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Mary Wells occupies a unique niche in pop music in that she was the first female artist on any of Motown’s labels to have a hit record, and she remained as the vanguard in that regard until leav...
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This release continues the series of 4-CD sets which comprises selected annual collections of the biggest US country hits of each year. This great-value 113-track collection covers the year of 1961, d...
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Country music guitarist, singer and songwriter Buck Owens was, along with Merle Haggard, one of the most noted pioneers of the Bakersfield sound which became popular during the early 1960s, and named ...
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The Drifters were one of the most successful and enduring groups on the R&B and soul scene, re-inventing themselves in different line-ups over the years to enjoy a lengthy chart career. This 71-tr...
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In the history of the blues, Washboard Sam (real name Robert Brown) was probably the best known exponent of that most basic, but in the 1920s and ‘30s almost universal, percussion rhythm instrum...
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Richard Hayman, who died early in 2014 aged 93, was an American harmonica player, arranger and conductor, who was renowned both for his contribution to popular light music over several decades and for...
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Tennessee Ernie Ford was a radio DJ and singer in California in the post-war years who signed to Capitol and over the next decade scored a string of 30 country and pop hits in the USA as well as becom...
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One of the later era Great American Songbook cohort, Jimmy Van Heusen was legendarily associated with Sammy Cahn and Frank Sinatra, winning several Academy Awards.
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