This 2000 set from the Allegro Corporation's Cocktail Hour series contains 28 tracks from the heyday of the Mills Brothers' career, including a track with Louis Armstrong. As Mills Brothers compilations go, this package is as good as any other - comprehensive, but far from all-inclusive. It fills the bill for a good "representational" collection of Mills Brothers hits.
Liner notes are non-existent. You get no history (or even recording or release dates), so you'll have to look elsewhere for this info. All you get is a track listing.
Nonetheless, this is as economical a means as any for adding Mills Brothers hit performances to your collection.
Some of the Mills Brothers' "Soundies" are featured on the Rare Vocal Groups video, which is also reviewed on this Web site.
Worth the price.
Track listing:
Disc 1:
1. Paper Doll
2. I'll Be Around
3. Jeepers Creepers
4. Lazybones
5. Organ Grinder's Swing
6. Nagasaki
7. Smoke Rings
8. Basin Street Blues
9. Funiculi Funicula
10. Asleep in The Deep
11. Ay Ay Ay Ay (Cielito Lindo)
12. Lazy River
13. Till Then
14. You Always Hurt The One You Love
Disc 2:
1. Shine
2. You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine
3. Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
4. Rockin' Chair
5. F.D.R. Jones
6. Stardust
7. Caravan
8. Georgia on My Mind
9. It Don't Mean A Thing
10. The Flat Foot Floogie - with Louis Armstrong
11. When You Were Sweet Sixteen
12. Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)
13. Till We Meet Again
14. Manana
