The Capitol Singles Collection [Soundtrack]

Stan Freberg | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 10, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: DRG
• ASIN: B001OBBRTW
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,798 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. That's My Boy

3. When You and I Were Young, Maggie

4. Tele-Vee-Shun

5. Try

6. Pass the Udder Udder (Over to My Udder Brudder)

7. The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise

8. The Boogie Woogie Banjo Man from Birmingham

9. C'est Si Bon (It's So Good)

10. A Dear John & Marsha Letter

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. The Night Before Christmas

2. The Great Pretender

3. Heartbreak Hotel

4. Rock Island Line

5. Banana Boat (Day-O)

6. Tele-Vee-Shun

7. Ya Got Trouble

8. Gary, Indiana

9. Wun'erful, Wun'erful (Side Uh-One & Side Uh-Two)

10. Green Christmas

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Spoken Word: Comedy
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 10-FEB-2009

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Collection I Have Been Waiting For For Years, February 17, 2009

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Mark Arnold "movie/tv, comic book and animati... (Saratoga, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Capitol Singles Collection (Audio CD)

This is the Stan Freberg collection I have been waiting for as it does indeed collect not only the A-sides of virtually every Stan Freberg record as released but the B-sides as well!!!

Some of these have never been compiled on any album before. For instance, you probably have heard Freberg's version of "Ya Got Trouble" from "The Music Man", but have you heard his version of "Gary, Indiana"?

I say virtually because there is at least one single ("Comments For Our Time Parts 1 and 2") that still eludes compilations, but this is a minor complaint due to the excessive datedness of the track and the fact that it really isn't very funny anymore.

Buy this and Tip Of The Freberg (Includes Video) and be in Freberg heaven!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars missing some singles i think, March 6, 2009

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John J. Maloney (Northern Rivers N.S.W) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Capitol Singles Collection (Audio CD)

I have on 45 the lone Phychaiatryst and the honey earthers and point of order why were these left out ? After waiting paitently for years and years for these comedic gems to be finaly properly isued ...Bear Famly Please Step in And show them how to do a proper set. It's great to see so many make C.D Debuts Here anyway. this is the best so far out there get it and laugh your guts out .like man i realy dig this cat .Wunerful .....

3.0 out of 5 stars Not complete, which it easily could have been, February 24, 2011

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R. Skretvedt (Buena Park, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Capitol Singles Collection (Audio CD)

You know you're not getting a complete Freberg singles collection when "John and Marsha," the hugely popular single which was Stan's first big hit, isn't here. Nor is "Abe Snake for President" with "Ba-Ba-Ba-Ball and Chain." Yes, we need a Bear Family-style complete Capitol collection of Freberg. Some of us would even like to have clean copies of his two children's records, "Dinky Pinky" and "Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party." One nice thing about the current collection is that it does contain the hilarious and strangely overlooked "Maggie" -- which is the actual title, at least on my original 78rpm copy (while a choir hums "When You and I Were Young, Maggie," Stan gives a heartfelt recitation, increasingly interrupted by a massive attack of hiccups). It also has the earliest of *three* issued versions of "Tele-Vee-Shun," this one with different lyrics from the other two. So, this is worth having but a missed opportunity to include even more rarities.