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VA - Let The Good Times Roll: The Aladdin Story (2012) 2CDs Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 25, 2023

Aladdin Records, based in Los Angeles, was a very influential label in American music history. This is not the full story of Aladdin Records but it's a very good sampler of the label's output from 1947-1961. It's 50 tracks, 25 tracks on each of the 2CDs in the set, of very good R&B from the period. Each CD is about 60 minutes playing time. The sound is good for recordings of this era. Amos Milburn, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lowell Fulson, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown, Billie Holiday, Shirley & Lee, Gene & Eunic, Bobby Wall, Thurston Harris, The Velvetones and many more.

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V.A. - The Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll: Vol. 01-18 (18CDs, 1991-2011) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at July 5, 2018

For anyone in their mid-teens in the mid-5Os, and into music, it had to be rock'n'roll - American rock'n roll. There was no British equivalent to the sound. In the UK, it was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Platters, Alan Freed, Radio Luxembourg, Voice Of America. If the right people get to know about this and hear the quality, this will sell and sell.

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V.A.- Time Life Music: The Rock 'N' Roll Era (25CDs Collection/1989-1998) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Feb. 27, 2020

V.A.- Time Life Music: The Rock 'N' Roll Era (25CDs Collection/1989-1998)
FLAC (*tracks, covers) | Run Time: 22:41:23 | 8,94 Gb | Covers 401 Mb
Genre: Retro, Rockabilly, Rock 'N' Roll | Label: Time Life

Another quality Time-Life music collection with 500 originals from the period 1955-1964, the so called "Rock'n'Roll Era". In addition of this wonderful classics' parade, you will acquire a R'n'R encyclopedia, since each CD comes with an extensive description and historical data, in a 6 page booklet, scanned at 600 dpi. Enjoy excellent music and artwork.

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V.A.- Time Life Music: The Rock 'N' Roll Era (25CDs Collection/1989-1998) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Feb. 28, 2020

V.A.- Time Life Music: The Rock 'N' Roll Era (25CDs Collection/1989-1998)_mp3
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Run Time: 22:41:23 | 6,62 Gb | Covers 401 Mb
Genre: Retro, Rockabilly, Rock 'N' Roll | Label: Time Life

Another quality Time-Life music collection with 500 originals from the period 1955-1964, the so called "Rock'n'Roll Era". In addition of this wonderful classics' parade, you will acquire a R'n'R encyclopedia, since each CD comes with an extensive description and historical data, in a 6 page booklet, scanned at 600 dpi. Enjoy excellent music and artwork.

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VA - The Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll 1946-1954 (Remastered) (2004) Music

Posted by Rtax at Sept. 3, 2023

VA - The Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll 1946-1954 (Remastered) (2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 840 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 431 MB
2:53:08 | Full Scans Included | Rock & Roll, Jump Blues, Boogie, Doo Wop, Chicago Blues, Country, Gospel | Label: Hip-O Records

Of the numerous various-artist compilation CDs that have attempted to anthologize the recordings of the late '40s and early '50s most crucial to planting the seeds for rock & roll, this three-CD, 60-song set is probably the most definitive. Most prior collections along these lines have failed to present a truly comprehensive picture of rock & roll's roots, whether due to both licensing restrictions and/or track selection that fails to recognize the entirety of the wide spectrum of rock & roll's roots. While you'd need at least a ten-CD box set to approach inarguable definitiveness, The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll: 1946-1954 hits about as many of the key bases as possible within three CDs, including pivotal songs by Lionel Hampton, the Delmore Brothers, Louis Jordan, Hank Williams, Lloyd Price, Howlin' Wolf, the Drifters, Bill Haley, Big Joe Turner, Hank Ballard, and Muddy Waters, to start with just the most well-known artists included here.

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VA - The Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll: Vol. 01-18 (2008) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at May 9, 2019

VA - The Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll: Vol. 01-18 (2008)
Rock 'n' Roll, Doo Wop, Country, Pop, Novelty | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 3,41 Gb | Full Scans (jpg) - 305 Mb
Label: Ace Records | Release Year: 2008

For anyone in their mid-teens in the mid-5Os, and into music, it had to be rock'n'roll - American rock'n roll. There was no British equivalent to the sound. In the UK, it was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Platters, Alan Freed, Radio Luxembourg, Voice Of America.

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Marian McPartland And Willie Pickens - Ain't Misbehavin': Live At The Jazz Showcase (2001) Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 10, 2021

Marian McPartland And Willie Pickens - Ain't Misbehavin': Live At The Jazz Showcase (2001)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 257 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 139 MB | Covers - 21 MB
Genre: Piano Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Concord Jazz (CCD-4968-2)

Here is a mismatch if there ever was one - or so it would appear. The always-elegant, always-spacious and graceful Marian McPartland, queen of the NPR program Piano Jazz, playing live with bluesed-out bebop reveler Willie Pickens in a live setting. But that's as far as contradictions go. This pair knows how to put together a program of piano duets and stress their differences rather than their similarities. It is as simple as sitting down Earl Hines and Fats Waller at the keys and telling them to go for it, that's how different these styles are. But somehow it works, and works so well that the listener will be stunned to know this was a one-off…

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VA - 1000 Original Hits Collection [1950-1959] (2001) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at July 12, 2021

VA - 1000 Original Hits Collection [1950-1959] (2001)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Run Time: 13:25:47 | 1.45 Gb
Genre: Jazz, Rock, Latin, Pop, Folk, World, Vocal, Rock & Roll, Country
Label: EMI Plus

'' 1000 Original Hits '' is the title of a compilation series published by EMI Plus (Europe). This release contains portions of this series, released in 2001, containing works performed from 1950 to 1959.

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VA - Out of Many, One Music! Songs That Shaped Jamaica (2015) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 24, 2024

VA - Out of Many, One Music! Songs That Shaped Jamaica (2015)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 3:52:28 | 489 / 707 Mb
Genre: Reggae, R&B, Blues, Jazz

Jamaica's national motto, 'Out Of Many One People', could well be applied to the music that shaped the island's national sound, with modern reggae the result of many different musical forms coalescing to form a wonderfully unique 'one'. Fantastic Voyage's highly popular Sound System Classics series has already celebrated the American jump blues favoured at Jamaican dances in the pre-ska era, but contrary to widespread belief, US rhythm & blues and the indigenous style of mento were not the only types of music enjoyed across the island prior to the development of Shuffle Blues and Ska. In fact, the diversity of sounds that exerted a direct influence on popular Jamaican music throughout the 20th Century is astonishing, taking in gospel, blues, jazz, vocal groups, country, pop, film music and exotica, hailing from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Southern Africa and the British Isles, as well as America.

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Jimmy Webb - The Moon's a Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb in the Seventies (2004) Music

Posted by Rtax at Sept. 16, 2023

Jimmy Webb - The Moon's a Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb in the Seventies (2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.9 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 807 MB
5:51:29 | Soft Rock | Label: Rhino

The essence of Jimmy Webb’s artistry is exemplified in an unlikely place on this five-disc set, which collects all of his 1970s studio albums plus a 1972 live concert and an assortment of outtakes. It’s the last of those outtakes, a duet with Harry Nilsson on Boudleaux & Felice Bryant’s “Love Hurts”, that reveals the truth.
Webb had recorded the classic ballad for his 1972 album Letters, then cut this subsequent take with Nilsson in London but decided not to use it. In the liner notes here, Webb explains he and Nilsson were “smashed out of our minds” when they cut the track, and confesses he nixed it because he felt Nilsson’s vocal was too melodramatic: “Somewhat hypocritically perhaps, I felt he was too far gone…”

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