Pat Boone - Complete Us & UK Singles As & BS 1953-62 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Free - Fire & Water [COMPACT DISCS] SHM CD, Japan - Import date 12/07/2010

Patsy Cline is one of the most important and revered female artists in the history of country music, a situation made all the more remarkable by the fact that she only had a few years at the top before her tragic death in a plane crash in 1963 at the age of 30 - an event which only served to heighten her legendary status. Her career was a strange one, in that, having eventually scored a debut No. 2 in 1957 with InchWalkin' After MidnightInch, the fact that she was obliged to record unsuitable material by her deal with Four Star meant she did not have another hit until she signed directly to Decca in 1960. After that, she had huge country and pop hits with the classics InchI Fall To PiecesInch, InchCrazyInch and InchShe's Got YouInch, by hot new writers like Hank Cochran, Harlan Howard and Willie Nelson, with producer Owen Bradley using contemporary Nashville pop crossover arrangements which were very different from her earlier honky-tonk and rockabilly recordings. This great value 75-track 3-CD set, comprises every record she released from her debut on Coral in 1955, through her Four Star and Decca years until the end of 1962 a couple of months before her death. It includes the A and B sides of all her singles, plus the tracks from her three albums InchPatsy ClineInch, InchShowcaseInch and InchSentimentally YoursInch which were not otherwise released on singles. It therefore represents a comprehensive and definitive overview of her releases during her career, and is a worthy tribute to a unique talent

Carl Perkins was the most important of the rockabilly artists who came to prominence as one of the as part of the explosion of rock 'n' roll during the middle years of the 1950s. His landmark hit InchBlue Suede ShoesInch became one of the most covered and performed songs of the era, a staple of the repertoire of every rock 'n' roll band around the world. As one of the core of artists who recorded at Sam Phillips' Sun Studios in Memphis alongside Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis, he was central to the development of the sound which changed the face of popular music. Paul McCartney once observed that Inchif there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no BeatlesInch. Perkins came to personify the rockabilly style, since he stayed true to it over the years, and he rightfully became known as InchThe King Of RockabillyInch. This collection comprises the A and B sides of all his singles and all the album tracks released on Sun and then Columbia from his debut in 1955 through to 1962 in a great value 53-track 2-CD set, and it's a fine showcase for his distinctive style and unique talent.