Pop Female Hits (Karaoke)

Product Description
Sing your favorite pop female hits. This CD+G features 8 note-perfect multiplex tracks of pop female songs. Perfect for practice, performances, auditions, and more! Includes 2 versions of each song (guide vocals, and instrumental background track). Full lyric book included.

Pop Female Hits (Karaoke),Various,CDG

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Average customer rating: Biilie's phrasing was a heart-to-heart with the whole world--and no one ever wanted to go home Beautiful Fave Jazz Album! Early greats from Lady Day A great place to start, an album with a special treat!

Billie Holiday - Greatest Hits (Sony) Billie Holiday Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic Female Vocal Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Vocalists | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Love Songs Pure Ella: The Very Best of Ella Fitzgerald Best Of Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah At Last! ASIN: B00000FC7M Release Date: 1998-11-17

Tracks:

1. Miss Brown To You - Billie Holiday
2. What A Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday
3. I Cried For You - Billie Holiday
4. Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
5. A Sailboat In The Moonlight - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
6. I Can't Get Started - Billie Holiday
7. When A Woman Loves A Man - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
8. Some Other Spring - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
9. Solitude - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
10. God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
11. Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
12. The Very Thought Of You - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
13. Body And Soul - Billie Holiday

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Curiously, yet not surprisingly given the enormity of his sway, Billie Holiday's greatest vocal influence was "Pops"--Louis Armstrong, whose trumpet was his first signature (though he's often credited with being the first great jazz singer as well). One hears Armstrong in Holiday's sense of phrasing, timing, and the warmth she invests in a lyric. This package, containing such touchstone Holiday renderings as "I Cried for You," "Body and Soul," and "When a Woman Loves a Man" (poetic, given the fact that Billie was notoriously unlucky at love), also boasts her signature song, "God Bless the Child." Her accompanists are a hall-of-fame lot, including trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton; saxmen Lester Young (with whom she had a close relationship), Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, and Harry Carney; drummers Cozy Cole and Jo Jones; bassists John Kirby and Walter Page; and her frequent pianist, Teddy Wilson. --Willard Jenkins

Customer Reviews:

Biilie's phrasing was a heart-to-heart with the whole world--and no one ever wanted to go home.......2007-07-08

Billie Holiday could sing jazz and the blues unlike any other singer. Ever. Her voice was the ultimate instrument which could convey all the sorrows of her personal life as she sang about life, love and the pain of being discriminated against because she was African-American. We will never see another quite like Billie; this CD of thirteen of Billie's greatest hits from Sony doesn't even begin to scrape the surface of what this remarkably talented lady could do.

The CD track set begins with a number that's actually sassy as well as jazzy; Billie sings of how Emily Brown's "comin' to town;" but it's "Miss Brown to you." Listen for Benny Goodman on clarinet and Roy Eldridge on trumpet. Teddy Wilson does a great job on piano, too. Even though Billie was only 20 when this was recorded, she was already working with the best!

"What A Little Moonlight Can Do" gets a breakneck pace and a jazzy interpretation that would make any jazz artist green with envy. Billie's voice is light and clear as a bell; yet she imparts all the right emotions to her audience. Once again, Billie recorded this with The Teddy Wilson Orchestra. Teddy plays piano; Benny Goodman plays clarinet and Roy Eldridge plays trumpet. And ooh, how they jam!

"I Cried For You" gives Billie the chance to sing of how she cried for a man who left her--but she no longer cares for him and she won't waste one minute more worrying about that loser. The musicians work wonders before Billie even comes in; but when Billie comes in the number soars and Billie takes flight! Billie imparts the sense of all the pain in her past and how she's happy to have found a new man who loves her more. Teddy Wilson again plays piano; and listen for Harry Carney on both the clarinet and the baritone saxophone. Excellent!

"Billie's Blues" stuns you with its sublime treatment of the blues; Billie wrote this number and Artie Shaw himself plays clarinet! Billie sings about how her man treats her so poorly; and you believe every word she sings--she's THAT good at sharing her feelings from the depths of her soul.

"I Can't Get Started" is a number recorded live when Billie performed at The Meadowbrook Ballroom in Cedar Grove, New Jersey with Count Basie & His Orchestra. Despite the passage of time and the surface noise on this track, I distinctly feel everything Billie put into this song. Billie was unlucky in love and the pain of this problem helps her to deliver "I Can't Get Started" as if the lyrics were a intimate, personal and very private confession to you from the bottom of her heart. Wow.

"God Bless The Child" was one of Billie's most famous signature songs; and she delivers this with all her might. Billie sings so well because she truly means every word of the lyrics. This is not just another chanteuse singing a ballad; this is Billie Holiday once again sharing her most intimate feelings with her audience. Roy Eldridge plays trumpet and I predict you will enjoy this number very, very much.

"Gloomy Sunday" became associated with many a suicide; anyone deep in despair and hopelessness can identify with "Gloomy Sunday." Billie sings this so well because of the countless times she experienced these very emotions in her private life. "The Very Thought Of You" swings ever so slightly to infuse this ballad with just the right amount of energy and romantic effect. Billie's excellent diction, coupled with her light and clear voice, lets her perform "The Very Thought Of You" with twice the panache that any other singer could ever have infused into it.

The CD track set ends with the classic "Body And Soul." Billie sings of how she wants a man who doesn't love her in return. Billie sings from the bottom of her heart as she draws upon her personal pain from unrequited love. As always, Billie's delivery is flawless.

The liner notes include an informative essay by Timme Rosenkrantz; and the black and white pictures of Holiday are very tastefully arranged. The song credits and recording dates are there for you, too.

We will never again see another Billie Holiday. During her all too brief life she gave us more than most entertainers and "celebrities" do in a full lifetime. We are so much richer for Billie sharing her endless talents with us; and fortunately we can continue to experience her talents on CD for ages to come.

Beautiful.......2007-01-22

Billie Holiday is an amazing artist and I am proud to have her CD.

Fave Jazz Album!.......2005-05-27

Every tune is fab! Thankfully, the remastering has not diminished the old scratchy sound typically found in recordings from this era.

This is why I hate most modern jazz. This has genuine feeling, a raw sound, natural flow, and catchy licks--things lacking these days, IMO.

Pick this up if you are not a huge jazz collector, but just wish to add something worthwile to your otherwise ecclectic collection of music.

Early greats from Lady Day.......2005-04-30

I heard this CD while I was walking around Borders and just had to have it. These are early recordings - the music is fresh and joyous - the vocals are superb. I especially love the recordings of "Miss Brown To You," "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (a treat), "Some Other Spring" and my very favorite, "I Can't Get Started." I have other Holiday recordings. However, this is the one I play again and again. I only wish that it had "Good Morning Heartache" on it. Oh, well.

A great place to start, an album with a special treat!.......2005-03-11

Almost everything Billie Holiday recorded, and maybe everything Billie recorded before 1941, like these sides, was great. Certainly, this collection doesn't have any of the very important work Billie Did during WWII for Commodore, nor does it have some of th exciting Jazzy recordings Billie did for Verve in the late 1940s and 1950s. Nor are any of the outstanding live performances by Billie for Jazz at the Philharmonic or in her Carneige Hall concerts on this CD.

With Billie who recorded for about 30 years on a lot of labels, the tendency was, particularly back in the days of LPs, for every owner of some Billie material to put out whatever they could crip together as Billie's greatest hits.

I have to say that I was introduced to Billie's greatest work, that in the 1930s, by owning this collection on Vinyl. This is nice fun and engaging music. On some of the great standards, she really makes it. Like all of her recordings for Columba and its ancestors back then, John Hammond Sr, gathers together some of the masters of Black and white swing Jazz to join her. Very shortly after she started recording, the greatest names in Jazz would flock to her sessions and play on her recordings for litte because of the innovation and creativity Billie showed as a jazz creator in her own right.
One special treat here is "I can't get started" with the Count Basie Orchestra. Billie was the first female singer with Count Basie's band, but because she was booked to Columbia and the Count had been shanghied by Decca, there were no studio recordings of Billie singing with the Basie Orchestra. This is an enormous loss to human culture. "I can't get started" is one of the two air checks (recordings made off of radio broadcasts) we have of Billie with the Baseities. The other "Swing it Brother Swing" is available on an album with air checks from a Basie broadcast from the Savoy Ballroom.

I really love the way her singing interplays with the backing particularly from the reed section, and love the sinuous solo Lester takes which is more mellow and romantic than the one he takes in the small group Billie Holiday recording of "I can't get started."

All of this is nice music. If you are not ready to take the plunge and get everything from the 1930s and early 1940s (to be followed by everything from the 1940s and then most of the stuff from the 1950s) this is as good as any place else to start. Nice fun, wonderful music, great jazz in both her voice and in the way that the sidemen swing in her honor.

Average customer rating: Not even close to her Greatest Great sound quality An album for those who've never listened to Billie Holiday.. Should be called, "Some of her greatest hits" Lady Day at her heart-breaking, slow-burning best.

Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits (Decca) Billie Holiday Manufacturer: Verve ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic Female Vocal Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Cabaret | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Verve | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Billie's Best Love Songs Pure Ella: The Very Best of Ella Fitzgerald Billie Holiday - Greatest Hits (Sony) Lady in Satin ASIN: B000003N4D Release Date: 1995-06-06

Tracks:

1. Easy Living
2. What Is This Thing Called Love?
3. Solitude
4. You're My Thrill
5. Them There Eyes
6. No More
7. God Bless The Child
8. My Man
9. Don't Explain
10. There Is No Greater Love
11. T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
12. You Better Go Now
13. Big Stuff
14. Good Morning, Heartache
15. I Loves You Porgy (From Porgy & Bess)
16. Guilty
17. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
18. Crazy He Calls Me
19. That Ole Devil Called Love

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There's no such thing as a genuine Billie Holiday greatest-hits collection--her career was split among too many labels for that--but this single-disc distillation of the Complete Decca Recordings 2 CD set (recorded between 1944 and 1950) is pretty solid. Holiday's in fine vocal form (though her accompaniment is undistinguished easy-listening stuff; the choir on "God Bless the Child" is a bit frustrating), and the songs are arranged to work as an album rather than chronologically. She transcends the ideas of torch songs, of blues, of ballad singing--her version of "Lover Man" exemplifies erotic despair, tormented and aroused at once--and even the lesser-known tracks here are pleasant surprises, like a Leonard Bernstein song. --Douglas Wolk

Customer Reviews:

Not even close to her Greatest.......2002-02-22

Although there are a few good cuts on this collection, despite the generally terrible arrangements, almost any other collection of Billie's is better. If you want a single disc Greatest Hits album, try an obscure Brit import called "Fine and Mellow." The only thing the DECCA CD has going for it is better sound quality, because it was recorded much later than most of her good recordings.

Great sound quality.......2002-01-14

I've heard many Billie Holiday CDs and this is one of the better ones. The sound quality is fantastic. 19 of her very best hits. I recommend this to both new and old Holiday fans.

An album for those who've never listened to Billie Holiday.........2001-03-25

...Like me! True, these songs don't represent the real Billie because they are so short (about 3 minutes each). And there are a lot of added strings in the background in order to fit into what was commercially typical of the day. BUT trust me, after you listen to "Good Morning Heartache" it will sound like REAL music, compared to so much (noise/garbage) that passes for music in the present.

I love this record!

Should be called, "Some of her greatest hits".......2000-12-28

While it is true, no one album could contain all of Billie Holiday's greatest hits, it's not a bad start. I you have just discovered Billie Holiday and you want to listen to some of her best renditions then this album isn't a bad place to start. Billie Holiday is so rare a talent that we may never see another like her again. So much of who she was is heard in her voice that it is often feels like an intrusion into the mind of another individual. At the same time, that is what makes Billie Holiday the greatest. So much of what music is today is vapid beyond belief. What with singers that convey no emotion because they have none to offer, lyrics that are as sharp as a butter knife and listeners who get excited over any tripe handed to them in their lethargic ears. In short, Billie Holiday is for everyone, everyone who has a discerning taste for quality. Buying this album is like taking the first bite of a meal that is going to satisfy both your taste buds and your soul.

Lady Day at her heart-breaking, slow-burning best........1999-09-13

This album was my introduction to Lady Day, and what an intro. From the first slowly slinky phrases of 'Easy Living' there's hardly a duff moment. IMHO, the one misguided moment is the inclusion of a version of 'God Bless The Child' with a schmaltzy choir intro. If you can forgive that, there's plenty here to delight and seduce the vocal jazz newbie. 'Solitude' and 'Good Morning, Heartache' are *beyond* torch songs: Holiday's small, wounded-bird cry works its way under your skin and settles into your soul. The leisurely, easy 'You're My Thrill' is seduction by sound, evoking small, smoky, dimly lit nightclubs, a half-empty whisky glass, the scent of Gitanes on someone's hair...pure magic. Holiday's knack of hitting those notes like a human trumpet (a trick which might not sound appealing, but has to be heard to be believed) is showcased brilliantly on 'Them There Eyes'. 'Don't Explain' is an entirely adult love song, love with none of the jagged edges smoothed off, and no shadows to hide the truth in.

All in all, this is an album made for listening to late at night, in semi-darkness, with a summer breeze bearing the sounds of the city drifting through the window. If you can't get that, then try putting it on, shutting your eyes and letting Lady Day take you away. You won't regret it.

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The Hits of '23: Dreamy Melody Various Artists Manufacturer: Asv Living Era ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic Female Vocal Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music New Orleans Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Ragtime | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Tin Pan Alley | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocalists | Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Similar Items: Hits of '21: Ain't We Got Fun? The Hits of '22: Do It Again! Hits of '24: It Had to Be You! Hits of '25: Yes Sir, That's My Baby! Roaring Twenties: When My Baby Smiles at Me ASIN: B0002SVEVO Release Date: 2004-10-19

Tracks:

1. Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye [From Bombo] - Al Jolson,
2. Crinoline Days [From Music Box Revue] - Paul Whiteman Orchestra
3. Carolina in the Morning [From the Passing Show of 1922] - Van & Schenck
4. Aggravatin' Papa - Marion Harris, , Orchestra
5. Dippermouth Blues - King Oliver
6. Lovin' Sam, the Sheik of Alabam' [From Make It Snappy] - Isabella Patricola
7. Faded Love Letters - Henry Burr
8. Parade of the Wooden Soldiers [From Chauve Souris] - Paul Whiteman Orchestra
9. Lady of the Evening [From Music Box Revue] - Rosario Bourdon, John Steel
10. Louisville Lou, the Vampin' Lady
11. Downhearted Blues - Bessie Smith, Clarence Williams
12. Wonderful One - Paul Whiteman Orchestra
13. Yes, We Have No Bananas - Studio Orchestra
14. Marcheta - Isham Jones & His Orchestra
15. You've Got to See Mama Every Night - Sophie Tucker
16. Bambalina [From the Wildflower] - Paul Whiteman Orchestra
17. Barney Google
18. I Cried for You
19. That Old Gang of Mine [From Ziegfeld Follies of 1923] - Billy Murray, Ed Smalle
20. Dreamy Melody - Art Landry & His Call of the North Orchestra
21. No, No, Nora - Eddie Cantor, Charles Adams Prince
22. Last Night on the Back Porch [From George White's Scandals of 1923] - Paul Whiteman Orchestra
23. Just a Girl That Men Forget - Henry Burr
24. Swingin' Down the Lane - Isham Jones & His Orchestra
25. Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses

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Great R&B: Female Groups - Hits Of The 60's Various Artists Manufacturer: K-Tel ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Disco | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music Motown | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Compilations | R&B | Styles | Music General | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Disco | Dance & DJ | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Disco | Dance & DJ | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | R&B General | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | R&B General | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Soul General | Soul | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Soul General | Soul | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Oldies General | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Oldies General | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B000000RWF Release Date: 1997-09-09

Tracks:

1. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles
2. Please Mr. Postman - Marvelettes
3. Chapel Of Love - Dixie Cups
4. The Boy From New York City - Ad-Libs
5. Sally, Go 'Round The Roses - Jaynetts
6. A Lover's Concerto - Toys
7. I Stand Accused (Of Loving You) - Glories
8. I'm Blue - Ikettes
9. Sweet Inspiration - Sweet Inspirations
10. In The Midnight Hour - Mirettes

Average customer rating: Basically, I Love It The greatest of the "New Wave" bands The Best Come Back of 2003 A tame comeback

Piece of Mind Robin Lane Manufacturer: Windjam Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Catbird Seat Robin Lane & The Chartbusters ASIN: B00009V7O5 Release Date: 2003-06-03

Tracks:

1. All Fall Down
2. Talk to You
3. Last One to Know
4. She Wants You Back
5. Little Bird
6. Somebody Else
7. In My World
8. Letter
9. I Remember
10. Idiot
11. Psychotic Disorders

Customer Reviews:

Basically, I Love It.......2005-10-27

This album is such a welcome return to Robin's signature style...all except the last track, (a bit too dissonant for me) I very much enjoy playing it often, and am so glad I finally bought it. Thanks Robin!!

The greatest of the "New Wave" bands.......2004-11-10

I saw Robin Lane and the Chartbusters at the Cellar Door in Washington DC right after the first album was released and they slayed everyone there. Robin was a LOT cuter in person than on the album cover (she had shoulder-length STRAIGHT hair) and she exuded a tremendous amount of stage prescence. I was so impressed and glad to be there.

I just ordered the "new" album today. Unfortunately, Amazon has rated this album "limited availablity" even thought it's less than a year old!!! I hope I can find it somewhere if they can't. If anyone wants to burn me a copy, I'd be more than grateful. They can charge me whatever they like. I'm on Pay Pal so I'm sure we could work something out.

I agree that "Imitation Life" should be released on CD. It's killer stuff (I have it on cassette only) and long for a digital release. The first album is one of my favorite albums and I really like "Catbird Seat" too.

Robin is great and I'd love to see her again in person. I've loved her ever since I heard her haunting backup vocals on Neil Young's "Round and Round" in 1969!!! Awesome artist.

The Best Come Back of 2003.......2004-02-20

I first fell in love with Robin Lane and the Chartbusters shortly after the release of this wonderfully unique band's self-titled debut album (during the early 1980s glory days of MTV). How time flies, no? Since those early days, I have mourned the Chartbuster's departure from the music mainstream. While I still cherish my vinyl copies of Chartbuster releases, I have long lamented the fact that their music had all but disappeared from our musical lexicon since the demise of the turntable. Robin and her band stood head and shoulders above the pack back in the day ... and now, to my utter delight, they do not disappoint with their lastest "reunion" release, PIECE OF MIND. In fact, like a good cheese or a fine wine, the passage of time has only made the Chartbuster's sound richer and sweeter on the pallatte. Collector's Choice Music recently re-released the Chartbuster's debut album ... and I quickly snapped up MY copy. But sadly, their smashing follow-up, IMITATION LIFE, is still unavailable in digital format. Fortunately for us, one gem from that wonderful recording, "Idiot", has been re-recorded by the band and appears on PIECE OF MIND. Thank you!! This CD is a must-have for anyone who remembers Robin and her compatriots as fondly as I do. I truly hope that this return effort spawns a new Chartbusters era.

A tame comeback.......2003-11-24

This reunion CD is a mix of previously-unrecorded material from the band's heyday 20 years ago and new songs. It feels like having old friends back again, and Robin is still in fine voice. When I heard the opening notes of the first song, and the re-recorded "Idiot", huge smiles came to my face.

In the end, though, the smiles are due to nostalgia - this was a great band that should have been at the top of the charts, but that never made it, and I miss them. But you can't turn time back 20 years, and however good they may still be live (I haven't heard them since 1980), whatever hype you may read, no matter how good the band feels about producing their own CD this time around (their energy and brilliant guitar interplay wasn't properly captured in the 80's recordings but is simply gone, along with youth and one of the original guitarists, in 2003), there's nothing here that rises above the mediocre, and much that sinks below it. The sound is often a pleasant reminder of the band that once was, but the lyrics range from forgettable to banal to embarrassingly weak. "The Letter" makes me wince, and "Psychotic Disorders" makes me absolutely cringe - if I wanted sophomoric humor, Blink 182 does it better. There's nothing here that would stand on its own merits and be interesting to someone who wasn't already a fan of Robin's music two decades ago (I was a rabid one). I'd hoped for something new, perhaps a more modern sound and more mature lyrical sensibilities to compensate for the loss of youth. But even Asa Brebner's R. Crumb-like cartoons - the other thing on this CD that brought a smile to my face - haven't changed since "Imitation Life" 22 years ago. This is a fun reunion, but without any marked artistic growth.

Sometimes a middle-aged musician makes a comeback with a real edge to it. Returning with a completely new sound is probably rare (Marianne Faithfull and perhaps Janis Ian would be examples of one-hit wonders who came back years later with serious well-done music performed in new styles). But people like Neil Young (Freedom, 1989), Lou Reed (New York, 1989), and Patti Smith (Gone Again, 1996) came back with flair and vision and courage over two decades after their debuts, with lyrics surpassing the work of their youth. You won't find that here. Hearing this band back together left me with some warm fuzzies, despite weak songwriting, and that may be reason enough for the average Robin Lane fan to make a purchase. I have really mixed feelings about this CD - I'm so thrilled to have this great band back together, and I'd go hear them live in a heartbeat, but I find it hard to get excited about any of the songs here. On a human level, I salute these old friends and bandmates for getting back together to play and record music they love - that's what life should be about. But as much as I love Robin, I can't recommend this CD except to other die-hard fans, and I'm not sure even they won't be a bit disappointed. If you don't get your expectations too high though, you'll probably enjoy hearing the return of Robin Lane and the Chartbusters.

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Greatest Hits Bessie Smith Manufacturer: Fabulous ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic Female Vocal Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Essential Bessie Smith The Original Delta Blues At Last! Taking The Long Way Not Too Late ASIN: B0007WBDXO Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

1. Down Hearted Blues
2. Gulf Coast Blues
3. Jailhouse Blues
4. St. Louis Gal
5. Aggravatin' Papa
6. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
7. Chicago Bound Blues
8. T'Ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do
9. Any Woman's Blues
10. Easy Come Easy Go Blues
11. Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
12. Hateful Blues
13. Careless Love Blues
14. New Gulf Coast Blues
15. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
16. Yello Dog Blues
17. I Ain't Got Nobody
18. What's the Matter Now
19. Baby Doll
20. Hard Driving Papa
21. Gin House Blues
22. Lost Your Head Blues
23. After You've Gone
24. Backwater Blues

Tracks:

1. Preachin' the Blues
2. Alexadner's Ragtime Band
3. Good Man Is Hard to Find
4. Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
5. Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
6. Thinking Blues
7. I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave
8. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 1
9. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 2
10. Spider Man Blues
11. Slow and Easy Man
12. I'm Wild About That Thing
13. You've Got to Give Me Some
14. Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out
15. Wasted Life Blues
16. Don't Cry Baby
17. Baby Have Pity on Me
18. Hustlin' Dan
19. Black Mountain Blues
20. In the House Blues
21. Blue Blue
22. I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
23. Safety Mama
24. Do Your Duty
25. Gimme a Pig Foot and a Bottle of Beer

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Female Vocal Club Hits, Vol. 1 Various Artists Manufacturer: Dance Street ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music | Ambient | Dance Pop | Disco | Drum & Bass | Electronica | Freestyle | Techno-House | Trance | Trip Hop General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0007TX8AI Release Date: 2005-04-18

Tracks:

1. Weekend [Radio Edit] - Michael Gray
2. Out of Touch - Dave Armstrong
3. Save This Night for Love [Radio Edit] - Hijos De Ibiza
4. Go Deeper [Original Mix] - C. Cossins, Skylab
5. Secrets (Broke My Heart) - Sasja, Michael Splint
6. Piece of Heaven [Radio Mix] - Akira
7. Matter of Time [Radio Edit] - DJenetix
8. Into a Fantasy [CJ Stone Meets Mr. Phillips Radio] - C-Base, C-Base, DJ Thoka
9. Cold as Ice - Starsplash
10. It's a Dream [DJ Manian vs. Yanou Radio Cut] - DJ Dean
11. U Got 2 Let the Music Remix [DJ Shog Radio] - Cappella
12. Angel Eyes [Radio Cut] - Mario Lopez
13. Trust Your Eyes [Radio Edit] - Harry Chester
14. Come Closer - 4 Strings
15. Reason [Kareema Radio Edit] - Diamond
16. One [Fillers Radio Edit] - Mental Thing
17. Trancemission - Vincent Vega
18. All of My Life [Radio Edit] - Aluna
19. Kind of Reality [M.T.J. Club Radio] - Key Of Sound
20. Why Can't We [Radio Mix] - D-Wave

Tracks:

1. Only Time - KK Project
2. Champ Elis [Album Mix] - Gare Mat K,
3. Love Me Eternally [Alex Bartlett Edit] - Cosmic Culture, Princes of Trance
4. Shine - C.J. Stone,
5. I've Been Thinking About You [Michael Parsberg Remix Edit] - Damae, Londonbeat
6. Missing You [M.T.J. Gold Radio] - M.T.J.
7. Near Me [Radio Mix] - Sheryl Deane, Matanka
8. Two Become One [Original Radio Mix] - Freeloader
9. Closer [White Noise Radio Edit] - Pull
10. Show Me the Light - Lunaspace
11. Summer Dreaming [Central Seven Radio] - Fun Brothers
12. Mysterious Nights
13. You Make My Dreams [Radio Edit] - Angel Beats, DJ Merlin
14. Stars Collide - Deep Devotion
15. Killer's Song [The Killer's Song Radio] - Carolina Marquez
16. Don't Fade Away [Bonito & Trooper Radio] - Alvaro, Gambas
17. Living in Oblivion [Futureforce Us Mix] - Impact
18. Can't Stop to Follow - T Ninety
19. I Wanna [Radio Mix] - Lian Ross
20. Heaven's Here [Radio Edit] - Pearldiver

Average customer rating: Sappy Loves Songs, but Good

Love Songs: Greatest Hits Various Artists Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic Female Vocal Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music 1950s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music 1960s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music 1940-1949 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1960-1969 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1950-1959 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Golden Greats: Greatest Love Songs Eternal Romance: Classic Love Songs Classic Love Songs: 22 Beautiful Balads Great American Love Songs: Romantic Standards Collection Jazz: Love Songs After Dark ASIN: B0000064XE Release Date: 1998-03-10

Tracks:

1. I'm Confessin' That I Love You - Lena Horne
2. Night And Day - Frank Sinatra/Tommy Dorsey
3. Heart And Soul - Helen Ward/Larry Clinton
4. The Nearness Of You - Ray Eberle/Glenn Miller
5. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good - Ivy Anderson/Duke Ellington
6. My One And Only Love - Louis Armstrong
7. I've Got A Crush On You - Cleo Laine
8. There Will Never Be Another You - Cooleman Hawkins
9. Stardust - Hoagy Carmichael
10. Embraceable You - Sarah Vaughan/Dizzy Gillespie
11. Skylark - Billy Eckstine/Earl Hines
12. Any Old Time - Billie Holiday/Artie Shaw
13. The Very Thought Of You - Roy Felton/Benny Carter
14. You're My Thrill - Lena Horne/Charlie Barnet
15. The Song Is You - Frank Sinatra/Tommy Dorsey
16. Goodnight My Love - Ella Fitzgerald/Benny Goodman

Customer Reviews:

Sappy Loves Songs, but Good.......2001-03-21

RCA Victor's compilation album of "Love Song's Greatest Hits" is an mixture of some of the sappier songs RCA Victor has the rights to. While all of them are pleasant to listen to, for this swing/40s jazz enthusiast, the arrangements are so similar that very few stand out. The arrangements stay to the soupy/sentimental side; if you don't like Glenn Miller's style, steer clear.

I quite enjoy "I Got it Bad and that Ain't Good"-- one of my favorite Ellington songs and a rarity on compilation albums. I also like the inclusion of Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust"-- a different musician on this standard.

The Lena Horne tracks are very quiet, so beware, as one starts out the set. When Tommy Dorsey's band kicks in, it might be startling.

If you're looking at this for the Frank Sinatra/Tommy Dorsey selections, be aware that RCA Victor has a Frank Sinatra/Tommy Dorsey album that is *fantastic* and Amazon has it.

Average customer rating:

Female Pop Hits! various Manufacturer: Pocketsongs ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000PHUUE4

Product Description

Title: Beautiful Stranger; Artist: Madonna; Track: 1| Title: Torn; Artist: Imbruglia, Natalie; Track: 2| Title: Turn The Beat Around; Artist: Estefan, Gloria; Track: 3| Title: All I Wanna Do; Artist: Crow, Sheryl; Track: 4| Title: Angel; Artist: McLachlan, Sarah; Track: 5| Title: Have You Ever?; Artist: Brandy; Track: 6| Title: Believe; Artist: Cher; Track: 7| Title: You're Still The One; Artist: Twain, Shania; Track: 8| Title: 2 Become 1; Artist: Spice Girls, The; Track: 9| Title: Baby One More Time; Artist: Spears, Britney; Track: 10| Title: My Heart Will Go On ('Titanic'); Artist: Dion, Celine; Track: 11| Title: Last Dance; Artist: Summer, Donna; Track: 12| Title: Fame; Artist: Cara, Irene; Track: 13| Title: Unbreak My Heart; Artist: Braxton, Toni; Track: 14| Title: Wind Beneath My Wings, The; Artist: Midler, Bette; Track: 15| Title: I Will Always Love You; Artist: Houston, Whitney; Track: 16| Title: Hero; Artist: Carey, Mariah; Track: 17|

Average customer rating: A strange collection, but enjoyable. Just shy of 5 stars... Fascinating Music

Lost Female Hits of the 50's Various Artists Manufacturer: Taragon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Oldies | Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000DC4Q Release Date: 1998-10-20

Tracks:

1. Candy And Cake - Mindy Carson
2. I'm In Love Again - April Stevens
3. That' s All I Want From You - Jaye P. Morgan
4. Hard To Get - Gisele Mackenzie
5. C' Est Si Bon (It' s So Good) - Eartha Kitt
6. Crying In The Chapel - June Valli
7. Smile - Sunny Gale
8. Are You Satisfied? - Toni Arden
9. Rock And Roll Waltz - Kay Starr
10. My Foolish Heart - Mindy Carson
11. Chantez Chantez - Dinah Shore
12. Mr. Wonderful - Teddi King
13. Strange Are The Ways Of Love - Gogi Grant
14. I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki
15. Don' t You Know - Della Reese
16. Sugar Candy - Georgia Gibbs
17. Many A Wonderful Moment - Rosemary Clooney
18. My Coloring Book - Kitty Kallen

Customer Reviews:

A strange collection, but enjoyable........2004-05-28

I bought this CD primarily for two tracks on it that are hard to find, "Hard to Get" by Gisele MacKenzie and "That's All I Want from You" by Jaye P. Morgan. I certainly was not disappointed, but it is a very strange collection. It includes one piece (Kay Starr's "Rock and Roll Waltz") that is not at all difficult to find, a few hits that are hard to come by (like the two I mentioned above and Mindy Carson's "Candy and Cake"), some obscure songs by famous artists (like a Rosemary Clooney song I'd never heard of before), and the third-best charting song by a two-hit wonder (a Gogi Grant piece). But on balance, it's a pleasant collection to listen to, even if I am totally mystified as to what prompted the choices.

Just shy of 5 stars..........2002-11-06

This collection of female artist hits from the 50s is a companion piece to Taragon's "Lost Male Hits of the '50s". Along the theme of that piece, this CD contains a gathering of seldom-found-on-CD tracks spanning the decade of the 50s and culled from the RCA family of labels. The selections here stray from the titled purpose in that two of the tracks did not chart and technically are not "hits" and two of the tracks are from the early 60's. The liner notes even ask the purchaser to not "quibble" within their acknowledgement of the two early 60's selections. Getting beyond any "quibbling" about the adherence to the title's promise, the non-hits and the fact that the tunes included are limited to RCA's artists, this CD does offer a sonically superior generous taste of female pop from the innocent pre-rock music of the 50's. Having been taken from original masters, the sound quality is top-notch given the vintage of these recordings. By necessity, most of the tracks are in mono but the stereo-era recordings (tracks 14-18) are presented in stereo. Complete track listings are given but if there is any other notable criticism here it would be the lack of any backround info on the included artists and songs. Minor shortcomings notwithstanding, this is an excellent sampling of the music of the era - a style to be buried by the takeover of music by teenagers of the burgeoning rock and roll era.

Fascinating Music.......2000-07-05

This is one of the most loving selection of songs I have ever listened. "Strange Are The Ways Of Love" by Gogy Grant is the best, but the other songs are really great!. Congratulations for this record.

Christian Music:

1. Pop Female (Karaoke)
2. Pop Male Hits (Karaoke)
3. Promises
4. Proverbs
5. Reflections Of A Yielded Vessel
6. Reminisence of This Magic Moment
7. Renaissance Man
8. Right Here, Right Now - Pop Male & Female (Karaoke)
9. Rock My World (Karaoke)
10. Rock Your Body (Pop Male & Female) (Karaoke)

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