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Various Artists: Hot Harmony Groups 1932-1951 - That's the Rhythm Volume 1

Song Name   As Performed By
Somebody Stole Gabriel's Horn    The Three Keys
Za Zu Swing   The Five Jinks
That's the Rhythm    Three Sharps and A Flat
Milk Shake Stand    Three Barons
Satchelmouth Baby   Deek Watson and the Brown Dots
Garbage Man    The Four Aces
Wig Blues    The Melody Masters
Hurry Home    Thelma Carpenter & the Deep River Boys
Let's Be Sweethearts Again   Bill John & Musical Notes
(I Wonder) Where Is My Love    The Four Tunes
Nicholas    Three Flames
Subway Cutie   Melody Masters
Choo Choo    The Four Vagabonds
It Takes A Long Tall Skinned Girl    The Four Blues
Yesterday Rose's    The Bachelors
Wrapped Up In A Dream Again   Four Knights
Cherry in My Lemon and Lime    The Three Riffs
I'd Rather Be Wrong that Blue    The Beavers
I Don't Mind Being All Alone    The Colemans
Yes Sir That's My Baby   The Clovers

'That's The Rhythm' is a delicious collection of 20 examples of Black vocal group harmony from the early 1930s to the early 1950s, all at least lightly accompanied. The watershed moment for these groups was the rise of network radio, which made immediate stars of the Mills Brothers and the Ink Spots. By 1945 there were three routes an aspiring group could take, the 'jubilee' gospel style of the Golden Gate Quartet, which enjoyed a crossover appeal, the jump/jive stylings of the Four Vagabonds, which had an almost entirely Black following, or going into the pop crossover stylings of the Ink Spots/Mills Brothers, whose huge success was due to the support of a vast white audience. So many treats: The Three Keys' cartoon-like 'Somebody Stole Gabriel's Horn,' Three Sharps and a Flat's wonderful title tune, the raunchy, double-entendre 'Garbage Man' by the Four Aces, the very funny 'Wig Blues' by The Melody Masters, who also star on 'Subway Cutie,' The Four Vagabonds' swinging 'Choo Choo,' The Four Blues' boogie-woogie anthem 'It Takes A Long Tall Brown Skinned Girl,' the Four Knights' sweet 'Wrapped Up In A Dream,' The Three Riffs' silly 'Cherry In My Lemon And Lime,' The Beavers' torch song 'I'd Rather Be Wrong Than Blue'-these are unknown musical treasures on many levels. Funny, poignant, hip, romantic-it's all here, and some of the sweetest leads and harmonies you could imagine. We love this collection!

4543 00 1 CD $12.98   United States | Black Vocal Groups