the universe at large, but not in the southeast. Although the great songs of the Drifters and many classic Motown songs have been unfortunately labeled as "beach music" by those involved in the culture, "Carolina Beach Music", more specifically, is much more often than not simply embarrassingly awful music written and performed by bands from the Carolinas, usually aging white men wearing Sansabelt pants and Hawaiian shirts. Along with the Embers, the Band of Oz, the Breeze Band, the Poor Souls, Billy Scott and the Prophets, the Catalinas, the Fantastic Shakers, are but a few of the local bands that make tons of money in the southeast and that could not get arrested off of their home turf. The popularity of this garbage being confined to the Carolinas says alot about the taste of the residents of those two states.