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The Songbook Collection
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
: essential recording:While legends such as Billie Holiday and Count Basie made their greatest impact with visceral, blues-soaked statements, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington succeeded by lending their work unmatched grace and precision. This is a roundabout way of saying that no one is better suited to interpret the Duke than Ella, and the evidence is contained within these three CDs. Discs 1 and 3, recorded in June 1957, feature the support of the full Ellington band and are a complete joy, from Fitzgerald's terrific scat vocal on 'Rockin' in Rhythm' through the ...
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The Music of Johnny Mathis - A Personal Collection (Repackaged)
: :Mathis was among the singers who, in the '60s and '70s, churned out an album every few months--often made up largely of the same recent chart hits his peers (Andy Williams, Jerry Vale) were covering. Despite the presence of 'Feelings,' however, this four-CD box is low on chaff and high on the wispy romanticism of hits such as 'Chances Are,' 'Misty,' and 'It's Not for Me to Say.' --Rickey Wright
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Sinatra in Hollywood 1940-1964
:Album Description:Contains 6 CDs with cinematic performances, promos and interviews 'The Voice' sang in nearly 50 different films, newsreels and radio/TV spots released by Paramount, RKO, MGM, Columbia, Hearst, Warner Bros., Universal, United Artists, UA/Capitol and Goldwyn from 1940 to 1964. Virtually every track available on CD for the first time. Rarities include a 1948 radio interview for MGM's The Kissing Bandit and Take Me Out To The Ballgame and a 1951 promo spot for Universal's Meet Danny Wilson. Packaged in a beautiful fabric-lined 5 1/2 w x 11 5/8 h x 1 ...
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Her Greatest Hits
:Album Description:Contains 6 CDs with cinematic performances, promos and interviews 'The Voice' sang in nearly 50 different films, newsreels and radio/TV spots released by Paramount, RKO, MGM, Columbia, Hearst, Warner Bros., Universal, United Artists, UA/Capitol and Goldwyn from 1940 to 1964. Virtually every track available on CD for the first time. Rarities include a 1948 radio interview for MGM's The Kissing Bandit and Take Me Out To The Ballgame and a 1951 promo spot for Universal's Meet Danny Wilson. Packaged in a beautiful fabric-lined 5 1/2 w x 11 5/8 h x 1 ...
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Strictly for Music Lovers
:Album Description:Budget-priced four disc box set featuring 95 tracks by the comic genius, including nine #1 million-selling hits, 'Der Fuerher's Face', 'Cocktails For Two', 'Glow Worm', 'All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)', 'Clink Clink Another Drink', 'Sheik Of Araby', 'Oh By Jingo', 'Holiday For Strings' and 'William Tell'. Also includes a fully illustrated 24 page booklet. Each CD comes in a separate standard jewel case & together they come packaged within a thick, full color slipcase box. 1999 release. :The genius of Spike Jones--as a songwriter, bandleader, and musician--is ...
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The Best of the Big Bands
:Album Description:Budget-priced four disc box set featuring 95 tracks by the comic genius, including nine #1 million-selling hits, 'Der Fuerher's Face', 'Cocktails For Two', 'Glow Worm', 'All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)', 'Clink Clink Another Drink', 'Sheik Of Araby', 'Oh By Jingo', 'Holiday For Strings' and 'William Tell'. Also includes a fully illustrated 24 page booklet. Each CD comes in a separate standard jewel case & together they come packaged within a thick, full color slipcase box. 1999 release. :The genius of Spike Jones--as a songwriter, bandleader, and musician--is ...
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The Best of the Columbia Years: 1943-1952
: :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 isn't worthy ...
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book - 3CD 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 isn't worthy ...
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Roots of Rock N Roll: 1946-1954
: :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 isn't worthy ...
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