City Slicker

1. Way of the City

2. Taxi

3. Street Girl

4. One of Those Parties

5. Where Is Love

6. I Stood on the Sidewalk

7. City Slicker

8. All Because of What You Did to Me

9. Can You Hang

City Slicker,J. Blackfoot,Sound Town Records,Pop,R&B,Soul,Soul/R & B,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues

(Not) Your Standard Spike Jones Collection

Average customer rating:

Great set of wartime rarities
Cure for the Blues
Standard Transcription Collection

(Not) Your Standard Spike Jones Collection
Spike Jones
Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

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Strictly for Music Lovers
Spike Jones - Greatest Hits
Fonk
Spiked!: The Music of Spike Jones
The Spike Jones Story

ASIN: B00007JR3K
Release Date: 2003-04-08

Album Description

Holiday blues comin' on? Well, put a spike in `em! Here's the zaniest, wildest and just plain sickest Collectors' Choice Music exclusive yet—79 tracks from Spike Jones and his City Slickers! These represent Spike's complete Standard Transcription sides, but these tunes are anything but standard; Mr. Jones brought his full bag of tricks for these non-commercial recordings (made in Hollywood during the early `40s). Add to that the fact that most of these have never been on CD or even LP, and any lover of Spike's mayhem-filled mixture of laughs and hot licks is going to flip over this set! Notes and great pictures accompany this 3-CD walk on the wacky side from the greatest novelty band of all time.

Customer Reviews:

Great set of wartime rarities.......2003-05-14

Spike Jones was the king of the novelty song performers, with hits like "Der Fuehrer's Face" and the parody version of "Sheik of Araby" becoming huge hits during World War II. This is a swell 3-CD set, gathering a full eighty-one of Jones' best tracks from his 1940s heyday, drawn from an extensive archive of radio broadcasts made for the Standard Transcription service. The tightness of his City Slickers band is amply demonstrated in these manic, kookily orchestrated performances. Toots, squonks, blatts and bleats whiz by at lightning speed, as one daffy song after another will delight devoted fans. Amazingly, Jones had the unusual, almost unique ability to perform a repertoire almost entirely made up of comedic material, and yet still be quite listenable and engaging. His jazz chops were hardly in question, and from time to time Jones would dash off a non-novelty ballad or two, just to give the rubes something to think about. Of course, just as often he would perform a song that *sounded* like a straight ballad, but would turn out to be another goof. (One great example of this is the sultry "Serenade To A Jerk," sung in slinky, burlesque tones by Myrtle Horwin.) This collection may seem a little overwhelming, but like his studio recordings, these radio performances have a certain brilliance and joie de vivre about them that will leave you enchanted. Definitely worth checking out!

Cure for the Blues.......2003-04-25

Here's the zaniest, wildest and just plain sickest Collectors' Choice Music exclusive yet-79 tracks from Spike Jones and his City Slickers! These represent Spike's complete Standard Transcription sides, but these tunes are anything but standard; Mr. Jones brought his full bag of tricks for these non-commercial recordings (made in Hollywood during the early `40s). Add to that the fact that most of these have never been on CD or even LP, and any lover of Spike's mayhem-filled mixture of laughs and hot licks is going to flip over this set! Notes and great pictures accompany this 3-CD walk on the wacky side from the greatest novelty band of all time.

Standard Transcription Collection.......2003-04-12

This collection has remastered material from the large stack of Standard Transcription discs from the early 1940's. There are many songs not recorded on RCA, many on the theme of wartime ("48 Reasons Why"), and the quality is excellent. The packaging is threadbare but this is an essential CD package for true music lovers.

Average customer rating:

Pretty awful
for Die hard JY fans only
JY busts loose!

City Slicker
James Young , and Jan Hammer
Manufacturer: Passport Records/Absolute/Jem
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0002TX3IA

Product Description

First Solo album by James Young of Styx.

Customer Reviews:

Pretty awful.......2007-01-11

I'm a Styx fan, and I enjoyed Jan Hammer's work with Neil Schon too; so I had high hopes for this one. There might be one or perhaps two listenable songs on this CD, but the general effect is one of rampant drunkeness in the studio. Sloppy and amatuerish.

for Die hard JY fans only.......2005-08-04

Im a huge must have anything styx ever recorded fan, so even though I've never been big on JY, I felt he added variety and a certain flavor to the group. I bought his solo albums for the sake of completing my collection rather then enjoyment. I do like one song 'waiting' very much and 'Still feel your love' is prety good, but everything else is not my cup of tea. It should please the JY styx fans though.

JY busts loose!.......2005-03-26

james Young entered the solo world in the mid-eighties with Jan "Miami Vice" Hammer riding shotgun. Young's songs sound much like his material with Styx, which means we get another slab of his songwriting formula of ...opening guitar-lick, verse, sing-a-long chourus, verse, guitar solo, verse, sing-a-long chorus, fade out....sometimes he hits his mark (City Slicker, Still feel Your Love, Waiting) and sometimes he doesn't (Give me something..., Wild Dogs) but none of it is terrible. Young's hammer-heavy riffs are augmented by Jan Hammer's very interesting synth solos to go along with his own. There's no doubt that JY loves big riffs and he has written plenty good ones in his career, his songwriting is not as good as his riffs, however. One thing that bugs me on the album is Jan Hammer's over-use of his programmable drum synths that ALL sound like the drum sound he used on the Miami Vice theme. It's a real 80s sounding synthetic drum timbre that just grates after a while. The Young/Hammer duo do produce an odd song (Prisoner of War)that cleverly utilizes a sparse JY arrangement with Hammer adding some very nice sound effects that is successful at giving the tune real atmosphere. Overall a decent effort from an unlikely source (JY) with a very unlikely pairing of two artists seemingly on the opposite ends of the rock spectrum. I would have liked to heard another effort from the duo, (a Jan Hammer guest spot in Styx would really be odd)but its a one-shot deal here, folks.

Average customer rating:

JAY!!!
Pretty Doggone Good!

City Slicker
J Blackfoot
Manufacturer: Sound Town Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00006JTEE
Release Date: 2002-09-03

Tracks:

The Way Of The City
Taxi
Street Girl
One Of Those Parties
Where Is Love
I Stood On The Sidewalk
City Slicker
All Because Of You Did To Me
Can You Hang

Customer Reviews:

JAY!!!.......2004-09-13

THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONAL ARTIST WHO IS VERY UNDERRATED. I LIKE THIS BLUES ARTIST I LOVE THE SONG TAXI. (TAKE ME TO THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN JUST AS FAST AS YOU CAN.)

Pretty Doggone Good!.......2003-02-06

One of J's early albums. The track "Taxi" is my favorite. All in all J Blackfoot is a real good singer.

Average customer rating:

City Slicker
James Young
Manufacturer: Absolute Pitch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000008MKG
Release Date: 1993-11-16

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