Great Schnozzle [Original recording remastered]

Jimmy Durante | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B00000AFSH
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,673 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Inka Dinka Do

2. Can Broadway Do Without Me?

3. Hot Patatta

4. Umbriago

5. Durante -The Patron Of The Arts

6. Start Off Each Day With A Song

7. Who Will Be With You When I'm Far Away?

8. So I Ups To Him And He Ups To Me

9. Joe Goes Up - I Come Down

10. Jimmy, The Well-Dressed Man

11. There Are Two Sides To Every Girl

12. G'wan Home, Your Mudder's Callin'

13. I'm Feeling Mighty Low

14. I'll Do The Strutaway In My Cutaway

15. I'm The Guy Who Found The Lost Chord

16. Little Bit This, Little Bit That

17. Chidabee-ch-ch

18. It's My Nose's Birthday

19. The Day I Read A Book

20. Fugituve From Esquire

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Cultural Icon, March 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Great Schnozzle (Audio CD)

This CD is listening to a time capsule of one of our greatest cultural icons. Jimmy Durante's humor, wit, and inventiveness are well represented. You'll also find it astounding how many of his comic manglings of the english language are now commonly used by people in everyday conversation! The "nice guy" with the self-deprecating humor, Durante seems very genuine. He's really enjoying his work, and I think others will too.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this now!, February 15, 2010

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Discerning Reader (Fredericksburg, VA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Great Schnozzle (Audio CD)

We crack up every time we listen to this, no matter how many times we've heard it before. They don't make 'em like this anymore!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Yuh gotta start out each day widda song!", September 22, 2001

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R. L. MILLER (FT LAUDERDALE FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Great Schnozzle (Audio CD)

I'm reminded of the universality of Jimmy Durante's music by the fact that the screen I was on before this one bore the cover of the last album I reviewed--by prog/ metal supergroup "Liquid Tension Experiment". You just can't lump this man with any fixed genre identity--he doesn't have a good voice, he sings mostly cover material, his piano playing is chord accompaniment that's a cross between cowboy saloon and lounge lizard--just enough to back up his singing. The secret was that he wasn't a musician--he was a comedian who sang. My first exposure to Durante was when I was little--he had a regular series on network TV where he immortalized the line "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are" during the closing song "Good Night". I tried to find that on a peer share site--no dice (grrr!). The episode from his TV show that sticks in my mind after all these years is one in which he ran for the title of "Mr. United States" (he even made up a song about that) and almost beat a real bodybuilder. But in my opinion, Durante's big super-hit was "Start Out Each Day With a Song" (featured here). I must admit that my favorite comedy is the non sequitur-based skits of Monty Python, but I can still appreciate this bouncy little ditty dotted with gags like "I wuz tellin' a friend about a new concerto I wuz workin' on called Tony's Pushcart. He asks me how does it go? I tell him it DOESN'T go--yuh gotta PUSH it!"