JANET KLEIN AND HER PARLOR BOYS: Janet Klein's Scandals" or "Living In Sin

Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys

Janet Klein's Scandals" or "Living In Sin

© 2004 Janet Klein (738091260323)

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Hot Jazz, robust dance, obscure and dreamy romance songs of the 1910's, 20's & 30's. There’s plenty of variety with obscure movie tunes, a load of sassy Dixie mania, novelties & jazz age tales of bad behavior all mixed with a yummy plate of down home fun.

tracks

1 Hollywood Party
2 Good Little Bad Little You
3 Living In Sin
4 How Could Little Red Riding Hood?
5 My Blue Bird's Singing The Blues
6 Don't Take That Black Bottom Away
7 Ce Disque Vous Dira
8 Baby O' Mine
9 I Love My Baby
10 Jersey Walk
11 If You Do What You Do
12 Ballin' The Jack
13 Big Time Woman
14 The Sheik Of Ave B
15 Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You
16 True Blue Lou
17 Everyone Says I Love You
18 Unrequited
19 Night Wind
20 Jacksonville Blues
21 Sunday
22 Sing Me A Baby Song

notes

JANET KLEIN & HER PARLOR BOYS

"JANET KLEIN'S SCANDALS"
AKA "LIVING IN SIN!"

Ukulele chanteuse Janet Klein's 2004 most hotsy totsy CD release entitled
"JANET KLEIN'S SCANDALS" vivaciously evokes the mischievous music of 1910-30s nightclubs, clip joints and dance halls with a simmering selection of early jazz tunes. Most of these 22 songs are originally from burlesque, Vitaphone short films, dance hall and movie musicals of the 1920s and 30s, many of which originally not intended for radio or records. In the vein of naughty comedy singers like Sophie Tucker, Eddie Cantor, Fannie Brice and Chico Marx, Janet renders these clever tunes with a loving flare like no other sweet spunky gal can. The captivating Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys have a knack for bringing to life great forgotten music, in a fresh and irresistible way.

The title and evocative cover of the CD is a play on images and words from the original 1930's George White Scandals variety show and follies. They ably represent the CD's saucy thematic contents as the band delivers their own musical follies show complete with naughty comic tunes, Burlesque patter, hot dance hall numbers and some sweet and soulful songs to round things out. The first six titles can give you an idea of what's going on here: "Hollywood Party, Good Little Bad Little You, You Keep Me Living in Sin, How Could Red Riding Hood? My Bluebirds Are Singing The Blues, Don't Take That Blackbottom Away."

The CD features inspired performances by Parlor Boy notables: Ian
Whitcomb (of 1960's pop fame), Tom Marion and Robert Armstrong (of Robert Crumb's Cheap Suit Serenaders), 91 year old Bob Mitchell (of Bob Mitchell's Boys Choir, featured in over 110 movies) and Dan Levinson horn player for Leon Redbone. It's produced by Robert Loveless of the innovative groups: Scenic, 17 Pygmies and Savage Republic.

"Janet Klein's Scandals" opens with "Hollywood Party" taken from the title tune to a 1932 flick starring Jimmy Durante, vaudevillian Polly Moran and Laurel and Hardy. In the movie a bevy of dancing switchboard operators kick off this number sung by Broadway's Queen of Jazz Francis Williams. Gossip tells of a swell party in town, "Bring along your girl, go home with someone else's, forget about your girl, she's gonna do all right... Get up get out get in it, Hollywood Party oh, nobody sleeps tonight."

The charming Ms Klein performs four duets with three different Parlor Boys, one of which was the first song to be banned from the radio, "How Could Red Riding Hood?" Janet delivers an oy-vey rendition of Yiddish tune called "Sheik Of Avenue B" accompanied by the legendary Bob Mitchell on the mighty Wurlitzer. You'll also find the tune "Everyone Says, I Love You" rendered in the style of Chico and Groucho Marx's "Horse Feathers" movie performance. And in the same comic vein there's an impassioned plea with a telephone operator in the song "Baby O Mine," and dietary warnings in the cautionary ditty "Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You," that ring as true today as it did in 1915.

This is Janet's 4th CD release and as in her former releases, great care has been taken to produce a quality package with exquisite design well representative of its red-hot jazz musical contents.


Please visit Janet's lovely and unique web site at; http://www.janetklein.com




JANET''S OTHER CDS:
*1998 COME INTO MY PARLOR
26 songs/Janet the Ukulele Chanteuse performs mostly solo with some light accompaniment.

*2000 PARADISE WOBBLE
23 songs/Janet Klein is joined with her band The Parlor Boys plus special guests.

*2002 PUT A FLAVOR TO LOVE
22 songs/Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys plus special guests.

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  • What Great Fun
    author: Graceann Macleod

    I listen to this over and over - "How Could Red Riding Hood" immediately sets my toes to tapping, and "Night Wind" is so beautiful. There isn't a song on this CD that I don't love to bits. More Janet Klein, please!

  • Great tunes!
    author: Donata05

    Awesome old songs to go with a great voice!

  • Naughty, innocent, silly, clever, eclectic, a delightfully complete package.
    author: David Marchant

    For lovers of vintage jazz, acoustic music, the prohibition years, tin pan alley and American culture long before TV, Janet Klein will happily escort you back 8, 9 or 10 decades to a time when "naughty" was endearingly innocent and a good party with a little bathtub gin was a "scandal". Packed with over 20 tracks, the range of musicality is surprisingly broad, including French chanson, gypsy jazz, klezmer, tin pan alley, novelty songs and, of course, the blues. The band features fine players who can back Janet with a solo guitar or piano as well as full on Dixieland arrangements. There's a ton of fun in this JK album and the liner notes and album design alone are both entertainment and a primer in the graphic design of the teens and 20's. And although it's not on a scratchy old 78rpm but recorded in digital accuracy, one can almost hear the Gramophone needle and see a dog with cocked head listening to "his master's voice".

  • FUN! FUN! FUN! Change your mood and smile.
    author: Naturally Curlie

    A real hum alonger and a toe tapper!

  • Truly Delightful
    author: Debra

    Unusual and very enjoyable. The music and singing are wonderful as are the graphics and artwork. A great find.

  • Great old tunes
    author: Roy Anthony

    What a pleasurable new sound. Janet and her band really capture the essence of the 20's and 30's.

  • Cute and slightly naughty (in a good way)
    author: Ilana Marks

    Living in Sin is another great CD by Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys. Their mastery of the early 20th century hot jazz style is simply amazing. Also, I love the sort of "nudge, nudge, wink, wink" delivery of the lyrics - it just goes to show that music can be suggestive and sexy without being overly explicit. I have had loads of fun listening to this CD over and over again.

  • I'm addicted to Living in Sin!
    author: Tim Hatcher

    I had not heard of Janet Klein, but since I'll be attending the Sweet & Hot Jazz Festival in L.A. in September, at which she'll be performing, my research on her led me to purchase "Living in Sin". Actually, it was the CD's incredible art direction that first got my attention, but the performances it delivers make it a worthwhile investment. The songs are fun and infectious, and the artists do a wonderful job of making them fresh. In addition to the title cut, standouts are "Night Wind" and "My Bluebird's Singing the Blues". I can't wait to see her live in September.

  • Makes me want to be naughty 20s style
    author: Brian

    Just as I was getting bored of my current listening choices, I was saved by stumbling across "Living in Sin". Janet and "Parlor Boys" wonderful renditions of old-time tunes make them feel classic and timeless at the same time The music is first-rate, jazzy, light and a joy to listento. Ms. Klien's voice is perfect; complimenting the style without feeling forced or gimicky. The song choices are wonderful throughout. If this is "Living in Sin", I don't wanna live any other way! :)

  • I think I'm in love!
    author: MadKatter

    I was growing tired of the same old music when I stumbled upon this CD almost by accident. I can say I'm extremely happy I did. So happy, in fact, I bought the rest of the CDs. :D

  • Wow! This music is great!
    author: Steve C

    Janet is a terrific artist! I just learned about her from her friend and mine, Rick W., and found her music to be refreshing, totally new, at least to me, and a joy to hear. Great stuff.

  • Janet Klein is spectacular
    author: Don S.

    The songs are great, the vocals and instrumentals match them perfectly - I want to see Janet and her Parlor Boys live now!

  • Absolutely Wonderful!
    author: Tracy

    Continuing on the excellent work the past CD's have shown, this CD is worth every minute in it and leaves you wanting more.

  • Utter bliss!
    author: Lucien Desar

    Janet Klein is the cat's meow! If you want to feel like you are walking down a city street at 3:00AM in NYC in 1931. This is the album to get...

  • Wonderful tunes, great artists, especially Janet, of course
    author: Nan & Jack

    Love everything Janet does and this is one of her best. Great instrumentals, too.

  • Janet and her Parlor Boys do it again!
    author: davidmahr

    Just got my new Janet and Her Parlor Boys CD "Living in Sin" and love it. A fresh new batch of bawdy and fun musical gems from the early 1900s. With her unique period voice and with an even more amazing backing band, Janet delivers another winner. I've got all of her CDs and highly recommend them all - they're best played on my iPod with all albums shuffled into a mix - great music for parties, too! Congrats!

  • OK hardly describes Janet's new CD!
    author: Linwood Greer

    Ms. Klein continues to delight with fresh new/old material and her new, larger group of Parlor Boys gives a great full sound providing a perfect counterpoint to her simpler ukulele and vocal pieces. The sun's brighter in Va. and it's because I'm playing this disc.

  • Wile your worries away
    author: Johnny B.

    Janet and her Boys have turned out another gem. Wait'll you hear Janet singing to the sounds of a Mighty Wurlitzer! I only wish she and her band would tour the country. We could all use a little bawdy music strummed on a uke to wile our worries away. Forget Bush and forget Kerry. Janet Klein for President.

  • author: Mike Stanton

    Janet Klein continues to prove that she is one of the most unique and brilliant female vocalists in the world today!Another stellar cd and equally magnificent musicianship.Great songs and great fun!

  • Another Great CD!
    author: Michele

    Janet and the Parlor Boys again bring you tunes you may have never heard before ... but you will never forget after this! You can't be anything but happy after listening to this.

  • author: CD Baby

    A favorite and "household" name around CD Baby, Janet Klein has tickled us again with another smashing album of naughty vintage jazz, dixie and ragtime-bred songs from burlesque, Vitaphone short films, dance hall and movie musicals of the 1910s, 20s, and 30s. She nails the sassy, sweet and spunky vaudeville character of these swinging, strummy gems. With a voice as clear as crystal, her reinvention of this time in early jazz is flawless. She's up to no good and that's a good thing.

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