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Frank Tours
The Cocoanuts; Monkey Business
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (26) - Disc #1
1. Main Title [From the Cocoanuts] - The Marx Brothers, Kalmar, Bert
2. The Florida By The Sea - The Marx Brothers,
3. The The Bell-Hops - The Marx Brothers,
4. The When My Dreams Come True
5. The Harpo's working / When My Dreams Come True
6. The When My Dreams Come True
7. The Monkey-Doodle-Doo
8. The When My Dreams Come True (Orchestral Version)
9. Ballet Music (for the film The Cocoanuts)
10. The When My Dreams Come True
11. The Tale Of The Shirt (after Bizet's Carmen)
12. Gypsy Love Song (for the film The Cocoanuts)
13. The When My Dreams Come True / End Title
14. Main Title [From Monkey Business]
15. Sweet Adeline (for the film Monkey Business)
16. Tango
17. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me (for the film Monkey Business)
18. Incidental music
19. Piano medley
20. More Incidental music
21. Dance music
22. O sole mio, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
23. Sugar In The Morning
24. End Title [From Monkey Business]
25. The Preparing a Land auction [*]
26. The Pines away [*]

CD Details

All Artists: Frank Tours
Title: The Cocoanuts; Monkey Business
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: The Sound Track Facto
Original Release Date: 8/3/1929
Re-Release Date: 4/5/2004
Album Type: Import, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Comedy & Spoken Word, Vocal Pop, Musicals
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

CD Reviews

If comedy were still like this . . .

Andrea Pietrzyk | Memphis, TN USA | 08/19/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

". . . it'd be much better than it is - well, if you've seen "Monkey Business" you know what I'm talking about!

This CD contains music from two of the Marx Brothers' early Paramount films, "The Cocoanuts" (their first) and "Monkey Business." Since these films were made in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the sound quality isn't the best (and the dialog occasionally carries over in the music), but considering that a CD like this is hard to find, it's certainly worth adding to your Marx Brothers collection. Not only do you get Chico's chord-smashing, finger-accented piano playing, or Harpo's dreamy, beloved harp playing, you get some of the Brothers' comedy bits from these two movies - such as their hilarious Chevalier "impersations" and the immortal "Why-a-duck?" exchange.

Just a tiny bone to pick: Harpo's solo in "Monkey Business" is actually called "I'm Daffy Over You" (written by Chico!), not "Sugar in the Morning" as the CD case says.

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Great memories but nothing Remastered here.

P. Deck | Seattle, WA | 04/15/2006

(2 out of 5 stars)

"To call this CD remastered is a bit misleading. I would have gotten the same results by sticking a cheap microphone near the speaker of an equally cheap television set.

The songs and sounds of the Marx Brothers brought back great memories but the skips in the CD and the overall quality of sound was a bit disheartening. If you love the Marx Brothers then buy this CD for the memories, as for the quality, I would definately think twice."