Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Miss Thing

Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 14, 2000)
• Original Release Date: March 14, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fat Note
• ASIN: B00002SWYI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,220 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #73 in Music > Jazz > Swing Jazz > Retro Swing

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46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Deal Mack!, March 24, 2000

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Nick Despotopoulos (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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When Johnny Otis gave his blessings to Lavay and the boys a few years ago it just confirmed what saavy listeners in the Bay area knew already. They smoke! This CD is a great sophomore effort (avoiding the dread slump afflicting so many bands in almost every genre). Great song selections, arrangements, lush vocals with just the right amount of bite by Lavay and a joyous swing vibe throughout. If you don't want to dance to this music, you must be dead. Also a serious tip of the hat for the superb analog like (meant in the best sense) sound quality, it's HDCD mastered by Paul Stubblebine (an SF audio engineer legend). Buy this CD, take your significant other out for a spin and enjoy a glorious Spring season.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Someone to carry on the tradition of Helen Humes..., June 21, 2000

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This review is from: Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Miss Thing (Audio CD)

In the tradition of great jazz, R&B, and blues singer Helen Humes, Lavay Smith carries on where Humes left off when she passed away not all that long ago. Smith has a saucy way of singing much like Bessie Smith and the Smith girls(Mamie, Clara, & Trixie. all unrelated) Smith sings a lyric with feeling, weather it be seductive, humorous or raunchy. Though hr 1st CD "One Hour Mama" was more the the traditional blues, her newest release "Miss Thang" is more in the 40's R&B style, where Smith pays tribute to Humes with "Voo-It" and she also pays tribute to Mr. Five by Five Jimmy Rushing in "Sent For You Yesturday." If you want to hear a new jazz/bluus singer who truly can swing and sing in the tradition of the real thing(1920's-40's), go see Lavay smith next time she's in town, and buy all her Cd's. Her backup band can play anything from classic blues to be-bop oriented material. If you are into jazz this is for you. Lavay Smith & her red hot skillet lickers are the best new(meaning old 20's, sounding) thing today, they are great.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Swingin' Good Time!!!!, November 27, 2003

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K. Stuckey "kateling" (Port Huron, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Miss Thing (Audio CD)

I bought this CD on a whim - having never owned a swing album - and I have not regretted it for one second! The creativity in the band name alone is worth 5 stars! Lavay Smith's smokin' hot vocals will hook you from the get-go and the musicians are equally as incredible sounding. My personal favorite songs are the upbeat "Big Fine Daddy", the sultry "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You" and "He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped", but there is not a bad song on this CD. It is the one CD that everyone who has heard it wants to borrow from my collection.