A Stompin' Good Time [Import]

Alan Freed | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 27, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace Records UK
• ASIN: B0012EBU7K
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,997 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Two Good Guys

2. Street With A Beat

3. Cool Papa

4. Night Flight

5. Tuxedo Junction

6. Homework

7. All Tore Up

8. Deep Down And Low

9. Tow Head

10. In A Little Spanish Town

11. Lady Whistlebait

12. Gosah

13. Fandango Rock

14. Shufflin'

15. Pushing

16. Night Ride

17. Nine O'Clock Hop

18. Split Level

19. Flip Flap

20. Teenage Strut

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Theme Time...but the next best thing, April 4, 2008

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Scott D. Reeves (Mason, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Stompin' Good Time (Audio CD)

So much about what I have come to love about music is falling away - "albums" are being replaced by singles downloaded from cyberspace, music magazines (so long No Depression) are shuttering their doors due to lack of ad revenue, and great record stores are closing by the dozen. Into these dangerous straits waded XM Radio and Bob Dylan with the Theme Time Radio Hour - a throwback to simpler times wherein Bob Dylan selects an hour's worth of choice cuts loosely centered around a "theme" like flowers, or marriage or coffee. The show has been a breath of fresh air - it's success due in equal measure to Dylan's pithy narrative style and his impeccable taste in popular music.

What we have here is Ace Records' attempt to anthologize the radio show by choosing 50 cuts that have appeared on Theme Time. There is no "theme" and no Dylan. What we do get is 2 hours of music - most of it blues, R&B, and American roots music. Some of the choices are inspired, the Geraint Watkins cut, "Only a Rose" for example; others - two versions of "Pistol Packin Mama" - less so. The overall effect is akin to listening to a jukebox stocked by Dylan. One could do worse. The packaging is excellent, with track and artist information and a photograph to accompany every song. Sound is more than adequate as well.

If you have access to XM radio by all means listen to Theme Time Radio Hour. If not, this makes a more than acceptable substitute.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the right preview tracks, July 20, 2010

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Arthur Mclean (Sunderland,MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Stompin' Good Time (Audio CD)

The preview tracks presented here appear to be from the first CD of the collection Theme Time Radio Hour: With Your Host Bob Dylan (which I've just ordered through Amazon, check it out), not Alan Freed's radio shows. As much as I appreciate Amazon, I think they got it wrong this time (in an email to me about feedback I sent, the company said in essence, "We're too big and complicated to check out your information.").

The music actually on this album, which you can listen to on other websites, is in the vein of The Johnny Otis Show (Top Ten Hit and not typical of all their work, "Willie and the Hand Jive") with jump rock, an early essay in rock 'n' roll. It's historical and reasonably worthy for the right person, but, no, it does not include "Turn Your Radio On", "He Will Break Your Heart" or Mary Gautier as the previews suggest.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Blastin' 50s!, February 19, 2009

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John B Goode "Record Keeper" (Nova Scotia, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Stompin' Good Time (Audio CD)

This Ace CD of Freed's 1950s rock big band material is worth a listen. But the variety of music was disappointing to me. Lots of fast honking numbers, not enough moody pieces.

The first and last tracks have Freed's voice introducing them, and at least one track has some handclapping.

BTW this cd listing is STILL accompanied by the Bob Dylan cd reviews. Why does it take Amazon so long to correct errors! If there is a means for customers to notify someone about these errors, Amazon does a good job of hiding it :(