Happy Feet

8 1/2 Souvenirs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 30, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000007SN6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,197 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Happy Feet

2. Kazango

3. No Lo Visto

4. It's All Right With Me

5. Minor Swing

6. Le Poinçonneur des Lilas

7. Black Trombone

8. Place de Brouckère

9. After You've Gone

10. Come Di

11. Blues en Mineur

12. Botch-A-Me (Ba-Da-Baciani-Piccina)

13. Brazil

14. Y la Chalupa Va

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the best of 8 &1/2 Souvenirs, July 14, 2002

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gloria stevenson (Novato, Ca USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Happy Feet (Audio CD)

I first saw, and absolutly fell in live with, 8 &1/2 Souvenirs on PBS's Austin City Limits. They performed most of the material on the CD HAPPY FEET. Having now purchased everything they have released [Souvonica & Twisted Desire] I can only hope and pray the group returns to their "Happy Feet" roots; for this CD really proves the groups incredably unique sound and astounding talent. A "Euro Swing Band"[they sing in a number of languages] from Austin Texas playing fresh invigerating music with enormous heart. Olivier Giraud's sweet french voice is spell binding, not to mention Glover Gill's piano playing [is it Jazz, Ragtime, or Prokofiev revisited?]and of course Chrysta Bell's beautifully styalized voice, which has never sounded better. I usually stick to Rachmaninov and the boys, but HAPPY FEET brought chills to my spine, and tears to my eyes,to think such music may be gone for now.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brings back the "combo" in a BIG way!, July 23, 2001

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Erica "Erica" (Washington State) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Happy Feet (Audio CD)

Picture Django, Les Paul, and Cole Porter shoe-horned into a Rio dance hall in, say, 1937. Picture the floor worn bare from dancing. That's only a pale idea of this CD's creativity and outright fun. Chrysta Bell's smokey voice sounds a little like Anita Baker's, and she more than does justice to a snappy version of Porter's "It's All Right With Me", a highlight of this CD. And you'll be sifting your dog-eared French and Italian grammars and bellowing "Yo lo Visto" down the freeway in no time!

I have my aurally-challenged husband to thank for this jewel...he said, "Ya oughta check out this song, "Happy Feet". I think it's one of the most fun songs I've ever heard." Boy, was he right!

Très sophistiqué, multi-lingual, fast and furious, "Happy Feet" makes me awfully glad they're American (mostly)! After all, don't even we deserve a little Continental charm? This stuff is Good Medicine for jaded hearts.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL UPBEAT SOUND - TRULY "HAPPY FEET", October 18, 1999

By A Customer

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This review is from: Happy Feet (Audio CD)

SAW THIS GROUP ON AUSTIN CITY LIMITS AND WAS AMAZED AT THE WONDERFUL SOUND. THIS IS A REALLY UPBEAT ALBUM. HOPE THERE IS MUCH MORE COMING FROM THIS GROUP.