Wingy Sings, Manone Plays: Great Hits [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED] [Import]

Wingy Manone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 29, 2000)
• Original Release Date: August 29, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Jasmine Music
• ASIN: B00004U9YJ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #458,965 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me)

2. March Winds And April Showers

3. Love Is Just Around The Corner

4. The Isle Of Capri

5. I Believe In Miracles

6. On The Good Ship Lollipop

7. Every Little Moment

8. Lulu's Back In Town

9. A Smile Will Go A Long, Long Way

10. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter

11. I've Got A Feelin' You're Foolin'

12. You Are My Lucky Star

13. I'm Shooting High

14. The Music Goes 'Round And Around

15. You Let Me Down

16. I've Got My Fingers Crossed

17. The Broken Record

18. Shoe Shine Boy

19. West Wind

20. Is It True What They Say About Dixie?

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Physical disability is no bar to musicianship - indeed, in some instances such as the blind keyboard players George Shearing and Ray Charles, the enhanced hearing faculties have actually been an advantage. Losing limbs is more problematic, but not always insurmountable. Take losing an arm and playing trumpet: normally one arm gives support (and the hand can be used for muting effects, etc.), the other facilitates the hand which actually operates the valves. Playing with only one arm - inconvenient, but not impossible. Enter Joseph Manone.This compilation is of the happy songs Wingy recorded at the height of his recording success with "Isle Of Capri". If not all the lyrics were actually happy in content, then Manone made sure that the overall effect was the desired one at the time of Depression - a lifting of spirits. Everything received the unique Manone treatment, even (unbelievably?) "On The Good Ship Lollipop", which owed nothing to that other lifter of spirits of the time, Miss Shirley Temple. There is little doubt that Louis Prima, also born in New Orleans but eleven years Wingy s junior, took a lead from him, and although unlike Manone, Prima forsook Dixieland-style jazz early in his career, his vocal styling continued to recall that of the older man.