The Loving Story (2011)

Ray Dobard’s Music City Records of Berkeley, California, across the Bay from San Francisco, is a catalogue of mythic proportions that has been cherished for decades by a small hardcore of R&B, vocal group and, latterly, soul fanatics. Based on the available evidence – 50-odd 45 and 78rpm releases – and a lot of hearsay and rumour, many have spent hours fantasising about the purported riches in the possession of its famously protective, zealous owner.

Exile on Main St. is the 10th British and 12th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 12 May 1972 by Rolling Stones Records. Recording began in 1969 in England during sessions for Sticky Fingers and continued in mid-1971 at a rented villa in the South of France named Nellcôte while the band lived abroad as tax exiles. A collage of various images, the album's artwork, according to frontman Mick Jagger, reflects the Rolling Stones as "runaway outlaws using the blues as its weapon against the world", showcasing "feeling of joyful isolation, grinning in the face of a scary and unknown future".

The Exotic Beatles - Part One
26 of your all time Beatles favourites performed by the most exotic cast ever assembled including…Eleanor Rigby in Latin by Derek Enright MP - Lucy In The Sky by William Shatner - I Am The Walrus by John Otway - She Loves You Flamenco - Japanese Yellow Submarine Ondo - Brian Sewell - The Metropolitan Police Choir - Cats and Dogs - The Indian Beatles - The Japanese Beatles - The Argentinian Beatles - The Malayan Beatles…
"This is the sound of the world going mad" - Record Collector
"Freshness, innocence, exoticism; the three cardinal virtues of pop" - Beatles Unlimited
"A Must for Beatles obsessives and lovers of kitsch" - Rock CD

Reveals how sculpture communicates our most cherished beliefs and values - the British soul captured in three dimensions.

We told the first part of the Contours’ story in “Dance With The Contours”, taking it up to the point where, in late 1964, the group members conspired to strike for more pay and better working conditions. Motown got wind of this plan, did a deal with lead singer Billy Gordon and let the other Contours go. “Just A Little Misunderstanding” (an apt description of that event, perhaps) takes the story on from here. A new team of Contours – Alvin English, Jerry Green and Council Gay – were recruited, although English didn’t last long and original member Sylvester Potts was re-enlisted to take his place. The group continued to score hits, with ‘Can You Jerk Like Me’ and ‘First I Look At The Purse’, and had a sure-fire follow-up in the can with ‘Baby Hit And Run’ when Billy Gordon got in trouble with the law and was ousted from the group. Ex-Falcon Joe Stubbs took his place.

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.

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.