Crying - The Magic Of Roy Orbison

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Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country and western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis.

His first single for Monument failed to chart, and its follow-up ‘Uptown’ only made it to #72 on Billboard’s Top 100 in 1959, but it was his next single, ‘Only the Lonely’ (turned down by both Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers) that made him a star, reaching #2 in the U.S. and #1 in the UK and Australia. Engineer Porter experimented with a completely new recording strategy, creating the mix from the top down rather from the bottom up, beginning with the close-miked background vocals in the foreground and ending with the rhythm section soft in the background, a combination which became Orbison's trademark.

1. Crying	1. Running Scared
2. Only The Lonely	2. Blue Angel
3. Love Hurts	3. Bye Bye Love
4. I Can’t Stop Loving You	4. Pretty One
5. Candy Man	5. Here Comes That Song Again
6. Today’s Teardrops	6. Paper Boy
7. Cry	7. Uptown
8. Blue Avenue	8. I’m Hurtin’
9. Come Back To Me (My Love)	9. Jolie
10. Raindrops	10. With The Bug
11. (I’d Be) A Legend In My Own Time	11. This Kind Of Love
12. 22 Days	12. It’s Too Late
13. I’ll Say It’s My Fault	13. You’re Gonna Cry
14. Go Go Go	14. I Never Knew
15. You’re My Baby	15. Mean Little Mama
16. Devil Doll	16. Problem Child
17. I Like Love	17. Sweet And Innocent
18. Seems To Me	18. Almost Eighteen
19. Sweet And Easy To Love	19. I’ll Never Tell
20. Chicken Hearted	20. Ooby Dooby
21. Rock House	21. Trying To Get To You

Don Williams - You're My Best Friend

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Born May 27, 1939 in Floydada, Texas), is an American country singer, songwriter and a 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He grew up in Portland, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School. After seven years with the folk-pop group Pozo-Seco Singers, he began his solo career in 1971, singing popular ballads and amassing 17 No. 1 hits. His straightforward yet smooth bass-baritone voice, soft tones, and an imposing build earned him the nickname "The Gentle Giant" of country music.


1. Good Ole Boys Like Me *
2. Storybook Children
3. Take My Hand For A While
4. Amanda *
5. There’s Never Been A Time
6. Tears
7. Coming Apart
8. Follow Me Back To Louisville
9. Spend Some Time With Me
10. I Believe In You *
11. Ruby Tuesday
12. Where Do I Go From Here?
13. I’ve Been Loved By The Best
14. On Her Way To Be A Woman
15. (There’s) Always Something There
To Remind Me
16. Tulsa Time
17. Lord I Hope This Day Is Good *
18. You’re My Best Friend *

* Recorded Live

Why They Sank Titanic

Why They Sunk The Titanic. Available on Amazon & Deltamusic.co.uk now!

Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, how the largest moving object ever fashioned by the hand of man hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank in the middle of the North Atlantic, and 1,500 lives were lost. The tragedy has been well documented in books and on films. No matter how often the story is told, it never fails to capture the imagination.

It is a story that has left many questions unanswered, and the programme provides an intriguing hypothesis that the ship that plummeted two miles to the bottom of the sea was not the Titanic but its sister ship the Olympic.

This film is based upon the research of Andrew Newton and includes the evidence of the British and American inquiries, the eye witness reports of survivors, newspapers of the day, photographs, video, film and radio broadcasts.
The views and opinions presented in this film are based on actual evidence and legitimate inference.

The people depicted are all deceased and can shed no light on the mystery of the Titanic’s sinking.

This hypothesis is presented for viewers to reach their own conclusions.

It may be the ultimate conspiracy – or could it be the truth?

Hello Kitty: A School Day

Hello Kitty: A School Day, Available to order on Amazon & Deltamusic.co.uk now!

Election
It’s time to elect a class president, and candidates Badtz-Maru and Daniel discover that trying to please everyone pleases no one. The results are hardly politics as usual.

A School Day
When Badtz-Maru discovers he’s left his school report at home, it’s a race against the clock to race there and back before the bell rings!

Café Cinnamoroll
Meet Cinnamoroll – a nice boy who is very shy – so shy that he runs and hids whenever anyone visits his coffee shop! Watch Kitty and the gang help him come out of his shell and make new friends.

The Big Game
There’s no “I” in team, but that doesn’t stop everyone from hogging the ball during their big soccer match. Will everyone learn the importance of teamwork before the game is lost?

Power Outage
The Twin Stars give up their powers to spend the day as regular kids. Who knew that simple things like going to school, playing on the playground, and having treats after school could be so much fun?

Hello Kitty: A Birthday Party

Hello Kitty: A Birthday Party, available to order on Amazon & Deltamusic.co.uk now.

A Birthday Party

It’s Hello Kitty’s special day - her birthday! Except that Kitty thinks all her friends have forgotten about her big day. See what happens in this heartfelt episode.

Game On

Kitty and her friends are hitting the beach! Except for Badtz-Maru – who’s addicted to his newest video game. Keroppi comes up with a solution to both problems that puts everyone in hot water.

Picture Perfect

Dear Daniel has everything figured out for the perfect Valentine’s Day for his sweetheart, Hello Kitty - except how to pay for it! Watch as Daniel learns the meaning of true love in this sweet story.

The Sleepy Detective (Part One)

When Kitty’s apple pie goes missing, the Sleepy Detective is on the case. If only he can stay awake long enough to figure it out!

The Sleepy Detective (Part Two)

In the exciting conclusion to this mystery, Pochacco learns that not everything is as it seems. Find out who the real pie thief is when all the pieces of the puzzle are put together.

1959 The Year That Changed Jazz

BBC4 Friday 17th February 12.00 Midnight

1959 was the seismic year jazz broke away from complex bebop music to new forms, allowing soloists unprecedented freedom to explore and express. Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus (check out our Spotify playlist we put together following the event) made ground-breaking albums each a high watermark for the artists and a powerful reflection of the times. Rarely seen archive performances help vibrantly bring the era to life and explore what made these albums vital both in 1959 and the 50 years since.

Charles Mingus wrote his autobiography in 1971, appropriately titled “Beneath The Underdog”, which nakedly chronicled his turbulent life as a composer and player of some of the most emotionally intense music in the history of jazz. Charles Mingus fought tenaciously against the overt racism he encountered, problems exacerbated by his own egocentric nature and personal demons which led to many damaging clashes of personality.  Throughout it all however, he determinedly built up a unique style of music both as an imaginative soloist who chose largely to ignore conventional harmonic principles and as a writer who, while clearly strongly influenced by Duke Ellington, produced a substantial body of innovative work.

Dave Brubeck’s stunning 1959 album “Time Out” proved to be a landmark recording in the history of jazz music as it appealed to a wider audience than previously thought possible and contained the hit single “Take Five”, an infectious tune set in 5/4 time which crossed over to the pop market, and the distinctive opening track “Blue Rondo A La Turk”. The group comprised the leader on piano, Eugene Wright on bass, Joe Morello on drums and the inimitable Paul Desmond, who composed that best-known number, on lyrical alto saxophone. Presented in its entirety here, the seven tracks range over highly unusual time signatures with influences derived from blues and classical sources, with underrated compositions like “Three To Get Ready” and especially “Kathy’s Waltz” highlighting the work of a unique unit.

Miles Dewey Davis was born in Alton, Illinois in 1926 into a middle class family who provided him with his first trumpet at the age of thirteen. Miles Dewey Davis gained early experience of playing in public as a guest in Billy Eckstine’s travelling big band in 1944 and, while still a teenager, with Charlie Parker’s dynamic bebop pioneers in New York. He had won a scholarship to the city’s prestigious Juilliard School but quickly became drawn to the burgeoning new movement of modern jazz played at Harlem’s Mintons and the 52nd Street clubs led by Parker, Monk, Clarke and fellow trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Miles Dewey Davis sometimes struggled to keep up with the breathtakingly fast tempos favoured by the boppers, but instead developed a unique sound instantly recognisable and perfectly suited to the lonely, largely melancholy repertoire which became the trademark of his introspective appeal.

Barber, Bilk & Ball Review by Barry McCanna

On the face of it, this reissue should be welcomed, particularly by those who can recall the trad boom of the late fifties/early sixties. It contains 45 recordings from that era by three of the foremost traditional jazz bands, which means that all are over fifty years old. Given that such material should attract also a new generation of listeners it’s important that it is presented in such a way as to inform, and the liner note makes a nod in that direction with three thumbnail sketches of the three bandleaders, but that is as far as it goes. The novitiate will search in vain for any detail of the personnel involved, apart that is from passing reference to Pat Halcox.

The compilation is a cross-section of the sort of numbers being played at that time, of which the most successful in my book are the slow clarinet solos by Acker Bilk and Monty Sunshine, although you’ll search in vain for reference to the latter, since they’re simply credited to Chris Barber (who played bass on Monty’s solos, if memory serves). The excellence of Acker Bilk’s band tended to be overshadowed at the time by their fancy outfits and arcane sleeve notes, but purists were outvoted.

Some of the Chris Barber tracks are live recordings, culled presumably from his “In Concert” LPs. I believe that “Snake Rag” dates from March 1951, and was recorded by Chris Barber’s New Orleans Jazz Band at the Hammersmith Palais, with a completely different line-up; it certainly sounds like it! Listen out also for Ottilie Patterson, aka then as Mrs. Barber, who takes several vocals, including a rousing version of “The Saints”.

Shirley Bassey - Grand Dame of Song

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Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE (born 8 January 1937^[1]), is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century".^[2][3] In the US, in particular, she is best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979), and is a UNESCO Artist for Peace

Art Pepper - Jazz Manifesto

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His last comeback saw Pepper, which had started his career in Stan Kenton's big band, becoming a member of Buddy Rich's Big Band from 1968 to 1969. In 1977 and 1978 he made two well received tours of Japan.^[1] During this period, he recorded two albums - Goin' Home with George Cables, and Winter Moon with a string orchestra - which were among his favorites and which he considered his definitive achievements.

Art Blakey - Jazz Manifesto

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By the late forties and early fifties, Blakey was backing musicians such as Miles Davis, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk — he is often considered to have been Monk's most empathetic drummer,^[5] and he played on both Monk's first recording session as a leader (for Blue Note Records in 1947) and his final one (in London in 1971), as well as many in between.