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ultimate collection
Ultimate Collection
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List Price: $13.98
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0008811281526
Label: Hip-O Records
Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Hip-O Records
Release Date: 2002-05-21
Studio: Hip-O Records
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Editorial Reviews:
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With their glorious three-part harmonies and sophisticated musical arrangements, the Sons of the Pioneers more or less defined the genre known as Western music. Hip-O's hour-long, 21-track compilation is a superb overview, containing the best of the group's Decca, Vocalion, RCA Victor, and Coral recordings from the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Formed in Los Angeles in the 1930s, the earliest version of the Pioneers comprised guitarist Leonard Slye (later known as Roy Rogers), bassist Bob Nolan, and singer Tim Spencer. Later members included the brothers Karl and Hugh Farr, who created the group's signature (and surpassingly jazzy) guitar and fiddle instrumentation, with its echoes of Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti; bassist Pat Brady; and singers Lloyd Perryman and Tommy Doss. Despite the personnel changes, the group's rich sound never wavered, and their mournful, melancholic evocation of the Old West on such classics as "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," "Blue Prairie," "Cool Water," and "Riders in the Sky" is pure Americana. --David Hill
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best of the Best
Comment: The original Sons of the Pioneers had the perfect blend of harmony. AND Bob Nolan wrote some of the greatest cowboy songs. Among them the unforgetable TUMBLING TUMBLE WEEDS. This recording has the perfect collection of Sons of the Pioneer hits of their day. If you like Country-cowboy of the 40s and 50s THIS IS THE ONE.
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Summary: FUN
Comment: This is just plain fun. You may start off enjoying it in a campy vein, but you'll find it's more than that. They know they're musicians pretending to be cowboys and they usher you along for a session of make-believe for grown-ups. They poke fun at themselves and C&W in general with lines like "I know all the songs the cowboys know 'cause I heard 'em all on the radio, yippy-kayo-kayeh." And if you liked their nutty yodelling from Way Out There in the film, "Raising Arizona" it's all over their other songs. Play this CD at a party and be forever known as a musical freak.
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Summary: Love That Sound!
Comment: Only the Sons of the Pioneers have that sound!! Great country music,and that mellow sound. If I didn't own this one yet--I'd buy it. It's good music to listen to over and over again.
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Summary: Not country, western.
Comment: I remembered hearing my folks play the old "Cool Water" record when I was a kid, and it made me pick this up. "Ultimate Collection" is almost that. It's great because we gets songs from the 30's through to the 50's, a lengthy 21 tracks, and it's most of the good stuff. Included are the classics "Way Out There", "Tumbling Tumbleweeds", "Blue Prairie", "So Long To The Red River Valley", and of course "Cool Water". However I do sorely miss "Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Yo", "Cowboys Dream", and the excellent "Wind". No collection really has it all, but this one does a good enough job. Also, I doubt this is remastered, as the sound is a bit dull.
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Summary: Five Stars for the Music, 3 1/2 for the Quality
Comment: Terrific CD with some great sides from The Sons of the Pioneers. Tunes cover 1934 through 1954 with heavy emphasis on the earlier stuff. Surface noise on some of the old tracks can be a bit distracting. Don't believe this one was "digitally remastered."
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