Too Much Fun

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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

Too Much Fun,C.J. Chenier,Red Hot Louisiana Band,Alligator Records,Blues Music,Cajun / Zydeco / New Orleans,Pop,Zydeco

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:

1. Lost In The Ozone
2. Midnight Shift
3. Hot Rod Lincoln
4. 20 Flight Rock
5. Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar
6. Truck Drivin' Man
7. Mama Hated Diesels
8. Rock That Boogie
9. Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)
10. Everybody's Doin' It
11. Good Rockin' Tonite (Live)
12. (Down To) Seeds & Stems (Again) (Live)
13. Git It (Live)
14. Diggy Liggy Lo (Live)
15. 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 Zydeco | Cajun & Zydeco | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Cajun & Creole | Cajun & Zydeco | Regional Blues | 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:

1. Man Smart, Woman Smarter
2. Bad Luck
3. Richest Man
4. Too Much Fun
5. Give Me Some Of That
6. Louisiana Down Home Blues
7. Zydeco Cha Cha
8. Lust In The Shuffle
9. Got You On My Mind
10. Squeaky Wheel
11. I'm Not Guilty
12. You Used To Call Me
13. Louisiana Two Step

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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: 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! The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders 1 & 2 Last Round Good Taste Is Timeless ASIN: B00000JG25 Release Date: 1999-10-26

Tracks:

1. Happy Rolling Cowboy
2. Antoinette
3. Bad Boy
4. Violets So Blue
5. Euphoria
6. Sail Away Ladies
7. Penny's Farm
8. Bonaparte's Retreat
9. Tea Song
10. Precious Jewel
11. A Blues Serenade
12. Skin Game
13. Long Journey
14. Crowley Waltz
15. Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake
16. Year Of Jubilo
17. 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

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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: 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:

1. Millennium Schmellenium
2. Blues For Sonny
3. Evan's Seven
4. Freedom Vessel
5. Bill & Gil's Excellent Adventure
6. The Way You Do the Things You Do
7. One Moment of Your Life
8. Samba By Starlight
9. Over the Rainbow
10. Strollin' (wif Ma Bebe)
11. 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 George‚s life, from Gil Evans>to Miles Davis. It‚s a straight-ahead treatment, if that‚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

You Do the Things You Do. You can check George out online at http://www.MP3.com/georgekahn See for yourself.

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Too Much Fun Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan Manufacturer: Flying Fish Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Double Vision West Coast Blues Happy Hour Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan - 20th Anniversary Live! Filthy Rich ASIN: B000000MPM Release Date: 1992-09-29

Tracks:

1. Too Much Fun
2. My Gal
3. Chicken Ala Blues
4. American Medley
5. Long Legged Woman
6. It Should've Been Me
7. How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away
8. Your Mind Is In The Gutter
9. Fly Hen Blues
10. Rake And Ramplin'/Table In Heaven
11. Days Like This
12. A Dollar Down

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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)

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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

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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:

1. Too Much Fun In A No Fun Zone
2. Nowhere To Land
3. Enertainer (Late For Singing The Blues)
4. Carriage House Girl
5. Ice Cream
6. Blue
7. Vegas
8. Enter The Fire
9. With Morning Comes Mist Fall
10. Exorcisms Performed Daily
11. As Far As It Goes

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Pornstar Manufacturer: Tex and Joe Buck ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA46M6 Release Date: 2004-07-20

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Havin' Too Much Fun To Quit Kurt von Meyer ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000RFPDNW

Product Description

1 In the Morning 2 Two Hearts 3 If She has Any Money 4 Sweet Lovin' Baby 5 Lonesome Way Out 6 Driftin' Away In Love 7 Drivin' Me Crazy 8 Black & White 9 When She's Dancin' 10 Just Like Heaven 11 I Wish She Never Met You 12 More Than A Little 13 Who's Gonna Be Your Sugar Daddy 14 Fallin'

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