Various Artists - Teenbeat Mayhem -Slipped Through the Cracks (Various Artists) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This compilation represents a major change in our years of compilations of Rock, Psych & Garage music from the 1960's. This new saga continues by our digging into the archives and vaults of Mike Markesich's rare and unreleased acetates from all across the country.

Digitally remastered and expanded edition. In 1965, Sonia Pottinger launched what would become one of the most successful record companies in Jamaican music history Gay Feet. An early indication of it's long-term success was the enormous popularity of it's inaugural , 'Every Night' by singing duo, Joe White & Chuck, which topped the local charts throughout the latter half of the year. Over the months that immediately followed, further singles on Pottinger's newly created imprint peppered the national listings, with their success prompting the of aptly titled Gay Feet LP early in 1966. Now, after half a century, this hugely collectable album, comprising the producer's most popular ska, jump up and R&B sides of the period, is finally made available once more, with the original dozen tracks bolstered by a further twelve mid-1960s recordings from Sonia Pottinger's legendary catalog. With much of the music appearing on CD for the first time, this long overdue is a ska collector's dream!

Paul Creston (1906-1985) was a younger participant in the InchfloweringInch of American classical music in the 1930s and 1940s. But rather than aligning himself with the nostalgic, lyrical Romanticism of Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, and Howard Hanson, Creston aligned himself with the rugged, more dynamic aspects of Modernism found in the music of Walter Piston, Peter Mennin, and Samuel Barber. These three symphonies contain none of American Romanticism's melancholia or homesickness, for example, but they do remain mostly tonal and buoyant, soaring with their own energy and inventiveness, particularly Symphony No. 3 (Three Mysteries), written in 1950. Praise must also be given to the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and conductor Theodore Kuchar for their feel for Creston's music-altogether another achievement in Naxos's American Classics series.