The Jubilee Recordings [Box set]

The Orioles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 28, 1994)
• Original Release Date: June 7, 1993
• Format: Box set
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• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B000001B0K
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,563,385 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

This exhaustive six-CD box set shows you all the reasons why The Orioles, led by smooth-as-silk vocalist Sonny Til, were one of the most pivotal, if not the most important, of all the early Black vocal groups. The group's honey-smooth harmonies perfectly frame Til's soaring, sexy vocals against the simplest of backgrounds on their earliest sides, while later sessions with full orchestras surprisingly do little to intrude, with interesting results. With typical Bear Family completeness, this rounds up everything the group cut for Natural-Jubilee from two different tenures with the label. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars despite what it says above this ain't the Ponderosa, June 18, 2000

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Lanark (minneapolis, mn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Jubilee Recordings (Audio CD)

it's The Orioles, and it's as wonderful and retentive a collection as any that Bear Family has put together. It's 6 discs just chock full of the smoothest vocal make-out music as you'll ever hear (The ballads seem to outnumber the uptempo numbers by at least a 4 to 1 ratio). Sonny Til has a way with a ballad that is perhaps surpassed only by Little Jimmy Scott. The harmonies are superb and always just a little tweaked from what you might normally expect to hear. Just heart stoppingly lush and lovely and nearly smarm free (even when strings are deployed they take a tasteful backseat to the vocals). And those bridges. Yikes! Only the most heartless could fail to be moved. Personally, I'm a puddle. And after the most cursory of listens I've found remarkably little chaff as you might expect in a collection this large. (and even at least one veiled drug reference in an unreleased novelty number called "Cigareetos") So grab your honey, dim the lights and swap some spit. Here's your sondtrack.