Joe Venuti 1926-1928

Joe Venuti | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 7, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Allegro Corporation
• ASIN: B000065VC8
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,492,046 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Black and Blue Bottom

2. Stringin' the Blues

3. Wild Cat

4. Sunshine

5. Doin' Things

6. Goin' Places

7. Kickin' the Cat

8. Beatin' the Dog

9. Cheese and Crackers

10. A Mug of Ale

11. Penn Beach Blues

12. Four String Joe

13. Dinah

14. The Wild Dog

15. I Must Be Dreaming

16. 'Tain't So, Honey, 'Tain't So

17. Because My Baby Don't Mean "Maybe" Now

18. Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky

19. The Man from the South (With a Big Cigar in His Mouth)

20. Pretty Trix

See all 24 tracks on this disc

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a Wonderful Disc!, August 7, 2002

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This is a wonderful disc which features the "original" Grappelly & Reinhardt, namely Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang on violin and guitar. Venuti & Lang invented and perfected the light, jive-swing style a decade before G&R; in fact, it's almost entirely likely that Stéphane Grappelly got the idea for his style from listening to Venuti's records on the Okeh label from the '20s. This is really fine and mellow American music from a time before the effects of World War I were fully felt in transforming America from a quiet but potential power to the superpower which supplanted Britain in the 20th Century. Listen to this disc and mellow into an age gone by. Happy listening!