Universal International's 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Engelbert Humperdinck may not be the definitive set of highlights from the crooner's 50-year career – that honor goes to Hip-O's sprawling 44-track Gold anthology – but its 12 classic and remastered cuts represent the cream of the crop. Humperdinck – the man was bold enough to choose the stage name, over Arnold George Dorsey – was a master interpreter of ballads, and while standards like "Release Me (And Love Again)" and "There Goes My Everything" had enjoyed popularity years before, his versions stand as the most recognizable. The Millennium Collection is a great entry point into this legendary singer and showman's long and celebrated career.
Tom Jones, OBE (born 7 June 1940, Treforest, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales) is a Welsh singer. In 1962, he became the frontman for Tommy Scott & The Senators, a Welsh beat group and recorded 4 demo tracks in the football changing rooms at Pontypridd YMCA, known as the "bathroom session". In 1963, as Tommy Scott & The Playboys, they recorded 7 demos for the producer Joe Meek…
This 17-track 1992 compilation of Band songs was released as part of something called "The Collector Series".
For roughly half-a-decade, from 1968 through 1975, the Band were one of the most popular and influential rock groups in the world, their music embraced by critics (and, to a somewhat lesser degree, the public) as seriously as the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Their albums were analyzed and reviewed as intensely as any records by their onetime employer and sometime mentor Bob Dylan. Although the Band retired from touring after The Last Waltz and disbanded several years later, their legacy thrived for decades, perpetuated by the bandmates' respective solo careers as well as the enduring strength of the Band's catalog.