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Art Mooney - Greatest Hits and More (CD)
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Art Mooney - Greatest Hits and More (CD)
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Loot Price R242
Discovery Miles 2 420
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Art Mooney had a simple and effective formula for success: make
recordings of old-fashioned melodies that everybody knows really
well, using a bevy of loud and All-American singers, a well-oiled
big band, accordion, glockenspiel and a banjoist to create an
atmosphere invoking hot dogs, cotton candy, boiled sweets, beer
buckets, ice cream, corn dogs, peanut shells and sawdust. Mooney,
who is said to have patterned his instrumentation after a
vaudevillian parade ensemble known as the Philadelphia Mummers,
sold a lot of records for MGM during the late 1940s and early '50s
using well-worn tunes with singalong titles like "Baby Face," "I'm
Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover," "Five Feet Two, Eyes of Blue,"
"Toot Toot Tootsie" and "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a
Cake." Mooney's star vocalists were Betty Harris, Madelyn Russell,
Cathy Ryan, Alan Brooks and Bud Brees. By far the weirdest record
Mooney ever made was "Doo De Doo on an Old Kazoo," an almost
alarming novelty featuring a team of vocalists who deliver the
stilted lyrics with heavy-handed simplicity and take an
instrumental chorus with kazoos wedged firmly in their mouths.
Although it's all in fun, if the playback volume is raised to
maximum output levels, some might find these harmonizing kazoos
just a wee bit demonic. Mooney's music took a long time to find its
way onto the digital reissue format. Released in 2007, Sepia's
Greatest Hits and More filled a perceived gap in the 21st century
musical marketplace. This bracing collection also includes a taste
of Mooney's motion picture soundtrack recordings. They are not
instrumentals, of course, but feature the signature Mooney ensemble
vocalists, whose bright tonalities, concise diction and formidably
wholesome harmonies were used in several Hollywood flickers
including George Stevens' Giant" and David Miller's The Opposite
Sex, which were both premiered in 1956. ~ arwulf arwulf
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Disk 1
1 |
I'm Looking For A Four-Leaf Clover |
2 |
The Big Brass Band From Brazil |
3 |
Baby Face |
4 |
Bluebird of Happiness |
5 |
Sunset To Sunrise |
6 |
Beautiful Eyes |
7 |
Doo De Doo, On An Old Kazoo |
8 |
Again |
9 |
Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue |
10 |
Merry-Go-Round Waltz |
11 |
Twenty-Four Hours Of Sunrise |
12 |
Hop Scotch Polka |
13 |
Toot, Toot, Tootsie |
14 |
I Never See MAggie Alone |
15 |
If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake |
16 |
Silver Dollar |
17 |
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I |
18 |
Lazy River |
19 |
Heartbreaker (Feat. Cheryl Cole) |
20 |
Honey-Babe |
21 |
No Regrets |
22 |
Daydreams |
23 |
Giant |
24 |
Rock And Roll Tumbleweed |
25 |
The Girl I Left Behind Me |
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