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Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls...

Long considered a jewel in Verve Records' very impressive crown, Fitzgerald's songbook collections of various composers--a series that was started by the success of this set--are all wonderful, but her natural wit and intelligence was at its most perfect with Cole Porter's erudite, urbane songs. Whi...

The Roaring Twenties...

You've got to credit Kevin Spacey for sheer gumption: not only did he choose to direct a biopic about Bobby Darin (not the hippest of 1960s singers), but he also decided to star in it despite the fact that he was in his midforties and Darin died at 37. As if this weren't enough, unlike Jamie Foxx in...

Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 30's, Vol. 1...

I Get A Kick Out Of You: Cole Porter Songbook Vol. 2...

Bing Crosby was a laidback swinger, and this four-CD box spends a fair amount of its time reminding us of an era when the emphasis was as much on the swing as on the lazy-lidded attitude. Never as angst-ridden as Sinatra could be, and consequently not as multilayered, Crosby is nonetheless not a sin...

60 Track Retrospective of the ''great Entertainer of the World", a True Show Business Legend. Includes all his Hits and Encompasses all Periods of his Career from Stage to Film....

1904 St. Louis World's Fair: Meet Me At The Fair...

Volume 6: 1929...