Everybody Stomp [Box set, Import]

Hoosier Hot Shots | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 18, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set, Import
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Proper Box UK
• ASIN: B0000A1WPE
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,926 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #83 in Music > Country > Comedy

Track Listings

1. Hoosier Stomp

2. Whistlin Joe From Kokomo

3. Farmer Gray

4. Oakville Twister

5. Im Looking For A Girl

6. Black Eyed Susan Brown

7. Down In The Valley

8. Ha Cha Na

9. Meet Me By The Ice House Lizzie

10. Back In Indiana

11. San

12. Everybody Stomp

13. Bow Wow Blues

14. I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones

15. Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider)

16. They Go Simply Wild Over Me

17. Wah Hoo

18. At The Darktown Strutters Ball

19. I Like Mountain Music

20. Youre Driving Me Crazy

See all 99 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

In the 1930s, at the height of the Depression, rural Americans desperate for a laugh tuned in their radios to enjoy the cornball musical antics of the Hoosier Hot Shots. This compilation presents 100 wacky wonders from their 1934-1946 peak years. Includes 36-page illustrated booklet with authoritative group history & full discography details. Four standard jewel cases housed in a slipbox. Proper. 2003.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun group but limited, August 23, 2006

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Jmark2001 (Florida) - See all my reviews

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I got turned on to the Hoosier Hot Shots when I heard their version of "Breezin' along with the breeze." It is a novel take on that oldie. I also saw a few videos of them performing and they were visually as playful as their music sounded. Here's the problem: they had some good ideas (slide whistle, hot rhythm guitar, good harmonies) but they only had a few good ideas and they used the same instrumentations in song after song after song with little variation. You really only need one Hoosier Hot Shots album in your collection - four is too much of the same old same old. By the time this box set was finished, I never wanted to hear them again. Too much of the same formula.

A great group of midwestern guys, I'm sure. But I have had enough slide whistle to last me a while.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Music from A Time Long Past, March 25, 2008

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This is a great collection of wonderful music by a group that was preeminent in the 1920s and 1930s. What most reviewers miss saying is that this group was an early jazz-swing group and the clarinet work is astounding. Some of it is hokey or corny, some of it is repetitious, but a great deal of the music is simply joyful and swings like any of the big bands that followed. The only possible downside is that this is a package of four separate records, reproduced on four CD's, and some of the songs are repeated from CD to CD. But unless you are listening to all four of these sequentially, you won't notice. If you are looking for feel-good music and want to know what swing was like in its earliest years, this is a great buy.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Makes you smile, April 17, 2005

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Jiminy Cricket (downstate NY USA) - See all my reviews

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When you hear this funny, goofy band, recordings from 1934 thru 1947, it makes you smile. You almost can't help laughing. It is very infectious good humor. This collection contains 100 of their good songs for a very reasonable price. This 100 songs chronicles their lives & career (booklet included) and includes at the end 11 songs recorded post-WW2 that seem more downbeat, sad. This seems to me the best value of their different collections available today. Definitive collection. Recommended !