Elvis Presley : By Request (Expanded Edition) *

 

I JUST CAN'T HELP BELIEVIN'

WHEN SHE SMILES

UP SOFT AND GENTLE

WITH A TRACE OF MISTY MORNIN'

AND A PROMISE OF TOMORROW

IN HER EYES

Robert Johnson : The Complete Recordings

ME AND THE DEVIL

WAS WALKIN'

SIDE BY SIDE

Elvis Presley : The King (Box Set)

 Elvis Aaron Presley

 (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977)

 was an American

 singer and actor. 

Often referred to as the

 "King of Rock and Roll"

or simply

 "The King"

 he is widely regarded as 

one of the most 

culturally significant figures

 of the

 20th century. 

Presley's energetic and

sexually provocative

performance style,

 combined with a mixture of

 influences across color lines 

during a transformative era

 in race relations,

 brought both great success 

and initial controversy.

Presley was born in 

Tupelo, Mississippi;

 his family moved to 

Memphis, Tennessee, 

when he was 13. 

He began his music career

 in 1954 

at Sun Records with

 the producer 

Sam Phillips, 

who wanted to bring 

the sound of 

African-American music 

to a wider audience.

 Presley, on guitar 

and accompanied by 

the guitarist 

Scotty Moore 

on lead and the bassist 

Bill Black, 

was a pioneer of rockabilly,

 an uptempo, 

backbeat-driven fusion of 

country music 

and rhythm and blues. 

In 1955, 

the drummer

 D. J. Fontana 

joined to complete 

the lineup 

of Presley's classic quartet 

and RCA Victor 

acquired his contract 

in a deal arranged by 

Colonel Tom Parker, 

who managed him

 for the rest of his career. 

Presley's first RCA Victor single,

 "Heartbreak Hotel", 

was released in

 January 1956 

and became a

 number-one hi

t in the US. 

Within a year, 

RCA Victor sold 

ten million Presley singles. 

With a series of successful

 television appearances 

and chart-topping records, 

Presley became the leading figure

 of the newly popular

 rock and roll, 

though his performing style

 and promotion of the

 then-marginalized sound of 

African Americans led

 to his being widely considered

 a threat to the moral

 well-being of 

white American youth.

 In November 1956, 

Presley made his film debut in 

Love Me Tender. 

Drafted into military service 

in 1958, 

he relaunched his 

recording career

 two years later 

with some of his 

most commercially successful work. 

Presley held few concerts,

 and, guided by Parker, 

devoted much of the 1960s

 to making Hollywood films 

and soundtrack albums, 

most of them critically derided. 

Some of Presley's most 

Famous films included

Jailhouse Rock

(1957), 

Blue Hawaii 

(1961),

 and 

Viva Las Vegas 

(1964).

 In 1968, 

he returned to the stage

 in the acclaimed

 NBC television 

comeback special Elvis, 

which led to an extended

Las Vegas concert residency 

and several highly

 profitable tours.

 In 1973,

 Presley gave the first concert 

by a solo artist to be

 broadcast around the world, 

Aloha from Hawaii. 

Many years of substance abuse 

and unhealthy eating 

severely compromised his health, 

and Presley died in 

August 1977 

at his Graceland estate

 at the age of 42.

Presley is one of the

best-selling 

music artists in history, 

having sold an estimated 

500 million records worldwide

.He was commercially successful

 in many genres,

 including pop,

country,

rock and roll, 

rockabilly, 

rhythm and blues, 

adult contemporary, 

and gospel.

Presley won 

three Grammy Awards,

 received the Grammy 

Lifetime Achievement Award

at age 36, 

and has been posthumously

 inducted into multiple

 music halls of fame. 

He holds several records, 

including the most

Recording Industry 

Association of America 

(RIAA)-certified 

gold and platinum albums, 

the most albums

 charted on the

Billboard 200, 

the most number-one albums

 by a solo artist on

 the UK Albums Chart, 

and the most number-one

 singles by any act 

on the UK Singles Chart

. In 2018,

 Presley was 

posthumously

 awarded the

Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Stevie Wonder : Innervisions

A BOY IS BORN

IN HARD TIME MISSISSIPPI

SURROUNDED BY FOUR WALLS

THAT AIN'T SO PRETTY

Howlin' Wolf : The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions (Deluxe Edition)

WHEN MY RIGHT EYES ITCHES

I GETS MONEY FOR SURE

WHEN MY LEFT EYE JUMPS

SOMEBODY'S GOT TO GO

John Lee Hooker : The Real Folk Blues/ More Real Folk Blues : The Missing Album

ONE BURBON, ONE SCOTCH, ONE BEER,

Roberta Flack : Killing Me Softly

I HEARD HE SANG A GOOD SONG

I HEARD HE HAD A STYLE

ANS SO I CAME TO SEE HIM

AND LISTENED FOR A WHILE

The Hollywood Argyles : The Hollywood Argyles (Feat. Gary Paxton)

 

THERE'S A MAN

IN THE FUNNY PAPERS 
WE ALL KNOW

Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones : Live At Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981

BABY, PLEASE DON'T GO

BABY, PLEASE DON'T GO

BABY, PLEASE DON'T GO

DOWN TO NEW ORLEANS 

YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU SO...

Marvin Gaye : Love For Sale

I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU

BABY, I'VE MADE PLANS FOR TWO

I GUESS I'M A 

STUBBORN KIND OF FELLOW

GOT MY MIND MADE UP

TO LOVE YOU

Roy Orbison : In Dreams (Expanded Edition)

NO ONE COULD LOOK

AS GOOD AS YOU

MERCY...

David Ruffin : David

I REMEMBER HOLDING YOU,
AND FEELIN' LIKE A KING

John Lee Hooker : Urban Blues (Expanded Edition)

John Lee Hooker

(August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) 

was an American 

blues singer, 

songwriter, 

and guitarist. 

The son of a sharecropper, 

he rose to prominence 

performing an electric

 guitar-style adaptation of

Delta blues that he

 developed in Detroit. 

Hooker often incorporated 

other elements, 

including talking blues 

and early North 

Mississippi hill 

country blues. 

He developed his own

 driving-rhythm boogie style, 

distinct from the 

1930s–1940s 

piano-derived 

boogie-woogie. 

Hooker was ranked 35

 in Rolling Stone's 

2015 list of 

100 greatest guitarists, 

and has been cited as 

one of the greatest 

male blues vocalists

 of all time

.Some of his best

 known songs include 

"Boogie Chillen'"

(1948), 

"Crawling King Snake"

 (1949), 

"Dimples" 

(1956), 

"Boom Boom"

 (1962),

 and

 "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" 

(1966).

 Several of his later albums, 

including 

The Healer 

(1989), 

Mr. Lucky 

(1991),

Chill Out 

(1995), 

and 

Don't Look Back

(1997), 

were album chart successes

 in the U.S. 

and UK. 

The Healer 

(for the song

 "I'm in the Mood")

 and 

Chill Out

(for the album)

 both earned him 

Grammy wins,

 as well as

Don't Look Back,

 which went on to earn him 

a double-Grammy win

 for Best Traditional 

Blues Recording

 and 

Best Pop Collaboration

 with Vocals

 (with Van Morrison)

Donny Hathaway : These Songs For You, Live !

IF I EVER LEAVE YOU BABY
YOU SAY I TOLD YOU SO

AND IF I EVER HURT YOU
YOU KNOW I HURT MYSELF AS WELL

Eddie Kendricks : People..Hold On (Expanded Edition)

I WON'T CHAIN YOU UP

JUST FILL YOUR

LOVIN' CUP

Fats Domino : My Blue Heaven: The Best Of Fats Domino, Vol. 1

 

YOU MADE ME CRY

WHEN YOU SAID GOODBYE

AIN'T THAT A SHAME ?

Little Richard : The Essential Little Richard

 GONNA TELL AUNT MARY

'BOUT UNCLE JOHN

HE CLAM HE HAS THE MISERY

BUT HE HAS A LOT OF FUN...

Jimmy Ruffin : 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection : The Best Of Jimmy Ruffin

 Jimmy Lee Ruffin

(May 7, 1936 – November 17, 2014) 

was an 

American soul singer, 

and the older brother 

of 

David Ruffin, 

the lead singer

 of

 the Temptations. 

He had several hit records

 between the

 1960s and 1980s,

 the most successful

 being the Top 10 hits

 "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" 

and 

"Hold On (To My Love)".

Jimmy Ruffin : Hold On To My Love

AND I LOOK ,

IN YOUR EYES

AND I COULD'NT BARE THE PAIN

I FELT INSIDE, OF MY HEART

TO THINK I'M GONNA

 BE LONLEY AGAIN,

AND IF EVER GO

THEN I KNOW AT A GLANCE

I DON'T STAND A CHANCE

Stevie Wonder : Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I (Expanded Edition)

 

VERY SUPERSTITIOUS

WRITINGS ON THE WALL

VERY SUPERSTITIOUS

LADDERS 'BOUT TO FALL