Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy Vs. Red Baron / Snoopy & His Friends
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Free Music Review: Excellent cd! YOUR children will thank you for buying this
Hit: 5 Stars
I owned a cassette back in 80's of Snoopy's Christmas which is the 2nd half of this double cd collection, and my older sons enjoyed it then. Today, I have a 10 year old son who likewise listened to this when it came to add to my collection, and could not stop playing it on his cd player and knows every word of every song now on this!!
This is a testament to this group, their songs and sound, and how even after 4 decades, children once hearing this, really enjoy the songs and uplifting spirit of this music. I still do.
I as a music lover and hearing these originally back in late 60's, am still amazed at the talent we had then in music, as these guys believe it or not, were ONLY 16-19 years in age when they wrote and performed these songs and it will blow you away hearing their music abilities and how they used their instruments to do these songs back then... What an era it was indeed and never again will we see such enthusiasm for music and fun and just plain old living for the day as we did then...
Free Music Review: Just As I Remember It!
Hit: 5 Stars
As a child, I got the LP of this for Christmas one year. It became a Holiday favorite for the whole family. When I got older, and moved out, I didn't have a record player and our LP's were buried in boxes. I missed listening to Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron every Christmas. When I discovered it on CD I was elated, but some of the reviews on several sites were very poor, mostly about the sound quality, I took a chance and bought one anyway.
The sound quality is just like the LP, there was no change, but too me that gives it a little something extra, just as I remember it. Although it has no pops/hisses like the LP, it is not what some people would expect as "CD quality". I like it that way! Some also complained the one song comes to an abrupt end, if they bothered to listen to the LP, it is the same on it too. It's supposed to do that.
I was very happy w/it and the extra songs as well were nice. The non-digitally remastered CD gives it character, and as I said before, just as I remember it!
Free Music Review: My first album
Hit: 5 Stars
Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron was basically my first album that wasn't some Walt Disney kiddy record or one of my parents records. I listened to this album over and over laying on the floor of our living room in Goldsboro NC. My first band was named in honor of the Royal Guardsmen. Music does wonderful things to a young mind and I remember hearing the sounds of fingers sliding on the guitar strings at the end of "Peanut Butter" and thinking the squeaking noises must have been birds in the studio. The fact that most of the songs on the first album were novelty songs went right by me at the time and I absorbed everything. I didn't get to listen to this album for several years during the time this wasn't available on CD and by today's standards, the arrangements and performances still sound great. All of these cover songs sound like the definitive version to me. "Sweetmeats slide", "Peanut Butter", "the Battle of New Orleans" and "Bears" are some of my favorites.Free Music Review: Dumb but great '60s pop
Hit: 5 Stars
OK, granted, the Royal Guardsmen aren't ranked high in the pantheon of rock history greats. But for a kid who turned 10 in 1967 and already had a taste of bubblegum rock and sugary pop, these guys were a fun diversion. I loved the original "Snoopy and the Red Baron" song, but oddly, the stuff that's most evocative for me on this double-LP CD are the cover songs of others' hits and the not-so-great, long-forgotten original songs, and the coda, the Christmas song.
The entire Christmas song with staticky WWI radio intro and the bells ringing and all, came alive when I heard it again. I bought this as a holiday present for my older brother, but I brought my laptop to the family Christmas dinner so I could put it in my iPod right away. Not great music, but a nice cultural artifact nonetheless.
Free Music Review: Yippie! A CD with Snoopy and the Red Baron songs
Hit: 5 Stars
Finally, I found a CD that contained the original track of Snoopie's Christmas, as well as the original songs that relate Snoopy to the Red Baron. I keep wanting to upload these tracks to my MP3 player, but I haven't gotten the chance to do that yet, I love this CD that much. Songs I haven't heard in a while, even some that had become songs from 2006 on my local FM dial's "Continuous Holiday Favorites" from Nov. 1st on. I decided last year, to buy this item, since, AmazonMP3 doesn't have this exact song located in their database. I would have bought the whole CD there, but this makes it a second possibility.