The Banjo Kings – Favorites

Description

Release Date: 1986

Label: Good Time Jazz

Track List

1. The Man On The Flying Trapeze
2. Bird In A Gilded Cage
3. After The Ball
4. Shine On Harvest Moon
5. Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair
6. Annie Rooney
7. Daisy Bell
8. Sweet Genevieve
9. In My Merry Oldsmobile
10. Silver Threads Among The Gold
11. Bill Bailey
12. A Hot Time In The Old Town
13. The Columbus Stockade Blues
14. Steel Guitar Rag
15. You Are My Sunshine
16. San Antonio Rose
17. Westward Ho!
18. Home On The Range
19. The West, A Nest And You
20. Don’t Fence Me In
21. Panhandle Rag

Notes

The Banjo Kings were one of the very few (if only) groups recorded by the Good Time Jazz label in the 1950s that could be considered a bit corny. Formed by banjoists Dick Roberts and Red Roundtree in 1951, the band had either Joe Heimlich, Ernie Anderson or Vito Mumolo on third banjo, plus a three-piece rhythm section that usually included pianist Stan Wrightsman; they played at Dixieland festivals and made several records, from which a CD sampler called Favorites was issued in the late ’80s. The Banjo Kings’ music tended to include some rags, pop tunes from the 1920s and earlier, and singalongs.