| Sonny Thompson - Jam Sonny Jam - The Original Miracle & King Masters 1947-56 20 tracks |
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Sequel Records 1996 | CD | 13.00 € |
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| Sophia Loren - Wie Herrlich Eine Frau Zu Sein 2 x CD, 1 x DVD sekä 308 sivuinen LP-kannen kokoinen kovakantinen kirja. Yhteensä 81 biisiä. She's best remembered as the voluptous, jet-haired siren of many 1960s Italian sex comedies, but Sophia Loren is an international star and a talented actress. To the surprise of many, she's also a recording artist. This set contains her complete recordings on two CDs, including the classic duets with Peter Sellers (which became huge hits in the UK). This boxed set also contains one DVD of thirty-eight movie trailers, as well as a 308-page hardcover book detailing her incredible movie career, poster reproductions, and lobby cards from Italy, the USA, Belgium, Germany and several other countries. This is the ultimate tribute! |
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Bear Family 2003 | CD-Box | 100.00 € |
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| Stan Getz - The Wizard 13 tracks |
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Proper 2004 | CD | 10.00 € |
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| Sunny Gale - Story Of - Greatest Hits 30 tracks |
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Marginal Records | CD | 20.00 € |
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| Tak Shindo / Les Baxter - The Primitive Sounds / African Jazz And Mganga ! two LPs on 1 CD |
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Tikitune Records | CD | 18.00 € |
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| Texas Troubadours - Almost To Tulsa - The Instrumentals A must-have for fans of hillbilly jazz! - Features some of the hottest picking by the coolest country band in the world, Ernest Tubb’s Texas Troubadours. - Especially selected from the Troubadours 1960s and ‘70s LPs for maximum listenability. - Including unreleased recordings. - Fans of hot guitar and steel guitar instrumentals are probably well aware of the 1960s Texas Troubadours recordings-an amazing sideline to their main career supporting Ernest Tubb on the endless highway. Bear Family now presents for the first time all the Texas Troubadours instrumentals on one collection, tracks that were previously available only on vinyl or within the third and fourth Ernest Tubb box sets! There are several steel guitar instrumentals by the phenomenal Buddy Emmons, and then features an amazing array of musical pyrotechnics from the great team of Leon Rhodes and Buddy Charleton. If you're a fan of Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, these recordings are the neutronic 1960s version of Speedy and Jimmy's 1940s atomic power |
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Bear Family 2008 | CD | 18.00 € |
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Codigo Music 2010 | CD | 22.00 € |
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| Tito Puente - Night Beat originally recorded 1957 "El Rey de los Timbales" Tito Puente has been hitting drums, the ivories and timbales since the late forties and in the process has worked together with greats such as Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo and Ray Baretto. His stage performances are the stuff of legends, as well as his recording output: in total he released over 100 (!) albums during his five-decade spanning career. Night Beat (1957) is one of the best of his earlier period, presenting Tito as big-band leader, driving the jazzy, latin-tinged performances of his band fellows forward with his immaculate sense of timing, swing and energy. Essential album of the undisputed "King Of The Mambo". |
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Music On Vinyl Records 2013 | LP | 20.00 € |
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| Tito Puente - Night Beat / Mucho Puente Plus |
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Bear Family 1993 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| Tito Puente - Top Percussion/Dance Mania The mambo has become fashionable again lately, but for Tito Puente it has never gone out of fashion. In 1957 he cut two stellar albums for RCA, but just how good they were didn't become obvious until the advent of the CD. The full, rich sound on these LPs is nothing short of astonishing. This is mambo at its most ecstatic: blasting brass, sensual saxes, and that irresistible Afro-Cuban rhythm section led by Tito, Ray Baretto and Mongo Santamaria. This set contains 23 titles, including '3-D Mambo', 'Mambo Gozon', 'Conga Alegre', 'Hot Timbales' .... etc. Ay! Ay! Ay! |
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Bear Family 1993 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| Tony Bennett - Young Tony 4CD 4CDs = 82 tracks + 44 page booklet |
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Proper 2007 | CD-Box | 20.00 € |
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| VA: - 1957 British Hit Parade Vol. 6 Part 1 4CD 4CDs = 98 tracks |
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Acrobat Music 2008 | 2-CD | 19.00 € |
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| VA: - 1957 British Hit Parade Vol. 6 Part 2 4CD 4CDs = 89 tracks |
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Acrobat Music 2008 | CD | 19.00 € |
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| VA: - 1958 British Hit Parade -Greatest Hits Vol. 7 Part 2 4CD with 48 page booklet |
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Fantastic Voyage 2009 | 2-CD | 19.00 € |
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| VA: - 1958 British Hit Parade Vol. 7 Part 1 4CD 4CDs = 101 tracks |
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Fantastic Voyage 2009 | 2-CD | 19.00 € |
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| VA: - 75 Pumpin' Piano Greats 3CD |
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Fantastic Voyage 2009 | 2-CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Arranger's Touch 4CD This box set tracks it's development from Jelly Roll Morton to Quincy Jones and highlights 87 practitioners of the noble art of arranging. 4CDs = 90 tracks + 68 page illustrated booklet |
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Proper 2006 | CD-Box | 20.00 € |
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| VA: - Atomic Platters - Cold War Music Cold War Music From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security. 5 x CD, 1 x DVD, 292 pages book (5 CDs/1 DVD with 292-page-hardcover-book) -- 65 years ago on August 6, 1945 the world changed forever over the skies of Hiroshima. Incredibly, this epochal event led to all manner of 'atomic' exploitation (Atomic Cocktails anyone ) and pop cultural strangeness (music, film, merchandise, etc.) as Americans tried to absorb the enormity of the horror its government had unleashed upon Japan. -- 'Atomic Platters' is the result of a years-in-the-making musical 'Manhattan Project' that collects over 100 vintage Cold War songs and more than two dozen frighteningly na‹ve civil defense Public Service Announcements (many of these PSAs are voiced by celebrities such as Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, Pat Boone and Johnny Cash, to name just a few!) from the paranoid period that brought us fallout shelters, survival biscuits and uranium fever. - The artists who sing about the Bomb and the Red Scare on this set run the gamut from well-known stars like Bill Haley and His Comets, The Louvin Brothers, Marty Robbins and Wanda Jackson to fascinating obscurities like The Goldwaters, Janet Greene (The Right Wing's answer to Joan Baez!) and Dr. Strangelove and the Fallouts. In addition to music and PSAs, 'Atomic Platters' includes two unintentionally hilarious full-length spoken word civil defense 'scare' LPs: 'If The Bomb Falls' and 'The Complacent Americans.' - But why stop with mere sound The Cold War was a multimedia horror show and 'Atomic Platters' tops off its mushroom cloud of entertainment with a DVD of nine bizarre civil defense and anti-Communist short films from the '50s and '60s. -- Summing all this strange material up is a 292 page hardcover book featuring numerous arresting images from the Cold War era with intriguing text by Bill Geerhart of CONELRAD, an organization devoted to the preservation and examination of atomic popular culture. This collection is for anyone mystified by the current excesses of U.S. Homeland Security who wants to hear and see where the madness all began! You CAN beat the A-Bomb (again). |
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Bear Family 2005 | CD-Box | 160.00 € |
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| VA: - Bald Head EP red vinyl |
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Memories Record | Single/EP | 5.00 € |
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| VA: - Be Bop In Britain 3 22 tracks : Johnny Dankworth, Alan Dean's Be Boppers, |
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Charly Records 1991 | CD | 5.00 € |
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| VA: - Best Of Burlesque - 50 original club classics 2CD |
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Demon Music 2009 | CD | 10.00 € |
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| VA: - Big Horn - History Of The Honkin & Screaming Saxophone 4 CD:tä = 106 biisiä. Mukana 68 siv kirjanen |
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Proper 2003 | CD-Box | 20.00 € |
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| VA: - Blue Note Trip - Maestro Turntables 2CD digisleeve |
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Emi | 2-CD | 20.00 € |
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| VA: - Boogiology - The Boogie Woogie Masters 2CD Boogie Woogie was and is an important popular music; many modern music historians talk of the longevity of Rap and Hip-Hop over the last quarter of a century, well, Boogie Woogie easily matched that. But this compilation is not a collation of tracks chosen as a dry, academic history of this great, rhythmic music; this is rather a lively menu, of more than fifty cuts that assisted in the Big Bang of that cultural explosion and were rewarded by selling well-enough to achieve the giddy heights of the national US black music chart. |
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Great Voices Of The Century 2009 | CD | 13.00 € |
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| VA: - Chop Suey Rock - Songs About The Orient Vol. 2 More Songs About Orient |
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Hot And Sour Records | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Cool Daddy - The Central Avenue Scene 1951-1957 Vol. 3 Here’s volume three of Ace’s ongoing survey of the sounds heard throughout Los Angeles’ thriving black community during the late 1940s and early 1950s, as brought by a man whose recording operation was centred right at its heart – Vernon “Jake” Porter. The music that came out on his Combo label is almost always representative of its surroundings, and of that population’s taste. Within the walls of his home studio Jake Porter oversaw the production of a lot of fantastic music and, as the owners of his catalogue, Ace is committed to bringing you the best of it, via compilations such as this month’s COOL DADDY. cast of characters, as the majority of them have already appeared on either “Straight To Watts” or “Central Rocks”. New ‘recruits’ this time around include a very young sounding Bill Watkins and a not-so-young sounding Joe Morris – who, both annotator Jim Dawson and I suspect to be the same Joe Morris whose orchestra hit big with Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere as the 40s drew to a close. We also feature one side that transplanted Texas bluesman Peppermint Harris cut for Combo, during the briefest of stays in Jake’s musical stock company. And, by way of complete contrast, we also feature an early example of ‘rap’, via one side of an extremely rare 45 rpm recitation by DJ Hunter Hancock’s radio sidekick Margie Williams. As Jim Dawon note points out, this never stood a chance of becoming a hit as ‘Ol’ HH’ was the only DJ who was likely to play it. As well as being heard as the guitarist on many of these sessions, it’s always great to be able to bring you Gene Phillips in his own right, and here is the previously unheard Steelin’ The Blues. We never need any excuse to reissue the groovy saxophony of Jack McVea, either. He and his band can be heard backing a variety of vocalists throughout “Cool Daddy”, ranging from big blues-shouters like the veteran piano ponder Christine Chatman and McVea’s own missus, Louise Beatty, to impassioned wailers such as the terminally obscure Rudy Pitts. We also get the chance to hear him out-Bostic Earl, on a fruity blast through the standard Oh How I Miss You Tonight. We feature a couple of sides that shine a spotlight on Jake Porter himself and hear from Jake’s other bandleader mainstays Floyd Turnham and Chuck Higgins – who is the subject of his own Combo anthology next month. There’s also an instrumental from Jake’s other sax king, Joe Houston, with a never-before-heard alternate of his great grinder Shuckin’. Nellie Lutcher’s chum Betty Hall Jones gives a neat female spin on Louis Jordan’s Outskirts Of Town saga, while we’re also happy to put the flip of Honey Coleman’s sole Combo record back into catalogue after a short gap of 55 years. Also pretty cool is Candy Rivers and her occasional singing chum (and ace session guitarist) Chuck Hamilton’s jazzy spin on the standard Please Be Kind, which is getting its first airing anywhere. These are just a few of the many delights that await you when you crack the cellophane and stick “Cool Daddy!” in your CD player. Even though it’s the third volume it more than upholds the standard of the first two – and we can promise you that next year’s volume will be of similarly high quality. By Tony Rounce (Ace Records) |
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Ace Records 2006 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Criminal Records Ello, ’Ello, ’Ello, what’s all this, then Crime and punishment have always gone hand in hand in the worlds of rock’n’roll, R&B and country and western music. For decades, goodies and baddies have provided us with a life sentence of chronicling of man’s misdemeanours and subsequent incarceration. When top Ace fan Tony Watson suggested that a compilation of songs about obeying and breaking the law would be right up the street of most of those who buy our CDs, we didn’t need to be read our reissue rights to agree. With that in mind, your honours, I hereby present the case for “Criminal Records” Our line-up of heroes and villains runs the whole gamut of lawbreaking and law enforcement. Within its 60 minute audio sentence (and no time off for good behaviour) we cheer western heroes such as Gunsmoke’s “Mister” Matt Dillon and boo villains such as the fictitious (and let’s be very glad he is) ‘Bad Dan McGoon’. Our helmets are doffed to radio and TV ’tecs of the calibre of Dragnet’s Sgt Joe Friday and the legendary iron-jawed Dick Tracy, as well as some of those smoother newer fellas that came later such as 77 Sunset Strips Stu Bailey and, from the TV show of the same name, Peter Gunn. Bob Luman tells us how much he wishes he was a ‘Private Eye’ which a pre-twistin’ Chubby Checker moans that he can’t get any girl reaction, because his lady love is too busy drooling over the kind of ruggedly handsome television PIs that Luman aspires to be. Other legendary enforcers of the TV screen from the years between Friday and Bailey are also on your case and on your trail, from Alaska (Sgt Preston Of the Yukon) to Chinatown (Charlie Chan, in the Coasters’ ‘Bad Detective’). If you grew up watching the small screen when it really was a small screen, you’ll remember most of these upstanding lawmen and their relentless pursuit of justice at all costs as they came into your homes on a weekly basis. Less savoury characters that we hear from include alimony dodgers Richard Berry and Wynonie Harris; hardened lifers Jumpin’ Gene Simmons, George Jones and Hylo Brown; denizens of DWI Benjamin “Scat Man” Crothers and, with some help from Cliff “King” Solomon’s orchestra, Gigi Gryce; chain gang toiler Billy Boy Arnold and the perpetually in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong time Bobby Nunn of the Robins. And lest anyone think we’ve gone soft on lady lawbreakers, vivacious Vicki Young puts a Prisoner Of Cell Block H perspective on what it’s like to ‘Riot In Cell Block #9’. Personally I reckon that at least some of these guys and gals ought to have been let off with a caution. Failure to support this project will result in a visit from the no-fun police and a lifetime of listening to R and B (that’s Rihanna and Bieber) for your sins. It’s a fair cop, guv, but society is to blame. Evenin’ all. By Tony Rounce (Ace Records) |
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Ace Records 2012 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Deep Roots Of Johnny Cash 24 tracks |
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Bear Family 2006 | CD | 19.00 € |
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| VA: - Discovered Vol. 5 25 tracks from Billboard Top 100 lists 1955-1969 |
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Recollect Music | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Flag Waver 21 red, white & blue favourites |
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Soundies | CD | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Foot Tappin' And Dance At The Screamin' Festival Vol. 2 DJ AT from the Netherlands has combined a great compilation of various roots music styles from the early 1930s to the early 1960s. This CD is very good for all Your dancers out there. |
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El Toro Records 2009 | CD | 13.00 € |
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| VA: - Foot Tappin' And Dance At The Screamin' Festival Vol. 3 |
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El Toro Records 2010 | CD | 10.00 € |
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| VA: - Germany's Swinging 50's 3CD 50s Swing And Jazz from Germany. 3CDs = 74 tracks |
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Music And Melody 2011 | 2-CD | 10.00 € |
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| VA: - Golden Age of American Popular Music - The Jazz Hits A 28 track 80 minute fest of Jazz tunest that-went-pop in the Golden Age Of The American Chart Single. From the hot 100 1958-1966. |
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Ace Records 2008 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Hittin' On All Six 4 CDs = 94 tracks + 52 page booklet |
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Proper 2000 | CD-Box | 22.00 € |
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| VA: - I Hate Cherries Vol. 2 serious 50's female jivers |
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Sleazy Records 2011 | CD | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Jazz at the Philharmonic 4CD 4CDs + 44 page booklet |
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Proper 2005 | CD-Box | 22.00 € |
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| VA: - Jerk Boom Bam Vol. 3 |
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Jerk Boom Bam Records | LP | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Jungle Exotica Vol. 2 |
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Strip Records | LP | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Just For Kicks CD accompanying the Rollercoaster book of the same name by Johnny "Chester" Dowling |
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Rollercoaster Records 2008 | CD | 19.00 € |
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| VA: - Kings Of Swing 14 tracks |
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Sony Music 1999 | CD | 9.00 € |
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| VA: - La Legende 50's de la Musique Instrumentale 24 tracks |
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Magic Records 2008 | CD | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Larkin's Jazz 4CDs = 81 tracks |
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Proper 2010 | CD-Box | 20.00 € |
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| VA: - Las Vegas Grind Vol. 2 Louie's Limbo Lounge |
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Crypt Records | LP | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Las Vegas Grind Vol. 3 |
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Crypt Records | LP | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Las Vegas Grind Vol. 4 20 tracks |
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Crypt Records | LP | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Las Vegas Grind Vol. 5 |
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Crypt Records | LP | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Let`s Hear It For The Girls 27 tracks from the Queens of the swing |
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The Jazz Classics Collection 2005 | DVD | 9.00 € |
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| VA: - London American Label Year By Year 1956 Most Ace customers will know by now that both my grandfather and father had general (and considerable) influence on my collecting habits, thanks to the records they introduced me to even before I was old enough for school. Needless to say, I’m eternally grateful to them for showing me the value of music at an incredibly early age. Grandad bought 78s up to the point where the major labels announced their imminent discontinuance in late 1959. He then continued to buy two 45s each week from theUKcharts, all the way though to 1980 when he turned 78. Dad was somewhat quicker to adapt to the newer medium; the first 45 that ever came into our house arrived three years earlier. It’s almost inevitable somehow that said 45 was on London. Andy Williams’ ‘Canadian Sunset’ joined 78s by Tennessee Ernie, Hank Williams, Bill Haley, Guy Mitchell, Frankie Laine and other family favourites in 1956, and was quickly followed by others that fascinated me almost as much for their size and for their tri-centres as for the music they contained. The family Dansette regularly rocked to the sounds of ‘Rip It Up’, ‘When My Dreamboat Comes Home’ and other great records. I’m not sure where ‘Canadian Sunset’ fitted into all this – it may have been a purchase for my mum – but I liked it as much as anything else from Dad’s fast growing collection of 45s by Fats Domino, Little Richard and that bloke with the crazy name of Elvis something. More than 50 years later I still like ‘Canadian Sunset’, and it’s pleasing to be able to include it on the latest in our London American series. which overviews 1956. It’s also good to include the aforementioned Fats and Richard singles, as well as others that a number of Ace buyers will also have grown up on – plus even more that most of us didn’t hear until long after the event, thanks to the limited exposure pop music received in the UK in the mid-50s. Many of the greatest rock’n’rollers debuted on London during 1956, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry and Mr. Penniman being just three. It was also the year that the London A&R team slipped the likes of Werly Fairburn and Faye Adams past their bosses, who may have been less pleased with those sales than with ‘Rip It Up’ and the ubiquitous ‘Davy Crockett’! As ever, most of our inclusions sound as they did on their original London releases, having been mastered from the same tapes. Several have never been legally reissued in the UK before, and others have never been reissued at all. Ace’s beloved founder Ted Carroll shares his own memories of London’s musical impact on his youth and life in the foreword, and as always there’s copious track-by-track annotation and at least one scan of every 45 (or 78) featured in our programme. Move over London 2012 – here comes London 1956! By Tony Rounce (Ace Records) |
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Ace Records 2012 | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - London American Label Year By Year 1959 They say that as one gets older the passage of time becomes ever faster. That’s only true if you are not compiling CDs of music from bygone days. At the moment, and thanks in no small way to the “London American Label Year By Year” series, Peter Gibbon and I feel as though we’re permanently stuck in the late 1950 and early 1960s, reliving our youth over and over again in a skewed cross between Groundhog Day and Life On Mars. Roll over Doctor Who, and tell Gene Hunt the news. The late 50s and early 60s are a long way from the worst years to find yourself reliving. I would bet that I am far from the only person here who, given the choice, would not permanently reset his personal controls for a one-way ticket to a similar time frame. However you slice it, the soundtrack to that period is worth abandoning DAB for in favour of the return of Fabulous 208, Juke Box Jury and ceaseless attempts to locate AFN’s signal. The series continues to offer Ace fans their own personal time machine via some of the best American records of their era, all of which appeared on the cherished black-and-silver imprint. This month Ace’s equivalent of the TARDIS lands in 1959 – a pivotal year in popular music that managed to survive the US payola scandals, a UK printers strike, a failed experiment with stereo 45s (Sun and Specialty in stereo? Methinks not, thanks) and all attempts to kill off rock’n’roll and replace it with lots of people called Bobby and Frankie, to bring us some of the most wonderful and well-remembered recordings of that life-changing decade. It’s a mark of how many great records came out on London in ’59 that only one of the tracks on our latest compilation is currently available elsewhere on Ace. Once again the diversity of the compilation reflects London’s own diversity of catalogue. (Inevitably nobody will like everything here – but, hey, Wink Martindale’s ‘Deck Of Cards’ was the label’s biggest seller of the year and that’s what the god of electronics invented that fast forward button on your CD player for.) Thanks to the foresight of the Decca (that’s D-E-C-C-A) record company in preserving the original production tapes for London 45s, we are again able to bring you more than 80% of the tracks featured from the same sources that were used to manufacture those 45s over 50 years ago. Believe me, I could chat all day about this, but the TARDIS is making that funny noise it makes when it’s about to take off and we need to make sure that our next stop is 1963. All being well, we should land there early next year. If anyone would like to apply for the post of our glamorous sidekick, we’re still taking applications. By Tony Rounce (Ace Records) |
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Ace Records 2010 | CD | 17.00 € |
