Tracks
Disc 1
- Sheik Of Araby
- I'm Going To Write Home
- Three Little Words
- You're a Sap Mister Jap
- Never Hit Your Grandma With a Shovel
- Cocktails For Two
- Mary Lou
- He Broke My Heart In Three Places (She Broke My Heart In Three Places)
- Salin' On The Robert E. Lee
- The Great Big Saw Came Nearer And Nearer
- His Rocking Horse Ran Away
- Oh, How She Lied To Me
- Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Good-Bye)
- You Always Hurt the One You Love
- Chlo-E
- The Blue Danube
- That Old Black Magic
- Holiday For Strings
- No, No, Nora
- Hi Neighbor
- Behind Those Swingin Doors
- Clink, Clink, Another Drink
- Barstool Cowboy
- Moo Woo Woo
- Fort Worth Jail
- Pass the Biscuits Mirandy
Disc 2
- Over the Last Horizon
- Don't Talk To Me About Women
- Big Bad Bill
- Trailer Annie
- Slam
- Hotcha, Corina
- Hey, Mable
- Boogie Woogie Cowboy
- Dodging a Gal From Dodge City
- Serenade To A Jerk
- Ridin' Home With You
- Now Laugh
- That's What Makes the World Go Round
- Don't Give the Chair To Buster
- Forty Eight Reasons Why
- De Camptown Races (With Gestures)
- Blacksmith Song
- Der Fuehrer's Face
- I Wanna Go Back To West Virginia
- Water Lou
- St-St-St-Stella
- I Know a Story
- Hi-Ho My Lady
- John Scotter Trot
- Cheatin' On the Sandman
- Girl I Left Behind Me
- Camptown Races #2
Disc 3
- Come Josephine In My Flying Machine
- Love For Sale
- Moanin' Low
- Horsey, Keep Your Tail Up
- Yankee Doodler
- Down In Jungle Town
- Whittle Out a Whistle
- By the Beautiful Sea
- At Last I'm First With You
- Liebestraum
- City Slicker Polka
- Red Grow the Roses
- Jamboree Jones
- Down By the O-HI-O
- Casey Jones
- The Glow Worm
- Red Wing
- Row, Row, Row
- Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile
- They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me
- Oh! By Jingo
- It Had To Be You
- When Buddha Smiles
- Paddlin'Madelin' Home
- Little Bo Beep Has Lost Her Jeep
- Sailor With the Navy Blue Eyes
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Customer Reviews
Great set of wartime rarities May 14, 2003
Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com (...in Middle America)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
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 April 24, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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 April 11, 2003
Staysun (Downers Grove, IL USA)
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.
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