Racing With the Moon [Original recording remastered]

Vaughn Monroe | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 2000)
• Original Release Date: August 8, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B00004U9MX
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,158 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Racing With The Moon

2. There I Go

3. The Donkey Serenade

4. So You're The One

5. The Last Time I Saw Paris

6. Tangerine

7. My Devotion

8. When The Lights Go On Again

9. Let's Get Lost

10. The Trolley Song

11. The Very Thought Of You

12. There, I've Said It Again!

13. Rum And Coca-Cola

14. Cool Water

15. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

16. Seems Like Old Times

17. I Wish I Didn't Love You So

18. You Do

19. Ballerina

20. Someday You'll Want Me To Want You

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Possessor of one of the deepest, richest baritones in all of popular music, Vaughn Monroe also possesses some of the most loyal fans of any artist of his era, and for them we’ve assembled this little melodic morsel—13 tracks featuring Vaughn on valve trompone and on vocals both solo and with the Moon Maids! Includes "Racing with the Moon," "Shadrack," "As Long As She Needs Me," "The Happy Trumpeter," "Don’t Go to Strangers," "Mr. Sandman," "How Soon (Will I Be Seeing You?)," "Destiny’s Darling," "From This Moment On," "Harbor Lights," "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," "Speak Low" and "Red Sails in the Sunset." A Collectors’ Choice Music exclusive! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Racing With the Moon, July 25, 2001

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Daniel Mugan (Little Neck, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Racing With the Moon (Audio CD)

Over the past two or three years, there have been a number of releases of the recordings made by Band Leader-Singer, Vaughn Monroe. This is quite remarkable because up until 1997, the only CD I could find was one issued by an Ohio company which seems now to be out of print.

That said, we now have not one, but two CDs bearing the title, "Racing With the Moon" which anyone whose past 45, knows as the theme song of Vaughn Monroe. That other release, which I have previously reviewed, focuses more on the live broadcasts from the Camel Caravan radio show which Monroe headed up on Saturday nights, first over CBS and later, NBC.

This CD features strictly RCA Victor releases and includes most of the top hits of Vaughn as well as a number that reached the top five of the charts. Let's look at a few:

"Seems Like Old Times" is usually associated with Guy Lombardo but I think, and I admit a bias, this version which includes the chorous is better than Lombardo's."Rum and Coca Cola" is also a lively rendition of the song made popular by the Andrews Sisters who had a superior recording. What is interesting about "Rum" however, is that it was issued to "cover" the Andrews version but when it was turned over to the "B" side, it featured the All-Time Favorite, "There I've Said it Again"!

I especially liked the old Betty Hutton song, "I wish I din't Love You So" which is again sung with the chorous and made it to #4 on the Hit Parade. "Bamboo", a mild hit from the early 1950s displays Vaughn's vocal talents and "Mule Train" which Frankie Laine made famous was sung by Monroe in his Western, "Singing Guns"

A comment on the content. I applaud the producers of this CD for including only Vaughn Monroe on the vocals. Too many of the other CD's issued under Monroe's name in these listings give too much emphasis to novelty songs by Ziggy Talent, a girl vocalist, and several instrumentals. It occurs to me that people who buy Vaughn Monroe CD's want to hear Monroe and not other artists who otherwise would remain undistinguished.

My other gripe about this CD as well as others, is the tendency to repeat songs that appear on all of the other issues - "Racing", "There I Go", "My Devotion" "Someday" etc. Besides not having two CDs with the same name, why not also issue future CDs which include tunes that are not on any of the current plethora. I would be happy to supply the titles. As of now, serious collectors find themselves buying CDs that might contain 18 songs but 12 of them are already in the collection. If you have no other CDs of Monroe this is a good buy because it does contain most of his major successes.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overtaking the Moon, May 28, 2000

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Daniel Mugan (Little Neck, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Racing with the Moon (Audio CD)

This recent release, another produced by a UK company, is one of a number of CD's featuring Vaughn Monroe that have become available. Only three years ago, there was no more than 1 or at most 2, CDs and now there are several and at least two more are due to be released next month (June).

Its about time! It seems that every day more people are either discovering or re-discovering what a fine musical talent Vaughn Monroe was. In this CD, for some reason, a British quirk maybe, Vaughn's name is spelled V A U G H A N. Someone at the studio failed a quality control check!

Enough of that now into the music itself. There are a total of 28 tracks and a playing time of 72 minutes. Vaughn's theme, "Racing With the Moon" is in my opinion overplayed as it is used to open and close a number of the tracks. In every case, Monroe was in fine voice in all of the cases. In addition to some of his trade mark songs - "Red Roses", "Ballerina" and "There I Go", there are an number of sound tracks from the old Camel Caravan radio broacasts featuring Vaughn, the Moon Men and Moon Maids doing a number of the song hits of the time including "Buttons and Bows" and a very fine rendition of "Where or When", the old Rogers and Hart chestnut.

This CD also has contributions by guests such as Claude Thronhill and Ginny Powell and a fine instrumental by the band on "Harlem Nocturne".

CD producers - US or UK or anywhere, please give us more Monroe especially the tracks from the popular Camel Caravan years!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Racing with the moon/Vaughn Monroe, July 22, 2006

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J. Berger "big band fan" (West orange,N.J. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Racing With the Moon (Audio CD)

As a lover of big band music i must say this was great stuff and would reccomend it.I was not yet born when this music was popular but I envy the people who were.You could dance close to your girl and the lyrics you could understand.Thank you!