The Crusaders - The Vocal Album

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:57
Size: 135.0 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals, Crossover jazz
Year: 1987/2012
Art: Front

[7:31] 1. Street Life
[5:24] 2. This Old World's Too Funky For Me
[5:42] 3. Better Not Look Down
[3:55] 4. Inherit The Wind
[4:10] 5. Hold On (I Feel Our Love Is Changing)
[4:31] 6. Help (I Need Somebody)
[6:24] 7. Soul Shadows
[4:47] 8. The Way It Goes
[5:01] 9. I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today
[4:12] 10. (No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be Looking Up To You
[7:16] 11. Burnin' Up The Carnival

Track 1 taken from 'Street Life' album by The Crusaders; Tracks 2 & 9 taken from 'Standing Tall' album by The Crusaders; Track 3 taken from 'Royal Jam' album by The Crusaders; Track 4 taken from 'Inherit The Wind' album by Wilton Felder; Track 5 taken from 'Midnight Believer' album by B.B. King; Track 6 taken from 'Private Dancer' by Tina Turner; Track 7 taken from 'Rhapsody & Blues' by The Crusaders; Track 8 taken from 'The Good And The Bad Times' by The Crusaders; Track 10 taken from 'Secrets' by Wilton Felder; Track 11 taken from 'Voices In The Rain' by Joe Sample.

Funny, we can't remember this many singers turning up on the Crusaders' albums, but look a little closer at the liner. For this 1987 compilation -- designed, perhaps, to fill the gap between albums by a group that no longer was a full-time act -- MCA reached for records by B.B. King, Tina Turner, Joe Sample and Wilton Felder that various Crusaders played on, as well as the band's output from Street Life through The Good and Bad Times. B.B. takes the prize for his fabulous, humorously funky, live-in-London turn on "Better Not Look Down" -- he plays guitar so sparingly, and every note is right in the pocket -- but Joe Cocker comes close, riding on a classic bumpy Crusaders groove on "This Old World's Too Funky for Me." Of course, Randy Crawford's career-making "Street Life" leads off the set, and Tina Turner (in a lugubrious dissection of the Beatles' "Help"), Bobby Womack, Alltrinna Grayson, Bill Withers, Flora Purim and Josie James also contribute with various degrees of effectiveness. Despite a few weak moments, the album works amazingly well, partly as an alternative highlights collection and partly as a sober reminder to the remaining Crusaders and their fans as to how essential drummer Stix Hooper was to their sound. ~Ruchard S.Ginell

The Vocal Album

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Tina Turner - All The Best (2 disc set)

She walked away from her husband and a successful musical career with some loose pocket change, a gasoline credit card, and little else. It was early July 1976, just after the 4th. For a time, she relied on friends and food stamps to survive. But Tina Turner never lost her moxie or her grove. She rose from the ashes of her earlier troubles, having endured years of physical abuse and indignities in a marriage and professional music relationship with her partner and husband, the late Ike Turner (charges which he disputed). Picking up the pieces and taking control of her career,

Tina Turner worked her way back into the entertainment world she loved. By the mid-1980s, she began one of rock ‘n roll’s greatest second acts ever, gaining the respect of the music community and beyond with her stunning comeback. Her story has been chronicled in both the best-selling 1986 book, I, Tina, and the Oscar-nominated 1993 film, What’s Love Got To Do With It.

By 2005, Tina Turner had become one of the most successful female rock artists of all time, with record and CD sales in excess of 180 million copies. Her live performances from the mid-1980s through 2001 set audience attendance records from London to Rio. In fact, she sold more concert tickets in that period worldwide than any other solo performer in history. During those years, Tina Turner became the economic equivalent a modest-size corporation, generating revenues well north of $500 million. She didn’t do it alone, of course, but her personal odyssey and successful comeback resonated with millions of fans, friends, and admirers. As Oprah Winfrey put it at the 2005 Kennedy Center Honors celebrating Turner’s achievements: “Tina Turner didn’t just survive, she triumphed.”

Album: All The Best (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:56
Size: 162.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Pop-rock-soul
Year: 2004

[4:00] 1. Open Arms
[2:57] 2. Nutbush City Limits
[4:28] 3. What You Get Is What You See
[4:39] 4. Missing You
[5:29] 5. The Best
[3:37] 6. River Deep, Mountain High
[3:43] 7. When The Heartache Is Over
[5:16] 8. Let's Stay Together
[4:26] 9. I Don't Wanna Fight
[8:28] 10. Whatever You Need
[4:43] 11. Goldeneye, Song (For The Film Goldeneye)
[4:20] 12. I Don't Wanna Lose You
[3:56] 13. Great Spirits
[5:27] 14. Proud Mary
[5:21] 15. Addicted To Love

All The Best (Disc 1)

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Album: All The Best (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:41
Size: 168.7 MB
Styles: R&B, Pop-rock-soul
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[5:33] 1. In Your Wildest Dreams
[4:03] 2. Private Dancer
[4:27] 3. Why Must We Wait Until Tonight
[4:16] 4. Typical Male
[3:46] 5. Tonight
[3:41] 6. Complicated Disaster
[4:19] 7. On Silent Wings
[4:36] 8. Something Special
[4:17] 9. We Don't Need Another Hero
[3:15] 10. It's Only Love
[4:50] 11. Cose Della Vita
[4:03] 12. Steamy Windows
[5:00] 13. Paradise Is Here
[3:49] 14. What's Love Got To Do With It
[5:08] 15. Better Be Good To Me
[4:11] 16. Two People
[4:21] 17. Something Beautiful Remains

All The Best (Disc 2)

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