Desperate Hours 1955

A multifaceted composer, the great Burt Bacharach has had big hits in many musical genres, including top 40's, pop, soul, R&B, jazz, bossa nova, country and movie soundtracks. He has collaborated with a variety of great poets including Hal David and Bob Hilliard. This 2-CD edition presents Bacharach's most important and enduring works from the beginning of his career. He composed a number of his great pieces for various labels between 1955 and 1962. This CD includes classics such as Dionne Warwick's Don't Make Me Over, Gene Pitney's Only Love Can Break A Heart, Tommy Hunt's I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself just to name a few.

Eileen Rodgers might be called "The Star Who Never Was". She burst on the national scene in 1955 with a long string of singles and acclaimed musical comedy performances on the stage, but in seven quick years her recording career was over. She nevertheless made such an impact, the she is still remembered today as one of the great vocalists of all time. Includes the hits "Give Me", "The Wall", "Treasure Of Your Love" and of course her biggest hit "Miracle Of Love". This excellent issue by Jasmine is a complete collection of her singles, many of which have not been heard since their original release plus highlights from her acclaimed cast recordings in Fiorello, Tenderloin and Anything Goes. Eileen Rodgers never became the superstar she should have been, but her distinctive sound continues to attract new listeners, and her fans have steadily increased through the years and hopefully she will never be forgotten.

4 CD Set, 32 tracks, 36-page booklet. Documentation in German, English, French, Spanish and Italian. Ice and fire they were: a two-horned paradox. Offstage, one was quiet, pensive, self-critical to a fault, practising obsessively. The other was cocksure, demanding; running with friends rather than running scales. But on the bandstand and on record, they reversed roles. John Coltrane, with saxophone in hand, became the unbridled one: long-winded, garrulous. When Miles Davis raised his trumpet, he played the sensitive introvert, blowing brief, hushed tones, exuding vulnerability. Their names now command reverence, and rarely induce less than eulogy. The music they created together during an almost five-year union still resonates, entrances, influences and sells, sells, sells.

Restored official British documentary film on the Nazi concentration camps, based on footage shot by the Allied forces in 1945.