If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,<br>There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats: Stacks o' Wax #11

September 19, 2005

Stacks o' Wax #11

Calypso Is Like So-Robert Mitchum (1957)

5 comments so far:

Brent McKee said...: A defining image for Mitchum - a cigarette smoked almost to his knuckles, a little something tasty from the Caribbean ... and some booze. Although what is up with that glass he has the rum in?; September 19, 2005 1:10 PM
Richard Gibson said...: Is this record actually any good does anybody know?
Rev-Ola re-issued it in UK a few years back.

http://www.revola.co.uk/; September 20, 2005 7:25 AM
Tom Sutpen said...: Personally, I love all of Mitchum's recordings, this one especially. He had an interesting Crosby-esque quality to his voice probably from all the weed he smoked), but laid back as he was, he seemed engaged with the material. And that's not something that can be said of many of these moonlighting movie stars who went into the recording studio.

I officially recommend this album.; September 20, 2005 8:19 AM
swac said...: It's a fun record for sure. I got the Bear Family CD reissue that also includes his '60s country album that came out on Monument (I have a nice vinyl copy of that as well) plus his theme for Thunder Road. It's pretty much all the singin' Bob you need.; September 20, 2005 8:20 PM
Sam said...: Wait...He did more?

Somebody lost a bet somewhere.; September 21, 2005 12:55 AM

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