The Best of Kay Kyser & His Orchestra

The Best of Kay Kyser & His Orchestra Artist: Kay Kyser & His Orchestra
Label: Collector's Choice
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 617742011128
EAN: 0617742011128
ASIN: B00003W0XT


Release Date: 2000-05-09

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Listmania:

  1. American Songbook: Anthology Performances 1947-1949
  2. 70 interesting performances of songs by Frank Loesser

Tracks:

  1. Isch Ka Bibble (I Should Worry)
  2. It's Love I'm After
  3. Did You Mean It?
  4. 'Cause My Baby Says It's So
  5. Cry, Baby, Cry
  6. So You Left Me For The Leader Of A Swing Band?
  7. Music, Maestro, Please!
  8. Ya Got Me
  9. The Umbrella Man
  10. (Gotta Get Some) Shut-Eye
  11. Cuckoo In The Clock
  12. I Promise You
  13. Three Little Fishies
  14. The Tinkle Song
  15. The Merry Old Land Of Oz
  16. Way Back In 1939 A.D.
  17. Who's Yehoodi?
  18. Alexander The Swoose (Half Swan-Half Goose)

Tracks:

  1. 'Til Reveille
  2. (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover
  3. A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal)
  4. Who Wouldn't Love You
  5. He Wears A Pair Of Silver WIngs
  6. Jingle, Jangle, Jingle
  7. Let's Get Lost
  8. Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition
  9. Strip Polka
  10. Can't You Read Between The Lines?
  11. Rosemary
  12. Horses Don't Bet On People
  13. Slowly
  14. One-zy Two-zy (I Love You-zy)
  15. Ole Buttermilk Sky
  16. The Old Lamp-Lighter
  17. On A Slow Boat To China
  18. Woody Woodpecker

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This is how a "Best Of" should be..........2005-09-27

I'm trying to enhance my collection of recorded music from the period, but the 30s and 40s are a little before my time. So, I'm using Joel Whitburn's "Pop Memories" to guide me as I go about collecting this music.31 of the 36 tracks on these two discs are listed in Whitburn's book - a huge track-count and an admirable percentage of ORIGINAL, "Best Of" recordings. (It really bugs me if a recording isn't "the original".)Plus, Kyser and company's popularity at the time makes this one of the best musical investments I ever made.

4 out of 5 stars Kay Kyser's Best Really IS..........2000-10-24

As a Kyser collector for 11 years, this double CD IS the most comprehensive collection I've seen yet from the Ol' Professor of Swing. What most people don't realize is many of the tracks here are alternate takes, which makes this even better! From his early recordings on Brunswick to later Columbia hits, Kay, Ish Kabibble and the other featured vocalists are well represented here. For more info on this once hugely popular, but almost forgotten Big Bandleader, go to kaykyser.net C'mon chillen, Yess Dance!

4 out of 5 stars The Ol' Perfesser ..........2000-08-12

Not just PURE corn, this compilation contains many serious renditions of classics (Ole Buttermilk Sky, On a Slow Boat to China, etc.). The novelty tunes, frankly the reason that I bought the CD, cover the gamut of silliness. We all know "Three Little Fishies" but how many can say that they have a copy of "Horses don't Bet on People"! With 36 songs, on two CD's, you can be assured that you'll know all there is to know about Kay Kyser, avoiding any remedial Klasses at Kollege. (and Mike Douglas! He didn't have a voice when I watched his TV show as a kid. Apparently he DID when he worked with Kay.)

Music CD:

  1. Globe Unity 67 & 70 ~ Globe Unity Orchestra, Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Peter Brotzmann
  2. Arc of the Testimony ~ Arcana
  3. Lava ~ Duke Levine
  4. The Individualism of Gil Evans ~ Gil Evans
  5. Pastoral Composure ~ Matthew Shipp Quartet
  6. The Voodoo Dogs ~ Larry Goldings & Bob Ward
  7. Live at Redlands University ~ Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
  8. Definition of a Toy ~ Dylan van der Schyff
  9. The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 7 ~ Art Tatum
  10. Town Hall Concert ~ Charles Mingus

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Ya Rollin' Doo Doo ~ Two Hyped Brothers & A Dog

Symphony in 16 Bars ~ Kenny White

Desmond Child & Rouge ~ Desmond Child & Rouge

60 Degrees ~ Tribes of Neurot

Three Months to Kill ~ Huelyn Duvall

Future Blues ~ Canned Heat

Take Your Shoes Off ~ Robert Cray

Two Lane Highway ~ Pure Prairie League

I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) ~ Hi-Five

Operation Hip- Hop ~ Nawd Squad