Wynton Marsalis - Tune In Tomorrow OST

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 62:04

Size: 142.1 MB

Styles: Soundtrack

Year: 1990

Art: Front

[4:11] 1. Big Trouble In The Easy (Pedro Pops Up)

[0:40] 2. Kings Of The Garden District

[6:24] 3. Crescent City Crawl (On The St. Charles Streetcar Line)

[5:34] 4. Alligator Tail Drag (Mr. Alligator-Why You So Mean )

[2:20] 5. May Be Fact Or Fiction

[3:33] 6. Social Soft Shoe (Partying At Olga's)

[2:36] 7. Mama Leona (You Know You Not Spanish!)

[5:20] 8. I Can't Get Started

[2:55] 9. The Grand Marshall (Martin's Big Break)

[4:25] 10. The Ways Of Love (Julia & Martin)

[3:40] 11. On The Eve Of Entry

[1:09] 12. Don't Run From Fun (Julia's Decision)

[5:06] 13. Sunsettin' On The Bayou (Toonin' Tonight)

[0:30] 14. Albanians (Why Us )

[4:10] 15. The Ways Of Love

[9:24] 16. Double Rondo On The River (Pedro's Getaway)

This soundtrack recording is very significant in the career of Wynton Marsalis. For the first time the trumpeter displayed a sound of his own; the Miles Davis influence was finally gone. In addition Marsalis not only debuted with his septet (which consisted of trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, altoist Wes Anderson, Todd Williams on tenor, soprano and clarinet, pianist Marcus Roberts, bassist Reginald Veal and drummer Herlin Riley) but, in writing this score, Marsalis showed how talented an arranger he was; very much in the Duke Ellington tradition but without resorting to copying. The 16 selections are sometimes a bit fragmented (a few use extra personnel including clarinetist Michael White on six tracks and vocals by Shirley Horn and Johnny Adams) but they hold up very well apart from the movie and have plenty of spirit and humor. ~Scott Yanow

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Neil Young & Promise Of The Real - The Visitor

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:14
Size: 117.3 MB
Styles: Rock
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[ 5:47] 1. Already Great
[ 2:36] 2. Fly By Night Deal
[ 4:50] 3. Almost Always
[ 5:13] 4. Stand Tall
[ 5:54] 5. Change Of Heart
[ 8:21] 6. Carnival
[ 2:33] 7. Diggin' A Hole
[ 3:24] 8. Children Of Destiny
[ 1:59] 9. When Bad Got Good
[10:32] 10. Forever

Neil Young's latest LP with heartland-rock band Promise of the Real opens with "Already Great," where the guitars cut like rusty plows and anti-Trump invective becomes bitter tribute: "You're the promise land/The helping hand/No wall. No hate. No fascist U.S.A." That sense of cranky rage and ageless idealism are all over The Visitor. On the somber folk shuffle "Almost Always," he complains about "livin' with a game show host," while the forcefully hard-grooving "Fly By Night Deal" is sung (partly) in the voice of a pipeline foreman bringing wreckage to the wilderness. Young detours into blues on "Diggin' a Whole" and absurdist eccentricity on the eight-minute "Carnival," spinning a surreal circus allegory over a south-of-the-border saunter. Even weirder is "Children of Destiny," a ragefully didactic sing-along recorded with a 56-piece orchestra that sounds like a grunge anthem lost in the soundtrack to a Disney musical. But the album ends on well-worn ground with the folk prayer "Forever," the kind of song he's been writing for decades, stretching into 10 minutes of frayed hope for his fellow man. "Earth is like a church without a preacher/The people have to pray for themselves," he sings, true to a messy vision of democracy that remains as endearing as ever.

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Wild Bill Davison - Beautifully Wild

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:11
Size: 101.1 MB
Styles: Cornet jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:11] 1. Cherry
[4:03] 2. Our Love Is Here To Stay
[3:15] 3. Am I Blue
[3:03] 4. It's The Talk Of The Town
[4:37] 5. Mean To Me
[2:39] 6. What's The Use
[5:07] 7. She's Funny That Way
[4:05] 8. I've Got The World On A String
[4:37] 9. Everything Happens To Me
[3:15] 10. On The Alamo
[5:12] 11. She's Funny That Way (Previously Unissued)

Bass – Jerry Rousseau; Cornet – Wild Bill Davison; Drums – "Spider" Ridgeway; Piano – Don Reitan.

Cornetist Wild Bill Davison was mostly heard in Dixieland bands throughout his long career but occasionally he would record in more intimate settings for a change of pace. On this Audiophile release, Davison is backed by a four-piece rhythm section that includes vibraphonist Kenny Mason and pianist Don Reitan. The ten standards lean toward ballads and the swing era, and the interpretations are more mainstream than Dixie. One of the most expressive of all brass players (Davison's growls and shakes allowed him to express both sarcasm and sentimentality, sometimes at the same time), Wild Bill is in fine form on melodic versions of such songs as "She's Funny That Way," "Mean to Me," "What's the Use" and "Everything Happens to Me." ~Scott Yanow

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Gary Smith - Off To Wonderland

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:22
Size: 106.2 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:15] 1. Cheshire Smiles
[3:37] 2. The Queen Of Broken Hearts
[7:24] 3. Time Was
[5:47] 4. Off To Wonderland
[4:28] 5. Alice Blue Gown
[7:46] 6. Aurora Borealis
[5:29] 7. Bluesette
[7:33] 8. Harvey

Gary Smith is an avant-garde guitarist, improviser and composer from the United Kingdom. He is known for developing dense extended techniques on electric guitar. Gary Smith has released close to twenty albums in solo.

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Betty Carter - Give The Love Around

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 77:28
Size: 177.3 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:16] 1. Heart And Soul
[2:32] 2. The Good Life
[3:20] 3. Takes Two To Tango
[3:07] 4. Who, What, Why, Where, When
[4:14] 5. Gone With The Wind
[2:41] 6. The Way You Look Tonight
[2:34] 7. Nothing More To Look Forward To
[4:42] 8. Alone Together
[2:58] 9. When I Fall In Love
[2:42] 10. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
[3:15] 11. Round Midnight
[2:30] 12. I Wonder
[4:26] 13. Make It Last
[2:19] 14. Side By Side
[3:34] 15. Something Wonderful
[2:21] 16. Remember
[4:07] 17. Baby, It's Cold Outside
[2:41] 18. Three Stars Will Shine Tonight
[2:04] 19. Two Cigarettes In The Dark
[3:21] 20. Stormy Weather
[2:29] 21. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
[3:56] 22. But Beautiful
[1:55] 23. Jazz Ain't Nothin' But Soul
[2:22] 24. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
[3:50] 25. Call Me Darling

Betty Carter (1929–1998) was a prominent U.S. jazz singer, renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Carter expanded the role of the vocalist in jazz, to a full, improvising member of the band. Although her voice was not as admired by the public as such vocalists as Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald, many consider her to have exercised mastery of the human voice previously unheard in jazz. Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter."

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Pepe Jaramillo - Latin World, Piano & Coffee

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:34
Size: 150.1 MB
Styles: Latin piano jazz
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[2:42] 1. La Chanson D'orphée (Manha De Carnaval)
[2:51] 2. La Vie En Rose
[3:58] 3. Desafinado
[2:14] 4. Les Enfants Du Pirée (From Never On Sunday)
[2:48] 5. La Paloma
[2:33] 6. Tangerine
[2:38] 7. Para Vigo Me Voy
[1:54] 8. The Coffee Song
[2:47] 9. Till
[2:58] 10. Sand In My Shoes
[2:52] 11. Romántica
[2:07] 12. María Elena
[2:30] 13. Tú Que Pasas Sin Mirarme
[2:20] 14. I Wish You Love
[2:28] 15. In A Litlle Spanish Town
[2:31] 16. Acércate Más
[2:48] 17. Nightingale
[2:40] 18. In Other Words (Fly Me To The Moon)
[3:13] 19. Delicado
[1:47] 20. Rico Vacilón
[2:52] 21. Sirenas Bajo El Mar
[2:35] 22. Love Of My Live
[2:15] 23. Día Si, Día No
[2:35] 24. La Comparsa (Batucada)
[2:28] 25. Serenata

Pepe Jaramillo (born José Jaramillo García; October 27, 1921, Lerdo - April 30, 2001, Andalucia) was a notable Mexican pianist, composer, arranger, and recording artist. He was most active in London as an EMI recording artist in the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Lerdo, Durango, he began his professional music career playing in night clubs in México City. Relocating to London in the late 1950s, his many recordings and world-wide concert appearances brought him international fame. He died in his sleep of anemia at his villa in Spain. (On the internet, his activity has often been confused with the Ecuadorean singer of the same name.)

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Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane, Zoot Sims - Tenor Conclave

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:51
Size: 100.4 MB
Styles: Bop, Saxophone jazz
Year: 1956/1990
Art: Front

[11:02] 1. Tenor Conclave
[ 9:26] 2. Just You, Just Me
[ 8:17] 3. Bob's Boys
[15:04] 4. How Deep Is The Ocean

These four sides should not be hard to locate, as the primary participants in this November 30, 1956, session have all issued them within their individual catalogs. However Tenor Conclave was first released as credited to the "leaderless" Prestige All-Stars -- consisting of tenor saxophonists John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, and Zoot Sims. Providing support are pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Taylor. The Mobley-penned title track commences the effort with the quartet of tenors showing off their stuff in high-flying style. It takes a couple of passes and somewhat of a trained ear to be able to link the players with their contributions, but as is often the case, the whole tends to be greater than the sum of the parts. After a brief introduction with all four rapidly reeling off short riffs, Mobley charges ahead into truly inspired territory. The midtempo take of "Just You, Just Me" keeps things lively with a light swinging pace that is custom-made for bringing the combo's jocular side to the surface, particularly toward the end as they "trade fours," with each tenor blowing four bars before passing the melody on. The other Mobley composition is "Bob's Boys," and by all accounts it is the most compelling piece on the outing. The blues-based tune rollicks as Coltrane, Mobley, Cohn, and Sims find themselves configured in a seeming myriad of sonic face-offs. Wrapping up Tenor Conclave is an ultra-cool and sophisticated "How Deep Is the Ocean?" Cohn commences the long and luscious reading with a subtle strength, suggesting the powerful undercurrent flowing throughout the number. Also, listeners are treated to what is possibly Garland's finest interaction, leading right into Sims, Chambers, and finally a sublime Coltrane caboose. ~Lindsay Planer

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Misia - New Morning

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:29
Size: 144,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:59)  1. Hope & Dreams
(5:00)  2. Boku wa Pegasus Kimi wa Polaris
(4:01)  3. Aoi Tsukikage
(3:51)  4. Ai wo Shiru Sekai
(4:22)  5. Miss you always
(4:27)  6. Mahou wo Kaketa no wa Kimi
(4:54)  7. Daisy
(4:32)  8. Jewelry
(4:30)  9. Especially for me
(4:32) 10. Shiawase wo Forever
(3:25) 11. One day, One life
(6:02) 12. Kimi no Taiyou ni Narou
(3:56) 13. My pride of love
(3:53) 14. Re-Brain

Though Misia's music has elements of blues and soul, she's considered the first Japanese R&B superstar, paving the way for other R&B-based J-pop "divas," such as Hikaru Utada and Yuki Koyanagi, with her five-octave voice that is said to be able to produce sounds too high for the human ear to hear. That she achieved this breakthrough without appearing in TV music shows makes it even more impressive, as this is a very rare thing in Japanese showbiz.

Misia (real name Misaki Ito) was born and raised in a music-loving family in Fukuoka, a city more known for its rock scene, but she developed an interest in R&B and related music in high school, thanks to her African-American vocal teachers. She entered the Seinan Gakuin University in 1997, but the same year she passed an audition of 3,000-plus aspiring performers for the BMG label and dropped her formal education to begin a career in music. Around this time she formed her alias, which is said to be a combination of either Misaki and Asia, or Messiah and Asia. Misia's career took off right from the start: her debut single, "Tsutsumikomu You Ni..." (1998), charted for 27 weeks and sold 400,000 units; her next single, "Hi No Ataru Basho," cracked the Top Ten; and her debut album, Mother Father Brother Sister (1998), spent four weeks on top of the charts and sold over two and a half million copies. That year, Misia won twice at the Japan Gold Disc Awards. Her next full-length, Love Is the Message (2000), shifted another two million units, and its follow-up, Marvelous (2001), sold over one and a half million, although it was her last million-selling album. Still, Kiss in the Sky (2002), which featured Tak Matsumoto from B'z, went platinum, and in 2001 she was even able to record the single "I Miss You (Toki O Koete)" with Masato Nakamura from her favorite band, Dreams Come True. In 2002, she transferred from BMG to the Avex sublabel Rhythmedia Tribe, on which she stayed until 2007, recording four albums and a bevy of singles, some of which were used as theme songs in games, movies, and TV dramas; in 2004, she also became the first female solo artist to pull off the high-profile "five domes" tour in Japan. Misia's first full-length after her return to BMG was Eighth World (2008), which became her second album not to go platinum, but still sold 131,000 copies. She also debuted overseas in 2007, playing in Taiwan, and performed a tour in support of Eighth World in Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Her ninth album, Just Ballade, was released in December 2009. She continued to record prolifically into the 2010s. ~ Alexey Eremenko https://itunes.apple.com/ph/album/new-morning/840736585

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Steve Tibbetts - Natural Causes

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:08
Size: 101,9 MB
Art: Front

(1:34)  1. Sitavana
(6:27)  2. Padre-Yaga
(5:51)  3. Attahasa
(4:27)  4. Chandogra
(3:10)  5. Sangchen Rolpa
(6:11)  6. Lakshmivana
(2:15)  7. Manikarnika
(0:52)  8. Ishvaravana
(5:05)  9. Gulezian
(1:23) 10. Kili-ki Drok
(1:33) 11. Kuladzokpa
(2:58) 12. Lament
(2:16) 13. Threnody

Alongside Stephan Micus, Steve Tibbetts occupies a somewhat rare position in ECM's roster of longstanding musical collaborators. Like the German composer/multi-instrumentalist, this "Zen Guitarist" defies ECM's general rule of two days to record, one day to mix (with minimal editing and overdubbing); instead, Tibbetts has, with rare exception, recorded his music from a home base in St. Paul, Minneapolis again like Micus, sometimes taking years between recordings and with minimal label intervention. Unlike Micus, however, who produces his albums in isolation, Tibbetts regularly collaborates with others, most notably percussionist Marc Anderson a constant companion since the guitarist's ECM debut, Northern Song (1982). Despite Tibbetts' recruitment of others engendering a certain spontaneity absent in Micus' carefully constructed work, his similarly multi-tracked music does rely on texturally expansive but sonically detailed soundscapes. Like 1994's career milestone, The Fall of Us All (1994), A Man About a Horse (2002) was a deceptively ambitious collection of largely calming but still unequivocally deep performances, calling upon a larger cast of characters. Natural Causes's return to the relative simplicity of a duo with Anderson last heard on Northern Song (1982) still stands out amongst Tibbetts' ECM discography for its all-acoustic nature. Simpler in premise, perhaps, but comparisons with Northern Song only demonstrate just how far Tibbetts has come. His predilection, here, for 12-string acoustic guitar might draw superficial comparison to label mate Ralph Towner, but Tibbetts eschews the Oregon cofounder's detailed, change-heavy compositional constructs; relying, instead, on miniature orchestration built from relatively diminutive instrumentation. Tibbetts layers over 20 guitar tracks on "Gulezian" co-written with guitarist Michael Gulezian and the only piece not written solely by Tibbetts without ever feeling overcrowded. Its overt folksiness reflects the perennially undervalued Gulezian's biggest touchstone acoustic guitar icons like Leo Kottke and John Fahey but with Tibbetts at the helm it retains, unsurprisingly, an episodic sense of evolution, as miniature moments of serenity and near-silence contrast with rhythmic passages driven only occasionally by Anderson's economy of sound and pulse. Tibbetts' piano and kalimba underpin tracks like the hypnotically propulsive "Chandogra," while Anderson's steel drum engenders additional timbral diversity on "Lakshmivana." Still, it's Tibbetts' resonant 12-string imbued in phrasing and serpentine linearity by the guitarist's longstanding Far East interests in general, and the work, here, of Sultan Khan in particular that's Natural Causes' defining voice. All-acoustic it may be, but Tibbetts' still employs some studio wizardry to create lush sonic backdrops, as he does at the end of "Lakshmivanam." Billed as a duo recording, Natural Causes' multifaceted nature, continually revealing layers and trance-inducing sonorities make clear that there's a silent third partner: the studio itself. Natural Causes couldn't have been created outside the confines of the recording studio but in its organic holism and absolutely timeless nature feels as though it were made in some remote outdoor locale. Natural Causes' vivid imagery makes it, in fact, the ideal companion to Norwegian pianist Acker Bilk's similarly cinematic but utterly different Remembrance, also released in North American by ECM, on the same day. ~ John Kelman https://www.allaboutjazz.com/natural-causes-steve-tibbetts-ecm-records-review-by-john-kelman.php

Personnel: Steve Tibbetts: guitars, piano, kalimba, bouzouki; Marc Anderson: percussion, steel drum; gongs.

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Barre Phillips - For All It Is

Styles: Contemporary Jazz
Year: 1971
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:58
Size: 148,0 MB
Art: Front

(6:45)  1. Just 8
(3:41)  2. Whoop
(7:02)  3. Few Too
(4:30)  4. La Palette
(6:05)  5. Y En A
(7:06)  6. Dribble
(4:46)  7. Y. M.

This unusual meeting of minds pits bassists Barre Phillips (who also penned the proceedings), Palle Danielsson, Barry Guy, and J. F. Jenny-Clarke with percussionist Stu Martin in a tactile playoff with mixed results. It’s remarkable to think that four behemoths could sound so open, and so one shouldn’t be surprised to encounter a few tangles in “just 8.” For the most part, however, this introductory track maintains the clarity of separation that characterizes the album’s latter remainder. Either way, it’s a jaunty ride into an unprecedented sound-world. Martin anchors “whoop” with his engaging loops amid a menagerie of pizzicato signifiers. Along with “few too” it evokes a jack-in-the-box weeping for want of exposure. From that unrequited lament comes a bright promise, skewed by a hope that the world turns not even for itself. It’s a melancholic hope, to be sure, but hope nonetheless. Martin’s absence here makes the track an early standout: just the rocking of bows pressed into myriad shapes by insistent fingertips. “la palette” and “y en a” form another pair, taking a decidedly architectural approach to this most warped string quartet. Together, they form a cycle of destruction, pain, and healing.The album only really comes together in the final two tracks. Where “dribble” proves an apt title for its dotted ritual, “y. m.” dances like an anonymous car alarm stripped of its batteries and given new acoustic life. The latter is a particularly complex, anchored piece that spits out some utterly brilliant turns of phrase. For All It Is, for all it is, is above all an exercise in linguistics. Its cognates are familiar, even if the grammars are not. Although I’d likely recommend this one least out of Phillips’s otherwise astonishing ECM outings, for the completist it will be an intriguing blip on the radar of all four bassists’ careers. https://ecmreviews.com/2013/08/01/for-all-it-is/

Personnel: Bass, Composed By, Producer – Barre Phillips;   Bass – Barry Guy, J.F. Jenny-Clarke, Palle Danielsson;  Percussion – Stu Martin

For All It Is

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Ken Dodd - All The Songs I Love Disc 1, Disc 2 And Disc 3

Album: All The Songs I Love   Disc 1

Styles:  Vocal
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:55
Size: 178,3 MB
Art: Front

(2:00)  1. Happiness
(2:41)  2. For Someone Special
(2:47)  3. If
(2:46)  4. Every Second Every Minute
(2:44)  5. When There Was You
(3:26)  6. As Time Goes By
(4:06)  7. I Wish You Love
(2:15)  8. Happy Days And Lonely Nights
(3:23)  9. Somewhere My Love
(2:51) 10. Among My Souveniers
(3:18) 11. When Love Comes Round Again
(2:55) 12. Those Golden Days
(2:40) 13. The Stars Will Remember
(2:40) 14. Just Out Of Reach
(3:07) 15. And I Love Her
(2:40) 16. If You Love Me (I Won't Care)
(3:17) 17. How Wonderful To Know
(2:57) 18. More Than Love
(2:43) 19. I'd Do Anything
(2:44) 20. It's A Funny Old World
(2:23) 21. Let Me Cry On Your Shoulder
(3:03) 22. Think Of Me (Wherever You Are)
(2:49) 23. Tears Won't Wash Away These Heartaches
(2:16) 24. You Wanted Something To Play With
(2:05) 25. Road To Happiness
(2:18) 26. It's Love
(2:50) 27. Tears

All The Songs I Love   Disc 1

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Album: All The Songs I Love  Disc 2

Time: 76:59

Size: 180,7 MB

(2:54)  1. Promises

(2:57)  2. Still

(2:36)  3. I Can't Begin To Tell You

(2:55)  4. The Sum Of One

(2:48)  5. True

(2:56)  6. Eight By Ten

(3:23)  7. Azzurro

(2:46)  8. Sweet Memories

(2:50)  9. I'll Find A Way

(2:56) 10. If I Should Lose

(3:16) 11. Once In A While

(3:13) 12. Four Strong Wind

(2:30) 13. In The Morning

(2:56) 14. What A Wonderful World

(2:14) 15. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows

(2:35) 16. Romantica

(2:52) 17. True Love

(2:41) 18. Love Me With All Your Heart

(2:43) 19. The Old Fashioned Way

(3:01) 20. For All We Know

(2:44) 21. My Thanks To You

(2:57) 22. More Than Ever

(2:35) 23. Someday You'll Want Me To Want You

(3:05) 24. My Little Corner Of The World

(2:43) 25. She

(3:02) 26. May You Always

(2:39) 27. Younger Than Springtime

All The Songs I Love  Disc 2

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Album: All The Songs I Love  Disc 3

Time: 77:47

Size: 182,4 MB

(2:36)  1. The River

(3:47)  2. Love Is Like A Violin

(3:14)  3. The Story Of A Starry Night

(2:40)  4. Say

(2:43)  5. With All My Heart

(3:05)  6. Becuase I Love You

(2:45)  7. Every Little Tear

(2:36)  8. Back In Your Own Backyard

(2:36)  9. My Life

(3:48) 10. Try To Remember

(2:57) 11. I Can't Hold Back The Tears

(3:06) 12. Another Time Another Place

(3:15) 13. One Upon A Time

(2:36) 14. If I Give My Heart To You

(2:49) 15. Morning Please Don't Come

(3:18) 16. (They Long To Be) Close To You

(2:57) 17. A Pink And Pleasant Land

(1:56) 18. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me

(2:46) 19. My Heart Tells Me

(2:26) 20. Only You (And You Alone)

(3:07) 21. A House With No Windows

(3:01) 22. Can I Forget You?

(4:04) 23. It Is No Secret

(3:08) 24. So Deep Is The Night

(3:16) 25. The Key

(3:03) 26. Brokenhearted

Respectfully known as "Britain's undisputed king of comedy," Ken Dodd (born Kenneth Arthur Dodd) was one of the most successful artists in the history of the British theater. He set the record for the longest run at the Palladium in London, in 1958 performing two shows a night and three on Saturday for an unprecedented 42 weeks. Dodd was equally successful as a romantic balladeer, recording such hits as "Love Is Like a Violin," a Top Ten hit in 1960, and "Tears," which spent five weeks in the top chart position and became the top-selling British single of 1965. He continued to find success with his translations of Italian ballads "The River," "Broken-Hearted," and "When Love Comes Around," and a tune, "Promises," based on Beethoven's "Pathetique" sonata. A popular television artist in the 1960s and '70s, Dodd starred in such British TV shows as The Ken Dodd Show, Doddy's Mixed Box, and Ken Dodd's Showbiz. Liverpool-born Dodd grew up in Knotty Ash, a small district of the British city. While still in his teens, he began performing comic versions of such well-known songs as "Professor Yaffle Chuckabutty, the Operatic Tenor and Sausage Knotter." Launching his professional career in 1954, he appeared in Blackpool during the summers of 1955 and 1956. By 1958, he was featured act at the Central Pier in Blackpool. In an attempt to reach the youngest members of his audiences, Dodd created the Diddymen, a fictionalized group that included Dicky Mint, Mick the Marmalizer, Hamish McDiddy, and Neil Ponsonby-Smallpiece. Although puppets were used for TV appearances, children or midgets portrayed the Diddymen during their annual Christmastime concerts. ~ Craig Harris https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/all-the-songs-i-love/id695450821

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All The Songs I Love  Disc 3

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