The Four Seasons’ Gold Vault of Hits

The Four Seasons’ Gold Vault of Hits

Side One

Let’s Hang On
Rag Doll
Ronnie
Big Man In Town
Silence Is Golden
Bye Bye Baby (Baby Goodbye)

Side Two

Dawn (Go Away)
Save It For Me
Girl Come Running
Betrayed
Toy Soldier
Cry Myself To Sleep

“Live The Life You Love. Love The Life You Live.”

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!”

Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers (1963–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience. Marley’s music was heavily influenced by the social issues of his homeland, and he is considered to have given voice to the specific political and cultural nexus of Jamaica.

In 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a feature-length documentary about his life, Rebel Music, won various awards at the Grammys. Internationally, Marley’s message also continues to reverberate amongst various indigenous communities. For instance, the Aboriginal people of Australia continue to burn a sacred flame to honor his memory in Sydney’s Victoria Park, while members of the Native American Hopi and Havasupai tribe revere his work. There are also many tributes to Bob Marley throughout India, including restaurants, hotels, and cultural festivals.

Survival

Side One

Wake Up and Live
Africa Unite
One Drop
Ride Natty Ride
Ambush in the Night

Side Two

So Much Trouble in the World
Zimbabwe
Top Rankin’
Babylon System
Survival

20 Explosive Original Hits Original Stars

 

20 Explosive Original Hits Original Stars

Various Artists

Side One

Mungo Jerry – In the Summertime
Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Stairsteps – O-o-h Child
The Box Tops – Cry Like a Baby
Classic IV – Traces
The Who – I Can See For Miles
Alive ‘N Kickin – Tighter, Tighter
Jaggerz – The Rapper
Tee Set – Ma Belle Amie
Bob Lind – Elusive Butterfly

Side Two

Shocking Blue – Venus
Hugh Masekela – Grazing in the Grass
The Cufflinks – Tracy
Tommy James – Ball and Chain
Three Degrees – Maybe
Canned Heat – Going Up the Country
Box Tops – The Letter
Tommy James – Chuch St. Soul Revival
Intruders – When We Get Married
Bill Deal & The Rhondells – May I

It’s Been Awhile…

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted an update, but I’ve been trying to save space. I will eventually cave and upgrade, but as usual, I’ve been putting it off. I decided I didn’t want to start a new blog for the singles and I have a lot more of those than full albums so upgrading is definitely needed. I’m also about 50 or so albums from being completely done with the those so I need to pick up the singles. My mom is a bit all or nothing so I’ve been moving some things around to make room. I’ll be sure to get back on the daily post train as soon as I know space isn’t an issue, both with the blog and in my apartment!! If you need your daily fix though, be sure to check My Dad’s Albums out on Facebook!!

The Best of ZZ Top

ZZ Top is an American rock band from Houston, Texas. Formed in 1969, the group consists of Billy Gibbons (guitar and vocals), Dusty Hill (bass and vocals), and Frank Beard (percussion). ZZ Top’s early sound was rooted in blues but eventually grew to exhibit contemporary influences. Throughout their career they have maintained a sound based on Hill’s and Beard’s rhythm section support, accentuated by Gibbons’ guitar and vocal style. Their lyrics often gave evidence of band’s humor and thematically focus on personal experiences and sexual innuendos.

Maintaining the same members for over forty years, ZZ Top has released 14 studio albums and are among the most popular rock groups, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide,half of this figure concerning the United States alone. They have won three VMAs, and in 2004, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Best of ZZ Top

Side One

Tush
Waitin For the Bus
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Francine
Just Got Paid

Side Two

La Grange
Blue Jean Blues
Backdoor Love Affair
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
Heard It On the X

Young Love

Young Love

Various Artists

Side One

Tab Hunter – Young Love
Robin Luke – Susie Darlin
The Del-Vikings – Whispering Bells
Sanford Clark – The Fool
Carol Jarvis – Rebel
Nick Todd – Plaything

Side Two

The Del-Vikings – Come Go with Me
Tab Hunter – Ninety-Nine Ways
Jim Lowe – The Green Door
Bonnie Guitar – Dark Moon
Rusty Bryant – All Night Long
The Shields – You Cheated

The Hills Are Alive….

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical book written by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. The musical originated with the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. It contains many popular songs, including “Edelweiss”, “My Favorite Things”, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”, “Do-Re-Mi”, “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”, and “The Lonely Goatherd”, as well as the title song.

It won a total of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and displaced Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all-time. The cast album was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry as it was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

The Sound of Music Soundtrack

Side One

Prelude and The Sound of Music
Overture and Preludium
Morning Hymn and Alleluia
Maria
I Have Confidence
Sixteen Going On Seventeen
My Favorite Things
Climb Ev’ry Mountain

Side Two

The Lonely Goatherd
The Sound of Music
Do-Re-Mi
Something Good
Processional and Maria
Edelweiss
So Long, Farewell
Climb Ev’ry Mountain (Reprise)

Who Is The Father Of Diva, Moon Unit, Dweezil and Ahmet?

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, recording engineer, record producer and film director.

In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.

He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. His lyrics—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship.

Zappa was a highly productive and prolific artist and gained widespread critical acclaim. He had some commercial success, particularly in Europe, and for most of his career was able to work as an independent artist. Zappa was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.

Apostrophe

200 Motels

Zoot Allures

Golden Goodies: Vol. 11

Golden Goodies: Vol. 11

Various Artists

Side One

The Dreamlovers – When We Get Married
The Valentines – Tonight Kathleen
The Five Satins – To the Aisle
The Eldorados – I’ll Be Forever Loving You
The Eldorados – At My Front Door
The Moonglows – We Go Together

Side Two

The Pastels – Been So Long
The Chantels – Congratulations
The Four Seasons – Spanish Lace
The Willows – Church Bells May Ring
The Spaniels – Baby It’s You
The Channels – Altar of Love

20 Heavy Hits

20 Heavy Hits

Various Artists

Side One

Janis Joplin – Down On Me
The Impressions – Fool For You
Tommy James & The Shondells – Crimson & Clover
Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense & Peppermint
Len Barry – 1 2 3
The Delfonics – La La Means I Love You
The Intruders – Cowboys To Girls
The Ohio Express – Down At Lulu’s
The Who – Magic Bus
Ricardo Ray – Nitty Gritty

Side Two

The Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy
1910 Fruitgum Company – Simon Says
Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony Mony
1910 Fruitgum Company – 1 2 3 Red Light
The Turtles – She’d Rather Be with me
Amboy Dukes – Journey To the Center of My Mind
The Happenings – Go Away Little Girl
The Lemon Pipers – Jelly Jungle
Sonny & Cher – The Beat Goes On
The Lemon Pipers – Rice Is Nice