The Fintons' self-made and self-released album The Great American Song Revival, Vol. 1, is intended as an attempt to modernize and celebrate a group of pop standards. The CD cover, displaying an illustration of a soldier and a girl, looks like the cover of an old piece of sheet music from the World War I era. The songs, however, boast copyright dates ranging from 1919 to 1956, except for two originals from 1980, both written by guitarist/singer Kenneth Finton. He and his wife Chaya Finton, who sings both lead and harmony vocals, accompanied by drums and inexpensive-sounding keyboards, come off as semi-professionals, the kind of husband-and-wife musical team mercilessly parodied on Saturday Night Live who make their living in hotel lounges. Kenneth Finton has a sonorous tenor with a slight country accent ("my" comes out "muh") that seems ideal for him to pursue a career as an Elvis Presley imitator. Instead, he devotes himself here to the songs of Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, and many lesser known Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the pre-rock era, making little distinction between a standard like "Where or When" and a novelty like "When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along." All of them are performed affectionately, but without a great deal of skill
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