-Titulo Original : Audio CD - THE HITS COLLECTION 1935-58 - DORSEY,TOMMY & THE TOMMY DORSEY ORCHESTRA-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Tommy Dorseys Orchestra was one of the leading big bands of the swing era in the 1930s and 40s. Showcased here in this SIX DISC BOX SET. Tommy Dorseys Orchestra was one of the leading big bands of the swing era in the 1930s and 40s, developing a style of music which had its roots in the hot jazz of the 1920s but also crossed over to appeal to the broad mass of the American radio-listening public, as it embraced the middle-of-the-road pop vocal hits of the day alongside their swinging instrumentals. Trombonist Dorsey had a prolific career playing and recording with small jazz groups in the 20s before launching an orchestra with his brother Jimmy in the early 03s and striking out with his own large ensemble when they split. This great-value 146-track 6-CD set comprises just about all of his recordings which are listed as hits in the standard industry sources or which appeared in the Billboard charts after their introduction in 1940, and includes those by Dorseys Clambake Seven as well as his main orchestra. It features a remarkable tally of 13 No. 1 hits, including The Music Goes Round And Round, Marie, You, Once In A While, Music, Maestro, Please, Our Love Ill Never Smile Again, There Are Such Things and In The Blue Of The Evening. His orchestra was a notable launching pad for some future star vocalists, and the singers featured in this set include Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, Jo Stafford, Jack Leonard, Edythe Wright, The Pied Pipers, Freddie Stewart, Bonnie Lou Williams and Stuart Foster. Its a substantial and comprehensive showcase for the music of one of the most important orchestras of the day, and an entertaining journey through the popular music of the swing era...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - AMERICAS NO. 1S OF THE 40S - AMERICAs NO. 1S OF THE 40S-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The Billboard record sales chart was launched in July 1940. The 1940s was one of the most momentous decades in modern world history, seeing the transition from disastrous international conflict to peace, with the establishment of the United Nations, as well as an emergence from post-war austerity to a promise of greater prosperity at the same time that the Cold War was a looming threat. It also saw many changes in the music landscape as swing and bug bands became uneconomic and solo singers - the crooners and divas of what came to be known as the golden age of popular music - became the big stars of the day. The Billboard record sales chart was launched in July 1940, bringing a new authenticity to the tabulation of the biggest-selling records, and this great value 128-track 6-CD collection comprises every No. 1 during the decade in the Billboard Best Sellers, Most Played In Juke Boxes and Most Played By Disc Jockeys charts. For collectors, it provides a companion product to Acrobats existing Americas No. 1s of The 50s (ACFCD7501). Its a fascinating and hugely entertaining musical journey though those years, featuring all the big names of the era, from those whose careers stalled before the end of the decade to others, like Frank Sinatra, who enjoyed several more decades of stardom. It comes with a 48-page 15,000 word booklet with commentary on every track...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - MARIO LANZA COLLECTION - Mario Lanza-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Mario Lanza was one of the finest tenor voices of the 20th century, respected and admired as much by his peers in the world of opera as by his millions of fans around the world, who were introduced to him by his succession of Hollywood movies in the post-war years. Having been tempted into movies, he never enjoyed an illustrious career in opera to match the likes of predecessors such as Caruso and Gigli, or indeed those that followed like Domingo, Carreras and Pavarotti, but those more recent stars were the first to acknowledge the inspiration Lanza had given them.This great-value 92-track 4-CD set selects tracks from across his all-too-brief career, which ended with his premature death in 1959 aged just 38. It includes many of the best-known songs from his movies, which provided the rare achievement for an operatic tenor of three million-selling singles as well as several other hits, along with most of the A and B sides of his singles for RCA, plus a selection of album tracks and performances from his hugely successful radio shows sponsored by CocaCola. It provides a fabulous showcase for his unique voice, as well as his versatility in delivering powerful performances of opera favourites along with lighter show tunes and standards...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - BOBBY VEE COLLECTION 1959-62 - VEE,BOBBY-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Bobby Vee was a prolific hitmaker during the immediate post rock n roll era, bridging the gap between rock n roll and teen pop, with a distinctive style that brought him success on both sides of the Atlantic - he was just as popular in the UK as in his home country. He always had a close affinity with the music and style of Buddy Holly & The Crickets - he began his performing career as a 15-year-old stepping in with his band to fill a show soon after Buddys tragic death in February 1959 at which Holly had been scheduled to perform, his debut hit with his first release had echoes of Peggy Sue and he later recorded with The Crickets. He recorded many memorable and outstanding hits during these crucial and action-packed early years of his career, including Top 10 entries with Devil Or Angel, Rubber Ball, More Than I Can Say, How Many Tears, Take Good Care Of My Baby, Run To Him, The Night Has A Thousand Eyes and others. This great-value 64-track collection includes all his US and &K A & B sides, and all his EP tracks from the period, plus selected tracks from all his LP releases during this time, which did not otherwise appear on singles or Eps. As such, its a pretty thorough and hugely entertaining overview of what were perhaps the most significant and formative years of his career, and its a great showcase for his distinctive talen...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - HITS COLLECTION 1948-62 - Starr, Kay-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Kay Starr was one of the coterie of stylish and striking female vocalists alongside the likes of Rosemary Clooney and Patti Page, who enjoyed their real chart heyday during the years between the demise of the big bands in the late 40s and the arrival of rock n roll in the mid-50s, although she was able to ride the musical upheavals to continue having hits into the early 60s. This great-value 49-track 2-CD set entirely comprises her recordings during her time with the Capitol and RCA-Victor labels which featured in the published pop charts in Billboard, Cash Box or the UK, through to her final appearance in the Hot 100 in 1961. It naturally includes her landmark US No. 1 hits with The Wheel Of Fortune in 1952 and The Rock And Roll Waltz in 1955, the latter also a No. 1 in the UK, along with the UK No. 1 Comes A-Long A-Love and her other US Top 5 hits Hoop-De-Doo, Bonapartes Retreat, Side By Side, Changing Partners and If You Love Me - she had another eight Top 10 hits as well. Among the top flight arranger/conductors she worked with on her hits were Hugo Winterhalter, Frank De Vol, Harold Mooney, Dave Cavanaugh, Lou Busch, Cliffie Stone, Joe Reisman, Van Alexander, Jimmie Haskell, Jack Marshall and Perry Botkin Jr.. Its a marvellous showcase for the talent of one of the biggest stars of the day performing across a range of repertoire, and a feast of top-class pop musi...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - THE COLLECTION 1945-55 - Borge, Victor-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Victor Borge was a Danish virtuoso classical pianist who escaped to the USA at the start of WWII, learning English by going to movie theatres, and building a career initially purely as a pianist but also over time incorporating comedy into his radio appearances to create a unique and highly distinctive style of entertainment. As his recordings and trademark routines became more widely heard, he developed a following on both sides of the Atlantic, and was a major TV star through the 1950s and beyond. This 2-CD set comprises the studio recordings from his early Columbia singles from the 1940s, which also later came out on the albums A Victor Borge Program and An Evening With Victor Borge, along with the complete contents of his 1954 live concert albums Comedy In Music Vols. 1 & 2 and his 1955 live album Caught In The Act - several of the tracks are continuous extended recordings comprising a complete side of an album. His early recordings include straightforward musical performances as well as comedy routines, with his later work using his music as a cleverly-deployed medium for parody and improvisation within his idiosyncratic narrative style. Interestingly, his later live recordings include extended versions which he developed over the years from his early studio recordings. Borge was a complete one-off, very much of his time, but whose humour transcends the passing of the years...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - JACK TEAGARDEN COLLECTION 1928-52 - Teagarden, Jack-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Jack Teagarden was one of the great names of jazz. In a career which spanned five decades, he established a reputation as one of the pre-eminent trombonists of his generation as well as a distinctive blues-influenced vocalist, who was equally at home as a bandleader or a sideman under another leadership. He recorded prolifically throughout his career so any collection of fifty or so tracks will only be able to take a selectively representative sample of his work through that period, which is what this set is designed to do. It comprises recordings both with bands that he led and where he was a member of another leaders ensemble, plus some co-operative ventures. Most are studio recordings, but there are one or two live tracks as well. The anthology does not try to tread any new ground or bring any new creative angle to the appreciation of his work, merely to offer a thoroughly enjoyable overview of the quarter century that comprised the most important part of his career from his early small group recordings in the late 20s through the big band era to the heyday of the 50s Dixieland revival. It is a celebration of a fine and versatile musician working alongside his peers in a medium of which he had complete command...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - SINGLES COLLECTION 1950-59 - DON CHERRY-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Don Cherry was one of the relatively few big band vocalists of the late 40s who not only built a successful career as a solo performer through the era of traditional middle-of-the-road popular music during the early 50s but made the successful transition to have hits in the years after rock n roll had transformed the pop landscape. He also found time to enjoy a parallel career as a top class amateur golfer and was in contention to win the 1960 US Open. This great-value 75-track 3-CD set comprises selected A and B sides for Decca and Columbia from across the first and most successful decade of his career, from his recording debut with the Victor Young orchestra in 1950 through to the end of the 1950s, by which time he had had made his final appearance in the pop Hot 100. It includes his Top 5 hits Thinking Of You and Band Of Gold along with all his other chart entries from this era. It includes performances with the orchestras of Artie Shaw, Camarata, Gordon Jenkins, Percy Faith, Norman Leyden and Ray Conniff, and it offers not only a fascinating insight into the development of his style through a dynamic decade in popular music but also an enjoyable showcase for his versatile but distinctive vocal talent...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - THE SINGLES COLLECTION 1949-62 - BREWER,TERESA-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The early 50s was the heyday of pop performers whose style and image was ideally suited to the mood of the times and whose music epitomised the easy-going middle-of-the-road output of mainstream American radio stations in the years before rock n roll arrived to change the face of popular music in mid-decade. Teresa Brewer was one such performer, a bright, stylish and versatile singer who was an ideal vehicle for just about kind of song her record companies wanted her to record, from ballads to out-and-out novelty songs, enabling her to rack up nearly fifty hits in her decade-long chart career, including the memorable No. 1 hits Music! Music! Music! and Till I Waltz Again With You. This great-value 57-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides of her singles during the era for the London and Coral labels, and naturally features her entries in the Billboard, Cash Box and UK charts from those years, including the hits Ricochet, Jilted, Let Me Go, Lover, A Tear Fell and A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl and her duet hit with Don Cornell. Its a worthy showcase for an artist who provided many nostalgic memories for those who enjoyed her records during those years...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - 1948-1951 - Five Blind Boys of Alabama-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: One of the most influential Gospel acts of all time The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama have been performing and recording now for almost 60 years. Today they are at the height of their fame with world tours and best selling CDs and the support of rock stars like Peter Gabriel. This collection gathers together 28 tracks recorded between 1948 and 1951 some of which like Honey in the Rock and Come over Here were sizeable hits in the Gospel market. This is the perfect introduction to the early days of one of the most important Gospel groups of all time with detailed liner notes by expert Opal Louis Nations presented in a fully illustrated and annotated 12 page booklet...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - WAYNE KING COLLECTION 1930-41 - KING,WAYNE & HIS ORCHESTRA-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Wayne King was a hugely successful bandleader, saxophonist, singer and composer whose orchestra played the sweet style of dance band and easy listening music which appealed to the broad spectrum of middle America during the 1930s and into the 1940s, so much so that he was widely referred to as The Waltz King. His career fell naturally into two halves, separated by his service in WWII, and his orchestra was popular through the post-war decades, but this anthology focuses on the first part of that career, when he had all his substantial tally of more than thirty chart hits. This great-value 92-track 4-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from his releases for the Victor and Brunswick labels during these years, representing somewhere around half of the titles he recorded which were released across that initial era of his career. It includes almost all his hits, including the No. 1s Dream A Little Dream Of Me & Good Night, Sweetheart and the Top 5 hits The Waltz You Saved For Me, Wabash Moon, I Dont Know Why (I Just Do), Sweethearts Forever, The Moon Song, Trust In Me, Josephine, Souvenir De Vienne & Maria Elena, with a variety of featured vocalists, notably Buddy Clark. Its a substantial overview of his work and captures the spirit of a key strand of entertainment during the pre-war decade...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - AMERICAS GREATEST HITS 1958 / VARIOUS - Americas Greatest Hits 1958-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: This release is the latest in the series of Americas Greatest Hits which over the years has provided annual collections of the biggest hits of each year in the Billboard pop charts. The collection for 1958 is an excellent value 113-track 4-CD set which includes every record that appeared in any version of the Top 10 of the Billboard chart during the year. It was in August of 1958 that the Top 100, Best Sellers in Stores and Most Played By Disc Jockeys charts were merged to form the Hot 100. This set includes every record that appeared in the Top 10 of any of these charts. Every record that appeared in the Cashbox magazine Top 10 is included in this set. Many of the tracks are, inevitably, well-known hits, which went on to score chart success in the UK, but there are no less than 35 tracks which did not make it into the UK charts despite their major US success, including classic tracks by well-known artists alongside more obscure hits by artists that never made any kind of impression in the UK.The whole collection is a highly entertaining trawl through the American music scene of the times, a rather different musical experience from listening to our British Hit Parades collections from the UK charts, which naturally feature a high proportion of home-grown talent. As ever. its a fascinating and entertaining pot-pourri of pop, as emerging teen idols jostled with R&B acts, new rock n roll stars joined the established big names, vocal groups and instrumentals of all kinds had a field day, and the inevitable and collectable quotient of one-hit wonders and novelty hits maintained the variety. Its an enlightening snapshot of the pop music scene in the USA at a time when the musical landscape was constantly evolving, and it makes for hugely entertaining listening. It is likely to appeal to the many collectors who enjoy these completest anthologies, and will hopefully provide useful programming for the specialist radio programmes which feature pop nostalgia...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - ORIGINS AND EARLY YEARS 1953-62 - VALLI,FRANKIE & THE FOUR SEASONS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The Four Seasons, featuring the remarkable and unmistakeable voice of Frankie Valli, were one of the most popular and successful groups of the 1960s on both sides of the Atlantic, and one of the few American groups to withstand the onslaught of the British Invasion to carry their chart career through into the 1970s. When they had their first big hit as The Four Seasons in 1961 with Sherry, they were by no means new to the pop scene and both Frankie Valli and the group had paid their dues for the best part of a decade, honing their skills in a variety of guises on an equally bewildering array of record labels. This great-value 58-track 2-CD set features most of Frankie Vallis early recordings, both solo and with various groups before they became The Four Seasons in 1960, and then presents their early successes under that name. It comprises selected A & B sides as Frankie Valley, Frankie Valley & The Travellers, The Four Lovers, Frankie Valli & The Romans, The Village Voices, Billy Dixon & The Topics, Johnny Halo, Hal Miller and The Rays, and The Four Seasons for the Corona, Mercury RCA, Epic, Okeh, Cindy, Decca, Topix, Gone and Vee-Jay labels. It also features the tracks from The Four Lovers album Joyride and the Four Seasons album Sherry &11 Others. Quite apart from setting the scene for the rest of their career as the Four Seasons, this collection of doowop and rock n roll from the era when Frankie and his colleagues were exploring the potential of their talent, is hugely entertaining and offers a real insight into what lay behind The Four Seasons success...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - MACHITO COLLECTION 1941-52 - MACHITO & HIS AFRO-CUBANS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Machito was a bandleader, singer and percussionist who helped create and refine the Afro-Cuban style of jazz, as well as developing Cubop and salsa music during the 1940s. He was instrumental in introducing jazz musicians like Charlie Parker, George Shearing, Stan Kenton and Dizzy Gillespie to the potential of Latin rhythms in jazz, with several top jazz musicians like Parker collaborating in his recordings. Born in either Havana, Cuba, or in Tampa, Florida, in 1909, he moved to New York in 1937 and in 1940 founded his Afro-Cubans orchestra, which immediately attracted attention. This excellent-value 40-track 2-CD collection comprises studio and live broadcast recordings from the first and highly significant and influential decade and more of his career, which was interrupted for several years by war service. Several of the recordings feature Charlie Parker on alto sax, Flip Phillips on tenor sax and Howard McGhee on trumpet, with Milt Jackson and Harry Belafonte also contributing. The set notably the landmark 17-minute recording of his celebrated Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite which features Charlie Parker on alto sax and Flip Philips on tenor sax along with Harry Sweets Edison on trumpet and Buddy Rich on drums as part of a 20-strong orchestra. The collection provides a thoroughly entertaining introduction to the world of Afro-Cuban jazz, with Machito capturing the essence of a highly distinctive and influential strand of post-war music...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - THE FOUR PREPS COLLECTION 1956-62 - & FOUR PREPS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The Four Preps were a band and vocal quartet who came together at Hollywood High School in the 1950s and won a talent contest that secured them a contract with Capitol Records in 1956. They are best-known internationally for their distinctive 1958 hit composition Big Man, featuring the piano of their long-time arranger/conductor Lincoln Mayorga, which was a US No. 3 and a UK No. 2, and remains a landmark classic of the era, although in the US they had already had a No. 2 with 26 Miles (Santa Catalina) and went to have hits into the 1960s, exploiting their deft vocal harmonies and notable songwriting talents. This excellent-value 60-track 2-CD set comprises the A & B sides of their singles for Capitol during these years, plus the tracks from their album The Four Preps not otherwise released on singles, and selected titles from their albums The Things We Did Last Summer and Dancing And Dreaming. It features the twelve of their thirteen career Top 100 entries which they achieved during these years, including 26 Miles and Big Man, plus their Top 20 hits with Down By The Station and the brilliant parody medley More Money For You And Me. The Four Preps were one of the most unusual and distinctive groups of the post rock n roll era, and this substantial collection of their output provides an entertaining showcase for their talent...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - THE COMPLETE ALBUMS 1959-62 - Winters, Jonathan-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Jonathan Winters was an American comedian, actor, broadcaster, TV presenter, artist and author who received eight Grammy nominations for Best Comedy Album during his career. He had a troubled childhood and developed his comedy persona as a response to his emotional traumas, and won a talent competition which led to a job as a DJ where his comedy gradually took over the show. He was a constant sufferer from nervous breakdowns and bi-polar disorder, which contributed to his approach as a pioneer of improvisational stand-up comedy, with a gift for impressions and mimicry, developing a range of characters that he used in his act - as he said himself: I was fighting for the fact that you could be funny without telling jokes. This 3-CD set comprises the complete contents of his first five albums, all on the Verve label - The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters, Down To Earth, Jonathan Winters In Concert: Herex27s Jonathan, Another Day, Another World and Humor Seen through the Eyes of Jonathan Winters, all of them recorded in front of a x27livex27 audience. It naturally includes many of the routines which made him famous on TV. For those unfamiliar with his work, itx27s a great introduction to a highly individual entertainer, and for those revisiting his work from those times, itx27s a feast of comedy very much of its era, but which laid the groundwork for later performer...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - FIFTIES COLLECTION 1951-58 - Jordan, Louis-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Louis Jordan was one of the big stars in the R&B charts of the 1940s, racking up over 50 hits with his band The Tympany Five into the early 50s with his distinctive brand of jump blues, a swinging up-tempo hybrid of jazz, blues and boogie-woogie, with his alto sax, vocals and extrovert persona at the core of their appeal. He was dubbed The King Of The Jukebox as a result of his popularity (See Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Jukebox Hits Vol. 1 1942-47 and Vol. 2 1947-51 [Acrobat ACMCD4082 & 4083]). Although he did not have hits after 1951 he continued making great R&B records through subsequent years as the pop music landscape increasingly reflected the influence that his earlier hits had on the development of rock n roll, although it was newer artists who took that music into the charts. This great-value 52-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from the 40-odd releases he had during this era, first on his long-standing record label Decca, and after that on the RCA subsidiary labels X and Vik and then the Aladdin label - after 1958 his career became much less chart-focused, so the material on this collection very much rounds off his time as an artist with chart ambitions. It captures Louis performing with the same energy, humour and rocking intent as in earlier years, as his finely-honed band swings through some quality material, with the later recordings demonstrating how much he was part of the rock n roll explosion...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COLLECTION 1954-62 - WILLIAMS,ROGER-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Very few instrumentalists can match the chart success of American pianist Roger Williams, who had well over thirty chart entries during his career, and came to fame with his 1955 debut hit Autumn Leaves, which remains the only piano instrumental to reach No. 1 in the Billboard pop charts, selling over two million copies in the process. A classically-trained pianist, who also studied jazz piano at New Yorks renowned Juilliard School of Music, he was signed to the Kapp label after winning a talent contest, and was launched to fame with his second release for the label. This great-value 51-track 2-CD collection is drawn entirely from his A and B sides released by Kapp during the period, with the majority of his releases during the period represented by at least one side, with both the A and B sides of many of his releases included. It naturally includes all of the eighteen Billboard or Cash Box chart entries he achieved during this era, notably the Top 10 hit Near You as well as Autumn Leaves, and features his versions of many of the fine melodies of the times such as The Warsaw Concerto (The World Outside), Tchaikovskys Piano Concerto No. 1 and The Skaters Waltz, characterised by lush orchestral accompaniments, plus his hit duet with singer Jane Morgan Two Different Worlds...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COLLECTION 1956-62 - DEL-VIKINGS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The Del-Vikings were a doowop and R&B vocal group whose hugely promising career was blighted by contractual and other personnel issues but who had major landmark R&B and pop hits like Come Go With Me, Whispering Bells and Cool Shake along the way. As Bruce Eder writes at allmusic the story of the Dell-Vikings is one of the most glorious, complicated, and frustrating of any successful doo wop group in music history. The group consisted of serving members of the US Air Force, who shot to fame with their 1957 R&B No. 2 and pop No. 4 Come Go With Me, which has become a much-played favourite. Subsequent management issues and fractures even resulted at one stage in two different incarnations of the group performing simultaneously. However, having had further hits they remained active into the 60s, and this great-value 60-track collection brings together A & B sides of their releases for a variety of labels - Fee Bee, Dot, Mercury, Luniverse, Alpine, Starr & ABC-Paramount - plus selected titles from their Luniverse album The Del-Vikings and their Mercury albums They Sing...They Swing - Del Vikings and The Swinging, Singing Del Vikings Record Session. It naturally includes their hits, which along with their varied work across the years, ranging from pure doowop through to rock & roll and arrangements of Great American Songbook standards, underline the fact that they were one of the most talented outfits in the genre...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - 1961 R&B HITS COLLECTION - 1961 R&B HITS COLLECTION-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: This continues the strand of R&B and country collections associated with Acrobats highly popular Americas Greatest Hits series, this one focusing on the top R&B records in the US Billboard charts during 1961. This great value 113-track 4-CD anthology includes, with the exception of certain records which are unavailable for inclusion due to copyright restrictions, just about every record which peaked in the Billboard R&B Top 15 during that year. By this time, the R&B scene had evolved considerably as the rock n roll scene had matured and Tin Pan Alley had marketed its teen-oriented offshoots, and there was an exciting feel to the charts, with substantial crossover into the pop charts through artists like Ben E. King, Ray Charles, Brook Benton, The Miracles, Aretha Franklin and The Marvelettes. There was also a significant weight of other records from the increasingly powerful Motown, Tamla and other labels producing material which would have a significant influence on emerging talent across the pond in the UK, like The Beatles, who absorbed some of the songs in this anthology into their repertoire, sowing the seeds of the British invasion which was soon to transform the pop landscape once more. With the blurring of the boundaries between the genres, the more traditional blues and R&B artists whose music had helped lay the groundwork for rock found it harder to reach the top positions in the R&B chart, and the foundations of the soul boom of the late 60s and 70s was clearly in evidence in many of the hits included here. As with all these collections, it provides a window onto a dynamic and exciting musical environment, and includes a number of unfamiliar names and recordings of which even enthusiasts of the genre may no...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COLLECTION 1952-55 - Ace, Johnny-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Johnny Ace, born John Alexander in Memphis, Tennessee, was a highly successful blues and R&B pianist and singer, whose career was tragically cut short at the height of his fame when he died at the age of 25 in a bizarre shooting accident in his dressing room at a gig with Big Mama Thornton on Christmas Day 1954. Before that, he had made some noted recordings accompanying the likes of B.B. King and Bobby Bland, and had run up a string of R&B hits as a solo artist. This 51-track 2-CD set comprises the A & B sides of his releases under his own name on the Flair and Duke labels, plus recordings he made with B.B. King, Bobby Bland, Earl Forest and Junior Parker, along with tribute recordings to him made by other artists after his death. It features all his eight Top 10 R&B hits, including the No. 1s My Song, The Clock and Pledging My Love and the Top 3 hits Cross My Heart and Saving My Love For You, along with Johnny Moore & The Three Blazers Top 20 tribute hit Johnny Aces Last Letter. It provides as thorough a cross-section of his solo output as could be achieved and also showcases his talents as an accompanying pianis...

-Titulo Original : Studio And Live Collaborations 1960-62-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Built-in headphone output allows for direct headphone monitoring while recording // Optimized frequency response for rich and natural vocal reproduction // Rugged all-metal construction for outstanding reliability //...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COLLECTION 1943-62 - BAXTER,LES-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: This is the latest in Acrobats series featuring the great arranger/conductor/composers of the golden era of popular music during the 1940s and 50s, which so far encompassed the likes of Billy May, Nelson Riddle, Hugo Winterhalter, Ray Conniff and others. Les Baxter began his career arranging for swing orchestras in the early 40s, but made his name both as an arranger/conductor accompanying some the noted vocalists of the day, primarily during his time with Capitol Records, and achieved high-profile chart success in his own name with easy listening orchestral and choral chart entries, scoring No. 1 hits with Unchained Melody and The Poor People Of Paris, and a No. 2 with April In Portugal, plus around a dozen others. With the dawn of the LP era in the 50s he became famous for pioneering the recording of the style of easy listening orchestral music known as exotica. This great value 107-track 4CD set, which, like our other arranger/conductor collections, has been researched, compiled and annotated by former national newspaper showbiz journalist and photographer Geoff Wilding, traces his career during these two key decades, with examples of his work in all these sectors during that time. It features recordings by some of the noted artists with whom he worked, including Nat King Cole, Margaret Whiting, Freddie Slack, Bing Crosby, Al Martino, Yma Sumac, Jimmy Wakely, Ella Mae Morse and others. Its a fascinating profile of Baxters multi-faceted talents and caree...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - CHARLIE PARKER COLLECTION 1941-54 - PARKER,CHARLIE-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: On April, 27 1978, Foreigner played a sold-out show at London’s celebrated Rainbow Theatre. Forty years later, the memorable performance by the original band has been restored from the original film reels, remixed and remastered for an unforgettable and highly collectible release.-LIVE AT THE RAINBOW ’78 includes hit singles “Feels Like The First Time” and “Cold As Ice,” from their eponymous debut album, as well as tracks from their Double Vision album, “Hot Blooded” and “Double Vision....