Floating Down the River

Product Description
Get ready for the most amazing harmonies and most intricately arranged ragtime vocals you have ever heard. Here, for the first time ever, are the complete releases by the first supergroup of the acoustic recording industry. The Heidelberg Quintet combined the singular talents of the hottest star of the day, Billy Murray, with a top-notch performer whose fame was rapidly growing because of the amazing high notes he could reach with his natural voice—Will Oakland. Together with seasoned veterans John Bieling, Steve Porter, and William F. Hooley, these singers laid down harmonies that latter-day barbershop quartets dream of!

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Average customer rating: A pleasant surprise

Floating Down the River Manufacturer: Archeophone Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot ASIN: B0000ACNCW Release Date: 2003-05-27

Tracks:

1. In the Gloaming (Will Oakland and the American Quartet)
2. Stick to Your Mother, Tom (Will Oakland & Chorus)
3. Under the Love Tree
4. I Want to Love You While the Music's Playing
5. Way Down South
6. Emmett's Lullaby
7. On a Beautiful Night with a Beautiful Girl
8. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
9. My Little Lovin' Sugar Babe
10. Tennessee Moon
11. Under the Love Tree
12. Way Down South
13. I Want to Love You While the Music's Playing
14. Teasing Moon
15. Ragtime Regiment Band
16. You're a Great Big Blue-Eyed Baby
17. Give Me Your Hand
18. In Apple Blossom Time (Down on the Farm)
19. Floating Down the River on the Alabam'
20. In the Heart of the Kentucky Hills
21. They're on Their Way to Mexico
22. Across the Rio Grande
23. Harmony Bay
24. By the Beautiful Sea
25. Don't Go Away
26. Roll Them Cotton Bales

Album Description

Get ready for the most amazing harmonies and most intricately arranged ragtime vocals you have ever heard. Here, for the first time ever, are the complete releases by the first supergroup of the acoustic recording industry. The Heidelberg Quintet combined the singular talents of the hottest star of the day, Billy Murray, with a top-notch performer whose fame was rapidly growing because of the amazing high notes he could reach with his natural voice—Will Oakland. Together with seasoned veterans John Bieling, Steve Porter, and William F. Hooley, these singers laid down harmonies that latter-day barbershop quartets dream of!

Customer Reviews:

A pleasant surprise.......2005-03-04

I've been buying a fair amount of very old recordings lately, and I have enjoyed this one more than most. Will Oakland has a high, strong voice that is distinctive and almost sweet-at least on Emmett's Lullaby, Tennessee Moon, and a few of the other standouts. Unfortunately, it appears this is the only recording of his work available. Billy Murray is also a top notch singer, as on Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. The sound quality here is as good as anything prior to 1925 (these songs were recorded in 1912-1914). Basically, this is high quality barbershop quartet music with an excellent falsetto voice that often sings lead.

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