The Cocoanuts; Monkey Business [Import, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack]

Frank Tours (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Frank Tours
• Audio CD (April 5, 2004)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
• Label: The Sound Track Facto
• ASIN: B00004W0YR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,487 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title [From the Cocoanuts] - The Marx Brothers

2. Florida By The Sea - The Marx Brothers

3. The Bell-Hops - The Marx Brothers

4. When My Dreams Come True

5. Harpo's working / When My Dreams Come True

6. When My Dreams Come True

7. Monkey-Doodle-Doo

8. When My Dreams Come True (Orchestral Version)

9. Ballet Music (for the film The Cocoanuts)

10. When My Dreams Come True

11. Tale Of The Shirt (after Bizet's Carmen)

12. Gypsy Love Song (for the film The Cocoanuts)

13. When My Dreams Come True / End Title

14. Main Title [From Monkey Business]

15. Sweet Adeline (for the film Monkey Business)

16. Tango

17. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me (for the film Monkey Business)

18. Incidental music

19. Piano medley

20. More Incidental music

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If comedy were still like this . . ., August 19, 2005

By 

Andrea Pietrzyk (Memphis, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cocoanuts; Monkey Business (Audio CD)

. . . it'd be much better than it is - well, if you've seen "Monkey Business" you know what I'm talking about!

This CD contains music from two of the Marx Brothers' early Paramount films, "The Cocoanuts" (their first) and "Monkey Business." Since these films were made in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the sound quality isn't the best (and the dialog occasionally carries over in the music), but considering that a CD like this is hard to find, it's certainly worth adding to your Marx Brothers collection. Not only do you get Chico's chord-smashing, finger-accented piano playing, or Harpo's dreamy, beloved harp playing, you get some of the Brothers' comedy bits from these two movies - such as their hilarious Chevalier "impersations" and the immortal "Why-a-duck?" exchange.

Just a tiny bone to pick: Harpo's solo in "Monkey Business" is actually called "I'm Daffy Over You" (written by Chico!), not "Sugar in the Morning" as the CD case says.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great memories but nothing Remastered here., April 14, 2006

By 

P. Deck "Cheval 52" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cocoanuts; Monkey Business (Audio CD)

To call this CD remastered is a bit misleading. I would have gotten the same results by sticking a cheap microphone near the speaker of an equally cheap television set.

The songs and sounds of the Marx Brothers brought back great memories but the skips in the CD and the overall quality of sound was a bit disheartening. If you love the Marx Brothers then buy this CD for the memories, as for the quality, I would definately think twice.