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Two discs and almost 50 tracks of the Ink Spots, all recorded within a relatively narrow 13-year window, could be enough to overwhelm anyone not intimately interested in close-harmony vocal music, especially such a humid, narcoleptic sound as the Ink Spots tended toward. For those unhindered by the prospects of two and a half hours of gentle crooning, though, The Anthology earns its title and then some, sprinkling the big hits already anthologized many times over -- "If I Didn't Care," "My Prayer," "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)," "Java Jive," "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire," and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" -- among a parade of obscure yet intriguing performances. Prime among the latter are the kinetic "Your Feet's Too Big," one of their first recordings, and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin," probably more famous now as an Elvis Presley cover than an Ink Spots original. As often happened during the 1940s and '50s, the Ink Spots also recorded dozens of songs in the standards repertory, and several of those ("Who Wouldn't Love You," "Prisoner of Love," "I Cover the Waterfront," "I Get the Blues When It Rains") make for the biggest surprises on this bountiful compilation.
© John Bush /TiVo
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Ada Benson, ComposerLyricist - Fred Fisher, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1936 Geffen Records
The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Sammy Mysels, ComposerLyricist - Bill Livingston, ComposerLyricist - Art Terker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1938 Geffen Records
Jack Lawrence, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Owen Bradley, Producer
℗ 1939 Geffen Records
Don Raye, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Lilian Hardin Armstrong, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1939 Geffen Records
Jack Lawrence, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1939 Geffen Records
Johnny Marks, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Carmen Lombardo, ComposerLyricist - Dedette Lee Hill, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1939 Geffen Records
Jimmy Kennedy, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Georges Boulanger, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1939 Geffen Records
Andy Razaf, Author - Eubie Blake, Composer - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1939 Geffen Records
Ned Washington, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - George Bassman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1939 Geffen Records
The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Don Baker, ComposerLyricist - Edward Lane, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1939 Geffen Records
The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Leon Rene, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1940 Geffen Records
Fred Fisher, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Doris Fisher, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1940 Geffen Records
Allan Flynn, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Frank Madden, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1940 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Nelson Cogane, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Dick Robertson, ComposerLyricist - Sammy Mysels, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1940 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Milton Drake, ComposerLyricist - Ben Oakland, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1940 UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Ruth Lowe, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1940 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stanley Cowan, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Bobby Worth, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1940 Geffen Records
The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Jack Fulton, ComposerLyricist - Jack O'Brien, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1940 Geffen Records
Buck Ram, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Peter Tinurin, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1940 Geffen Records
JOSEF MYROW, ComposerLyricist - KIM GANNON, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - William Kenny, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1940 Geffen Records
William Raskin, ComposerLyricist - William J. Hill, ComposerLyricist - Fred Fisher, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1940 Geffen Records
Nat Burton, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Harry Stride, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1940 Geffen Records
Lew Brown, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Sidney Claire, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1940 Geffen Records
Hughie Charles, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Ross C. Parker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1941 Geffen Records
DISC 2
L.E. Freeman, ComposerLyricist - Sammy Cahn, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - SAUL CHAPLIN, ComposerLyricist - Mann Holiner, ComposerLyricist - Alberta Nichols, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1941 Geffen Records
The Ink Spots, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eddie Durham, ComposerLyricist - BENNIE BENJAMIN, ComposerLyricist - Sol Marcus, ComposerLyricist - Edward Seiler, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1941 UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Leon Rene, ComposerLyricist - Otis Rene, ComposerLyricist - Emerson Scott, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1941 Geffen Records
Frank Weldon, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - James Cavanaugh, ComposerLyricist - John Redmond, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1942 Geffen Records
Carl Fischer, ComposerLyricist - Bill Carey, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1942 Geffen Records
Ted Koehler, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - James V. Monaco, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1942 Geffen Records
Sam M. Lewis, ComposerLyricist - Victor Young, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1942 Geffen Records
Duke Ellington, Composer - Bob Russell, Author - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1942 UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Roy Turk, ComposerLyricist - Fred E. Ahlert, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1943 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mack Gordon, Author - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Milt Gabler, Producer - James V. Monaco, Composer
℗ 1944 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Duke Ellington, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, Participant - Don George, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - JOHNNY HODGES, ComposerLyricist - HARRY JAMES, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1954 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Al Jacobs, ComposerLyricist - Joseph Meyer, ComposerLyricist - William Kenny, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1945 Geffen Records
The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Billy Reid, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Owen Bradley, Producer
℗ 1946 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Russ Columbo, Composer - Leo Robin, Author - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Clarence Gaskill, Composer
℗ 1946 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edward Heyman, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Green, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1946 Geffen Records
Harry Stoddard, ComposerLyricist - Marcy Klauber, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1946 Geffen Records
Jerry Livingston, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - RAYMOND B. EVANS, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1946 UMG Recordings, Inc.
CHARLES TOBIAS, ComposerLyricist - Peter De Rose, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1946 Geffen Records
The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Sol Marcus, ComposerLyricist - Edward Seiler, ComposerLyricist - Al Kaufman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1947 Geffen Records
Larry Fotin, ComposerLyricist - Fred Meadows, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - William E. Faber, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1948 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sunny Skylar, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Pat Genaro, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1949 Geffen Records
Gus Kahn, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Ted Fiorito, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1950 Geffen Records
Floyd Huddleston, ComposerLyricist - Al Rinker, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist
℗ 1950 Geffen Records
Stanley J. Damerell, ComposerLyricist - Robert Hargreaves, ComposerLyricist - The Ink Spots, MainArtist - Tolchard Evans, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1950 Geffen Records
Albumbeschreibung
Two discs and almost 50 tracks of the Ink Spots, all recorded within a relatively narrow 13-year window, could be enough to overwhelm anyone not intimately interested in close-harmony vocal music, especially such a humid, narcoleptic sound as the Ink Spots tended toward. For those unhindered by the prospects of two and a half hours of gentle crooning, though, The Anthology earns its title and then some, sprinkling the big hits already anthologized many times over -- "If I Didn't Care," "My Prayer," "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)," "Java Jive," "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire," and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" -- among a parade of obscure yet intriguing performances. Prime among the latter are the kinetic "Your Feet's Too Big," one of their first recordings, and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin," probably more famous now as an Elvis Presley cover than an Ink Spots original. As often happened during the 1940s and '50s, the Ink Spots also recorded dozens of songs in the standards repertory, and several of those ("Who Wouldn't Love You," "Prisoner of Love," "I Cover the Waterfront," "I Get the Blues When It Rains") make for the biggest surprises on this bountiful compilation.
© John Bush /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 48 track(s)
- Total length: 02:24:08
- Main artists: The Ink Spots
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Geffen
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1998 Geffen Records This Compilation ℗ 1998 Geffen Records
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