Search - Jack Webb :: Just the Tracks Ma'Am: The Warner Bros Recordings

I've got a case.

Johnny Heering | Bethel, CT United States | 04/02/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"It was while making Pete Kelly's Blues and The D.I. for Warner Bros. Pictures that Webb was offered the opportunity to make these albums. The first of these, You're My Girl: Romantic Reflections by Jack Webb, was released in 1958 on the new label. Imagine, if you would, Sgt. Friday reading "Deep Thoughts" and then add a sumptuous musical bed of lush Billy May orchestrations, and you pretty much get the idea. Some of you may have heard Jack's terrible version of "Try a Little Tenderness" on the Golden Throats album. Well, the rest of the album is just as awful.



Jack's second WB album was Jack Webb Presents Pete Kelly Lets His Hair Down. The word "Presents" in the title tips listeners off that our man appears nowhere in its grooves. Lets His Hair Down is a collection of jazz instrumental improvisations from the same group of session players that had worked on the original Pete Kelly's Blues film and soundtrack album. It is divided into six songs played in a "blue" tempo and seven songs played in a "red" tempo (hence the colorful track titles). These are decent light jazz instrumentals, but nothing special.



Unless you are a fan of bad albums by actors, save your money and don't buy this CD.





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Romantic Memories with Jack Webb

Richard Graham | Pittsburgh, PA USA | 02/14/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Here is my favorite Valentine's story:



It was our first Valentine's as a married couple. I had flowers, champagne in a bucket, candles burning... Then I played the romantic music... this CD. Over a plush Billy May orchestration Jack Webb recites the words to love ballads, sounding like he's reading someone their rights.



I wanted my wife to know what she's getting herself into....



Needless to say, I didn't get any that night.



So if you want to kill a romantic mood, try this CD.



Seriously, it is very well done, and the funniest CD on Amazon - unintentionally funny. GET IT!

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