A Child's Garden of Freberg [Import]

Stan Freberg (Author) | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Original Release Date: 1957
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Jasmine
• ASIN: B000KU6RHU
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,281,430 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

UK Import! Tracks are: Side One: 1. St. George And The Dragonet 2. C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) 3. Try 4. Wide Screen Mama Blues 5. Heartbreak Hotel 6. Rock Around Stephen Foster Side Two: 1. The Yellow Rose Of Texas 2. John And Marsha 3. The Great Pretender 4. That's My Boy 5. Rock Island Line 6. Sh-Boom

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic, April 30, 2007

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Kara "klhall64" (Virginia Beach, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Child's Garden of Freberg (Audio Cassette)

I own this album as an LP--that's right, good old vinyl. I am now looking to buy it either on CD or download it to my iPod. It's worth every penny. This is some great, classic humor (think "The Dr. Demento Show"). For those of you who enjoy Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Weird Al Yankovic, and all the other great (and fairly clean) musical comedians, this is a must have for your library.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The legend you are about to hear is true. Only the needle should be changed to protect the record.", June 23, 2011

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This review is from: A Child's Garden of Freberg (Vinyl)

Original pressings of the CAPITOL Records 1957 comedy compilation, A CHILD'S GARDEN OF FREBERG (T-777) are on their classic teal w/silver print label. The front cover photo is of Stan Freberg at Harold Lloyd's estate; in his right hand are a couple of purloined flowers. Three columns of back cover liner notes are written by Stan.

Of the many Freberg tracks that didn't make this dozen, perhaps the best are a B side called "Little Blue Riding Hood" and Stan's delicious Belafonte spoof, "Banana Boat (Day-O)." What's here however is simply marvelous!


"SIDE" NOTES--

ONE -- 1.) Intro by Hy Averback. With June Foray as a NYC J.A.P., Daws Butler as the dragon and Stan playing a Jack Webb-ish St. George plus a knave that sounds suspiciously like Jerry Lewis. 2.) A great parody in which Stan imitates Eartha Kitt's odd vibrato and vocal style. 3.) Crazed exaggeration of Johnny Ray's melodramatic pop hit. 4.) Above a honking r&r sax, Stan comments on Cinemascope, Liberace and other 1950s phenomena. 5.) Elvis clone slurs lyrics and struggles with too much fake echo. 6.) Turns "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair" into a rockin' Rag Mop tune that has distorted guitar, flat alto sax and a bopping chorus.

TWO -- 1.) Homer minus Jethro or any semblance of sanity, as he battles an out-of-control snare drum. 2.) Stan's first single is a soap opera expressed via the repetition of first names. 3.) In his favorite track, an ooh-bop-a-doo-ing beatnik pianist disrupts a Platters lampoon. 4.) An almost-straight vocal with lyrics reminiscent of Tom Lehrer. 5.) Stan skewers the British skiffle craze while Peter Leeds skewers him. 6.) Freberg the record producer instructs his vocal group to sing unintelligibly on this superb Crew Cuts parody.

SIDE ONE
[3:26] St. George and the Dragonet
[3:17] C'est Si Bon
[3:16] Try
[3:16] Wide-Screen Mama Blues
[2:20] Heartbreak Hotel
[3:29] Rock Around Stephen Foster

SIDE TWO
[3:29] The Yellow Rose of Texas
[2:27] John and Marsha
[3:24] The Great Pretender
[3:11] That's My Boy
[3:23] Rock Island Line
[3:32] Sh-Boom

TOTAL TIME: 38:30