The Ronettes - The Ultimate Collection [1961-1974] (1997)

Year: 1961-1974 (CD 1997)
Label: Marginal Records (Europe), CDMAR 050
Style: Vocal, Pop, Oldies
Country: New York City, U.S.
Time: 77:59
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 542 Mb

The Ronettes were an American girl group from Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City. The group consisted of the lead singer Veronica Bennett (later known as Ronnie Spector), her older sister Estelle Bennett, and their cousin Nedra Talley. They had sung together since they were teenagers, then known as "The Darling Sisters". Signed first by Colpix Records in 1961, they moved to Phil Spector's Philles Records in March 1963 and changed their name to "The Ronettes".
The Ronettes placed nine songs on the Billboard Hot 100, six of which became Top 40 hits. Among their hit songs are "Be My Baby", which peaked at No. 2, their only contemporary top 10 hit, "Baby, I Love You", "(The Best Part of) Breakin' Up" and "Walking in the Rain". In 1964, the group released their only studio album, Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica. That year, the Rolling Stones were their opening act when they toured the UK. The Ronettes opened for the Beatles on their 1966 US tour, becoming the only girl group to tour with them, before splitting up in 1967. In the 1970s, the group was briefly revived as Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes. Veronica Bennett married Phil Spector in 1968.
Their song "Be My Baby" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. Rolling Stone ranked their album Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica No. 422 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The Ronettes were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004, and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. The group also holds the record for the longest gap between top-ten hits in Billboard history, just over 58 years.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ronettes)

01. Recipe For Love (02:26)
02. I Want A Boy (02:12)
03. Be My Baby (02:36)
04. (Best Part Of...) Breaking Up (02:41)
05. Baby I Love You (02:32)
06. You Baby (02:42)
07. Do I Love You (02:45)
08. Good Girls (02:24)
09. Silhouettes (02:24)
10. You Bet I Would (02:10)
11. I'm Gonna Quit While I'm Ahead (02:24)
12. I Wonder (02:37)
13. Chapel Of Love (02:48)
14. Is This What I Get For Loving You (03:10)
15. Here I Sit (02:55)
16. Soldier Baby (02:50)
17. Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love (02:37)
18. How Does It Feel (02:40)
19. Walking In The Rain (03:18)
20. Woman In Love (02:55)
21. I Can Hear Music (03:12)
22. Oh I Love You (02:20)
23. Lovers (02:40)
24. So Young (02:35)
25. Keep On Dancing (02:28)
26. Paradise (03:35)
27. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (02:39)
28. Sleigh Ride (02:57)
29. Frosty The Snowman (02:13)

UploadyIo     FreedlInk

All my files:     UploadyIo     DailyUploads     KatFile

The Andrew Sisters - The Best Of The Andrews Sisters [1937-1952] (1994)

Year: 1994 (CD 1994)
Label: Blue Moon (Spain), BMCD 3005
Style: Swing, Boogie-Woogie, Vocal, Oldies
Country: Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Time: 75:54
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 363 Mb

The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia Andrews (1911–1967), soprano Maxene Anglyn Andrews (1916–1995), and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie Andrews (1918–2013). The sisters have sold an estimated 80 million records. Their 1941 hit "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" can be considered an early example of jump blues. Other songs closely associated with the Andrews Sisters include their first major hit, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Means That You're Grand)" (1937), "Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)" (1939), "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" (1940), "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)" (1942), and "Rum and Coca-Cola" (1945), which helped introduce American audiences to calypso.
The Andrews Sisters' harmonies and songs are still influential today and have been copied and recorded by entertainers such as Patti Page, Bette Midler, Christina Aguilera, The Pointer Sisters, Pentatonix, and others. The group was among the inaugural inductees to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame upon its opening in 1998. Writing for Bloomberg, Mark Schoifet said the sisters became the most popular female vocal group of the first half of the 20th century. They are still widely acclaimed today for their famous close harmonies. They were inducted into the Minnesota Rock/Country Hall of Fame in May 2006.
In the years just before and during World War II, the Andrews Sisters were at the height of their popularity, and the group still tends to be associated in the public's mind with the war years. They had numerous hit records during these years, both on their own and in collaboration with fellow Decca Records artist Bing Crosby. Some of these hits had service or military related themes, including "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "Three Little Sisters", "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)", "A Hot Time In the Town of Berlin" and "Rum and Coca-Cola". The sisters performed their hits in service comedy films, such as Buck Privates and Private Buckaroo.
(full version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andrews_Sisters)

01. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (02:45)
02. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (03:09)
03. Rum and Coca Cola (03:11)
04. Hold Tight-Hold Tight (03:17)
05. Shoo, Shoo baby (02:52)
06. South American Way (02:48)
07. Sonny Boy (02:51)
08. Rhumboogie (02:40)
09. Tico Tico (02:18)
10. Well All Right (03:02)
11. Beer Barrel Polka (02:54)
12. Pennsylvania 6-5000 (03:06)
13. Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar (02:53)
14. Say 'Si Si' (Para Vigo Me Voy) (02:34)
15. Oh, ma-ma ! (The Butcher Boy) (02:31)
16. Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (02:58)
17. Oh Johnny, oh Johnny, oh ! (02:47)
18. Pensylvania Polka (02:48)
19. Ti-Pi-Tin (02:40)
20. Straigthen Up and Fly Right (02:29)
21. The Strip Polka (02:53)
22. Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive (02:44)
23. Hit the Road (02:33)
24. In the Mood (02:48)
25. Elmer's Tune (02:28)
26. Aurora (02:55)
27. Lullaby of Broadway (02:44)

UploadyIo     DailyUploads     TurboBit

All my files:     UploadyIo     DailyUploads     KatFile

Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty [8 bonus tracks] (1964)

Year: 17 April 1964 (CD 1997)
Label: Mercury Records (Germany), 534 520-2
Style: Oldies, Pop
Country: London, England (16 April 1939 - 2 March 1999)
Time: 56:31
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 349 Mb

Dusty Springfield had been a member of the girl group The Lana Sisters from 1958 to 1960, and the folk-pop trio The Springfields from 1960 to 1963 (in the latter case with her brother Tom Springfield). While on tour in the US in the early 1960s she was exposed to soul music, which was to have a profound impact on her subsequent life and career. Although The Springfields were moderately successful, with songs such as "Island of Dreams", "Bambino" and "Silver Threads And Golden Needles" (a No. 16 US country hit), their style of music limited the wide range of material that Dusty Springfield wanted to sing. Therefore, in 1963, Springfield decided to begin a career as a solo singer.
Her first single, "I Only Want to Be with You", was actually recorded while still a member of The Springfields, and was released one week after their final concert. The song was a success in both Britain and the US and led to the recording of A Girl Called Dusty which was released in 1964. The album contained a mix of mostly straightforward pop songs and a few Motown influenced numbers, such as "When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and "Mockingbird". It also marked Springfield's first collaboration with well-known songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David, as well as Gerry Goffin and Carole King, whose songs Springfield continued to record for the rest of her career.
At the time, A Girl Called Dusty was not released to the US market. Instead, Philips released a compilation of singles and tracks recorded for the album as Stay Awhile/I Only Want To Be With You. It was named after her first two singles, which had been Top 20 hits in the US. Later in 1964, Philips released Dusty, a second version of A Girl Called Dusty with a different track listing and different tracks.
In January 1994, while recording her album, A Very Fine Love, in Nashville, Springfield began to feel ill. When she returned to England a few months later, her physicians diagnosed her with breast cancer. She received months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, and the cancer was found to be in remission. In 1995, in apparent good health, she set about to promote the album, which was released that year. By mid-1996, the cancer had returned, and despite vigorous treatments, Springfield died on 2 March 1999, aged 59, in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Springfield's funeral service was attended by hundreds of fans and people from the music business, including Elvis Costello, Lulu, and the Pet Shop Boys.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Girl_Called_Dusty)

01. Mama Said (02:14)
02. You Don't Own Me (02:30)
03. Do Re Mi (02:23)
04. When The Lovelight Starts Shining thru His Eyes (03:07)
05. My Colouring Book (03:03)
06. Mockingbird (02:34)
07. Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa (03:07)
08. Nothing (02:29)
09. Anyone Who Had A Heart (03:11)
10. Will You Love Me Tomorrow (02:40)
11. Wishin' And Hopin' (02:56)
12. Don't You Know (02:53)
13. I Only Want To Be With You (alternate mix) (bonus track) (02:42)
14. He's Got Something (bonus track) (02:50)
15. Every Day I Have To Cry (bonus track) (02:30)
16. Can I Get A Witness (bonus track) (02:46)
17. All Cried Out (bonus track) (03:05)
18. I Wish I'd Never Loved You (bonus track) (03:40)
19. Once upon A Time (bonus track) (01:57)
20. Summer Is Over (bonus track) (03:44)

UploadyIo     DailyUploads

All my files:     UploadyIo     DailyUploads     KatFile