Capitol Records' From The Vaults: The Birth Of A Label

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00004TIR5
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #406,332 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cow Cow Boogie

2. Strip Polka

3. I'll Remember April

4. I Don't Know Why

5. Serenade in Blue

6. (I Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle

7. At Last

8. Mister Five by Five

9. Trav'lin' Light

10. There Will Never Be Another You

11. I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City

12. Moonlight Becomes You

13. White Christmas

14. That Old Black Magic

15. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

16. Riffette

17. Big Boy

18. Hard-Hearted Hannah

19. Get on Board, Little Chillun

20. My Ideal

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Capitol reissue, June 16, 2000

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Kenneth R. Ferris (Lansing, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Capitol Records' From The Vaults: The Birth Of A Label (Audio CD)

Until the late 1980s and 1990s, EMI-Capitol was not big on their roots in the popular music of the 1940s. Most of their jazz based singing records from the 1940s and 1950s were discontinued (by the 1970s) in their American catalogue and only reissued via EMI's Japanese or European affiliates. So it is a pleasant surprise to see the flood of reissues that have occurred in the past 13 years. I stumbled on "The Birth of a Label" tonight at Tower records and was impressed by the packaging of the cd. The cover looks like the paper sleeve of a Capitol 78 rpm record from the 1940s. Unfortunately the jacket omits important information. For example: for people new to this music, maybe it would be helpful to know that's Billie Holiday singing with Paul "Pops" Whiteman on "Travellin' Light". And the woman singing "That Old Black Music" with the Freddy Slack orchestra sounds suspiciously like Margaret Whiting. Also nowhere are there dates and locations listed for the performances. Other singers are omitted leaving the listener to wonder who is singing with the band. Hopefully future volumes will correct these errors. Other than that, it's nice to have these "beginners" for Capitol back in circulation. The sound quality is very good and the songs selected are very good too.