The Columbia House Bands: Ben Selvin, Vol. 1

Ben Selvin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 21, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Old Masters
• ASIN: B000005DZ9
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #252,932 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Last Doller

2. I Wanna Sing About You

3. You're My Everything

4. You Can't Stop Me from Loving You

5. Makin' Faces at the Man in the Moon

6. Lucille

7. Hot-Cha Medley: You Can Make My Life a Bed Fo Roses/Say and There ...

8. Was That the Human Thing to Do?

9. You Try Somebody Else

10. When We're Alone

11. Happy Days Are Here Again

12. Whe Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba

13. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

14. It's the Darndest Thing

15. Little Mary Brown

16. She Didn't Say Yes

17. My Sweet Tooth Says I Wanna

18. Take It from Me

19. Who Am I?

20. You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ben Selvin is GOD..............just like Paul Whiteman was!!, October 15, 1999

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Stan McIntire ([e-mail]) (Cleveland, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Columbia House Bands: Ben Selvin, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

These songs by Mr. Selvin are probably the greatest examples that jazz music has given the world an in-depth listening perspective at in years!! Ben Selvin, not only being a well-respected prolific recording artist of all time, but had many numerous musicians in his bands that went on to famed success on their own ventures in the music world. Such greats include Benny Goodman, Manny Klein, and Jack Teagarden. I love the famed music cuts Selvin did especially between 1927 & 1931. They're GREAT!!!!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great release from Old Masters, June 16, 2005

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Jmark2001 (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Columbia House Bands: Ben Selvin, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

Ben Selvin is essential to any twenties/thirties collection and the Old Masters (Thanks, OM!) has released wonderfully remastered cds (both vol. 1 and 2 are excellent). I started collecting twenties music in order to get a few songs I was familiar with. The more I was exposed to, the more I realized what a fantastic period of music it was. Now that rock is pretty much on life support, check out another era when the focus was on great musicianship and a strong beat - a time when you needed talent not software and a beat machine to make it in the business.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ben Selvin is god....just like Paul Whiteman was!, October 14, 1999

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Stan McIntire ([e-mail]) (Cleveland, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Columbia House Bands: Ben Selvin, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

Selvin had such as superb dance orchestra in the late 1910's and 1920's. This CD gives a great jazz overview of legendary musicians including Benny Goodman, Joe Venuti, Manny Klein (my favorite), and Gene Krupa. He should have more CD's issued of his music, of the 1920's; including some songs sung by his favorite vocalists around 1925-1928 Irving Kaufman. Mr. Kaufman had one great hit I think Ben Selvin fans really like, recorded around May, 1926, being the song "Miss Annabelle Lee." I hope in the near future, that music historians should release more of his songs, either on CD labels such as Rhino Classics, BMG, RCA/Victor, or even a Volume III issue following these two wonderful collections of Ben Selvin -- the most prolific bandleader-recording artist of all time.