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Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons - 25th Anniversary Collection
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A Jazz Romance - A Night In With Verve
: :Reaching deep into its cavernous vaults, Verve has extracted a rich bountiful of moody and sentimental jazz, perfect for those long, expectant evenings or those equally long, rain-filled days. Nicely packaged with nostalgic, sepia-toned photographs on both the box and each individual CD, A Jazz Romance contains nearly 60 songs guaranteed to set a distinctly low- keyed mood, equal parts sultry and sad. The vast majority of the material is from bygone days of the '40s and '50s, with the more recent entries retaining that flavor. The four discs are entitled ...
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Best Of Columbia Years 1943-52 [4-CD SET]
: :This four-disc, 97-track collection compiles the highlights of the first major period of Frank Sinatra's solo career, beginning with 1943's 'Close To You,' and ending with 1952's 'Why Try to Change Me Now.' Sinatra was the preeminent singing idol of American teenagers (the female ones, at least) during this period, thanks to the dreamily smooth crooning style he exhibits here on 'People Will Say We're in Love,' 'I Should Care,' 'Embraceable You,' and dozens of others. Sometimes the still-callow singer isn't up to the material ('Ol' Man River'), sometimes the material ...
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The Complete Jazz At The Philharmonic On Verve: 1944-1949
: :Ever wonder what a 1940s-era jam session sounded like? Well, not much gets closer to the real thing than the music on these 10 CDs. Norman Granz, founder of the Norgran and Clef labels before launching Verve in the mid-1950s, brought together dozens of musicians for the popular Jazz at the Philharmonic series, taking the ad hoc bands to delighted crowds. The bands cook, taking on scores of well-known tunes and using them as the basis for loose-limbed improvisations that play off the crowd's energy--often audible after solos. With a frequent ...
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Songs of the Depression: Boom, Bust & New Deal
: :Ever wonder what a 1940s-era jam session sounded like? Well, not much gets closer to the real thing than the music on these 10 CDs. Norman Granz, founder of the Norgran and Clef labels before launching Verve in the mid-1950s, brought together dozens of musicians for the popular Jazz at the Philharmonic series, taking the ad hoc bands to delighted crowds. The bands cook, taking on scores of well-known tunes and using them as the basis for loose-limbed improvisations that play off the crowd's energy--often audible after solos. With a frequent ...
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The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection
:Album Description:Unavailable in the U.S.! Three CD set. Full title - The Look of Love - The Burt Bacharach Collection - 75th Birthday Limited Edition. To celebrate Burt Bacharach's 75th birthday, Warner Music have repackaged this amazing collection (originally issued in 2001) of songwriting genius, adding a bonus disc with 12 additional tracks, 'Promises Promises', 'Message To Michael', 'Forever My Love', 'Here Where There Is Love', 'Whoever You Are, I Love You', 'Dream Sweet Dreamer', 'The Wine Is Young', 'One Less Bell To Answer', 'Are You There (With Another Girl)', 'Another ...
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The Classic Singles
:Album Description:Unavailable in the U.S.! Three CD set. Full title - The Look of Love - The Burt Bacharach Collection - 75th Birthday Limited Edition. To celebrate Burt Bacharach's 75th birthday, Warner Music have repackaged this amazing collection (originally issued in 2001) of songwriting genius, adding a bonus disc with 12 additional tracks, 'Promises Promises', 'Message To Michael', 'Forever My Love', 'Here Where There Is Love', 'Whoever You Are, I Love You', 'Dream Sweet Dreamer', 'The Wine Is Young', 'One Less Bell To Answer', 'Are You There (With Another Girl)', 'Another ...
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First Lady of Song
: essential recording:This three-CD compilation of Ella Fitzgerald's years with Verve covers the period from 1954 to 1966, with a single throwback to a 1949 Jazz at the Philharmonic concert for a jam session version of 'Perdido' with Charlie Parker. The settings range from the almost spartan (intimate, beautiful versions of 'Angel Eyes,' with guitarist Barney Kessel, and 'Lush Life,' with pianist Oscar Peterson) to orchestras and big bands, while the material ranges from classic standards to bop tunes like 'A Night in Tunisia' to the Lennon-McCartney 'Can't Buy Me Love.' ...
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Sings Country Favorites
:Album Description:Three CDs loaded with 36 tracks including, 'Send Me The Pillow You Dream On', 'Detroit City', 'The Misty Moonlight', 'My Sugar's Gone', 'Bumming Around' and more.
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Trilogy
: :At age 64, Sinatra recorded this three-LP (now two-CD) epic, a grandiloquent statement which attempted to sum up his career, as well as pay tribute to his status as America's greatest living singer. The result is at turns sublime, awful, and just plain bizarre; 'Reflections on the Future in Three Tenses,' Gordon Jenkins's bombastic suite that covers the last third of the set, almost gets over on camp value alone. Covers of such contemporary hits as Billy Joel's 'Just the Way You Are' and Neil Diamond's 'Song Sung Blue' don't really ...
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