Catch the Brass Ring

Various Artists (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Various Artists
• Audio CD (January 1, 1987)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Klavier
• ASIN: B00000DUWQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #418,916 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Alexander's Ragtime Band

2. Beside a Babbling Brook

3. You Gotta See Mamma Every Night

4. Old Reliable March

5. Missouri Waltz

6. Beer Barrel Polka

7. Yes, We have no Bananas

8. Barney Google

9. Boston Commandery March

10. When My sugar Walks Down the Street

11. Oh Katherina

12. Paddlin' Madeline Home

13. Always

14. Alley Cat

15. Doo Wacka Doo

16. King of the Air March

17. Show Me the Way to Go Home

18. I Love My Baby, By Baby Loves Me

19. Me and My Shadow

20. Louise

See all 31 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

31 songs of Old-fashioned merry-go-round music.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for anyone who loves band organs!, May 16, 2003

By 

M. L. Smith (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Catch the Brass Ring (Audio CD)

This is the real thing,not some [poor],boring pipe organ imitation.You'll feel like you're really at the fair again when you listen to this CD!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Saluting the Wurlitzer 165, December 30, 2004

By 

Danielle Bennignus - See all my reviews

This review is from: Catch the Brass Ring (Audio CD)

It's a toughie reviewing this album - I don't know quite how to rate it for the everyday listener, seeing as how band organ music is definitely an acquired taste. However, that said, if you happen to be a band organ nut, you're in for a treat with this CD. It's about as good as it gets.

Kudos to Klavier records for making a recording of this wonderful Wurlitzer 165 band organ - it sounds like a dream, and has transferred relatively well to CD format. My only complaint is that the glockenspiel sounds rather abrasive, and gets really grating when recorded onto a cassette tape. Otherwise, the album is pristine.

The tunes featured are all classic band organ offerings, and the rolls used are in splendid shape. The organ's mechanism performs beautifully - whatever "prominent Midwestern collection", as the liner notes read, it comes from is taking very good care of it.

Basically, this, alongside its sister album "Catch Another Brass Ring", stands as an ideal representation of what a Wurlitzer 165 should sound like. Band organ lovers will adore it. The average Joe? Hard to say...but it's certainly worth a try.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The happiest music on earth!, September 16, 2002

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Whodathotit "whodathotit" (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Catch the Brass Ring (Audio CD)

This is the perfect antidote for the blues! It is absolutely impossible to feel down once you begin listening to this CD! I use it to give me a lift whenever I need it. I DARE you to not giggle with glee upon pressing the "play" button! If you have fond remembrances of carousel music as a child, you will get goosebumps and feel warm and fuzzy all at once when you listen to this! Why take anti-depressant drugs when you can cure the blahs quickly and naturally with this CD? An exceptionally clear recording, I bumped it down to four stars ONLY because I liked the musical selection slightly better on their follow-up album, "Catch Another Brass Ring."