UK three CD collection from the influential Jazz vocalist. While her life may have been tragic, her music has remained an integral part of American Jazz history and is constantly discovered by a new generation or rediscovered year after a year. This three CD collection features 78 tracks including 'God Bless the Child', 'Pennies from Heaven', 'Gloomy Sunday' and many others.

3CDs containing the complete archival studio master and session recordings of Elvis Presley in 1956 along with bonus interviews. All tracks have been remastered and restored.

EMIs massive five-disc collection of 101 80s Hits is about as budget as you can get without putting the thing together yourself at home. The 101 tracks are heavy on the U.K. hits, so for every international smash like Karma Chameleon Culture Club and Walking on Sunshine Katrina & the Waves theres a Kayleigh Marillion and a Good Heart Feargal Sharkey. That said, it's nice to hear something other than Queen's We Will Rock You, and hearing Limahl spin his Neverending Story next to Whitesnake is kind of fun, but these collections are a dime a dozen! The Human League are an English synthpop band formed in Sheffield. Dont Dream Its Over is a song by the Australian rock band Crowded House.

An entry in RCA's Living Stereo series, The Mancini Touch is said to be Henry Mancini's attempt to combine "modern jazz ideas" with big-band swing. The result is a carefully arranged album on which the soloists occasionally improvise. Mancini wrote "Free and Easy" for the Sal Mineo film "Rock, Pretty Baby," which speaks to his popular focus in spite of the jazz trappings. Some numbers are moody and not at all dance-oriented, such as "Snowfall," a meditation on acoustic guitar and vibes that grows into a subtle swell of soft strings and horns.

One couldn’t imagine a better opening number for the radio program The Doris Day Show than “It’s Magic,” for each week between March 1952 and May 1953, the versatile song stylist and beloved motion picture star cast a spell over listeners worldwide with an intimate gathering of famous friends filled with music and laughter. Over the course of five dozen broadcasts of The Doris Day Show recorded in Hollywood in front of a live audience and happily preserved on 16-inch transcription discs Doris joined her special guests at the piano for performances of songs she often had never commercially recorded.

Leicestershire saxophonist Betty Smith was one of the few female musicians working in British Jazz during the 50's. Renowned for her improvisational skills, she formed a group, embarked on global tours and sang with Ted Heath's famous band. 'Stormy Weather' is a moodily atmospheric nugget of jazz blues played magnificently by 'the girl with sax appeal'.

It's very difficult to listen to this posthumous album, reissued by EMI on CD in 1997 as part of its 100th anniversary series, without shedding a tear or two. Cogan's sense of release on the opening number, "Let Her Go," and her exuberant phrasing in front of an explosive, percussion-driven orchestral accompaniment, displays a glorious, tragic poignancy. Her version of "Trains and Boats and Planes" isn't much less beguiling, her radiant singing bringing an unexpectedly passionate joy to a song that's often tinged with sadness and angst.

Spectrum Audio Presents 101 Motown Anthems album 11 original hits by the original artists. Includes tracks by the Jackson 5, The Supremes, Martha Revves & The Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, The Isley Brothers, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Four Tops, The Velvelettes, and more.

This double-disc set is one of the more bountiful compilations gleaned from Mitch Miller's voluminous Columbia Records catalog. Unfortunately, the contents of 50 All-American Favorites (2004) have been confined to the years 1958 to 1962, during which time Miller's unconventional performance style was on its final descent. Mitch Miller & the Gang consisted of Miller fronting a full choral ensemble of vocalists who sang in unison.

60 classic tracks on 3 CDs and Digital Download, making this an excellent value package.Brought together on one very special album, here are the best Ska Anthems of all time, spanning both its Jamaican roots and the later British Ska revival.

For the summer an excellent NOW Thats What I Call Classic Soul gathered a lot of excellent data from the performers, Retro nostalgic! In the Midnight Hour is a song originally performed by Wilson Pickett and released on his album, also appearing on the album The Exciting Wilson Pickett. Sittin On The Dock of the Bay is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. It was recorded by Redding twice, including once just days before his death in a plane crash.What Becomes of the Brokenhearted is a hit single recorded by Jimmy Ruffin and released on Motown Records Soul label in the summer. It is a ballad, with lead singer Jimmy Ruffin recalling the pain that befalls the brokenhearted.

Excellent series from TIME-LIFE Music with 120 nostalgic songs we loved, at their original versions. Travel back more than 50 years and enjoy all those fabulous singers like Frankie Avalon, Pat Boone, Elvis Presley, Connie Francis, Perry Como, Patti Page and many more. Original remastered recordings, ripped in lossless. Memories are made of this.

2008 ten CD boxset that contains nearly 160 of the biggest Country hits from the biggest stars of the genre including Jim Reeves, Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and many others. If you want to immerse yourself into the musical world of classic Country music, then there's no better package than this collection.

It would seem a strange thing compiling the work of Charlie Haden's decade-long Quartet West Group onto a single disc. The reason isn't that they recorded so much material, but more because the material was themed record by record. Yet that is exactly why a compilation like this does work, because this group played music utilizing different aspects of the same theme: to evoke the spirits, ghosts and sprites of a Los Angeles that has moved off the screen of real life into the stuff of myth. That Haden and his group, which included drummer Larance Marable (who replaced Billy Higgins after the group's first, self-titled album in 1986), saxophonist Ernie Watts, and pianist Alan Broadbent could make it all sound so present and real, gives the impression that there was truth in the images. This is not only from a West Coast point of view (though there it is imbued more with the striking visual reveries to accompany the tunes) but also in the popular culture mythos in the collective American mind.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the hit single Release Me, the hugely successful singer Engelbert Humperdinck has sold over 140 million records worldwide over a 50 year career, with 11 UK Top 20 hits and 7 UK top 5 hits between 1967 and 1975. This collection features Engelbert Humperdinck’s biggest hits including Release Me, Quando Quando Quando, The Last Waltz along with two brand new songs and an exclusive disco remix of Release Me.