Various Artists - Songs That Shaped Amy Winehouse / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Jasmine's ongoing and very popular 'Songs That Shaped...' series has thus far restricted it's activities to big names of 20th century popular music - but this month we move up a century to feature one of the most iconic artists of the 2000s thus far. The late Amy Winehouse never shied away from acknowledging artists, records and styles of music that forged her own fabulous style. By her own admission she was a sponge, soaking up everything from classic 40s and 50s vocalists to jazz to girl groups to soul and so much more besides. This compilation features both tracks that she herself cited as influential and others by artists from genres that she embraced wholeheartedly from an early age. It tracks her path through the early years of her discovery that there was more to music than what she heard on the radio, and tells her tale through a first class, well-chosen and truly diverse selection of tracks. Unbelievably, Amy has been gone for almost 15 years at the time of writing - but the peerless audio legacy she left behind to influence future stars is rooted in the music you will hear here. Album Tracks 1. Unchain My Heart - Ray Charles and His Orchestra 2. Your Heart Belongs to Me - the Supremes 3. Dream a Little Dream of Me - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong 4. They Didn't Believe Me - Dinah Washington 5. These Arms of Mine - Otis Redding 6. There Is No Greater Love - Billie Holiday 7. Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk 8. Teach Me Tonight - Blossom Dearie 9. Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price 10. Today I Sing the Blues - Aretha Franklin 11. Lullaby of Birdland - Sarah Vaughan 12. Walk Over God's Heaven - Mahalia Jackson and the Falls-Jones Ensemble 13. Cupid - Sam Cooke 14. To Know Him, Is to Love Him - the Teddy Bears 15. I'm on the Wagon - the Ronettes 16. Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Gigolo and Gigolette) - Tony Bennett 17. Will You St