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Sam Cooke

Wonderful World - The Hits

    Songwriter and performer Sam Cooke (1931-1964) was one of the most popular and influential singers to emerge in the late '50s. Much like his contemporary Ray Charles, Cooke successfully synthesized a blend of gospel music and secular themes that provided the early foundation of soul music. This excellent LP contains 20 of his finest moments and most celebrated songs.

    TRACK LISTING

    Side 1
    1. (What A) Wonderful World [r&b #2]
    2. You Send Me [r&b #1]
    3. Bring It On Home To Me [r&b #2]
    4. Chain Gang [r&b #2]
    5. Win Your Love (For Me) [r&b #4]
    6. Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha [r&b #2]
    7. That's It, I Quit, I'm Movin' On [r&b #25]
    8. No One (Can Ever Take Your Place)
    9. Shake [r&b #4]
    10. I'll Come Running Back To You [r&b #1]

    Side 2
    1. Twistin' The Night Away [r&b #1]
    2. Another Saturday Night [r&b #1]
    3. Good Times
    4. Summertime
    5. Nothing Can Change This Love [r&b #2]
    6. (Ain't That) Good News
    7. Love You Most Of All [r&b #12]
    8. A Change Is Gonna Come
    9. Cupid 2:32
    10. Having A Party[r&b #4

    Ray Charles

    The Best Of Ray Charles

      This album contains some of the most outstanding hits ever made by the inimitable Ray Charles for Atlantic Records and ABC Paramount. Included in this collection are such perennial classics as 'What'd I Say'. 'Hallelujah', 'I Love Her So', 'Drown In My Own Tears', 'Georgia on My Mind', and 'Hit the Road, Jack'.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. I Can't Stop Loving You
      2. Hit The Road, Jack
      3. Unchain My Heart
      4. But On The Other Hand, Baby
      5. Hide Nor Hair
      6. At The Club
      7. Who You Gonna Love
      8. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'
      9. Night Time Is The Right Time
      10. Hallelujah I Love Her So
      11. Georgia On My Mind
      12. Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
      13. California, Here I Come
      14. Basin Street Blues
      15. Alabamy Bound
      16. Together
      17. I Wonder
      18. Drown In My Own Tears
      19. What'd I Say (Parts 1 & 2)
      20. I've Got A Woman

      Charles Mingus

      Mingus Ah Um - 2025 Reissue

        The Penguin Guide to Jazz called 'Mingus Ah Um' "an extended tribute to ancestors" and awarded it with one of their rarely given Crown accreditations. It is, in fact, one of Mingus' most personal albums, and produced a series of songs that have become standards. 'Better Git It in Your Soul' is inspired by gospel singing and preaching of the sort that Mingus would have heard as a child growing up in Watts, while 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' is a reference to saxophonist Lester Young who had died shortly before the album was recorded.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Better Git It In Your Soul
        2. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
        3. Boogie Stop Shuffle
        4. Self-Portrait In Three Colors
        5. Open Letter To Duke
        6. Bird Calls
        7. Fables Of Faubus
        8. Pussy Cat Dues
        9. Jelly Roll

        Nina Simone

        The Very Best Of

          The great Nina Simone Encompassing a broad range of musical genres including jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, pop, and classical music. This 16- track collection compiles some of her best performances, all of which were resounding hits. Included here is her perennial reading of George & Ira Gershwin's 'I Loves You Porgy', which charted in the UK at #2 in 1959, followed by 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out' at #23 in 1960, and 'Trouble in Mind' at#11 in 1961, plus her all-time perennial classic version and most played hit on radio and tv, "My Baby Just Cares for Me", which peaked at #5 in 1987.

          TRACK LISTING

          My Baby Just Cares For Me
          I Loves You Porgy
          Love Me Or Leave Me
          Little Girl Blue
          He Needs Me
          Children Go Where I Send You
          Willow Weep For Me
          Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
          Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
          Trouble In Mind
          Exactly Like You
          Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
          Work Song
          Fine And Mellow
          Mood Indigo
          The Other Woman

          Dave Brubeck

          Time Out - 2025 Reissue

            Time Out was an unusual album from the start, not only for its surprising time signatures, but also for its huge commercial success at the time (1959), and its enduring popularity even to this day. The album's hit tune, Take Five , composed by Paul Desmond, is the biggest-selling jazz composition of all time and a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.

            "Dave Brubeck's defining masterpiece, Time Out is one of the most rhythmically innovative albums in jazz history, the first to consciously explore time signatures outside of the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4 waltz time. This belongs in even the most rudimentary jazz collection." - Steve Huey, AllMusic

            TRACK LISTING

            Blue Rondo A La Turk
            Strange Meadow Lark
            Take Five
            Three To Get Ready 
            Kathy's Waltz
            Everybody's Jumpin'
            Pick Up Sticks
            Audrey

            Nina Simone

            At Newport 1960 - 2024 Reissue

              When this album was recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960, Nina Simone had just had her first Top 20 hit with "I Loves You, Porgy", but the "Porgy" found here is actually a continuation of Gershwin's original version of the story.

              Other highlights include "Flo Me La", an African work chant, and "Little Liza Jane", an African American folk song. A truly great live performance from one of the most original voices in 20th century music.

              TRACK LISTING

              1. Trouble In Mind
              2. Porgy
              3. Little Liza Jane
              4. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
              5. House Of The Rising Sun
              6. Flo Me La
              7. Nina's Blues
              8. In The Evening By The Moonlight
              9. Brown Baby

              Miles Davis

              Kind Of Blue - The Mono & Stereo Versions

                The complete 1959 Miles Davis album 'Kind of Blue', one of the most influential Jazz albums of all time, presented here as a 2LP set in its original mono and stereo versions.

                TRACK LISTING

                1. So What
                2. Freddie Freeloader
                3. Blue In Green
                4. All Blues
                5. Flamenco Sketches
                6. So What
                7. Freddie Freeloader
                8. Blue In Green
                9. All Blues
                10. Flamenco Sketches

                Nina Simone

                Ballads And Blues

                  The great Nina Simone's style encompassed a broad range of musical genres including jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, pop, and classical music. This collection compiles some of her best performances of jazz ballads and blues, the album's A side programmed to feature the ballads, and the B side for the blues.

                  Among the many highlights are her classic readings of the ballads 'I Loves You Porgy', 'Little Girl Blue', and 'Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair', as well as blues such as 'Trouble in Mind', Billie Holiday's 'Fine and Mellow', and 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out'.

                  As a bonus, one of Simone's biggest hits, 'My Baby Just Cares for Me', has been added to this essential collection.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. I Loves You Porgy
                  2. Little Girl Blue
                  3. Solitude
                  4. Willow Weep For Me 
                  5. Memphis In June
                  6. For All We Know
                  7. Blue Prelude
                  8. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
                  9. Trouble In Mind
                  10. Gin House Blues
                  11. House Of The Rising Sun
                  12. Fine And Mellow
                  13. Rags And Old Iron
                  14. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out

                  Ike & Tina Turner

                  The Soul Of Ike & Tina Turner - 2023 Reissue

                    This quintessential LP contains Ike & Tina's debut album for Sue Records, The Soul of Ike and Tina Turner(1961). In addition, we have included 4 bonus tracks consisting of hard to find sides from the same period.

                    Long unavailable on vinyl, this release constitutes the definitive edition of this soul treasure and serves as the best introduction for anyone wanting to explore the Turners' early years.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    I'm Jealous
                    I Idolize You
                    If
                    Letter From Tina
                    You Can't Love Two
                    I Had A Notion
                    It's Gonna Work Out Fine
                    Tina's Dilemma
                    A Fool In Love
                    Sleepless
                    Chances Are
                    You Can't Blame Me
                    You're My Baby
                    The Way You Love Me
                    Mind In A Whirl
                    The Argument

                    James Brown

                    Please, Please, Please - 2023 Reissue

                      Originally issued in 1959 to capitalize on the crossover success of his single 'Try Me', James Brown's debut LP Please,Please, Pleaseis a collection of 16 of his A and B-sides recorded for the Federal label between 1956 and 1958. It was also the debut studio album for the Famous Flames, and Originally released as 'James Brown and His Famous Flames'. Evenly split between ballads and up-tempo shouters, the songs here all fall into the same sax-driven, gospel-influenced style that you could hear in any Southern chicken shack or nightclub during the late 1950s. James Brown: lead vocals plus: The Famous Flames: Kenny Burrell, Nafloyd Scott, John Faire, Eddie Freeman (guitar), Clarence Mack, Edwyn Conley, Carl Pruitt (bass), Alvin "Fats" Gonder, Ernie Hayes (piano), Edison Gore, Reginald Hall, "Panama" Francis (drums), Wilbert "Lee Diamond" Smith, Ray Felder, Cleveland Lowe, Clifford Scott (tenor saxophone), George Dorsey, John B. Brown (alto saxophone), Bobby Byrd, Johnny Terry, Sylvester Keels, Nashpendle Knox, Bill Hollings, J.W. Archer, Louis Madison (background vocals). Produced by Ralph Bass, Andy Gibson. Recorded at King Studios, Cincinnati and Beltone Studios, New York City (NY) between 1956 and 1958.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      1. Please, Please, Please
                      2. Chonnie-On-Chon
                      3. Hold My Baby's Hand
                      4. I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On
                      5. Just Won't Do Right
                      6. Baby Cries Over The Ocean
                      7. I Don't Know
                      8. Tell Me What I Did Wrong
                      9. Try Me
                      10. That Dood It
                      11. Begging, Begging
                      12. I Walked Alone
                      13. No, No, No, No
                      14. That's When I Lost My Heart
                      15. Let's Make It
                      16. Love Or A Game
                      17. This Old Heart

                      Chet Baker & Bill Evans

                      Alone Together

                        The most significant aspect of this album, which first appeared as 'Chet - The Lyrical Trumpet of Chet Baker', is the interaction between Chet Baker and Bill Evans, two perennial jazz stars who only rarely recorded together. By the time this album was made, Chet was known as much for his singing as for his trumpet playing. This LP, however, is entirely instrumental and consists of nine ballads performed in the styles of hard bop to cool jazz.

                        The last track, 'I Could Have Danced All Night' (included as a bonus) is from Chet Baker's 'Best of Lerner & Loewe' album, which featured Bill Evans on four of its tracks. They were the recordings that Baker and Evens made together.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        Alone Together
                        How High The Moon
                        It Never Entered My Mind
                        Tis Autumn
                        If You Could See Me Now
                        September Song
                        You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
                        Time On My Hands
                        You And The Night And The Music
                        I Could Have Danced All Night


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