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Instrumental Gems of the Fifties | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Collector's Choice
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 66545
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 80
UPC: 617742008029
EAN: 0617742008029
ASIN: B00001ZWD0
Release Date: October 19, 1999
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Third Man Theme - Anton Karas Listen | | • | Sam's Song Listen | | • | Nola - Les Paul Listen | | • | Laura - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra Listen | | • | Down Yonder Listen | | • | Delicado - Percy Faith & His Orchestra | | • | Meet Mister Callaghan - Les Paul | | • | Caravan - Ralph Marterie | | • | Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?) - Percy Faith | | • | Oh! - Pee Wee Hunt & His Orchestra | | • | Melancholy Serenade - Jackie Gleason | | • | April in Portugal - Les Baxter & His Orchestra | | • | Ruby - Les Baxter Orchestra & Chorus | | • | Dragnet - Ray Anthony Orchestra | | • | Ebb Tide - Frank Chacksfield | | • | Skokiaan - Ralph Marterie | | • | High and the Mighty - Les Baxter Orchestra & Chorus | | • | Crazy Otto - Johnny Maddox & the Rhythmasters | | • | Melody of Love - Billy Vaughn | | • | Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Pi2%z Prado Orchestra |
Disc 2
| • | Unchained Melody - Les Baxter & His Orchestra | | • | Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle | | • | Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams | | • | Moritat (A.K.A. Mack the Knife) - Dick Hyman | | • | Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song) - Les Baxter & His Orchestra | | • | Moonglow/Theme from "Picnic" - Morris Stoloff | | • | Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter | | • | Song for a Summer Night - Mitch Miller & the Sing Along Gang | | • | Shifting Whispering Sands - Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra | | • | So Rare - The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra | | • | Portugese Washerwoman | | • | Swingin' Shepherd Blues - Moe Koffman | | • | Patricia - Pi2%z Prado Orchestra | | • | Raunchy - Ernie Freeman | | • | Tea for Two Cha Cha - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | | • | Peter Gunn Theme - Ray Anthony Orchestra | | • | Only You (And You Alone) - Franck Pourcel | | • | Quiet Village - Martin Denny | | • | Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny | | • | Enchanted Sea - Martin Denny | | • | [Untitled Track] |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Pleasant memories flood back. November 4, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
These two discs contain forty of the best records from an era that was about to be forever spoiled by "Rock n Roll".
 You helped with our 50th anniversary March 23, 2006
My husband and I have been married 50 years and our daughter wanted to make a DVD of our life and the music that we had. Our song when we were going together was "Young Love" by Sonny James. I was thrilled to death when we found it and she set it to our DVD with all the pictures. We used many of the songs as they were of our "era". Thank you so very much....it was fantastic.
Not quite titled correctly, but still nice to listen to August 20, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a couple of other reviewers state, this CD set has a couple of items that I wouldn't call "instrumental." One, Percy Faith/Felicia Sanders on "The Song from Moulin Rouge," happens to be one of my all-time favorites, and the other, Billy Vaughn/Ken Nordine on "The Shifting Whispering Sands," is a fiendishly hard to find piece, especially if you are looking for the whole thing (it ran about twice as long as a typical '50s hit!) so I have to forgive the producers for their lapses.
Some of the songs on here overlap another CD I reviewed earlier, "Big Hits of the '50s," and I'd rather not have the overlap, but this is something hard to avoid these days. And it has some truly hard to find pieces (like the abovementioned "Shifting Whispering Sands," and the Dick Hyman version of "Moritat," which sounds totally different from the versions appearing under the name of "Mack the Knife"), so that even with that overlap, I'm glad I have both CDs in my collection.
Anyone who likes the pre-rock'n'roll era's music is sure to find some favorites on here. There are a couple of pieces where I'd consider that the version on this CD set is not the top version (It has Ralph Marterie's version of "Skokiaan" rather than the Bulowayo Sweet Rhythms Band's, and certainly Les Baxter's is not the definitive version of "Unchained Melody" -- but if you are stressing instrumentals, Baxter's would be the one you'd select, of course). But even in those cases, the versions did make the charts as well as the top versions, so they can be accepted. And over all, this is a nice set to listen to.
All in all, considering all the pieces I've mentioned, as well as the last Big Band pieces to chart (the '50s are certainly after the Big Band era, but Jimmy Dorsey had a hit with "So Rare" as late as the middle of the decade! And it's on this set.) This is a great collection.
 It Ain't All Instrumentals February 23, 2003
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
The people who be this CD out,should look up the word INTRUMENTAL.
If this word means singing. You have a CD set. Without the vocals this two CD set should have been out as a single CD.
It Ain't All Instrumentals February 21, 2003
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Someone should tell the people who put this CD set to look up the word Instrumental. It does not mean singing.
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