Teresa Brewer - Singles Collection 1949-61 Teresa Brewer - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Who is best-known for recording the original 1953 version of the legendary song InchHound DogInch, which Elvis Presley famously covered to have a big early career hit. Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton was an rhythm and blues and blues singer and songwriter, who is best-known for recording the original 1953 version of the legendary song Hound Dog, which Elvis Presley famously covered to have a big early career hit. Born in Alabama in 1925, she learnt to sing in church but became a disciple of Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie, moving in 1948 to Houston, Texas, a buzzing centre of jump blues, where she built a reputation as a powerful performer and signed a contract with Don Robey's Peacock Records in 1951. Working with Johnny Otis and the emerging young songwriting and producing duo of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, she recorded their song Hound Dog, and it provided her with her sole career hot, topping the US R&B charts, and becoming a landmark record. This 27-track CD comprises all her releases during the first decade of her career, initially for the Peacock tag and then for the small Irma and Bay-Tone labels after she moved to San Francisco in the late '50s. She later became a popular performer during the '60s blues boom and made several albums. She was a powerful extrovert expressive perfomer, and this collection, representing her output from a key era of her career, underlines the distinctive nature of her talent as a blues stylist. Album Tracks 1. Partnership Blues 2. I'm All Fed Up 3. No Jody for Me 4. Let Your Tears Fall Baby 5. Mischievous Boogie 6. Every Time I Think of You 7. Hound Dog 8. Night Mare 9. Cotton Picking Blues 10. They Call Me Big Mama 11. I Ain't No Fool Either 12. The Big Change 13. I Smell a Rat 14. I've Searched the Whole World Over 15. Stop a Hoppin' on Me 16. Story of My Blues 17. Rock a Bye Baby 18. Walki

Keely Smith was one of the most distinctive and multi-talented performers of the 1950s and '60s, combining a vocal versatility with an innate sense of comedy, which she used to good effect using her trademark deadpan style in stage and TV performances with her husband Louis Prima, with whom she also made some fine jazz, R&B and pop records, including the Grammy Award-winning InchThat Old Black MagicInch in 1959, winner of Best Performances By A Vocal Group. She was a fine jazz singer, with a sense of swing and timing that placed her alongside the best of her peers, but she was equally at home performing sophisticated pop material with an orchestra, and this collection provides the opportunity to hear her in both environments. This great-value 80-track 3-CD set comprises selected recordings with Louis Prima's Orchestra for the Mercury, Capitol and Dot labels from her 1949 debut with his band through to 1961, when they were divorced, and selected solo recordings for Capitol and Dot accompanied by the orchestras of Billy May, Nelson Riddle and others from 1956 through to 1962. It includes the chart hits with Louis Prima, InchThat Old Black MagicInch, InchThe Bigger The FigureInch, InchI've Got You Under My SkinInch and InchBei Mir Bist Du SchonInch. It's a fine showcase for her talent and style during what was one of the most productive and important eras of her career. Album Tracks 1. Charley My Boy 2. I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped 3. Here, Pretty Kitty 4. Barnacle Bill the Sailor 5. (Nothing's Too Good) for My Baby 6. The Lip 7. I Wish You Love 8. I Keep Forgetting 9. High School Affair 10. Sentimental Journey 11. The Birth of the Blues 12. Don't Let a Memory 13. Autumn Leaves 14. Young and in Love 15. You'll Never Know 16. Good Behavior 17. A Foggy Day 18. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 19. As You Desire Me 20. Fools Rush

Almost none of these 25 single sides have ever been on CD, and they're presented with great sound and photos from Jo's private collection. Includes Blackout the Moon; Love Is Here to Stay; Handsome Stranger; Suddenly; a Perfect Love; Use Your Imagination; Lovely Is the Evening; How Can We Say Goodbye; Big D, and more. Album Tracks 1. Blackout the Moon 2. Love Is Here to Stay 3. Handsome Stranger 4. Someone's Been Readin My Mail 5. Suddenly 6. Smoking My Sad Cigarette 7. Dixieland Band 8. Perfect Love 9. Indoor Sport 10. Use Your Imagination 11. Lovely Is the Evening 12. How Can We Say Goodbye 13. Big D 14. Once to Every Heart 15. I'll Be There 16. Wouldn't It Be Loverly 17. Along the Colorado Trail 18. I Got a Sweetie 19. Goodnight Pillow 20. Hawaiian War Chant 21. Just Another Polka 22. Bells Are Ringing 23. All Yours 24. It's Never Quite the Same 25. I'm in the Mood for Love