Pete Kelly's Blues

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
Japanese Version featuring a Limited LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only.

Tracks:

Oh Didn't He Ramble
Sugar
Somebody Loves Me
I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now
I Never Knew
Bye Bye Blackbird
What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
Hard Hearted Hannah
Ella Hums The Blues
He Needs Me
Sing A Rainbow

Album Description

Japanese 24-bit remastered reissue, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. Details TBA. Universal. 2004.

Album Details

24bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

Customer Reviews:

Pete Kelly's Blues It isn't!.......2006-05-15

One might think that in ordering this CD one is receiving the soundtrack with Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald from "Pete Kelly's Blues"--well, you're not. At the top of the jacket of the CD, there are small words--too small to read on the order "songs from [Pete Kelly's Blues]." They sing the songs from the film but not the same arrangements and not the original band with Dick Cathcart,Matty Matlock,Nick Fatool and others. They recorded on RCA Victor; this band on Decca, and unless you read Japanese, you can't know who they are. The arrangements for Peggy Lee are too lifeless (especially "O Didn't He Ramble"), although Ella's renditions are faithful to the movie version. If you're a Peggy and/or Ella fan, it's OK, but if you want the authentic jazz from the movie, this is not for you! The words included to the songs are pluses.

Average customer rating:

Good Jazz from the l920's/30's
Excellent Small Group Portraying Music of the 20's in ....
Pete Kelly's Blues soundtrack CD
Melt into this...
Great Sounds but Not a Soundtrack!

Pete Kelly's Blues (1955 Film)
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Binding: Audio CD

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Songs from "Pete Kelly's Blues"

ASIN: B00000G4U0
Release Date: 1999-01-19

Tracks:

Opening Narration
Smiles
I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now
What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
Breezin' Along WIth The Breeze
Oh Didn't He Ramble
Sugar
I Never Knew
Somebody Loves Me
Hard Hearted Hannah
Bye, Bye, Black Bird
Pete Kelly's Blues

Customer Reviews:

Good Jazz from the l920's/30's.......2006-05-13

I remember seeing this film and enjoying many LPs made by these excellent sidemen, Nick Fatool, George Van Eps, Matty Matlock, and others, who captured the spirit of the 20's jazz. Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, and Edmond O'Brien in the film represented the jazz scene in my hometown of Kansas City very authentically. I wholeheartedly endorse this soundtrack for any serious historian and lover of Dixieland jazz.

Excellent Small Group Portraying Music of the 20's in ...........2005-08-15

Kansas City. All of the musicians involved provided the small band scoring of the original soundtrack.......BUT this recording is a separate studio session (Oct. 19, 1955). The original liner notes make this fairly clear! The songs are taken from the movie...but not the original soundtrack......else you wouldn't have a decent take of "Somebody Loves Me", where the alcoholic singer, played by Peggy Lee, tragically fails the lyrics enraging her gangster "sponsor", Edmond O'Brien. That said, it's excellent dixieland music carried off by musicians many of whom had backgrounds from that period. Some of the stuff reflects more of the 30's and early 40's to my ear such as the Goodman-esque clarinet by Matty Matlock on "What Can I Say....etc", the great horn harmony on "Breezin' Along With The Breeze", and the silky smooth tenor work by Eddie Miller on both of these tunes. Drummer Nick Fatool shows some really authentic period licks especially on the first two cuts.

If it wasn't for the music, which is excellent, the cd would be worth the price just for the laconic intros by Jack Webb which vividly evoke memories of his dead-pan dry monotone delivery.

A real collector's "must".

Pete Kelly's Blues soundtrack CD.......2003-08-31

This is a great re-release of the soundtrack from the film "Pete Kelly's Blues". The only downside is that it doesn't include the great vocals by Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald. It is strictly an instrumental soundtrack. Hmmm, that makes me wonder how it can be called a "soundtrack" if there were vocals in the film and there are none here????

Melt into this..........2001-10-10

This is worth every penny for the sweet sounds of Dick Cathcart alone! Cathcart plays the way Ella sings- sweet, warm, bluesy, and oh so easy to listen to...

Great Sounds but Not a Soundtrack!.......2000-11-28

There's little doubt that the music is great. Still, when it says soundtrack you would expect to hear Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald sing the titles they performed in the movie, and they're not a part of this release.

Its a shame too, since their voices represented some of the best parts of the movie.

Tracks:

Oh Didn't He Ramble
Sugar (That Sugar Baby Of
Somebody Loves Me
I'm Gonna Meet My Sweety
I Never Knew
Bye Bye Blackbird
What Can I Say After I Sa
Hard Hearted Hanna (The V
Ella Hums The Blues
He Needs Me
Sing A Rainbow
Pete Kelly's Blues

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Limited LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only.

Customer Reviews:

Not Pete Kelly band or arrangements.......2007-01-30

As I specified in a review for the more expensive CD, this CD would be of value only for the Peggy Lee/ Ella Fitzgerald fans, as the band accompaning them is not the Matty Matlock-Dick Cathcart group featured on the LPs and other CD and in the movie "Pete Kelly's Blues". The arrangements are not even close to the ones used in the movie. "O Didn't He Ramble" is anything but a burial rite but set in an anguishing blues format. At $34 or $24, this is hardly representative of the movie, the LPs, and the later radio-television programs' music.

great sound.......2001-07-01

i just bought this cd and the sound is great ..what a great album ..its about time its on cd..

Essential jazz re-issue..........2000-08-10

This is an original Decca Lp, re-isued for CD, with original cover art work, and liner notes. Ten Peggy Lee tracks and several Ella Fitzgerald tracks, the material on this essential CD has been unavaialble for decades, at last it's on CD, and the sound quality is excellent. All jazz standards from the film, and Lee and Fitzgerald are both in prime form. Most of these tunes are unavailable elsewhere so grab this import CD up quick before it disapears. An essential CD for any Peggy Lee fan, or jazz and vocal fans, and worth every penny.

ONLY for die-hard fans.......1999-12-13

This import has the worst sound quality of ANY Japanese import I have. Quite unbelieveable really, and just wanted to put the caution flag up on this one. Very costly for a single CD, it's only drawing power is getting all the Peggy Lee AND Ella Fitzgerald tracks together. A CD sized LP cover reproduction is cute, but hardly makes up for the sound, most of the songs can be found on other sources at ten TIMES the quality of sound. If you are not a diei-hard fan of Lee or Ella, I'd pass on this particular import.

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Not Pete Kelly's band or arrangements

Pete Kelly's Blues

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ASIN: B000A27OIY
Release Date: 2000-05-30

Customer Reviews:

Not Pete Kelly's band or arrangements.......2007-01-30

As specified in my earlier reviews of this CD, if you looking for the music from the movie "Pete Kelly's Blues", the tunes are here but the music/band/arrangements aren't. I give it two stars only for Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald, although Peggy's arrangements are not the same as the movie. Ella is very good and authentic from the film. The band playing on this Japanese CD is not the one headed by Dick Cathcart, Matty Matlock, and Nick Fatool from the movie, LPs, radio-television programs, and a far cry from a good Dixieland band! This CD's major plus is including the words to the songs, but the label credits and information are in Japanese (which is quaint but not helpful). Unless you're a Peggy or Ella fan, it's not worth $[...],$[...], or $[...]!

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