Simply Love: The Women's Music Collection

Simply Love: The Women's Music Collection

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. You Can Know All I Am

2. Harbor Me

3. Imagine My Surprise!

4. Put Away

5. Nina

6. Mountain Song/Ketucky Woman

7. You Bet

8. Rock Me in Your Arms

9. Something About the Women

10. No Loss of Pride

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Perfect Night

2. She

3. Singing With You

4. Waterfall

5. Simply Love

6. Wouldn't You Rather

7. Testimony

8. Singer in the Storm

9. Woman in Your Life Is You

10. Having Been Touched/Emma

See all 14 tracks on this disc

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.

Simply Love: The Women's Music Collection

Average customer rating:

Some of the best--live

Simply Love: The Women's Music Collection
Holly Near
Manufacturer: Calico Tracks Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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ASIN: B00004UEOT
Release Date: 2000-07-25

Tracks:

You Can Know All I Am
Harbor Me
Imagine My Surprise!
Put Away
Nina
Mountain Song/Ketucky Woman
You Bet
Rock Me in Your Arms
Something About the Women
No Loss of Pride
Golden Thread
Fire in the Rain
Infatuation
Take It With You

Tracks:

Perfect Night
She
Singing With You
Waterfall
Simply Love
Wouldn't You Rather
Testimony
Singer in the Storm
Woman in Your Life Is You
Having Been Touched/Emma
Wonderful
Rock Will Wear Away
Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida
Every Woman

Customer Reviews:

Some of the best--live.......2004-04-21

Hard to believe there are no other reviews of this CD collection. It includes some of Holly Near (and others') classic women's music, some of it modified, some recorded live. If you've ever had the pleasure of seeing Holly perform (or maybe particularly if you haven't), this CD set is like sitting at a concert with your eyes closed. Really a great set.

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