JASMINE RECORDS

Once described as "The hippest cat ever to swing an accordion", ART VAN DAMME achieved the near impossible by getting the Jazz firmament to accept the accordion as a serious musical instrument...

Something of a late starter, DICK VAN DYKE was already in his mid-30s when he landed the lead role of Albert J. Peterson in the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie, in 1960, following which his career...

Despite his cheesy, homespun image and the ubiquitous, high-kicking "Give Me The Moonlight" routines, Frankie Vaughan turned in a couple of convincingly mean performances in his brief movie career,...

Charlie Ventura, one of the most popular, fondly-remembered, and singular saxophone voices in this history of jazz, is the star of these two legendary recording sessions that have not been heard in...

Stars of Jack Good's TV shows Oh Boy! And Boy Meets Girls, THE VERNONS GIRLS were pretty much a cottage industry of their own, with their various satellites and spinoffs. A sixteen-girl ensemble when...

This collection of recordings by the soul/R&B group The Vibrations collects together the A and B side of all their 45s released between 1960 & 1962. The Vibrations were one of several African...

During The 1940s Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson Was One Of The Biggest Stars In Black America. He Strode The Decline Of The Big Bands And The Rise Of The Smaller R&B Unit Like A Behemoth, Scoring Hits With...

Formed In The Spring Of 1956 And In Terms Of Commercial Success, Were The Second Skifflers Out Of The Blocks After The Mighty Lonnie Donegan. Indeed, It's Probably Fair To Say That Apart From Lonnie,...

Originally a childhood prodigy violinist, Philadelphia-born FRANK VIRTUE took up guitar and double bass as a teenager, in the mid-1940s. His musical roots were based on the sound and style of the...

The Viscounts were one of the many rock instrumental groups that sprang up across America as the genre became popular in the late 1950s. Theirs was an original and evocative sound which was more...

2022 sees the hundredth anniversary of both licenced broadcasting in the UK and the BBC. This CD set celebrates this and contains a musical collection of themes, spin-offs and songs about...

The Tall Texan's country hits stretched from the mid-'50s all the way to the '80s. This spotlight on his early prime collects all his 1954-62 hits plus album cuts that range from rockabilly to...