The Very Best Of Vaughn Monroe

Vaughn Monroe | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 27, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 17, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Taragon
• ASIN: B00000DC4M
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,636 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Racing with the Moon (Vaughn's Theme)

2. There I Go

3. My Devotion

4. When the Lights Go on Again (All Over the World)

5. Let's Get Lost

6. The Trolley Song

7. There! I've Said It Again

8. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

9. I Wish I Didn't Love You So

10. Ballerina

11. Red Roses for a Blue Lady

12. Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)

13. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)

14. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)

15. Bamboo

16. Thanks, Mister Florist

17. Sound Off (The Duckworth Chant)

18. They Call the Wind Maria

19. Lady Love

20. They Were Doin' the Mambo

Editorial Reviews

20 tracks from 1940-1954 from vocalist, featuring the songs There I Go, My Devotion, When The Lights Go On Again, and many others.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great collecteion of great songs!, August 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Very Best Of Vaughn Monroe (Audio CD)

Let me echo the comments of the previous reviewer who called for a VOLUME 11 by the same artist. Vaughn Monroe had more hits than are collected here and those thar are, are excellent. A second volume might feature some of the many songs Vaughn sang on his "Camel Caravan" radio show which were not necessarily recorded by him. More Monroe!

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a Vaughn Monroe CD!, March 3, 2000

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Brett Johnson (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Very Best Of Vaughn Monroe (Audio CD)

As a major fan of Vaughn Monroe, I was very pleased with "The Very Best of Vaughn Monroe". I found the remastering excellent and the selection of songs to be a good representation Vaughn's recordings. One problem I did find with this collection is that the represented version of "Racing with the Moon" is not the original 1941 version rather a 1945 re-recording with strings. The 1941 version seems to never be re-issued and I would like to have had it represented with Vaughn's early songs on this CD. I have all of these recordings on either 45's or 78's and for the first time I have discovered how wonderful the Vaughn Monroe Orchestra really was without all of the surface noise included on the original 78's.Vaughn Monroe was a huge star from the Big Band Era well into the early Rock years,who could forget Vaughn's Twist version of Bye, Bye, Blackbird? It is really sad that Vaughn has so little to represent him on CD. Hopefully we will see more recordings appear with the same quality as this CD.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHY HAS IT TAKEN SO LONG?, March 27, 2000

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Dave Howell (Annandale, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Very Best Of Vaughn Monroe (Audio CD)

It's way past time for Vaughn Monroe's music to be available on CD. This is an excellent CD with many of his songs represented here and they (and he) sound so GOOD! I agree with some of the other reviewers about pressing a Volume 2. At least there are 9 CDs available with his music on it now, including one in the new V-Disc series which surprised me. I've always enjoyed listening to Vaughn sing and it's nice to know that he's finally getting some recognition on his own instead of just through the compilations put out by RCA and Rhino. After all, he was one of RCA's biggest recording artists in the 1940's.