Essential because along with the Motown hits you get on every Tops anthology, you also get their hits from the Dunhill, ABC and Casablanca labels, 19 years (1964-1983) of some of the greatest soul ever waxed! Includes Baby, I Need Your Loving; I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch); Reach Out I’ll Be There; When She Was …
Back in 1954, four young high school students met at a party and “some kind of wonderful” drew them together to make music magic and music history. The Four Tops were born-along with decades of their cherished hits. Join the legendary group live at the Detroit Opera House along with friends and unforgettable performers like Aretha Franklin, Paul …
The Best of Mint Condition: 20th Century Masters – Millennium Collection
The Best Of Mint Condition 1991-2005 10 Tracks From Perspective/A&M &Caged Bird/Image 5 Top Ten R&B Hits Including U Send Me Swingin’, What Kind Of Man Would I Be & Breakin’My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes) …
In 1986, Steve Earle made a powerful enough entrance to mainstream country to establish himself for years to come. A decade later, he was someone else entirely. Earle, it turned out, was an artist far more complex than Nashville was accustomed to. When he did things the Music Row way, doors opened. But within a couple of …
Miami Vice it was gritty, steamy and sensual, from its sultry, edgy Jan Hammer-composed theme song, to the plotline of two no-nonsense vice squad cops (Don Johnson’s Sonny Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas’ Ricardo Tubbs). Enmeshed in the seedy underbelly of Miami’s dark and dangerous drug world, Miami Vice not only became a popular TV show, but …
The Best of Charlie Parker: 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection
Charlie “The Bird” Parker is one of the most important names in history of jazz, if not American music in general. Almost single-handedly he turned what was mostly a dance music, an entertainment, into an art form – his playing & unique approach to influence generations of musicians to come. Parker’s Millennium edition features the highlights from his …
The Best of Gato Barbieri: 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection
Charming & romantic. There’s no better way to describe Gato Barbieri’s late-’70s recordings for A&M, a chapter in the Argentinian saxophonist’s varied career that carried him from Lalo Schifrin’s orchestra to stepping out on his own playing everything from traditional South American forms to avant-garde jazz to Latin/jazz/pop fusion & back again. Hip-O Records & The Verve Group …
Is there an early rock & roller who has a crazier reputation than the Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis? His exploits as a piano-thumping egocentric wild man with an unquenchable thirst for living have become the fodder for numerous biographies, film documentaries, and a full-length Hollywood movie. When he broke on the national scene in 1957 with his classic …
He’s the “Gentle Giant” of country music, and now finally there’s an anthology worthy of his stature: 40 tracks licensed from ABC, MCA, Capitol and RCA, including 35 Top 10 country hits! I Believe in You; I Wouldn’t Want to Live If You Didn’t Want Me; You’re My Best Friend; (Turn Out the Light and) Love Me Tonight; …
His songs are among the most familiar in country music, yet he hasn’t even recorded some of them. He counts bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs and novelist Kurt Vonnegut among his friends. He has been the most unusual singer songwriter…one who didn’t recycle himself after the first album. He married folk music’s narrative drive to country music’s melodicism and …