-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COLLECTION 1947-57 - Brown, Charles-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Charles Brown was a blues and R&B singer and pianist who was one of the most admired performers of his era, both for his performances as lead singer with The Three Blazers and for his solo work. His smooth, classy phrasing and intonation and his easy-paced night club-flavoured style gave his recordings a distinctive sound which set him apart from the harder-edged R&B material of these years although his mellow approach made it hard for him to compete after rock n roll changed the pop landscape in the mid-50s. This great value 50-track 2-CD set contains some of his later recordings with Johnny Moores Three Blazers on the Exclusive label where he was specifically credited on the record label, but primarily comprises selected A & B sides he recorded for Aladdin through to 1957. It naturally features all his 12 solo chart entries during this era, including the R&B No. 1s Trouble Blues and Black Night, the Top 5 hits Get Yourself Another Fool, In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down, Homesick Blues and Seven Long Days, and the Top 10 hits A Long Time, My Babys Gone, Ill Always Be In Love and Hard Times. It includes recordings where he performs with his trio, with Johnny Moores Three Blazers and with larger bands, including recording with the Ernie Freeman Combo in New Orleans. Its a feast of top-class uptown blues, and a fine showcase for his exceptional talents...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - TELSTAR HOT 100 DECEMBER 22ND 1962 (VARIOUS ARTISTS) - VARIOUS ARTISTS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: As adjuncts to our highly popular Americas Greatest Hits series of collections for each calendar year in the 50s and early 60s, we have already produced collections based on landmark moments in the Billboard charts - The First Top 100 Nov. 1955 (ACQCD7062), The First Hot 100 Aug. 1958 (ACQCD7083), The First Hot 100 of the 60s (ACQCD7097), The Heartbreak Hotel Top 100 (ACQCD7122)and The Day The Music Died - Feb 3rd 1959 Hot 100 (ACQCD7134) each comprising all the records in the Top 100 for the date in question. This collection celebrates a landmark event of 1962, the launching of the first telecommunications satellite Telstar on July 10th, a multinational project involving the USA, UK and France, which revolutionised transatlantic TV broadcasting as well as telephone and other communications, and helped bring the world closer together. Within weeks the event had inspired the British band The Tornados to record Joe Meeks iconic instrumental composition and production Telstar which made No. 1 in the UK in September and stayed there for five weeks. It entered the US Hot 100 while it was at No. 1 in the UK, and rose to make No. 1 in Christmas week. This collection comprises just about all the records in the Billboard Hot 100 of that week (a couple of records are unavailable for copyright reasons) and it provides a fascinating and evocative snapshot of the music scene at the end of an important and optimistic year. Its a window onto a dynamic and exciting musical environment, and includes a number of unfamiliar names and recordings of which even pop enthusiasts may not be too aware, and which will be welcome additions to their collections. It contains a 12,000 word booklet featuring background notes on every record...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - DIAMONDS - COMPLETE SINGLES AS & BS 1955-62 - DIAMONDS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The Diamonds were a Canadian vocal group who scored a string of US hits during the latter half of the 1950s, primarily as their record company Mercurys vehicle for cover versions of hits from the R&B charts which they recorded in more pop-oriented style for mainstream radio stations and the pop charts. The litany of such songs, which first came to the fore as hits for doowop groups in the R&B charts, is fascinating, as they covered Frankie Lymons Why Do Fools Fall In Love, The Willows The Church Bells May Ring, The G-Clefs Ka-Ding-Dong, Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs Little Darlinand The Rays Silhouettes to register significant chart successes, along with other notable hits like the dance craze The Stroll. In between those opportunist outings, they ran the gamut of the current styles, embracing rock n roll and pop ballads alike, as Mercury used them successfully as a medium for making the new music that was taking over the pop scene more acceptable for middle America. This great-value 64-track 2-CD set comprises the A and B sides of all their US singles during the period, plus some titles which were only released on singles in the UK and Australia. It naturally includes all their successes in the pop charts, and so represents a thorough overview of their core career, and an insight into an intriguing strand of pop during that era...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - EDDY DUCHIN HITS COLLECTION 1932-42 - Duchin, Eddy-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Eddy Duchin was a pianist and hugely successful bandleader during the 1930s and early 40s, specialising in the middle-of-the-road sweet music that was popular on radio, his broadcasts giving him a profile that brought him a continuous string of hit records during the decade covered by this collection. However, he was unable to pick up the threads of his chart success when he returned to the scene after war service and died in 1951 from leukaemia at the age of 41. His ornate and flourishing style had its roots in classical music, and his reputation as a popular entertainer led to the famously successful 1956 biopic The Eddy Duchin Story. This great-value 71-track 3-CD set consists entirely of recordings credited with Top 30 chart positions (the formal Billboard record sales charts were not launched until 1940), and contains just about all his career hits on the Columbia, Brunswick and Victor labels. It includes no less than 10 No. 1s - Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?, Lets Fall In Love, I Wont Dance, Lovely To Look At, You Are My Lucky Star, Ill Sing You A Thousand Love Songs, Lights Out, Moon Over Miami, Take My Heart and Its De-Lovely - with most of the recordings featuring one of his many male or female vocalists. Its a feast of evocative easy-on-the-ear orchestral music which includes early versions of many great standards from the era, and which will appeal to lovers of nostalgia as well as offering a substantial and enjoyable showcase for one of the big stars of the pre-war years...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - CHARLIE GRACIE - COLLECTION 1953-62 - Charlie Gracie-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Charlie Gracie was a pioneer of rock n roll! Charlie Gracie was a pioneer of rock n roll and the first star of that era to emerge from the Italian-American community of Philadelphia, to be followed later by Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Freddy Cannon and Bobby Rydell. He started making records in an R&B and rockabilly style as early as 1952, recording a song called Rockin And Rollin before the term gained universal currency. After signing to Cameo Records in 1956, he had his landmark breakthrough hits with the US No. 1 Butterfly and No. 8 Fabulous plus the UK No. 6 Wanderin Eyes. This 42-track 2-CD set comprises his A and B sides from his early career on the Cadillac and Twentieth Century labels, and his subsequent releases on the Cameo, Coral, Roulette, Felsted and President labels. Also included as bonus tracks are live performances from US and UK TV shows and from the movie Jamboree. It naturally includes all his career chart hits. Its a comprehensive overview of his recordings during the key era of his career. Still performing in his early 80s, he remains one of the artists who were in the chart vanguard of the rock n roll era...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COLLECTION 1937-49 - SULLIVAN,MAXINE-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Maxine Sullivan was a stylish and versatile jazz and big band singer who was active in music for over half a century into the 1980s but whose most important recordings were during the first decade or so of her career from the late 30s through the 1940s. She came to the fore as vocalist with Claude Thornhills innovative orchestra, and had a surprise hit with a version of the traditional song Loch Lomond which established a professional style and profile which enabled her to work as a solo artist, accompanied not only by Thornhill but by some of the other important names of that era, including John Kirby, Frankie Newton, Charlie Shavers, Bobby Hackett, Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter and Ellis Larkins. This excellent-value 75-track 3-CD set comprises a significant proportion of her recordings from these years as she recorded for the Vocalion, Brunswick, Victor, Bluebird, Decca, Davis, Musicraft, DeLuxe, International and Apollo labels, encompassing performances across the jazz spectrum from big band to sessions in an intimate trio environment, as well as sophisticated renditions of pop songs that place her alongside some of the finest song interpreters of that era. It naturally includes her chart hits Loch Lomond, Nice Work If You Can Get It and My Ideal. The collection offers a substantial and fairly comprehensive overview of her work during her key formative years, and is also a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for a distinctive and sometimes underestimated talent...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - US HOT 100 3RD FEB. 1959 DAY THE MUSIC DIED - US HOT 100 3RD FEB. 1959 THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: As adjuncts to our highly popular Americas Greatest Hits series of collections for each calendar year in the 50s and early 60s, we have already produced collections based on landmark moments in the Billboard charts - The First Top 100 Nov. 1955 (ACQCD7062), The First Hot 100 Aug. 1958 (ACQCD7083), The First Hot 100 of the 60s (ACQCD7097), and The Heartbreak Hotel Top 100 (ACQCD7122) each comprising all the records in the Top 100 for the date in question. This collection commemorates the 60th anniversary of another significant musical landmark, and comprises the complete Top 100 on the date when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died when their light aeroplane crashed in Clear Lake, Iowa, when travelling between tour dates. The event later became known as The Day The Music Died after singer/songwriter Don Mclean described it in this way in his 1971 No. 1 hit American Pie. For countless music fans, it certainly represented a genuine tragedy, since Buddy Holly in particular had proved himself to one the great songwriters and influential performers of the rock n roll era, and caused the inevitable question to be asked as to what he might have gone on to achieve. Interestingly, of the three artists who died so tragically, only Ritchie Valens had records in this particular chart, but inevitably the Top 100 from that time is a fascinating and entertaining snapshot of that moment, including many musical obscurities and one-hit-wonders not widely available on CD, which give a fascinating insight into the music of the time. It contains a 12,000 word booklet featurin...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - THE TALL TEXAN SELECTED SINGLES 1949-62 - Billy Walker-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Known as The Tall Texan, Billy Walker was a country singer who made his first records in 1949 and had his debut hit in 1954, going on to build a chart career that lasted over three decades, as he adapted his style to the changing country market. This collection addresses the first decade and more of that career, when he firmly established his reputation and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry, enjoying a career highlight with the No. 1 country hit Charlies Shoes and the Top 5 hit Willie The Weeper in 1962. He was one of the first country artists to record a song by Willie Nelson. This great-value 56-track 2-CD comprises selected A and B sides from his releases on the Capitol and Columbia labels during these years, including duets with Jeanette Hicks. It features all his pop and country hits from this era, including the country No. 1 Charlies Shoes, the No. 5 Willie The Weeper and the Top 20 entries Thank You For Calling, On My Mind Again and I Wish You Love. The collection follows his progression through the country ranks as styles changed to the new Nashville sound, and he flirted with the rockabilly and rock n roll idioms along the way, and its an enlightening and entertaining introduction to a country star whose music merits more attention than it has received over the years...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS CAROLS - VARIOUS ARTISTS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Music has always been an essential part of Christmas, although over the years it has been increasingly commercialised and secularised as artists seek that elusive and lucrative Christmas No. 1, all of which has helped create a rich and evocative selection of music to listen to and enjoy at the festive season. At the heart of it all, though, are the traditional Christmas Carols, some of are genuinely traditional, their roots sometimes going back centuries, while others composed more recently have nevertheless become part of the familiar repertoire of carols enjoyed at candlelight services or community carol singing. A selection of carols to play over Christmas will always help to add some extra atmosphere, and this great-value 40-track 2-CD collection offers three different styles of performance to enjoy. The first CD features a selection of performances of well-known traditional carols by the classical choir of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, along with recordings made by the children of St. Johns School in Pinner, Middlesex, which comprises more modern carols and Christmas songs with traditional repertoire. On CD2 we feature performances of carols and Christmas-related songs by major artists of the post-war era, recorded either as singles aimed at the Christmas charts, or on Christmas-themed albums, and which, with accompaniment by top orchestras and arrangers, bring a different dimension to the interpretation and enjoyment of the music...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COLLECTION 1946-62 - WOOLEY,SHEB-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Sheb Wooley was a cowboy-styled country singer and character actor in western movies and TV series, who is best-known for his unique landmark No. 1 novelty rock n roll and pop hit Purple People Eater from 1958. It was such a distinctive and memorable record that it made an impact on people who had no interest in pop and entered the annals of the greatest novelty hits in pop history. Born in 1921, he started making country records in the late 1940s, often in a distinctive humorous style, and made his first movie appearances in the early 50s, including a role in the 1952 classic High Noon - his biggest screen success came after the success of Purple People Eater when he was cast as Pete Nolan in the western series Rawhide. His early music was characterised by hillbilly and western swing styles, but he readily embraced rockabilly and rock n roll styles as the market changed in the 1950s. This excellent-value 60-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A and B sides of his singles, from his recording debut in 1946 on the Bullet and Blue Bonnet labels and his career on the MGM label through to 1962. The Purple People Eater is naturally the centrepiece, but the set also includes other chart entries, notably his 1961 country No. 1 Thats My Pa, and another off-the-wall novelty Dont Go Near The Eskimos in his TV guise of Ben Colder. Its an highly entertaining and varied collection of excellent country and country/pop performances, often with a humorous novelty twist, and underlining what a versatile and unusual talent he was...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COMPLETE RELEASES 1956-62 - VAN DYKE,LEROY-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Leroy Van Dyke is a country singer and guitarist who is best-known for his memorable landmark crossover pop-country hit in 1961 Walk On By, which made him a household name on both sides of the Atlantic. After a flurry of pop chart success which followed that iconic success, he became a fixture on the country scene with a string of hits through to the late 1970s. This 40-track 2-CD set focuses on the early years of his career, and comprises the A & B sides of all his singles for the Dot and Mercury labels from his 1956 debut through to the end of 1962, along with all the titles from his Mercury albums released during that period Walk On By and Movin Van Dyke not otherwise released on singles. As well as the country No. 1 and pop and UK No. 5 Walk On By, it includes his other Top 10 country hits Auctioneer and If A Woman Answers along with his other country, pop and UK chart entries Black Cloud, and Big Man In A Big House. It showcases his distinctive talent that enabled him to straddle the increasingly blurred divide between pop and country during this er...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - AMERICAS GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1 1950 NEW EXPANDED EDITION - Various Artists-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: We continue our highly popular and successful Americas Greatest Hits series as we work back through the 1950s, now reaching the point at the turn of the decade, this time with an expanded 4-CD edition to sit alongside the existing single CD 1950 edition (ACRCD176) originally released in 2006 before we introduced the 4-CD format in recent years. This great-value 104-track collection comprises every record which charted in the Top 15 of the Billboard Best Sellers and Honor Roll Of Hits and the Top 10 in the Cash Box chart during 1951. It omits certain records which peaked in 1951and which have already appeared in our Americas Greatest Hits 1951 collection and some which were big hits in 1949, and had already peaked, so will appear in that collection. As with all these collections it features all the biggest hits of the year and all the biggest names in American pop of that era, at a time when the USA was emerging from post-war austerity into a more optimistic decade but was about to become embroiled in the Korean War, and it very much captures the spirit of the times. It also includes a number of lesser known records which are not heard very often and which have not been readily available on CD. As always, it includes a substantial 15,000-word booklet with a commentary on every track, and its a must for collectors of our completest chart-based anthologies...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - HITS COLLECTION 1938-46 - HELEN FORREST-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Along with the likes of Kitty Kallen, Helen OConnell and June Christy, as well as, in their early careers, Peggy Lee and Doris Day, Helen Forrest was one of the striking coterie of female vocalists who graced the dance hall stages with the great names of the swing and big band era, and who appeared on many of their most successful recordings before forging a successful solo career. During the decade from the late 1930s through to the post-war years, Helen Forrest performed and recorded with the orchestras of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Harry James, and recorded notable duets with another former big band singer Dick Haymes, racking up a lengthy string of hits on records with those orchestras on which she provided the vocals. This great-value 48-track 2-CD set consists entirely of such records, all of which featured in charts like the Your Hit Parade chart in the years before the Billboard record sales chart was introduced in 1940, or in one or other version of the Billboard charts after that, all of them reaching the Top 25 places. Alongside those featured vocalist and duet hits, pride of place goes to her 1944 solo No. 2 Time Waits For No One. It includes seven No. 1s - They Say and Thanks For Evrything with Artie Shaw, I Dont Want To Walk Without You, Mister Five By Five, I Had The Craziest Dream and Ive Heard That Song Before with Harry James and Taking A Chance On Love with Benny Goodman. It also features a continuous run of seven Top 10 hits with Dick Haymes. Its not only a fine and varied showcase for Helens talent and versatility as a popular performer with the top bands of the day, but its an evocative trawl across the popular music of a significant era in both music and what was going on in the wider world...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - LAWRENCE WELK COLLECTION LAWRENCE WELK & HIS CHAMPAGNE MUSIC 1938-62 - WELK,LAWRENCE-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Accordionist, bandleader, composer and TV impresario Lawrence Welk was one of the most visible and popular personalities in easy-listening orchestral pop music through several decades spanning the pre- and post-war eras, with his high-profile TV series The Lawrence Welk Show running for three decades from 1951 into the early 80s. performing what he christened early in his career as Champagne Music, he transcended all the upheavals in the pop music landscape during these times to maintain a consistent appeal to the broad middle ground of popular music tastes so that he was able to take advantage of the introduction of the stereo long-playing albums during the 1950s and beyond. This great-value 56-track 2-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from his singles for Vocalion, Okeh, Decca, Mercury, Coral and Dot labels during the quarter-century from the late 30s right through to the early 60s, and features over 30 chart entries, including the No. 1 Calcutta and the Top 10 hits I Wont Tell A Soul, The Moon Is A Silver Dollar, Dont Sweetheart Me and Oh Happy Day. It covers a remarkable range of styles, including vocal hits from the early part of his career in the sweet dance band style of the war years, along with examples of his trademark polka tunes featuring his distinctive accordion sound, through to easy listening orchestral pop recordings during the 1950s. Its an entertaining cross-section of his work, underlining his skill in refining his style to stay in touch with an evolving market to stay firmly in the public ey...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - SINGLES COLLECTION 1953-62 - KING,EARL-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Earl King, a native of New Orleans, was one of the coterie of influential artists who helped create the distinctive style of R&B which characterised the music of the Crescent City, and which, along with the work of other New Orleans artists like Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint provided one of the musical bedrocks for the soul and R&B boom of the 60s. This 41-track 2-CD comprises the A and B sides of just about all of his releases as a solo artist during this first decade of his career, from his debut for the Savoy label in 1953, and including his subsequent releases during this era on the Specialty, Ace, Vin, Rex and Imperial imprints through to 1962, after which there was a hiatus in his recording activities until later in the 60s. It includes his R&B hits Those Lonely, Lonely Nights and Always a First Time, and his classic and much-covered songs Come On and Trick Bag - Come On was later recorded by Jimi Hendrix on his Electric Ladyland album, and other songs of his were covered by the likes of Lee Dorsey, Robert Palmer, The Neville Brothers and Dr. John. This anthology represents a thorough overview of his output during this time, and is a highly entertaining showcase for his distinctive brand of up-front New Orleans R&B...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - THE RAVENS COLLECTION 1946-59 - Ravens-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The Ravens were among the pioneers of the R&B doowop genre during the 1940s and 50s, starting to record in 1946 and having all their hits between 1948 and 1952 - along with the The Orioles, they were also one of the early R&B vocal groups to name themselves after birds, later followed by The Larks, The Crows, The Penguins, The Cardinals, The Wrens and others. They were unique in that while most groups had a tenor lead voice, their lead vocalist was the hugely influential and respected bass Jimmy Ricks, who was the groups prime mover throughout their career, inspiring many bass singers in doowop and beyond. This great-value 103-track 4-CD set comprises the A & B sides of just about all their releases during these years on the Hub, National, Columbia, Okeh, Mercury, Jubilee, Argo and Top Rank labels, although there was not space for the Jimmy Ricks solo singles from this time. It features all their eleven R&B chart entries, of which all but two made the Top 10, including their Top 5 hits Send For Me If You Need Me, Write Me A Letter and Rock Me All Night Long. Its a substantial and comprehensive overview of their career, and a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for their highly distinctive talents and vocal styling...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COLLECTION 1925-36 - BOSWELL SISTERS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The Boswell Sisters were arguably the best and most original, influential and innovative vocal group in the annals of popular music. With their upbringing rooted in New Orleans jazz and blues they developed their swinging close harmony sound during the 20s alongside the welter of musical innovations that were happening at the time, recording first for Victor and then for Brunswick and Decca through to 1936. Their appreciation of jazz rhythms and blues inflexions combined with their vocal gymnastics to create a unique sound and style, which resulted in huge record sales, regrettably during the pre-record sales chart era, when hit success could not be readily quantified. They were hugely influential, and The Andrews Sisters freely admit to having based their style on the Boswell Sisters techniques, effectively taking over their role when they retired in the mid-30s in favour of family lives. This great-value 49-track collection comprises a significant proportion of the A and B sides of the 78s they released during their active years, and includes the titles which were their biggest sellers and generally regarded as their most typical and important recordings. It comprises solely recordings by the three Boswell Sisters, and does not include any Connee Boswell solo recordings...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ THE SINGLES COLLECTION 1950-62 - The Hollywood Flames-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The Hollywood Flames were a doowop and R&B vocal group, who formed in Los Angeles in 1949, and remained active under a variety of names and with evolving line-ups through into the early 1960s, enjoying a major pop and R&B hit with Buzz Buzz Buzz in 1957, and with Bobby Day as featured singer had big hits as Bobby Day & The Satellites. With Robert Byrd (aka Bobby Day), David Ford, Gaynel Hodge and Earl Nelson as long serving key members among the changing personnel, they recorded variously as the Flames, Hollywood Four Flames, The Jets, The Question Marks, The Satellites, The Ebbtides, and The Turks, their records being released on an equally bewildering array of labels. This great-value 78-track 3-CD set comprises most of their A & B sides of their releases under those names on the Selective, Unique, Fidelity, Specialty, Recorded In Hollywood, Spin, 7-11, Swing Time. Lucky, Aladdin, Money, Cash, Class, Ebb, Chess, Goldie and Coronet labels during these years. It features their pop No. 11 and R&B No. 5 Buzz Buzz Buzz, and R &B No. 26 Gee, plus the pop No. 2 and R&B No. 1 Rockin Robin, and the pop chart entries Little Bitty Pretty One and Over And Over. As a group whose music had to compete a dynamic and rapidly evolving market, it encompasses old-school doowop, R&B, and in the later years pure rock n roll, and this substantial collection is thoroughly entertaining showcase for their talent and versatility...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - HITS COLLECTION 1938-53 - JAMES,HARRY-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Trumpeter and bandleader Harry James was one of the most important, successful and influential personalities of the swing and big band era, his unmistakeable bravura trumpet style providing an inspiration and benchmark for trumpeters across the jazz and orchestral genres. He was hugely popular on radio, as a live attraction and on record with his music not only appealing to cutting edge jazz and big band enthusiasts, but also, through his recordings of sweeter orchestral material, featuring the many male and female vocalists who launched their careers with his bands, capturing a wider audience to achieve a remarkable string of big-selling hits from his debut as a bandleader in the late 30s right through into the 1950s just before the dawn of the rock n roll era. This great-value 71-track 3-CD set comprises just about all his records which featured in one form or another of the charts during his career, including the few that were listed as being Top 10 hits before the launch of the record sales charts in Billboard in 1940, and those which featured thereafter in one or other of the published Billboard charts or related listings. It naturally includes his No. 1 hits Sleepy Lagoon, I Had The Craziest Dream, Ive Heard That Song Before, Ill Get By, Im Beginning to See the Light and Its Been a Long, Long Time. Among the featured vocalists are Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, Helen Forrest, Kitty Kallen, Johnny McAfee, Buddy DeVito, Betty Grable, Willie Smith, Ginnie Powell, Marion Morgan, Art Lund and Dick Williams, and it also includes Harrys 1950s hits with Doris Day and Rosemary Clooney. Its a hugely entertaining overview of the commercially successful output of one of the great stylists and innovators of the big band era...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - HITS AND SELECTED SINGLES 1931-54 - Connee Boswell-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Connee Boswell - she began her career as Connie Boswell, but decided to change the spelling of her name in 1945 - was a member of the brilliant, influential and hugely successful vocal trio The Boswell Sisters, who had a string of hits in the 1920s and 30s until retiring in 1936 (see The Boswell Sisters Collection 1925-36 Acrobat ADDCD3208). Connee, who had already been making solo records and having solo hits, carried on after that, and had hits through into the 1950s. This great-value 73-track 3-CD set comprises selected A & B sides of her solo singles and duet recordings with Bing Crosby on the Brunswick and Decca labels during these years, recording variously with the orchestras of Victor Young, Bunny Berigan, Ben Pollack, Bob Crosby, Harry Sosnik, Jimmie Grier, John Scott Trotter, Russ Morgan, Sy Oliver and Bob Haggart. It includes all her solo chart entries and those with Bing Crosby - twenty-five in total - including the No. 1s Bob White and Alexanders Ragtime Band with Crosby, and the Top 10 hits Say It Isnt So, On The Beach At Bali-Bali, Whispers In The Dark, I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart, On The Isle Of May , If I Give My Heart To You and An Apple For The Teacher. She was a highly-regarded performer across the jazz, swing and pop spectrum, and this substantial collection offers an entertaining window onto her talent as a hit-maker whose chart career lasted over a quarter of a century...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - SINGLES COLLECTION 1947-60 - FREBERG,STAN-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Stan Freberg was a comedian, broadcaster, who was best-known for his satirical radio shows and recordings!Stan Freberg was a comedian, broadcaster, writer and actor who was best-known for his satirical radio shows and recordings during the 1950s and 1960s. Starting his career providing the voices for cartoon animations at Warner Bros., he graduated in the late 1940s to being a screen actor in satirical roles. He appeared on a 1947 release by Cliffie Stones Barn Dance band before starting recording for Capitol under his own name in 1951, specializing in doing parodies of current popular songs and styles, and had nearly twenty charted hits during the 50s - quite a feat for comedy material which was out of the pop mainstream. This 45-track 2-CD set comprises the A & B sides of singles which were released during the period, and naturally features all his hits, including the No. 1 St. George and The Dragonet, along with other Top 20 classics like Little Blue Riding Hood and the marvelous satirical takes on The Yellow Rose Of Texas, Sh-Boom, and Cry. This was a fascinating and highly individual strand of the recording business of the era, when satirical comedy and social commentary of all kinds became popular during a time of social and musical upheaval, and this collection is an entertaining memento of one its most distinctive practitioners...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - LINK WRAY COLLECTION 1956-62 - WRAY,LINK-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Guitarist and rockabilly singer Link Wray was one of the key cult figures in the history of rock n roll and modern rock, having pioneered the technique of using power chords on a distorted electric guitar, most notably on his landmark hit Rumble, that was an essential feature of later heavy rock, punk and other styles. Pete Townshend of The Who said that: If it hadnt been for Link Wray and Rumble I would have never picked up a guitar. Of Shawnee native American parentage, he contracted tuberculosis while serving in the Korean War, losing a lung, and was told he might never sing again. However, he pursued a music career, and made rockabilly records before in 1958 recording Rumble, a brooding instrumental which was banned by some radio stations for fear it would incite gang violence. It proved an inspirational for just about every teenager who picked up a guitar. He had a chequered and brief recording career with major labels, frustrated by the corporate machine, and in the early 60s made his own records in an improvised studio. This collection comprises as many of the A & B sides of his early singles on a variety of labels as are available to include, plus the tracks from his two albums during this era not otherwise released as singles. It naturally includes Rumble plus his other two chart entries Rawhide and Jack The Ripper. Its a fascinating showcase for one of rock n rolls true left-field heroes, an instinctive style icon and innovato...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - AMERICAS GREATEST HITS 1952 - VARIOUS ARTISTS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: We continue our highly popular and successful Americas Greatest Hits series as we work back through the 1950s, this time with an expanded 4-CD set edition to sit alongside the existing single CD 1952 edition (ACRCD180) originally released in 2006 before we introduced the 4-CD format in recent years. This great-value 105-track collection comprises every record which charted in the Top 15 of the Billboard Best Sellers and Cash Box chart, or in the Top 10 of Billboards Most Played by Jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes Charts or Honor Roll of Hits during 1952 (it omits certain records which peaked in 1953 and which have already appeared in our Americas Greatest Hits 1953 collection and some which were big hits in 1951, and had already peaked, so will appear in that collection). As with all these collections it features all the biggest hits of the year and all the biggest names in American pop of that era, so very much captures the spirit of the times, but also includes a number of lesser known records which are not heard very often and which have not been readily available on CD. As always, it includes a substantial 12,000-word booklet with a commentary on every track, and its a must for collectors of our completist chart-based anthologies...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - ARIZONA COWBOY SELECTED SINGLES 1946-62 - Rex Allen-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Rex Allen was one of the later era of Singing Cowboys, whose career encompassed not only being a recording artist but also having a high profile as a star of western movies and TV series, and later as a narrator on many Disney productions. Born in Arizona, he made his start as a singer, becoming known as The Arizona Cowboy, which became the title of one of his first films after signing to Republic Pictures. Although most of his hits were in his early career he maintained his popularity and visibility to have more hits at the beginning of the 1960s. This great-value 55-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides of his singles on the Mercury, Decca & Buena Vista labels from these years. Initially recording with his groups The Dawn Busters, The Prairie Ramblers and The Arizona Cowboys, he later recorded solo, in a duet with Tex Williams, with The Anita Kerr Singers and with various orchestras in later times. It features his 1953 No. 4 Crying In The Chapel, and 1962 No. 4 Dont Go Near The Indians, along with his other hits from this era Sparrow In The Treetop, a No. 10, Afraid, a No. 14 and the movie song Marines, Lets Go, a No. 21. He was a versatile and distinctive artist, a talented writer as well as performer, and this collection offers an entertaining showcase for his varied output across the most significant 15 years of his career.Track Listing:Disc 1:Curtains Of Sorrow Atomic Power Texas Tornado Driftwood On The River Queen Of The Rodeo Foggy River Take It Back And Change It For A Boy Loaded Pistol, Loaded Dice Teardrops In My Heart Chime Bells Tears On My Old Guitar Tennessee Tears Afraid Over Three Hills Blues In My Mind Tag Along Put Your Arms Around Me Softly And Tenderly Yodelin Crazy Too-Lee-Rollum You Drifted Naggin The Roving Kind Sparrow In The Tree Top Mister And Mississippi Hot Time In New Orleans Tonight Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old Tucky HomeDisc 2:Is He Satisfied Till The Well Runs Dry Jambalaya (On The Bayou) No One Will Ever Know Crying In The Chapel If God Can Forgive You, So Can I Somewhere In The Chapel In The Moonlight This Ole House Im Learning To Live Without You Tomorrows Just Another Day To Cry Thats What Makes The Juke Box Play The Albino, Pink-Eyed Stallion The Last Roundup The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine Drango Westward Ho The Wagons! Money, Marbles And Chalk Blue Dream Invitation To The Blues I Know The Reason Why Lazy River I Couldnt Care Less Morgen (One More Sunrise) Forever And Ever I Love You So Much It Hurts Marines Lets Go Dont Go Near The Indian...