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Nancy Wilson is one of the finest vocalists to emerge in the post-war era to take over the mantle of great jazz, cabaret and pop singers such as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Pegg...
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Hank Williams was, quite simply, one of the most important artists, as a singer, songwriter and performer, not just in country music but in the entire landscape of American popular music during the po...
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Jimmy Dean was a country singer and radio and TV personality and actor whose primary claim to musical fame came with the iconic landmark 1961 crossover pop/country hit “Big Bad John”, alth...
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We continue our series of releases of comprehensive hits collections by significant personalities from the US country scene during the post-war decades with an anthology devoted to the prolific hit-ma...
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LaVern Baker was a one of the top female R&B singers of the ‘50s and early ‘60s, racking up a string of R&B and pop hits during her time with the Atlantic label. This great value 7...
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Known as “Mr. Swing”, Red Norvo was an unusual figure in early jazz, being an exponent of the xylophone and marimba (and later the vibraphone), which were not regular features in jazz ense...
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Jimmie Rodgers, not to be confused with the pioneering hillbilly country artist of the early ‘30s, was a hugely successful artist in the pop charts during the late ‘50s and early ‘60...
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Cecil Gant was a boogie-woogie pianist and R&B vocalist who toured during the 1930s but came to prominence in 1944 when he scored a No. 1 R&B hit with “I Wonder” while still in the...
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Charlie Barnet was a highly successful bandleader in the swing and big band eras of the '30s and '40s, and was one of the first to racially integrate his orchestra
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