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The Engine Room: A History of Jazz Drumming from Storyville to 52nd Street
:Album Description:Budget-priced box set featuring over five hours of music on 4 CDs from the top skin-beaters. This is the definitive history of jazz drumming from Storyville to 52nd Street. Includes tracks from Baby Dodds, Ben Pollack, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Big Sid Catlett and dozens more. Also contains a fully illustrated 48 page booklet with references, a discography and bio on each artist. 95 tracks! Each disc comes in a separate standard jewel case within a thick, full color slipcase box. 1999 release.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever
:Album Description:Disc 1: Selections from Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, and Song and Dance Disc 2: Selections from Starlight Express, Requiem, Phantom of the Opera, and Aspects of Love Disc 3: Selections from Joseph nad the Amaziong Technicolor Dreamcoat, By Jeeves, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, and The Beautiful Game CD 4: 1. 'Oh What a Circus' --David Essex 2. 'Memory' - Betty Buckleey 3. 'The Phantom of the Opera' -Sarah Brightman, Steve Harley 4. 'All I Ask of You' --Sarah Brightman, Cliff Richard 5. 'Love Changes Everything'--Michael Ball 6. 'Any Dream ...
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Schoolhouse Rock! (1973 TV Series)
: :It's hard to overestimate the effect Schoolhouse Rock had on anyone who was a child between 1973 and 1985. Forty-one three-minute educational cartoons set to original songs, they were the original music videos, and they taught countless kids the difference between adjectives ('Unpack Your Adjectives') and adverbs ('Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here'), how to multiply ('Three Is a Magic Number'), basic principles of science ('Do the Circulation,' 'Interplanet Janet'), and American civics ('I'm Just a Bill,' 'The Preamble'). All of the original songs are here, plus four Money Rock songs--'Dollars and ...
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Capitol Records Concept Albums
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Yes I Can! The Sammy Davis Jr. Story
: :Onstage, nobody could match the wham of Sammy Davis Jr. Best known now as arguably the coolest member of the Rat Pack, Sammy Davis Jr. was one of the world's great entertainers, a guy capable of funny impersonations, heartwarming ballads, and lively jazz-inspired songs--usually in the same set. Granted, Sinatra's vocal skills overshadowed Davis on record, but what other musician has found such success as a writer, Broadway star, vocalist, dancer, and comedian (all the while helping to break down racial barriers)? With Yes I Can! The Sammy Davis Jr. Story, Rhino Records ...
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Living Music: The Holiday Collection Deluxe Box Set
: :Who but America's favorite East coast homemaker, media mogul and former jailbird could deliver a holiday box set appealing to main street with almost as many selections as there are varieties of Christmas trees?! Martha Stewart does everything big and even her shareholders would argue, tastefully. So when she got out of the big house recently, Stewart and her elves put together this three-disc set featuring 18 songs from the traditional pop world, a 16-track holiday jazz sampler spanning from the Chris Botti present to the Louie Armstrong past, and a classical set ...
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A Night Out With Verve
: :This bargain-priced four-CD set presents itself as easy, event-based listening, with the CDs individually titled 'Wining,' 'Dining,' 'Dancing,' and 'Romancing.' A glimpse at the track list and personnel, however, immediately reveals that, much more than 'easy listening,' it's an extraordinary collection of jazz performances culled from the Verve archives and including material from the label's classic and recent periods, as well as from subsidiary labels. The selection has been made with remarkable thoughtfulness, pulling out tracks that may surprise even veteran listeners. John Coltrane plays 'You're a Weaver of Dreams' with the Miles ...
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Buy This Box or We'll Shoot This Dog: The Best of the National Lampoon Radio Hour
: :Without the writers and performers behind the National Lampoon Radio Hour, comedy today would be an altogether different beast. In truth, it wouldn't be nearly so beastly. For a time, overeducated, chemically altered white boys with attitudes were an extraordinary font of humor, and they didn't come much more educated, altered, white, and boyish than the Nat Lamp crew. Led first by Michael O'Donoughue and later by John Belushi, the radio program lasted from 1973 to 1975, with many of its creators then moving on to the inaugural company of Saturday Night Live. ...
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Just for the Record...
: :Without the writers and performers behind the National Lampoon Radio Hour, comedy today would be an altogether different beast. In truth, it wouldn't be nearly so beastly. For a time, overeducated, chemically altered white boys with attitudes were an extraordinary font of humor, and they didn't come much more educated, altered, white, and boyish than the Nat Lamp crew. Led first by Michael O'Donoughue and later by John Belushi, the radio program lasted from 1973 to 1975, with many of its creators then moving on to the inaugural company of Saturday Night Live. ...
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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.' What ties ...
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