Muzikland

(76) The Essential Rosemary Clooney: Rosemary Clooney (1928-2002) ﹐1946年與Columbia簽約﹐其後也曾加盟 MGM ﹑Coral ﹑RCA ﹑Reprise ﹑UA等。1954年與Bing Crosby拍攝電影 White Christmas ﹐另外她是影星George Clooney的姑媽。
筆者特別鍾情她的Mambo Italiano ﹐50年代香港影星張仲文就曾經把它翻成“叉燒飽” ﹐ 70年代徐小鳳再度翻唱。

Come On - A My House / In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening / Hey There / Half As Much / Botch-A-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina) / The Lady Is A Tramp / You Started Something / You Make Me Feel So Young / Blue Rose / Love, You Didn't do Right By Me / Blame It On My Youth / Mambo Italiano / This Ole House / Tenderly / Mangos / From This Moment On

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(77) The Essential Roy Acuff: Roy Acuff (1903-1992) ﹐被譽為“鄉謠之王”。

Great Speckle Bird / The Precious Jewel / Wreck On The Highway / Night Train To Memphis / Fireball Mail / Low And Lonely / Pins And Needles (In My Heart) / Wait For The Light To Shine / Wabash Cannonball / Freight Train Blues / Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain / Tennessee Waltz / This World Can't Stand Long / I Saw The Light

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(78) The Essential Santana: 組成於1966年﹐音樂風格屬屬拉丁搖滾﹐名曲有 Evil Way (70年代初TVB港劇“73 ”曾使用作片頭曲) ﹑Black Magic Woman (原唱為Peter Green的Fleetwood Mac) ﹑ Oye Como Va等。筆者認識他們的歌曲來自1974年3唱片集“Lotus ” 現場錄音。

Disc 1:

Jingo / Evil Ways / Soul Sacrifice / Medley: Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen / Oye Como Va / Samba Pa Ti / Everybody's Everything / No One To Depend On / Toussaint L'Overture / Guajira / La Fuente Del Ritmo / In A Silent Way (Live) / Love, Devotion and Surrender / Mirage / Carnaval / Let The Children Play / Jugando

Disc 2:
She's Not There / Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) (Live) / Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) / Stormy / Well All Right / Open Invitation / Aquamarine / You Know That I Love You / All I Ever Wanted / Winning / Hold On / Nowhere To Run / Say It Again / Veracruz / Blues For Salvador / The Healer (Featuring John Lee Hooker)

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(79) The Essential Shawn Mullins: 1968年出生﹑1989年出道﹐音樂風格屬Folk Rock類。

Lullaby / Lately / This Time/Last Time / Canyons & Caverns / The Gulf Of Mexico / Anchored In You / Shimmer / Everywhere I Go / Somethin' To Believe In / Santa Fe / I Know / Joy Terrell Brown (Solo Acoustic Version) / Lonesome, I Know You Too Well (Live) / Border Song / Lullaby (Acoustic Version) /

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(80) The Essential Simon & Garfunkel: 組成於1964年﹐可惜於1970年就拆夥﹐自此各自作獨立發展。其間只出版過5張專輯一張Graduate畢業生的原聲帶專輯﹐不過歌曲卻是首首動聽。1982年及2004年都曾經重組舉行演唱會﹐引來一陣哄動。

Disc 1:
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. Live / Bleecker Street / The Sound Of Silence / Leaves That Are Green (Live) / A Most Peculiar Man (Live) / I Am A Rock / Richard Cory / Kathy's Song (Live) / Scarborough Fair/Canticle / Homeward Bound / Sparrow Live / The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) / The Dangling Conversation / A Poem On The Underground Wall (Live) / A Hazy Shade Of Winter / At The Zoo

Disc 2:
Mrs. Robinson / Fakin' It / Old Friends / Bookends Theme / America / Overs Live / El Condor Pasa (If I Could) / Bridge Over Troubled Water / Cecilia / Keep The Customer Satisfied / So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright / The Boxer / Baby Driver / The Only Living Boy In New York / Song For The Asking / For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her Live / My Little Town

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(81) The Essential Sly & the Family Stone: 組成於1965-1975年間﹐音樂風格是R&B。

Disc 1:
Underdog / I Cannot Make It / Dance To The Music / Are You Ready? / Fun / M'Lady / Life / Love City / Stand! / Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey / I Want To Take You Higher / Somebody's Watching You / Sing A Simple Song / Everyday People / You Can Make It If You Try / Hot Fun In The Summertime / Everybody Is A Star / Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

Disc 2:
Family Affair / Luv N' Haight / Poet / (You Caught Me) Smilin' / Runnin' Away / Brave & Strong / Just Like A Baby / Thank You For Talkin' To Me, Africa / In Time / If You Want Me To Stay / Frisky / Skin I'm In / Babies Makin' Babies / If It Were Left Up To Me / Time For Livin' / Loose Booty / I Get High On You

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(82) The Essential Stabbing Westward: 組成於1991-2002年間的Rock Band﹐1993年簽約Columbia出版首張專輯﹐可惜受歡迎程度一直平平。

Lost / Control / Nothing / Lies / What Do I Have To Do? / Shame / I Don't Believe / Sleep / Crushing Me / Save Yourself / Sometimes It Hurts / Haunting Me / Dawn / Torn Apart

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(83) The Essential Taj Mahal: 1942年出生﹐藍調歌手。

Disc 1:
Leaving Trunk / Statesboro Blues / The Celebrated Walkin' Blues / She Caught The Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride) / Corinna / Going Up To The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue / Take A Giant Step / Six Days On The Road / Country Blues No.1 / Fishin' Blues / Ain't Gwine Whistle Dixie (Anymo') / You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond / Happy To Be Just Like I Am / West Indian Revelation / Texas Woman Blues / Cakewalk Into Town / Frankie & Albert / Railroad Bill

Disc 2:
Johnny Too Bad / Slave Driver / (Clara) St. Kitts Woman / Wen I Feel The Sea Beneath My Soul / Satisfied 'N' Tickled Too / Love Theme In The Key Of D / Everybody Is Somebody / Crossing / Don't Call Us / Big Legged Mommas Are Back In Style / That's How Strong My Love Is / Here In The Dark / Lovin' In My Baby's Eyes / Senor Blues / The New Hula Blues / Queen Bee / Cruisin' / John Henry

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(84) The Essential Tammy Wynette: 1942-1998﹐被譽為The First Lady of Country Music﹐60/70年代常佔據鄉謠流行榜﹐1968與鄉謠歌手George Jones結婚﹐可惜性格不合於1975年仳離。80年代雖然仍有金曲﹐不過聲勢已走向下坡。

Apartment #9 / Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad / My Elusive Dreams / I Don't Wanna Play House / D-I-V-O-R-C-E / Stand By Your Man / He Loves Me All The Way / We Sure Can Love Each Other / Take Me - George Jones / 'Till I Get It Right / Bedtime Story / Kids Say The Darndest Things / Woman To Woman / 'Till I Can Make It On My Own

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(85) The Essential Thelonious Monk: 爵士樂手 (1917-1982) ﹐擅長演奏鋼琴﹐音樂風格屬Bop類。

'Round Midnight / Bemsha Swing / Blue Monk / Rhythm-A-Ning / Epistrophy / Crepuscule / Misterioso / Brilliant Corners / Well You Needn't / Ruby, My Dear (Take 3) / Straight, No Chaser

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(86) The Essential Tito Puente: 1923-2000 ﹐被譽為曼波大王﹐1992年Mambo Kings便是記錄他生平的傳記電影。

Disc 1:
Ran Kan Kan / Swinging The Mambo / Four Beat Cha Cha (Part I) / Cuando Te Vea / Tito Guajira / Mambo Gozon / Night Hawk / Witch Doctor's Nightmare / Abaniquito / Picadillo / Mambo Beat / Cao Cao Mani Picao / Birdland After Dark / Obatala Yeza / Chanchullo / Pa'los Rumberos / Hong Kong Mambo (Alternate Take) / What Is This Thing Called Love / Complicacion / Tito Timbero

Disc 2:
Oye Como Va / Cuas Es Idea / El Cayuco / Son De La Loma / 3-D Mambo / Cuban Nightmare / Oye Mi Guaguanco / Take The A Train / Elegua Chango / Si Te Contara / Cha-Con-Cha / Dance Mania / Sacala / Ti Mon Bo / Yambeque / Lotus Land / Malibu Beat / Gozar Timbero / Havana After Dark / Mambo Buda

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(87) The Essential Tony Bennett: Tony Bennett (1926- ) ﹐ 50年代已出道﹐不過筆者對他的歌曲最有印象者只有 I Left My Heart In San Francisco。

Disc 1:
Because Of You / Cold, Cold Heart / Blue Velvet / Rags To Riches / Stranger In Paradise / Sing You Sinners / The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Gigolo And Gigolette) / Just In Time / It Amazes Me / Love Look Away / Firefly / Put On A Happy Face / The Best Is Yet To Come / Tender Is The Night / Once Upon A Time / I Left My Heart In San Francisco / I Wanna Be Around / The Good Life / This Is All I Ask / When Joanna Loved Me / The Rules Of The Road

Disc 2:
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) / If I Ruled The World / Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) / The Shadow Of Your Smile / Smile / The Very Thought Of You / For Once In My Life / Yesterday I Heard The Rain (Esta Tarde Vi Llover) / My Favorite Things / I Do Not Know A Day I Did Not Love You / How Do You Keep The Music Playing / When Do The Bells Ring For Me? / Night And Day / Last Night When We Were Young / Steppin' Out With My Baby / It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (Live) / Mood Indigo / Keep the Faith, Baby (with K.D. Lang)

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(88) The Essential Toto: 組成於1978年﹐1982年Toto IV專輯更獲6個Grammy的獎項﹐而筆者獨愛 Africa一曲。

Hold The Line / Rosanna / Africa / 99 / Make Believe / I'll Supply The Love / Georgy Porgy / I Won't Hold You Back / I'll Be Over You / Without Your Love / Pamela / The Turning Point / Mindfields / On The Run

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(89) The Essential Willie Nelson: Willie Nelson (1933- ) ﹐鄉謠音樂創作歌手﹐Patsy Cline的 Crazy (1961) 便是出自他的手筆﹐不過筆者認識他的歌曲卻是他翻唱Elvis Presley的 Always On My Mind (1982) 及與Julio Iglesias合唱的To All The Girls I've Loved Before (1984)。

Disc 1:
Night Life / Hello Walls / Crazy / Funny How Time Slips Away / I Never Cared for You / The Party's Over / Good Times / Me And Paul / Shotgun Willie / Bloody Mary Morning / Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain / Good Hearted Woman (with Waylon Jennings) / If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time / Uncloudy Day / Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (with Waylon Jennings) / Georgia on My Mind / Blue Skies / All of Me / Heartbreak Hotel (with Leon Russell) / Help Me Make It Through the Night / Whiskey River (Live) / Stay a Little Longer (Live)

Disc 2:
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys / Faded Love (with Ray Price) / On the Road Again / Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground / Always on My Mind / Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning / Pancho & Lefty (with Merle Haggard) / To All the Girls I've Loved Before (with Julio Iglesias) / City of New Orleans / Seven Spanish Angels (with Ray Charles) / Forgiving You Was Easy / Highwayman / Living in the Promiseland / Nothing I Can Do About It Now / Graceland / Everywhere I Go (with Emmylou Harris) / Slow Dancing (U2 featuring Willie Nelson, Mickey Raphael on harmonica) / Mendocino County Line (with Lee Ann Womack) / One Time Too Many (with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith) (Previously Unreleased)

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(90) The Essential Yo-Yo Ma:

Disc 1:
Bach: Prelude from Suite No. 1 in G Major for Cello, BWV 1007 / Vivaldi: II. Largo from "Winter", Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297 from the Four Seasons, Op.8 No.4 / Bach: Jesus, bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring), BWV 147 / Bach: Schafe konnen sicher weiden (Sheep May Safely Graze), BWV 208 / Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake), BWV 645 / Saint-Saens: The Swan from Carnival of the Animals (Chamber Version) / Saint-Saens: Havanaise, Op. 83 / Massenet: Meditation from Thais / F. Kresler: Liebesfreud / Gershwin: Prelude No.1 from Three Preludes / Rachmaninoff: Vocalise / Shostakovich: IV. Allegro from Sonata in D minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 40 / Tchaikovcky: Andante Cantabile for Cello Solo and String Orchestra, Op. posth. / Brahms: IV. Rondo alla Zingarese Presto from Quartet No. 1 in G minor for Piano and Strings, Op. 25 / Dvorak: III. Finale. Allegro moderato from Concerto in B minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 104

Disc 2:
Cristal / A lenda do caboclo / Chega de Saudade (Live) / Wapango (Live) / Libertango / Appalachia Waltz (Solo Cello Version) / Butterfly’s Day Out / 1B / Pickin’ from Three Pieces for Solo Cello / Simple Gifts / Gabriel’s Oboe from the Mission / The Falls from the Mission (Album Version) / The Eternal Vow from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Wilde: The Cellist of Sarajevo - A Lament in Rondo Form for Solo ’Cello, Op. 12 / Chi passa per’sta strada / Mido Mountain (Chinese Traditional) / Mohini (Enchantment) / Baroque in Rhythm from Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio / Anything Goes / Bonus Track: I Could Have Danced All Night (Extended Version)



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