Crooners

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 3, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Columbia Legacy
• ASIN: B0000028RK
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #290,014 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Deep Elm - Wilard Robinson

2. The Devil Is Afraid Of Music - Wilard Robinson

3. Harlem Blues - Wilard Robinson

4. Did You Ever See A Dream Walking - Gene Austin

5. Everything I Have Is yours - Gene Austin

6. There Was Nothing Else To Do - Secer Ellis

7. Shine On, Harvest Moon - Secer Ellis

8. Why Do You Suppose - Smith Ballew

9. Miss You - Smith Ballew

10. (You're Always Sure Of) My Love For You - Smith Ballew

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Night Owl - Red McKenzie

2. It's Only a Paper Moon - Red McKenzie

3. Six Women (Me& Henry The Eighth) - Red McKenzie

4. I Just Couldn't Take It, Baby - Red McKenzie

5. The Object Of My Affection - Pinky Tomlin

6. A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid - Pinky Tomlin

7. He's A Curbstone Cutie (They Call Him Jelly-Bean) - Pinky Tomlin

8. Anytime, Any Day, Anywhere - Chick Bullock

9. Ah! But I've Learned - Chick Bullock

10. Junk Man - Chick Bullock

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre Overview of Tin Pan Alley Songwriting Skills, April 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Crooners (Audio CD)

This is a nice compilation of songs that are largely forgotten today, with a little too much emphasis on certain "crooners" while ignoring others altogether. Nevertheless, it definitely doesn't deserve the one-star rating assigned to it by the other reviewer here, unless he had no idea what he was buying. But if someone is looking for an excellent overview of music from the 1930's, check out the astounding 4-disc box set from Bear Family Records entitled THE GREAT DEPRESSION: BOOM, BUST, AND THE NEW DEAL. It comes with a hardback book that includes loads of interesting notes and track annotations from Michael Brooks, along with publicity stills, reproductions of songbook covers, and photos of the 78's themselves. It's pricy but very few, if anybody, can compete with the quality of Bear Family releases.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hey man, I'm so pleased with this crooner twofer!, November 12, 2003

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Jose "Jazz Cholo" Sanchez (East Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crooners (Audio CD)

Man, this CD has all my favorite crooners and has helped me to discover ones I might not have heard, if it had not been for this insightful cd re-issure, which is done perfectly. For starters i bought this for the Bing Crosby and Frank sinatra cuts, but discovered some truly great singers. Chick Bullock is my favorite singer on here, he really knows how to carry a tune, and he was one of the 1st white singers in the 30's to sing with an all black band(he was backed by Cab calloway, Ellington, Waller...), he was one cool dude, and probably one of the best singers that ever lived. I wish they would put out a whole box set of Chick Bullock & His Levee Loungers. Anyway Harold Arlen is a great crooner as well as Seger Ellis, man that guy really croons romantic. Dude if you don't get this cd your crazy. Buy it, and do yourself a favor, buy an Al Bowlly cd too, because he wasn't on this one, so buy this and an Al Bowlly cd. Buy it now, laterz.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is simply an amazing cd of the cream of the crooners, November 12, 2003

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Johnny Ward, III (Boyle Heights, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crooners (Audio CD)

Wow, I was simply knocked out by Columbia Records Art Deco sereis for putting out such a wide range of crooners, not just the popular ones like Bing Crosby, but the forgotten ones like segar Ellis. Every cut on this superbly done disc is a gem. Even jazz critic Scott Yanow gave this a great review. This is without a shadow of a doubt the best crooner compilation ever put out by anyone, and you must own it. Such artists as Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards, Pinky Tomlin, Willard Robison, and Russ Columbo are here, as well as Bing Crosby Harlan Lattimore, and Dick Haymes, and a few others. This is when men really sang like men, every one of these baritones will leave tingles up and down your spine. A perfect desert island sisc(10 stars)