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New York-born Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte is a truly unique personality – there really is no other performer or entertainer quite like him. With a r...
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The Harptones were one of the many doowop vocal groups to emerge from New York City in the early ‘50s, and although they did not have an illustrious chart career, they were one of the most consi...
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Toni Arden was one of the girl singers who learnt their trade singing with big bands during the mid-1940s before embarking on a solo career as the market changed, and star vocalists became popular wit...
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This is the latest in Acrobat’s series of 4-CD collections devoted to the work of the great arranger/conductors of the post-war era, who contributed so much to the recordings of the most success...
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Hank Locklin was one of the early exponents of the honk- tonk style of country, although his biggest successes came during the late ‘50s and early ‘60s with hits like “Send Me The Pi...
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Crooner Tony Martin was one of the coterie of male vocalist like Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Al Martino and others who dominated the pop charts during the post-war decade (...
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Tommy Edwards was a sophisticated R&B vocalist, best-known for his landmark US and UK No. 1 “It’s All In The Game”, but who also had many other pop and R&B hits, and released...
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The sub-genre of guitar instrumental hits is a fascinating musical strand of rock ‘n’ roll, with Duane Eddy representing its primary high-profile chart vanguard, but it was with groups lik...
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'King' Oliver was possibly the most important and influential of the early New Orleans and Dixieland jazz bandleaders, shaping and popularising the genre during the early decades of the 20th...
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