Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet)
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Free Music Review: Brings Back Memories to the Old (and Young)!
Hit: 5 Stars
'Good For What Ails You' is a great set of cd's with old songs that were sung at old medicine shows. I remember some of those songs from records and radio programs from my childhood - songs that I had totally forgotten!
I lent the cd's to my father, and they brought back fond memories of his childhood in western OK when the medicine shows would come to town and set up on the square. Everyone would attend the "show" and listen to the music, sales pitches, and go home with something! He truly enjoyed the cd's, also.
Even if medicine shows are new to you, the music is worth the time to listen. Lot's of fun, interesting lyrics, and you might even hear something that has come back again!?
Free Music Review: Instant Joy
Hit: 5 Stars
I must own 40 collections of old timey music and this is the most consistantly delightful and the best annotated of the lot. 48 numbers and each one brings a smile. Each one teaches you just a bit about what Greil Marcus has called "The Old Weird America".
Sure, there's a time for appreciating the hardships of the early 20th century, but how much fun is it to hear the light side that must have helped keep people sane and hopeful. Hooray for Old Hat!
Free Music Review: like finding buried treasure
Hit: 5 Stars
what a great compilation of pre-war old-timey music, including an informative booklet withlots of pictures. You will not find any of these recordings anywhere else so snatch this one up while it is still available. I don't want to get into the particulars of any one artist or song, 'cause they're all great and listened together in context makes it all that much greater.Free Music Review: Old Time Music
Hit: 5 Stars
This gave us 50 tracks of original music. Along with it you get a nice booklet that tells the history of the medicine shows and individual descriptions of each track and it's performers.Free Music Review: You can't do this better !
Hit: 5 Stars
Best box i have seen and heared (and i'm not a youngster ;-)). There is nothing more to say that this box is perfect in terms of music, sound and booklet.