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The Kay Kyser Hits Collection 1935-48
Kay Kyser
Styles: Easy Listening, Jazz
Catalogue Number: ACTRCD9077
Kay Kyser was a bandleader and radio personality who was hugely popular and maintained a high profile from the mid-’30s through to the early ‘50s, his radio show incorporating a music quiz under the title of “Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge” which he introduced as “The Ol’ Perfessor”, giving rise to his image where he appears wearing a mortar-board and academic gown. His orchestra’s music, always featuring a variety of resident vocalists, most notably Sully Mason, Harry Babbit, Ginny Simms and Georgia Carroll, as well as saxophonist Jack Martin, stayed firmly in the middle ground of easy-listening popular taste, and did not try to compete with the hot swing orchestras of the era, with a style which barely changed while the fashions of jazz and other areas of pop evolved around him, including sentimental or patriotic wartime hits, novelty material and classic ballads. This great-value 73-track 3-CD set consists entirely of hit records, comprising recordings which are listed as having appeared in one version or another of the popularity charts during the 1930s before the introduction of the Billboard record sales chart in 1940, and after that in the Top 20 of the Billboard chart. It naturally features his No. 1 hits “The Umbrella Man”, “Three Little Fishes”, “Jingle Jangle Jingle”, “Ole Buttermilk Sky” and “Woody Woodpecker”, plus many other memorable and evocative Top 5 classics which capture the zeitgeist of the fifteen years or so which spanned WWII and its aftermath. |
Disk 1: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
(I've Grown So Lonesome) Thinking Of You |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
2 |
Star Gazing |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Bill Stoker |
3 |
Did You Mean It? |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Bill Stoker |
4 |
Cause My Baby Says It's So |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit, Ish Kabibble, Sully Mason |
5 |
Hark The Sound Of Tar Heel Voices |
Kay Kyser & His Orch. |
6 |
Cry, Baby, Cry |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason |
7 |
Music, Maestro, Please! |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms |
8 |
Don't Cross Your Fingers, Cross Your Heart |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason |
9 |
Stop Beatin' Around The Mulberry Bush |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason |
10 |
Ya Got Me |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason |
11 |
The Umbrella Man |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms, Harry Babbit |
12 |
Monday Morning |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms |
13 |
Two Sleepy People |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms, Harry Babbit |
14 |
Chopsticks |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason |
15 |
(Gotta Get Some) Shut-Eye |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
16 |
Cuckoo In The Clock |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason |
17 |
Heaven Can Wait |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
18 |
I Promise You |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
19 |
The Tinkle Song |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms |
20 |
Stairway To The Stars |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
21 |
Concert In The Park |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms, Harry Babbit |
22 |
Three Little Fishes |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms, Harry Babbit, Ish Kabible |
23 |
Day In, Day Out |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
24 |
The Little Red Fox (N'Ya N'Ya Ya Can't Catch Me) |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
25 |
Chatterbox |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms, Harry Babbit |
Disk 2: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Confucious Say |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason |
2 |
Blue Lovebird |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms |
3 |
With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms |
4 |
Friendship |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny, Harry, Jack & Ish |
5 |
Playmates |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason |
6 |
You, You Darlin' |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms |
7 |
Let There Be Love |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
8 |
Tennessee Fish Fry |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason |
9 |
Who's Yehood |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason, Harry Babbit |
10 |
Blueberry Hill |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
11 |
Ferry-Boat Serenade |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny, Harry, Jack & Max |
12 |
You've Got Me This Way |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
13 |
Alexander The Swoose (Half Swan-Half Goose) |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny, Harry, Jack & Max |
14 |
The Wise Old Owl |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason |
15 |
Til Reveille |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny, Harry, Jack & Max |
16 |
Cowboy Serenade (While I'm Rolling My Last Cigarette) |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
17 |
Why Don't We Do This More Often? |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ginny Simms, Harry Babbit |
18 |
(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit & Glee Club |
19 |
A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal) |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason with Trudy, Dorothy, Jack & Max |
20 |
Who Wouldn't Love You |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Trudy & Harry |
21 |
Johnny Doughboy Found A Rose In Ireland |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Glee Club |
22 |
Got The Moon In My Pocket |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Sully Mason with Trudy, Dorothy, Harry, Jack & Max |
23 |
Jingle Jangle Jingle |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit, Julie Conway & The Group |
24 |
He Wears A Pair Of Silver Wings |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
25 |
Strip Polka |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Jack Martin & Glee Club |
Disk 3: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Every Night About This Time |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit |
2 |
Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition! |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Glee Club |
3 |
Can't Get Out Of This Mood |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry, Julie, Trudy, Jack & Max |
4 |
Moonlight Mood |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Glee Club |
5 |
Let's Get Lost |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry, Julie, Trudy, Jack & Max |
6 |
The Fuddy Duddy Watchmaker |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Julie Conway |
7 |
Pushin' Sand |
Kay Kyser & His Orch. |
8 |
There Goes That Song Again |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Georgia Carroll |
9 |
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Dolly Mitchell |
10 |
Bell Bottom Trousers |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Ferdy, Slim & Quartet |
11 |
Can't You Read Between The Lines |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Dolly Mitchell |
12 |
Rosemary |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Michael Douglas |
13 |
Horses Don't Bet On People |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Clyde Rogers |
14 |
That's For Me |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Michael Douglas & The Campus Kids |
15 |
Slowly |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Michael Douglas & The Campus Kids |
16 |
One-Zy Two-Zy (I Love You-Zy) |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals The Moonbeams |
17 |
Ole Buttermilk Sky |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Michael Douglas & The Campus Kids |
18 |
Huggin' And Chalkin' |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Jack Martin & The Campus Kids |
19 |
The Old Lamp-Lighter |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Michael Douglas & The Campus Kids |
20 |
Managua, Nicagagua (Manag-Wa, Nicarag-Wa) |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals The Campus Kids feat. Gloria Wood |
21 |
Serenade Of The Bells |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit & The Campus Kids |
22 |
Woody Woodpecker |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Gloria Wood |
23 |
On A Slow Boat To China |
Kay Kyser & His Orch., vocals Harry Babbit & Gloria Wood |
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