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W. Ross Minimi, Hank Mizell, Jimmy Stayton, Eldon Rice, Dickie Garland, the Nighthawks, Tex Neighbors, Virgil Baker +.1. Baby Rock 2. You Are the One 3. Phone Me Baby 4. Ain't Going That Route 5. Cool Cool Baby 6. Oohee We Your Sweet 7. Heartless Woman 8...

W. Richie & the Royals, the Pretenders, Preludes, Contels, Kaptions, Chantiers, Velvet Keys, Rocketeers, Mello-Tones +.1. Will You Go Steady 2. My Guardian Angel 3. This Is My Wedding Day 4. There Is a Girl 5. Mary Lou 6. One Sided Love 7. Lonely Weekend...

W. Gary & the Knight Lites, the Monorays, Fantastics, Larks, Dedications, Bobby Capri, Billy & the Essentials, Diadems, Del-Larks, Blen-Dells, Tides, Jades, Chants +.1. Will You Go Steady 2. My Guardian Angel 3. This Is My Wedding Day 4. There Is a Girl...

W. Carlos Diaz, Don Apilado, Wes Buchanan, Earl Scott, Doug Dickens, Duane Grey, the Galaxies, Super-Phonics, Lee Pickett, Pat Kelly, Bobby Mack +.1. Sugaree 2. Pigeon 3. Give Some Love My Way 4. Stop You're Knocking 5. Raw Deal 6. Come Home 7. I Love...

Vusa Mkhaya embodies the sound of the eclectic, pulsing, dusty streets of Tshabalala township in Zimbabwe's Bulawayo. He captures the romanticism of the Southern African climes, his voice rich with the vibrations of a heritage that spans decades. Driven...

Volume 6 in Naxos's Rachmaninov solo piano series features recordings made on the Victor label in 1922-24. It features short works by Chopin and popular encore pieces, a very rare test pressing of Le Cygne in Alexander Siloti's transcription, and the...

Volume 4 of Bridge's CHINARY UNG series (a 2-album set), presents five major works composed between 1987 and 2018 by the Grawemeyer Award-winning Cambodian/American composer. Annotator Adam Greene writes: "Ung was inspired by his mentor, Chou Wen-chung,...

Volume 3 opens with Lucky Millinder's version of the 1951 C&W classic "Chew Tobacco Rag" followed by velvet-voiced Jimmy Ricks (of the Ravens) doing "Do You Promise" a song he recorded in 1957. The "Queen" Dinah Washington gives a fantastic...

Voies(x) de femme is an album grouping twenty-six pieces for soprano and piano, performed by the soprano Theodora Cottarel and the pianist and composer Tiziana de Carolis. It also includes a piece for choir and piano performed by the choir Florilegium...

VOICES OF EARTH AND AIR 2 presents the best that modern choral compositions have to offer. Settings of traditional prayers are mingled with ethereal stories and otherworldly visions, and each of the eight compositions both stand unique and work together...

VoiceMix succeeds in merging their eight extraordinary voices with esprit, concentration and fun to create a unique sound. Colorful carpets of sound and gaudy vocal lines underline the music which ranges from classical to modern choral literature to...

Vladimir Ashkenazy was born in 1937 in Gorky, then in the Soviet Union (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). Three years later his family moved to Moscow. When, in 1955, he was the youngest of five Soviet pianists to be allowed to travel to Warsaw to take part...