Track Listing

1. Whispering/Cherchez la Femme/Se Si Bon
2. I'll Play the Fool
3. Sunshower
4. Hard Times
5. Mister Love
6. Gigolo and I
7. We Got It Made
8. Organ Grinder's Tale
9. I'll Always Have a Smile for You
10. Sour and Sweet/Lemon in the Honey

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #207304 in Music
• Released on: 2005-04-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Nice condensed "best of"
This is a very nice sampler from the 2 RCA albums at a budget price. Terrific photo of the band on the cover, too. Good for the collector who has to have everything, or the casual listener only familiar with "Cherchez La Femme". Now if only their 1979 Elektra Records LP would get a CD release, it would be what this great group deserves.

A Casual Look...
This minor budget compilation may not be the place to wax ecstatic about this truly great, great band, so I'll keep it short. Dr. B were utterly original, and despite a smash dance hit from their 1976 debut album and loyal NYC fanbase. Fame was fleeting however, and the Savannah Band were unable to find their niche at black radio or, heaven forbid, rock 'n' roll radio, which was already tightening its playlists in the mid-1970's.
Then, the band vaguely perceived as 'disco' issued a second album in 1978 that was virtually undanceable (though a masterpiece nevertheless), losing the cliub kids and sealing their fate commercially. RCA lost interest, and a terrific third album issued by Elektra two years later sank without denting the Top 200. I think Dr. Buzzard made astonishing, subversive, sophisticated, witty, lush, and deeply eclectic music, yet albums two thru four have never even been released on compact disc, which means you won't find the LP artwork, as meticulously detailed as the music, and an integral expression of the group's vision. Skip this comp, and instead pick up "The Very Best..." which may look terrible (disco ball graphics, ugh) but actually contains every track from those two RCA albums, albeit scrambled out of sequence. (My vinyl copies allow me to program "The Very Best" as a 2-fer, and as the band originally intended). Then seek out used vinyl stores for "Goes To Washington" and "Calling All Beatniks". Better still, let's petition Rhino Handmade or Hip-O for the faithfully restored and upgraded collection of the group's collected works, because 25 - 30 years on maybe the world is ready for the one of the great bands to emerge from the 1970s, whatever the genre.