Hoosier Hot Shots - Breezin' Along: The Singles Collection 1935-46 (CD)

Hoosier Hot Shots - Breezin' Along: The Singles Collection 1935-46 - It's a thoroughly entertaining showcase for one of the most unusual acts of the era. The Hoosier Hot Shots were a quartet of American musicians from Indiana, hence their name, although no-one knows the exact origins of the term 'hoosier' as applied to natives of Indiana. Their music defied categorisation, but largely comprised novelty material played in a style that somehow combined jazz, swing and country, using a variety of instruments, from brass and woodwind through to novelty implements like bicycle horns, bells and slide whistles. Their washboard and other artefacts from the band are now in the collection of the Indiana State Museum. They recorded novelty songs and versions of vaudeville and pop standards, powered by a frantic, freewheeling instrumental virtuosity, grounded in comedy and whimsicality but always brilliantly performed. They performed on stage, on radio and in movies and started to record in 1935. This 51-track 2-CD collection comprises selected recordings on the Vocalion, Banner, Melotone, Conqueror and Decca labels from these years, and features their hits "Breezin' Along With The Breeze", "Red Hot Fannie", "The Man With The Whiskers", "Annabelle", "She Broke My Heart In Three Places" and "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)", along with classics like "Beer Barrel Polka", "When There Are Tears In The Eyes Of The Potato" and "O-Hi-O". It's a thoroughly entertaining showcase for one of the most unusual acts of the era.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Whistlin' Joe from Kokomo
2. Hoosier Stomp
3. I'm Looking for a Girl
4. This Is the Chorus
5. Meet Me By the Ice House Lizzie
6. Back Home in Indiana
7. Them Hillbillys Are Mountain Williams
8. I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones
9. Wah Hoo
10. Nobody's Sweetheart
11. Bye Bye Blues
12. Hold 'Er, Eb'ner
13. You're Driving Me Crazy
14. Margie
15. Everybody Stomp
16. The Coats and Pants Do All the Work
17. Breezin' Along with the Breeze
18. Goofus
19. It Ain't Nobody's Biz'ness What I Do
20. I Ain't Got Nobody
21. Meet Me Tonight in the Cowshed
22. Red Hot Fannie
23. A Hot Dog, a Blanket and You
24. Man with the Whiskers
25. When Paw Was Courtin' Maw

Disc: 2

1. Wabash Blues
2. Annabelle
3. Beer Barrel Polka
4. From the Indies to the Andes in Undies
5. Look on the Bright Side
6. Willie, Willie, Will Ya?
7. Are You Having Any Fun
8. In An Old Dutch Garden
9. Ma She's Makin Eyes at Me
10. Connie's Got Connections in Connecticut
11. Down By the O-Hi-O
12. My Wife Is on a Diet
13. Who's Sorry Now
14. When There's Tears in the Eyes of a Potato
15. Way Down in Arkansas
16. Everybody Loves My Baby
17. Let's Not and Say We Did
18. Guy Who Stole My Wife
19. The Band Played on
20. Since We Put a Radio Out in the Hen House
21. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
22. She Was a Washout in the Black-Out
23. She Broke My Heart in Three Places
24. The Barn Dance Polka
25. Someday You'll Want Me to Want You)
26. Divorce Me C.O.D