★★★★★
This endearing album from Seth MacFarlane, the creator of TV's Family Guy, is a valentine to the popular culture of the 1940s and 50s. The choice of It's Anybody's Spring to open will come as no surprise to fans of that show. It was written for one of the Road to... pictures of , and , a franchise that was affectionately parodied in Family Guy...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Back in the 1990s an ambitious writer/animator had a dream. He would create a cartoon series following in the footsteps of The Simpsons, South Park and King of the Hill. Casually eschewing the intelligence of these predecessors, the sitcom's lowest common denominator crudity would prove monstrously successful...
- drownedinsound.com
2012-08-30
★★★★★
That Seth MacFarlane has seen fit to record an album of Big Band Swing numbers shouldn't really surprise anybody. The creator of Family Guy and American Dad has populated his cartoons with big song and dance numbers; indeed they're quite often the most sincere moments of the episodes in which they appear. Clearly MacFarlane's affinity for jokes about necrophilia, race, rape and giant chicken fights is as strong as his love of Rat Pack style crooning...
- www.musicomh.com
2012-08-30
★★★★★
Fans of the long-running animated TV hit Family Guy have likely heard series creator Seth MacFarlane sing standards in the guise of Brian, the Griffin family's alcoholic, intellectual dog. Stepping out of character and into Hollywood's fabled Capitol Studios, MacFarlane finally fully indulges his predilection for classic Vegas-style material and the singers who dispensed it. Vocally, MacFarlane suggests a somewhat slighter variation on Steve Lawrence...
- jazztimes.com
2011-12-26
★★★★★
Whether he's having Stewie Griffin share the stage with Frank Sinatra Jr. or a hard-up Brian Griffin serenade his best friend's wife, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane frequently punctuates his show with musical interludes and full-on production numbers. It's one of the most self-indulgent tendencies on a series that's defined by its self-indulgence, but there's also an underlying sincerity to the usually wiseass MacFarlane's fondness for the classic-pop stylings of the Rat Pack...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-09-27