Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me

V.A.- Philadelphia International Records: The Collection (20CD Box Set, 2014)

V.A.- Philadelphia International Records: The Collection (20CD Box Set, 2014)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Run Time: 13:34:01 | 1,81 Gb
Genre: Soul, Jazz-Funk, Rhythm & Blues, Disco, Smooth Soul
Label: Sony Music, Philadelphia International Records

Released by Legacy in the U.K., this compact box set contains 20 albums – inside adequate LP replica sleeves – released by Philadelphia International. When it was issued, it retailed at a price that was roughly equivalent to the sum of three or four full-price titles, which made it a significant bargain. These albums don't represent the absolute best that PIR had to offer; instead, the box offers an assortment of commercial hits and misses, creative masterpieces and not-quite-failures, and showcases a significant portion of the label's roster.

Nat "King" Cole - 1947-1949 (2000)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 15, 2021
Nat "King" Cole - 1947-1949 (2000)

Nat "King" Cole - 1947-1949 (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 133 MB | Covers (4 MB) included
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Classics Records (CLASSICS1155)

Nat King Cole could charm most listeners by simply singing a few lines from the phone book. His delivery is so intoxicating that even less-than-stellar material doesn't cause so much as a blink of the eye. This is true with Classics' collection of some of his 1947-1949 cuts, where hardly a classic standard or hit is in sight. What one does get, though, is a generous dose of Nat Cole and the trio's slow-riffin' best . While ranging from the ballad perfection of "How Lonely Can You Get" and "Lost April" to svelte blues sides like "My Mother Told Me," Cole, guitarist Irving Ashby, and bassist Johnny Miller show how they perfected the piano trio template forged by the singer's first group with guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Wesley Prince…
VA - R&B In DC 1940-1960: Rhythm & Blues, Doo Wop, Rockin' Rhythm And More (2021)

VA - R&B In DC 1940-1960: Rhythm & Blues, Doo Wop, Rockin' Rhythm And More (2021)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.7 GB
20:17:52 | Soul, R&B, Doo-Wop, Rock ’n’ Roll | Label: Bear Family Records

Limited and numbered edition of 1,500 copies! R&B in DC - Bear Family Records® presents the rise of rhythm 'n' blues in Washington, D.C. - music from the swing era, classic doo-wop of the 1940s and 1950s, rocking rhythm & blues, rock & roll and soul of the early 1960s. Classics such as Love Potion No. 9 (The Clovers), Wedding Bells(The Senators) and Georgianna(Lloyd Price), supplemented by local hits, long-forgotten obscure tunes and sought-after rarities.

Dean Martin - Eight Classic Albums (2013/2019)  Music

Posted by delpotro at April 9, 2022
Dean Martin - Eight Classic Albums (2013/2019)

Dean Martin - Eight Classic Albums (2013/2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,22 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 527 Mb | 04:11:50
Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Easy Listening | Label: Real Gone Music

Includes the following albums - Pretty Baby, Sleep Warm, A Winter Romance, This Time I'm Swinging, Dino Italian, Love Songs, Cha Cha Cha De Amour, Free Style, Dino Latino.

Viktor Lazlo - Hot & Soul (1989)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Aug. 28, 2022
Viktor Lazlo - Hot & Soul (1989)

Viktor Lazlo - Hot & Soul (1989)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 314 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 121 Mb
Full Scans | 00:49:16 | RAR 5% Recovery
Soul, Synth-Pop | Polydor #837 921-2

Viktor Lazlo (real name: Sonia Dronier) is a French-Belgian singer of Grenadian and Martiniquan descent. She studied in Belgium, where she is primarily known. Her biggest hit was "Breathless" in 1987. That year she also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 held in Brussels. Dronier took her stage name from Paul Henreid's character Victor Laszlo in the 1942 film Casablanca. She sings in French, English, Spanish and German. Most of her albums were released in an English/international and a French version. Also, numerous compilation albums have been released.

V.A. - Those Classic Golden Years: Volume 01-Volume 40 (2008) [Re-Up]  Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Sept. 14, 2020
V.A. - Those Classic Golden Years: Volume 01-Volume 40 (2008) [Re-Up]

V.A. - Those Classic Golden Years: Volume 01-Volume 40 (2008)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Run Time: 47:49:10 | 6,32 Gb
Genre: Rock, Pop, Country | Label: Rato Records

Compilation CD's. Those Classic Golden Years - An Essential collection the second half of the sixties and the early seventies…

VA - Diggin' In The Goldmine - Dutch Beat Nuggets (2019)  Music

Posted by Rtax at April 7, 2024
VA - Diggin' In The Goldmine - Dutch Beat Nuggets (2019)

VA - Diggin' In The Goldmine - Dutch Beat Nuggets (2019)
FLAC (tracks) - 2.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.2 GB
9:16:42 | Beat, Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Pseudonym

Do you like yourself a bit of “Dutch Beat”, or as insiders refer to it, “Nederbeat”? Well, if so then there is no time like the present to get yourself totally wrapped up in a huge heavy dose of it, and if you’re not really sure or perhaps you’ve only maybe dipped a toe in here and there, well now’s the time for that full immersion experience to start. This brand new eight CD box set issued by premier league Dutch reissue specialists Pseudonym, and helmed by the label’s head honcho Hans Van Vuuren, is an exhausting, exhilarating labour-of-love style project … and then some! Diggin’ In The Goldmine has been categorised, broadly speaking as “Dutch Beat” but what purchasers are subject to are around two hundred tracks of exciting, multi-genre, early-days rock music which spans from the immediate post-Beatles and ‘Stones fallout of 1963-64.

VA - The Perfect Roots & Blues Collection (2015)  Music

Posted by Rtax at July 5, 2022
VA - The Perfect Roots & Blues Collection (2015)

VA - The Perfect Roots & Blues Collection (2015)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 3.8 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 2.9 GB
21:30:07 | Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues, Cajun, Hillbilly, Gospel | Label: Sony Music Canada

Amazon Review by Stuart Jefferson
If you're a blues fan chances are you're already familiar with (if you don't already own) some/many/all of these albums. But if you don't own these sets (or have only a few) this is a good way to own all 20 albums in one nice, neat box. The sound is the same as the individual albums which is very good for the various periods when these tracks were originally recorded. The jackets are fairly thick cardboard and are reproductions of the original covers. The outer box is also of good quality. There's a 34 page booklet that has a few paragraphs on each disc, and track lists, but no detailed liner notes to really put this music into some kind of perspective, but information on these artists and styles is available in various blues books/encyclopedias and on the internet.
Gregory Porter - One Night Only (Live At The Royal Albert Hall / 02 April 2018) (2018)

Gregory Porter - One Night Only (Live At The Royal Albert Hall / 02 April 2018) (2018)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 01:18:46 | 423 Mb
Jazz, Soul | Label: Blue Note Records, Decca Records

“Better be good,” Gregory Porter quips, just before opening his mouth to sing for a crowd of thousands in one of London’s most historic venues. And it is good. One Night Only, a program venerating Nat “King” Cole (along the lines of Porter’s 2017 studio album of his songs), finds the authoritative baritone in a lush setting with a 70-piece orchestra led by famed arranger Vince Mendoza. But despite a prevalent focus on ballads—including the murderous, Cole Porter-penned “Miss Otis Regrets,” subject to intriguingly knotty reharmonization—Porter preserves the core of swing and soul that’s so central to his small-combo identity. Chip Crawford’s piano solo on “Pick Yourself Up,” Tivon Pennicott’s bebop tenor sax turns on “L-O-V-E” and “Sweet Lorraine,” bassist Jahmal Nichols’ bluesy aside on “When Love Was King,” the creative funk abandon of the quintet on the finale encore, “Don’t Lose Your Steam”: This is Porter in his element, formal setting or otherwise.
VA - Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan (2008)

VA - Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 683 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 345 MB
2:28:53 | Rock & Roll, Blues Rock, Country, Punk, Soul, Doo Wop, Rocksteady, Rhythm & Blues, Ska, Swing | Label: Ace

50 songs and 75 years of musical dreams, schemes and themes drawn from the first series of the highly acclaimed Theme Time Radio Hour with your host, Bob Dylan. This fully authorised release is packaged with a 48 page booklet.
What, I wonder, do we dream of when we dream of Bob Dylan? And, more intriguingly, what does Bob Dylan dream of when he dreams of us? This is what I think: he dreams of a small boy called Robert who lives in a small city, an industrial centre in a rural landscape. It’s a nowhere town that was once called Alice but had its name changed when an enormous hole was dug where its new name used to be. That giant hole was – and still is – the biggest of its kind in the world, an open-cast iron mine.