| 1. Cookin' at the Continental - GRP All-Star Big Band |
| 2. Stormy Monday - GRP All-Star Big Band |
| 3. All Blues - GRP All-Star Big Band |
| 4. Birk's Works |
| 5. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat |
| 6. Seņor Blues |
| 7. Blue Miles |
| 8. Mysterioso/Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are |
| 9. Some Other Blues |
| 10. Aunt Hagar's Blues |
All Blues,GRP All-Star Big Band,Grp Records,Big Bands,Blues Music,Hard Bop,Jazz,Pop
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - All Time Greatest Hits
Lynyrd Skynyrd Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004RCW1 Release Date: 2000-03-14 |
Tracks:
- Sweet Home Alabama
- Gimme Three Steps
- Simple Man
- Saturday Night Special
- Swamp Music
- The Ballad Of Curtis Lowe
- Call Me The Breeze
- Comin' Home
- Gimme Back My Bullets
- What's Your Name
- You Got That Right
- All I Can Do Is Write About It (Acoustic Version)
- That Smell
- Free Bird (Live)
Customer Reviews:
Fantastic Skynyrd CD.......2007-03-08
Pronounced Leonard Skinnard.......2006-12-27
The Definitive Collection.......2006-12-18
great cd.......2006-11-10
Still Rockin' After All These Years.......2006-11-03
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Barry White - All-Time Greatest Hits
Barry White Manufacturer: Island / Mercury ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001E58 Release Date: 1994-06-07 |
Tracks:
- Love's Theme
- I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby
- I've Got So Much To Give
- Never, Never Gonna Give You Up
- Honey Please, Can't Ya See
- Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe
- You're The First, The Last, My Everything
- What Am I Gonna Do With You
- I'll Do For You Anything You Want Me To
- Let The Music Play
- You See The Trouble With Me
- Baby, We Better Try To Get It Together
- Don't Make Me Wait Too Long
- I'm Qualified To Satisfy You
- It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me
- Playing Your Game, Baby
- Oh, What A Night For Dancing
- Your Sweetness Is My Weakness
- Just The Way You Are
- Satin Soul
Amazon.com essential recording
For those music buyers who have enjoyed Barry White's music since the early 1970s but may not be devoted enough for the three-CD box set Just for You, this 20-track compilation brings together all of White's major chart hits between 1973 and 1979, along with a couple of entries from his Love Unlimited Orchestra. White's distinctive vocal style--a deep, resonant baritone-bass that oozes sex appeal--was the icing on the cake for those hits; superlative string arrangements (courtesy of the late Gene Page) encased White in a lush setting, while White's hand-picked rhythm section (which included many of Los Angeles's top session players) created a groove that was hard to beat. The combination was lethal: hits like "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up," "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe," and "You're My First, My Last, My Everything" made White a chart staple and an early king of disco; his skill as a vocal interpreter was fully evident on a 1979 reading of Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are," another standout on this collection. On the evidence of that track alone, it's hard to believe that, according to legend, White never planned to be a recording artist in his own right and would have been happy to remain in the background as producer and songwriter! --David NathanAmazon.com
The most hot-buttered of all soul singers, Barry White is an artist whose CDs come with a purpose. To say what that purpose is, is not for a family Web site--but it involves that thing that Mommy and Daddy do at night with the bedroom door closed. All-Time Greatest Hits collects the essential White and Love Unlimited Orchestra tracks onto a packed CD. Are 20 cuts too much? Not with Viagra. That's a kind of medicine that grownups take. --Gavin McNettCustomer Reviews:
I Like It.......2007-07-12
Mary
Excellent.......2007-06-12
Barry White all time greatest!.......2007-05-14
What a great CD...........2007-05-14
Loved it!.......2007-03-26
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James Brown - 20 All-Time Greatest Hits!
James Brown Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001DUP Release Date: 1991-10-22 |
Tracks:
- I Got You (I Feel Good)
- Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine, Pt.1
- I Got The Feelin'
- Mother Popcorn, Pt.1
- Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose
- Make It Funky, Pt.1
- Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, Pt.1
- Think
- It's A Man's Man's Man's World
- Try Me
- Night Train
- Cold Sweat, Pt.1
- Get On The Good Foot
- Papa Don't Take No Mess, Pt.1
- The Payback
- Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud), Pt.1
- Super Bad, Pts.1&2
- Hot Pants, Pt.1
- Get Up Offa That Thing
- Please, Please, Please
Amazon.com
A towering figure in postwar American music, for over 40 years James Brown has written, produced, and performed some of the most compelling R&B ever recorded. 20 All Time Greatest Hits! distills Startime!, itself a four-CD set that barely scratched the surface of Brown's prodigious output. As such, this collection concentrates on Brown's best-known records: "I Feel Good," "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," and "Cold Sweat." The propulsive one- or two-chord vamps with Brown's hoarse, declamatory vocals laid the groundwork for modern funk. It's a perfect starter set for anyone unfamiliar with Brown's work. But be warned--Brown is addictive. Like peanuts and potato chips, it's impossible to stop with just one. Buy this and don't be surprised if one day you find yourself scouring used record bins for a rare copy of Grits and Cornbread. --Steven MirkinCustomer Reviews:
Nice Hits Package.......2007-05-16
Git On Uppa.......2007-05-09
I love it when Brown gets so worked up he literally squeals with excitement, it send chills up your spine. I would think that listening to this CD would be more effective than medication for the manic depressive personality.
Pretty Much of Historical Interest Only.......2007-04-14
The instrumental parts are of much more interest than James Brown's quasi-parlando, repetitive vocals. The sound quality is generally better than I expected, and the instrumental parts are generally performed cleanly, but the horns are a bit off in "Make it Funky". There is another tune here in which it sounds as if a horn section crescendo is achieved artificially by riding the faders (on the mixing board)--a disagreeable effect.
These must be some of the silliest lyrics ever written, and I find "It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World" especially amusingly ridiculous. "Try Me" is supposed to be James Brown's breakthrough tune, but it sounds to me like an utterly conventional, undistinguished fifties recording. At least three of these tracks are essentialy one piece with differing lyrical snippets.
Definitely a must have!.......2007-04-12
This CD contains MOST of the songs that I have loved and danced to for years. An excellent collection. Whew!
james brown rules.......2007-04-05
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Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00026WU9Q Release Date: 2004-06-01 |
Tracks:
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- She Belongs To Me
- Maggie's Farm
- Medley: Love Minus Zero/No Limit
- Outlaw Blues
- On the Road Again
- Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Gates Of Eden
- It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Amazon.com
"You sound like you're having a good old time," a purist Dylan fan is spotted telling the artist in the documentary Don't Look Back just after the release of this, his first (half-)electric album. He certainly does. Updating Chicago blues forms with hilarious, tough lyrics--in fact, all but stealing the meter of Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" for "Subterranean Homesick Blues"--on one side, dropping some of his most devastating solo acoustic science ("It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," "Mr. Tambourine Man") on the other, the first of Dylan's two 1965 long-players broke it right down with style, substance, and elegance. --Rickey WrightCustomer Reviews:
THE most influential album of the sixties.......2007-07-16
This is where, in retrospect, it all started. I didn't realize it at the time but I do now. There were two sixties, the early 60-64, Beach Boys, Frankie Avalon, early Beatle "I Want to Hold you Hand", crew-cut, A-line dress, boufant hair, weejun sixties, and the other sixties, the Revolver, Sgt Pepper, Jimi Hendrix, Steppenwolf, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Cream, United States of America, sixties that everyone today thinks was the sixties which happened after 1965. and it started here!
Bob Dylan, the antiwar, civil-rights, Woody Guthrie-imitating darling of the folksingers, the Voice and Conscience of his Generation, after penning "Blowin in the Wind", and "The Masters of War", stunned his purist followers with "Bringing it All Back Home". Electric instruments and a turn from trying to change the world by preaching at it to a bemused surreal satire. This, and "Revolver" are the two most influential albums of the sixties, maybe of music history. I remember.
The Beatles were wildly popular with younger listeners, but generally dismissed by music critics of the time as being a wildly sucessful but totally Pop phenominon. Dylan said they were "Bubblegum". Dylan's friend Al Aronowitz (sp?), said that the Beatles weren't that bad. Dylan and friend were introduced to the Beatles at a certain party in Manhattan AUG 64, wherein there was some smoking. Dylan and Lennon talked and found they had a lot in common. Dylan suggested Lennon should put more of his feelings into his songs. Following this party the Beatles became much more introspective, and a few months later "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver'!. See DVD "No Direction Home" directed by Martin Scorsese for details...
"Johnnies in the basement
mixing up the medicine,
I'm on the pavement
Thinkin' about the government...
...Maggie comes, fleet feet,
Face full of black soot
Talkin the the Heat put
Plants in the bed, but
The phones tapped, anyway,
orders from the D.A.,
say they must bust in early May...
"...Keep a clean nose,
Watch for Plainclothes,
You don't need a Weatherman
To know which way the wind blows!...
...Please her, please him.
Twenty years of schoolin'
and they put you on the Day Shift"...
How that for starting off with a (paranoid) bang? The first rap song about being surveilled in a police state.
(and where are those Weathermen, now ...?)
or how about the heartfelt:
"...She's got everything she needs
she's an artist
She don't look back.
she can take the dark out of the nighttime
and paint the daytime black..."
or the workaday world of:
"...He hands you a nickel,
He hands you a dime,
He askes you with a grin if you're having a good time?
And he fines you every time you slam the door.
I aint gonna work on Maggie Farm no more..."
(have you had bosses like that?)
or the surreal 115th dream:
"I was riding on the Mayflower when I thought I spotted land
I yelled for captain Arab, I'll have you understand,
Who came running to the deck, said 'boys, forget the whale
we're goin over yonder, cut the engines, change the sail' ...
...I think I'll call it 'America' I said as we hit land.
I took a deep breath, I fell down, I could not stand...
...A telephone was ringing, it just about blew my mind,
When I picked it up and said 'Hello', this foot came through the line...
...I repeated that my friends were all in jail with a sigh,
He gave me his card, he said 'call me if they die'..."
"...I said,'you know, they refused Jesus, too'
he said 'you're NOT Him'..."
Now those are lyrics!
Pure poetry, funny, insightful. The sheer volume of Dylan's genius is so overwhelming you can only get it in small amounts - I remember I didn't understand all at first. I still hear new ideas in these songs after all these years. Notes from the Underground.
And the backup band isn't "The Band", as I always thought, it's blues guitar great Michael Bloomfield and Al Kooper, trying to learn organ.
After this brilliant album, Dylan met and influenced the Beatles. The folkies (who had played for years in coffee shops where they learned to play and sing harmony and write meaningful songs) all picked up electric instruments. Country Joe and the Fish, Lovin Spoonful, etc. The Byrds did an electric version of his Pied Piper song "Mr Tambourine Man" ("...take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind..."). Then came Donovan's "Sunshine Superman", Vanilla Fudge's "You Keep me Hangin On". After that, there was a sea change in culture and in popular music. There was an explosion.
It started here.
This album cannot be recommended too highly (despite the fact that Dylan doesn't have a singing voice like Jim Morrison or Frank Sinatra).
bringing it all back to where it belongs.......2007-05-27
The set-list you can easily find here so i won't go through it all, but to miss this album would be to miss some of the classic Dylan and that would be to deny yourself just the chance to see whether or not you like this minstel or not. You may decide not - but don't make that decision until you've at least heard this one.
Dylan albums, like Dylan songs, are difficult to choose a "favorite." I'd be hard-pressed to pick a favorite Dylan song, but if i have to pick an album, and i admit this is tough, then this would be it.
Cheers,
s.r.p.
BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME IS BOB DYLAN AT HIS VERY BEST !.......2007-04-26
My love she speaks like silence,
Without ideals or violence,
She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
Pure Dylan. Bringing It All Back Home has everything for the Bob Dylan fan. Folk songs, rock songs, and classic Dylan lyrics. It's a great album from a great artist at his very best.
A good place to start.......2007-03-12
The album has quite a diverse selection of songs; fast, bluesy songs ("Subterranean Homesick Blues", "Maggie's Farm", "Outlaw Blues"), slower, melodic love ballads ("She Belongs To Me", "Love Minus Zero/ No Limit"), poetic folk songs ("Mr. Tambourine Man", "Gates Of Eden") and comedy ("Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"). One of the best songs on the album is the surreal "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". This song always fills me with inspiration everytime I listen to it.
This is a great album and a good place to start.
Folk Rock's Definitive Masterpiece.......2007-02-10
Heralding the album, "Subterranean Homesick Blues," while not as dramatic as "Like a Rolling Stone" is easily as brilliant. Complete with cutting, social commentary and plenty of images to debunk the nine-to-five existence, Dylan spills out his surreal period full throttle. Anthems rain with the raunchy "Outlaw Blues" and the folky "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)". Hypnotic, every song pulls a punch--or doesn't pull any punches! The most famous mesmerizing development is "Mr. Tambourine Man," making Dylan a troubadour for altered consciousness*. Despite the crossover, Dylan continued to be a great storyteller. The first person "Maggie's Farm" showcases his familiar wit with the details of menial labor from hell. Then, "On the Road Again" captures the same idea, but with more of a vagabond flair. "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" meets every element at the crossroads by telling a surreal story with pointed observations. However, some of the most delightful moments reflect upon love. "She Belongs to Me" and "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" both exalt and debunk the romantic tradition he helped overthrow. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" ends the album with a brilliant story about a misfit who trashes every sensibility of romantic notions.
An unqualified achievement, 'Bringing It All Back Home' synthesizes the outlaw with the dreamer where both folk and rock, tradition and iconoclasm meet head on and make music and culture new.
(*Dylan has moved on, and hopefully so can we.)
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The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits
Dionne Warwick Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000032WJ Release Date: 1989-10-26 |
Tracks:
- Don't Make Me Over
- This Empty Place
- Anyone Who Had A Heart
- Walk On By
- You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
- A House Is Not A Home
- Reach Out For Me
- Who Can I Turn To
- Looking With My Eyes
- Are You There (With Another Girl)
- Message To Michael
- Trains And Boats And Planes
- I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
- Another Night
- Alfie
- The Windows Of The World
- I Say A Little Prayer
- (Theme From) Valley Of The Dolls
- Do You Know The Way To San Jose
- (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me
- Promises, Promises
- The April Fools
- I'll Never Fall In Love Again
- The Green Grass Starts To Grow
Amazon.com
Dionne Warwick's vocals were never more strong, more vulnerable than when she sang the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David--and, oh, yeah, "Who Can I Turn To" and the theme from "Valley of the Dolls," the two non-Bacharach/David songs included among the 24 singles collected here. Both technically and emotionally, this was an unstoppable team: from the drama of "Don't Make Me Over" to the tongue-in-cheek backing singers on "Are You There (With Another Girl)," the barely veiled civil-rights message of "Reach Out for Me" to the deceptively bouncy "Do You Know the Way to San Jose," this CD sheds light on one of the most perfect marriages of pop form and content this side of Sinatra's classic Capitol work. --Rickey WrightCustomer Reviews:
Bacharach / David and Warwick.......2007-06-14
I bought it...and I'd buy it again.......2007-05-31
The sound quality is great. Rhino Records did a nice job, in this area, and the liner notes provide a good bit of information. Dionne's performances of these songs are flawless. She has great range and feeling, as well as subtlety and restraint. "Windows of the World," for example, sends a shiver up my spine. The hasty "San Jose'" is also a treat. The quantity of music presented is more than enough; you won't hear any 60's Warwick song on the radio not presented here, although this results in some unevenness. Burt Bachrach's composition is super.
I couldn't give it 5 stars because some of the musical arrangements don't hold up well, and probably sounded schlocky when they came out, even over the tinny radio speaker of a 1966 Ford Fairlane on its way to San Jose. But you know that going in. Lyricist Hal David was most effective when he kept it spare and light ("Walk On By"), not when he tried to communicate socially "relevant" ideas (e.g. - "Message to Michael" - mobile society; "Windows of the World" - Vietnam). Not every song on the collection is to my taste. It's hard to find enough great material to fill a double greatest hits album, but most of this is quite good. Anyone who likes Dionne's 60's radio hits or needs a comprehensive sampling of Bachrach-David at their creative peak, should look here. (Adapted from my review of 12/20/1999.)
great songs, great singer.......2007-05-07
IT IS OKAY.......2007-03-09
Pop Perfection.......2007-01-10
The horror!
Fortunately for the demented audiophile, this Greatest Hits of Dionne Warwick is readily available. This CD is pop perfection, the synergy of Burt Bacharach, Hal David, and Dionne Warwick is breathtaking. If you're lucky enough to have been raised on these classics cranking out of car radios, you'll be thrilled to hear them in their full acoustic glory - the sound quality is crystalline. Most noticeable is how good the arrangements are, and how disciplined. These songs were composed and recorded in an era when it was fashionable to goop up good music with massive banks of intrusive strings, pouring down like waterfalls of molten Velveeta cheese and smothering the quality. Considering this is pop fare - aimed squarely at the Top 40 - (remember that?) - the arrangements are wonderfully subdued, they actually enhance the beauty.
As to Ms. Warwick; a very soulful, emotional singer able to evoke feeling from the smallest lilt and a nicely turned phrase. A subtle, brilliant talent. I don't think I could ever hear Walk On By or You'll Never Get To Heaven too many times. Although, being a card-carrying demented audiophile, I must admit that there's something about hearing Roland Kirk play You'll Never Get To Heaven. Maybe Ellington was right, there are really only two kinds of music - good music and bad music. This CD is good music, real good.
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TV Land Presents: Favorite TV Theme Songs
Cyndi Grecco , and Jones, Jack Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006EXIL Release Date: 2002-08-20 |
Tracks:
- I Love Lucy Theme - Wilbur Hatch
- Dragnet - Ray Anthony
- The Twilight Zone - Rod Open
- Bonanza - Al Caiola & His Orchestra
- The Andy Griffith Theme - Earle Hagen
- The Ballad Of Jed Clampett - Earl Scruggs
- The Addams Family (Main Theme) - Vic Mizzy
- Munsters Theme - Jack Marshall
- The Ballad Of Gilligan's Isle - Morton Stevens
- Green Acres - Eddie Albert
- Jeannie - Hugo Montenegro
- Batman Theme - Neal Hefti
- (Theme From) The Monkees - The Monkees
- Star Trek (Main Title & Closing Theme) - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Mannix - Lalo Schifrin
- Hawaii Five-O - Mort Stevens & His Orchestra
- Theme From The Brady Bunch - The Brady Bunch
- Come On Get Happy - The Partridge Family
- Those Were The Days - Carroll O'Connor
- And Then There's Maude - Donny Hathaway
- Good Times - Jim Gilstrap
- Movin' On Up - Oren Waters
- The Rockford Files - Mike Post
- Them From S.W.A.T. - Rhythm Heritage
- Happy Days - Pratt & McClain
- Making Our Dreams Come True - Cyndi Grecco
- Chico And The Man - Jose Feliciano
- Welcome Back - John Sebastian
- What's Happening!! - Henry Mancini
- Barney Miller - Jack Elliott
- Charlie's Angels - Jack Elliott
- Love Boat Theme - Jack Jones
- Angela (Theme From 'Taxi') - Bob James
- It Takes Diff'rent Strokes - Gloria Loring
- Theme From Dukes Of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys) - Waylon
- Theme From Magnum, P.I. - Mike Post
- The Theme From Hill Street Blues - Mike Post
- Theme From Dynasty - Bill Conti
- Theme From 'Greatest American Hero' (Believe It Or Not) - Joey Scarbury
- Thank You For Being A Friend - Cynthia Fee
Album Description
TV Land brings you 40 of your favorite evening show theme songs. Highlights include 'Happy Days', 'The Greatest American Hero', 'Dukes Of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)', 'Laverne & Shirley', 'I Dream Of Jeanie', 'I Love Lucy', 'Welcome Back, Kotter', 'The Love Boat', 'Hawaii Five-O', 'The Golden Girls' and many, many more. 2002. Rhino.Customer Reviews:
good memories for me and fun "new" songs for my children.......2007-06-27
memories.......2007-02-22
TV Theme Songs.......2007-01-13
TV themes.......2006-07-05
Deja Vu.......2006-02-17
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The Ultimate Collection
Junior Walker & the All-Stars Manufacturer: Motown ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001AO1 Release Date: 1997-10-07 |
Tracks:
- Shotgun
- Shake And Fingerpop
- How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
- Cleo's Mood
- Shoot Your Shot
- (I'm A) Road Runner
- Pucker Up Buttercup
- Do The Boomerang
- Tune Up
- Money (That's What I Want)
- Come See About Me
- Sweet Soul
- Cleo's Back
- Satan's Blues
- Hip City - Pt. ll
- Home Cookin'
- Twist Lackawanna
- What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)
- These Eyes
- Gotta Hold On To This Feeling
- Do You See My Love (For You Growing)
- Take Me Girl, I'm Ready
- Way Back Home
- Walk In The Night
- Last Call
Amazon.com
Saxophonist Jr. Walker was the most gutbucket of Motown's consistent '60s hit makers. Even when trying his hardest to conform to label formulas ("What Does It Take [To Win Your Love]," "Gotta Hold On to This Feeling"), he sounded like he'd be just as much at home in the backroom of a barbecue joint. When pursuing his muse in even more minimalist form ("Shotgun," "[I'm a] Road Runner," the smoky "Cleo's Mood"), he sounded like the owner of the place. --Rickey WrightCustomer Reviews:
GREAT, GREAT.......2007-06-08
of music.
This CD by Jr. Walker & the All-Stars has so much 'Soul' that it brings back that spirit when artist could sing and they were able to carry
a message in their songs where it made you feel good a time when artist could play instruments. To understand what I'm trying to say go to number 23 on this CD 'Way back home' I don't have
to say much more. If this CD do not move you then you don't have SOUL.
The Sweetest Sax this Side of Heaven.......2007-02-03
I was privileged to see Junior Walker and the All Stars live in concert twice. This CD stimulates warm memories for me, and every song is a winner. Junior, I miss you, man.
Junior Walker & the All-Stars.......2007-01-10
Great Trumpet.......2007-01-10
Consensual Sax.......2006-11-05
Even as a kid plugged into Motown I noticed that Jr. Walker & The All Stars stood apart. For one thing, the sax was up front, ahead of the vocals. More than that though, JW&TAS had an earthy, funky groove that was raw, authentic, and infectious. While the other Motown acts were going for smooth, Walker went for the down-home, house party foot stomp.
What I didn't know then was that the folks at Motown had made a conscious decision to step back and let Junior do his thing. The times they did decide to run him through the Motown mill produced his most forgettable efforts, (How Sweet It Is, Come See About Me, What Does It Take, and These Eyes.)
Songs like Shotgun, Shake And Fingerpop, I'm A Road Runner, and Pucker Up Buttercup caused uptight, suburban teenagers to leap out of their seats and be transformed by the sheer joy of line dancing. Walker's music felt good all the way down to the shoes.
No discussion of Junior Walker is complete without mentioning Cleo's Mood, arguably the sexiest, sultriest song ever recorded by anyone. He stretches the groove out in Cleo's Back, and shows it off again in the outrageously slinky Satan's Blues. Sweet!
Many obscure gems on this anthology. Tune Up is the perfect throwdown track while Twist Lackawanna is so hot it could only have been played before an intermission. Hip City, though not obscure, is wonderful to hear again. Folks, if it gets any better than this - nobody told me.
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Zapp & Roger - All the Greatest Hits
Zapp & Roger Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002MHJ Release Date: 1993-10-26 |
Tracks:
- More Bounce To The Ounce
- Be Alright
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine
- So Ruff, So Tuff
- Do It Roger
- Dance Floor
- Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)
- I Can Make You Dance
- Heartbreaker (Pts 1 and 2)
- In The Mix
- Midnight Hour-Live '93 (Remix)
- Computer Love
- Night And Day '93 (Remix)
- I Want to Be Your Man
- Curiosity '93 (Remix)
- Slow And Easy
- Mega Medley
Customer Reviews:
Oh yeah!.......2007-07-03
I love this CD.......2007-05-13
The Best of The Best!!.......2006-11-11
A world without Zapp & Roger is not a world I'd like to be in.
One of The Greatest Funk Bands.......2006-10-28
The funk, the whole funk... and nothing BUT the funk.......2006-02-03
There are many different types of funk, and most have a common denominator, but Zapp & Roger created a singularly unique brand of funk. Using a talkbox in place of regular vocals creates a totally different atmosphere: space funk, firmly rooted in the streets.
I will be the first to say that there are a number of songs on here that I'm not crazy about. Some of the cheesier love songs grate on me a little, but not enough to detract from the rest of the quality material.
It's easy to see why a whole generation of West Coast rappers cribbed one sample after another from Roger & Zapp, and who can blame them? Tracks like "More Bounce to the Ounce," "So Ruff So Tuff" and "Computer Love" are instantly addictive.
"Heard It Thru the Grapevine?" Sick. I can't hear that song without thinking of Big Worm bumping down the street in "Friday."
If you're big on the funk, get this album. No disappointment in sight.
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All My Life: Their Greatest Hits
K-Ci & JoJo Manufacturer: Geffen Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0007CYES0 Release Date: 2005-02-08 |
Tracks:
- Last Night's Letter
- You Bring Me Up
- How Could You
- All My Life
- Don't Rush (Take Love Slowly)
- If You Think You're Lonely Now
- I Care About You
- Never Say Never Again
- Through Heaven's Eyes
- Life
- Tell Me It's Real
- Girl
- Crazy
- Wanna Do You Right
- I Can't Find The Words
- This Very Moment
- Special
- Down For Life
Customer Reviews:
Excellent blend of there best stuff.......2006-08-04
Being a Hip Hop Producer, I must say thease are excellently produced tracks... All My Life, I don't know if they got an orchestra to get that sound, or it was all one man, but the production on that song alone is incredible.
If you have someone you love, or a girl that you really like, every song on here can relate to your emotions for them. I love singing along to "All my Life", and "Tell Me It's Real" with my girlfriend, especially "All My Life" cause it say's exactly what I think about her, but I could never put it in words that well.
Also what is up with thease DEVante d***riders? Dude isnt that great, his production techniques, and his sound is lackluster at best. His best work wasnt even with Jodeci, it was on All Eyez on Me by 2Pac... The production fits K-Ci & Jojo's style much better, and is far better on this.
Overall, this is 5/5 , a great album...
My 4 Fav. tracks are...
All My Life
Don't Rush (Take It Slowely)
Tell me It's Real
Crazy
But really everything on here is dope.
Not a bad song on the entire cd @}->---.......2006-07-23
Apart from the obvious Crazy and All My Life, I love Through Heavens Eyes, Last Nights Letter and Down For Life. I've yet to hear a song of theirs that I haven't liked. This is a terrific cd for anyone who is either a fan of theirs, or if you want to hear a sampling of their best work. It's a gorgeous cd and lots of sensual music. I could melt just listening to them croon. I highly recommend this to all R&B fans.
good representation of their greatest.......2005-12-23
SOULFUL.......2005-06-10
If you have their albums ...........2005-04-02
Where are the unreleased tracks, or the tracks that appear on Japanese versions (such as "I Just Can't Leave" or "Impossible" - both great songs)? And of course there should be at least 2 brand new songs.
Lastly, WHY in the world did K-Ci & JoJo get a "Greatest Hits" released before Jodeci? You might say 'if K+J's GHs is pointless, so would a Jodeci GHs' ... but you're wrong because Jodeci needs to get their name out again. K-Ci & JoJo, on the other hand, released their lame "Emotional" album just a few years ago.
This is ALL from a guy who thinks K-Ci is the best singer in the world and JoJo is RIGHT behind him (just due to my preference, because JoJo's got an angelic voice). The two always sound amazing, but their songs are NOT up to what these two's standards should be.
K+J, settle whatever is wrong with Jodeci. Your vocals are best suited for Dalvin and DeVante's productions.
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All the Pretty Horses (2001 Film)
Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000056KYJ Release Date: 2001-01-16 |
Tracks:
- Cowboy's Dream
- Canyon Sonata
- All the Pretty Horses
- Purty Dad Gum Good
- After the Rain
- Mild Cello Blues
- Malarki Opus in D Major
- John Grady's Angel
- Edge of the World
- Get My Boots
- Strawberry Tango, Pt. 1-2
- King of Horses
- Far Away (Alejandra's Phone Call)
- Porque
- Love Montage
- Ain't That a Drag
- My Last Days on Earth/What's It Like to Be Dead?
- Long Journey Home
- Candles and Lies
- Rainy Room
- Far Away
- Far Away (Reprise)
- Cowboy's Dream/All the Pretty Horses [Medley]
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Novelist Cormac McCarthy's literary vision of the wild west is given wide-screen treatment by maverick director Billy Bob Thornton and a cast that includes Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, and Bruce Dern. Professional country music journeyman Marty Stuart has performed with father-in-law Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs, and Doc Watson, in addition to a successful solo career. In his soundtrack scoring debut, he provides short, meditative instrumental pieces that are subtly explosive--rife as they are with strains of old-school country and bluegrass. Cinematic strings and orchestral percussion add a welcome menacing edge, augmenting the rustic approach without crossing over into a compromised "countrypolitan" sound. If anything, it might be nice to hear these themes extended. As it stands, the 23 listed tracks are covered in a little under 50 minutes, with many of the cuts barely lasting more than a minute or two. They stand as a new genre of cinematic country minimalism. --Rob O'ConnorCustomer Reviews:
Great western soundtrack.......2004-02-28
Features two vocal pieces, the first a spanish song sung by the very talented Raul Malo of the country group the mavericks, the second song is a beautiful ballad sung by Marty Stuart. Though I never owned any cd's of Marty Stuart he earns my respect with composing this film score.(cowboy hats off to you Mr.Stuart)
a very memorable cd.......2003-07-04
a very memorable cd.......2003-07-04
a very memorable cd.......2003-07-04
Truly Incredible.......2003-03-12
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