Tim R. Reed, known by the stage name Reverend Fred Lane, is an American, Tuscaloosa, Alabama-born singer, songwriter, and visual artist, who released two relatively obscure yet critically appreciated albums in the 1970s on Say Day Bew Records, later re-released in the 1980s on the Shimmy Disc label.

"… simply loaded with proud pop songs … reads like a Greatest Hits: Then I Kissed Her, Help Me, Rhonda, You’re So Good To Me and California Girls are up there with any icons of West Coast sunshine."

The New Continent is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band featuring performances arranged and composed by Lalo Schifrin and conducted by Benny Carter.

Record Store Day 2025. This release has the edited version of The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man. ''I break my ass everyday'' is edited out. Restoration producer : Terri Landi. Mastered from the original 1965 analog tape directly to lacquer by Carl Rowatti, Trutone mastering. Out of Our Heads was originally released in the US through London Records on July 30, 1965, and was the band's fourth American album. This US version includes the iconic “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction,” which would be the band's first #1 US hit as well as topping the charts in 10 other countries, including the UK. “Satisfaction,” a Jagger-Richards composition, was ranked as the second greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone.

A hell of a hardbop classic – one of a handful of 60s European sessions recorded by the amazing Nathan Davis – an American player, but one whose work really took off when he headed overseas!

This 1965 recording of Bartók's The Wooden Prince, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Antal Doráti, is a captivating exploration of Bartók's richly imaginative ballet score.

Six months after Nat King Cole's untimely death, Capitol Records issued this compilation LP, which did not bode well for its stewardship of his recorded legacy.

This 1965 recording of Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin and Divertimento for Strings, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Antal Doráti, captures the raw energy and intricate brilliance of Bartók's compositions.

Johnny and the Hurricanes were an American instrumental rock band from Toledo, Ohio, United States.

With a career spanning six decades and hundreds of recordings, Lightnin’ Hopkins was among the most prolific and admired Blues players of the 20th century, and one who spanned the rural Country Blues tradition and the electric Blues of the postwar years. He was also an accomplished guitarist whose syncopated, thumping fingerpicking style directly or indirectly influenced many subsequent Blues and Rock players.

The Yardbirds' second American album, and a fundamental one at that. Although the original version includes four of the ten tracks already featured on Five Live Yardbirds, released less than a year earlier in Great Britain, it confirms the talent of the two guitar monsters, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, which had been sketched out on the previous compilation album, For Your Love, and was to be decisive in the musicians' continued notoriety across the Atlantic.

The album commences with its title song, which was at once the first real hit for the band as well as the single song which made Clapton decide to depart. “For Your Love” was presented to the band by publisher Ronnie Beck and everyone in the group, aside from Clapton, loved it.

'Miss du Pré allows herself to muse as Elgar's music itself muses, but she never for a moment overdoes indulgence and each movement has its own strength and coherence. This is on no account to be missed.

The Beatles Emerging from Liverpool, England in 1960, the Beatles were a seminal British group that evolved from rock/pop origins into pioneers of musical experimentation. The band solidified its iconic lineup in 1962, featuring John Lennon (vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica, keyboards, percussion), Paul McCartney (vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals, keyboards), and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals, percussion) after signing a recording contract with EMI. This followed a brief period with Stuart Sutcliffe (bass, 1960-61) and Pete Best (drums, 1960-62).

For a kid who liked jazz, Chicago was a great town to grow up in.