| | Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 25th Anniversary Collection CD Mannheim Steamroller Discography of CDs
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Personnel: Ron Cooley (guitar, lute); Glen Smith (12-string guitar); Mary Walter (harp); David Low , Gregory Clinton (cello); Bobby Jenkins (oboe); Paul Winter (sopranino saxophone); Tom Hartig (alto saxophone); Doug Waddell, Barbara Butler, Charles Geyer (trumpet); Oto Carrillo, Alice Render, Dale Clevenger, David "High D" Kappy (French horn).
Director: John Rutter.
The CHRISTMAS 25th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION celebrates the chocolate-and-peanut-butter match that is Chip Davis' aural string assault and the yuletide season's turning a quarter-century old. The style is timeless; as it was in 1984, the lush arrangements surround the classic carols to create a unique, inobtrusive backdrop for any holiday party. This edition features a snazzy casing and extra tracks.
This 2009 double-disc set cherrypicks highlights from Mannheim Steamroller's six holiday albums -- 1984's Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, 1988's A Fresh Aire Christmas, 1995's Christmas in the Aire, 2001's Christmas Extraordinaire, 2007's Christmas Song, and its 2008 sequel, Christmasville -- making it a nice overview and introduction to the group's signature seasonal cheer. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Christmas 25th Anniversary Collection Music Christmas 25th Anniversary Collection Music Christmas 25th Anniversary Collection Music Review Purchase Christmas 25th Anniversary Collection CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Swingle Singers Best Selection CD (2008) (Import) Japan
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| | John Lennon Imagine Vinyl LP (1971) Limited Edition
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After the harrowing Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon returned to calmer, more conventional territory with Imagine. While the album had a softer surface, it was only marginally less confessional than its predecessor. Underneath the sweet strings of "Jealous Guy" lies a broken and scared man, the jaunty "Crippled Inside" is a mocking assault at an acquaintance, and "Imagine" is a paean for peace in a world with no gods, possessions, or classes, where everyone is equal. And Lennon doesn't shy away from the hard rockers -- "How Do You Sleep" is a scathing attack on Paul McCartney, "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" is a hypnotic antiwar song, and "Give Me Some Truth" is bitter hard rock. If Imagine doesn't have the thematic sweep of Plastic Ono Band, it is nevertheless a remarkable collection of songs that Lennon would never be able to better again. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Considered together, IMAGINE and its startling predecessor, PLASTIC ONO BAND, paint a vivid picture of the state of John Lennon immediately post-Beatles. ...
| | John Lennon Rock 'N' Roll Vinyl LP (1975) Limited Edition
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Although the chaotic sessions that spawned this album have passed into rock & roll legend and the recording's very genesis (as an out-of-court settlement between John Lennon and an aggrieved publisher) has often caused it to be slighted by many of the singer's biographers, Rock 'n' Roll, in fact, stands as a peak in his post-Imagine catalog: an album that catches him with nothing to prove and no need to try. Lennon could, after all, sing old rock & roll numbers with his mouth closed; he spent his entire career relaxing with off-the-cuff blasts through the music with which he grew up, and Rock 'n' Roll emerges the sound of him doing precisely that. Four songs survive from the fractious sessions with producer Phil Spector in late 1973 that ignited the album, and listeners to any of the posthumous compilations that also draw from those archives will know that the best tracks were left on the shelf -- "Be My Baby" and "Angel Baby" among them. But a gorgeous run through Lloyd Price's "Just Because" wraps up the album in fine style, while a trip through "You Can't Catch Me" contrarily captures a playful side that Lennon rarely revealed on vinyl. The remainder of the album was cut a year later with Lennon ...
| | Elvis Presley Vinyl LP (2007)
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Today it all seems so easy -- RCA signs up the kid from Memphis, television gets interested at around the same time, and the rest is history. The circumstances surrounding this album were neither simple nor promising, however, nor was there anything in the history of popular music up to that time to hint that Elvis Presley was going to be anything other than "Steve Sholes' folly," which was what rival executives were already whispering. So a lot was unsettled and untried at the first of two groups of sessions that produced the Elvis Presley album -- it wasn't even certain that there was any reason for a rock & roll artist to cut an album, because teenagers bought 45s, not LPs. The first of Elvis' RCA sides yielded one song, "Heartbreak Hotel," that seemed a potential single, but which no one thought would sell, and a few tracks that would be good enough for an album, if there were one. But no one involved knew anything for sure about this music. Seventeen days later, "Heartbreak Hotel" was released, and for about a month it did nothing -- then it began to move, and then Elvis appeared on television, and had a number one pop single. The album Sholes wanted ...
| | Plastic Ono Band Live Peace In Toronto Vinyl LP (1969) Limited Edition
Christmas 25th Anniversary Collection
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The Plastic Ono Band: John Lennon (vocals, guitar), Yoko Ono (vocals), Eric Clapton (guitar), Klaus Voorman (bass), Alan White (drums).
Recorded live in Toronto, Ontario in 1969.
This 1995 reissue of LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO, 1969 includes a 1995 version of the original John and Yoko calendar.
Although one of the world's best-kept secrets at the time, this was John Lennon's ...
| | Marion Williams O Holy Night CD (1959)
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| | Sugar Army Parallels Amongst Ourselves CD (2009) (Import) Import
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| | Alison Moyet Collections CD (2009)
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| | Winter Folk CD (2009) (Import) Import
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| | Little Kasey Chambers CD (2009) (Import) Import
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