Linda Carr

UK collection that focuses on songs penned by the American singer/songwriter. The songwriting skills of Penn and Spooner Oldham have already been celebrated in fine style on Ace's award-winning Sweet Inspiration. This compilation includes performances by Ted Taylor, Linda Gail Lewis, Roy Hamilton, Billy Young, Jeanie Fortune and many others.

2 CD, 50 greatest hits. Petula Clark, Joan Baez, Brenda Lee, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Linda Ronstadt, Nina Simone, Connie Francis, Carole King, Cher, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Gloria Gaynor, Shirley Bassey, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Olivia Newton-John, Judy Garland, Billy Holiday, Mahalia Jackson and more, and more…

This important biography tells the story of the only political leader to welcome Japanese Americans to his state during World War II, painting a vivid portrait of a courageous man forgotten by Colorado and never known by his country.

Tunesmith: The Songs Of Jimmy Webb is a 2CD 2003 compilation from Australia honoring the music and songwriting of Jimmy Webb. Raven Records made this.

I’m a girl from the Bronx who grew up singing in church and with the radio. My influences are the women who sing! The ones who sang the sad songs- Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon – these voices shaped my sound and style early on. Stevie Nicks, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt and many others inspire me. My music and performances are a little bit of everything that I love. Singing makes every cell in body tingle…it makes me feel alive. I am blessed and lucky, and so very thankful. xox

100 All Time Classic Dance Hits Of The 1970s, a Various Artists Compilation. Released 1988 on Connoisseur Collection.

The acronym is F-A-M-E, but it may as well be S-O-U-L. It was a full half-century ago that the recording studio, record label and publishing operation originally known as Florence Alabama Music Enterprises established itself and its trademark sound with the hit recording of ‘You Better Move On’ by Arthur Alexander. In the fifty years since, FAME Studios and its idiosyncratic founder Rick Hall have been at the forefront of the Muscle Shoals Sound. FAME begat the process whereby a little known Alabama backwater would evolve into the very crucible of southern soul, a holy place to where musicians, singers and fans still make a very specific pilgrimage in the hope of experiencing a little bit of the magic behind so many hit records: ‘I’m Your Puppet’, ‘Land Of 1,000 Dances’, ‘Tell Mama’ and countless others.