Too Much Fun

Too Much Fun

Editorial Reviews
From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
Country blues stylings performed by two Santa Barbara musicologists bent on supplying smile-inducing entertainment. Sultan is a guitar virtuoso, and Ball plays a spry harmonica and sings well. The problem is they demean the blues by disavowing its pain and sensuality. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

Too Much Fun,Tom Ball,Kenny Sultan,Flying Fish Records,Folk & Traditional,Pop

Too Much Fun: Best of Commander Cody
Average customer rating:

This Band Swings!

Nice Little Collection

Too Much Fun: Best of Commander Cody
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Manufacturer: Mca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Western Swing | Country | Styles | Music
General | Rock | Styles | Music
Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music
Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Hot To Trot the Best Of Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen

Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas

We've Got a Live One Here

Lost in the Ozone

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

ASIN: B000002OES
Release Date: 1990-10-01

Tracks:

Lost In The Ozone
Midnight Shift
Hot Rod Lincoln
20 Flight Rock
Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar
Truck Drivin' Man
Mama Hated Diesels
Rock That Boogie
Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)
Everybody's Doin' It
Good Rockin' Tonite (Live)
(Down To) Seeds & Stems (Again) (Live)
Git It (Live)
Diggy Liggy Lo (Live)
Too Much Fun (Live)

Customer Reviews:

This Band Swings!.......2000-09-07

Just bought this CD & I must say CC&LPAM are a really good band! Their mix of boogie/woogie & western swing is very catchy & to think many of these cuts were recorded years ago. Check out their version of Smoke, Smoke, Smoke, which IMHO is superior to Asleep at the Wheels. Ray Benson's Hot Rod Lincoln version is almost a note by note copy of Bill Kirchen's with CC&LPAM. For the price this CD is a good deal.

Nice Little Collection.......2000-04-12

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen always put out fun albums, and this collection will do nicely if you just want all the hits. I never had the pleasure of seeing them perform live but have heard they put on a great show. Highly recommended.

Average customer rating:

Too Much Fun is Really Good Fun
Too Much Fun
Hand Clappin', Toe Tappin' Fun...and Lots of It!

Too Much Fun
C.J. Chenier
Manufacturer: Alligator Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music

General | International | Styles | Music

Alligator Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music

Cajun & Zydeco | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music

North America | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Step It Up!
The Big Squeeze
The Desperate Kingdom of Love
The Best of Clifton Chenier
Bogalusa Boogie

ASIN: B000000A0W
Release Date: 1995-04-17

Tracks:

Man Smart, Woman Smarter
Bad Luck
Richest Man
Too Much Fun
Give Me Some Of That
Louisiana Down Home Blues
Zydeco Cha Cha
Lust In The Shuffle
Got You On My Mind
Squeaky Wheel
I'm Not Guilty
You Used To Call Me
Louisiana Two Step

Amazon.com

Too Much Fun, C.J. Chenier's fourth album as a bandleader, is the best of the four, and more closely resembles his dad's (Clifton Chenier) records than anything else being released these days. In the liner notes, C.J. declares that he plays "real songs," not "this new type of zydeco ... where they just play one riff over and over and shout some words." This knock on Beau Jocque may be unfair (Beau Jocque does as much with one riff and a groove as James Brown once did), but it does signal C.J.'s devotion to his dad's song-based zydeco. C.J. co-wrote four of the songs, recycled three of his dad's and added such inspired choices as the calypso standard "Man Smart, Woman Smarter," Z.Z. Hill's blues standard "Down Home Blues" and Fred Koller's Nashville novelty number "Give Me Some of That." Guitarist Harry Hypolite is still on hand from Clifton's great band, and the younger musicians make the catchy hooks fit comfortably in the dancehall grooves. What really separates this recording from the zydeco pack, however, is C.J.'s singing. Not only can he nail a juicy melody, but he can bring out the story in the lyrics. He tells the woeful tale of all the "Bad Luck" he suffered until he met the right woman with a perfect blend of humor and sincerity, and he delivers the romantic ballad, "Richest Woman," with the raspy, gospel-soul fervor of a Solomon Burke. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Too Much Fun is Really Good Fun.......2005-09-02

If you like Zydeco, if you've been to Louisiana, if you love to dance or you just want to be happy then you'll enjoy C.J. Chenier. He is one of those musicians you discover in some small club and you wonder why he hasn't appeared on Saturday Night Live or one of the nightly talk shows.

Too Much Fun.......2001-08-24

This is just as the title says! It has slow music. It has upbeat music. It makes you happy and puts you in a good mood! The accordian is the "KEY"! If you close your eyes, you think that you're in New Orleans.

Hand Clappin', Toe Tappin' Fun...and Lots of It!.......2000-06-20

C.J. Chenier, son of zydeco legend Clifton Chenier really shines on this disc. Too Much Fun is exactly right! You can't help but have fun, singing and dancing along to this disc. These are songs to fill the dance floor. It has a mix of both fast cajun-style songs, and slower, more 'traditional' blues songs. Backed by the Louisiana Red Hots, Chenier's smooth accordion playing changes the mood of each different song. Chenier's solo on "Richest Man", one of the slower songs, is very impressive and original. Quickly became my favorite Zydeco album, and I bet it will become one of yours, too.

Average customer rating:

SWEET SOUNDS
Review by ....
Freedom Vessel

Freedom Vessel
George Kahn
Manufacturer: BFD
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

...Compared to What?
Midnight Brew

ASIN: B00005A8U3
Release Date: 2000-09-01

Tracks:

Millennium Schmellenium
Blues For Sonny
Evan's Seven
Freedom Vessel
Bill & Gil's Excellent Adventure
The Way You Do the Things You Do
One Moment of Your Life
Samba By Starlight
Over the Rainbow
Strollin' (wif Ma Bebe)
The Garden

Customer Reviews:

SWEET SOUNDS.......2006-05-19

Free-flowing as usual, George Kahn makes his music seem so effortless! His love of what he plays is rather evident. Check out those ivories! This collection of musicians is a smashing quintet! Eric Marienthal and Bobby Rodriquez are perennial favorites.

"Evan's Seven" is as smooth as silk with the intermingle of George's piano keys and Eric's sweet sax. "Freedom Vessel", the title song, is satisfying yet soothing. A certain smoldering tension exists in "Bill and Gil's Excellent Adventure". Eric's sax will blow the top of your head off and George's piano is creatively frenetic. Then add Bobby's trumpet to the mix and you have a wonderful experience that is over eight minutes long! George plays a touching tribute to Judy Garland on the piano in "Over The Rainbow". "The Garden" is a gorgeous finale with Bobby on trumpet and George on piano.

Once you are "hooked" on the music of George Kahn, you are a fan for life. But beware, this is a musician with a rare talent who knows how to pick an entourage to back him. Buy and enjoy!

Review by ...........2001-03-14

OK, we are sickened by the amount of fun these guys arehaving. What's the matter with desolate guilt ridden music? Well, totell you the truth, it ..., so here we bring you some brassy jazzthat wipes the cool off the mirror and hazes it up with somethingincredibly hot. George Kahn is what the teeming listeners wouldconsider a `mature' composer and musician, in the sense that heincorporates what we here in the Land of Phrygia Musical Appreciationand Phenomenal Artists College feel to be the most intense, if not themost difficult, music to master in the world. Classical music hascadence, structure, and is imprisoned or freed by the conductor. Butwhen it comes to pure agility and stamina, Acid Jazz outshines anyother genre in the abilities of the artists. That's where the crucialelement comes in? Is it credible? For George, we would have to say no,it's not that credible. It's ... Incredible!

Freedom Vessel.......2001-02-26

FREEDOM VESSEL by jazz pianist George Kahn, features trumpeter Bobby Rodriguez in a tight sextet format. Most of the original compositions are homages to the various influences in GeorgeÂ‚s life, from Gil Evans>to Miles Davis. ItÂ‚s a straight-ahead treatment, if thatÂ‚s your cup of tea, though his interpretation of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, does skirt dangerously close to nostalgic sappiness (but I love that tune, so who cares). This is balanced out by a whimsical treatment of The Way

Tracks:

Too Much Fun
My Gal
Chicken Ala Blues
American Medley
Long Legged Woman
It Should've Been Me
How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away
Your Mind Is In The Gutter
Fly Hen Blues
Rake And Ramplin'/Table In Heaven
Days Like This
A Dollar Down

Average customer rating:

Music that makes all other seem pretentious
Best freakin' album
Better Than Ever
The Boys are Back in Town
Surprised!

Too Much Fun
The Holy Modal Rounders
Manufacturer: Rounder Select
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

Rounder Records | Specialty Stores | Music

General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music

Folk Rock | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music

Comedy & Spoken Word | Miscellaneous | Indie Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Have Moicy!
Last Round
The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders
1 & 2
I Make a Wish for a Potato

ASIN: B00000JG25
Release Date: 1999-10-26

Tracks:

Happy Rolling Cowboy
Antoinette
Bad Boy
Violets So Blue
Euphoria
Sail Away Ladies
Penny's Farm
Bonaparte's Retreat
Tea Song
Precious Jewel
A Blues Serenade
Skin Game
Long Journey
Crowley Waltz
Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake
Year Of Jubilo
New John The Revelator

Amazon.com's Best of 1999

The least reverent (and most relevant?) folk group of the last three-plus decades is back with a vengeance, concocting an odd but thoroughly entertaining and delightful foray into acid folk, '60s style. The Rounders' role is to bring some genuine hoots to all-too-staid hootenannies, a task they tackle with infectious zest. --Steven Stolder

Amazon.com

Some guys just never grow up, thank heavens. The Holy Modal Rounders and their misbehaving fellow travelers have been both celebrating and undermining American folk music with unhinged gusto since the early 1960s. (Their debut was recorded the day before President Kennedy's assassination.) Too Much Fun proves that time hasn't tempered founding Rounders Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, and short-timer Dave Reisch, who joined in 1971. They may be receiving Social Security soon, but they behave as if they've eaten too much sugar during recess. Indeed, these guys bring playtime exuberance to tunes that are as old as the hills, ultimately bringing the songs back to life. The trio's exuberantly off-key vocals may initially prove jarring to the uninitiated, but their sheer musicality and uncanny knack for twisting traditionals into weird and wonderful shapes is ultimately winning. The aptly titled Too Much Joy will stand as one of the best folk albums of 1999. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Music that makes all other seem pretentious.......2006-02-25

Disclaimer; I love the HMRounder Family in all forms (HMR, Michael Hurley, Jeffrey Frederick and Clamtones), but for many years I was content to listen and laugh to the 1976 classic HAVE MOICY! Then I awakened and began exploring all the rest. I have to say my favorites are I MAKE A WISH FOR A POTATO and TOO MUCH FUN! Both are collections of older recordings and remakes and while they overlap and repeat some they are both essential for the tunes they don't share. And while the extended family makes occasional appearance, mostly we get Stampfel and Weber sharing their infectious madness.

These songs make me smile and laugh aloud - poignant, silly, rough and raw, this is music from the heart. I'd recommend the curious start with HAVE MOICY! But the wise shouldn't pass up these new releases.

Best freakin' album.......2005-06-10

Better than earlier Rounders albums? Absolutely, and I'll go one step further. This is the best freakin' album of any kind of music ever. I mean it. Every time I play this thing, it makes me feel like no other music does. When I play it in the car, I'm almost driving off the road from stomping and squawking along. This after having the album for five years! These guys have not an ounce of embarrassment in them, and for that I love them. It's the least pretentious music I've ever heard. I sure hope I'm like Stampfel and Weber when I hit 60...

Better Than Ever.......2004-11-17

Usually new albums by the artists you loved 35 years ago are a disappointment. This one was even better than the earlier ones --both the new songs and the new versions of old ones. The "Bad Boys" song is great!

The Boys are Back in Town.......2001-10-31

The Holy Modal Rounders are back! Returning to the near form of their first two Prestige releases, the Rounders have put together a joyous set of exuberant, foot-stomping revelry. Still interpreting music with one foot in tradition and the other (we're assuming they have two feet) in their own universe, the Modals are modestly transporting us to their reverent yet fun-filled world. Borrowing and updating from the first two classic albums; Euphoria, Sail Away Ladies and Crowley Waltz, plus a few eccentric originals, mixed with renderings of tunes from friends (Robin Remaily and Michael Hurley) and more customary fare from blues, country and old-timey, the pair, with bassist David reisch, still haven't lost the ability to put a smile on your face. When need be, they can play it straight, as in the heart-rendering version of Roy Acuff's Precious Jewel. This record is a very satisfying musical collection of esoterica which comes close to matching the originals in spirit and form. If you want to just kick back and enjoy yourself, you certainly can do no worse than putting this CD in the player.As much as you might, try and stop that grin from appearing after a couple of notes. If you really want to double your pleasure, read the booklet as you listen. Good stuff!

Surprised!.......2000-05-03

I've read lots of glowing reviews about these guys, but I didn't believe it. So I took a chance, and I love it. Although, at first I wasn't so sure. You see, the playing on the album threw me off. I was expecting something else. But thats the whole point. the banjos and guitars and the vocals all sound off the cuff and spontaneous to me. Its so refreshing to here the fun they're having with "euphoria" and others...they are making classics like the old songs they covet from the harry smith anthology. Its so cool after listening to the polished product that prevails in the market. Let's hope the next album takes less time.... somebody give Peter Stampfel a grant !

Average customer rating:

I Ain't Never Had Too Much Fun (Import)
Billy C. Farlow
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000LTOIIA

Product Description

track# song name track time 1 Too Much Fun (2:58) 2 Honey Girl (3:30) 3 Love Bandit (3:35) 4 Sit on Daddy's Knee (4:01) 5 You Left Your Mark on Me (3:19) 6 Demon Lover (3:05) 7 Jerry's Playhouse (3:42) 8 Oh Babe (6:19) 9 Don't Play in Your Own Backyard (2:48) 10 Magnolia Bend (4:41) Billy West Drums (Snare) Roger Younger Guitar Deanna Bogart Keyboards, Saxophone Mary-Ann Brandon Vocals (Background) Billy C. Farlow Harmonica, Vocals, Main Performer Fred James Guitar, Producer, Vocals (Background)

Average customer rating:

Too Much Fun
ROCKIT 88 BAND
Manufacturer: 7 ARTS
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000MOMESU

Product Description

12 cuts like Dust My Broom & Rock Me Baby

Average customer rating:

Too Much Fun in a No Fun Zone
Clark Yost
Manufacturer: The Orchard
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00004SBYV
Release Date: 2000-03-18

Tracks:

Too Much Fun In A No Fun Zone
Nowhere To Land
Enertainer (Late For Singing The Blues)
Carriage House Girl
Ice Cream
Blue
Vegas
Enter The Fire
With Morning Comes Mist Fall
Exorcisms Performed Daily
As Far As It Goes

Average customer rating:

Pornstar

Manufacturer: Tex and Joe Buck
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA46M6
Release Date: 2004-07-20

Average customer rating:

The Too Much Fun Club Rides Again
Brethren & The Evil Empire
Manufacturer: Pompous Nectar Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA8KBO
Release Date: 2005-08-02

Tracks: