Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just For You [Explicit Lyrics]

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Your eyes do not deceive you--that is indeed the actor Joe Pesci on the cover of this album of "songs," which includes one celebrity "rap." In the annals of celebrity musical undertakings, Pesci's disc does not approach the sublimely horrible work of, say, William Shatner. And the disc is intended to be humorous, as Pesci revisits the character Vincent LaGuardia Gambini from the Oscar-winning hit My Cousin Vinny. Fans of that film and of Pesci's wise-guy character acting will no doubt look beyond the disc's major faults and just enjoy it as a good laugh. It does bear noting, however, that the guy has no business even pretending to sing (let alone rap); he's more in love with words like "bitch" and "fuck" than a hyperactive delinquent 13-year-old, and the lounge- and swing-inspired music is uninspired hack work. There is a cleaned-up version of the disc, but it's hard to imagine there being much left after the edits. --Mike McGonigal

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Pesci, who was a lounge singer before he was an actor, cracks and croons profane and hilarious.

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Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You
Joe Pesci
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Yo Cousin Vinny
Wise Guy
Take Your Love and Shove It
I've Got News for You
How Do You Like Me So Far
Robbie Hood
Twenty-One
Old Man Time
He'll Have to Go
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
If It Doesn't Snow for Christmas
What a Wonderful World
Yo Cousin Vinny [Italian][*]
Yo Cousin Vinny [Spanish][*]

Average customer rating:

riiiiiiiiight
you could do better
It ain't sinatra,but it ain't telly savalas either....
Little Joe sure can sing!
Better than a novelty...

Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just For You
Joe Pesci
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

Falling in Love Again
Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time
Dr. Demento Presents: Greatest Christmas Novelty CD
Casino (Widescreen 10th Anniversary Edition)

ASIN: B00000DCHN
Release Date: 1998-10-13

Tracks:

Yo Cousin Vinny
Wise Guy
Take Your Love And Shove It
I've Got News For You
How Do You Like Me So Far
Robbie Hood
Twenty-One
Old Man Time
He'll Have Top Go
I Can't Give You Anyhting But LOve
If It Doesn't Snow For Christmas
What A Wonderful World
Yo Cousin Vinny (Italian)
Yo Cousin Vinny (Spanish)

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Your eyes do not deceive you--that is indeed the actor Joe Pesci on the cover of this album of "songs," which includes one celebrity "rap." In the annals of celebrity musical undertakings, Pesci's disc does not approach the sublimely horrible work of, say, William Shatner. And the disc is intended to be humorous, as Pesci revisits the character Vincent LaGuardia Gambini from the Oscar-winning hit My Cousin Vinny. Fans of that film and of Pesci's wise-guy character acting will no doubt look beyond the disc's major faults and just enjoy it as a good laugh. It does bear noting, however, that the guy has no business even pretending to sing (let alone rap); he's more in love with words like "bitch" and "fuck" than a hyperactive delinquent 13-year-old, and the lounge- and swing-inspired music is uninspired hack work. There is a cleaned-up version of the disc, but it's hard to imagine there being much left after the edits. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

riiiiiiiiight.......2007-03-22

Imagine a modern day Perry como, who can't sing, making an italian-based album, that is both stupid and profane. This is just bad. I'm sorry, terrible. Wait, why am i sorry? Joe pesci is the one who should be sorry.
There's a rock song and rap song. Yes, a rap song. The only semi tolerable song is, "take your love and shove it." Add two bad christmas songs, and duet with...hold on...marisa tomei? It's all-together bad. Listening to it, i just sit and laugh how horrible it is. Seriously, he shouldn't have.

you could do better.......2006-11-03

a fun CD but you'd do much much better with Falling in Love Again (Joey Defrancesco/joe Doggs pesci). Gambini is a 1 or 2 times listen. Love Again will spin over & over Again on yor player....and in the car (loud!) with the top down.

It ain't sinatra,but it ain't telly savalas either...........2006-10-22

I am not sure what to make of Joe Pesci's album...He sings ok,but then so do I(while in the shower)and nobody has asked me to record an album...A lot of the stuff on the album was intended to be funny,if swear words,dirty mouth and gutter talk is your idea of humor...but even with all of the profanity thrown in the songs are hardly amusing...So is this a vanity item for Pesci,or does he expect to be taken seriously,either as a vocalist,or as the gutter-mouth generation's Lou Monte?In any event the album is a novelty,like the two albums that Telly Savalas put out when he was riding high as teevee's"Kojak",or the drivel the star trek gang has foisted upon the world over the years...Sure,Pesci does manage to sound better than Savalas,Shatner,John Wyane(whose patriotic album is excruciating to listen to),Robert Mitchum(who actually thought his 1950s vocal effort was first class),and all of the other non-singer actor-celebrities that have put out similiar fare,but then MOST people with even a modest singing voice sound better than these people do...

Little Joe sure can sing!.......2005-02-10

This is actually Joe Pesci's second album. His hard to find first album came out in 1968 and consisted mostly of covers of Beatles and Bee Gees songs (I actually have a copy of it). Thirty years later, he released this second album. It is ostensibly performed as the character he played in My Cousin Vinny, but some of the songs don't seem to be performed by Vinny. For example, in the song "Wise Guy", he refers to himself as "Pesci". Anyway, most of the songs here are played for laughs, but some of them are done more or less seriously. The songs that are played for laughs are fairly amusing, although most of laughs come from hearing Joe sing vulgarities. As for the serious songs, they are fairly decent, but Joe is no Tony Bennett. But I will admit that this album is better than most albums recorded by actors.

Better than a novelty..........2004-03-18

A lot of reviewers ignore or dismiss a truth in this disc: Pesci's not a bad jazz singer. While it's pretty obvious that most of the songs on this disc are clearly intended to go straight to the hands of Dr. Demento ("Take Your Love and Shove It" is justly praised as the Single Man's Lament), some, like the sublime "How Do You Like Me, So Far" have a smooth smokiness that cries out for a bourbon and soda. I'd be perfectly happy to hear Pesci follow it up, this time freed from all expectations of camp. Pretty decent.