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Tight bass-heavy funk from Slave – still working here in that excellent compressed style that was their unique contribution to soul music – possibly the best album ever by the Ohio funky soul combo! They may be be handling the vocals with just a bit more focus and care on Just A Touch Of Love than on other albums – which takes to all to a more soulful level, but doesn't spare on the strength of the grooves one bit. They also point the way towards the more club soul styled approach to come in the 80s, but do so firmly grounded in simmering 70s funk. Excellence!

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This is a great collection of Doo Wop tunes from back in the day! 587 tracks total. Lots of rare tunes from lots of groups. If you like Doo Wop and you don't have this series, you will want these. As I once read on a Doo Wop site, "Rock and Roll may be here to stay but Doo Wop never left". This series consists of 20 volumes and it is long out of print.

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Almost 6 hours of wonderful songs of the Girl group heaven with 140 hits from the Golden Age of American Rock & Roll. This impressive collection of recordings, laid down between the fifties and sixties, chosen by someone with excellent taste! Terrific Early Girl group compilation.

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Still the definitive Crystals retrospective nearly a decade after its release, ABKCO's The Best of the Crystals gathers their most beloved singles, including "Uptown," "He's a Rebel," "Da Doo Ron," and "Then He Kissed Me"; the infamous withdrawn single "He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)"; and relatively obscure songs such as "What a Nice Way to Turn 17," "Look in My Eyes," and "I Wonder."

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This fantastic 5CD's set from Bear Family collects all of Connie's 1950s recordings, all of her single releases plus all of her album releases, and material she choose not to release are included here. Also included is a beautiful book that cronicules Connies career during the 50s. This is an absolute must-have for every true Conne Francis fan!

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Whenever a label rolls out an extensive set like this one -- one that hones in on a specific era and/or style -- it's usually with the hope that casual music fans will be tricked into thinking that, by its imposing multi-disc nature, it's likely to be definitive. Time Life's four-disc The Fabulous Fifties (a compilation of discs that were also available separately) is hardly the last word on pop music from the decade that birthed rock & roll. Though it does contain a whopping 60 songs, it's far too spotty to function as a one-stop overview.

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To Be Immortal is the third album released by Oran "Juice" Jones. It was released in 1989 through Def Jam Recordings and was his final album with the label. The album proved be an even bigger commercial failure then his previous album, not making it to any Billboard charts. Jones left the music business shortly after to tend to personal and family business.

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Robert Randolph & the Family Band is an american Funk, Soul and 'Jam' band who start their career in 2002. Robert Randolph is considered by Rolling Stones magazine as on of the 100 greatest guitarists of all times.

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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music is a studio album by American R&B and soul musician Ray Charles, released in April 1962 on ABC-Paramount Records. Recording sessions for the album took place in early to mid-February 1962 at Capitol Studios in New York City and at United Recording Studios in Hollywood, California.

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This combines the Mar-Keys' first two albums, Last Night! and Do the Pop-Eye (both from 1962), onto one CD, with nine pages of historical liner notes by Stax authority Rob Bowman. "Last Night" was a great early-'60s instrumental rock hit, and an important one in helping to establish the basic sound of Stax soul music.

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The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory is the fifth and final studio album by Tupac Shakur, under the new stage name Makaveli, finished before his death and his first studio album to be posthumously released...

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All We Need is the third solo album of the British keyboardist Oli Silk. He continues to fulfill the demands of the smooth jazz genre displaying much innovative capacity.

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Take a visual and audio trip through the rainforest with Merl Saunders and special friend Jerry Garcia on this exclusive DVD presentation. This album is probably not the best representation of Merl Saunders, whose instrument of choice was the Hammond B-3 organ, but it’s a terrific album worth revisiting, and an album whose creator is worth remembering.

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In the early '80 Warwick experienced a career renaissance thanks to "Déjà Vu" and her singing to Arista, a label seemed to be more sympathetic to her needs. This 1983 album pairs her with producer Luther Vandross. Vandross, who also produced Aretha Franklin's Jump To It in 1982, is a much better teaming of singer and producer.

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Only 12 tracks but some good rare stuff in there Commodores Hirsuite in 'sail on' is a gem and Gloria Gaynors I will Survive is the re-mixed 1994 version not the orginal 79 chart topper.Cameo's 'word up' is in it's full glory including a 'cameo' by Levar Burton as a cop 3 years before he Boarded the Enterprise! The real find on this disc is Womack's 'teardrops' from 1988..hardly legends of soul but a good late '70's to 80's memory refresher which if you are a Video Jock essential other wise for civvies after a viewing is likely to stay on the shelf until the houseparty.

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