Jimmy Durante - The Great Schnozzle

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:16
Size: 166,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:07) 1. Inka Dinka Doo
(3:07) 2. Can Broadway Do Without Me?
(2:59) 3. Hot Patatta
(2:42) 4. Umbriago
(3:14) 5. Durante, The Patron of the Arts
(3:12) 6. Start off Each Day With a Song
(3:03) 7. Who Will Be With You When I'm Far Away?
(3:11) 8. So I Ups to Him
(2:48) 9. Joe Goes Up-I Come Down
(3:08) 10. Jimmy, The Well Dressed Man
(3:18) 11. There Are Two Sides to Every Girl
(3:13) 12. G'wan Home, You Mudder's Callin'
(3:01) 13. I'm Feeling Mighty Low
(3:00) 14. I'll Do the Strutaway in My Cutaway
(3:02) 15. I'm the Guy Who Found the Lost Chord
(2:56) 16. Little Bit This, Little Bit That
(3:07) 17. Chidabee, Chidabee, Chidabee (Yah! Yah! Yah!)
(3:03) 18. It's My Nose's Birthday
(3:01) 19. (I'll Never Forget) The Day I Read a Book
(3:03) 20. Fugitive from Esquire
(4:44) 21. The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart
(3:14) 22. A Real Piano Player
(2:51) 23. Inka Dinka Doo

Jimmy Durante's jokes weren't always that funny, but his personality and appearance could breathe vitality into practically any worn-out punchline. The comedy skits and songs on The Great Schnozzle are occasionally a hoot, but Durante's humor was more fun to watch, and some of the tracks leave one yearning for the visual portion. Mastered from vintage 78s and acetates from 1929-1949, The Great Schnozzle includes Durante's most famous song, "Inka Dinka Do," in two versions, and 21 other tracks of piano-pounding, word-mangling craziness. Durante was a one-of-a-kind character, and the possessor of real musical talent to boot.~ Greg Adams https://www.allmusic.com/album/great-schnozzle-mw0000046531

The Great Schnozzle

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Jimmy Durante - September Song

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2001
File: MP3@224K/s
Time: 29:49
Size: 48,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:09) 1. September Song
(2:56) 2. Look Ahead Little Girl
(2:45) 3. Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep
(2:48) 4. When The Circus Leaves Town
(2:33) 5. I Believe
(2:47) 6. Young At Heart
(2:56) 7. Don't Lose Your Sense Of Humour
(2:22) 8. You'll Never Walk Alone
(4:22) 9. One Room Home
(3:05) 10. Blue Bird Of Happiness

After decades of novelty and comedy recordings, film roles and television work, Jimmy Durante was invited into the studio to record a "serious" album of standards and originals. Durante himself was uncertain about the project, but the resulting album was in every way a success. It was Durante's only album to enter the Top 40, and the title track made Billboard's Top Pop 100. Mixing Durante's utterly unique voice with lush strings and a vocal chorus, September Song is a left-field masterpiece full of wistful and affecting performances. Durante was by no means a technically accomplished vocalist, but he negotiated the sessions with aplomb and created a piece of work very different from, but just as charming as, the comedy that had made him a star.~Greg Adams https://www.allmusic.com/album/september-song-mw0000012171

September Song

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Jimmy Durante - Jimmy Durante's Way Of Life

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 27:07
Size: 62.1 MB
Styles: EasyListening, Traditional pop
Year: 1965/1998
Art: Front

[3:10] 1. A Way Of Life
[2:28] 2. My Wish
[2:25] 3. As Time Goes By
[1:50] 4. Make Someone Happy
[3:10] 5. I'll Be Seeing You
[2:33] 6. When Day Is Done
[2:56] 7. When I Lost You
[2:43] 8. If I Had You
[2:52] 9. Once To Every Heart
[2:56] 10. I'll See You In My Dreams

If any performer can truly be said to have carved out his own comedic turf, made a huge success out of it lasting over several decades, while completely owning that piece of turf lock, stock, and barrel, then that performer would have to be Jimmy Durante. There never has been -- nor is there likely ever to be -- a stylistic school of Durante; the man and his character are of one piece and ingrained in the national consciousness to the extreme. Anyone foolish enough to start appropriating any part of his act would be immediately branded as a slavish imitator -- someone just merely "doing Durante" -- while always being doomed to comparison with the one and only real-deal "Schnozzola" and again, falling well short of the mark. On the surface, Durante's mega-success defied all commonly understood show business laws. No one with such a gravelly voice should have been able to put over a song as well as he did. No one as ugly as him should have made as much profitable hay as he did about being that ugly, and parlaying those looks into a movie career at that. No one wore rumpled suits and a beat-up fedora (covering what little hair he had left), smoked a cheap cigar, and mangled the English language with more charm and hilarity than he. No one won the hearts of his audience by simply being himself -- a comic Everyman from the poor side of town -- than did one Jimmy Durante. He didn't sing good, he didn't look good, and he had the audacity to keep bringing it up, he dressed like a bum, and couldn't say a complete sentence without screwing up some (or all) of the words. Not much of a show business résumé on the surface of it, but Durante's uncloneable charm gathered its main strength from being just that; an average guy who -- as one critic put it -- "acted like a heckler from an audience who had finally decided he could do a better job himself and, upsetting all conventional show business decorum, had snuck into the spotlight." There was not one subtle thing about Jimmy Durante; whether it was wrecking a piano and throwing the resultant debris at the audience, singing a song like "I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway (But Can Broadway Do Without Me?)," or doing a complete about face and providing a brief glimpse of the wistful side of his character, he tapped the deepest of emotions every single time and did it at full bore. ~Cub Koda

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