Jimmy Durante - Any fans?

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  1. JonUrban

    JonUrban SHF Member #497 Thread Starter

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    When I was in 6th or 7th grade, for one of my birthdays I got this LP called "Jimmy Durante In Person". It was a vocal album, but the songs were very "clever", shall we say, almost as if it were a comedy album.

    I played the heck out of it. I think it was on MGM. Well, it's long gone, but I still have a few tunes from that LP in my head. I don't expect that it will ever be reissued on CD, but I am curious if anyone here had ever heard it, or was into Jimmy D! ;)
     
  2. BradOlson

    BradOlson Country/Christian Music Maven

    I do like some of Jimmy Durante's material. Great stuff.
     
  3. Johnny C.

    Johnny C. Ringo's Biggest Fan

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    Ah - cha - cha chaaa!
    Always loved him, always will. The Smiler.
     
  4. therockman

    therockman Senior Member In Memoriam

    I really like the Jimmy Durante that I have heard, I have some of his songs on different comps.
     
  5. Funny you should mention Durante. A couple days ago I was listening to a CD called "Club Durante" (MCA Special Products MCAD-20889, which claims to be a reissue of Decca DL-9049.) I'll bet the mono LP was fine, but the CD is a nasty fake stereo job, and since I was listening on headphones I just couldn't hack it. The material is great, though; it's all from radio broadcasts (late forties vintage, I'd guess) and Durante is heard in duets with Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor, Sophie Tucker, Ethel Barrymore, Helen Traubel, and Peter Lawford! At least the CD was cheap; I'm no analog diehard, but this is why you've got to have a turntable.

    P.S. A bit of Googling turns up E-3256 as the catalog number for Jimmy Durante in Person, and yes, that would be a yellow-label M-G-M. There's a budget reissue too: Lion L70053.
     
  6. Casino

    Casino Senior Member

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    I remember Jimmy on TV when I was a kid. Always liked the guy - a genuine human being. I knew he sang, of course, but always thought of him as a great comedian and seldom as a singer.

    A couple of months ago, a woman at work happened to mention a Jimmy Durante album she likes to listen to - she loved it so much she said it lifted her spirits when she felt down. I borrowed it and took it home and I'll tell ya - it was surprisingly good! The guy really has a way with a song.

    This particular album is AS TIME GOES BY: The Best of Jimmy Durante
     
  7. guy incognito

    guy incognito Senior Member

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    I have that one, too. Nice compilation of his wonderful early '60s "standards" recordings with Gordon Jenkins.

    For my money, Durante's renditions of "September Song" and "Young At Heart" are *the* definitive ones, and his "As Time Goes By" ain't bad either.
     
  8. Casino

    Casino Senior Member

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    Agreed - absolutely.
     
  9. freeflyt

    freeflyt Active Member

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    I picked up a used copy of this disc last night, and am really enjoying it. Thanks for the tip.

    Stephen
     
  10. Casino

    Casino Senior Member

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    Great - glad you found it. I sure enjoyed it more than I expected to...
     
  11. freeflyt

    freeflyt Active Member

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    They actually had two or three copies in stock.

    Stephen
     
  12. chip-hp

    chip-hp Cool Cat

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    Jerry Mathers states in his book "... And Jerry Mathers as 'The Beaver' " that he had fun posing with Durante in the early '50s for an album cover ... I have never seen a Durante LP from the early '50s with a little boy on the cover ... but "Jimmy Durante In Person" fits the bill timewise ... since it apparently came out in '55 ...
     
  13. Jimbo

    Jimbo Forum Hall Of Fame

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    "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!"

    Inka-dinaka-doo! :)
     
  14. Casino

    Casino Senior Member

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    After he said that, he'd walk off at the end of his TV show, stopping at each of a series of spotlight circles on the stage and wave to the audience from each one as he got further and further away...
     
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  15. Rick Bartlett

    Rick Bartlett Forum Resident

    No thread on this guy, has he been forgotten by the general consensus?
    One of those great old time entertainers with Deano, Marx Bros, Bing and Bob...
     
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  20. Chris C

    Chris C Music was my first love and it will be my last!

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    "September Song" is easily one of my favorite songs of all-time and I have so many wonderful versions of the song, including ones by Jeff Lynne, Peter, Paul & Mary and of course, the original by the late great Walter Huston. The following version by Jimmy, I also count as one of the best and this 45 has a home in my SEEBURG "R" jukebox ...

     
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  21. MrSka57

    MrSka57 Forum Resident

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    Great E/E LP I found in the thrift:

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    Inka Dinka Doo was my Grandad's fave song. He was born in 1906.
     
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