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Shout, Rattle and Roll
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The Acoustic Folk Box
:Album Description:85 of the finest recordings tracing the acoustic folk-based music of the British Isles from 1960-2000. From Lonnie Donegan to Eliza Carthy. 4 Standard jewel cases housed in a box (approx. 12 x 6 x 1). 2002. :These four CDs cover British folk revivals from the 1960s through the 1990s, with guitarist Martin Carthy, singer Maddy Prior, and multithreat Richard Thompson acting as the glue holding the box together. Indeed, nearly everyone who ever passed through Fairport Convention is represented here, though Fairport itself isn't. The '60s disc--when the scene burst with ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years
:Album Description:85 of the finest recordings tracing the acoustic folk-based music of the British Isles from 1960-2000. From Lonnie Donegan to Eliza Carthy. 4 Standard jewel cases housed in a box (approx. 12 x 6 x 1). 2002. :These four CDs cover British folk revivals from the 1960s through the 1990s, with guitarist Martin Carthy, singer Maddy Prior, and multithreat Richard Thompson acting as the glue holding the box together. Indeed, nearly everyone who ever passed through Fairport Convention is represented here, though Fairport itself isn't. The '60s disc--when the scene burst with ...
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L-O-V-E: The Complete Capitol Recordings 1960-1964
:Album Description:Nat King Cole (1919-1965) was the most popular male singer of his generation, and, along with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, one of the four best known male vocalists of all time. Making Cole's story all the more remarkable, he began his career not as a pop singer but as one of the greatest of all jazz pianists. Yet by the time he had made the transition from jazz to pop, he had sold more records and racked up more hit singles than anyone in the immediate post-war era, even ...
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Boogie Man
:Album Description:Nat King Cole (1919-1965) was the most popular male singer of his generation, and, along with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, one of the four best known male vocalists of all time. Making Cole's story all the more remarkable, he began his career not as a pop singer but as one of the greatest of all jazz pianists. Yet by the time he had made the transition from jazz to pop, he had sold more records and racked up more hit singles than anyone in the immediate post-war era, even ...
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All the Blues You Need: The Indigo 5th Anniversary Box Set
:Album Details:Three CD Box Set Celebrating Five Years of this Award Winning Blues Label. Blind Lemon Jefferson 'Matchbox Blues', Bessie Smith 'Nobody Knows', Robert Johnson 'i Believe I'll Dust My Broom' Dinah Washington 'my Lovin Papa' etc.
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Every Day I Have the Blues
:Album Details:Triple CD Boxed Set featuring John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, B.b. King and Other Blues Greats.
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Back to Black: 1900-1999
:Album Description:With 220 seminal tracks spanning 100 years, this magnificent 10 CD box-set features some of the most influential black artists and tracks of the 20th century. Features a 64 page deluxe booklet containing in-depth history, rare photographs & essential facts. Artists include Billie Holiday, Nat 'King' Cole, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Domino, Nina Simone, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Supremes, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner, Al Green, Sly and The Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, Gloria Gaynor, Barry White, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross, Diana Ross, Jacksons, ...
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The Cobra Records Story
: :Cobra was the exception, a label that took its personality from its A&R chief rather than its owner. Eli Toscano, who owned a record shop in West Chicago, founded the label in 1956, but he left the artistic decisions to his in-house songwriter-producer-bassist Willie Dixon, who had just left Chess Records in a money dispute. Dixon was a great talent scout, and he snatched the three best performers of the Chicago blues' second generation--Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, and Magic Sam-- right out from under the Chess brothers' noses. He wrote them some great ...
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Stardust: The Complete Capitol Recordings 1955-1959
:Album Description:Cole's baritone was sweet and many of his successes were with love songs, but he was equally well-versed in swinging rhythm numbers and blues. Cole was a founding father of R&B and a major influence on soul. He collaborated closely with the greatest pop orchestrators of all time. This Bear Family box contains Cole's complete recordings, all done for Capitol Records in the years 1955-1959. The 11CDs and 298 tracks contain a combination of Cole's most famous and most obscure work: the two piano-centric albums of 1955-'56: The Piano Style and After ...
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