Young Benny Goodman 1928-1931, The - Benny Goodman

Advantages: Pumping good quality house at its best!
Disadvantages: it ends

...House music doesn't get much better then this people opening with the hugely popular Sing by praise cats these c.d's are remarkably mixed with a blend of pure genius to put a smile on your face delivering storming tune time and again banassi gets the blend just right to get anyone shaking the booty, with names such as Dave Clarke and who da funk on the track listings the c.d delivers all the way. The first disc starts all nice and up beat and gradually gets heavier until the end although never coming to a point were it becomes to hard its balanced just nicely and is nicely cut up. The second follows the sort of pattern with a good number of brakes on both the cds deliver a serious good mix for any fan of good decent house music, another cracker from Subliminal and Benny! Disc: 1 - 1hr 6mins 41seconds 1. Sing - Andrea Love 2... Read review

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Advantages: Brave effort, going quite against the grain at the time
Disadvantages: Some efforts are significantly weaker than the originals

...the public consciousness as a result of versions by Billie Holliday and Benny Goodman. Yet Ferry shows great invention in his re-making and re-modelling of the track into a quasi-reggae torch song. Ferry's exaggerated vocal delivery, the highpoint of 'A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall', and the downfall of a lot of the material elsewhere on the album, is put to good use here, his disjointed delivery adding to the charm of the song and not detracting from it. There are other high points. 'Don't Ever Change', a song from 1962 by the Crickets, is faithfully rendered, while Ferry's rendition of Lesley Gore's teen-pop anthem 'It's My Party' is frivolous, poppy, lightweight and gender ambiguous, with Ferry retaining the original line of "Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone". Elsewhere, Ferry lays on the irony, exaggeration and camp far too thick to be... Read review

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Advantages: Some really good tracks
Disadvantages: Some are "so-so"

.... Although equally sophisticated as If You Wee Mine, it is a somewhat different, more melancholy style. The lyrics are slightly corny, it has to be said, though Frankie does well with them. The next song is also by Buck Clayton and his Orchestra and Frankie Laine. It is a version of My Old Flame. I am sorry, but since I heard the spike Jones version of My Old Flame, I really haven't been able to take this song as seriously as it deserves. (Spike Jones mangled the song to include a psychotic killer (sung as a passable impersonation of Peter Lorrie) Although somewhat bizarrely, Frankie Laine remains totally mute during the Buck Clayton version of My Old Flame! The next track is by the Benny Goodman Quartet, featuring Benny Goodman on clarinet, with fantastic swinging backing from the rest of his band, including jazz xylophone. Stompin... Read review

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