Tony Pastor was a jazz and big band saxophonist, singer and bandleader who was with Artie Shaw's orchestra during the '30s before launching his own band in 1940, subsequently enjoying a highly successful chart career through the 1940s with a distinctive style of upbeat and entertaining middle-of-the-road music, including the novelty-flavoured material popular in that era. In the later years of the decade, he provided an early career opportunity for Rosemary Clooney and her sister Betty, who recorded with Pastor through 1948-49, and who are featured on a dozen or more titles here. This 72-track 3-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from his singles on the Bluebird, RCA-Victor, Cosmo and Columbia labels during this era, and features all his fifteen US chart entries, including the Top 10 hits "Maria Elena", "Dance With A Dolly", "Bell Bottom Trousers", Sioux City Sue", "Red Silk Stockings And Green Perfume" and "The Lady From Twenty-Nine Palms". It features at least one side of a significant proportion of his releases during these years. Along with Tony Pastor himself and The Clooney Sisters, featured vocalists include Johnny McAfee, Eugenie Baird, Dorsey Anderson, Kay Little, Elisse Cooper, Kay Foster, Rita McCullough and Virginia Maxey. It's a substantial and enjoyable showcase for the music of an artist who is not much talked about these days but who made a significant contribution to the popular music of this primary decade and more of his career.
1 Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking)
2 The Rhymin' Game (Rhyme Your Name)
3 It Never Entered My Mind
4 I Want to Live (As Long As You Love Me)
5 Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
6 I've Got You Under My Skin
7 Love of My Life
8 You're the One for Me
9 Paradiddle Joe
10 With a Twist of the Wrist
11 Pale Moon
12 For Whom the Bell Tolls
13 Wigwam Stomp
14 Maria Elena
15 Hurry Back to Sorrento
16 Green Eyes
17 Dinah
18 Don't Let Julia Fool Ya
19 Shepherd Serenade
20 Dream Dancing
21 Sunday in Savannah
22 You Can Depend on Me
23 Blossoms
24 Doin' the Ratamacue
- Disc 2 -
1 Absent Minded Moon
2 Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip
3 Fightin' Doug MacArthur
4 Full Moon
5 Brother Bill
6 I'm Getting So Tired I Can Sleep
7 Hey, Mabel!
8 Confessin' (That I Loveyou)
9 Robin Hood
10 I Got a Song
11 Five Salted Peanuts
12 Bell Bottom Trousers
13 Please No Squeeza de Banana
14 That's the Stuff Ya Gotta Watch
15 Sioux City Sue
16 Who's Got a Tent for Rent?
17 Azusa
18 Surrender
19 Love Is the Darndest Thing
20 My Neck of the Woods
21 Makin' Whoopee
22 Either It's Love or It Isn't
23 Peaceful Valley
24 Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume
- Disc 3 -
1 I Wonder I Wonder I Wonder
2 Lady from Twenty-Nine Palms
3 My O'Darlin,' My O'Lovely, My O'Brien
4 Gonna' Get a Girl
5 I'm My Own Grandpaw
6 There's a Man at the Door
7 A Boy from Texas and a Girl from Tennessee
8 Indian Love Call
9 You Started Something
10 It's Like Taking Candy from a Baby
11 Saturday Night Mood
12 Grieving for You
13 A You're Adorable
14 San
15 There's Yes Yes in Your Eyes
16 If I Had a Million Dollars
17 I Never See Maggie Alone
18 For You My Love
19 Can I Come in for a Second
20 Busy Line
21 Choc'late Ice Cream Cone
22 Bread and Butter Woman
23 Sentimental Music
24 Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider)
Tony Pastor was a jazz and big band saxophonist, singer and bandleader who was with Artie Shaw's orchestra during the '30s before launching his own band in 1940, subsequently enjoying a highly successful chart career through the 1940s with a distinctive style of upbeat and entertaining middle-of-the-road music, including the novelty-flavoured material popular in that era. In the later years of the decade, he provided an early career opportunity for Rosemary Clooney and her sister Betty, who recorded with Pastor through 1948-49, and who are featured on a dozen or more titles here. This 72-track 3-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from his singles on the Bluebird, RCA-Victor, Cosmo and Columbia labels during this era, and features all his fifteen US chart entries, including the Top 10 hits "Maria Elena", "Dance With A Dolly", "Bell Bottom Trousers", Sioux City Sue", "Red Silk Stockings And Green Perfume" and "The Lady From Twenty-Nine Palms". It features at least one side of a significant proportion of his releases during these years. Along with Tony Pastor himself and The Clooney Sisters, featured vocalists include Johnny McAfee, Eugenie Baird, Dorsey Anderson, Kay Little, Elisse Cooper, Kay Foster, Rita McCullough and Virginia Maxey. It's a substantial and enjoyable showcase for the music of an artist who is not much talked about these days but who made a significant contribution to the popular music of this primary decade and more of his career.
