The Time–Life Treasury of Christmas is a mail order Christmas music collection produced by Time–Life Music in cooperation with RCA/Ariola International. It was first available in 1986, and contained 45 songs. Now you can get 6 compact discs contains 72 songs.
A series that looks directly at "iconic" artists & bands of the 20th Century; providing their best hits on CD, launched in 1999. Run by Universal Canada, 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection boasts sales of over 9 million, more than 600 titles in a range of musical styles and being the "most succcessful greatest hits series in canada". Alternations to the series include releases focusing on Christmas themed music.
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everett's home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters–among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning governor and his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find."
Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, Carmen McRae, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson and many more.