Fred Waring, Vol. 1: Collegiate Years

Fred Waring | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 13, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 8, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Old Masters
• ASIN: B00004T9WA
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,870 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #94 in Music > Jazz > Swing Jazz > Vintage Dance Bands

Track Listings

1. Collegiate

2. Syncopation

3. Mighty Blue

4. Freshie

5. I Love My Baby (My Baby Loves Me)

6. Collegiate Blues

7. Any Ice Today Lady? (A Collegiate Razz-Berry)

8. Bolshevik

9. Don't Sing Aloha When I Go

10. I Love the College Girls

11. My Regular Girl

12. Hello, Swannee, Helllo

13. Wob-A-Ly Walk

14. I Scream, You Scream (We All Scream for Ice Cream)

15. Keep Sweeping the Cobweds off the Moon

16. If I Can't Have You (I Want to Be Lonesome, I Want to Be Blue)

17. The Yale Blues

18. Who's Blue Now?

19. What Did You Say?

20. Lila

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Early, 1925-1928 sides from one of the most beloved dance bands of all time, including everything from college rah-rah novelties to their first electric sides! Includes Collegiate; Freshie; I Love the College Girls; Hello, Swanee, Hello!; ICE CREAM; Bolshevik; Syncopation Sal; The Yale Blues; If I Can't Have You; Hello! Montreal; Glorianna , and more. 24 tracks!

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for lovers of mush!, February 21, 2002

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Aaron Z. Snyder "Aaron Z Snyder" (CHESTNUT HILL, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fred Waring, Vol. 1: Collegiate Years (Audio CD)

The Fred Waring I grew up hearing in the late 40s and early 50s consisted of soft, sweet, sentimental, and downright mushy choral music -- the sort of stuff that people retreating from a rather scary world (red threats, nuclear war threats, Richard Nixon) might want to listen to to calm frayed nerves. To me, it was boring then and it remains boring to me. ....
Lovers of Jazz-era music (I'm nuts about it) will love this CD, as well as its sister CD, The Broadway Years (Vol. 2). These compilations from a small San Mateo, CA, company, are not for completists -- there's nothing like that available at this time -- but the selections are (a) chronological; (b) representative; (c) in many cases unavailable from other sources; and (d) wonderfully restored. Sources for the music are apparently the released shellac discs. The only noise artifacts present are a continuous shellac hiss (think of it as a very early tape hiss). The highs are all there; the lows are there, too, without the often boomy quality which poorly equalized recordings have. However, it's really the music that counts: these guys (and eventually guys and gals) are fabulous musicians: rhythmically precise, excellent ensemble work, great arrangements. Most of the songs are laced with humor, and sometimes it's even subtle! "Any Ice Today, Lady?" is the goofiest song of the lot and is really hilarious; yet, the band never stoops to the pie-in-the-face level of Spike Jones.(....)
There are two other compilations out there: "Greatest Hits", which fills in many of the gaps in the repertoire, and apparently uses the metal stampers for the 78s as transfer sources (although the results aren't significantly superior to the results on these two CDs); and "Memorial Album", which has generally inferior transfers, but fills in a few more gaps. However, The Collegiate Years and The Broadway Years provide such a good selection of Waring's best Jazz-era recordings that they should suffice for most fans of this type of music -- that is, with the exception of crazy completists like me!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I scream--let's all scream--for more Fred Waring!, February 24, 2002

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Lee Hartsfeld (Central Ohio, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fred Waring, Vol. 1: Collegiate Years (Audio CD)

Superb 1925-1928 sides by one of the very best dance orchestras of the 1920s. The sound restoration is excellent and the overall selection inspired, though I personally wish "Her Beaus Are Only Rainbows" would have found its way onto this. So it goes. With such musically magnificent numbers as the hazing-as-comedy classic "Freshie" (1925); the Spikes-Jonesesque "Bolshevik" (1926); and the superb, insane novelty "I Scream--You Scream--We All Scream for Ice Cream" (1927), no complaints are justified. Don't be misled by such titles; Waring's Pennsylvanians offered some of the 1920's most sophisticated arrangements, musicianship, and choral sounds (imagine that). The prodigiously talented singer/pianist Tom Waring (brother of Fred) is liberally featured, and a host of great soloists take their turns at the horn (well, microphone). Rich Conaty's liner notes are as helpful as can be, and the chintzy-looking package is of no consequence; it's the music that matters. A joy.

2 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What is on this CD?, December 23, 2000

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This review is from: Fred Waring, Vol. 1: Collegiate Years (Audio CD)

Where is the track listing for this CD? What is on it?