Floating Down the River

Heidelberg Quintet (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Heidelberg Quintet
• Audio CD (May 27, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Archeophone Records
• ASIN: B0000ACNCW
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,849 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. In the Gloaming (Will Oakland and the American Quartet)

2. Stick to Your Mother, Tom (Will Oakland & Chorus)

3. Under the Love Tree

4. I Want to Love You While the Music's Playing

5. Way Down South

6. Emmett's Lullaby

7. On a Beautiful Night with a Beautiful Girl

8. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee

9. My Little Lovin' Sugar Babe

10. Tennessee Moon

11. Under the Love Tree

12. Way Down South

13. I Want to Love You While the Music's Playing

14. Teasing Moon

15. Ragtime Regiment Band

16. You're a Great Big Blue-Eyed Baby

17. Give Me Your Hand

18. In Apple Blossom Time (Down on the Farm)

19. Floating Down the River on the Alabam'

20. In the Heart of the Kentucky Hills

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Get ready for the most amazing harmonies and most intricately arranged ragtime vocals you have ever heard. Here, for the first time ever, are the complete releases by the first supergroup of the acoustic recording industry. The Heidelberg Quintet combined the singular talents of the hottest star of the day, Billy Murray, with a top-notch performer whose fame was rapidly growing because of the amazing high notes he could reach with his natural voice—Will Oakland. Together with seasoned veterans John Bieling, Steve Porter, and William F. Hooley, these singers laid down harmonies that latter-day barbershop quartets dream of!

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A pleasant surprise, March 3, 2005

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This review is from: Floating Down the River (Audio CD)

I've been buying a fair amount of very old recordings lately, and I have enjoyed this one more than most. Will Oakland has a high, strong voice that is distinctive and almost sweet-at least on Emmett's Lullaby, Tennessee Moon, and a few of the other standouts. Unfortunately, it appears this is the only recording of his work available. Billy Murray is also a top notch singer, as on Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. The sound quality here is as good as anything prior to 1925 (these songs were recorded in 1912-1914). Basically, this is high quality barbershop quartet music with an excellent falsetto voice that often sings lead.