Product Description
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Mob Hits: Music From And A Tribute To The Great Mob Movies is
the ultimate collection of songs from all of the greatest mob
movies: The Godher, Goodfellas, Casino, Donnie Brasco, etc.
The Mob Hits collection has more songs from the great mob movies
that even the original motion picture soundtracks! If your answer
to Who JFK? is I dunno nothing, I was cleaning my glasses,
then this compilation CD is for you!
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As you may already know from seeing it hawked incessantly on
late-night TV by Jerry Vale (
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compilation CD that attempts to capture the ambience of the
modern gangster pic by assembling songs heard in key scenes of
such films as The Godher, GoodFellas, Donnie Brasco, and
Casino. While licensing restrictions keep the music of Frank
Sinatra ( /exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/34108/${0} ) from being
part of this collection (odd, as the address on this package is
the address for his long-time label Capitol Records), the
selection and sequencing of well-known Italian "hits" by Vale,
Dean Martin ( /exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/145468/${0} ), Louis
Prima ( /exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/53891/${0} ), Lou Monte (
/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/84363/${0} ), Al Martino (
/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/37939/${0} ), and Julius LaRosa (
/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/38015/${0} ) gets the job done with
discretion and honor. And the liner notes even offer a toll-free
number for homemade pasta sauce. --Gregg Turkington
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Review
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Sure, the title of Mob Hits: Music from and a Tribute to Great
Mob Movies sounds silly, but truth be told, it's a killer idea
for a compilation. Face it, there are many, many people out there
not just Gen-Xers, but Baby Boomers as well who fell in love with
vocal pop through gangster movies. The Godher, Goodfellas,
Casino, and Donnie Brasco, four of the films whose soundtracks
are featured on this collection, all had a darkly romantic feel,
and it wasn't just the stories it was how the visuals
intermingled with the smooth, sophisticated music. Of course, the
years of legends about Sinatra, Dino and the Mob certainly play a
part in the associations between gangsters, movies, and
traditional pop, but the myths and the films are only part of the
reason why Mob Hits is so entertaining. The fact of the matter
is, this is good music. Yes, the collection is hurt slightly by
the compilers' failed attempts to license music from The
Godher they compensate with re-s of The Godher
Waltz; and two Al Martino songs but the remainder of the songs
are uniformly excellent. They're primarily songs by Dean Martin
and Jerry Vale, with a couple of Louis Prima, Julius LaRosa, and
Rosemary Clooney cuts thrown in for good measure, but that gives
the album some consistency. The most important thing is, Mob Hits
is good enough to appeal to listeners who don't want to be
married to the mob it's just a fine collection of terrific music
that can be appreciated by someone with no sense of irony
whatsoever. --Allmusic.com
As you may already know from seeing it hawked incessantly on
late-night TV by Jerry Vale, Mob Hits is a compilation CD that
attempts to capture the ambience of the modern gangster pic by
assembling songs heard in key scenes of such films as The
Godher, GoodFellas, Donnie Brasco, and Casino. While licensing
restrictions keep the music of Frank Sinatra from being part of
this collection (odd, as the address on this package is the
address for his long-time label Capitol Records), the selection
and sequencing of well-known Italian hits by Vale, Dean Martin,
Louis Prima, Lou Monte, Al Martino, and Julius LaRosa gets the
job done with discretion and honor. And the liner notes even
offer a toll-free number for homemade pasta sauce. --Gregg
Turkington --.com
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