The Songbook series of CDs from the U.K.--a label that asks several artists (everyone from Hunter S. Thompson to comix artist Peter Bagge) to compile discs of their favorite music--is a fascinating concept. What better way to pick the brain of your favorite author than to hear what he's currently spinning on the CD player That's What I Call Sweet Music is underground comic legend Robert Crumb's chance to show off his rare shellac and it's one of the series' best efforts. This compilation of '20s American dance music features long-forgotten artists such as Paul Sprecht, Red Nichols's Stompers, Rudy Vallee, and others playing some truly infectious jazzy numbers that once comprised popular music in the U.S. Sure, some of the lyrics are corny, but the playing is consistently great (and the sound quality respectable). It's hard not to get nostalgic hearing these bygone numbers that blend big band, orchestral, and novelty music. As Crumb states in the gorgeously illustrated liner notes, "what you hear on this CD is the good-, social music of a vanished urban civilization, a lost world of smokestack factories, clag trolley cars--and everybody wore hats!" True enough. --Jason Verlinde

1 -Paul Sprecht And His Orchestra That's What I Call Sweet Music

2 -Red Nichols' Stompers Make My Cot Where The Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows

3 -Blue Steele And His Orchestra Be My Baby

4 -Herman Kenin And His Ambassador Hotel Orchestra I'm The Last Of The Red Hot Mamas

5 -Ray Miller And His Orchestra My Honey's Lovin' Arms

6 -Fess Williams And His Royal Flush Orchestra 'Leven-Thirty Saturday Night

7 -George Olsen And His Music* I'm Brig A Red, Red Rose

8 -McKinney's Cotton Pickers Do Something

9 -Fred Rich And His Orchestra Wedding Bells

10 -Leroy Smith And His Orchestra St. Louis Blues

11 -Leroy Shield And The Victor Hollywood Orchestra Sing Song Girl

12 -Earl Hines And His Orchestra Sweet Ella May

13 -Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees The One That I Love Loves Me

14 -Paul Tremaine And His Aristocrats Aristocratic Stomp

15 -Ben Pollack And His Park Central Orchestra Buy, Buy For Baby

16 -'Doc' Cook And His 14 Doctors Of Syncopation* Hum And Strum

17 -Anson Weeks And His Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra Give Your Little Baby Lots Of Lovin'

18 -Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra That's What Puts The Sweet In Home Sweet Home

19 -Gus Arnheim And His Orchestra Si' In The Rain

20 -California Ramblers The Pay Off

21 -Tal Henry And His Orchestra My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans

22 -Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra Oh, You Have No Idea!

23 -Hal Kemp And His Orchestra She's A Great, Great Girl

24 -Charlie Fry And His Million Dollar Pier Orchestra Happy Days And Lonely Nights



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