Album Details

The Vintage Recordings of Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike)

RELEASE
1996
LABEL
Take Two
GENRES
Vocal Music, Comedy, Traditional Pop, Early Jazz, Novelty, Vocal Jazz

Album Review

This is a strong collection of Edwards' music, half from the '20s while the other half is from the '30s and '40s. Styles range from tight hot jazz with "His Hot Combination," a band which included Red Nichols and Miff Mole, to the poppier love songs backed by generic '30s vocal group the Eton Boys to pop-Hawaiian with the superb Andy Iona and his Islanders. It's a tribute to Edwards' versatility as a performer that he shines no matter what the background. Though this CD has the same title as an earlier Take Two LP, it is significantly different; they only share seven tracks. Leonard Maltin wrote the excellent liner notes full of personal reminiscences of Cliff by some of the artists who worked with him.
Megan Lynch, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Homesick
  2. I Want Somebody to Cheer Me Up
  3. I'm Crying 'Cause I Know I'm Losing You
  4. Halfway to Heaven
  5. That's My Weakness Now
  6. Together
  7. I Can't Make Her Happy That Old Girl of Mine
  8. It Goes Like This (That Funny Melody)
  9. Good Little, Bad Little You
  10. My Old Girl's My New Girl Now
  11. Singin' in the Rain
  12. I'll See You in My Dreams
  13. Hush My Mouth (If I Ain't Goin' South)
  14. Love Is Just Around the Corner
  15. One Little Kiss
  16. Somebody Loves Me
  17. It Had to Be You
  18. A Love Like Ours
  19. Hold on to Your Heart
  20. My Melancholy Baby