The Levee Singers
recorded five LP's during the 1960's. The Levee Dixieland Seven made two. Those seven LP's have been digitally remastered
and combined into three CD's.
THE LEVEE SINGERS - "THE EARLY YEARS"
The Levee Singers' first three LP's,
which featured Ronnie Dawson, Ed Bernet, Smokey Montgomery and Bob Christopher have been combined into one CD called "The
Early Years".
1.Livin' at the Levee
2.Cottonfields 3.Scotch & Soda 4.Mountain Dew 5.Ghost Riders 6.Everybody Clap Your Hands
7.Take Me Home 8.Washington & Lee Swing 9.Sweet Roseanne 10.Three Jiggers Goodbye 11.88 Days in
the County Jail 12.Battle Hymn of the Republic 13.Rock Island Line 14.Booger Red 15.The Oak and the
Willow 16.Deep Blue River 17.Travelin' Light as I Go 18.Oh, What a Beautiful City 19.Detroit City
20.By the Time I Get to Phoenix 21.Bell of St. Mary 22.Nashville Cats 23.Moon River/Dear Heart 24.Basin
Street Blues 25.Green, Green Grass of Home 26.Chug-a-Lug 27.Norwegian Wood 28.Somewhere My Love (Dr.
Zhivago) 29.Scotch and Soda (later version) 30.Second Hand Man
THE LEVEE SINGERS - "THE
LATER YEARS"
The last two Levee Singers LP's, which were made by Ralph Sanford, Ed Bernet,
Smokey Montgomery and Grady Owen (on the first one) and Bob Christopher (on the second one) were made into one CD named "The
Later Years".
1. Alabama Medley
2.Funny Country Medley 3.Okie From Muskogee 4.Northern Medley 5.Heart of My Heart Medley 6.Those Were
the Days 7.Sleep 8.Cheatin' Heart Medley 9.Rockaby Your Baby 10.Cottonfields/W&L Swing 11.Heart
of My Heart Medley 12.Bells of St, Mary 13.Lightcrust Doughboys Medley 14.If You Knew Susie Medley
15.Old Man River 16.Rock Island Line 17.Everybody Clap Your Hands 18.In My Adobe Hacienda 19.Goin'
Out of My Head Medley 20.Texas Medley
THE LEVEE DIXIELAND SEVEN - "WEEKENDS
AT THE LEVEE"
The first of the two albums by the Levee Dixieland Seven featured Tommy Loy (trumpet),
Tam Mott (trombone), Peyton Park (clarinet), Ed Bernet (banjo), Dick Bernet (piano), Benny Bennett (bass) and Roger Davidson
(drums). On the second LP, Lloyd Hebert was playing trombone, Freddie Crane had taken over on piano, Dude Kahn was the new
drummer. Those two LP's were combined into one CD called "Weekends at the Levee".
1.Dixieland One Step 2.Just a Closer Walk With Thee
3.Honeysuckle Rose 4.Up a Lazy River 5.Liebestraum Stomp 6.Aruh C Cola & the Peanut Round Blues
7.I Found a New Baby 8.St. James Infirmary Blues 9.Bill Bailey 10.Chinatown 11.Saint #1 12.Saints
#2 13.Alexander's Ragtime Band 14.'Deed I Do 15.Melancholy Baby 16.Aruh C Cola & the Peanut Round
Blues (later version) 17.High Society 18.Sunday in the Country 19.Struttin' With Some Barbecue 20.Georgia/It's
All Right
These three CD's contain all the
music recorded by the bands that made the Levee what it was during the 1960's. Phil York, one of the top sound engineers in
Texas, did a superb job in making the music sound even better than it did on the original LP's.
THE LEVEE SINGERS - "FINALLY"
AND...in 2005, we finished our first new CD in many years. We call it "Finally". It's got 20 of the most
popular songs we do in our live shows. We're proud of it and excited to have it available here and at our live shows. Although
it didn't make it to the 2006 Grammy finals, it was chosen as a contender for the Grammy in the early rounds, in two categories
(the CD itself and 1 song on the CD, marked in yellow below). We were happy to have
that wonderful recognition!
1.Don't Go
Changin' 2.Delilah 3.Old Flame 4.Alexander's
Ragtime Band 5.Amazing Grace Medley 6.Auctioneer 7.Love Me 8.Cabaret 9.San Francisco 10.Today
I Started Loving You Again Medley 11.One of These Days 12.All the Gold 13.Gambler 14.Right or Wrong
15.Paper Doll 16.One 17.Southern Nights 18.Mr. Sandman 19.Goin' Out of My Head Medley 20.Bill
Bailey/Saints
THE LEVEE SINGERS - "The NEXT One"
In July of 2006, we finished our
SECOND new CD, this time calling it "The NEXT One". It's a collection of 16 more of the songs that are the most popular
ones we do in our live shows. We were tremendously excited to learn that we were in the running in FIVE...very rare and unusual
for one CD...different categories for the coveted Grammy Award...for the CD itself and 4 of the songs on it (those songs marked in
yellow below.
1.Wake Up Little Susie 2.Fightin' Side of Me 3.Is It True What They
Say About Dixie? 4.Old Dogs & Children & Watermelon Wine 5.I'm Walkin'
6.Down Yonder 7.Blue Bayou 8.Mobile 9.Scotch & Soda 10.She
Taught Me to Yodel 11.Willie Medley:You Were Always On My Mind/Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain/On the Road Again
12.When You're Old & Grey 13.Gospel Medley:Give Me That Old Time Religion/This World Is Not My Home/Peace in the
Valley 14.Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' 15.There'll Be Some Changes Made 16.I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and
Write Myself a Letter
THE LEVEE SINGERS - "The Best Thing"
Finished in Dec, 2009, this latest CD also
contains more of our most frequently requested songs.
1. Somebody Done Somebody
Wrong Song 2. Bye Bye Love 3. The Fireman 4. Put Another Log On The Fire 5.
Misty 6. You're The Best Thing 7. Limehouse Blues 8. Margaritaville 9. Oh,
Pretty Woman 10. Why Me, Lord? 11. Vaya Con Dios 12. If My Nose Was Running Money
13. Volare 14. You Never Even Called Me By My Name 15. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
16. Sweet Georgia Brown
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on http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/leveesingers2 to hear bits of these songs and/or to buy a CD or download the songs...
THE LEVEE SINGERS - "AMERICA!!"
Recorded as encouragement for all who hear
it to support...with their time, their money, their talents and their prayers...candidates for government office who will
fight for our traditional American values. 1. God Bless the USA
2. America Medley
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ALSO!!
THE
LEVEE FOUR - from the HOUSTON LEVEE - "ZIP'A DE DO DAH"
During the mid-60's, the Houston Levee, the counterpart to the original Dallas Levee, was the most fun place to go
in Houston...due to the excitement generated by John Gary Smith, Ray Rogers, Paul Buskirk and George Berry...the Levee Four.
This digitally remastered CD taken from their LP shows off the group's unbelievable talents and takes those who frequented
the club back to those fun times!
1.Deep
Blue River 2.Nola 3.Wabash Cannonball 4.Tom Paxton's Farewell 5.Back Home Again in Indiana 6.Abilene
7.Zip'a de do dah 8.All The Things You Are 9.San Francisco Bay Blues 10.All My Trials 11.If She Only
Knew 12.Softly As I Leave You
All these CD's are available and can be ordered by contacting Ed Bernet by phone, letter
or email. The contact info is found on the "Contact Us" page of this website. The price is $17 per CD (except our
"America!!" CD, which is $12), including sales tax and shipping and handling. You can also either buy CD's...at
a reduced price!... or download the songs...from our two latest CD's by clicking on the links (above) to CDBaby.
