Music of the Year: 1963 [Import]

Track Listings
1. Do You Love Me
2. It's My Party
3. When Will You Say I Love You
4. Diamonds
5. Everybody
6. Tell Him
7. Money
8. Memphis Tennessee
9. Say I Won't Be There
10. I Saw Linda Yesterday
11. Town Crier
12. Indian Love Call
13. Loo-Be-Loo
14. Hey Mama
15. Not Too Little Not Too Much
16. Funny All Over
17. Some Other Guy
18. It's Love That Really Counts
19. Pretty Thing
20. Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Music of the Year: 1963,Various Artists,Universal/Spectrum,R&B/Soul

Music of the Year: 1963 [Import]

Music of the Year: 1963 [Import]
Woody Herman-1963 Swingin'est Big Band Ever (25th Year-His Greatest)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • The Renaissance Herd
  • REALLY INFERIOR
  • WOODY HERMAN FEATURING BILL CHASE
  • Best Band Woody Ever Had...Period!
  • WOODY'S CAMEL RUNS AGAIN!
 Woody Herman-1963 Swingin'est Big Band Ever (25th Year-His Greatest)
Woody Herman
Manufacturer: Umvd Labels
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
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Similar Items:
  1. Thundering Herds 1945-1947
  2. Jazz Hoot/Woody's Winners
  3. Giant Steps
  4. Thundering Herd
  5. Live at Monterey

ASIN: B0000631D8
Release Date: 2002-05-07

Tracks:

  1. Mo-Lasses
  2. Blues For J.P.
  3. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  4. Tunin' In
  5. Sister Sadie
  6. Sig Ep
  7. It's A Lonesome Old Town (When You're Not Around)
  8. Camel Walk

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Renaissance Herd.......2006-12-02

If you define renaissance as " a revival of intellectual or artistic achievement and vigor", then this CD release qualifies. Easily one of my top three choices for big bands from the 60's, this ensemble rivals the First Herd in dynamics and sheer enthusiasm. The First Herd was populated by such luminaries as Dave Tough, Pete And Conte Candoli, Chubby Jackson, Bill Harris, Neal Hefti, Flip Phillips, Shorty Rogers - the list is a long and distinguished one. While perhaps lacking the depth of the bench that was the Thundering Herd, this CD boasts an impressive line-up that echos the earlier iteration, with stellar trumpeter Bill Chase, trombonist Phil Wilson, and tenorist Sal Nistico, all of whom went on to greater fame and fortune, in attendance. Locking the sections together is none other than Jake Hanna on drums, with Nat Pierce on piano, who also provides many of the arrangements. Historically, Hermans' bands all suffered from lack of an effective drummer, save for Dave Tough in the forties, and Hanna absolutely nails the quarterbacking role like no other drummer I know of (and I'm not leaving out anybody). All of the tracks are good, with Blues for J.P. and Sig Ep (Kranky) my favorites. Pierces' arrangement of Sister Sadie is worth mentioning, primarily because of it's association with the Buddy Rich Big Band; you make the call as to which arrangement is better. All in all, save for the 41-45 singles from the First Herd, this is the best of The Herds to collect. Incidentally, this was the 1964 Grammy Award winner for Best Large Jazz Ensemble.

1 out of 5 stars REALLY INFERIOR.......2006-10-05

Respecfully I submit that this is the worst of the late Whimpering Heap.

It should not have been released. Woody was struggling, but the big band era had already ended.

Buy the Woody Herman Golden Greats instead.

3 out of 5 stars WOODY HERMAN FEATURING BILL CHASE.......2005-12-04

Classic jazz album from 1963 has the distinction of featuring the high wailing trumpeter Bill Chase, who went on to form the rock group, Chase in the 1970's, ("Get It On"), and who died tragically in a plane crash along with several members of his band in 1978. It includes a Chase composition, "Camel Walk", along with several, familiar modern jazz numbers. Pretty standard stuff with by-the-book interpretations.

5 out of 5 stars Best Band Woody Ever Had...Period!.......2005-09-29

The band(s) that Woody led between '62-'65 were the hippest, most exciting and swingnest big bands I ever heard. The arrangements (most done by long time Herman pianist Nat Pierce) are state of the art. Tenor man Sal Nistico could wail on sax like he does on this recording all night, but it's the groove that lead trumpeter Bill Chase and drummer Jake Hanna have that makes the Herd swing so well.

Listen how Chase and Hanna "lock in" and push the band to levels of intensity beyond comparison. Bill Chase, the greatest "lead trumpet player" in history as far as I'm concerned, had a "spin" on his sound that sepertaed him from everybody else (not to take away from Gozzo, Porcino, Audino, etc) but Chase really packs a punch. He later did the same with his own early '70's jazz-rock group called 'Chase.'

Music buddies of mine who got to know this Herman band well told me that other big bands of the time were scared of this particular Herman band...nobody could compete with them for swingin' so hard.

It took coulmbia forever to release the 'Woody's Winner's' LP on CD and I'm glad to see this Phillips recording out on cd, they need to put the Encore '63 Live album out next.

5 out of 5 stars WOODY'S CAMEL RUNS AGAIN!.......2005-02-27

This "special packaging" of Woody Herman's Herd is outstanding.
Woody Herman won Grammy Awards in 1963 and 1964 for best Big Band Jazz albums of the year and I can understand why! Tenor sax man Sal Nistico is fabulous on the entire CD. Woody's clarinet work is effective, and it relects a time when Woody could still cut loose, before he compromised himself on the soprono sax in his later years. The arrangements are very well-written. I have the original LP and this CD is a great addition to any serious collector's library. If you can get your hands on anything in this time period, it's worth the purchase price!
Music of the Year: 1963
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Interesting look at 1963
 Music of the Year: 1963
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Universal/Spectrum
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Pop | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00002MHNQ
Release Date: 2001-08-02

Tracks:

  1. Do You Love Me
  2. It's My Party
  3. When Will You Say I Love You
  4. Diamonds
  5. Everybody
  6. Tell Him
  7. Money
  8. Memphis Tennessee
  9. Say I Won't Be There
  10. I Saw Linda Yesterday
  11. Town Crier
  12. Indian Love Call
  13. Loo-Be-Loo
  14. Hey Mama
  15. Not Too Little Not Too Much
  16. Funny All Over
  17. Some Other Guy
  18. It's Love That Really Counts
  19. Pretty Thing
  20. Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Interesting look at 1963.......2005-04-13

The compilations in this series do not represent the best pop music of their respective years but instead contain a mix of classics and obscurities. This volume is typical.

Here you get two UK number one hits, these being the instrumental track, Diamonds (Jet Harris and Tony Meehan, both ex-members of the Shadows) and Do you love me (Brian Poole and the Tremeloes), which was an American hit, first for the Contours and later for the Dave Clark Five. With these, you get some other classics including It's my party (Lesley Gore), Brown eyed handsome man (Buddy Holly) and Tell him (Billie Davis), which was originally an American hit for the Exciters.

The obscurities include the tracks by Doug Sheldon, the Chucks and Chris Sandford, all of whom disappeared from the charts after the minor hits included here. In Doug's case, it was his third minor hit but for the other two, it was their only hit.

Between these two extremes are a few rarely-heard gems such as Say I won't be there (Springfields), Indian love call (Karl Denver) and Everybody (Tommy Roe), all of which made the UK top ten in 1963.

Cliff Richard, the Shadows, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Beatles and Frank Ifield, who between them had thirteen of the eighteen UK number one hits that year, are all missing from this collection, but their music is easily obtained elsewhere.

This is a fascinating, if slightly odd, look at the UK pop music of 1963.Music of the year

Tracks

1 Do you love me - Brian Poole and the Tremeloes
2 It's my party - Lesley Gore
3 When will you say I love you - Billy Fury
4 Diamonds - Jet Harris and Tony Meehan
5 Everybody - Tommy Roe
6 Tell him - Billie Davis
7 Money - Bern Elliott and the Fenmen
8 Memphis Tennessee - Dave Berry
9 Say I won't be there - Springfields
10 I saw Linda yesterday - Doug Sheldon
11 Town crier - Craig Douglas
12 Indian love call - Karl Denver
13 Loo be loo - Chucks
14 Hey mama - Frankie Vaughan
15 Not too little not too much - Chris Sandford
16 Funny all over - Vernon Girls
17 Some other guy - Big Three
18 It's love that really counts - Merseybeats
19 Pretty thing - Bo Diddley
20 Brown eyed handsome man - Buddy Holly

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