c a b i n e s s e n c e: June 2010

6/29/10

Review by Jason Birchmeier Released at the tail end of the '60s, Hot Buttered Soul set the precedent for how soul would evolve in the early '70s, simultaneously establishing Isaac Hayes and the Bar-Kays as major forces within black music. Though not quite as definitive as Black Moses or as well-known as Shaft, Hot Buttered Soul remains an undeniably seminal record; it stretched its songs far beyond the traditional three-to-four-minute industry norm, featured long instrumental stretches where the Bar-Kays stole the spotlight, and it introduced a new, iconic persona for soul with Hayes' tough yet sensual image. With the release of this album, Motown suddenly seemed manufactured and James Brown a bit too theatrical. Surprising many, the album features only four songs. The first, "Walk on By," is an epic 12-minute moment of true perfection, its trademark string-laden intro just dripping with syrupy sentiment, and the thumping mid-tempo drum beat and accompanying bassline instilling a complementary sense of nasty funk to the song; if that isn't enough to make it an amazing song, Hayes' almost painful performance brings yet more feeling to the song, with the guitar's heavy vibrato and the female background singers taking the song to even further heights. The following three songs aren't quite as stunning but are still no doubt impressive: "Hyperbolicsyllabicsequedalymistic" trades in sappy sentiment for straight-ahead funk, highlighted by a stomping piano halfway through the song; "One Woman" is the least epic moment, clocking in at only five minutes, but stands as a straightforward, well-executed love ballad; and finally, there's the infamous 18-minute "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and its lengthy monologue which slowly eases you toward the climactic, almost-orchestral finale, a beautiful way to end one of soul's timeless, landmark albums, the album that transformed Hayes into a lifelong icon.

for tracklisting , click the original FULL SIZE LP back cover above. If you are a wuss, then sample songs here. GET DOWN HERE WITH BUTTERED SOUL!

6/28/10

Torture / Fun ????

Independence Day July 2nd THRU the 4th- Not so fun for our furry friends!! **ALL WEEKEND LONG**NOT JUST ON JULY 4th!! Celebrations Start as Early as Friday July 2nd!! • Resist the urge to take your pet to fireworks displays. • Do not leave your pet in the car. With only hot air to breathe inside a car, your pet can suffer serious health effects—even death—in a few short minutes. Partially opened windows do not provide sufficient air, but they do provide an opportunity for your pet to be stolen. • Keep your pets indoors at home in a sheltered, quiet area. Some animals can become destructive when frightened, so be sure that you've removed any items that your pet could destroy or that would be harmful to your pet if chewed. Leave a television or radio playing at normal volume to keep him company while you're attending Fourth of July picnics, parades, and other celebrations. -Crates • If you know that your pet is seriously distressed by loud noises like thunder, consult with your veterinarian before July 4th for ways to help alleviate the fear and anxiety he or she will experience during fireworks displays. -Over the counter as well as prescription • Never leave pets outside unattended, even in a fenced yard or on a chain. In their fear, pets who normally wouldn't leave the yard may escape and become lost, or become entangled in their chain, risking injury or death. • Make sure your pets are wearing CURRENT/UPDATED identification tags so that if they do become lost, they can be returned promptly. Animals found running at-large should be taken to the local animal shelter, where they will have the best chance of being reunited with their owners. • If you plan to go away for the holiday weekend and take you pet, PLEASE make sure to be EXTRA careful. Your canine friend will not know where they are if they escape. Best to leave at home with a responsible dog sitter that understands the above rules or in a reputable boarding facility. *this also applies for cats- keep cats inside!! All live animals should be moved inside if possible!!! PLEASE HELP KEEP YOUR PET SAFE- PLEASE HELP OTHERS BY PASSING ON THIS INFORMATION. CELEBRATE SAFE - FOR YOU AND YOUR FUR KID!! via; Karma Rescue on a personal note; i think people need to watch/ hear things go BOOM and WHISTLE in the upper loudness range are complete cavemen! It is time to move on. Especially now that we know this noise pollution sounds and feels like a WAR ZONE to the highly sensitive ears of pets. This is what they HEAR!

It is so bad at my house that the dogs are hiding and shaking all night. They also get so scared and confused they run away and never to be seen again! PLEASE!, LET US MOVE ON! THANKS

6/25/10

I'll Be Right Back

6/24/10

Sweet Emma

"Sweet" Emma Barrett, Piano b. New Orleans, LA, USA. d. 1983. by ~Scott Yanow Sweet Emma Barrett, who was at her most powerful in the early '60s, became a symbolic figure with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, playing in a joyous but obviously weakened and past-her-prime style on world tours. Barrett spent most of her career living and playing in New Orleans, including gigs with Oscar "Papa" Celestin in the 1920s and later with Armand Piron.

Ironically, as Barrett (through the group's well-received tours) became better known, her playing and singing swiftly declined due to her age, and after a 1967 stroke, she continued to perform despite having a largely paralyzed left hand. In addition to the recommended Riverside set (reissued on CD), Barrett led less significant sessions for GHB (1963-1964), Preservation Hall, Nobility, and a 1978 album for Smoky Mary. GET DOWN HERE also if you like get King Oliver' s creole jazz band here.

6/16/10

I Miss You

just an average day from years back with i think 4 people out. i miss this place.(for surfing only) photo; Mr. Hall

Something/Anything

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Others had recorded one-man albums before Todd Rundgren, most notably Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, but with Something/Anything? he captured the homemade ambience of McCartney with the visionary feel of Music of My Mind, adding an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music from Gilbert & Sullivan through Jimi Hendrix, plus the crazed zeal of a pioneer. Listening to Something/Anything? is a mind-altering trip in itself, no matter how many shamelessly accessible pop songs are scattered throughout the album, since each side of the double-record is a concept unto itself. The first is "a bouquet of ear-catching melodies"; side two is "the cerebral side"; on side three "the kid gets heavy"; side four is his mock pop operetta, recorded with a full band including the Sales Brothers. It gallops through everything — Carole King tributes ("I Saw the Light"), classic ballads ("Hello It's Me," "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference"), Motown ("Wolfman Jack"), blinding power pop ("Couldn't I Just Tell You"), psychedelic hard rock ("Black Maria"), pure weirdness ("I Went to the Mirror"), blue-eyed soul ("Dust in the Wind"), and scores of brilliant songs that don't fall into any particular style ("Cold Morning Light," "It Takes Two to Tango"). It's an amazing journey that's remarkably unpretentious. Rundgren peppers his writing with self-aware, self-deprecating asides, indulging his bizarre sense of humor with gross-outs ("Piss Aaron") and sheer quirkiness, such as an aural tour of the studio at the beginning of side two. There are a ton of loose ends throughout Something/Anything?, plenty of studio tricks, slight songs (but no filler), snippets of dialogue, and purposely botched beginnings, but all these throwaways simply add context — they're what makes the album into a kaleidoscopic odyssey through the mind of an insanely gifted pop music obsessive. VIA

MY 2 CENTS; This LP is a classic with everything from super cheese (yet beautiful) love songs, studio hijinks, heavy metal moments, blue eyed soul, a bit of comedy and everything a genius would do left in a room with a complete studio and the talent to play everything. Knowing his limits though the God Todd did have heavy hitters on hand to break it up. A MUST HAVE!

1 I Saw the Light ***** 2 It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference 3 Wolfman Jack 4 Cold Morning Light ***** 5 It Takes Two to Tango (This Is for the Girls) 6 Sweeter Memories ***** 7 Intro *** 8 Breathless [instrumental]**** 9 The Night the Carousel Burned Down ***** 10 Saving Grace 11 Marlene ****** 12 Song of the Viking 13 I Went to the Mirror 14 Black Maria ***** 15 One More Day (No Word) ****** 16 Couldn't I Just Tell You 17 Torch Song 18 Little Red Lights 19 Overture-My Roots: Money (That's What I Want) /Messin' With the Kid 20 Dust in the Wind 21 Piss Aaron 22 Hello It's Me 23 Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me 24 You Left Me Sore 25 Slut ****** GET DOWN DISC ONE GET DOWN DISC 2

	Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light .mp3

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	Todd Rundgren - Breathless .mp3

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MY APOLOGIES FOR THE SAPPY VIDEO.

Barrels

Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washes ashore in Orange Beach, Ala., on June 12. (Dave Martin/Associated Press) Read more

Still for Sale ; PG Displacements hull 6'8"

6'8 PG designed bladed out hull. ridden only once. no damage. like new. goes for 750.00 now only 500.00 OBO!!! won't last. a summertime savior. trimming machine yet not too much board.

comes with the Pauls "nail" template high aspect volan flex fin.

6/15/10

Bee In Orbit

Bing Bonzer caught mid-flight tripping amongst the stars, planets, asteroids and moons. photo; courtesy D.C.

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967) - Deluxe Edition, 3CD

This 40th Anniversary box set offers three-discs of Syd Barrett and Co.'s dementedly catchy and haunting psychedelia. The first two discs feature the British release sequence in mono and stereo sound--both remastered--while the third disc contains several outtakes and rare singles. The real gems of the haul, the outtakes include alternate versions of album classics such as "Matilda Mother" and "Interstellar Overdrive" and the band's first three singles with B-sides: "Arnold Layne," "Candy and a Currant Bun," "See Emily Play," "Apples and Oranges," and "Paintbox." While many of the latter were released on RELICS, these digital remasters outshine previous renderings. When the Beatles recorded SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND in 1967, they kicked a new band out of a neighboring studio to do some overdubs for "Lovely Rita." The band was Pink Floyd and, while the Beatles were polishing up what many consider to be the gold standard of British psychedelia, Syd Barrett and Co. were already upending the young genre with PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN. Produced by Norman Smith--the Beatles' chief engineer in the early '60s--PIPER catapulted the British Invasion into the cosmos. With an explosive spirit barely contained within pop's dictates, the tracklist has an array of classics. Roger Waters's sinister bass slinks beneath the aural lysergy of "Instellar Overdrive" and "Lucifer Sam," while Rick Wright's organ drones envelop harmonic whimsies like "Matilda Mother." Ultimately, PIPER, the only Floyd record that seriously included him, belongs to Barrett. Using the electric guitar as a textural dervish, turning pop convention into shifting melodic quicksand, and introducing childlike lyricism into the psychedelic lexicon (the album's name comes from his favorite children's book, THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS), his voice and songwriting astound. Indeed, Barrett's blown-mind cadences are as much a symbol of psychedelia as Hendrix's strat or George Harrison's sitar. His voice simply sounds like tripping, and captures all the ungraspable beauty and fearful fragility of the experience. An extraordinary debut record, PIPER remains Barrett's visionary statement of purpose. CD1: ... Full Descriptio01 - Astronomy Domine (Mono) 02 - Lucifer Sam (Mono) 03 - Matilda Mother (Mono) 04 - Flaming (Mono) 05 - Pow R Toc H (Mono) 06 - Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk (Mono) 07 - Interstellar Overdrive (Mono) 08 - The Gnome (Mono) 09 - Chapter 24 (Mono) 10 - The Scarecrow (Mono) 11 - Bike (Mono) CD2: 01 - Astronomy Domine (Stereo) 02 - Lucifer Sam (Stereo) 03 - Matilda Mother (Stereo) 04 - Flaming (Stereo) 05 - Pow R Toc H (Stereo) 06 - Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk (Stereo) 07 - Interstellar Overdrive (Stereo) 08 - The Gnome (Stereo) 09 - Chapter 24 (Stereo) 10 - The Scarecrow (Stereo) 11 - Bike (Stereo) CD3: 01 - Arnold Layne 02 - Candy And A Currant Bun 03 - See Emily Play 04 - Apples And Oranges 05 - Paintbox 06 - Interstellar Overdrive (Take 2) (French Edit) 07 - Apples And Oranges (Stereo Version) 08 - Matilda Mother (Alternative Version) 09 - Interstellar Overdrive (Take 6) Try this single file first. it works, yet it is not the 'deluxe edition'. otherwise, below does work with password yet the file is unfamiliar to me. (no time at present. i will fix, if possible asap. thanks Please let me know if you have any answers? Many links;Password= progress-in-rock-jazz-blues-and-more.blogspot.com http://rapidshare.com/files/308003897/PFL67TPATGOD_07.part01.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/308005408/PFL67TPATGOD_07.part02.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/308011874/PFL67TPATGOD_07.part03.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/308008284/PFL67TPATGOD_07.part04.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/308012859/PFL67TPATGOD_07.part05.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/307996302/PFL67TPATGOD_07.part06.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/308004250/PFL67TPATGOD_07.part07.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/308006046/PFL67TPATGOD_07.part08.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/307999294/PFL67TPATGOD_07.part09.rar

6/13/10

Blows Against The Empire (1970)

Blows Against The Empire is one of a group of albums that was produced by an extended family of Bay Area musicians, usually referred to as PERRO (Planet Earth Rock N Roll Orchestra), that primarily comprised members of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Crosby, Stills and Nash. OK this isn't really a Jefferson Starship album, though the name does appear on the cover - that band didn't form until about four years later. This is a Paul Kantner/Grace Slick project that was recorded right after "Volunteers". They are helped by most of the people who appeared on David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name", which was being recorded at the same time. Jerry Garcia, Crosby and Nash, and sundry others. The album is a sci-fi concept story about a bunch of hippies who steal a starship and "establish a brave new world in some distant galaxy". The music is the thing this is an awesome album and everyone on it is at the top of their form. Lots of great interplay between Garcia and the piano player, not sure who it is. Four great bonus tracks on this.

Side one 1. "Mau Mau (Amerikon)" Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Joey Covington 6:33 2. "The Baby Tree" Rosalie Sorrels 1:42 3. "Let's Go Together[n 1]" Kantner 4:11 4. "A Child Is Coming" Kantner, Slick, David Crosby 6:15 Side two: Blows Against the Empire 1. "Sunrise" Slick 1:54 2. "Hijack" Kantner, Slick, Marty Balin, Gary Blackman 8:18 3. "Home" Kantner, Phil Sawyer, Graham Nash 0:37 4. "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite?" Kantner, Crosby 3:42 5. "XM" Kantner, Sawyer, Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart 1:22 6. "Starship" Kantner, Slick, Balin, Blackman 7:07 Remastered CD bonus tracks 11. "Let's Go Together[n 1]" (alternate lyrics) Kantner 4:22 12. "Sunrise" (acoustic demo) Slick 1:21 13. "Hijack" (acoustic demo) Kantner 7:02 14. "SFX" (raw sound effects for XM) Kantner, Sawyer, Garcia, Hart 2:04 15. "Starship" (Jefferson Airplane live, recorded September 14, 1970 at Fillmore West) Kantner, Slick, Balin, Blackman 10:07 16. "Radio Spots" (hidden track) 2:57 Paul Kantner – vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, banjo, bass machine Grace Slick – piano, vocals Jerry Garcia – banjo on "Let's Go Together", pedal steel guitar on "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite", sound effects and vocals on "XM", lead guitar on "Starship" Bill Kreutzmann – drums on "Let's Go Together" Mickey Hart – percussion on "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite", sound effects and vocals on "XM" Joey Covington – drums and vocals on "Mau Mau", congas on "Hijack" Jack Casady – bass on "A Child Is Coming" and "Sunrise" David Crosby – vocals and guitar on "A Child Is Coming" and "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite", background vocals on "Starship" Graham Nash – congas on "Hijack", sound effects on "Home", background vocals on "Starship" David Freiberg – background vocals on "Starship" Harvey Brooks – bass on "Starship" Peter Kaukonen – lead guitar on "Mau Mau" Phil Sawyer – sound effects on "Home" and "XM" GET DOWN HERE

6/12/10

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Totem by Duncan Campbell. (featured boards;5'6" 3 fin Stubbby from '72-'73 and ??? 5 fin Contemporary Shorty)

6/11/10

The Best Of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

Countless blues-rock guitar greats emerged during the late '60s -- the most recognizable names being Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. But one who usually gets overlooked is the great Peter Green, who led Fleetwood Mac early in their career. To coincide with the mammoth six-disc box set The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions, a single-disc compilation was issued, The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (with both releases sharing the same front cover artwork). Although the latter version of Fleetwood Mac is more renowned, it was this early version that influenced a legion of subsequent rock acts, including Aerosmith (who covered Mac's "Rattlesnake Shake"), Judas Priest (who covered "Green Manalishi"), and Gary Moore (who went so far as to purchase Green's favorite Les Paul...from Green himself). And upon investigating this extensive 20-track set, you'll understand why, as the aforementioned tracks, as well as "Albatross," "Stop Messin' Round," and "Shake Your Moneymaker" are all bluesy gems. The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac is an exceptional document of Fleetwood Mac's early years. ~ Greg Prato 1 Albatross 2 Black Magic Woman 3 Need Your Love So Bad 4 My Heart Beat Like a Hammer 5 Rollin' Man 6 The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown) 7 Man of the World 8 Something Inside Me 9 Looking for Somebody 10 Oh Well 11 Rattlesnake Shake 12 Merry Go Round 13 I Loved Another Woman 14 Need Your Love Tonight 15 Worried Dream 16 Dragonfly 17 Stop Messin' Around 18 Shake Your Moneymaker 19 Chicken Shack - I Would Rather Go Blind 20 Chris Coco - Albatross Peter Green - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica Jeremy Spencer - Vocals, Guitar, Piano Mick Fleetwood - Drums, Percussion John McVie - Bass Danny Kirwan - Vocals, Guitar Bob Brunning - Bass Christine Perfect - Piano David Howard, Roland Vaughan, Steve Gregory, Johnny Almond - Saxophone Duster Bennett - Harmonica GET PART 1 DOWN HERE GET PART 2 DOWN HERE an amazing live version..

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huge influence on me as a lad were the Kneeboard rippers Rex Huffman and of course Steve Lis.

6/10/10

Radiohead's Scotch mist

This is Current Television's exclusive airing of Radiohead's "Scotch Mist." In this hour long private taping, Radiohead performs all of the tracks from its newest album, In Rainbows. Other elements include poetry readings and diverse imagery created or selected by the band. By Nigel Godrich, Adam Buxton, Garth Jennings, Stanley Donwood, Hugo Nicolson, Dan Grech-Marguerat, and Radiohead Three colours narrated by Ric Jerrom December 31, 2007, New Year’s Eve. Two months after the release of the album for download, Radiohead broadcasted a pre-recording of all the tracks from In Rainbows through their website. Aptly called Scotch_mist, in the usual Radiohead-mordant-naming-fashion, it showcases the band in uncontrollable and unsteady drizzle. While listening to the tracks is more than enough to gift the ears, watching the band perform them is a booze like no other. From calm to fiery, hypnotic to belligerent, buoyant to suicidal, Scotch_mist captures In Rainbows in its most exquisite. Aside from the recording, the video also includes short lyrical pieces, fillers like love poems, quirky anecdotes, and animation that serve as intermissions between the songs. I can’t help but gush when it comes to these things, that for a band that has relentlessly defied musical boundaries for the last ten years, I can only be as truthful as how it feels having their music with me. I believe only a fan so serious can find it difficult to talk sensibly, or at least balance his words, when he is talking about his favorite band, that he is just happy to tell his thoughts, things he likes, things he doesn’t like that much, the little things he gets to notice, and with the pride of being able to share that feeling I think it is not his lack of writing talent to blame for, but his weak emotional control. It has only been two years but it feels like I have listened to it all my life. In Rainbows is Radiohead’s answer to how far musical greatness can go. It is as infinite as the stars we can only see in a deep night, as borderless as the space where the rainbow meets its end, as immeasurable as time. And yes, that’s me exaggerating, but that’s how it is. Listening to this album now is like being transported to the days that are not yet spent, the months that will befall in unknown time, and the years that will only pass in millisecond. There are times when I wonder how it will feel after I listen to it decades from now. Will it still be the same? Will it still hold that feeling? There is a lot of talking about the Radiohead model, the idea contested from Kim Gordon to Lily Allen, the main argument being the band belittling the music that the other bands are making, that they are assured to give the album away because they know they are huge, not caring about the artists that are not as successful as them. I know it’s an act of arrogance. It’s somewhat, on the surface – - selfish. But don’t artists of their caliber share an amount of courage to pull that act off? Which they did. Which the music world will always be grateful for because it widened the possibilities and challenged every artist to do much better. There is still one more year left, but as other fans would also be pronouncing, as early as now In Rainbows has already reserved its place in the peak of this decade’s landmark pieces. It seizes the beauty of fear and anxiety that the turn of the millennium has brought to us, sublimating it into the glorious feeling of being alive. Scotch_mist counts down that euphoria. via;

01 Intro 02 Weird Fishes - Arpeggi 03 Bodysnatchers 04 Jigsaw Falling Into Place 05 Faust Arp 06 15 Step 07 Videotape 08 Reckoner 09 House of Cards 10 All I need 11 Nude GET THE WHOLE FILM IN QUICKTIME FORMAT HERE I thought there was an LP as well but not yet, i think.(am i wrong?) what you can do is convert the you tube clips with the MP3 converter link on the starboard side of this site. Sorry for the mislead. Still amazing. GET DOWN WITH THE LP OF "IN RAINBOWS" HERE. If you want the DVD rather than Quicktime go to http://www.musebootlegs.com/blog/?p=168

6/9/10

Attending Church in Mexico

with Pat Towersey on a 6'7" Campbell Brother's Russ Short model Bonzer. for full screen hd go here.

http://bonzer5.com/

muchas gracias to PT an MC!(and of course RS)

Ever Had a Whitebread Sugar and Butter Sandwich ?

(2 slices white bread ,coat evenly with butter, sprinkle sugar to taste. Or See below for the next best thing from the Kitchen of Bacharach/David.

Review by Richie Unterberger/ all music While this three-CD, 75-song box set only has a half-dozen tracks actually credited to Burt Bacharach, it's certainly the best representation of his music likely to ever be assembled. Spanning the late '50s through a 1996 duet with Elvis Costello, this is the cream of his work as a composer (and, frequently, producer), properly concentrating mostly on the 1960s hit versions of his songs (usually, though not always, co-written with Hal David) by Dionne Warwick, Gene Pitney, Jackie DeShannon, Dusty Springfield, the Drifters, Chuck Jackson, and many others. Classics like "Baby It's You," "Walk On By," "What the World Needs Now Is Love," and "Wishin' and Hopin'" are here, of course. What really makes this exceptional by box set standards, however, is the deft intermingling of familiar smash hits with interesting minor hits and rarities. There are four cuts by the unknown Lou Johnson, who has been described as the male counterpart to Dionne Warwick; intriguing obscurities by Gene Pitney ("Fool Killer"), Jackie DeShannon ("So Long Johnny"), and others that even fans of the artists might not have heard; rare original versions of familiar classics (Tommy Hunt's "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself," for instance); hits by artists who only benefited grandly from the magic Bacharach/David touch once (Bobby Vinton's "Blue on Blue," Jack Jones' "Wives and Lovers"); and just plain off-the-wall things like the Five Blobs' novelty "The Blob," Manfred Mann's "My Little Red Book," Bobby Goldsboro's "My Japanese Boy I Love You," and TV actor Richard Chamberlain's "Blue Guitar." Thankfully only a little of his subpar work from the '80s is included. Aficionados may find some things to carp about, particularly the absence of some small hits (quantity and licensing would have made it difficult to bring everything together) and the track choice when several singers made worthy versions; sometimes the big hit is used, sometimes it's a rare original version, sometimes it's a rare rendition that was neither the original nor the biggest hit. Certainly there's more Bacharach/David worth hearing; the first places to start after getting through this are vintage Dionne Warwick compilations. For a rich but manageable anthology of his best work, though, it could hardly be bettered, enhanced by nearly 100 pages of liner notes and track annotations.

Disc: 1 1. The Story Of My Life - Marty Robbins 2. Magic Moments - Pery Como 3. The Blob - The Five Blobs 4. Please Stay - The Drifters 5. I Wake Up Crying - Chuck Jackson 6. Tower Of Strength - Gene McDaniels 7. Baby It's You - The Shirelles 8. Mexican Divorce - The Drifters 9. (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney 10. Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird) - Chuck Jackson 11. Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler 12. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - Tommy Hunt 13. It's Love That Really Counts (In The Long Run) - The Shirelles 14. Only Love Can Break A Heart - Gene Pitney 15. (There Goes) The Forgotten Man - Jimmy Radcliffe 16. Don't Make Me Over -Dionne Warwick(jump 2 video) 17. Let The Music Play - The Drifters 18. Blue On Blue - Bobby Vinton 19. True Love Never Runs Smooth - Gene Pitney 20. Blue Guitar - Richard Chamberlain 21. Reach Out For Me - Lou Johnson 22. Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney 23. Anyone Who Had A Heart - Dionne Warwick 24. A House Is Not A Home - Brook Benton 25. Wives And Lovers - Jack Jones 26. Wishin' And Hopin' - Dusty Springfield

Disc: 2 1. Walk On By - Dionne Warwick 2. (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me - Lou Johnson 3. Me Japanese Boy I Love You - Bobby Goldsboro 4. To Wait For Love - Tony Orlando 5. Kentucky Bluebird (Send A Message To Martha) - Lou Johnson 6. Land Of Make Believe - Dionne Warwick 7. The Last One To Be Loved - Lou Johnson 8. Fool Killer - Gene Pitney 9. Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Burt Bacharach 10. What The World Needs Now Is Love - Jackie DeShannon 11. Trains And Boats And Planes - Burt Bacharach 12. What's New Pussycat? - Tom Jones 13. My Little Red Book - Manfred Mann 14. Here I Am - Dionne Warwick 15. A Lifetime Of Loneliness - Jackie DeShannon 16. Made In Paris - Trini Lopez 17. Promise Her Anything - Tom Jones 18. Are You There (With Another Girl) - Dionne Warwick 19. Come And Get Me - Jackie DeShannon 20. Alfie - Cilla Black 21. In Between The Heartaches - Dionne Warwick 22. Nikki - The Burt Bacharach Orchestra & Chorus 23. So Long Johnny - Jackie DeShannon 24. The Windows Of The World - Dionne Warwick 25. Take A Broken Heart - Rick Nelson 26. I Say A Little Prayer - Dionne Warwick 27. Casino Royale - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Disc: 3 1. The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield 2. Do You Know The Way To San Jose - Dionne Warwick 3. This Guy's In Love With You - Herb Alpert 4. Knowing When To Leave - Jill O'Hara 5. Promises, Promises - Dionne Warwick 6. Pacific Coast Highway - Burt Bacharach 7. Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - B.J. Thomas 8. Odds And Ends - Dionne Warwick 9. Everybody's Out Of Town - B.J. Thomas 10. I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Dionne Warwick 11. (They Long To Be) Close To You - Carpenters 12. Paper Mache - Dionne Warwick 13. One Less Bell To Answer - The 5th Dimension 14. Check Out There - Dionne Warwick 15. Hasbrook Heights - Burt Bacharach 16. The Balance Of Nature - Dionne Warwicke 17. Living Together, Growing Together - The 5th Dimension 18. You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart) - The Stylistics 19. Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross 20. On My Own - Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald 21. That's What Friends Are For - Dionne & Friends 22. God Give Me Strength - Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello * Release Date: 11/03/1998 * 3 Disc Set * Label: RHINO / WEA GET THE ROCK HERE.(3 links. make sure to be a "free user")