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- Artist: Boots Randolph
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- Release Date: 1963
- Total Time: 31:14
- Genre: Country
Review
Boots Randolph's signature tune, "Yakety Sax," was inspired by the sax solo in the Coasters' "Yakety Yak," and is much better known than its modest chart placement might suggest. Randolph had recorded "Yakety Sax" for RCA several years earlier without success, but his Monument recording clicked in 1963 and the accompanying gold-selling album spent nearly a year on the charts. Randolph's unique status as the man who popularized the saxophone in Nashville is reflected in half an album's worth of country songs like "I Fall to Pieces" and "If You've Got the Money." Randolph acknowledges the Coasters again on a version of "Charlie Brown," and gives the commercial folk craze the nod with renditions of "Cotton Fields" and "Walk Right In." "Cacklin' Sax" is a novelty number on which Randolph imitates the sound of a chicken with his versatile horn. The album is split into two halves, with the slow songs grouped on the second side, and the first half is the clear winner of the two. ~ Greg Adams, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Yakety Sax | Boots Randolph, |
Boots Randolph | (2:03) |
| Walk Right In | Gus Cannon, |
Boots Randolph | (2:18) |
| If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time) | Lefty Frizzell, |
Boots Randolph | (2:05) |
| Cotton Fields | Leadbelly | Boots Randolph | (2:22) |
| Charlie Brown | Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller | Boots Randolph | (2:31) |
| Cacklin' Sax | Boots Randolph | Boots Randolph | (1:59) |
| Smoke Gets in Your Eyes | Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach | Boots Randolph | (3:16) |
| I Can't Stop Loving You | Don Gibson | Boots Randolph | (3:05) |
| Lonely Street | Carl Belew, W.S. Stevenson, |
Boots Randolph | (2:29) |
| It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin' | Johnny Tillotson | Boots Randolph | (2:25) |
| I Fall to Pieces | Hank Cochran, Harlan Howard | Boots Randolph | (2:34) |
| I Really Don't Want to Know | Don Robertson, |
Boots Randolph | (4:22) |
