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The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection
: essential recording:The greatest expression of Burt Bacharach's composing and arranging talents is the marvelous string of productions he made with Dionne Warwick and lyricist Hal David for a decade or so starting in 1962. Many of their triumphs are included in this three-CD box (also see the single disc The Dionne Warwick Collection), along with dozens of other tracks made between 1957 (Marty Robbins's 'Story of My Life') and 1996 (Bacharach's collaboration with Elvis Costello ...
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Ultimate Collection
:Album Description:Aussie 3 CD set (housed in a standard double jewel case) for one of the most popular film composers & easy listening recording artists of the '50s & '60s. 60 tracks including 'Swedish Rhapsody', 'Granada', 'La Negra', 'Brazil', 'I Say A Little Prayer' & 'El Paso'. 2001.
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Many Moods of the Mantovani Orchestra
:Album Description:Aussie 3 CD set (housed in a standard double jewel case) for one of the most popular film composers & easy listening recording artists of the '50s & '60s. 60 tracks including 'Swedish Rhapsody', 'Granada', 'La Negra', 'Brazil', 'I Say A Little Prayer' & 'El Paso'. 2001.
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Henry Mancini -The Ultimate Collection
:Album Description:1995 compilation on RCA Victor featuring 46 of the composer's finest & most memorable recordings from 1956-1991on two digitally remastered, full color picture CDs. Contains 'The Pink Panther Theme', 'Moon River', 'A Shot In The Dark', Wine And Roses', 'Baby Elephant Walk', 'Peter Gunn', 'Everything I Do (I Do It For You)', 'Mona Lisa', 'Unchained Melody', 'Midnight Cowboy' and much more. Well over two hours of easy listening ecstasy! Double slimline jewel case. The full ...
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The Stan Kenton Story
:Album Description:Here are the extensive highlights of the first ten years ofthe Kenton era, presented through 93 tracks on 4 CDs and accompanied by a 48 page booklet that tells the life story of this extraordinary figure, including rare photos and full track information. Additional artists include, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Anita O'Day, June Christy, Kai Winding, Shelly Manne, Machito and Laurindo Almeida. 2000 release. 4 standard jewel cases housed together in a deluxe slipcase.
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Days of Wine and Roses
: :Henry Mancini's response to the lounge-music fad whose beginnings coincided with his 1994 death is unknown, but his place near its center is hard to deny. The Days of Wine and Roses collects three CDs of often wonderful melodies (particularly on the composer's early work) and occasionally less-striking work-for-hire (the theme from What's Happening!). Irony aside, this box's soothing qualities and playful jazziness are worth investigating. --Rickey Wright
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Hits of the 30's & 40's, Vol. 1 & 2
:Album Details:The Era of Big Band Swing Represented the First Real Instance of Jazz Music, Or Very Close Derivatives of Jazz, Becoming Part of the Mainstream of Popular Music. The Tunes Became Standards of the Time that People Whistled on their Way to Work, the Musicians Became Superstars Mobbed by Fans, and Top Names Like Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller and Harry James Sold Records by the Millions. Swing, was the Pop of ...
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A Musical Anthology
:Album Details:The Era of Big Band Swing Represented the First Real Instance of Jazz Music, Or Very Close Derivatives of Jazz, Becoming Part of the Mainstream of Popular Music. The Tunes Became Standards of the Time that People Whistled on their Way to Work, the Musicians Became Superstars Mobbed by Fans, and Top Names Like Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller and Harry James Sold Records by the Millions. Swing, was the Pop of ...
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Music to Watch Girls By
:Album Description:The forerunner to the resurgence in the interest in top quality easy listening. A superb double album of just about every swingin', cool cut you could possibly want on one collection. Thirty eight easy listening classics of pure genius, from Dean Martin's 'That's Amore' and Julie London's 'Fly Me To The Moon' through to Nat King Cole's 'Let There Be Love' and Andy Williams' title track 'Music To Watch Girls By'. 38 tracks. Sony. 1999.
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Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman and the Theremin
from: Basta Records
: :Originally released as a series of 78 rpm recordings for Capitol in the late 1940s, this set collects the work of Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman, the leading theremin virtuoso of his age. After adding theremin to a number of successful films (most notably, Spellbound, The Lost Weekend, and The Day the Earth Stood Still), Hoffman (a podiatrist by profession) teamed with British composer Harry Revel. The result: three albums that introduced this oddly provocative instrument to ...
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