At the beginning of April 1960 Liberty Records released the second Eddie Cochran album, 12 Of His Biggest Hits. Less than two weeks after release, Eddie was killed in a road crash whilst on his UK tour, prompting the immediaterecall of the album. Less than a month later, the album was issued with the same catalogue number but with a new title & cover as The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album. Eight of the tracks were issued as singles, including the chart topper three Steps To Heaven. For this edition, ...

Eddie Cochran enjoyed a very brief yet highly rewarding career as a rock & roll singer before his untimely death ina car accident in Chippenham, with fellow passenger Gene Vincent surviving the crash. Eddie did not make his UKbreakthrough until 1958, when Summertime Blues made the Top 20. The following year Cmon Everbody hit the Top 10, his biggest success until the aptly named Three Steps To Heaven became a posthumous number one. The Singin To My Baby album was originally rele ...

Few jazzmen active during the mid-50s were more worthy of recording tributes to the era of classic jazz, just three decades distant, than Eddie Condon. Fitting, then, that two of his most interesting throwback dates, Bixieland & Eddie Condons Treasury of Jazz, were combined for this Collectables two-fer. The first

Includes:: ten of Bix Beiderbeckes most popular features from the man who coined the most famous description of his style (" The sound came out like a girl saying yes"). Bobby Hacket

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Producer: Jim Davis. Reissue producer: Eliot Goshman. Recorded live at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York, New York in October 1962. Originally released on Ramrod Records (1). Digitally remastered by Eliot Goshman (February 1999, Taragon Studios, Deer Park, New York). ...

That Higgins is a virtuoso pianist is not in question; in fact, his group works with Wayne Shorter, Eddie Harris, trio sessions, & duets with wife Meredith DAmbrosio are all solid prior examples of his substantial talent. This is his first all solo piano disc, & its a beaut. Though well versed in bop, modern mainstream, & Swing-era styles, Higgins is a very competent stride pianist, albeit on the lighter side. Proof positive is offered during several of the 14 tracks, including " Cant Ge ...

Recommended for easily satisfied casual fans only, diehard Eddie Kendricks janissaries wont find much satisfaction with this scanty run-down of Kendricks solo career, which found the ex-Temptation constantly on the R&B charts & no stranger to pop chart success. Sadly, his two biggest pop darts (" Keep on Truckin" & " Boogie Down") are not the lengthy album tracks but the short radio edits. Just when " Keep on Truckin" starts kicking youre rollin into " Boogie Down, " which turns out to be a ...

Producers: Frank Wilson, Leonard Caston, Brian Holl&, Norman Harris, Bobby Miller. Compilation producer: Henry Weinger. Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Suha Gur at Poly Gram Studios, Edison, New Jersey.

Includes:: liner notes by Frank Wilson as told to Henry Weinger.

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