Royal Crown Revue - Caught In The Act

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:41
Size: 125.2 MB
Styles: Retro Swing, Big band
Year: 1997
Art: Front

[0:46] 1. Intro
[3:01] 2. Barflies At The Beach
[4:51] 3. Boogie After Midnight
[2:44] 4. Something's Gotta Give
[3:49] 5. Honey Child
[3:18] 6. Park's Place
[3:48] 7. The Mooch
[8:29] 8. Hey Pachuco!
[3:11] 9. Who Dat
[2:38] 10. Mousetrap
[2:28] 11. Datin' With No Dough
[8:31] 12. Hot Rod
[6:59] 13. Poppity Pop Goes The Motorcycle

The Royal Crown Revue is one hot little band. Here the sextet roars through a set of originals and jump swing standards in a live performance. The band is all swagger and attitude. But while the vocals can tend toward a sing-song sameness of spoken-word rapping, the horns and rhythm section constantly rev things up. On tracks like "Park's Place" and "The Mooch," the band really cuts loose, especially the horns. Other highlights include "Barflies at the Beach" and the band's signature tune, "Hey Pachuco!" which the group performed in the film The Mask. Not as solid as the band's major-label debut, but enjoyable. ~Ross Boissoneau

Caught In The Act

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Royal Crown Revue - Mugzy's Move

Styles: Retro Swing
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:00
Size: 115,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:33)  1. Hey Pachuco!
(3:25)  2. Zip Gun Bop
(3:45)  3. Mugzy's Move
(3:35)  4. I Love the Life I Live
(5:30)  5. The Walkin' Blues
(3:47)  6. Beyond the Sea
(2:45)  7. Park's Place
(2:42)  8. Datin' with No Dough
(4:44)  9. Trouble in Tinsel Town
(3:40) 10. Topsy
(3:53) 11. The Rise and Fall of the Great Mondello
(2:44) 12. Honey Child
(2:49) 13. Hey Pachuco! (Reprise)
(3:01) 14. Barflies at the Beach

With their debut album Mugzy's Move, the Royal Crown Revue bring back the sound of pre-rock jump blues, playing a set of Louis Jordan-inspired originals and ocovers. Although the band is energetic and proficient, their cutesey originals and campy album art give their music an aura of being some sort of kitschy joke. Still, the band is talented enough to make those kinds of questions relatively easy to ignore. Mugzy's Move, despite it's flaws, is an engaging set of nostalgic fun. ~ Thom Owens  http://www.allmusic.com/album/mugzys-move-mw0000187938

Royal Crown Revue: Eddie Nichols (vocals); James Anchor (guitar, background vocals); Mando Dorame (tenor saxophone, background vocals); Bill Ungerman (baritone saxophone, background vocals); Scott Steen (trumpet, bakcground vocals); Veikko Lepisto (bass, background vocals); Daniel Glass (drums, percussion, background vocals).

Mugzy's Move

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