The Firehouse Five Plus Two Story

The Firehouse Five Plus Two Story

The Firehouse Five Plus Two Story

ASIN: B000000XQ0

Editorial Reviews
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First recorded in 1949, this band was the side project of a group of animators at the Walt Disney studios; this two-CD set collects the group's recordings up to 1954. The Firehouse Five began at the peak of the California revival of traditional jazz, when the music was sharply divided into warring camps and traditions were jealously defended. But there was nothing doctrinaire about the band's enthusiastic, almost frenetic, approach. Owing as much to vaudeville as it did to New Orleans jazz, it invoked the spirit of America's early popular music, including novelty tunes like "Who Walks in When I Walk Out." The sirens and other sound effects that the band added to its music even suggest a kinship with its inspired contemporary Spike Jones. Though these recordings may send traditional purists into apoplexy, the level of musicianship is surprisingly high and the spirit is infectious. --Stuart Broomer

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The Firehouse Five Plus Two Story
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Really is Good Time Jazz!!!
  • Kimball World
  • Master Animators, Amazing Musicians
  • Wonderful happy music
  • Excellent - You won't regret it !!!!
 The Firehouse Five Plus Two Story
Firehouse Five Plus Two
Manufacturer: Good Time Jazz
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
Traditional Jazz GeneralTraditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music
New Orleans & Dixieland JazzNew Orleans & Dixieland Jazz | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music
DixielandDixieland | Jazz | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000000XQ0
Release Date: 1994-02-03

Tracks:

  1. Firehouse Stomp
  2. Everybody Loves My Baby
  3. Pagan Love Song
  4. San
  5. Fireman's Lament
  6. Blues Man Naughty Sweetie Gives Me
  7. Yes Sir! That's My Baby
  8. Red Hot River Valley
  9. Riverside Blues
  10. Brass Bell
  11. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
  12. Tiger Rag
  13. Frankie & Johnny
  14. Sweet Goergia Brown
  15. Sobbin' Blues
  16. Just A Stomp At Twilight
  17. Down Where The Sun Goes Down
  18. St Loius Blues

Tracks:

  1. 12 Street Rag
  2. Copenhagen
  3. Wabash Blues
  4. Firechief Rag
  5. Lonesome Mama Blues
  6. Who Walks In When I Walk Out
  7. Chinatown, My Chinatown
  8. South
  9. Lonesome Railroad Blues
  10. Show Me The Way To The File
  11. Lovin' Sam
  12. When You Wore A Tulip
  13. Five Foot Two
  14. San Antonio Rose
  15. Southern Comfort
  16. I've Been Floating Down The Old Green River
  17. Missippi Rag
  18. Runnin' Wild

Amazon.com

First recorded in 1949, this band was the side project of a group of animators at the Walt Disney studios; this two-CD set collects the group's recordings up to 1954. The Firehouse Five began at the peak of the California revival of traditional jazz, when the music was sharply divided into warring camps and traditions were jealously defended. But there was nothing doctrinaire about the band's enthusiastic, almost frenetic, approach. Owing as much to vaudeville as it did to New Orleans jazz, it invoked the spirit of America's early popular music, including novelty tunes like "Who Walks in When I Walk Out." The sirens and other sound effects that the band added to its music even suggest a kinship with its inspired contemporary Spike Jones. Though these recordings may send traditional purists into apoplexy, the level of musicianship is surprisingly high and the spirit is infectious. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Really is Good Time Jazz!!!.......2007-04-12

I am no musical scholar but i have always been fascinated by the Prosperous, wild, and immoral times of the roaring 20's. When you listen to this music you can picture those times with cop cars chasing after gangsters in a high speed chase with Tommy Guns Blazing. You can picture happy people doing the Charleston and flappers doing their naughty dances. You can picture guys like Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey in a speak easy pounding down beer after beer and giving every cutie on the dance floor a spin. This music captures the upbeat happy times of the ragtime, dixeland wild era of our countries history. If you liked the music in the film The Sting......if you like Rag and Dixie.......then this is that music on Steroids. Most reviews classify this group as a more like a jazz band that had costumes and antics and made some toe tappers. Believe me when i tell you that i'm looking at the big picture and i mean what i say when i say that if i were to pick one album to represent what the Music of Americana was during the teens and 20's.........this would be the album. There are some songs on this album that get your blood up so much that you wish you could intimidate a cop for no reason into a high speed chase with tommy guns ablazing. It is the funnest, wildest, toe tappin, good time jazz you'll ever hear. But It!!

5 out of 5 stars Kimball World.......2005-08-06

A long time ago it took me a short while to figure out the things I liked about Disney were all Ward Kimball efforts. In fact, I didn't like straight-up Disney product at all. Hated it in fact. No balls, sap-headed, a bit too precious. Much of Disney couldn't stand Ward either but Walt had a special place in his heart for the maniac. He knew nothing would fly in vison and magic-land unless there was a Trickster there to give it a kick in the arse--something the modern Disney has completely forgotten.

I've heard these wonderful recordings of the band Ward got together described as corny. Banana oil! They're fun and ironic and if you listen carefully you'll hear the spirit of Spike Jones in most of them and you'll also hear the spirit of Ward years later in the Squirrel Nut Zippers (check out the first cut on their Music for Lovers album!). We were starting to see a revival of healthy fun, style, and zaniness in the world until that drip and his entourage of downers turned up in the White House. And of course 9-11 knocked it all into a cocked hat. Too bad.

So screw 'em. Pick this up and blast it while driving through town in your SUV. Order the recently released Thin Man collection and that 90s screwball masterpiece, "Freaked." Hey, one of those Thin Man flicks has a bonus cartoon--Screwy Squirrel dealing with a saccharine Disney-type cutsey-bootsy bunny. Cool. Fight the drips.

5 out of 5 stars Master Animators, Amazing Musicians.......2002-08-07

I'd been thinking of getting a Firehouse Five Plus Two cd for many years, but it was the recent passing of Ward Kimball (the founder of the group and the animator behind such famous Disney characters like Jiminy Cricket) that made me search for their cds on Amazon.

I have always enjoyed the taped performances I've seen by the group (you can catch them on the "Disneyland, USA" DVD released last year), but listening to the music--a frentic, frantic, and altogether fun collection--one can really sense that these men, so reknowned for their artistic talent, were blessed with a multiplicty of talents.

It's not intended to be listened to as background music for a quiet evening at home--the fire bells at the beginning of Disc One makes that quite clear--but it definitely is meant to be listened to when you feel like smiling, enjoying some wonderful dixieland jazz (one might feel inclined to look for the nearest speakeasy and dance the charleston), and remembering some of the greatest animators who ever lived, put on this collection, which highlights some of their greatest moments.

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful happy music.......1999-12-05

The Firehouse Five Plus Two were wonderful musicians. This is a fact often overlooked, as they clearly played for fun -- both the listeners' and their own. In their early years, their humor and slapstick antics on stage often obscured their excellent musicianship. This double CD of their earlier recordings shows their growth and development, but the goofiness which characterized their live performances is not present in these studio recordings. In my view, they did not reach their peak till the arrival of George Probert and his magnificent soprano sax playing; Probert appears on only a few of these tunes. But the infectious energy and joy of this band was apparent from the start, and these songs can be played again and again with satisfaction and joy.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent - You won't regret it !!!!.......1999-10-09

I bought it without knowing who these guys were. After talking with some older people they told me that Firehouse Five plus Two had been very famous in the 50's. This CD is a great selection. The sound is very good considering that are recordings for the 40's and 50's. If you like this kind of music you'll find here the best.
Settin the World on Fire: The Whole Story, Vol. 1
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • GREAT COLLECTION!!
 Settin the World on Fire: The Whole Story, Vol. 1
Firehouse Five Plus Two
Manufacturer: Jasmine Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
Traditional Jazz GeneralTraditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music
New Orleans & Dixieland JazzNew Orleans & Dixieland Jazz | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music
DixielandDixieland | Jazz | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000CQKXYA
Release Date: 2006-02-07

Album Description

This 2-CD set for the price of one CD with 50 tracks contains every studio recording from the Firehouse Five Plus 2's first session in May 1949 to their Sept. 1955 session. This also features 2 alternative takes and 2 other tracks never previously releaseed. Jasmine. 2006.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars GREAT COLLECTION!!.......2006-02-21

This 2 CD set is really great and takes all the tracks from "THE FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO STORY" plus a number of tracks from their "GOES SOUTH" album as well as a number of tracks from their "PLAYS FOR LOVERS album and has them all here to enjoy and its done really great!

One of the best things about this set is that it gives you 2 songs that never before have been available on album or CD ,they were just released on 45 RPM records only and these are:

"JINGLE BELLS" and "THERES A TAVERN IN THE TOWN".

These are truly great numbers and are toe tappin!

Also, this collection gives you 2 versions of 2 songs, and these are

"Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me", one version is the 45 RPM version and the other is the LP version.
The 2nd song is "Down Where The Sun Goes Down" and again is the same deal,one is a 45 RPM version and the other the LP version.

So indeed this collection is a MUST HAVE!!

ENJOY!! :)
Stoking the Fire: Whole Story 2
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Stoking the Fire: Whole Story 2
    Firehouse Five Plus Two
    Manufacturer: Jasmine Music
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B000RV0RG4
    Release Date: 2007-07-17

    Tracks:

    1. My Cutie's Due At Two To Two
    2. Girl Of My Dreams
    3. I Love My Baby
    4. The Love Nest
    5. Love Is Just Around The Corner
    6. Careless Love
    7. I Love You Truly
    8. Love Songs Of The Nile
    9. Swanee River
    10. Birmingham Papa: Your Memphis Mama Is Comin' To Town
    11. Milenberg Joys
    12. Tishomingo Blues
    13. Over The Waves (Rosas) (Introducing: My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean)
    14. Peoria
    15. Asleep In The Deep
    16. Bing Crosby's Introduction To Firehouse Five Plus Two
    17. Red Hot River Valley
    18. Introduction To Bing Crosby's Vocal
    19. Everybody Loves My Baby
    20. Bing Crosby's Introduction Of Band
    21. Tiger Rag
    22. The Members Of The Band
    23. Five Foot Two Eyes Of Blue
    24. Off To Memphis
    25. Memphis Blues
    26. Bing Crosby Introduces The Firehouse Five Plus Two
    27. Copenhagen
    28. Introduction To Bing Crosby's Vocal
    29. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me
    30. Hook And Ladder Blues
    31. Brass Bell
    32. Everybody Loves My Baby
    33. Red Hot River Valley
    34. South
    35. Firehouse Stomp
    36. I Wish't I Was In Peoria
    37. Storyville Blues
    38. Angry
    39. How Come You Do Me Like You Do, Do, Do?
    40. Panama Rag
    41. At A Georgia Camp Meeting
    42. St Louis Blues
    43. There'll Be Some Changes Made
    44. Some Of These Days
    45. Tiger Rag
    46. Milenberg Joys
    47. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
    48. Old Fashioned Love
    49. Ain't Nobody Got The Blues Like Me
    50. That's A Plenty

    Album Details

    The Firehouse Five plus Two were Mostly Comprised of Cartoon Animators from the Disney Studios and their Spontaneous Sessions were Often Injected with a Good Dose of Humor. "Stoking the Fire" Follows on from the Success of the First Volume "Settin' the World on Fire" and is a Great Second Helping, Showing What a Fun and Lively Jazz Band the Firehouse Five Were. Also Included in this Fantastic New Set Are Rare Recordings of the Band with Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald.
    THE FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO STORY
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      		THE FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO STORY

      Manufacturer: HERITAGE JAZZ
      ProductGroup: Classical
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B000M732OM

      Product Description

      DOUBLE DISC OF 36 TITLES JAZZ & MORE JAZZ-RARE

      Jazz Music:

      1. The Gathering
      2. The Live at Birdland NYC [Live]
      3. The Minor Passions [Live]
      4. The OKeh Ellington
      5. The Sorcerer [Original recording remastered]
      6. These Are Soulful Days
      7. Trio 99>00
      8. Trio Sud
      9. Truth in Shredding
      10. Turkish Women at the Bath

      Jazz Music

      Jazz Music