Track Listing

1. Carolina Moon
2. Basin Street Blues
3. Floatin' Down to Cotton Town
4. Drifting and Dreaming
5. Garden in the Rain
6. S'posin'
7. Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
8. Kentucky Babe
9. In the Sweet Long Ago
10. I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland
11. Angry
12. Little Street Where Old Friends Meet
13. Anniversary Waltz
14. Sentimental Journey
15. Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
16. They Say It's Wonderful
17. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
18. For Me and My Gal
19. I Believe
20. Down Among the Sheltering Palms
21. Hello Ma Baby
22. Wonderful One
23. (When It's) Darkness on the Delta

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #263937 in Music
• Released on: 2002-02-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Harmony Heaven
Exquisite, technically superior a-capella singing in the barbershop (salon-shop?) style. The first 14 tracks, from 1952, convey the sweet style of the Chordettes working very closely together in highly-disciplined and balanced fashion. Their intonation is near perfect, the delivery superbly controlled.
The remaining 9 tracks come from 1954 after a slight change in personnel. The style of the Chordettes had begun to change and the sound is not as 'pure' as that from two years earlier. There is some forceful rendition, and the pitch does drift off-key at times. However there is some very clever performance of lighter numbers.
This is a quality compilation CD from Sony.

Great Barbershop Album
Awesome compilation of barbershop standards, arranged by Walter Latzko, one of the top barbershop arrangers, and sung by the one of the best quartets, the Chordettes. There is a hard-to-find companion sheet music book, Harmony Encores, also the arrangements are available from the Barbershop Harmony Society. So if you want to make your own quartet, this is one good way to get started.