The Complete Warner Recordings

Disc: 1
1. Victims of the Darkness
2. Am I Expecting Too Much?
3. My Baby Is the Real Thing
4. Goin' Down
5. She Once Belonged to Me
6. Out of the City (Into Country Life)
7. Soul Sister
8. Fingers and Toes
9. I've Got to Convince Myself
10. On Your Way Down
See all 23 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Night People
2. Just a Kiss Away
3. With You in Mind
4. Lover of Love
5. To Be With You
6. Motion
7. Viva la Money
8. Declaration of Love
9. Happiness
10. Optimism Blues
See all 20 tracks on this disc

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Average customer rating: Simply put, the MOTHERLODE! HILARIOUS Sets the Standard for Modern Stand-Up Comedy Greatness but now for the iPod issues with it Worth Its Weight in Gold...

Richard Pryor: ...And It's Deep Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968-1992) Richard Pryor Manufacturer: Rhino / Warner Bros. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Country Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classic Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Shock Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Contemporary Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Comedy & Spoken Word | Box Sets | Stores | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966-1974) Richard Pryor - Live & Smokin' The Richard Pryor Show, Vols. 1 & 2 plus Bonus Disc Live on the Sunset Strip Richard Pryor - I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!! (Uncensored) ASIN: B00004YR3M Release Date: 2000-10-17

Tracks:

1. Super Nigger
2. Girls
3. Farting
4. Prison Play
5. T.V. Panel Show
6. Smells
7. Army Life
8. Frankenstein

Tracks:

1. I Hope I'm Funny
2. Nigger With A Seizure
3. Have Your Ass Home By 11:00
4. Black & White Life Styles
5. Exorcist
6. Wino Dealing With Dracula
7. Flying Saucers
8. The Back Down
9. Black Man/White Woman
10. Niggers Vs. The Police
11. Wino & Junkie

Tracks:

1. Eulogy
2. Shortage Of White People
3. New Niggers
4. Cocaine
5. Just Us
6. Mudbone - Intro
7. Mudbone - Little Feets
8. When Your Woman Leaves You
9. The Goodnight Kiss
10. Women Are Beautiful
11. Our Text For Today
12. Ali

Tracks:

1. Hillbilly
2. Black & White Women
3. Our Gang
4. Bicentennial Prayer
5. Black Hollywood
6. Mudbone Goes To Hollywood
7. Chinese Restaurant
8. Acid
9. Bicentennial Nigger

Tracks:

1. New Year's Eve
2. White And Black People
3. Black Funerals
4. Discipline
5. Heart Attacks
6. Ali
7. Keeping In Shape
8. Leon Spinks

Tracks:

1. Dogs And Horses
2. Jim Brown
3. Monkeys
4. Kids
5. Nature
6. Things In The Woods
7. Deer Hunter
8. Chinese Food
9. Being Sensitive

Tracks:

1. Women
2. Prison
3. Africa
4. Mafia Club
5. Mudbone
6. Freebase
7. Hospital

Tracks:

1. Here And Now
2. Southern Hospitality
3. Slavery
4. Motherland
5. I Met The President
6. Fire Exit
7. Mudbone (Part One)
8. Mudbone (Part Two)
9. Inebriated
10. One Night Stands
11. One Day At A Time
12. I Like Women
13. Being Famous
14. I Remember
15. Interview

Tracks:

1. Introduction
2. Mudbone Goes To Hollywood (Alternate Version)
3. Fame (Part One)
4. Black Messiah
5. Life
6. Death
7. My Funeral
8. Acid (Alternate Version)
9. Patty Hearst
10. Fighting
11. The Law
12. History Lesson
13. I Don't Give A Fuck
14. Fame (Part Two)
15. Therapy
16. W.A.S.P.'s
17. Getting Older
18. God
19. Dog
20. M.S.

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One can't help but feel both elated and sad when listening to this colossal overview of Richard Pryor's recorded work. Multiple sclerosis has silenced the greatest humorist of his generation, and that's tragic for Pryor. But it's also a heartbreaking loss for comedy, for, as these discs amply illustrate, the man who exploded the parameters of stage comedy in the '70s could have taken it in wild new directions. As it was, Pryor fleshed out Lenny Bruce's commitment to brutal honesty--and with a keener acting ability. This nine-CD set includes the comic's seven Warner Bros. LPs, plus a disc of previously unissued material and a rare 25-minute interview from 1983. Listening to the likes of 1974's That Nigger's Crazy and 1978's Live in Concert, it's obvious that while the man shaped comedy for decades to come, very few of those who've followed in his footsteps have anything near the talent, fearlessness, wisdom, or insight that Pryor possessed. Or the pain, for that matter. But as Pryor observed looking back at his peak years, "I was a drug-addicted, paranoid, frightened, lonely, sad, and frustrated comedian who had gotten too big for his britches." All those qualities come through loud and clear on these discs, but what he's left out is that, at the very same time, he was also very possibly the funniest man on the planet. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Simply put, the MOTHERLODE!.......2006-11-08

Pryorites and fans of comedy, folklore, storytelling, whatever you want to call it, simply put, this CD set is worth it.

Aside from the material on EVOLUTION/REVOLUTION (containing much of the material recorded for Laff records and elsewhere), this is the complete above-ground recordings of Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor, and then some!

From the first Pryor Lp in 1968, we get the embyonic genius of PRISON PLAY (aka Black Ben The Blacksmith), and early classic on the theme of interracial sex during slavery in a play at a prison overseen by a racist warden-with Pryor voicing all the characters! TV PANEL SHOW is along similar lines, as our hero does all the voices of the said subject.
SUPERN(egro) aside, the other routines here are not so hot, but you get a good glimpse of what was to come.

On to THAT N(egro)'s CRAZY where our man does polished versions of the routines he had been doing for the past few years in LIVE & SMOKIN, WATTSTAX, and CRAPS AFTER HOURS regarding sex, the police, racism, etc. This is where he became a "ghetto superstar" on the verge of exploding into mainstream America.

IS IT SOMETHING I SAID (1975) is his best unified work (to me). Not only do we get the classic OUR TEXT FOR TODAY (his classic take on the ministry), we also get chapter 1 of the MUDBONE saga, Pryor's ingenius take on the old folklore-spouting tale-spinning wise black men once found on every street corner in America.

BICENTENNIAL N(egro) is largely forgotten today, but it shouldn't be. This is Pryor's magnum opus on being Black in America during the nation's 200th birthday. Like Brian Wilson's SMILE and Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOING ON, it should be heard in its entirety to be effective.

On to the live albums LIVE IN CONCERT, LIVE ON THE SUNSET STRIP, and HERE AND NOW. The first is considered a classic. Has its moments, but he's done things that I've liked better. In the second, he recounces the N-word which gets a standing-o from me and delivers part 2 of the MUDBONE saga. The latter is a lesser work, but he puts some racist hecklers in check, gets into a really cool improvised conversation with a fiddler crab that a fan puts onstage.

The previously unreleased bits are largely a treasure-BLACK MESSIAH and HISTORY LESSON are masterpieces that mix the profane and profound, with verbal nuclear bombs and breathtaking social observations that make you laugh and gasp at the same time. PATTY HEARST is a skewered but interesting take on the famous kidnapping (one of the few occasional bits that it would help to be a history buff or a 70s person to dig), but MS is a very sad piece, probably one of his last recordings, as he ruminates on the effects this disease has on him. It's not likely that you'll want to hear that one more than once.

Overall, this is an amazing collection well worth the price that works in both ways as laugh material you can bring your buddies over for beer and pizza for (as I did with a number of these albums during my college years)and something you can really meditate and think over. This set is the ultimate legacy that Richard Pryor left to the world. RIP.

HILARIOUS.......2006-11-06

Complete works of Richard Pryor.....what more needs to be said. The man was a genius. I had been casually searching for a definitive compilation, and when I saw this I had to get it. I was not disappointed.

Sets the Standard for Modern Stand-Up Comedy.......2006-11-02

Any fan of stand-up comedy should be ashamed if they don't already own this amazing box set by Richard Pryor. This wonderful box set is crammed with features--CDs that trace his stand-up career from his early days straight through his mega-stardom at his peak, and then to his struggles with MS (which if you think is maudlin, wait until you hear how he savages it in only the way that Richard Pryor could). A descriptive book loaded with pictures and historical info on Richard that gives you an even deeper appreciation for the man and his works!

Summing up--Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, etc. all are great comedians--but once you hear Pryor, you know that he set the standard for all to come!

Greatness but now for the iPod issues with it.......2006-04-18

iTunes won't recognize the track #'s. Every album is broken down in alphabetical order. Kinda sucks to listen to a live show in some crazy broken order. It's cool though if you just pop them on at home but if you are getting them for your iPod, be prepared.

Worth Its Weight in Gold..........2005-10-22

This boxed set contains every album released by Richard Pryor on the Warner Brothers record label. Only one of these is currently in print, "Is It Something I Said?", which is a shame. However, the fact that all his work is finally available in one place is a blessing. Richard Pryor was more than just a stand up comic. I don't doubt that he was (and is) the greatest stand up comedian of all time and the funniest man on the planet, but there was so much more to him than that. The first time I heard the track "God" off the rarities disc in this collection, I was blown away. In it, Richard describes God returning to Earth and one by one asking to see Martin Luther King Jr., Bobby Kennedy, Emmett Till, and finally his Son, only to find out that each one had been killed. The message he delivers at the end was needed then as much as now: LOVE IS ALL WE'VE GOT. The delivery was so amazing that it left the crowd hushed and obviously taken aback...this STILL isn't standard fare at any comedy club I've ever been to. And then as only Richard could, he apologizes for getting serious on everybody and offers to tell a dirty joke. This collection is full of the humanity, wit, and wisdom of Richard Pryor, and nothing has ever made me laugh so hard. Thank you Richard, for rubbing some sunshine on my face!

Average customer rating: Headhunter fans should just keep moving along! Fascinating with spectacular moments Funky And A Bit Crazy Herbie and a great band Essential Herbie from top to bottom

Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings Herbie Hancock Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Jazz Funk | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sextant Head Hunters Thrust Secrets Speak Like a Child ASIN: B000002MTQ Release Date: 1994-11-22

Tracks:

1. Wiggle-Waggle
2. Fat Mama
3. Tell Me A Bedtime Story
4. Oh! Oh! Here He Comes
5. Jessica
6. Fat Albert Rotunda
7. Lil' Brother
8. Ostinato (Suite For Angela)
9. You'll Know When You Get There

Tracks:

1. Wandering Spirit Song
2. Sleeping Giant: Part One/Part Two/Part Three/Part Four/Part Five
3. Quasar
4. Water Torture

Amazon.com essential recording

These two CDs include three LPs from 1969 to 1972, one of Herbie Hancock's most creative periods. The earliest album, Fat Albert Rotunda, features a fine sextet highlighted by tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, like Hancock a master at maintaining strong rhythmic grooves while stretching outward. The later music, with a regularly working band, becomes increasingly expansive and exploratory. Like Miles Davis on Bitches Brew, Hancock was increasingly interested in layering rhythms and textures, emphasizing percussion, electric keyboards, and potent soloists, and broadening his palette of sounds to eventually include synthesizers. There are significant contributions from the inspiring drummer Billy Hart and some potent, if neglected, soloists in multireed player Bennie Maupin (also on Bitches Brew) and trombonist Julian Priester (a Sun Ra associate), who also provided the extended compositions "Water Torture" and "Wandering Spirit Song," respectively. This is a sometimes overlooked period in Hancock's music, bracketed by the quality of his earlier acoustic music, both with Davis and as a leader on Blue Note, and his later commercial success, but it's some of his most innovative work. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews:

Headhunter fans should just keep moving along!.......2007-06-13

If you are a fan of Miles' music around the Bitches Brew era then this CD is for you. You get the complete Fat Albert Rotunda, Mwandishi, and Crossings. Frankly, I purchased this for Mwandishi and Crossings. After I heard Sextant, I just had to have more of Herbie's Mwandishi band material. The Fat Albert Material is good but it's very different from the other two releases found in this 2 disc set. Again - if you are a fan of Miles in the late 60's early 70's then this is a must have. You will not be disappointed!

Fascinating with spectacular moments.......2006-03-04

These two CDs document Herbie Hancock's music from 1969-1971 for the Warner Brothers label, released originally as three albums. It is a testament to how much jazz was changing at the time that the first album and the last are so drastically different, though the middle album helps to bridge the gap. The first album, "Fat Albert Rotunda," was music that Hancock wrote for "Fat Albert," the Bill Cosby cartoon. For the most part, the music is very funky, but more in the Lee Morgan boogaloo sense than in the Headhunters of the 70s sense. At this point, so much energy had been used trying to find the next hit boogaloo to succeed "The Sidewinder" that the subgenre had been exhausted. Thus, many of the tunes on this album sound very very similar (and one cut actually steals the Horace Silver groove from "The Jody Grind" three years earlier). That having been said, for what it is, the level of musicianship is very high, as Hancock was truly the inventor of this type of tune. The highlights of "Fat Albert Rotunda" are actually the non-funk tunes, few as they are. "Tell me a Bedtime Story" is absolutely beautiful, though it does sound dated mainly because of the groove (the drum pattern used sounds eerily like disco music even though this was almost a decade before the disco craze). "Jessica" is another really pretty ballad, though the orchestrations are a little thick at some times (the melody is beautiful enough to stand alone in my opinion).

The truly wonderful music on this CD comes from the second and third albums represented here, "Mwandishi" and "Crossings." The former features exploratory (though still listenable) extended pieces with an emphasis on odd rhythmic patterns and grooves (though not in the funk sense). "Ostinato" and "You'll Know When You Get There" are excellent, fascinating pieces, while "Wandering Spirit Song" wanders a bit too far to keep my attention.

If you have an adventurous ear, far and away the best music on here comes from "Crossings." With the inclusion of Patrick Gleeson on synthesizers (the first time they were used in jazz, Gleeson's idea), this is electronic music, and can be labeled "fusion" but it's early fusion, before it was commercialized and streamlined. The result is an amazing array of sounds and colors (though the music doesn't rely solely on technology; the writing here is especially strong) with sporadic but glorious moments of funk. Early fusion was often about building great amounts of tension and then releasing them in glorious fashion (though that could be said about a lot of jazz) and there is one moment about twenty minutes into "Sleeping Giant" where Bennie Maupin has been soloing, raising the intensity level gradually, leading the band into a frenzy on one chord to the bursting point, then pow, they hit the bridge and fall back into perfect time. Musicians live for moments like that.

Get this CD because it is fascinating to trace the development of fusion leading up to its breakout with "Headhunters" and "Heavy Weather." There is something for everyone; casual listeners will enjoy the grooving funk of "Fat Albert Rotunda" while serious jazz-heads will be enthralled by almost every moment of Hancock's electronic experiments.

Funky And A Bit Crazy.......2005-07-27

this double cd compiles the complete recordings from three of herbie hancock's sextet releases - fat albert rotunda, mwandishi and crossings. recorded between 1969 and 1972 the band(s) created a musical hybrid of jazz-fusion and rock. like miles davis' recordings released in the same time period, the mwandishi recordings were introspective, explorative, and focused on sounds that were more representative of rock than they were of jazz. the music from fat albert rotunda is the most structured of the three albums and tracks like "wiggle waggle" and "fat mama" are out-in-out hard jazz funk. although these tracks are a bit more focused than the others on the cds, they lack the structure that was more easily accessible with hancock's later band, the headhunters. the tracks included from mwandishi and crossings are spatial and free. the melodies are rarely coherent, and the solos have a tendency to be a bit loose. even still, there is an undeniable weird funkiness to many of these tracks. it's impossible not to be somewhat engrossed by the music on these cds, but it's tough to groove with the music all of the time (it's definitely not always an easy listen).

Herbie and a great band.......2003-12-16

This album is awesome. I should say albums: this two disc set comprises Fat Albert Rotunda, Mwandishi and Crossings. On the Fat Albert stuff Herbie and a great band play with such great joy and feeling--mixing James Brown funk and jazz. You can dance to it. The Mwandishi stuff is more esoteric, but great too--especially Ostinato. Buy it, you'll like it!

Essential Herbie from top to bottom.......2003-11-01

I was really surprised this wasn't on Amazon's list of essentials from Herbie Hancock, because to my ears this is the definition of Herbie's contribution to jazz and clearly surpasses most of the work he did before this point as a group leader. The two discs present two very different visions of what can be done in an electric format, with the first showing how a nearly "standards" approach can be approached in an R & B context (clear melodic and harmonic structures), while the second takes a free approach and explores timbre, space, and texture. I really can't say enough about how much this disc has meant to me since I bought it soon after its initial release. It remains one of my absolute favorite top 5 "stranded on a desert island" discs because no matter how much I've heard it, or how many of the solos I've tried to cop or transcribe, I can honestly say I always hear something new that musicians of today could pick up on to make whole new genres upon genres.

Average customer rating: Neon Philharmonic To the late Don Gant Great stuff!

Brilliant Colors: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings The Neon Philharmonic Manufacturer: Rhino Handmade ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Baroque Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Good Thing Lost: 1968-1973 Excitable Boy Naked City - Criterion Collection Favourite Worst Nightmare Memory Almost Full [Deluxe Limited Edition] ASIN: B0001MMG5Y Release Date: 2004-01-01

Tracks:

1. Brilliant Colors
2. Cowboy
3. New Life Out There
4. Morning Girl
5. Midsummer Night
6. Little Sparrow
7. Last Time I Saw Jacqueline
8. Morning Girl, Later
9. Are You Old Enough to Remeber Dresden?
10. Forever Hold Your Peace
11. You Lied
12. Harry
13. No One Is Going to Hurt You
14. Long John the Pirate
15. F. Scott Fitzgerald & William Shakespeare
16. Mordor National Anthem

Tracks:

1. Morning Girl [Mono Single Version]
2. Brillant Colors [Mono Single Version]
3. No One Is Going to Hurt You [Mono Single Version]
4. You Lied [Mono Single Version]
5. Clouds
6. Snow
7. Heighdy-Ho Princess
8. Don't Know My Way Around My Soul
9. Flowers for Your Pillow
10. To Be Continued
11. Something to Believe In
12. Little Love
13. Got a Feelin' in My Bones
14. Keep the Faith in Me
15. Better Times
16. Jody [#]
17. Letters Crossing [#]
18. Radio Spot 1 [Promo]
19. Radio Spot 2 [Promo]
20. Radio Spot 3 [Promo]
21. Radio Spot 4 [Promo]
22. Radio Spot 5 [Promo]

Customer Reviews:

Neon Philharmonic.......2007-01-03

These were even better than I had remembered.
I wanted Morning Girl and I had forgotten how cool the rest of the songs were as well as Gant's wonderful voice.
It's a bit dated these days but surprisingly still relevant.
SS

To the late Don Gant.......2005-03-10

I love this stuff
Who would ever think to mix a steel guitar with a harpsicord!
wow those days are sadly gone
this album states that cotton candy clouds with ice cream dreams
are, and will be a forever reality
Bernie Whirlybird

Great stuff!.......2004-04-13

This is great stuff - with "Morning Girl" being the hit single that anyone who listens to "oldies" on the radio will know. However, unless you are a true fan of the band (i.e., interested in hearing every possible available item), you'd do just as well (and come out about $40.00 ahead!) to go with the band's "The Moth Confesses" - also available via Amazon.

Average customer rating: The Mother Lode of NOLA's Greatest Songwriter

The Complete Warner Recordings Allen Toussaint Manufacturer: Rhino Handmade ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Southern Soul | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Connected Finger Poppin' & Stompin' Feet: 20 Classic Allen Toussaint Productions For Minit Records 1960-1962 From a Whisper to a Scream The Wild Sound of New Orleans: The Complete 'Tousan' Sessions Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology ASIN: B0001MMGJK Release Date: 2004-01-01

Tracks:

1. Victims of the Darkness
2. Am I Expecting Too Much?
3. My Baby Is the Real Thing
4. Goin' Down
5. She Once Belonged to Me
6. Out of the City (Into Country Life)
7. Soul Sister
8. Fingers and Toes
9. I've Got to Convince Myself
10. On Your Way Down
11. Gone Too Far
12. Electricity
13. Last Train
14. Worldwide
15. Back in Baby's Arms
16. Country John
17. Basic Lady
18. Southern Nights
19. You Will Not Lose
20. What Do You Want the Girl to Do?
21. When the Party's Over
22. Cruel Way to Go Down
23. Country John [Single Version]

Tracks:

1. Night People
2. Just a Kiss Away
3. With You in Mind
4. Lover of Love
5. To Be With You
6. Motion
7. Viva la Money
8. Declaration of Love
9. Happiness
10. Optimism Blues
11. Intro/High Life [Live][#]
12. Touch of Love [Live][#]
13. Brickyard Blues [Live][#]
14. What Is Success [Live][#]
15. Freedom for the Stallion [Live][#]
16. Last Train [Live][#]
17. Shoo-Ra [Live][#]
18. Allen and Gary Brown: Pine Top's Boogie Woogie/Java/Girl of My Dreams
19. Southern Nights [Live][#]
20. Allen's Closing Remarks [Live][#]

Customer Reviews:

The Mother Lode of NOLA's Greatest Songwriter.......2006-01-04

Warning! This CD is a Rhino Hand Made release, which means there are very limited supplies ... buy it ASAP! Having said that, let's talk about why. First, Allen Toussaint is a living legend of the piano; he's a legendary producer, arranger and bandleader; and he's an immortal among songwriters. Under his own name or with the nom de plum "Naomi Neville" he wrote "Working in a Coal Mine," "Ride Your Pony," "Fortune Teller," "Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley" and many more. This is the definitive collection of his stellar 1970s solo albums "Southern Nights" (yes, the song made famous by Glen Campbell is a Toussaint original), "Life, Love and Faith" and "Motion." And what makes it particularly worthwhile are all the "deep tracks" you get. Sure there's a single CD collection that's really good, but it doesn't include the songs that weren't hit singles. They were album cuts back in the days when album cuts were meaningful and valuable. The individual albums are available on CD only as imports. So ... get thee to the shopping cart with this one before it's gone forever.

Average customer rating: WHY CHANGE THE ORDER OF SONGS? HEY!! WE'RE TALKIN' SINATRA!! The complete Sinatra Reprise: almost perfection ULTIMATE SINATRA...ALOT OF VERY GOOD YEARS!!! Searching.... Searching... Searching...

The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Frank Sinatra Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD 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 Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Box Sets | Stores | Music Classic Vocalists | Broadway & Vocalists | Box Sets | Stores | Music Vocal Pop & Oldies | Pop | Box Sets | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Capitol Years Concepts The Columbia Years (1943-1952): The Complete Recordings Sinatra in Hollywood 1940-1964 The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra (Rough Guides Reference Titles) ASIN: B00000DG1M Release Date: 1998-10-20

Tracks:

1. Ring-A-Ding Ding
2. Let's Fall In Love
3. In the Still Of The Night
4. A Foggy Day
5. Let's Face The Music And Dance
6. You'd Be So Easy To Love
7. A Fine Romance
8. The Coffee Song
9. Be Careful, It's My Heart
10. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
11. Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
12. You And The Night And The Music
13. When I Take My Sugar To Tea
14. The Last Dance
15. The Second Time Around
16. Tina
17. In The Blue Of Evening
18. I'll Be Seeing You
19. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
20. Imagination
21. Take Me
22. Without A Song
23. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
24. Daybreak
25. The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else

Tracks:

1. There Are Such Things
2. It's Always You
3. It Started All Over Again
4. East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)
5. The Curse Of An Aching Heart
6. Love Walked In
7. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
8. Have You Met Ms. Jones?
9. Don't Be That Way
10. I Never Knew
11. Falling In Love With Love
12. It's A Wonderful World
13. Don't Cry Joe
14. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
15. Moonlight On The Ganges
16. Granada
17. As You Desire Me
18. Stardust
19. Yesterdays
20. I Hadn't Anyone 'Till You
21. It Might As Well Be Spring
22. Prisoner Of Love
23. That's All
24. Don't Take Your Love From Me

Tracks:

1. Misty
2. Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. Night And Day
4. All Or Nothing At All
5. Pocketful Of Miracles
6. Name It And It's Yours
7. The Song Is Ended
8. All Alone
9. Charmaine
10. When I Lost You
11. Remember
12. Together
13. The Girl Next Door
14. Indiscreet
15. What'll I Do?
16. Oh, How I Miss You Tonight
17. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
18. Come Waltz With Me
19. Everybody's Twistin'
20. Nothing But The Best
21. The Boy's Night Out

Tracks:

1. I'm Beginning To See The Light
2. I Get A Kick Out Of You
3. Ain't She Sweet?
4. I Love You
5. They Can't Take That Away From Me
6. Love Is Just Around The Corner
7. At Long Last Love
8. Serenade In Blue
9. Goody Goody
10. Don'Cha Go 'Way Mad
11. Tangerine
12. Pick Yourself Up
13. If I Had You
14. The Very Thought Of You
15. I'll Follow My Secret Heart
16. A Garden In The Rain
17. London By Night
18. The Gypsy
19. Roses Of Picardy
20. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
21. We'll Meet Again
22. Now Is The Hour
23. We'll Gather Lilacs In The Spring
24. The Look Of Love
25. I Left My Heart In San Francisco

Tracks:

1. Nice Work If You Can Get It
2. Please Be Kind
3. I Won't Dance
4. Learnin' The Blues
5. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
6. I Only Have Eyes For You
7. My Kind Of Girl
8. Pennies From Heaven
9. (Love Is) The Tender Trap
10. Looking At The World Thru Rose Colored Glasses
11. Me And My Shadow
12. Come Blow Your Horn
13. Call Me Irresponsible
14. Lost In The Stars
15. My Heart Stood Still
16. Ol' Man River
17. This Nearly Was Mine
18. You'll Never Walk Alone
19. I Have Dreamed
20. Bewitched
21. California
22. America The Beautiful

Tracks:

1. Soliloquy
2. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
3. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
4. Nancy
5. Young At Heart
6. The Second Time Around
7. All The Way
8. Witchcraft
9. How Little It Matters How Little We Know
10. Put Your Dreams Away
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. Oh! What It Seemed To Be
13. We Open In Venice
14. Old Devil Moon
15. When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love
16. Guys And Dolls
17. I've Never Been In Love Before
18. So In Love (Reprise)
19. Twin Soliloquies (Wonder How It Feels)
20. Some Enchanted Evening
21. Some Enchanted Evening (Reprise)

Tracks:

1. Luck Be A Lady
2. Fugue For Tinhorns
3. The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York)
4. Here's To The Losers
5. Love Isn't Just For The Young
6. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
7. Talk To Me Baby
8. Stay With Me (Main Theme From The Cardinal)
9. Early American
10. The House I Live In
11. You're A Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith
12. The Way You Look Tonight
13. Three Coins In The Fountain
14. Swinging On A Star
15. The Continental
16. In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening
17. It Might As Well Be Spring
18. Secret Love
19. Moon River
20. Days Of Wine And Roses
21. Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
22. Let Us Break Bread Together
23. You Never Had It So Good

Tracks:

1. I Can't Believe I'm Losing You
2. My Kind Of Town
3. I Like To Lead When I Dance
4. Style
5. Mister Booze
6. Don't Be A Do-Badder (Finale)
7. The Best Is Yet To Come
8. I Wanna Be Around
9. I Believe In You
10. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
11. Hello, Dolly!
12. The Good Life
13. I Wish You Love
14. I Can't Stop Loving You
15. More (Theme From Mondo Cane)
16. Wives And Lovers
17. An Old-Fashioned Christmas
18. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
19. The Little Drummer Boy
20. Go Tell It On The Mountain
21. We Wish You The Merriest
22. Softly, As I Leave You
23. Then Suddenly Love
24. Since Marie Has Left Paree
25. Available

Tracks:

1. Pass Me By
2. Emily
3. Dear Heart
4. Somewhere In Your Heart
5. Any Time At All
6. Don't Wait Too Long
7. September Song
8. Last Night When We Were Young
9. Hello, Young Lovers
10. I See It Now
11. When The Wind Was Green
12. Once Upon A Time
13. How Old Am I?
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. The Man In The Looking Glass
16. This Is All I Ask
17. It Gets Lonely Early
18. The September Of My Years
19. Tell Her (You Love Her Each Day)
20. When Somebody Loves You
21. Forget Domani
22. Ev'rybody Has The Right To Be Wrong! (At Least Once)
23. I'll Only Miss Her When I Think Of Her
24. Golden Moment

Tracks:

1. Come Fly With Me
2. I'll Never Smile Again
3. Moment To Moment
4. Love And Marriage
5. Moon Song
6. Moon Love
7. The Moon Got In My Eyes
8. Moonlight Serenade
9. Reaching For The Moon
10. I Wished On The Moon
11. Moonlight Becomes You
12. Moonlight Mood
13. Oh, You Crazy Moon
14. The Moon Was Yellow (And The Night Was Young)
15. Strangers In The Night
16. My Baby Just Cares For Me
17. Yes Sir, That's My Baby
18. You're Driving Me Crazy!
19. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
20. Summer Wind
21. All Or Nothing At All
22. Call Me
23. On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
24. Downtown

Tracks:

1. That's Life
2. Give Her Love
3. What Now My Love?
4. Somewhere My Love
5. Winchester Cathedral
6. I Will Wait For You
7. You're Gonna Hear From Me
8. Sand And Sea
9. The Impossible Dream
10. Baubles, Bangels And Beads
11. I Concentrate On You
12. Dindi
13. Change Partners
14. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
15. If You Never Come To Me
16. The Girl From Ipanema
17. Meditation (Meditacao)
18. Once I Loved (O Amor En Paz)
19. How Insensitive (Insensatez)
20. Drinking Again
21. Somethin' Stupid
22. You Are There
23. The World We Knew (Over And Over)
24. Born Free
25. This Is My Love

Tracks:

1. This Is My Song
2. Don't Sleep In The Subway
3. Some Enchanted Evening
4. This Town
5. Younger Than Springtime
6. All I Need Is The Girl
7. Yellow Days
8. Indian Summer
9. Come Back To Me
10. Poor Butterfly
11. Sunny
12. I Like The Sunrise
13. Follow Me
14. My Way Of Life
15. Cycles
16. Whatever Happened To Christmas?
17. The Twelve Days Of Christmas
18. The Bells Of Christmas (Greensleeves)
19. I Wouldn't Trade Christmas
20. The Christmas Waltz

Tracks:

1. Blue Lace
2. Star!
3. Gentle On My Mind
4. By The Time I Get To Pheonix
5. Little Green Apples
6. Moody Rivers
7. Pretty Colors
8. Rain In My Heart
9. Wandering
10. Both Sides, Now
11. My Way
12. One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So)
13. Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa De Voce)
14. Wave
15. Bonita
16. Someone To Light Up My Life
17. Desafinado
18. Drinking Water (Aqua De Beber)
19. Song Of The Sabia
20. This Happy Madness (Estrada Branca)
21. Triste

Tracks:

1. All My Tomorrows
2. Didn't We?
3. A Day In the Life Of A Fool
4. Yesterday
5. If You Go Away
6. Watch What Happens
7. For Once In My Life
8. Mrs. Robinson
9. Hallelujah, I Love Her So
10. I've Been To Town
11. Empty Is
12. The Single Man
13. Lonesome Cities
14. The Beautiful Strangers
15. A Man Alone
16. Love's Been Good To Me
17. Out Beyond The Window
18. Night
19. Some Traveling Man
20. From Promise To Promise
21. A Man Alone (Reprise)
22. In The Shadow Of The Moon
23. Forget To Remember
24. Goin' Out Of My Head

Tracks:

1. I Would Be In Love (Anyway)
2. The Train
3. She Says
4. Lady Day
5. Watertown
6. What's Now Is Now
7. Goodbye (She Quietly Says)
8. What A Funny Girl (You Used To Be)
9. Elizabeth
10. Michael And Peter
11. For A While
12. Lady Day
13. I Will Drink The Wine
14. Bein' Green
15. My Sweet Lady
16. Sunrise In The Morning
17. I'm Not Afraid
18. Something
19. Leaving On A Jet Plane
20. Close To You
21. Feelin' Kinda Sunday
22. Life's A Trippy Thing
23. The Game Is Over

Tracks:

1. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
2. You Will Be My Music
3. Noah
4. Nobody Wins
5. The Hurt Doesn't Go Away
6. Winners
7. Let Me Try Again
8. Walk Away
9. Send In The Clowns
10. There Used To Be A Ballpark
11. You're So Right (For What's Wrong In My Life)
12. Dream Away
13. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
14. I'm Gonna Make It All The Way
15. Empty Tables
16. If
17. The Summer Knows
18. Sweet Caroline
19. You Turned My World Around
20. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
21. Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree
22. Satisfy Me One More Time

Tracks:

1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
2. Just As Though You Were Here
3. Everything Happens To Me
4. Anytime (I'll Be There)
5. The Only Couple On The Floor
6. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
7. The Saddest Thing Of All
8. A Baby Just Like You
9. Christmas Memories
10. I Sing The Songs (I Write The Songs)
11. Empty Tables
12. Send In The Clowns
13. The Best Time I Ever Had
14. Stargazer
15. Dry Your Eyes
16. Like A Sad Song
17. I Love My Wife
18. Night And Day
19. All Or Nothing At All
20. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
21. Nancy
22. Emily
23. Linda
24. Sweet Lorraine

Tracks:

1. Barbara
2. I Had The Craziest Dream
3. It Had To Be You
4. You And Me (We Wanted It All)
5. MacArthur Park
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7. That's What God Looks Like To Me
8. For The Good Times
9. Love Me Tender
10. Just The Way You Are
11. Song Sung Blue
12. Isn't She Lovely?
13. My Shining Hour
14. All Of You
15. More Than You Know
16. The Song Is You
17. But Not For Me
18. Street Of Dreams
19. They All Laughed
20. Let's Face The Music And Dance
21. Theme From New York, New York
22. Something

Tracks:

1. What Time Does The Next Miracle Leave?
2. World War None!
3. The Future
4. The Future (Continued) I've Been There!
5. The Future (Conclusion) Song Without Words
6. Finale: Before The Music Ends
7. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
8. Everything Happens To Me
9. The Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind (Medley)
10. Thanks For The Memory
11. I Loved Her
12. A Long Night
13. South-To A Warmer Place
14. Say Hello!
15. Good Thing Going

Tracks:

1. Monday Morning Quarterback
2. Hey Look, No Crying
3. To Love A Child
4. Love Makes Us Whatever We Want To Be
5. Searching
6. Here's To The Band
7. All The Way Home
8. It's Sunday
9. L.A. Is My Lady
10. Until The Real Thing Comes Along
11. After You've Gone
12. The Best Of Everything
13. It's All Right With Me
14. A Hundred Years From Today
15. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?
16. Teach Me Tonight
17. If I Should Lose You
18. Stormy Weather
19. Mack The Knife
20. The Girls I Never Kissed
21. Only One To A Customer
22. My Foolish Heart

Customer Reviews:

WHY CHANGE THE ORDER OF SONGS?.......2007-02-10

like the Charles Mingus Complete Atlantic Recordings, WHY CHANGE THE ORDER OF THE SONGS. these were albums that fit together. what idiot run these companies? do they just put the stuff on random play for the order? i would live to have these because some of these recordings are hard to find. his label, but some of his stuff is hard to find. doesn't make sense, does it?

HEY!! WE'RE TALKIN' SINATRA!!.......2006-09-20

This beautiful boxed set is an absolute "must" for afficionados
and collectors. Originally released in 1995 in honor of Mr.
Sinatra's 80th birthday, this is a handsome twenty-disc package
with a very nice 96-page book. This is the tall box version,
released in 1998. The original "suitcase" edition was released
in 1995 and was quite cumbersome!! But the music is the same
with both versions!! Also included are eighteen never-before-
released titles. The book contains some excellent photographs
of Mr. Sinatra, plus an interesting interview with Bill Miller
and Al Viola. You get 452 songs, which represents 99.9% of The
Chairman's commercially released Reprise recordings. I bought
this tall box version back in 2002 and I still listen to it on
a regular basis. These songs are recorded chronologically and
it is so interesting to hear "The Master's" voice from 1960 to
1988. It'll probably take a little work to find this beautiful
set since it's now out of print, but put in the effort if you're
a "Sinatraphile!!" It is definitely worth the time and money!!

The complete Sinatra Reprise: almost perfection.......2004-10-28

Francis Albert Sinatra was a lot of things, some good and some bad, but firstly and foremost he was a singer. Over a 55-year career he went from being a skinny mama's boy to the undispuded champion of popular vocalists. If we define popular music as everything except classical and purely indigenous folk musics, Frank Sinatra was the best singer of popular music, of either gender and any race or nationality, at least in the English language,in human history to date. He set out to sing the best entertainment and musical theatre songs he could, the best way that he could imagine them sung. He trained himself to sing to a standard elsewhere found only in operatic music, but with very different goals: he made being a microphone singer from a pejorative to an accolade, developing his lung capacity to emulate circular-breathing jazz brasswind players in sustained notes and passages rather than for volume. He leveraged his early popular mania with teenage, male-starved "bobbysoxers" into having the pull with record companies and recording resources to execute his ideas-great songs (new or decades-old, but well-crafted and with melodies that held up and intelligent lyrics) with great arrangements played by great musicians and recorded (in good rooms!) with state of the art but essentially simple equipment by professionals- a situation that seems quaint today with Pro Tools and sequencing software available to high-schoolers.

Sinatra's career can be largely divided into four phases: the first being his band singer work with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, his solo debut on Columbia Records, his 50's departure-over the efforts of Mitch Miller to make him record what he (usually correctly) considered dreck-to Capitol Records, and finally his founding of his own label, Reprise, on which his later career was spent. (His last efforts, the commercially successful but musically dubious "Duets" pair, returned him to Capitol, albeit with production by Phil Ramone and heavy doses of "vocal Viagra" in the form of pitch correcting autotune plug-ins for Pro Tools: by that point extensive consolidation of record labels made the point somewhat moot.)

While many Sinatra purists will argue for starting a serious Sinatra collection with the Columbia and Capitol box sets, I would start with this one and work backwards. Frank's Reprise studio career extends from December of 1960 to June of 1988, across seven U.S. presidents and the peaks of the careers of Marilyn Monroe and Madonna. The Reprise era starts at roughly Sinatra's peak period in every sense and continues through what is really the end of his recording career. Along the way, he records a good percentage of his best work, faces the tragedies and adversities of his life, and exits stage right with head unbowed.

Here, across twenty CDs, is the entire released studio work of Frank Sinatra on the Reprise label. Much, arguably most, of it is magnificent. He revisits many if not most of his favorite standards from the Columbia and Capitol eras, adds a few new ones, and records dozens of contemporary songs and "elegant novelties" from both old standby writers (Cahn and Van Heusen, as always, leading the pack) and then-current pop tunesmiths and Top 40 writer-performers. Simon and Garfunkel (admittedly to their chagrin,as I'll expand on later), John Denver, Neil Diamond, Sonny Bono, Joni Mitchell, Bob Gaudio and Jake Holmes (the writing component of Frankie Valli's Four Seasons), Beatles George Harrison and the Lennon-McCartney pair,and others find themselves alongside Harold Arlen, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern.

A lot of derision has been directed toward's Frank's performances of these songs, much of it no more than mean-spirited drivel. To be sure, it doesn't always work: Frank openly treats Tony Hatch's "Downtown" (made famous by Petula Clark, and rightly so) with contempt-he actually sings "bleech!" at the end!-and is a fish out of water with some of the Lennon-McCartney songs, and even what should be an easy safe hit with the then-retro "Winchester Cathedral" winds up being not a disaster but not quite up to the Rudy Vallee-evoking New Vaudeville Band hit.

And yet-some of these songs are home runs by any standard. Harrison's "Something", which Frank records not once but twice, was slammed vitriolically by rock critics, but when Harrison's own performances of the song started reflecting Frank's, the singer/songwriter's ultimate accolade made them look foolish, and rightly so. You stick around, Jack, it might show.

Special mention has to be made, here and now, of one of Sinatra's so called "bons mot", the notorious Mrs.Robinson. Sending critics such as the notorious Christgau (who would be the biggest idiot in the New York music literary scene if Will Friedwald weren't so utterly persistent and ingenious at stealing the title from beneath his nose) into fits of apoplexy, this song deserves its own full-length essay in and of itself. Suffice it to say it's Sinatra's response, and backhanded apologia, even, to a series of events starting with the Wrong Door Raid and is one of the very rare genuinely funny events of Sinatra's entire musical universe. It's a classy swinging ringer-dinger and a great sendup of the "seriousness" around the Paul Simons and Bob Dylans in the sixties, and simultaneously lets Frank have a little sophisticated adult fun at the expense of the mania around "The Graduate". The first time I heard it, I broke out laughing and couldn't stop for half an hour.

Accompanying the 20 CDs in two mini-albums reminiscent of the bound books in which shellac 78 rpm discs were sold, is a small hardbound cloth cover book which I have in front of me, invaluable in writing this. It contains interviews with Bill Miller and Al Caiola, and pieces by Wilfrid Sheed, Stan Cornyn, and XM Radio "Frank's Place" DJ Jonathan Schwartz. It's a good read, although the student of recording science will regret the lack of technical and room details, the armchair arranger and discographer will miss the lack of personnel rosters on the sessions-almost all of which still exist-and the photo buffs will miss many key photos and regret that others are rendered in a pastel shade. (How one could not use William Claxton's classic photo of Ray Charles, Marilyn Monroe and Jimmy Durante at a 1961 session is beyond any earthly accounting.)

Although is the single must-have compilation to all serious Sinatraphiles, above all others, I have to give it only four stars as opposed to five. For one thing, it's not totally complete: while it does include all the released studio sides, there are still many known and unknown things which never have seen legitimate-or any-release. Some of these are not really up to the standard, but others are, beyond dispute. Also, there are some live releases, such as 1965's "Live at the Sands with Count Basie" and 1974's "The Main Event" (with a notorious Howard Cosell introduction) which are part and parcel of the Sinatra oeuvre.

More seriously, many of the extant master tapes of some of these sessions are of such quality that Compact Disk does not do them justice. I have had the privilege-how and when are not for me to disclose at this time- of hearing a small section of these tracks on the very master tapes some of this set was mastered from, on a really first rate high end system hooked to an Ampex deck with Boyk mechanical ministrations and the notorious de Paravicini electronics. Hearing these CDs, vintage U.S. release LPs, and the original tapes successively made it clear that the LP's were somewhat closer in some ways than the CDs to the tapes, and that the tapes were still better to the extent that a future remaster to SACD or DVD-Audio, provided that ADC's of sufficient quality are available, holds the promise of sufficiently better sonics that hardcore audiophiles may well find themselves buying this music yet one more time. Three hundred dollars is not a colossal sum to most of the really serious audiophiles, but if you are buying this as a lifetime investment you may want to factor this in to your purchasing decisions.

On the other hand, life is too short to wait forever for the better deal. In the long run, buying this set upfront can be a big saving of time and money over piecemeal album purchases, and the case and book are pretty and functional (although they will get dirty easily over time and are not easily cleanable.) I have not regretted the purchase of this set-at more than the current listed Amazon price-once during the three years I've had it.

ULTIMATE SINATRA...ALOT OF VERY GOOD YEARS!!!.......2004-10-14

As a young child of the 50's I became hooked on Frank Sinatra from his incredible hits like "Witchcraft", "All The Way" & "High Hopes" plus many other classic hits from the 50's, so by the time Mr. Sinatra started his own Reprise Records in the 60's I was primed to be a life-long fan who checked out every new release. A great inspirational survival slogan "That's Life" bonded me with THE KING for life as I got off on his positive funky soulfulness and decided by that time that Sinatra could truly do it all and more importantly his own way! Like fine wine Sinatra's voice aged beautifully as the voice became fuller with darker shadings and the emotions grew deeper and the masterpiece "It Was A Very Good Year" illustrates this perfectly..."Strangers In The Night" is seductive and intoxicating while "Summer Wind" is smooth and sophisicated and the hypnotic "The World We Knew (Over And Over)" contains a rich moody vocal that is hauntingly great and of course "My Way" is the ultimate athem where Mr. Sinatra defines what great singing is all about. The original "Winchester Chatedral" is corny and tired but the remake is oh so cool by Frank and this is true of numerous inspired covers throughout this legendary collection! How can one review such a massive historic classic catalog and do it justice? This is one of the ultimate vocal collections of all time and for anyone who loves what this soulful singer has done over the years this set will be a must as all of Frank Sinatra's wonderous studio work from the early sixties through the late eighties are here plus the included book is an entertaining excellent guide and packaging is first-rate making this collection worth its hefty price-tag . This twenty-disc collection goes on and on and is the ultimate musical journey through some very good years...DO NOT MISS THIS TOTALLY AWESOME BOX-SET WHILE IT IS STILL AVAILABLE...no real Sinatra fan will want to be without this magnificent collection that will dramatically increase in value and I cannot imagine being without it...thank you Mr. Sinatra for the best in entertainment for so many GREAT years and we miss you alot...some of the deepest and greatest singing ever!!!

Searching.... Searching... Searching..........2003-09-29

"Searching"

As the song says "And all the searching is through"

My wife and I hear this song about 4 years ago when we dating, we both fell in love with the song. And we've been searching ever since, no sure exactly what the name of it was.

In a stroke of luck, and some hard-core internet searching, I recently found someone from the Philipines had transcribed the lyrics on the web. Now, armed with the proper title and album I visited Amazon.com.

$300! But wait, I found one in the 'used' section for only $179. Ordered it and it was here within 3 days. It was meant to be a suprise. My wife opened the unmarked package, while I was at work, and went song by song until she found it. It made for a long day as the song was on disk 20.

Some of these reviews talk about this set as being only for the Sinatraphile. Well, a Sinatraphile, I am not, but heck I paid $179 for one song of these 100's.

Sinatraphile or not, if you love music, and it's in your budget, I'd highly recommend this set.

Average customer rating:

The Complete Warner Recordings Allen Toussaint Manufacturer: Warner Bros. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Southern Soul | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Southern Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001MXSZ6 Release Date: 2005-04-19

Tracks:

1. Victims of the Darkness
2. Am I Expecting Too Much?
3. My Baby Is the Real Thing
4. Goin' Down
5. She Once Belonged to Me
6. Out of the City (Into Country Life)
7. Soul Sister
8. Fingers and Toes
9. I've Got to Convince Myself
10. On Your Way Down
11. Gone Too Far
12. Electricity
13. Last Train
14. Worldwide
15. Back in Baby's Arms
16. Country John
17. Basic Lady
18. Southern Nights
19. You Will Not Lose
20. What Do You Want the Girl to Do?
21. When the Party's Over
22. Cruel Way to Go Down
23. Country John [Single Version]

Tracks:

1. Night People
2. Just a Kiss Away
3. With You in Mind
4. Lover of Love
5. To Be With You
6. Motion
7. Viva la Money
8. Declaration of Love
9. Happiness
10. Optimism Blues
11. Intro/High Life [Live][#]
12. Touch of Love [Live][#]
13. Brickyard Blues [Live][#]
14. What Is Success [Live][#]
15. Freedom for the Stallion [Live][#]
16. Last Train [Live][#]
17. Shoo-Ra [Live][#]
18. Allen and Gary Brown: Pine Top's Boogie Woogie/Java/Girl of My Dreams
19. Southern Nights [Live][#]
20. Allen's Closing Remarks [Live][#]

Christian Music:

1. The Essential Plus
2. The Genius Sings the Blues [Import]
3. The One Giveth, The Count Taketh Away [Import]
4. The Other Side of the Rainbow [Import]
5. The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul : Complete & Unbelievable
6. The Ultimate Collection
7. The Very Best of Bill Doggett Honky Tonk
8. The Very Best of Chuck Jackson 1961-1967
9. The Way It Is [Clean]
10. The Wood (1999 Film) [Explicit Lyrics] [Soundtrack]

Christian Music

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Tim Finn [Import]

Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins; String Quartets 1 & 2

Bad Axe

Top Tunes Karaoke CDG Country TT-161

Avantgardism, Vol. 1: Bass 'n Drum

Beaubourg [Import]

Ballo è bello 2000

Anything Anytime Anywhere: Singles 1979-2002

At the Hard Rock: Live [Live] [Import]

Back On Top Pt.1 [CD-single] [Import]

Airbag/How Am I Driving? [EP] [Limited Edition] [EP]

Big Wheel

Aburrido [CD-single] [Import]

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