TRACKLISTING A1 Dean Martin – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! A2 Ella Fitzgerald – Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney A3 Harry Belafonte – I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day A4 Eartha Kitt – Santa Baby A5 Bing Crosby & The Andrew Sisters – Santa Claus Is Coming To […]
By 1968 there was a growing consensus that something had gone horribly wrong with the American dream. With urban riots, Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and ever-climbing divorce rates, the American way of life was under scrutiny from all sides. The nation’s youth had loudly made their feelings clear, but […]
This great value 98-track 4-CD set comprises every record which peaked in the Top 10 of the Best Sellers and Disc Jockey charts during the year, plus those which reached the Top 7 of the Disc Jockey chart – the DJ chart often had several records tied at each position. For reasons of space, it […]
Bing Crosby / Frank Sinatra / Dean Martin / Nat King Cole CD – Four Classic Christmas Albums (Merry Christmas / A Jolly Christmas / A Winter Romance / The Magic Of Christmas
– 1 – 1. Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds 2. George Baker Selection – Little Green Bag 3. The Temptations – My Girl 4. Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To the Moon (In Other Words) 5. Etta James – At Last 6. Roy Orbison – In Dreams 7. Tom Jones – Green Green Grass of […]
Legendary singer Peggy Lee was one of the finest interpreters of popular song in the post-war era • Great value 109-track 4-CD set comprising selected titles from 25 Capitol and Decca album releases during these years • Features performances with Nelson Riddle, Billy May, George Shearing, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Dave Barbour, Benny Carter, Gordon […]
A popular singer, actress, and dancer, Mitzi Gaynor (born in 1931) was recognized for her singing and dancing abilities, and also for her bright-eyed personality and chirpy charm. She starred in films with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Gene Kelly, also working on television and in Broadway. Mitzi (1959), her first album, placed her in […]
2 LP A cult-film documentary from 1962, directed by Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi, this film saw great international success, winning awards at the 15th Cannes Film Festival, and is often seen as the film that gave real life to the cinematic strand of sensationalist documentaries – termed Mondo-Movie. The soundtrack has a […]
Born in Canada in 1925, Oscar Peterson was convinced by jazz producer Norman Granz in 1949 to travel to the United States, where he became one of the most featured musicians in the “Granz caravan”, with respect to both studio recordings and as part of the touring Jazz at the Philharmonic pack. Peterson recorded as […]
Long before today’s ‘rebellious’ Pop idols, singers *Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr plus actor Peter Lawford and comedian Joey Bishop had entered showbiz legend as the genuinely hellraisin’ Rat Pack. The handle proved a gift to journalists chronicling the life and high times of the all-male quintet whose leading lights were, without […]
