Shel Silverstein - Best of Shel Silverstein
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Artist: Shel SilversteinEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-08-02
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Light in the Attic
- A Front Row to Hear Ole Johnny Sing
- Freakin' at the Freakers' Ball
- Monsters I've Met
- The Unicorn
- The Dragon of Grindly Grun
- Marie Lavaux
- Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out
- Sylvia's Mother
- The Taker
- Homework Machine
- Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too
- Crowded Tub
- Rock 'n' Roll Band
- Cover of the Rolling Stone
- Daddy What If
- Zebra Question
- Plastic
- A Couple More Years
- Peanut Butter Sandwich
- Queen of the Silver Dollar
- The Generals
- I Got Stoned and I Missed It
- A Boy Named Sue
- Boa Constrictor
- 26 Second Song
Music reviews of Best of Shel Silverstein
Music Review: Poet, Musician, Composer/Songwriter, Screenwriter, Cartoonist, Author
Rating: 5 Stars
Born on September 25, 1930, Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein, aka "Uncle Shelby" when writing books for children, was all of those - and more. His children's books, most of which he also illustrated himself (he once worked as a cartoonist for the U.S. military's publication Stars And Stripes), remain among the most favoured of the genre, especially A Light In The Attic, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, A Giraffe And A Half, The Missing Piece and The Missing Piece Meets The Big O.
Adults could appreciate his zany sense of humour too in books such as Different Dances, a collection of very adult-themed wordless cartoons, as well as the highly satirical Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book and his stab at rap, using Hamlet, which appeared in Playboy the year before he passed away on May 10, 1999. As a screenwriter, working with David Mamet they came up with 1988's Things Change, a tour-de-force for Don Ameche as an Italian shoemaker convinced to take the rap for a Chicago mob murder.
His material continues to surface, including the 2005 book of spoonerisms titled Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook. And here, in this wonderful 2005 CD with 2 pages of liner notes contributed by his nephew, Mitch Myers, and an eloquent tribute by his good friend Kris Kristofferson, you can hear for yourself his unique brand of humour on 15 of the 25 generous tracks, some of which are indeed suitable for children. Just review it yourself, first, before deciding which tracks they can hear.
He is, of course, also the writer/composer of some of the biggest hit singles ever, several of which are included here, starting with his first smash, The Unicorn, In early 1968 the Canadian-based group, The Irish Rovers, took it to # 2 Adult Contemporary (AC) and # 7 Billboard Pop Hot 100. Then, just over a year later, his friend the late, great Johnny Cash introduced A Boy Named Sue in a live performance at San Quentin Prison and, when released as a single, it shot to # 1 Country (where it stayed 6 weeks), # 1 AC (2 weeks), and # 2 Hot 100 in late summer 1969.
Another Country star, Bobby Bare, had back-to-back hits with Shel's material, first taking Daddy, What If to # 2 Country, # 14 AC and # 41 Hot 100 in late 1973/early 1974 in a delightful duet with 5-year-old son Bobby, Jr., and in the summer of 1974 had a # 1 Country with his "live" recording of the hilarious Marie Laveau, a take-off on the renowned 19th Century New Orleans VooDoo queen.
The New Jersey pop-rock group, Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show, also benefited from Shel's compositions as their first hit, Sylvia's Mother, rose to # 5 Hot 100 in spring 1972, and late that year the comical The Cover Of "Rolling Stone" began its climb to # 6 Hot 100 in January 1973 b/w the melancholy Queen Of The Silver Dollar, the Doyle Holly version of which made it to # 29 Country that year, and in 1976 Dave & Sugar would take it to # 25 Country.
And although the version of A Couple More Years heard here by Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson never became a hit, Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show had a # 51 Country with it in 1976, while King Edward IV & The Knights took it to # 89 Country in 1979.
A most talented man who is sorely missed.
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