Say It With Music

Paul Whiteman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 2000)
• Original Release Date: March 28, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B00004NRRV
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #355,838 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Japanese Sandman

2. My Mammy

3. Cherie

4. Say It With Music

5. Stumbling

6. Hot Lips (He's Got Hot Lips When He Plays Jazz)

7. Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers

8. Linger Awhile

9. What'll I Do?

10. Somebody Loves Me

11. Valencia

12. The Birth Of The Blues

13. In A Little Spanish Town

14. My Blue Heaven

15. Among My Souvenirs

16. Ramona

17. Ol' Man River

18. Together

19. My Angel

20. Great Day

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You can't go wrong with this Paul Whiteman collection, February 26, 2002

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Allen Kopp (St. Louis, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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This disk contains 23 number-one hits by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra from the 1920s and early 1930s; over 70 minutes of music. A good buy for the price. All the songs are charming and the sound quality is excellent. The Living Era label is the best for vintage American music of the twenties, thirties, and forties. I have many Living Era disks and they are all excellent. Highly recommended.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paul Whiteman is fantastic, July 4, 2004

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Jmark2001 (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Say It With Music (Audio CD)

When you read the reviews you need to keep in mind that there are jazz fanatics who are purists and who believe that only black orchestras/bands should be allowed to play dance and jazz music and that anything done by white groups was trash. They also have a stroke because Paul Whiteman called himself, "the king of jazz." Well, this is like dismissing all of Michael Jackson's music because he called himself, "King of pop." The fact is, Whiteman hired some of the best people in the business, was responsible for Gershwin rushing to put together a little piece called, "Rhapsody in blue," had Ferde Grofe as an arranger (he wrote "Grand Canyon Suite"), introduced Bing Crosby to the world, and recorded some of the best music of the twenties and thirties. These purists complain that Whiteman sanitized Jazz. Personally, I prefer my jazz "whitened up", with more melody and less aimless improvising. And you can't argue with numbers: Whiteman outsold all of the black jazz bands combined. As the old joke about critics out of touch with the public goes, "Sure, the audience is wild about them, but what do they know?" Whiteman was wildly popular and with good reason. This is a great album and Whiteman is an important part of our musical history.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stuart, please shut up., July 11, 2006

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David B. Henderson (Midwest USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Say It With Music (Audio CD)

This is not a review, it is a reply to Stuart's moronic post of April 5, 2004. Sure, there's been 80 years of evolution in American pop music, the last 50 of which are CRAP! Stuart, in honor of your ignorance, arrogance, lack of perspective, disinterest in American musical history, rejection of anything that doesn't include distorted guitars, and lack of intellectual curiosity, I will buy this album. Listen and learn with your stupid mouth shut, fool. Here's something else people knew 80 years ago: children are better seen than heard, or in your case, read.