Pals

Eddie Cantor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1999)
• Original Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Original Cast Record
• ASIN: B00000IJBU
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #746,506 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Introduction

2. If You Knew Susie

3. Henry Street Recollection at Carnegie Hall

4. Yes Sir That's My Baby

5. I'm Sitting on Top of the World

6. There's no Business Like Show Business

7. If You Knew Susie

8. Ida (Sweet as Apple Cider)

9. W.C. Fields Story from Carnegie Hall

10. Ma! He's Makin Eyes at Me

11. Al Jolsen Story from Carnegie Hall

12. Makin' Whoopee

13. I Love to Spend Each Sunday With You

14. Cantor with Burns and Allen

15. Plastic Surgeon Sketch with Cantor and Parkyakarkus

16. When I'm the President

17. Publicity Man Sketch with Cantor and the Mad Bert Gordon) Russian

18. Cantor with Dinah Shore

19. If You Knew Susie

20. President FDR reads a telegram from Eddie Cantor

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cantor and Jessel -- an unusual pairing, July 5, 2000

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Christopher J. Clay (Cold Spring, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pals (Audio CD)

This album consists of a thirty year-old tribute by Jessel to his (then) recently-deceased friend Eddie Cantor and a forty-minute audio track from a Cantor appearance on a California-based Jessel TV show from 1958. The tribute is interesting in that it contains nice excerpts from Cantor radio shows, and passable versions of his hit tunes (these are versions that were recorded for lip-synch for Cantor's 1955 weekly TV show). As such, it is a good introduction to Cantor for those who know little of him. The TV show is more interesting, as it shows the contrast between Jessel and Cantor. Cantor, the thoughtful, almost erudite elder statesman of show business and Jessel, who never advanced much beyond the status of a vaudeville hack. Most interesting in this program is that Cantor sings five of the hit songs associated with his career, quite unusual given that in late 1958 Cantor's health was in serious decline and he rarely did musical performances. Nonetheless, "Banjo Eyes" reached deep into his bag of tricks on that night and gave a great performance. Cantor's gransdon, Brian Gari, is to be commended for his very great efforts in keeping his grandfather's name alive by producing these and other albums.