Carolina Beach Music Bands: The Archive Series

Billy Scott (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 2, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Ebbtide Music
• ASIN: B0000WN1XQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #636,644 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Seaside Love

2. Um-Um-Um-Um-Um-Um

3. So Glad You Happened to Me

4. I Ain't Never

5. I Got the Fever

6. Slow Shag

7. Night to Remember

8. How Long

9. Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do

10. Merry Christmas

Disc: 2

1. She's Mine

2. Ready or Not

3. Until This Night

4. Now That I've Found You

5. Super Love

6. Big Rear Window

7. She Sure Got Away With My Heart

8. Canadian Nights

9. Beach Trip

10. I Ain't Drunk

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The first review was crap!, September 29, 2009

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Elizabeth A. McDaniel "Busibeth" (Shelby, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carolina Beach Music Bands: The Archive Series (Audio CD)

I'm not sure what his problem is.. but he is wrong on many points. To begin with, the shag is not a "sped up" version of the swing dance... its a slower, more smooth version. And.. most of the music is NOT done by "aging white men in sansabelt pants". The cd he "reviewed" was done by Billy Scott, who is a black man. The review he did was so wrong, in my opinion it needs to be removed from this site. I do own this series and I think buying it is a good way to jumpstart your collection of Carolina Beach Music...

1 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Embarrassingly bad music for people with embarrassingly bad taste, February 27, 2006

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Mark Welsh "Eternal Fishoutawater" (Mayberry, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carolina Beach Music Bands: The Archive Series (Audio CD)

This is "Carolina Beach Music", music so awful that outside of the the two Carolinas, Georgia, maybe Virginia, no one knows what it is or could stand to listen for long. While in the majority of the known universe, the term "shag" refers to the sex act, the ironic thing is that "shag" refers to something altogether different in the Bible-Belt extremist conservative southeastern US (and thank God, nowhere else), that being a sped-up swing dance done to mostly really bad local R&B music performed by really talentless groups of the region. That is the garbage you will hear in this compilation.

While the word "shag" speaks to the sex act, the shag dance is definitely a mood-killer for any normal human being. You've got to see it done to see what a total sexual turn-off this dance is - it's about as sexy as a Texas two-step, yet an entire culture of mediocrity that only exists in the south Atlantic has grown up around this effeminate, laughable Lindy done at warp-speed. It's definitely more embarrassing to witness when performed by a male of the species, but is still pathetic when done by anything with two legs.

Notwithstanding their on-stage outfits of the period, the Beach Boys music of their golden days in the 1960's had much too much class and sophistication to qualify as beach music (plus, you can't shag dance to it), but those unsuspecting people who move to the southeast from other parts of the US or world always assume that is what is meant by "beach music". Maybe that is true in the universe at large, but not in the southeast. Although the great songs of the Drifters and many classic Motown songs have been unfortunately labeled as "beach music" by those involved in the culture, "Carolina Beach Music", more specifically, is much more often than not simply embarrassingly awful music written and performed by bands from the Carolinas, usually aging white men wearing Sansabelt pants and Hawaiian shirts. The Band of Oz, the Embers, the Breeze Band, the Poor Souls, Billy Scott and the Prophets, the Catalinas, the Fantastic Shakers, are but a few of the local bands that make tons of money in the southeast and that could not get arrested off of their home turf. The popularity of this garbage being confined to the Carolinas says alot about the taste of the residents of those two states.