Swing Brother Swing

Ray Condo & His Ricochets | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 14, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Joaquin Records
• ASIN: B0000009DO
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #276,637 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hadicillin Boogie

2. Loudmouth

3. 'Tain't No Use

4. Swing, Brother, Swing

5. Teardrops from My Eyes

6. Strathcona

7. Something I Said

8. It Ain't Right

9. Ice Water

10. What More Do You Want Me to Do?

11. Rockin' Record Hop

12. There's a House in Harlem for Sale

13. Sunset Blues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grab your Babe and Hold On!, July 5, 2000

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Rocannon MacGregor "zenfire" (Glendale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Swing Brother Swing (Audio CD)

Don't put this CD on in the late evening or you'll be up all night.... Dancing! I mean these cats know how to jump, jive and wail. The pedal steel guitar will twang your heart, the sax will burn your soul. Ray has a voice that is slatherin' with dirty, low-down jitterbug. If you can remain seated during the first cut "Hadicillin Boogie" you better call 911... you're dead!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing but a blood-moving, swinging good time, January 1, 1999

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Verbtuoso (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Swing Brother Swing (Audio CD)

You can enjoy Ray Condo and His Ricochets for so many good reasons. Maybe you have a need for an injection of kick-ass, swinging, clean-your-whole- house energy. Maybe you love swing or rockabilly or country music or all three at the same time. Maybe you'd like to hear some astounding musicianship for a change, or a wonderfully whining pedal steel. Maybe you're fan of cool old and new songs, sung in a voice drenched in an uptempo life on the road with a band. This is a combo that many more people need to hear about, and soon. They have the arrangements, chops, and just plain fun that Squirrel Nut Zippers wishes they had, without the Zips self-consciously arty cleverness. This guy, leading this band, is the real deal. Do yourself a favor: buy this CD, see the band live, and tell everybody you know.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A burnin' hunk of western swing!, February 9, 2002

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L. Barden "larsky" (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Swing Brother Swing (Audio CD)

From the moment "Hadicillin Boogie" starts coming out of your speakers, you're going to fall in love with this record.

And if you're the observant type, you may even remember that this track currently appears in a commercial for the Honda Accord. A couple are driving along a lonely Texas freeway in their Accord, "Hadicillin Boogie" is playing on the stereo, and they have a good natured nonverbal dispute over how loud to play this song (inadvertantly demonstrating the convenience of auxiliary volume controls mounted on the steering wheel).

Hopefully, the exposure will get Ray Condo and his band some more recognition. This is an excellent record--35 minutes of swing, jazz, and rockabilly. The only problem I have with this record is that "Hadicillin" rocks SO hard that it almost overshadows the rest of the album. A great cut overshadowing a bunch of good cuts--now that's the kind of problem I wish more records had.