Kay Kyser - Kay Kyser Hits Collection 1935-48 (CD)

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 it's aftermath

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. (I've Grown So Lonesome) Thinking of You
2. Star Gazing
3. Did You Mean It'
4. Cause My Baby Says It's So
5. Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices
6. Cry, Baby, Cry
7. Music, Maestro, Please!
8. Don't Cross Your Fingers, Cross Your Heart
9. Stop Beatin' Around the Mulberry Bush
10. Ya Got Me
11. The Umbrella Man
12. Monday Morning
13. Two Sleepy People
14. Chopsticks
15. (Gotta Get Some) Shut-Eye
16. Cuckoo in the Clock
17. Heaven Can Wait
18. I Promise You
19. The Tinkle Song
20. Stairway to the Stars
21. Concert in the Park
22. Three Little Fishes
23. Day in, Day Out
24. The Little Red Fox (N'ya N'ya Ya Can't Catch Me)
25. Chatterbox

Disc: 2

1. Confucious Say
2. Blue Lovebird
3. With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair
4. Friendship
5. Playmates
6. You, You Darlin'
7. Let There Be Love
8. Tennessee Fish Fry
9. Who's Yehood
10. Blueberry Hill
11. Ferry-Boat Serenade
12. You've Got Me This Way
13. Alexander the Swoose (Half Swan-Half Goose)
14. The Wise Old Owl
15. Til Reveille
16. Cowboy Serenade (While I'm Rolling My Last Cigarette)
17. Why Don't We Do This More Often'
18. (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) the White Cliffs of Dover
19. A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal)
20. Who Wouldn't Love You
21. Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland
22. Got the Moon in My Pocket
23. Jingle Jangle Jingle
24. He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings
25. Strip Polka

Disc: 3

1. Every Night About This Time
2. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!
3. Can't Get Out of This Mood
4. Moonlight Mood
5. Let's Get Lost
6. The Fuddy Duddy Watchmaker
7. Pushin' Sand
8. There Goes That Song Again
9. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
10. Bell Bottom Trousers
11. Can't You Read Between the Lines
12. Rosemary
13. Horses Don't Bet on People
14. That's for Me
15. Slowly
16. One-Zy Two-Zy (I Love You-Zy)
17. Ole Buttermilk Sky
18. Huggin' and Chalkin'
19. The Old Lamp-Lighter
20. Managua, Nicagagua (Manag-Wa, Nicarag-Wa)
21. Serenade of the Bells
22. Woody Woodpecker
23. On a Slow Boat to China