Your Hit Parade – was a 41-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early 1990s, spotlighting popular music from the pre-rock era years of 1940-1954, and non-rock and roll songs from 1955 through mid-1960s.
Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Your Hit Parade" series covered a specific time period, including single years in some volumes and stylistic trends in others.
Sessions is Union Square Music’s 2CD urban and dance music range. Aimed at both the hardened dance music fan and the impulse purchaser, each Sessions title is packed full of hit singles, big club tracks and a choice selection of forgotten gems and underground classics picked out by our expert crate-digging compilers. Strong generic packaging including an outer slipcase, informative sleeve notes and a low price in the shops have made Sessions one of our most popular labels.
Universally hailed as the reigning king of the blues, the legendary B.B. King is without a doubt the single most important electric guitarist of the last half century…
30 Verve Collectors Edition album for sale was released Apr 26, 2011 on the Universal Import label. Import-only 30 CD box set containing some of the finest Jazz albums released on the legendary Verve label. 30 Verve Collectors Edition buy CD music Features hit albums from Jazz icons like Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ben Webster, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Haden, Bud Powell, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson and many others. 30 Verve Collectors Edition songs Each CD comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve and all 30 discs are housed in an attractive lift-top box. Universal. 30 Verve Collectors Edition CD music contains a single disc.
On the eve of the New Year I offer you a small insight into the already so far away, but so cool twentieth century. And remember it will help you to Mario Lanza, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Haley & His Comets, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Louis Armstrong, Pat Boone, Jerry Lee Lewis, Perry Como, Paul Anka, Roy Orbison, Scorpions, Bob Dylan, The Mama's & Papa's, Stevie Wonder, Van Morrison, Fleetwood Mac, Simon & Garfunkel, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Shocking Blue, Guess Who, Black Sabbath, Jefferson Airplane, Rod Stewart, The Byrds, The Kinks and many many others … The greatest hits of the past millennium. Need I say more? Download and enjoy the great past.
While it can't hope to compete with the impressive box sets of her work or even more specialized single-disc collections, 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billie Holiday still manages to present a fair amount of her most definitive work from the '40s, even though it's only 12 tracks long. "Strange Fruit," "Lover Man," "Lady Sings the Blues," and "My Man" are all here, along with "Fine and Mellow," "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do," and "I Loves You Porgy." Not surprisingly since its track listing is so small, this collection is somewhat unfocused and definitely incomplete, but it offers a tantalizing taste of Billie Holiday's most musically fruitful period.
They are two of the greatest talents in UK popular music; whether she is singing her beloved jazz, ballads, or setting Shakespearean sonnets to Dankworth’s music; her voice resonates, clear and true. She is always supported by his Fine alto sax work and his sympathetic arrangements. Theirs is one oF the most durable partnerships in music as they began playing together in the mid-50's, before marrying in 1958.