The Boswell Sisters Collection, Vol. 1 (1931-1932)

Boswell Sisters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1931
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nostalgia Arts
• ASIN: B00004WL96
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #286,543 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The start a brilliant career, June 5, 2003

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Boswell Sisters Collection, Vol. 1 (1931-1932) (Audio CD)

Although this is just one of five volumes, it actually contains nearly half their American hits. That doesn't make it necessarily any better than the others, but it shows that they, like the majority of singers in popular music history, achieved their greatest successes early on.

The ten hits here include When I take my sugar to tea, Roll on Mississippi roll on, I found a million-dollar baby, It's the girl and Was that the human thing to do, all of which made the top ten. Among the other songs here is River stay away from my door, a number one hit for Kate Smith with Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians, and the standard Shine on harvest moon.

As is characteristic of this series, some tracks appear on more than one volume, but there is not much overlap between this volume and the others. In any case, there is much great music here.

Most people have long since forgotten the Boswell sisters, but they were a major influence on Ella Fitzgerald, the Andrews sisters and many others. They were extremely versatile, able to swing with the best but also well capable of slowing things down to sing a ballad.

All five volumes are outstanding but this is the CD containing their earliest and most popular recordings.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great cd of of the greatest vocal trio in jazz history!, April 14, 2002

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Aaron B. (u.s.a.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Boswell Sisters Collection, Vol. 1 (1931-1932) (Audio CD)

The Boswell Sisters were jazz singers in every sense of the word, yet they were also the most popular group of the 30's! Connee Boswell who was the lead vocalist, pianist and arranger, had a gorgeous and downright syncopating swing style(that could swing and put out blues feelong on the same lavel as jimmy Rushing!), the sisters vocal harmonizing is like a spider spinning a web, their syncopations and scat sequences are amazing, especially considering this was early 30's. This cd is highly recomended(as are all in the series), for it includes the difinitive Boswell preformances "It's The Girl"(the highlight of their career, and of classic jazz itself) which features the dorsey's Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang and the gand improvising taking hot solos, and almost dixielandish hot enembles at one point, while the Bossies scat, and the very hot "Everybody Loves My Baby"(try and figure out what they're saying on the bridge). Every track a gem, most backed by the incredibly, hot and swinging Dorsey, Venuti, Land, and Bunny Barigan gang, and a few with Victor Young's Orchestra. Try this cd and find out why The Boswells are practicly the only real vocal jazz group ever(other then the 50's Lambert, Hendricks & Ross--who I might add are also worth checking out). Buy this one(or any Boswell cd's, as they did not record any non jazz sessions), you won't be dispointed.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wha'dja Do?, May 17, 2002

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David Bradley "David Bradley" (Sterling, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Boswell Sisters Collection, Vol. 1 (1931-1932) (Audio CD)

This is where the Andrew Sisters came from, to a large extent; what the Andrews were to World War II, the Boswells were to the Great Depression.

My fav is "An Evening In Caroline," a lovely lullaby of the old south which gets a good Manhattan brush-up at the end.