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Tony Bennett – The Movie Song Album (1966/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:30 minutes | 777 MB | Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
The Movie Song Album is a 1966 studio album by Tony Bennett. The album consists of songs from films, opening with the theme from The Oscar, in which Bennett had recently appeared. With this project of such high quality of song material and collaborators, he was to describe the album in his autobiography as his “all time favorite record”.
Johnny Mandel was the musical director, and he and Neal Hefti and Quincy Jones arranged and conducted their own compositions on the album. Luiz Bonfá played the guitar on his two songs, “Samba de Orfeu” and “The Gentle Rain”. The pianists Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Rowles and Lou Levy all collaborated, each on one song.
Bennett’s recording of “The Shadow of Your Smile” won Mandel and Paul Francis Webster the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1966, and Bennett performed the song at the 38th Academy Awards, where it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
By the mid-1960s, retreating from the rock & roll onslaught, that old-time staple of the pre-rock days, the big romantic ballad, had been relegated to Hollywood, where it turned up in the opening and closing credits of movies. Like other classic pop singers, Tony Bennett had sought it out there, and with this album, coincident with his first (and last) acting role in The Oscar, he devoted himself exclusively to movie themes, everything from “The Trolley Song” (Meet Me In St. Louis) to “Days Of Wine And Roses.” Some of the tunes were not first-rate, but in “The Shadow Of Your Smile” and “The Second Time Around” (previously recorded by Frank Sinatra), Bennett found material worthy of him, and even when he was faced with minor material, be sang movingly. –William Ruhlmann
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Tony Bennett – His Greatest Hits Of The ’50s (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:07 minutes | 822 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. He is also a painter, having created works under his birth name that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York.
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Tom Waits – Closing Time (Remastered) (1973/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:39 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph
The 1973 album that introduced a young singer-songwriter to the world at large is a far cry from the wonderfully twisted sonic landscape that would define “Swordfishtrombones” a decade later. The Waits of “Closing Time” was a barroom balladeer too, but one who fit neatly into the early-’70s folk-rock, singer-songwriter paradigm (“Closing Time’s opener “Ol’ ’55,” in fact, was covered by the Eagles on their first album). The arrangements here are straightforward, piano-based affairs that present the songs with a minimum of fuss.
Waits’s voice isn’t the deep, gravelly instrument that would bellow its way through RAIN DOGS, but a smoky, measured one, devoid of artifice. Accordingly, the song structures are simpler, and the best (“Martha,” “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You”) attain a timeless feel. For all his relative conventionality on this debut, though, Waits is still closer in spirit to the great American songwriters of the ’40s than any ’70s California rocker. Listeners looking for the eccentric, carnivalesque atmosphere that typifies Waits’s work from the ’80s and ’90s will be surprised by the relative straightforwardness of “Closing Time”, yet the album announces an important talent.
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Tom Waits – Closing Time (Remastered) (1973/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:39 minutes | 794 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph
The 1973 album that introduced a young singer-songwriter to the world at large is a far cry from the wonderfully twisted sonic landscape that would define “Swordfishtrombones” a decade later. The Waits of “Closing Time” was a barroom balladeer too, but one who fit neatly into the early-’70s folk-rock, singer-songwriter paradigm (“Closing Time’s opener “Ol’ ’55,” in fact, was covered by the Eagles on their first album). The arrangements here are straightforward, piano-based affairs that present the songs with a minimum of fuss.
Waits’s voice isn’t the deep, gravelly instrument that would bellow its way through RAIN DOGS, but a smoky, measured one, devoid of artifice. Accordingly, the song structures are simpler, and the best (“Martha,” “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You”) attain a timeless feel. For all his relative conventionality on this debut, though, Waits is still closer in spirit to the great American songwriters of the ’40s than any ’70s California rocker. Listeners looking for the eccentric, carnivalesque atmosphere that typifies Waits’s work from the ’80s and ’90s will be surprised by the relative straightforwardness of “Closing Time”, yet the album announces an important talent.
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The Pied Pipers – It’s Only A Paper Moon (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:25 minutes | 511 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delta
The Pied Pipers is an American popular singing group originally formed in the late 1930s. They had several chart hits through the 1940s, both under their own name and in association with Tommy Dorsey and with Frank Sinatra.
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Spandau Ballet – True (1983) [Remastered Reissue 2003]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 35:56 minutes | Scans included | 1,45 GB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 875 MB
Spandau Ballet is an English band formed in London in the late 1970s. Initially inspired by, and an integral part of, the New Romantic movement, they were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s, achieving ten Top Ten singles and four Top Ten albums in the UK between 1980 and 1990.
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Shelby Lynne – Just A Little Lovin’ (2008) [APO Remaster 2012]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 Stereo > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:19 minutes | Scans included | 1,7 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 839 MB
Shelby Lynne has followed her own sometimes reckless, always adventuresome muse throughout her career. Just a Little Lovin’ is her personal homage to the late, legendary Dusty Springfield. Nine of its ten cuts are inextricably linked to the late British vocalist whose sway Lynne came under years ago, but a chance conversation with Barry Manilow — of all people — led to the making of this record. Lynne doesn’t attempt to sound like Springfield. She uses her own phrasing and rhythmic sensibility.
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U2 – Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 23:11 minutes | 260 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
This follows up the release of “Lemon” as a remastered single on July 21, 2023. That single featured four mixes of the title track, including the “Morales BYC Version Dub” (06:35), and the “Bad Yard Club Mix” (10:14). The “Bad Yard Club Edit” on the “Stay” EP is an edited of the longer mix found on the “Lemon” single.
The cover being used for the “Stay” EP is the alternate cover used for the second CD release in territories where two versions of the single were issued on CD. The singles have never been released with this cover art in North America.
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Seth MacFarlane – In Full Swing (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:55 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Republic – Verve – Fuzzy
Grammy-nominated artist Seth MacFarlane’s love affair with standards continues with his fourth album, In Full Swing, set for release on September 15 on Verve Label Group / Republic Records.
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Seth MacFarlane – Holiday For Swing! (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:43 minutes | 837 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Swing, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music
Academy Award-nominated and Grammy-nominated writer, singer, actor, producer and director, Seth MacFarlane has recently completed his first-ever Christmas album. Following his critically acclaimed 2011 debut, Music Is Better Than Words, and a 2013 Oscar Nomination for co-writing “Everybody Needs a Best Friend” from Ted, the record will be available at stores everywhere and digital retailers just in time for the holiday season via Republic Records.
Once again, MacFarlane teamed up with composer, arranger, and producer Joel McNeely. The album features a 52-piece orchestra recorded at the iconic Abbey Road Studios and a bevy of London’s premier players. Among the musicians in the orchestra were jazz legend Peter Erskine on the drums and former Frank Sinatra bassist Chuck Berghoffer.
For the album, MacFarlane and McNeely cherry-picked both timeless holiday songs and lesser-known gems. MacFarlane slides from a warm, introspective introduction with a vocal quintet into a bright, up-tempo swing in “Let It Snow”, and brings a new interpretation to the Lee Gordon rarity “Christmas Dreaming”. Continuing a longtime friendship and creative partnership, Norah Jones joins him for Seger Ellis and Al Stillman’s “Little Jack Frost Get Lost”, while Sara Bareilles lends her powerful pipes to Frank Loesser’s “Baby It’s Cold Outside”.
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Seal – Standards (Deluxe) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:12 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO)
It’s always some kind of baptism of fire. Not a prerequisite but a way to measure oneself to one’s colleagues from yesterday and today. With the aptly named Standards, his tenth studio album, Seal climbs the Everest of the great jazz and swing classics. After three decades, the Brit doesn’t have anything to prove anymore about the soul quality of his voice. But this retro-flavored enchanted digression reminds us of how this powerful and sultry organ can master any repertoire. Recorded for the most part in the famous Capitol studios in Los Angeles, precisely where Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat “King” Cole and many others have recorded some of their greatest discs, Standardshas incidentally been created with the help of musicians that have assisted these great voices. We find pianist Randy Waldman (Frank Sinatra, Paul Anka), bass player Chuck Berghofer (Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles) and drummer Greg Fields (Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder), all gathered so that Seal would give his reinterpretations of Autumn Leaves, I Put A Spell On You, Love For Sale, My Funny Valentine, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Smile, I’m Beginning To See The Light and Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow. “This is the album I have always wanted to make, explains the concerned party. I grew up listening to music from the Rat Pack era, so recording these timeless tunes was a lifelong dream. It was a true honour to collaborate with the same musicians who performed with Frank Sinatra and so many of my favourite artists, in the very same studios where the magic was first made – it was one of the greatest days of my recording career.” We can easily imagine that…
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Rick Stephenson – Reflections in the Wee Small Hours (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:36 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Oldies
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rick Stephenson
It has been a busy year for local Kingsville singer and musician Rick Stephenson and it’s set to get even busier! In May, Rick released his fourth album Reflections In The Wee Small Hours. He recorded it as a tribute to one of his favourites, Frank Sinatra’s classic In The Wee Small Hours. Rick referred to it as his “labour of love,” a fresh and modern approach to the original 1955 album by Sinatra.
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Sammy Davis, Jr. – Simply … Mister Wonderful! (The 2020 Remasters) (2020/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:26:58 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jube Legends
With this new album the legendary La Vegas “Rat Pack” is completely represented in our retrospective. After “Blue Eyes”, Frank Sinatra and “Dino” – Dean Martin also “Mister Wonderful” Sammy Davis jr has found his place in our collections. The three greatest showmen ever walking on earth as some people tend to say: Sintra the “womanizer”, Martin, the soft Latino Macho and Sammy Davis jr, who was certainly the power packet of the three. All his songs are full of vigour, of energy and they are bursting like dynamite. 30 tracks, newly remastered from original analogue sources in beautiful 24bit, 48kHz. Enjoy!
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