Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician whose career spans over half a century.
He began as a comedy writer in the 1950s, penning jokes and scripts for television and also publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, Allen started performing as a stand-up comic, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes. As a comic, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he insists is quite different from his real-life personality.
The Mystics – Star Crossed Lovers
The Four Epics – Again
The Four Graduates – Candy Queen
Billy Vera & The Contrasts – My Heart Cries
The Five Discs – Baby I Love You
Dion & The Belmonts – No One Knows
The Emotions – Starlit Night
Larry & The Standards – Where Is She?
Side Two
The Chiffons – Up On the Bridge
Carlo – 5 Minutes More
Dion & The Belmonts – Come Take a Walk with Me
The Ray-Vons – Judy
The Five Discs – Gypsy Woman
The Four Pennies – My Block
Randy & The Rainbows – Happy Teenager
The Jarmes – Little Lonely One
Collector’s Records of the 50′s and 60′s: Vol. 4
Various Artists
Side One
The Skyliners – star Dust
Dion – Lovers Who Wander
Carlo – Stranger In My Arms
The Mystics – All Through the Night
The Del Satins – Best Wishes Goodby
The Chiffons – Open Your Eyes
Jimmy Clanton – Tell Me
Bernadette Carroll – Party Girl
Side Two
Curtis Lee – Pretty little Angel Eyes
The DelRons – Your Big Mistake
Dion & The Belmonts – A Lover’s Prayer
The Four Pennies – When the Boy’s Happy
Dion – Lonely World
Ernie Maresca – Rockin’ Blvd Street
The Demilles – Donna Lee
Dion & The Belmonts – I Got the Blues
Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode
Eddie Cochran – Summertime Blues
Conway Twitty – It’s Only Make Believe
Little Richard – Good Golly, Miss Molly
Huey “Piano” Smith and the Clowns – Don’t You Just Know It
Little Anthony and The Imperials – Tears On My Pillow
Side Two
The Coasters – Yakety Yak
Duane Eddy – Rebel ‘Rouser
The Silhouettes – Get a Job
Bobby Darin – Splish Splash
The Champs – Tequila
The Chantels – Maybe
Side Three
Chuck Berry – Sweet Little Sixteen
The Crickets – Oh, Boy!
The Elegants – Little Star
The Monotones – Book of Love
Jerry Lee Lewis – Breathless
Jody Reynolds – Endless Sleep
Side Four
Bobby Day – Rock-in Robin
Big Bopper – Chantilly Lace
The Teddy Bears – To Know Him Is To Love Him
Bobby Freeman – Do You Wanna Dance
Jimmy Clanton – Just a Dream
The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington. Founded by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, the group in its various incarnations has had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide. With over 100 million records sold, the group is the best-selling instrumental band of all time. In 2008, the Ventures were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Their instrumental virtuosity, experimentation with guitar effects, and unique sound laid the groundwork for innumerable groups, earning them the moniker “The Band that Launched a Thousand Bands”. While their popularity in the United States waned in the 1970s, the group remains revered in Japan, where they still tour regularly to this day.
My dad had so many albums from The Ventures, this is actually just the start of what I have!
Anthony Dominick Benedetto, better known as Tony Bennett (born August 3, 1926), is an American singer.
After signing with Columbia Records he had his first number one popular song with “Because of You” in 1951. Several top hits such as “Rags to Riches” followed in the early 1950s. Bennett then further refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings, Bennett Sings. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”. His career and his personal life then suffered an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era.
Bennett staged a remarkable comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s, putting out gold record albums again and expanding his audience to the MTV Generation while keeping his musical style intact. He remains a popular and critically praised recording artist and concert performer in the 2010s. Bennett has won 17 Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award, presented in 2001).
In September 2011, Bennett released Duets II, a follow-up to his first collaboration album, in conjunction with his 85th birthday. The album’s pairing with Amy Winehouse on “Body and Soul” — reportedly the last recording she made before her death — charted on the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100, making Bennett the oldest living artist to appear there, as well as the artist with the greatest span of appearances. Duets II also included a song with Lady Gaga. You can check out the video here.
Bennett is also a serious and accomplished painter, having created works — under the name Anthony Benedetto — that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in New York City.
Tony’s Greatest Hits Volume III
Side One
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
I Wanna Be Around
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
When Joanna Loved Me
The Moment of Truth
Who Can I Turn To
Side Two
The Good Life
A Taste of Honey
This Is All I Ask
Once Upon a Time
The Best Is Yet To Come
If I Ruled the World
Thurston Harris (July 11, 1931 – April 14, 1990) was an American singer, briefly popular in the early to mid 1950s.
Harris is widely regarded as a Rock N Roll Hall of Fame legend, who popularized the song “Little Bitty Pretty One”, written by Bobby Day, and sung by Harris in 1957. It reached #6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The track sold over one million records, achieving gold disc status and remains popular to this day.
Little Bitty Pretty One
Side One
Little Bitty Pretty One
Do What You Did
Be Baba Leba
I’m Out to Getcha
I Got Loaded (In Smokey Joe’s Joint)
Over and Over
You’re Gonna Need Me
Side Two
Purple Stew
I Hope You Won’t Hold It Against Me
In the Bottom of My Heart
Hey Little Girl
My Love Will Last
Runk Bunk
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Teresa Brewer (7 May 1931 – 17 October 2007) was an American pop singer whose style incorporated elements of country, jazz, R&B, musicals and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording nearly 600 songs.
Greatest Hits
Side One
(Put Another Nickel In) Music! Music! Music!
A Tear Fell
A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl
Till I Waltz Again with You
Let Me Go Lover
Pledging My Love
Side Two
Ricochet
Empty Arms
If You Want Some Lovin’
The Ballard of Lover’s Hill
Bo Weevil
You Send Me
Danny & The Juniors – Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay
The Fleetwoods – Come Softly To Me
Jimmy Clanton – Go Jimmy, Go
The Teen Queens – Eddie My Love
The Monotones – Book of Love
Skip & Flip – It Was I
Lloyd Price – Stagger Lee
The Charts – Deserie
Wilbert Harrison – Kansas City
The Olympics – Western Movies
Side Two
The Diamonds – Little Darlin’
Dion & The Belmonts – A Teenager In Love
Sam Cooke – You Send Me
Bobby Day – Rockin’ Robin
The Spaniels – Stormy Weather
The Quin-Tones – Down the Aisle of Love
Frankie Ford – Sea Cruise
Dee Clark – Hey Little Girl
Ritchie Valens – La Bamba
Little Richard – Good Golly Miss Molly
Stanley Victor “Stan” Freberg (born August 7, 1926) is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director, whose career began in 1944. He is still active in the industry in his mid-80s, nearly 70 years after entering it.
The Best of Stan Freberg
Side One
The Yellow Rose of Texas
John and Marsha
St. George and the Dragonet
Banana Boat
Trouble
Tele-vee-shun
Side Two
C’est Si Bon
Heartbreak Hotel
Rock Island Line
The Great Pretender
The Quest For Bridey Hammerschlaugen
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