Actually, it looks like one boxed set of five discs on emusic.

Yuck. Unless Moby puts a hip-hop beat behind this stuff, I'm not interested.

I'm a big fan of '30s music, so it's nice to see the Mills Brothers get some exposure. They did a lot of things first and best; I can't help but think that copyright laws have interfered with them getting all the credit that they are due.

Here's their 1932 version of "Old Man of the Mountain", for your listening pleasure --done a year before Cab C. and Fleischer Studios gave us today's most recognized version, in the form of a Betty Boop cartoon...

Edited by author 06-02-2003 10:56 AM
Hated Jerry Vale. Couldn't stand Percy Faith. Quickly tired of Boots Randolph. But when my father put on the Mills Brothers, I was hooked. Brings back lots of memories, helping my brother out on his paper route with a "Best of ..." tape in the eight-track player, or on long trips down to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

I still listen to them and what's more hum the tunes and sing them when they pop into my head. (I even try the mock trumpet, which my wife says sounds like a chicken.) Paper Doll, A Million Marys, 'Til Then. As the song goes, "One cup of coffee, waitress, ain't quite enough. Tonight I need a donut and a dream."

The Mills Brothers used to be my favorite of that era until I heard The Comedian Harmonists.
I don't know where to begin. Most of their stuff is in German so you might need to do some translation but it's worth the effort.

As a start I would recommend "Veronika, the spring is here"...when they sing 'the asparagus is sprouting' I don't think they're talking vegetables.

[Comedian Harmonists & Hudson Shad performing Veronika, der Lenz ist da] http://www.anum.tuwien.ac.at/~dirk/harmoni.../video_veronika.mpg

http://www.comedian-harmonists.net/

Oh, Jeff, that's a GREAT track!

I know this is 3 years old... but imo, the mills brother's music is timeless...

I bought the aforementioned 5 cd boxset about a year ago, after having been searching for one particular track for years, "moaning for you". I've since discovered several other great songs that I didnt know they had sung, and bought more stuff from that era.

Edited by author 10-27-2006 12:45 AM
Hi everybody I'm Melody the one they called "The Daughter Of The Paper Doll". I found my thoughts traveling "Up The LAZY RIVER" and a few other places that only the brothers Mills can take me. So I peeked on this page when I noticed the nice things each of you (well with the exception of Happy Engineer and Jeff!!!) said about a group of guys who not only had vocal skills extraordinaire (yep,we did receive numerious requests for their vocals cords from scientists, museums and universities. YUK!!) but who were themselves extraordinary and likable men.
I love and miss each of them but I know that they would have loved reading your kind words. So may I thank you on their behalf.
And, on behalf of myself, I agree with your heading... The Mills Brothers do rock!!!... and thanks for saying it.