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Volume 6: 1929

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1. A Precious Little Thing Called Love
2. Mean to Me
3. Button up Your Overcoat
4. I Want to be Bad
5. Lover Come Back to Me
6. You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You?
7. That's You, Baby
8. Big City Blues
9. My Sin
10. I get the Blues When it Rains
11. I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
12. The One in the World
13. Am I Blue?
14. Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home?
15. Pagan Love Song
16. Ua No A Like (Sweet Constancy)
17. Here we Are
18. True Blue Lou
19. Singin' in the Rain
20. Forget-Me-Not
21. Moanin' Low
22. Lovable and Sweet
23. What Wouldn't I do for that Man?
24. Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me

Of the three Sensation volumes currently available, this has to be the best, by virtue of both the material and the accompaniments. The new phenomenom of Hollywood musicals generated first-rate songs, and this is reflected even in the four sides accompanied by Frank Ferera's Hawaiian Trio. Most of the rest feature the studio group labelled (misleadingly) The New Englanders, membership of which varied but could include Mike Mosiello or Phil Napoleon on trumpet, Charlie Butterfield or Tommy Dorsey on trombone, Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet & alto sax, Tony Colucci on guitar, Joe Tarto on tuba and Stan King on drums. Annette's vocals sound effortless, and she's equally at home in torch songs (Lover, Come Back to Me, Am I Blue?), romantic ballads (A Precious Little Thing Called Love, Lovable and Sweet) and up-tempo numbers (You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You?, Button up your Overcoat).

Will Friedwald's liner note details the machinations of Ruth Etting's gangster husband to keep Annette on Columbia's subsidiary label, and much else besides. The tracklist shows "Composer??" against tracks 5 and 6, which would seem to indicate a hitch in production, since "Lover Come Back to Me" was by Oscar Hammerstein II and Sigmund Romberg, and "You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You?" was by de Sylva, Brown & Henderson. This is a CD to clutch to your bosom.This is a CD to clutch to your bosom.

Annette Hanshaw did not record anything bad in her short career, she retired from singing at the rip old age of 21... this is a great cd... because her voice is the carefree voice of the 1920's flapper, yet she sounds timeless, like she could be a singer from today! Her backup bands include the Dorsey bros., Joe venuti, Eddie Lang, Bunny Barigan, Glenn ?miller... This cd is a must for fans of swing, rockabilly and jazz. Because annette was the 1st female jazz singer(with the acception of maybe Marion Harris) A greta cd, and it even goes with a sip of martini...

This CD of the music of 1929 is excellent. Annette Hanshaw sings beautifully the popular music of that time...it sounds just a good today as I am sure that it did then. A great trip back in time to THE ROARING TWENTIES and as Annette would say "That's All"

Fabulous item- can't believe I never heard of her before Sita
sings the Blues!