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AVID Pop presents the latest release in our Four Classic Albums series with a remastered 2CD release titled Let's Dance - Four Classic Albums From The Twist Era complete with original artwork, liner notes, personnel details.
"Chubby Checker: Twist with Chubby Checker"; "Joey Dee & The Starliters: Doin' The Twist At The Peppermint Lounge"; "Gary U.S. Bonds: Twist Up Calypso" and "Chubby Checker: For Your Swingin' Dancin' Party Vol 3- Let's Twist Again" plus 9 bonus tracks.

50 Great Dance Floor Moments Of The 60s It s1961 and the breakout of the Twist as a global trend is just the shot in the arm that the music business has been looking for in the wake of the payola scandal. The fall-out from this disturbing debacle has been far greater than anyone might imagine. Many key radio stations across the United States have panicked and changed their formats from rock & roll to quality music , with the result that listening figures have dropped away almost as fast as the advertisers.

As its name suggests, Quiffs At The Flicks is a celebration of music from the rock n roll era, as included in feature films of the time. More than that, it is a celebration of specifically British feature films.

• Anti-Nuclear Disarmament Rally, Central Park, New York City on June 12th 1982. On June 12, 1982, more than half a million people attended a rally for nuclear disarmament in New York s Central Park, with music by several politically engaged stars. Broadcast on New York s WNEW-FM, this two-disc set features highlights from the program, including performances by Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen, Gary U.S. Bonds, and James Taylor •

Not for nothing is Bob Dylan considered to be one of the greatest songwriters of his, or any other, generation. His compositions have provided a prime source of repertoire for hundreds, even thousands, of recording artists for 50 years, and his catalogue continues to be regularly revised and revisited in all genres of music.
Spanning more than two decades of Dylan compositions, “How Many Roads” offers 20 first-rate examples of how well his songs have lent themselves to being remade/remodelled by high profile names in black American music. Few of his peers have had their catalogues visited as regularly by black singers and musicians. Only John Lennon and Paul McCartney (the subjects of the next volume in this short “Black America Sings…” series) come close in terms of breadth of catalogue and number of covers.

The highly anticipated second volume of songs by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison is no less potent than 2011's Come Together (CDCHD 1300) one of Ace s most popular titles. The compositions of Lennon, McCartney & Harrison were no less appreciated by their black American peers than they were by their fellow pop and rock acts. Here are 22 reinterpretations of Beatles classics that frequently take the songs in new directions, but never lose sight of the original intention of the writers.

When Hank Ballard and The Midnighters recorded their song, 'The Twist' they would have had no idea what they were about to start. For what was about to happen would change dancehalls across the known world forever, welcome ladies and gentlemen to the dance phenomenon, The Twist! Here we have 50 tracks inspired by the craze that was sweeping the nation like a teenage jiggling plague and includes all the major classics such as "Let's Twist Again" and "Twistin' The Night Away". Features as you expect all the usual suspects: Chubby Checker, Sam Cooke, The Isley Brothers and the not so obvious, Frank Sinatra. So come on, roll back the carpet it's twisting time!

If variety is the spice of life, then listening to American radio during the early part of the 1960s was certainly a spicy experience! Legend has it that the period covered by these 3CDs was a low point in pop, roughly bordered by Elvis enlisting in the Army in 1958, and the American breakthrough of The Beatles in 1964. But even the briefest look at these titles - or the quickest of listens, will disprove that legend. Here is a delicious menu of dance sensations, virtuoso instrumentals, novelty hits, heart-breaking ballads together with some of the perkiest pop you could wish for.

Enjoy this Compilation with the most successful Soul, R&B, Jazz, Blues singers like Wilbert Harrison, Bo Diddley, Otis Rush, Slim Harpo and many more!