Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #114038 in Music
- Released on: 1991-05-28
- Number of discs: 1
- Original language:
English - Dimensions: .45" h x
4.94" w x
5.50" l,
.21 pounds
Product Description
16 classic, close-harmony recordings, including Tumbling Tumbleweeds; Cool Water; There's a Round-up in the Sky; The Hills of Old Wyomin'; Rye Whiskey , and more.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.The Real McCoy
By A Customer
This is, to me at least, the definitive "desert island" recording of the Sons of the Pioneers. Every track is good, their greatest songs are included, the CD is amply filled, and the sound is old ("authentic") without being unpleasant. Owning both the Hall of Fame disc and the Columbia Historic Edition provides a very good representation of this piece of Americana. If you want only one disc, this is it.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.NOT JUST NOSTALGIA
By MOVIE MAVEN
I found this CD hidden away in my car's glove compartment and pushed it into the CD player, thinking I'd get a nostalgic laugh. After all, when I was a kid, watching Roy Rogers movies on Saturday afternoons at the Fox or Oritani in Hackensack, it would be these same Sons of the Pioneers who backed Roy up, singing and playing their hearts out. The song over, Roy would disappear with Dale to apprehend a criminal or two and the Sons would just disappear til the next music cue.
It surprised me how moving these songs and their performances really are. They are, for the most part, slow, sad songs about a very difficult life in the West: old age, loneliness and death are more than occasional subjects.
First rate singers, the Pioneers are also wonderful instrumentalists, with arrangements that, at times, shockingly resemble those of Stephane Grappelli.
The sound, unfortunately, on this CD is sub-standard. There are songs that actually sound as if they were recorded in someone's bathroom. But almost all is forgiven when the Pioneers harmonize on a tune as lovely as Bob Nolan's "Cool Water."
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.Excellent songs-very well performed
By 10193@utech.net
I really enjoyed listening to the western music of the forties and fifties. The Sons of the Pioneers are a favorite group of mine for the last 45 years.
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