Cocktail: Shakin & Stirred

Various Artists - Lounge | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 17, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Milan Records
• ASIN: B0000015NG
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,785 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Safety Dance

2. Turn Me Loose

3. American Woman

4. You Oughta Know

5. Run to You

6. Closer to the Heart

7. Takin' Care of Business

8. Superman's Song

9. Spaceship Superstar

10. Born to Be Wild

11. Sunglasses at Night

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly charming, January 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Cocktail: Shakin & Stirred (Audio CD)

Recruiting a variety of great lounge singers, Jaymz Bee and the Royal Jelly Orchestra present a delectable collection of Canadian hits re-arranged for a lounge environment. Spanning about three decades, from BTO's "Takin' Care of Business" to Alannis Morissette's "You Oughta Know," this disc does what every cover version should--it makes old songs new again. Thoughtfully, Bee's crew provides recommended drinks and dances for each track. Cheers!

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, February 29, 2008

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Peter N. Risser (Medina, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cocktail: Shakin & Stirred (Audio CD)

A bunch of the lounge-cover acts (Mike Flowers, Richard Cheese, Prozak for Lovers) sometimes have hard time getting over the "Hey, lookit me, I'm so ironic and funny!" aspect of the genre. Jaymz Bee for the most part manages to get past that, making this a fun disc for listening as well as astounding your friends. (Try throwing it in a mix with some normal party background music...)

Two things about this project. First, he recruits lounge singers from various projects around Canada. Second, all the bands he covers are Canadian (Loverboy, Rush, Crash Test Dummies, Alanis Morrissette, Guess Who, etc.), so it's kind of a Canadians doing Canadians thing.

5.0 out of 5 stars 50s cocktail music meets the 80s in the 90s, August 29, 2001

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Elwood Conway "elwoodc" (Frankfort, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cocktail: Shakin & Stirred (Audio CD)

A marvelous CD with 50s style arrangements of these (mostly) 80s & 90s tunes. This refreshing and amazingly hip CD sports jazzy arrangements with an obvious homage to Juan Garcia Esquivel, albeit without the buzzimba and other strange instruments. If you like the retro cocktail sound as well as cool arrangements, then look no further. Jaymz Bee has the CD for you!