Harry Belafonte - Collection 1949-62New York born Jamaican American singer, songwriter, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte is a truly unique personality there really is no other performer or entertainer quite like him. With a recording career beginning in the late 1940s, he was instrumental in the popularisation of folk music of all kinds, especially West Indian calypso, but his music encompasses a range of idioms from gospel, blues, jazz and comedy to stage music and sophisticated

which commemorate the defeat of the 1745-46 Jacobite Rebellion

This great-value 46-track 2-CD set consists entirely of recordings by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians which feature in Top 15 positions in those chart analyses

and is a highly entertaining showcase for his distinctive brand of up-front New Orleans R&B

Michel Blavet

Johnny Mathis

Norman Leyden

ranging from baroque music to the present

which is attributed to him again and again: Arvo Pärt

which included the hit "Without A Memory"

and hugely entertaining

their producer suggested developing their style by recording parodies of well-known pop and country hits

and in the process allows his readers to glance over Händel's shoulders whilst he is composing