Aretha Best

It is easier to define Dionne Warwick by what she isn't rather than what she is. Although she grew up singing in church, she is not a gospel singer. Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan are clear influences, but she is not a jazz singer. R&B is also part of her background, but she is not really a soul singer, either, at least not in the sense that Aretha Franklin is. Sophisticated is a word often used to describe her musical approach and the music she sings, but she is not a singer of standards such as Lena Horne or Nancy Wilson. What is she, then? She is a pop singer of a sort that perhaps could only have emerged out of the Brill Building environment of post-Elvis Presley, pre-Beatles urban pop in the early '60s. That's when she hooked up with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, songwriters and producers who wrote their unusually complicated songs for her aching yet detached alto voice. Warwick is inescapably associated with those songs, even though she managed to build a career after leaving Bacharach and David that drew upon their style for other memorable recordings, and she remains a unique figure in popular music.

3 CDs packed with the greatest swing & jazz classics in exquisite quality is only offered by this compilation. Renowned greats of Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie and Duke Ellington unite at this show. The hit giants in the elegant Digipack offer over 63 tasteful classics and easy-to-listen melodies. From the girl from Ipanema to Over The Rainbow and Mr. Kicks, the most famous songs are represented.

2019 This Compilation Rhino UK a division of Warner Music UK. Its You is a song by Lebanese-Iraqi Canadian rapper Ali Gatie, released as a single through Li$n and Warner Records. My Type is a song by rapper Saweetie, released by Icy, Artistry Records and Warner Records. The song was written by Saweetie and produced by London on da Track. Sanguine Paradise is a song by rapper Lil Uzi Vert, recorded for his upcoming studio album Eternal Atake. It was released as the first of two singles on the same day through Atlantic Records, Warner Music and WEA. Dance Monkey has topped the charts in Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and peaked within the top ten in many other European and Asian countries.

Of the major '60s soul stars, Wilson Pickett was one of the roughest and sweatiest, working up some of the decade's hottest dancefloor grooves on hits. Although he tends to be held in somewhat lower esteem than more versatile talents like Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin, he is often a preferred alternative of fans who like their soul on the rawer side. He also did a good deal to establish the sound of Southern soul with his early hits, which were often written and recorded with the cream of the session musicians in Memphis and Muscle Shoals.

Even if Ruth Brown never had the success that some other artists from her environment achieved, without their hits, Atlantic Records would never have been able to support artists like Otis Redding and later Aretha Franklin to such an extent that they became world stars. Still, she remains a legend in the world of rhythm and blues, influencing a lot of successful artists through her songs.

Perception Productions, a New York based label that ran from the late 60s through until 1974, was a strangely eclectic affair. Its roster stretched from a radical Afro-American poet through to the pop band King Harvest whose hit ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ became a massive hit for the UK band Toploader a couple of decades later. The inbetween points covered jazz, funk, vocal harmony soul and proto-disco. In fact distilled down into this compilation the label provides us a view of Manhattan’s black music scene of the period, from the established greats to the fresh young things who would make their mark in the coming years. The two men who ran the label, President Terry Phillips and Boo Frazier burned brightly for that half a decade before almost entirely disappearing from the music scene.