Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye: 21 of His Greatest Hits

Artist: Sammy Kaye
Label: Collector's Choice
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 617742005028
EAN: 0617742005028
ASIN: B00000AFS9

Release Date: 1998-09-15

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Popular Music 1950: O-S

Tracks:

Daddy
Penny Serenade
I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen
Sooner Or Later (You're Gonna Be Coming Around)
That's My Desire
The Old Lamp-Lighter
I'm A Big Girl Now
Chickery Chick
Until Tomorow (Goodnight, My Love)
An Apple Blossom Wedding
It Might As Well Be Spring
Serenade Of The Bells
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
There Goes That Song Again
Careless Hands
The Four Winds And The Seven Seas
Room Full Of Roses
Roses
Baby, It's Cold Outside
It Isn't Fair
Harbor Lights

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Customer Reviews:

NO INSTRUMENTALS.......2005-04-11

I always liked Sammy Kaye and when I got this CD, o was hoping there'd be instrumentals; but noooo, all the songs are vocal numbers. The best songs are "Penny Serenade" (v-Jimmy Brown), "I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen" (v-Don Cornell), "That's My Desire" (v-Don Cornell and the Kaydets), "There Goes That Song Again" (v-Nancy Norman), "Careless Hands" (v-Don Cornell and the Kaydets), "Room Full Of Roses" (v-Don Cornell and the Kaydets), "It Isn't Fair" (v-Don Cornell) and "Harbor Lights" (v-Tony Alamo and the Kaydets). This CD could've been better, but the next Sammy Kaye will have instrumentals. I hope!

BEST OF THE SWEET BANDS.......2005-01-26

If more people had the feel for this music, the world might be just a little more gentle as it was after the war. This compact disc offers an excellent one-disc overview of Sammy Kaye's biggest hits. Sammy Kaye had many hits in the 1940s and early 1950s and this disc includes many of his memorable recordings, including "Daddy" and "Harbor Lights." I enjoyed the music of Sammy Kaye and have a difficult time finding his recordings. It was refreshing to stumble across this sample. I am especially interested in his "Sunday Serenade" radio programs of the 1940s and 1950s and I wonder if they (recordings) are available.

As even the liner notes to this CD admit, bandleader Sammy Kaye represented the squarer, more commercial end of the Big Band era, taking his cues from the workmanlike Glenn Miller, but restricting his dance music to an even more controlled, brisker, less lyrical style. It's fine stuff, emblematic of the times and well-packaged music. This generously programmed 21-track set features a wide swath of Kaye's work--from 1939 to 1950.

The bad thing is that all the songs featured here have vocals (Don Cornell, Jimmy Brown, Tony Alamo, Billy Williams, Nancy Norman, Laura Leslie, Betty Barclay as well as the Kaydets and the Kaye Chior) and no instrumentals--but that's okay, since I'm sure there are instrumentals on other Sammy Kaye CD's.

This is a Great CD by the best of the sweet bands. The sound quality is excellent. A second volume should be issued featuring his immediate post-war vocalists and the songs that made the top 100. It's not immortal, timelessly poetic music (like many of the big band records were), but it is a nice slice nostalgia and perfectly fine in its own right. Worth checking out!

Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye.......2003-12-07

This is music I cut my teeth on. My Father after returning from the War (WWII) made sure that we listened to Sammy Kaye every Sunday. If people had the feel for this music, the world might be just a little more gentle as it was after the war. Get the music of Sammy Kaye and then close your eyes and listen to it and, you will have a little heaven.
Larry McFall

Sammy Kaye CD.......1998-12-12

Great CD by the best of the sweet bands. A second volume should be issued featuring his immediate post-war vocalists and the songs that made the top 100.

An excellent career overview of Sammy Kaye's biggest hits.......1998-09-14

This compact disc offers an excellent one-disc overview of Sammy Kaye's biggest hits. Sammy Kaye had many hits in the 1940s and early 1950s, and this disc includes many of his memorable recordings, including "Daddy", "Harbor Lights" and "The Old Lamp-Lighter." Some wonderfully sentimental songs of the late 1940s are also included -- "Apple Blossom Wedding", "Serenade of the Bells" and "Roses". The sound quality is excellent. This is a first-rate disc and the only disappointment is that Collector's Choice has not yet issued Volume 2!

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