Easy Listening

Another classic instalment of "The Girl Group Sound", this 30-track set is Jasmine's long awaited follow up to "Love Charms - West Coast hits and rarities from California Girls & Groups 1957-1962" (JASCD963). However, this time around the tracks are from...

Ann-Margret's RCA Victor debut album, And Here She Is..., didn't get much attention in 1961, but she did better with her bluesy single "I Just Don't Understand," which peaked in the Top 20 in September. That set up this, her second solo LP, which...

Ann Miller was a true triple-threat performer. Not only was she the greatest tap dancer in the world, but also a great singer and actress. Gathered here for the very time are all of her soundtrack vocals, stretching from the first time she sang on screen...

And that was Paul's specialty-tasteful, jazzy arrangements played by superb musicians such as, in this case, Barney Kessel, Babe Russin, Eddie Miller and others. Songs include Body and Soul; Georgia on My Mind; My Funny Valentine; I'm Confessing'; Sweet...

An all new collection of songs/instrumentals from multiple Oscar and Grammy Winning Disney Legend Richard M. Sherman. From Mary Poppins to the Jungle Book to It's a Small World, Richard M Sherman's music is the soundtrack to our lives....Keys of Love is...

Among the top popular light music composers, arrangers and conductors of the Forties, Fifties and Sixties, Percy Faith must rate up there with the very best. Intuitive and innovative, he used his baton as an artist would use a brush, and his orchestra as...

Although you will doubtless read elsewhere that Quincy Jones was the first black man to hold down a senior executive position in a major record company, the mighty CLYDE OTIS (he stood 6'4") beat him to it by a good few years. Perhaps best known for his...

Although they'd formed back in the 1940s, and their close-harmony vocal style was heavily reminiscent of that era, The Chordettes enjoyed their biggest commercial successes in the 1950s, during the Rock & Roll era. In all they registered sixteen U. S...

Although it's theme song, UNCHAINED MELODY, sold in it's millions and has gone on to become one of the most recorded songs of all time, the movie from whence it originated, "Unchained" (1954), was a relatively obscure film-noir about a convict in a...

Although he was, in essence, a classically-trained concert pianist, Neil Sedaka became the first established Brill Building R&R songwriter to go on and carve out an equally successful singing career. The pudgy-faced Sedaka may have looked an unlikely...

Although he is chiefly remembered as an actor and voice-over specialist, Scatman Crothers also enjoyed a parallel career in music, which actually predated his acting career by a couple of decades. An experienced singer/drummer/guitarist, he'd been...

Although by no means a regular - or even normal - recording artist, the mighty PETER USTINOV nonetheless dabbled in the noble art many times over the years. A man impossible to categorise, he was perhaps equal parts actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker,...