Contender

Royal Crown Revue - Contender

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Artist: Royal Crown Revue
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-08-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:

The Contender
Walkin' Like Brando
Zip Gun Bop (Reloaded)
Big Boss Lee
Friday The 13th
Stormy Weather
Morning Light
Salt Peanuts
Work Baby Work
Everyone Knows You're Crazy
Port-Au-Prince (Travels With Bettie Page)
Deadly Nightcall

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Music Review: And these guys aren't popular because.......???????
Rating: 5 Stars

I hate it when raving fanatics give every record in the universe. It runs all over me. So because of my snooty but informed opinions, I will endeavor to tell it like it is. Now then: As an avid dancer, a jazz musician, and leader of my very own 8-piece Atlanta area swing band, I have heard it ALL, but I still come back to Royal Crown Revue for all my neo-swing needs. Yes, I think the original stuff is the best (Benny Goodman will swing you into a hole in the ground), but RCR has really got something. Their horns are tight as anything, and I love that their guitar player comps like a piano player -- as he should. Plus that, these guys can write a SONG. A real song that evokes emotions -- not just the cheap jump-blues crap that is eating up the airwaves. "The Contender" (track one) actually paints a picture of an embittered boxer on his last leg. I love it. And there's no hint of "I's a'gonna jump wit mah baby all de night long" or anything like it in the entire track. I really like this band, and I really like this album!

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Description of Contender

Stickered on jewel box: "Featuring the tracks: ZIP GUN BOP (RELOADED), WALKIN` LIKE BRANDO, THE CONTENDER." Gold stamp on booklet. SM.

Before there were khaki-pantsed swing dancers on TV and zoot-suited clubgoers in every major American city, Royal Crown Revue plied their proudly retro sound and look in underground L.A. nightspots. But what began as a curiosity blossomed into a national sensation. With The Contender, RCR are back to claim their title as the Johnny Appleseed of swing. Name-checking the right cultural icons (including Marlon Brando and Bettie Page) and covering a variety of classic tunes, from a breezy doo-wop take on "Stormy Weather" to a hard-boppin' version of the Dizzy Gillespie classic "Salt Peanuts," the group has clearly done its homework. Original tunes such as the single "Zip Gun Bop (Reloaded)," "Big Boss Lee," and the title track rock harder than the songs of the era they mean to emulate but are impressive nonetheless. This isn't the musical equivalent of your father's Oldsmobile. Your grandfather, on the other hand, would think it's just swell. --Daniel Durchholz

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