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Long overdue: A CD showcase with early, kick-ass rock 'n' roll and Beat music made by Ricky Shayne and his band, The Skylarks, now appears on Bear Family Records½! -The CD album delivers all the...

Sheridan,Tony Skinny Minny:The Brits Are Rocking 6 CD1. My Bonnie (English Intro) 2. Get on the Right Track Baby 3. Let's Dance 4. Skinny Minny 5. Ready Teddy 6. What'd I Say 7. Ruby Baby 8. Top Ten...

They [The Beatles] used to sit in with Tony Sheridan at the Top Ten Club - he helped them and they learned a lot from him.' (Fellow Liverpool musician Howie Casey, 'Mersey Beat,'1963)1. My Bonnie...

An unjustly overlooked country singer, who recorded for Starday, Mercury and UA in the 1950s and '60s! Hung around the Louisiana Hayride, and recorded with George Jones, Faron Young, and sung back-up...

2008 release, the first single-disc anthology showcasing this great down-home stylist from Country Music's golden age! This collection is packed with up tempo '50s Honky Tonk classics from Capitol,...

In March 1966, Atlantic Records released Percy Sledge's best-known song, the million-selling When A Man Loves A Woman, an epochal Southern soul hymn Sledge achieved his strongest success when...

'There's only three real female singers: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith. The rest of us are only pretending.' (Dolly Parton Probably no one in the long history of country music...

Bear Family Records½ proudly announces the release of the third and final CD box set in our retrospective of Connie Smith's RCA and Columbia recordings. Includes all of the tracks from the second...

Classic indeed! Here are all of Warren Smith's Sun recordings. Some of the best country music and stompin'est rockabilly from the Fifties. You want classics Check out Ubangi Stomp, Rock'n'Roll Ruby,...

New Orleans wasn't best-known for vocal groups. The exception was The Spiders. Between 1953 and 1960, they recorded 46 songs for Imperial with the incredible studio bands led by Dave Bartholomew. It...

The second edition on the subject of spring and Easter In Bear Family's 'Season's Greetings' CD series. This musical journey through time includes selected titles from four decades, springtime songs...

These are cornerstone recordings by the greatest bluegrass brother act-as essential as our volume of the Stanleys' Mercury sides. Here's the classic haunting Stanley sound, and here are the original...