5. Little Eva 6. The Marcels 7. Edward Elgar
** Lawrence Welk
1. Calcutta , Live 2. Bubbles In The Wine 3. Family Affair4. Champagne Time
Lawrence Welk : Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans (and critics) as "champagne music".
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** Bobby Pickett
1. Monster Mash ( Lyrics ) 2. Blood Bank Blues 3. Sinister Stomp4. Transylvania Twist 5. Me And My Mummy 6. Monster's Holiday
7. Graveyard Shift
Bobby Pickett : Robert George Pickett (February 11, 1938 – April 25, 2007), known by the pen name Bobby "Boris" Pickett, was an American singer who was known for co-writing and performing the 1962 hit novelty song "Monster Mash". Pickett co-wrote "Monster Mash" with Leonard Capizzi in May 1962. The song was a spoof on the dance crazes popular at the time, including the Twist and the Mashed Potato, which inspired the title. The song featured Pickett's impersonations of veteran horror stars Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (the latter with the line "Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?"). It was passed on by every major record label, but after hearing the song, Gary S. Paxton agreed to produce and engineer it; among the musicians who played on it was pianist Leon Russell. Issued on Paxton's Garpax Records, the single became a million seller, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks before Halloween in 1962. It was styled as being by "Bobby 'Boris' Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers". The track re-entered the U.S. charts twice, in August 1970, and again in May 1973, when it reached the #10 spot. In Britain it took until October 1973 for the tune to become popular, peaking at #3 in the UK Singles Chart. For the second time, the record sold over one million copies. The tune remains a Halloween perennial on radio and on iTunes. A Christmas-themed follow-up, "Monster's Holiday", (b/w "Monster Motion") was also released in 1962 and reached #30 in December that year. "Blood Bank Blues" (b/w "Me And My Mummy") did not chart. This was followed by further monster-themed recordings such as the album The Original Monster Mash and such singles as "Werewolf Watusi" and "The Monster Swim". In 1973, Pickett rerecorded "Me And My Mummy" for a Metromedia 45 (it did not chart). Another of Pickett's songs, "Graduation Day", made #80 in June 1963. In 1985, with American culture experiencing a growing awareness of rap music, Pickett released "Monster Rap", which describes the mad scientist's frustration at being unable to teach the dancing monster from "Monster Mash" how to talk. The problem is solved when he teaches the monster to rap.
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** The Crystals
1. Uptown 2. Then He Kissed Me 3. He's Sure The Boy I Love4. He's A Rebel , Live ( Lyrics ) 5. Da Doo Ron Ron , Live
6. Then He Kissed Me 7. There's No Other Like My Baby
The Crystals : The Crystals are an American vocal group based in New York, considered one of the defining acts of the girl group era of the first half of the 1960s. Their 1961–1964 chart hits, including "Uptown", "He's a Rebel", "Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)" and "Then He Kissed Me", featured three successive female lead singers, and were all produced by Phil Spector. The latter 3 songs are ranked #267, #114, and #493, respectively, on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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** Bert Kaempfert
1. Wonderland By Night 2. Dankeschön 3. Sweet Caroline 4. Friends5. Cracklin' Rosie 6. In Apple Blossom Time 7. Snowbird 8. Smile
9. A Swinging Safari 10. Wimoweh 11. Black Beauty 12. Similau
13. Midnight Snack 14. Stoney End 15. Fascination 16. Las Vegas
17. Hold Back The Dawn 18. Twilight Time 19. Memories of Mexico
20. Never My Love 21. So What's New? 22. Somebody Loves You
23. Apple Honey 24. It's The Talk Of The Town 25. Sleepy Lagoon
26. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 27. Unchained Melody
28. Tootie Flutie 29. Market Day 30. Jumping At The Woodside
31. Bye Bye Blues 32. Soul Time 33. I'll Get By 34. Zambesi
35. Dreaming The Blues 36. Blueberry Hill 37. Plaisir D'amour
38. Take Seven 39. Funny Talk 40. I Love How You Love Me
41. Love For Love 42. Mombasa Rock 43. Jersey Bounce
44. Horizon (Horizonte) 45. Arizona Flip 46. Cannon Ball
47. You Are My Sunshine 48. The White Cliffs Of Dover
49. Mason Dixon Line 50. Sleigh Ride 51. Tenderly
Bert Kaempfert : Bert Kaempfert (born Berthold Kämpfert; 16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980) was a German orchestra leader and songwriter. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records, and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, such as "Strangers in the Night" and "Spanish Eyes".
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** Little Eva
1. Up On The Roof 2. Some Kind A Wonderful 3. Just A Little Girl4. Please Hurt Me 5. Let's Start The Party Again 6. Down Home
7. Will You Love Me Tomorrow 8. I Have A Love 9. Sharing You
10. Makin' With The Magilla 11. I Wish You A Merry Christmas
12. What I Gotta Do (To Make You Jealous) 13. Run To Her
14. The Trouble With Boys 15. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
16. Swinging On A Star 17. Where Do I Go 18. Uptown
19. Old Smokey Loco Motion 20. The Christmas Song
21. Takin' Back What I Said 22. Wake Up John
23. Get Him 24. Another Night With The Boys
25. The Loco-Motion , Live ( Lyrics )
Little Eva : Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003), known by the stage name of Little Eva (after a character from Uncle Tom's Cabin), was an American pop singer.
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** The Marcels
1. Blue Moon ( Lyrics ) 2. One Last Kiss 3. My Love For You4. Hold On 5. Really Need Your Love
The Marcels : The Marcels were a doo-wop group known for turning American classical pop songs into rock and roll. The group formed in 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and signed to Colpix Records, with lead Cornelius Harp, bass Fred Johnson, Gene Bricker, Ron Mundy, and Richard Knauss. The group was named by Fred Johnson's younger sister Priscilla, after a popular hair style of the day, the marcel wave. In 1961 many were surprised to hear a new version of the ballad "Blue Moon" that began with the bass singer saying, "bomp-baba-bomp" and "dip-da-dip." The record sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. It is featured in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The disc went to number one in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and UK Singles Chart. In the U.S., additional revivals in the same vein as "Blue Moon" – "Heartaches" and "Melancholy Baby" – were less successful, although "Heartaches" peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually sold over one million copies worldwide.
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** Edward Elgar
1. Symphony No. 1 2. The Best Of Elgar [Full Album] 3. Nimrod4. Pomp And Circumstance March No.1 5. Salut D'Amour Op.12
Edward Elgar : Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations (1899) became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full-length religious choral works were well received but have not entered the regular repertory. In his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful. His second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate public popularity and took many years to achieve a regular place in the concert repertory of British orchestras. Elgar's music came, in his later years, to be seen as appealing chiefly to British audiences. His stock remained low for a generation after his death. It began to revive significantly in the 1960s, helped by new recordings of his works. Some of his works have, in recent years, been taken up again internationally, but the music remains more played in Britain than elsewhere. Elgar has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. Between 1914 and 1925, he conducted a series of acoustic recordings of his works. The introduction of the microphone in 1925 made far more accurate sound reproduction possible, and Elgar made new recordings of most of his major orchestral works and excerpts from The Dream of Gerontius.