Label: Rca Living Stereo 2024

Billie Holiday, born as Elionora Harris and originally named Eleanora Fagan, (* April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia; † July 17, 1959 in New York City) is one of the most important American jazz singers with Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.

Deathcore at its finest, hailing from Illinois, Oceano, are leveling it up.

RCA's wildly successful Living Stereo series spawned a number of ensembles with Living in their titles; the two that folks remember these days are The Living Strings and The Living Voices. Here's two holiday albums featured on this twofer that she released with The Living Voices remain treasured among Christmas music aficionados for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. The first, 1962's "Sing Christmas Music", had actually come out on the Living Stereo imprint in 1959 as "Christmas Surprises" from The Ralph Hunter. The second album, 1965's "The Little Drummer Boy", featured the legendary Anita Kerr Singers and production by Anita Kerr herself.

Morton Gould's Brass & Percussion is an artifact from the halcyon days of high fidelity, a lost era when "Radio Row" in New York City was bursting at the seams with shops selling every kind of cutting-edge audio gear to hi-fi enthusiasts eager to blow away their wives, neighbors, and everyone else with big audio systems. Forthwith, Brass & Percussion has a BIG sound – recorded in Manhattan Center with classic Neumann U-47 microphones and a huge symphonic band made up of crack East Coast professionals.

Brain child of pioneering producer Ethel Gabriel, The Living Voices were one of the top acts on RCA's wildly successful Living Stereo imprint. Living Voices' albums were renowned for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. "Nancy With The Laughing Face" have been released in 1968 by RCA/Camden label and features the collection of covers, arranged and conducted by Bob Armstrong.

Brain child of pioneering producer Ethel Gabriel, The Living Voices were one of the top acts on RCA's wildly successful Living Stereo imprint. Living Voices' albums were renowned for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. "Angel Of The Morning" have been released in 1969 by RCA/Camden label and features the covers of "rock/pop" tunes, arranged and conducted by Bob Armstrong.

This is not exactly the Mario Lanza "best-of" album its title might imply; it consists of recordings made during the last 18 months of the great crossover tenor's life, when he was beginning to suffer serious effects from the health problems that killed him in the fall of 1959…

"Elvis Is Back!" was the iconic pop star's first album after returning from his two-year military service in Germany. The 1960 album was the beginning of a major change in Elvis' music, moving closer to what would eventually become his well-known pop sound. "Elvis Is Back!" incorporated a mixture of genres, spanning rock, blues and pop.

Brain child of pioneering producer Ethel Gabriel, The Living Voices were one of the top acts on RCA's wildly successful Living Stereo imprint. Living Voices' albums were renowned for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. As title says, here's the Living Voices sings the songs from a famous Broadway musicals.