CD-Charts Position 171
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The Very Best of Grappelli and Menuhin

CD-Charts > Music > Swing Jazz
by: Stephane Grappelli & Menuhin

Release Date July 14, 1998

Great CD. Great musicians, great selection of music.

CD-Charts Position 172
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My Rifle, My Pony and Me (Western Movies Songs)

CD-Charts > Music > Swing Jazz
from: Bear Family

Release Date June 28, 1994
I bought this CD for the title song. It is the same as in the movie "Rio Bravo" (my husband's favorite movie which we watch all the time). There is a strange intro by John Wayne but doesn't take away from the song, which seems to be cut off at the end just a few seconds too soon. I like several other selections, including the theme from "The Searchers". The others are OK with some that are strange. Why have Lorne Greene half/talk-half/sing the "Bonanza" theme? Just give me the real thing. The CD has songs you wouldn't find just anywhere and I like that. I really wanted the Dean Martin/Ricky Nelson title song and the CD was worth it to me.

CD-Charts Position 173
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Fiedler's Favorite Marches

CD-Charts > Music > Swing Jazz
from: RCA

Release Date November 20, 1990
Marches are of a wide variety, very well done. A really exciting and motivation collection of world famous marches.

CD-Charts Position 174
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Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits: 1935-1954

CD-Charts > Music > Swing Jazz
by: Various Artists

Release Date July 31, 1989
my early childhood and 'tween' years came dashing back right through the snow. I wasn't expecting that 'rush'. Childhood friends I'd almost forgotten,my first girlfriend, all togather again on the streets of my old neighhood.Lower eastside,NYC.

CD-Charts Position 175
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Night and Day: The Cole Porter Songbook

CD-Charts > Music > Swing Jazz
by: Various Artists

Release Date October 05, 1990
The performances on this CD are uniformly great,
from the rockin' to the sultry.
Someone at Verve did a very good job selecting
the tracks and artists whose versions are on here.
I think Cole himself would dig them.

CD-Charts Position 176
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Masterpieces by Ellington

CD-Charts > Music > Swing Jazz
by: Duke Ellington

Release Date February 17, 2004
When Ellington went into the studio in 1951 to record the longer tracks on this disc, his orchestra was a bridge between its late-1940's configuration (the 5-man trumpet section) and its mid-1950's personnel. The sax section had settled into the form it would have for most of the ensuing two decades (old-timers Hodges and Carney and newcomers Procope, Hamilton and Gonsalves); the trombone section had long-timer Lawrence Brown as well as newcomer Quentin Jackson; and drummer Sonny Greer, who had anchored the rhythm section since the beginning, would retire shortly after these recordings were made. Ellington's orchestra from 1953 on would be a great, swinging and sensitive one, but it would not make the same lush sound that this one did.
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CD-Charts Position 177
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Marches: Greatest Hits

CD-Charts > Music > Swing Jazz
from: Sony

Release Date December 06, 1994
I provide music for water aerobics classes. The class members are typically retirees, and like Classical music, yet until this CD the only Classical music with a beat distinctive and steady enough for water aerobics that I'd found was on the "Hooked on Classics" series. Thus, for water aerobics, this is a find.

Also contributing to this CD's popularity for water aerobics are that: (1) many of the songs are upbeat, and (2) "new stereo" recordings (in contrast to my recordings of Sousa marches that were played by Sousa himself; he died in the 1930s.)

In Summary, were you to buy just ten CDs for water aerobics classes, this would be one of them.

CD-Charts Position 178
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Frank Sinatra - A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim

CD-Charts > Music > Swing Jazz
starring: Frank Sinatra

Release Date March 09, 1999
What more can I say. The greatest with two more of the greatest. Must see.

CD-Charts Position 179
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This Beautiful Life

CD-Charts > Music > Swing Jazz
by: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Release Date October 19, 1999
This Beautiful Life by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is AWSOME!!!! I so enjoyed the first CD and now this one is a true favorite in my collection. I look forward to more work by the BBVD team.

CD-Charts Position 180
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The Best of Lawrence Welk Collector's Edition

CD-Charts > Music > Swing Jazz
by: Lawrence Welk

Release Date September 18, 2007
This Beautiful Life by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is AWSOME!!!! I so enjoyed the first CD and now this one is a true favorite in my collection. I look forward to more work by the BBVD team.