Hollywood Swinging

Track Listings
1. Hollywood Swinging
2. Soul Vibrations
3. Rhyme Tyme People
4. N.T.
5. Who's Gonna Take the Weight?, Pts. 1 & 2
6. Good Times
7. Penguin [*]
8. Fruitman
9. Summer Madness
10. Light of Worlds
11. Winter Sadness [*]
12. Chocolate Buttermilk
13. North, East, South, West [*]
14. Wild and Peaceful [*]
15. Sea of Tranquility
16. Do It Right Now

Hollywood Swinging,Kool & the Gang,Rebound Records,Pop,R&B,Urban

Hollywood Swinging

Hollywood Swinging
Hollywood Swinging
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • When Kool and the Gang were "Cool","Jazzy" and "Funky"
  • THE RAW KOOL&THE GANG
  • this is the goods
 Hollywood Swinging
Kool & the Gang
Manufacturer: Umvd Special Markets
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000047RR
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

  1. Hollywood Swinging
  2. Soul Vibration
  3. Rhyme Tyme People
  4. N.T.
  5. Who's Gonna Take The Weight? (PT 1&2)
  6. Good Times
  7. The Penguin
  8. Fruitman
  9. Summer Madness
  10. Light Of Worlds
  11. Winter Madness
  12. Chocolate Buttermilk
  13. North, East, South, West
  14. Wild & Peaceful
  15. Sea Of Tranquility
  16. Do It Right Now

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars When Kool and the Gang were "Cool","Jazzy" and "Funky".......2001-09-28

I totally agree with Mistermaxx and Music Fan on this release. This CD was released as a "Special Market" project from the PolyGram Group. I am quite surprised at the price of it also. All 16 tracks are the original album releases and were recorded way before their "Ladies Night" with ex-lead singer J.T. years. This is Kool And The Gang at their Funky/Jazzy best. This is a must have in your "Old School" collection.

5 out of 5 stars THE RAW KOOL&THE GANG.......2000-04-29

THIS Is THE Side Of Kool&The Gang that a True FUNK-HEAD Can Get Down with.The GRooves Never Let Up.The Horns are Slammin.THE FUNK Never Lets Up here.Before KOOL&THE GANG Got Polished in the 80's they Were RAW&FUNKY here.A Must Have.

5 out of 5 stars this is the goods.......2000-03-09

If it's classic Kool you seek--i.e., pre-Celebration--this is a top-notch collection. It's unbelievable that all this funk is on one album for under seven bucks...and it's one of the few recordings you'll find of "Soul Vibration," arguably one of the best classic funk cuts out there. This one's a must; you won't be disappointed.
Hawaiians In Hollywood: Smooth, Sweet & Swinging 1934-1936: Volume 1
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Great music, fab Hawaiian melodies
 Hawaiians In Hollywood: Smooth, Sweet & Swinging 1934-1936: Volume 1
Andy Iona
Manufacturer: Old Masters
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000060OKP
Release Date: 2002-02-26

Tracks:

  1. Hawaii Sing To Me
  2. For You A Lei
  3. Na Pua
  4. An Island Melody
  5. Nohea I Muolau Lani
  6. What A Brownskin Maiden Taught Me
  7. The Palm Trees Sing Aloha
  8. Hawaiian Memories
  9. South Sea Island Magic
  10. Kuu Ipo
  11. Nani Wale Ka Mahina
  12. I've Found A Little Grass Skirt (For My Little Grass Shack)
  13. When April Showers Reach Hawaii
  14. This Ginger Lei
  15. Naughty Hula Eyes
  16. Beulah
  17. Drinking Song Of Hawaii
  18. Pretty Red Hibiscus
  19. My Rose Of Waikiki
  20. Vana Vana
  21. I Want To Learn To Speak Hawaiian
  22. On A Cocoanut Island
  23. My Tane
  24. Let's Go For Broke

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great music, fab Hawaiian melodies.......2002-07-16

A great collection of classic Hawaiian guitar tunes recorded by multi-instrumentalist Andrew Aiona Long (he shortened his Hawaiian name when he moved to California in the late '20s). Great stuff recorded when Iona was working in Hollywood on films such as "Rhythm Of The Islands" and "Hawaiian Buckaroo." This disc concentrates on Iona's sessions for the Columbia label; he also recorded extensively for several other companies before and after these mid-thirties dates. As with other Old Masters releases this has superior sound quality and informative liner notes... Highly recommended!
Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Please Give This A Try
  • Another Western Swing Winner From Proper
  • Wonderful Western Swing!
 Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Proper UK Boxed Sets
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  5. A Proper Introduction to the Maddox Brothers & Rose: That'll Learn Ya Durn Ya

ASIN: B0002DSA2K
Release Date: 2004-06-28

Tracks:

  1. Hot Rod Race - Arkie Shibley
  2. Hound Dog - Betsy Gay
  3. Take Your Hands Off It (Birthday Cake) - Billy Buckaroos Hughes
  4. Juke Box Boogie - Casey Simmons
  5. High Geared Daddy - Jimmy Walker
  6. Who Broke the Lock on the Henhouse Door - Deuce Spriggins
  7. Ranger Boogie - Dusty Taylor
  8. Hard Top Race - George Stogner
  9. Detour - Pecos River Boys, Jimmy Walker, Paul Westmoreland
  10. Jelly Bean's Daddy - Jimmy Bryant, Sons of the Saddle
  11. Steelin' the Blues - Leodie Jackson
  12. And I Shook - Les Anderson
  13. Four or Five Times - Luke Wills Rhythm Busters
  14. Boogie Woogie Boy - Porky Freeman Trio
  15. Get That Chip Off Your Shoulder - Red Murrell
  16. Git Fiddle Boogie - Red Murrell
  17. Divorce Me C.O.D. - T. Texas Tyler
  18. Hominy Grits - Tem Martin, Cliffie Stonehead Band
  19. I Used to Work in Chicago - Tin Ear Tanner & His Backroom Boys
  20. Tennessee Baby - Jimmie Dolan
  21. Rougue River Boogie - Truman Duff, Tex Terry's Sons of the Purple Sage
  22. Oklahoma Blues - Zeke Clements
  23. Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down - Maddox Bros, Rose
  24. Who Drank the Beer (While I Was in the Rear) - Tommy Duncan
  25. You Ain't Got My Number Anymore - Brad King & His Dude Ranch Gang
  26. Knock on Wood - Cliffie Stone
  27. Shimmy Shakin' Daddy - Merl Lindsay
  28. I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again - Maddox Bros, Rose

Tracks:

  1. He's a Real Gone Okie - Cliffie Stone & His Barn Dance Band
  2. With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle
  3. Sugar Baby - Eddie Kirk
  4. Keep a Talkin' Baby - Gene O'Quin
  5. Slippin' Around With Jole Blon - Jess Willard
  6. Juke Box Boogie - Jimmie Dolan
  7. Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me - Ken Marvin
  8. True Blue Papa - Leon Chappel
  9. House of Blue Lights - Merrill Moore
  10. Rainin' on the Mountain - Wesley Tuttle
  11. Paper Heart - Red Murrell
  12. She's a Mean Mean Woman - Roy Hogsed
  13. I'm Hog Tied over You - Tennessee Ernie Ford, Ella Mae Morse
  14. Bryant's Bounce - Jimmy Bryant, Speedy West
  15. Speedin' West - Speedy West
  16. Talkin' Boogie - Tex Williams
  17. Jump Rope Boogie - Cliffie Stone
  18. Saturday Night Time Blues - Eddie Kirk
  19. Sleepy Eyed John - Ole Rasmussen
  20. Hillbilly Hula - Jenks "Tex" Carman
  21. Boogie Woogie Fever - Gene O'Quin
  22. Streamlined Gal - Leon Chappel
  23. Ernest Tubb's Talking Guitar Blues - Red Murrell
  24. Scoot Git and Begone - Skeets McDonald
  25. Wild Card - Tex Williams
  26. Truck Driver's Boogie - Jess Willard
  27. No Need to Knock on My Door - Jack Guthrie
  28. Baby Sitter's Blues - Ann Jones
  29. Put Some Sugar in Your Shoes - Roy Hogsed
  30. Mail Order Mama - Wesley Tuttle

Tracks:

  1. Smoke Across the Water - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
  2. Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
  3. Over and Over Again - Gene Autry
  4. Merle's Buck Dance - Hank Penny
  5. Artistry in Western Swing - Tex Williams & the Western Caravan
  6. Too Far Gone - Ted Daffan's Texans
  7. I Can't Help the Way I Feel - Smokey Rogers & His Texans
  8. Red River Valley - The Sons of the Pioneers
  9. Easy Payment Blues - Rudy Sooter, String Band Classics
  10. I'm Gonna Gallop to Gallup New Mexico - Roy Rogers
  11. Just A-Pickin' and A-Singin' - Curley Williams
  12. Hot Rod Baby - Dick Reinhart
  13. Daughter of Jole Blon' - Johnny Bond & His Red River Valley Boys
  14. Hamburger Hop - Johnny Hicks & His Troubadours
  15. Love Fever - Oakie Jones
  16. That Wild and Wicked Look in Your Eye - Riders of the Rio Grande, Johnny Tyler
  17. Take It Away Leon - Leon Mcauliffe & His Western Swing Band
  18. Hoot Owl Boogie - Sheb Wooley
  19. Catch Me Cheatin' - Smokey Rogers
  20. Yodeling Polka - Spade Cooley & His Orchestra
  21. Nickel in the Jukebox - Luke Wills Rhythm Busters
  22. Bottle Baby Boogie - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
  23. Out on the Open Range - Wesley Tuttle
  24. Cattle Call - Tex Ritter
  25. Detour - Riders of the Purple Sage, Foy Willing
  26. I'm All Through Trusting You - Jimmie Widener
  27. Fan It - Jaye P. Morgan, Hank Penny
  28. Lazy John - Johnnie Lee Wills

Tracks:

  1. Triflin' Gal - Al Dexter and His Troopers
  2. Silver Stars Purple Sage Eyes of Blue - Cliffie Stone
  3. One Has My Name the Other Has My Heart - Jimmy Wakely
  4. So Round So Firm So Fully Packed - Johnny Bond & His Red River Valley Boys
  5. Oklahoma Hills - Arlo Guthrie
  6. My Chicksay Gal - Country Washburne & His Orchestra, Roy Rogers
  7. Cool Water - The Sons of the Pioneers
  8. Whoa Sailor - Brazos Valley Boys, Hank Thompson
  9. When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again - Cliffie Stone,
  10. Honey Do You Think It's Wrong - Al Dexter and His Troopers
  11. Wild Side of Life - Brazos Valley Boys, Hank Thompson
  12. Never Trust a Woman - Tex Williams
  13. Lazy Mary - Bud Hobbs, Trail Herders
  14. I Love You So Much It Hurts Me - Jimmy Wakely
  15. Divorce Me C.O.D. - Johnny Bond
  16. Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes - Skeets McDonald
  17. Cigareets, Whuskey and Wild, Wild Women - The Sons of the Pioneers
  18. Suspicion - Tex Williams
  19. Wine Women and Song - Al Dexter and His Troopers
  20. Peepin' Through the Keyhole - Cliffie Stone & His Barn Dance Band
  21. Tennessee Saturday Night - Johnny Bond & His Red River Valley Boys
  22. Rub-A-Dub Dub - Hank Thompson
  23. Til the End of the World - Jimmy Wakely & His Trio
  24. Gods Were Angry With Me - Eddie Kirk
  25. I Wish I Haed Never Met Sunshine - Gene Autry
  26. Cocaine Blues - Roy Hogsed
  27. Hot Rod Race - Jimmie Dolan
  28. What a Shame - Merle Travis

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Please Give This A Try.......2007-02-10

My conscience has been bothering me for a long time because this 4-disc set had been listed for over a year without a single review. I'm pleased to see two other people have now written reviews of this. I must still attempt to elaborate just a little on this hidden treasure. The people who created this music deserve it. This is highly special stuff, from a bygone era. It is happy, fun, sometimes a little risqué but always wholesome stuff. The musicianship is first-rate. You get four discs loaded full-up with great songs, and with great sound quality.

I hesitated to review this initially because of a lack of personal qualifications. Really, this music is old enough that someone who was alive during the era would be in a better position to review the songs and the musicians. But, perhaps, that person would lose some credibility as they might be perceived as caught up in the nostalgia of the time. I really didn't have time to read the nice little booklet which is included in this (and all) Proper Box Sets. So, I'm clueless as to the historical context of these songs. (Although I did look at the cool photos in the booklet.) I only know this is AWESOME music. I do feel, however, that someone who is highly familiar with this genre ought to write a comprehensive review so that more scrutinizing buyers have all the hard historical facts, the family-tree type of analysis. So, please take my review for what its worth: a totally awed music fan who is much more qualified to write a Metallica review than a review of cowboy music from Hollywood sung by some dapper cowboys. Cowboys who are apparently also hillbillies.

If you aren't familiar with these Proper Box Sets, you ought to explore them. They are incredible values. As I understand the concept, they've packaged up this first-rate vintage music which has lost copyright protection and then sell it at astoundingly reasonable prices. Proper has done an amazing service preserving this music and passing it along in the manner which they do. I'm also somewhat of a jazz-loving dilettante, and if you read the reviews of the Proper Box jazz titles (of which there are many) you will hear from serious jazz aficionados who claim that some of those sets are the best in the world for assorted jazz greats. All of them have fours discs and a nice little booklet. I really appreciate the efficient packaging because I'm really struggling nowadays to accommodate all my CD and DVD inventory. Anyway, I mention all this because this set is one of a handful of western or "cowboy" titles which Proper produces, and, yes, they do it quite Properly. There is a certain irony here, a disconcerting one: Proper is not an American label!! These dudes are our friends from across the pond. First they nail us with the British Invasion, and now they out do us with the packaging of our own American music! And we thought the Japanese were the clever ones.

Suffice it to say that I listened to one of these discs each night for four consecutive nights. My mood elevated. My young daughters started dancing around. My cats started playing cat-and-mouse with one another. I poured myself a slightly stronger drink than usual due to my festive mood. Each night was a rather robust little 70-minute-long house party. If you like Hank Williams, you'll love this stuff, although this is generally a little more upbeat. There are a few mournful songs, but they won't bring you down. There is lots of variance in style and vibe from song to song. As mentioned above, sound quality is excellent.

So, have at it. Really these discs are individually worth what they're asking for the entire Box. I think you'll be very pleased. And then consider exploring the other Proper box sets. I have about 25 of them, and there isn't a dud in the group.


5 out of 5 stars Another Western Swing Winner From Proper.......2007-02-03

"Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys" mines the same western swing vein as Proper's other box sets: "Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers" and "Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys".
If you have those other sets, you'll probably enjoy this set also (a few songs are duplicated.)
The sound is generally first rate and there is a very informative liner notes booklet included.
As always with Proper,this set offers great value for the price.

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful Western Swing!.......2007-01-03

A wonderful collection of Western swing, one of my favorite areas of country and western as it combines shades of rock, rockabilly, jazz and swing in a delightfully toe-tappin' blend. Fans of contemporary bands such as Asleep At The Wheel will love this one for the roots of this musical form.

Mark B. Rohrer, MD

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  7. Just Be My Lady [Import]
  8. Lady (Hear Me Tonight) [CD-single]
  9. Live at the Beverly Theatre in Hollywood [Live]
  10. Live in Europe [Live]

Soul Music

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