Nothing Was Sweeter Than the Boswell Sisters [Import]

Boswell Sisters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 27, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: El Records
• ASIN: B000JBWWDS
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,021 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #49 in Music > Pop > Oldies > Tin Pan Alley

Track Listings

1. We're on the Highway to Heaven

2. That's What I Like About You

3. Heebie Jeebies

4. When I Take My Sugar to Tea

5. Shout Sister Shout

6. I Found a Million Dollar Baby

7. Sing a Little Jingle

8. It's You

9. It's the Girl

10. I Can't Write the Words

11. Concentratin' on You

12. Nothing Is Sweeter Than You

13. Put That Sun Back in the Sky

14. Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea

15. If It Ain't Love

16. Got the South in My Soul

17. Doggone I've Done It

18. We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye

19. It Don't Mean a Thing

20. Crazy People

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

The Boswell Sisters are one of the all-time great vocal groups. Much like The Four Freshmen and Ink Spots the Boswell Sisters should be classified both pop and jazz. They dominated the American charts in the pre-war years and arguably have directly or indirectly influenced almost all girl groups since. Everything with the Boswell Sisters name on it is collectable and as soon after editions go out of stock or are deleted they quickly become expensive rarities.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another good Boswell collection, May 6, 2008

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Micaloneus (the Cosmos) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nothing Was Sweeter Than the Boswell Sisters (Audio CD)

This import collection is one of the finest in the Boswell Sister CD catalog. It's an interesting mix of their most popular songs along with some of their rarer tracks. This disc is also free of heavy noise reduction.

If you already have the "Shout Sisters Shout! 1925-1934" CD on the Jazz Legends label, this collection will give you a lot of new Boswell tunes you haven't heard yet. Highly recommended.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have, August 5, 2009

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Carol J. Shriver "Carol Jean Shriver" (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This is the music my mother grew up with as a child: The Boswell Sisters AND Connee Boswell who went on to have a highly respected solo career. GOOGLE Connee Boswell and you will wonder why everybody doesn't know about this talented, ground breaking woman. Ella Fitzgerald's mother played Connee Boswell records when Ms. Fitzgerald was a young girl and young Ella wanted to sing like Connee. And Connee began her singing career greatly influenced by another, earlier, great female Jazz singer, Mamie Smith. The beautiful story of these three women, the pattern of the older influencing the younger, is a sweet reminder that great music is colorblind.

Anyone with a mother (or father, if he is into this type of music) over the age of 80 (if not younger) should buy this for their elderly parent, or any older person they care about, no matter what. My mother is 87, independent, and healthy, HOWEVER, if you know an older person who is not doing so well, you REALLY need to buy this album, and related music. NOTHING heals and wakes up an older person like music, ESPECIALLY the music of THEIR youth. Chances are very high that they heard this music on the radio growing up, and have forgotten about it. For an older person to hear it again would be one of the greatest gifts you could give them.

I bought this CD along with two Connee Boswell CD albums: "Moonlight & Roses" and "They Can't Take These Songs" and I have to say that all of these CDs are EXCELLENT both in terms of the songs and the QUALITY of the recordings. I also purchased a fantastic CD box set of Peggy Lee's Singles (that I wish I had for myself) and my mother was thrilled.

All of the old songs that have been surfacing from my mother's memory for years, she now has. AND, I find this CD, the Connee Boswell CDs, and of course, Peggy Lee, very relaxing to listen to, which surprised me because some of it is a bit bouncy, but in a relaxing, easy way. The ballads are exquisitely beautiful in a delicate way that we hardly ever hear from today's current artists. All of these CDs are treasures.

I closely studied all of the excellent reviews about this CD of the Boswell Sisters, the Connee Boswell CDs, and the Peggy Lee Singles box set, and my research paid off. Do NOT buy a specific CD just because it is cheaper and has the same songs. You really do get what you pay for with CDs as far as the actual recordings and the quality of the re-mastering.

Of course there can be big differences in how much different sellers will charge for the exact same CD, then you have to decide which one is most reliable as far as delivery and service. I recommend always buying from a seller that says "factory sealed." That is just common sense.

Having said that, the recording quality is so important, and this particular CD album, "Nothing Was Sweeter," by the Boswell Sisters, in addition to Connee Boswell's "Moonlight & Roses" and "They Can't Take These Songs," is as good as it gets, and considering how old the original recordings are, the quality is really quite remarkable. And quality recording is ESPECIALLY important for an older person with a hearing aide! If you get this for yourself, be sure to load it onto your iPod, then go see someone in a nursing home, stick the earbuds in their ears and make their day. You'll probably make their whole year. Indeed, "Nothing Was Sweeter."

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Generous Serving with Fairly Good Sound, March 6, 2009

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Johnny Hodges (Clark Fork, ID United States) - See all my reviews

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This was my third attempt at getting a good sounding Boswell Sisters CD. While there is a small amount of surface noise on some tracks, the remastering does capture the subtlties of vocal harmony lost to noise reduction on the other imports I tried. The generous serving of 25 recordings mixes some of their more commercial (as opposed to the jazz slant of most other collections) offerings. But even the smaltz comes very alive when run through the sisters' harmony machine. While I prefer the jazzier numbers, I think the CD as a whole plays better with the great variety here. Oh, not familiar with the Sisters Boswell? Quite simply the best female harmony group at any time on any planet. Really? Exhibit A: Andrew Sisters admit to emulating them when they started out; Exhibit B: Ella Fitzgerald admitted to trying to be another Connie Boswell when she was starting out.