Name: Greatest Hits And More [Remaster] *
Brand: Allegro Corporation ***
SKU: 1426235
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Greatest Hits And More [Remaster] *

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Album: Greatest Hits And More [Remaster] *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	I'm Looking for a Four-leaf Clover	More Info...	0:02
2)	The Big Brass Band From Brazil	More Info...	0:03
3)	Baby Face	More Info...	0:02
4)	Bluebird of Happiness	More Info...	0:03
5)	Sunset To Sunrise	More Info...	0:02
6)	Beautiful Eyes	More Info...	0:02
7)	Doo De Doo, On An Old Kazoo	More Info...	0:03
8)	Again	More Info...	0:03
9)	Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue	More Info...	0:02
10)	Merry-Go-Round Waltz	More Info...	0:03
11)	Twenty-Four Hours Of Sunrise	More Info...	0:02
12)	Hop Scotch Polka	More Info...	0:03
13)	Toot, Toot, Tootsie	More Info...	0:02
14)	I Never See Maggie Alone	More Info...	0:03
15)	If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake	More Info...	0:03
16)	Silver Dollar	More Info...	0:03
17)	M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I	More Info...	0:02
18)	Lazy River	More Info...	0:02
19)	Heartbreaker	More Info...	0:02
20)	Honey-Babe	More Info...	0:03
21)	No Regrets	More Info...	0:02
22)	Daydreams	More Info...	0:02
23)	Giant	More Info...	0:03
24)	Rock And Roll Tumbleweed	More Info...	0:03
25)	The Girl I Left Behind Me	More Info...	0:02

Album: Greatest Hits And More [Remaster] *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	I'm Looking for a Four-leaf Clover	More Info...	0:02
2)	The Big Brass Band From Brazil	More Info...	0:03
3)	Baby Face	More Info...	0:02
4)	Bluebird of Happiness	More Info...	0:03
5)	Sunset To Sunrise	More Info...	0:02
6)	Beautiful Eyes	More Info...	0:02
7)	Doo De Doo, On An Old Kazoo	More Info...	0:03
8)	Again	More Info...	0:03
9)	Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue	More Info...	0:02
10)	Merry-Go-Round Waltz	More Info...	0:03
11)	Twenty-Four Hours Of Sunrise	More Info...	0:02
12)	Hop Scotch Polka	More Info...	0:03
13)	Toot, Toot, Tootsie	More Info...	0:02
14)	I Never See Maggie Alone	More Info...	0:03
15)	If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake	More Info...	0:03
16)	Silver Dollar	More Info...	0:03
17)	M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I	More Info...	0:02
18)	Lazy River	More Info...	0:02
19)	Heartbreaker	More Info...	0:02
20)	Honey-Babe	More Info...	0:03
21)	No Regrets	More Info...	0:02
22)	Daydreams	More Info...	0:02
23)	Giant	More Info...	0:03
24)	Rock And Roll Tumbleweed	More Info...	0:03
25)	The Girl I Left Behind Me	More Info...	0:02

Performer Notes

Personnel: The Galli Sisters, Betty Harris , The Four Clovers, Cathy Ryan, Madelyn Russell, Alan Brooks [Vocals], Bud Brees (vocals); Mike Pingatore (banjo).
Audio Remasterer: Robin Cherry.
Liner Note Author: Tony Middleton .
Recording information: Chicago, IL (11/05/1947-07/30/1956); New York, NY (11/05/1947-07/30/1956).
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