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fun retro songs, done with real craft Apr 10, 2009
In other reviews I read where Mercella Puppini, Kate Mullins and Stephanie O'Brien, the Puppini "Sisters" are only singing in a style already "done". As if today's talentless rappers and samplers had something original. So much of today's other music might be "original", but it's ugly, and the "artists" have nothing to say, nothing I want to hear.
What really compelling, what stands out with the Puppini's music is the level of devotion and craft, the years of practice it must have taken to be able to sing close Andrews Sisters harmonies with newer songs. It is so refreshing. Harmony - the lost art. Music, I learned at an early age is composed of three elements, Melody, rhythm and harmony!
There is a touch of tongue in cheek occationally, but that's part of the fun, that they don't take themselves too seriously. I like the funny, world-weary "Jilted" and "I Can't Believe I'm not a Millionaire" songs. (Me, too - if there were any justice in this cruel world...). "Old Cape Cod" is a wonderful copy of the fifties hit by Patti Page, hits me in the heart and takes me back the first time I heard Page. As is said elsewhere, much to "Ruby Woo" is not retro Andrews sisters songs, but original and new music given their treatment. Particularly sucessful in Andrews style is the bouncy Bangles hit "Walk Like an Egytian".
Luxuriate in the wonders of vocal harmony.
I like the three women as "temptresses" in colorful stockings and hell high heels on the cover (and more lingerie inside).
This music is infectiously fun, clever, retro and most important, full of real musicanship. The perfect cure for the gloom of The Great Recession.
Not a bad cut on the album.
Highly recomended.
for those who like harmony, the Ditty Bops are another girl group who remember how to sing it.
see them live!!! Feb 27, 2009
The Puppini Sisters are full of attitude, humor and fun! Their harmonies are incredibly tight and their little core 3 piece band sounds like much, much more. Their CDs are great fun but if you get a chance to see them live you'll see that there is no way to capture their tongue-in-cheek antics... The Andrews Sisters would be proud...
 Wonderful, Fabulus Puppini Sisters! Jan 30, 2009
These girls are the best thing since Bette Midler sang "Boogie woogie Bugle Boy" back in the 70's. I love their originality and their look!
Hopefullly the US will embrace them as much as Europe has!
They are the best!
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 A mixed bag...the Puppini Sisters step out, at the loss of their retro roots Sep 14, 2008
The Puppini Sisters, inspired by the The Triplets of Belleville from the Belgian/Quebecois animated film of the same name, pay homage to the girl groups of the 1930s and 1940s; from their victory curls to the fire engine red lipstick to the curvy, form-fitting retro dresses, here are three gals who are seriously enamored with WWII-era vocal music. Their tight harmonies and covers of retro gems such as Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen, Mr. Sandman, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy and In The Mood fused seamlessly with covers of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, Blondie's Heart of Glass and Gloria Gaynor's anthem I Will Survive made their debut Betcha Bottom Dollar endearing and quirky, but with definite staying power, particularly if you're like me and you adore the Andrews Sisters.
On their sophomore follow-up The Rise and Fall Of Ruby Woo, the trio (Marcella Puppini, Stephanie O'Brien, and Kate Mullins) have penned nearly half of the songs (Soho Nights, I Can't Believe I'm Not A Millionaire, Jilted, It's Not Over, And She Sang). The covers this time around are more zany, including the Bangles' Walk Like An Egyptianand Beyonce's Crazy in Love, along with Old Cape Cod and Spooky. The only nod to vintage covers here is It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing). But even here, the "sisters" have veered from strict 1940s harmony to taking liberties with scat singing, ad lib lyrics and drastically altering the tempo.
Those who loved the Puppini Sisters' debut for its adherence to 1940s glamour and sonic fidelity will be sorely disappointed, particularly by some of the new songs like Jilted: "Oh, trust the Cosmo quiz for advice," or I Can't Believe I'm Not A Millionaire, which features the line "I fixed myself a Pop-Tart." The 1940s this is not, but the new direction towards self-penned independence and less reliance on covers feels weak compared to their first album. Soho Nights was a standout, but I found myself routinely skipping over the other tracks written by the group.
Overall, this is still a fun album with a nod to retro glam in the spirit of the Andrews Sisters, but the new songs paled next to the enduring classics from the 1940s and 1950s; the covers on this album were all from the last 20 years for the most part, which was a big leap from their prior album. The Puppini Sisters also recently released two songs for the Kitt Kittridge: An American Girl soundtrack that sound most similar to their debut, and I look forward to seeing what the future will hold for this unusual group.
Nothing is beyond their rowdy reach! Aug 22, 2008
Taken from their debut CD, the Puppinis' Andrews-Sisters-style smackdown of the hoary "I Will Survive" has become the band's signature concert closer. This time around on the band's sophomore offering, it's the Bangles who get the beating, as "Walk like an Egyptian" is zipped up in the Puppinis' zaniness. These campy stampers still show no shame, as nothing is beyond their rowdy reach. Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing" is swung straight. But the Classics IV's "Spooky" is re-sparked as a fast tango, and Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love" is bounced between a breakneck, flapper-flagging ragtime and a sultry blues. Three lead vocalists who double on violin, accordion, and piano respectively, the Puppinis have come closer to capturing their live-performance energy, but they're not quite there yet. Their crack backing trio is still mixed too far back, and, of course, the CD's lack of visuals dampens the fun. Perhaps a DVD would help, but then there'd be less of an incentive to see the group live. And such boundless creativity deserves an audience. Catch `em if you can. ****
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