Peter And Gordon

2011 collection from the American singer/songwriter. The success of the Complete Jackie DeShannon Singles Vol. 1 would have prompted a follow-up even if we hadn't already been planning one. Singles Vol. 2 picks up from where that ended. It moves US from the end of 1964 to early 1967, with Jackie moving from Liberty to it's sister label Imperial and expanding her musical horizons in all sorts of ways. 1964-66 was Jackie's most successful period in terms of overall chart profile, and it's during these years that some of her biggest hits like 'What the World Needs Now Is Love' and 'When You Walk in the Room' made their vinyl debuts. They and others of comparable quality are here in this collection of 26 tracks. Ace.

Trust in Rock documents the last evening of an epic concert series held at Berkeley’s University Art Museum in November 1976, featuring an all-star ensemble of the Bay Area’s most unclassifiable musicians performing works by “Blue” Gene Tyranny and Peter Gordon. Tyranny’s cycle “No Job, No Warm, No Nothing” contains songs “concerned with influence, trust, self-reliance, and having to re-do what is true for you;” three songs by Gordon, with lyrics by Kathy Acker, are complimented by two earlier instrumental works. Their combined band crossed styles and institutions and time, and was assembled from the effervescence of the Bay Area scene in the 1970s.

The British Invasion: History Of British Rock, a Various Artists Compilation. Released between 1988-1991 on Rhino records.

Birds Sing Out Of Tune is a 2-volume bootleg CD series by Liverpool pop combo The Beatles. Part of the Misterclaudel experience, these discs feature a number of group and solo demos, either songs made for The Beatles or for artists they worked during their existence as The Beatles.

As part of Radio 2's Great British Songbook, Bob Harris investigates the songs the Beatles gave away. The most popular group in the world for over 45 years, a recent issue of re-mastered albums saw four Top 10 entries in the UK chart, while their compilation '1' looks set to be America's biggest album this decade. The fevered excitement that accompanied every release in the 1960s is well documented but less is known about the music written, though not necessarily recorded or released, by the Beatles during the same decade.

"Four Parts Five", by composer and pianist Gordon Beeferman, is a quintet tour de force that takes virtuosic rhythmic ensemble playing to a new level. It’s a densely harmonious, frequently hair-raising, and deeply groovy piece of music: imagine György Ligeti, Philip Glass, Igor Stravinsky, Steve Coleman and Conlon Nancarrow having a dance party – with Morton Feldman and Count Basie watching wryly from the corner.

"Taught by Experts" is the 4th studio album by Peter Allen, released in 1976. It spawned the hit "I Go to Rio". The album featured such musicians as Thom Rotella, Jerome Richardson, Lesley Gore and Dusty Springfield.