Kyser,Kay 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

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 26. Confucious Say 27. Blue Lovebird 28. With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair 29. Friendship 30. Playmates 31. You, You Darlin' 32. Let There Be Love 33. Tennessee Fish Fry 34. Who's Yehood 35. Blueberry Hill 36. Ferry-Boat Serenade 37. You've Got Me This Way 38. Alexander the Swoose (Half Swan-Half Goose) 39. The Wise Old Owl 40. Til Reveille 41. Cowboy Serenade (While I'm Rolling My Last Cigarette) 42. Why Don't We Do This More Often' 43. (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) the White Cliffs of Dover 44. A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal) 45. Who Wouldn't Love You 46. Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland 47. Got the Moon in My Pocket 48. Jingle Jangle Jingle 49. He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings 50. Strip Polka 51. Every Night About This Time 52. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! 53. Can't Get Out of This Mood 54. Moonlight Mood 55. Let's Get Lost 56. The Fuddy Duddy Watchmaker 57. Pushin' Sand 58. There Goes That Song Again 59. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive 60. Bell Bottom Trousers 61. Can't You Read Between the Lines 62. Rosemary 63. Horses Don't Bet on People 64. That's for Me 65. Slowly 66. One-Zy Two-Zy (I Love You-Zy) 67. Ole Buttermilk Sky 68. Huggin' and Chalkin' 69. The Old Lamp-Lighter 70. Managua, Nicagagua (Manag-Wa, Nicarag-Wa) 71. Serenade of the Bells 72. Woody Woodpecker 73. On a Slow Boat to China