Kitty Evans

Some of the most popular country/western artists connected with The Grand Ole Opry are featured, performing outstanding Christmas and seasonal material, many tracks debuting on CD. The great George Jones is heard on four rare tracks; Kitty Wells performs eight fine Christmas songs (in stereo); four great early tracks feature mega-star Tennessee Ernie Ford; Western stars - Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gene Autry, and Jimmy Wakely - are featured; Jimmy Dean, Molly Bee, Eddy Arnold, The Dinning Sisters, Patti Page and Faron Young are included. There are many well-loved traditional titles featured, and in addition, some great songs that have been brought back: Lonely Christmas, An Old-Fashioned Tree, He's A Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus, He Was A Man, My Friend, Star Of Hope, Little Sandy Sleighfoot, Willy Claus, Blue Snowflakes, Blue December, The Light Of The World, and many more. This will be one of the best Country Christmas sets of the decade!

With this box, we give a detailed overview of the most successful female popartists of the 50's. The first box of this series was dedicated to the "Rock `N`Roll Girls" whereas this box focuses on the "Ladies Of Pop Music". 160 of the 200 songs of this 10-CD-Set entered the charts, 29 songs, even hit #1. All great female voices of this era can be heard here: Doris Day, Connie Francis,Rosemary Clooney, Brenda Lee, Jo Stafford, Marilyn Monroe, Kay Starr, TeresaBrewer, Patti Page, Ruth Brown, Lavern Baker, Alma Cogan, Petula Clark, just to name a few.

Compiled by Austin Powell, the 3 CD set Lipstick, Powder & Paint salutes a decade of girls 1953-1962, and runs the gamut of country, R&B and easy listening, but is primarily pop music with chart appeal. Big names from Rosemary Clooney, Julie London, the Chordettes, Doris Day and Connie Francis to Petula Clark, the Crystals, Timi Yuro, the Marvelettes and Nancy Sinatra are present, so too are lesser-known artists like Lorie Mann, the Perry Sisters, Betsy Brye, Cindy Mann, Yolanda and Mimi Roman. Male record buyers didn't scream and reduce themselves to tears, but many would have dreamt of spending time with their favorite girl singer. Maybe yours is among the 90 tracks included on Lipstick, Powder & Paint.