Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books

Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books [16CD BOX SET]

Cole Porter Songbook Disc 1 & 2

Rodgers & Hart Songbook Disc 3 & 4

Duke Ellington Songbook Disc 5, 6 & 7

Irving Berlin Songbook Disc 8 & 9

George & Ira Gershwin Songbook Disc 10, 11 & 12

Harold Arlen Songbook Disc 13 & 14

Jerome Kern Songbook Disc 15

Johnny Mercer Songbook Disc 16

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Fontella Bass - Rescued

Fontella Bass - Rescued (The Best Of Fontella Bass)

1992/3/10

1. Rescue Me

2. You'll Never Know

3. Don't Mess up a Good Thing

4. Soul of a Man [Aka Soul of the Man]

5. Sweet Lovin' Daddy

6. Recovery

7. Since I Fell for You

8. You're Gonna Miss Me

9. I Surrender

10. Free at Last

11. Baby, What You Want Me to Do

12. Joy of Love

13. I Can't Rest

14. Oh No, Not My Baby

15. Don't Jump

16. Leave It in the Hands of Love

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The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz

1974

1 (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding？

2 Ever Since You're Gone

3 Ugly Things

4 I Got the Real Thing

5 Look That's in Your Eye Tonight

6 Now's the Time

7 Small Town, Big City

8 Trying to Live My Life Without You

9 I Like You， I Don't Love You

10 Down in the Dive

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Blossom Dearie - Blossom Dearie

Blossom Dearie 1956

1 - 'Deed I Do

2 - Loverman

3 - Everything I've Got

4 - Comment Allez Vous

5 - More Than You Know

6 - Thou Swell

7 - It Might As Well Be Spring

8 - Tout Doucement

9 - You For Me

10 - Now At Last

11 - I Hear Music

12 - Wait Till You See Her

13 - I Won't Dance

14 - A Fine Spring Morning

Blossom Dearie - Piano, Vocals

Ray Brown - Bass

Jo Jones - Drums

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Nick Lowe - Jesus Of Cool

Nick Lowe - Jesus Of Cool

Released: 18 February 2008
Released in March 1978, and Top 30 smash to boot, Jesus Of Cool was notable for finally finding a niche for Nick Lowe, who'd been something of a pop journeyman since his days in '60s group, Kippington Lodge, and early '70s underachievers, Brinsley Schwarz. Intended as something of a showcase for his talent, the album was the premier release on Jake Rivera's new label, Radar, after his and Lowe's departure from the label Rivera help found, Stiff.
Lowe wasn't called 'Basher' for nothing. Made with old and current mates such as Larry Wallis, Dave Edmunds and Pete Thomas dropping by, if there was one thing this pushing-30 veteran had in common with the new tide of punk urchins he'd produced; it was the album's urgency. These are great pieces of minor poetry and snarling R&B.
Here was music made by men who'd been round the block several times, enjoying themselves, while flicking hearty V-signs to the major labels, where they had all previously been involved to a greater or lesser extent. The witty T.Rex-referencing Music For Money sums up the cynical machinations of the music industry, sung by a sceptic with a good heart. The influence of another bass player, Paul McCartney, is extremely prevalent implicitly in the pop hooks of So It Goes and Marie Provost and very explicitly on Nutted By Reality, which still sounds like a composite of every-mid paced mid-period McCartney ballad. Bonuses include the Stiff Records-admiring I Love My Label, the tracks from the Bowi EP (named after Bowie released Low - see what he did there?) as well as The Tartan Horde's Rollers Show, Lowe's pseudonymous tribute to the teen phenomenon that had recently put his old band out of step.
Reissues like this are simply a joy to come across. When you think quite how feted and overplayed his major peers' works are of a similar vintage ? Ian Dury's New Boots and Panties and Elvis Costello's This Year’s Model ? you realise how under-exposed Jesus Of Cool has been. Because of this, its songs sound all the more vibrant and surprising. The album certainly lived up to its US title: Pure Pop For Now People.

Rockpile
Nick Lowe: vocals, guitars
Billy Bremner: guitars
Dave Edmunds: guitars
Terry Williams: drums

1. Music For Money
2. I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
3. Little Hitler
4. Shake And Pop
5. Tonight
6. So It Goes
7. No Reason
8. 36 Inches High
9. Marie Provost
10. Nutted By Reality
11. Heart Of The City
12. They Called It Rock
13. Rollers Show

Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People

1 So It Goes

2 (I Love the Sound of ) Breaking Glass

3 Marie Provost

4 Heart of the City

5 Rollers Show

6 They Called it Rock

7 No Reason

8 Little Hitler

9 Nutted By Reality

10 36 Inches High

11 Music for Money

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Delfonics - Delfonics

The Delfonics Original recording remastered

Original Release Date: 1970

1. Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
2. Funny Feeling
3. When You Get Right Down To It
4. Baby I Love You
5. Delfonics Theme (How Could You)
6. Trying To Make A Fool Of Me
7. Down Is Up, Up Is Down
8. Over And Over
9. Think About Me
10. I Gave To You

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Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Dancer With Bruised Knees

Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Dancer With Bruised Knees
1977

Produced by Joe Boyd

Engineered by Glen Berger (A & R studios, NYC),

Tim Hewlings (Son Quebec, Montreal) & Steve Ham (Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec)

Mixing Engineers: John Wood, Dennis Dragon

1. Dancer With Bruised Knees
2. Southern Boys
3. No Biscuit Blues
4. First Born
5. Blanche Comme La Neige
6. Perrine Etait Servante
7. Be My Baby
8. Walking Song
9. Naufragee Du Tendre (Shipwrecked)
10. Hommage A Grungie
11. Kitty Come Home
12. Come A Long Way

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