The Boswell Sisters Collection, Vol. 3 [Import]

Boswell Sisters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Nostalgia Arts
• ASIN: B00004TLQU
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,951 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Was That the Human Thing to Do?

2. California Medley, Pt. 2: Hail, Stanford, Hail/Avalon/Avalon ...

3. Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long

4. O.K., America! Medley, Pt. 2: My Romance/Old Man of the Mountain

5. O.K., America! Medley, Pt. 1: She Was Just a Tarter's Daughter/Love Me

6. Doggone, I've Done It (I've Fallen in Love)

7. Hand Me Down My Walking Cane

8. Old Yazoo

9. We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye

10. Sleep, Come on and Take Me

11. Down Among the Sheltering Palms

12. Down on the Delta

13. Charlie Two-Step

14. Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia

15. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

16. Louisiana Hayride

17. Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day

18. Crazy People

19. Mood Indigo

20. 42nd Street

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yowzah!, February 27, 2001

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David Scott "mottdeterre" (Claremont, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Boswell Sisters Collection, Vol. 3 (Audio CD)

All three volumes of this package are first-rate, and this is the one to own if you can only own one becuase it has two of the sister's all-time classics: the mind-boggling "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing" and "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day." You can say what you want, but I say Connee, Vet and Martha invented rock 'n' roll.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The third of an excellent five-volume series contains many e, February 9, 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. 3 (Audio CD)

The third of an excellent five-volume series contains many excellent songs. Most of their hits are to be found on volumes 1 and 5, although some of these songs were (and still are) popular with their fans.

In this series, there is a certain amount of duplication, so (for example) there are six tracks here that also appear on volume 4, which I've already reviewed. These are California medley part 2, O K America part 2, We just couldn't say goodbye, Sleep come on and take me, Down among the sheltering palms, Mood indigo and Forty-second street. However, if you play them back-to-back you can avoid the duplication easily as they are the first six tracks on volume 4.

This set opens with Was that the only thing to do? - the only top ten hit here. Among the non-hits, Minnie the moocher's wedding day, Hand me down my walking cane, Crazy people and their distinctive cover of Shuffle off to Buffalo are particularly noteworthy.

These excellent sisters were at the peak of their careers during the deep economic depression of the early thirties, when few people had money for luxuries. Even so, they were a major influence on many singers that followed and it is so unfair that they have faded into obscurity.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Boswells Set the Standard, May 9, 2008

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A. D. Vanessendelft (Oneonta, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Boswell Sisters Collection, Vol. 3 (Audio CD)

A great collection -- but I find cuts 2, 3, 4, and 5 to be unnecessary - the compilers have made a mistake - are they confused about what the purchaser wants to hear? The Boswell Sisters! All the other cuts are fine with 42nd Street and Shuffle Off To Buffalo at the top! I love cut 13: Charlie Two-Step!