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(8 customer reviews) 7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Fun group but limited,
August 23, 2006 Jmark2001 (Florida) - See all my reviews
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I got turned on to the Hoosier Hot Shots when I heard their version of "Breezin' along with the breeze." It is a novel take on that oldie. I also saw a few videos of them performing and they were visually as playful as their music sounded. Here's the problem: they had some good ideas (slide whistle, hot rhythm guitar, good harmonies) but they only had a few good ideas and they used the same instrumentations in song after song after song with little variation. You really only need one Hoosier Hot Shots album in your collection - four is too much of the same old same old. By the time this box set was finished, I never wanted to hear them again. Too much of the same formula.
A great group of midwestern guys, I'm sure. But I have had enough slide whistle to last me a while.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great Music from A Time Long Past,
March 25, 2008 Cdc "Book Lover" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This is a great collection of wonderful music by a group that was preeminent in the 1920s and 1930s. What most reviewers miss saying is that this group was an early jazz-swing group and the clarinet work is astounding. Some of it is hokey or corny, some of it is repetitious, but a great deal of the music is simply joyful and swings like any of the big bands that followed. The only possible downside is that this is a package of four separate records, reproduced on four CD's, and some of the songs are repeated from CD to CD. But unless you are listening to all four of these sequentially, you won't notice. If you are looking for feel-good music and want to know what swing was like in its earliest years, this is a great buy.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Makes you smile,
April 17, 2005 Jiminy Cricket (downstate NY USA) - See all my reviews
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When you hear this funny, goofy band, recordings from 1934 thru 1947, it makes you smile. You almost can't help laughing. It is very infectious good humor. This collection contains 100 of their good songs for a very reasonable price. This 100 songs chronicles their lives & career (booklet included) and includes at the end 11 songs recorded post-WW2 that seem more downbeat, sad. This seems to me the best value of their different collections available today. Definitive collection. Recommended !
