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Golden Age of the Andrew Sisters [Box]

The Andrews Sisters
4 discs

0. DISC 1:
1. Bei Mir Bist du Schon
2. Tu- Li- Tulip Time
3. Lullaby to a Little Jitterbug
4. Hold Tight, Hold Tight
5. Beer Barrel Polka, The (Roll Out the Barrel)
6. Well, All Right
7. Yodelin' Jive
8. Say Si Si
9. Woodpecker Song, The
10. Ferryboat Serenade
11. Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
12. Scrub Me Mama, With a Boogie Beat
13. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
14. I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time
15. Aurora
16. Shrine of St. Cecilia, The
17. Three Little Sisters
18. Strip Polka
19. Pistol Packin' Mama
20. Victory Polka
21. Shoo Shoo Baby
22. Straighten up and Fly Right
23. Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
24. (There'll Be a) Hot Time in the Town of Berlin
25. Don't Fence Me In
0. DISC 2:
1. Rum and Coca Cola
2. AC- Cent-Tchu- Ate the Positive
3. Three Caballeros, The
4. Along the Navajo Trail
5. Blond Sailor, The
6. Money Is the Root of All Evil
7. South America Take It Away
8. Rumours Are Flying
9. Christmas Island
10. Talahassee
11. Near You
12. Lady From 29 Palms, The
13. Civilization / Bongo, Bongo, Bongo
14. Toolie Oolie Doolie
15. Underneath the Arches
16. You Call Everybody Darling
17. I Can Dream, Can't I?
18. Quicksilver
19. I Wanna Be Loved
20. Sparrow in the Treetop
21. Rhumboogie
22. I Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)
23. Chico's Love Song
24. Jealous
25. Says My Heart
0. DISC 3:
1. Tuxedo Junction
2. Lily Belle
3. Tica- Ti, Tica- Ta
4. Zoot Suit, A (For My Sunday Gal)
5. You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith
6. Stars Are the Windows of Heaven
7. Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
8. Jing a Ling, Jing a Ling
9. Rancho Pillow
10. Hohokus, N.J.
11. Beatin', Bangin', 'N Scratchin'
12. Jack of All Trades
13. Atlanta G.A.
14. Coaz Me a Little Bit
15. There'll Be a Jubilee
16. Put 'Em in a Box, Tie 'Em With a Ribbon
17. Avocado
18. I'm Gonna Paper All My Walls With Your Love Letters
19. I've Just Got to Get Out of the Habit
20. Yipsee -I-O
21. Underneath the Linden Tree
22. I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded
23. Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
24. Pack up Your Troubles
25. How Many Times?
0. DISC 4:
1. Run, Run, Run
2. Great Day
3. Them That Has, Gets
4. Old Don Juan
5. Money Song, The
6. For All We Know
7. Clancy Lowered the Boom!
8. Satins and Lace
9. Don't Blame Me
10. Man Is Brother to a Mule, A
11. What Did I Do?
12. Guys and Dolls
13. Mambo Man, The
14. I'll Pray For You
15. Sing, Sing, Sing
16. Piccolo Pete
17. How Lucky You Are
18. Lying in the Hay
19. Windmill Song, The
20. Bride and Groom Polka, The
21. East of the Sun
22. Wunderbar
23. Wedding of Lilli Marlene, The
24. Zing Zing, Zoom Zoom
25. Six Jerks in a Jeep
26. Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 74
Credits

Producer Geoff Milne (Compilation)
Engineer
Personnel includes: Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Patty Andrews, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Dick Haymes.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Contains 110 tracks.
Since the 50-year limit on copyrights in Europe has led to a flurry of Andrews Sisters releases beginning in the early '90s, it's worth pointing out that the British Jasmine label is not just another fly-by-night outfit cobbling together a bunch of old 78s. The four-disc Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters, with a running time of more than four-and-three-quarters hours, contains more tracks -- 101 -- than any previously released Andrews Sisters compilation. The sound quality is good, if not as good as the legitimate American reissues on MCA, and the 12-page CD booklet contains basic annotations. That said, the selection is somewhat eccentric. Essentially, this is a "the best and the rest" collection: the first two discs contain all of the Andrews Sisters' Top Ten hits, as ranked in Joel Whitburn's book of chart reconstructions, Pop Memories. For the most part, they are in chronological order, though a handful of tracks that reached numbers ten through 12 are bunched at the end. Discs three and four contain another three chart entries among their 51 tracks, but otherwise ignore the 60 additional Andrews Sisters recordings listed in Whitburn that peaked between numbers 12 and 30 in favor of utterly obscure material; B-sides and records that never sold well enough to earn a chart ranking. This hits-and-misses approach leaves out lots of good and well-remembered Andrews Sisters recordings. It also makes room for some interesting ones, including the sisters' versions of the show tunes "Guys and Dolls" and "Wunderbar" and the swing standard "Sing, Sing, Sing," plus two performances from the soundtrack to Private Buckaroo. (Of course, keeping to the 50-year limit, none of their recordings from after 1951 are included.) This not the ideal Andrews Sisters compilation, but it is far more extensive than any their American copyright holders have produced. ~ William Ruhlmann