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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Durium Dance Band - She Was Only A Postmasters Daughter | |||
| 2. Bessie Smith - Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer | |||
| 3. Ernest Butcher - Peaceful Street | |||
| 4. George Formby - When I m Cleaning Windows | |||
| 5. Lale Andersen - Lili Marleen | |||
| 6. Bing Crosby - Miss You | |||
| 7. Fats Waller - The Reefer Song (If You re A Viper) | |||
| 8. Louis Prima & His Orchestra - Please No Squeeza De Banana | |||
| 9. Jimmy Wakely - One Has My Name, The Other Has My Heart | |||
| 10. The Crew Cuts - Angels In The Sky | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. The Four Lads - The Mocking Bird | |||
| 2. Lonnie Donegan - Nobody Loves Like An Irishman | |||
| 3. The Kirby Stone Four - Baubles, Bangles And Beads | |||
| 4. John Zacherle - Dinner With Drac (Parts 1 and 2) | |||
| 5. Cliff Richard - High Class Baby | |||
| 6. Lou Monte - Lazy Mary | |||
| 7. The Playmates - Beep Beep | |||
| 8. Tom Lehrer - Be Prepared | |||
| 9. The Elegants - Little Star | |||
| 10. Alma Cogan - Love Is | |||
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Volume One of this series is an absolute delight. In comparison this is a huge disappointment. Most of the songs are second, or indeed third rate. Don't bother.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I have no idea about the reasoning of the person who has given this great compilation one star - and less so still when he openly admits that the previous volume of this was excellent.
Fantastic Voyage are quite literally becoming one of my favourite re-issue labels of all time. They're chucking out compilation after compilation of well packaged, well thought out and beautiful sounding CDs. I buy a lot of retro/re-issue CDs in the genres that are frequently covered by Fantastic Voyage (blues, jump-blues, R&B, Bluegrass, Rock N Roll etc), and in terms of sound quality, accompanying notes and nice attractive packages, they REALLY are the proverbial dog's nuts.
I'll be honest - I've not even opened this yet. It's still sitting on the desk next to me, all sealed and never listened to! If you wanna say "well how can you give it five stars then??" I'd probably have to say fair enough. But this is for sure; if the other geezer can dismiss it as a one star effort, I'm more than qualified to give it five!
I hope Fantastic Voyage keep up the budget-priced, themed compilations they're providing, because I've yet to find one that wasn't worth having.
Fantastic Voyage are quite literally becoming one of my favourite re-issue labels of all time. They're chucking out compilation after compilation of well packaged, well thought out and beautiful sounding CDs. I buy a lot of retro/re-issue CDs in the genres that are frequently covered by Fantastic Voyage (blues, jump-blues, R&B, Bluegrass, Rock N Roll etc), and in terms of sound quality, accompanying notes and nice attractive packages, they REALLY are the proverbial dog's nuts.
I'll be honest - I've not even opened this yet. It's still sitting on the desk next to me, all sealed and never listened to! If you wanna say "well how can you give it five stars then??" I'd probably have to say fair enough. But this is for sure; if the other geezer can dismiss it as a one star effort, I'm more than qualified to give it five!
I hope Fantastic Voyage keep up the budget-priced, themed compilations they're providing, because I've yet to find one that wasn't worth having.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The government does NOT know better than you do.
14 Oct 2010
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Volume 2 of what could be an on-going series of releases demonstrating, through music, why a government agency should never be allowed to play nanny to its people: Can satire be allowed? No way! Some mythical person somewhere may be too stupid to get it, and thus take it literally! The government must protect this never-met person from his own supposed stupidity!
Once again, the booklet provides that and other fascinating insights into the workings of the BBC's censorship department. Mentioning a brand name was a definite no-no, as were using a "classical" melody for a pop song (bye-bye to Baubles Bangles and Beads) and religious themes. The word "spitball" was too vulgar, so The Coasters' "Charlie Brown" couldn't be played. No name was too big to be banned: Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Cash, even the BBC's own Goons produced a record that was too hot to air.
As with Volume 1, the recordings on these CDs are variable in terms of sound quality. In general, most of them are very good. But Fats Waller drowns in the watery artifacts of noise reduction gone bad; Ernest Butcher's "Peaceful Street" comes from a damaged tape copy; The Playmates' "Beep Beep" has been copied at a very wrong speed (over 8% fast, which is a LOT in musical terms--enough to give the vocals a Chipmunk-like quality); and the cut listed as John Zacherle's "Dinner with Drac (Part 2)" is an entirely different record, and definitely not done by Zacherle.
But most of the tracks are enjoyable, and the booklet is fascinating. And with so many big names, and a bunch of songs that were unfamiliar to me, it's definitely a collection worth owning.
Once again, the booklet provides that and other fascinating insights into the workings of the BBC's censorship department. Mentioning a brand name was a definite no-no, as were using a "classical" melody for a pop song (bye-bye to Baubles Bangles and Beads) and religious themes. The word "spitball" was too vulgar, so The Coasters' "Charlie Brown" couldn't be played. No name was too big to be banned: Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Cash, even the BBC's own Goons produced a record that was too hot to air.
As with Volume 1, the recordings on these CDs are variable in terms of sound quality. In general, most of them are very good. But Fats Waller drowns in the watery artifacts of noise reduction gone bad; Ernest Butcher's "Peaceful Street" comes from a damaged tape copy; The Playmates' "Beep Beep" has been copied at a very wrong speed (over 8% fast, which is a LOT in musical terms--enough to give the vocals a Chipmunk-like quality); and the cut listed as John Zacherle's "Dinner with Drac (Part 2)" is an entirely different record, and definitely not done by Zacherle.
But most of the tracks are enjoyable, and the booklet is fascinating. And with so many big names, and a bunch of songs that were unfamiliar to me, it's definitely a collection worth owning.
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