VARIOUS Songs Of The Depression: Boom, Bust & The New Deal (1998 UK/German-pressed 88-track 4-CD box set, examining the effects of the crash through the medium of popular song. Starting with the insanity of the stock market boom in the late 1920s, it tracks the muddle-headed & often absurd false-optimism policies of the government in the early months of the crisis, through the grim realization of the people that government had failed them, to the exaggerated euphoria & youthful irreverence of the New Deal era. The crazy mood swings of the period are reflected in songs like Eddie Cantor's Tips On The Stock Market, Al Jolson's Hallelujah I'm A Bum, Ruth Etting's 10 Cents A Dance, Vincent Rose's There's No Depression In Love, Lee Morse's I'm An Unemployed Sweetheart, Gene Kardo's If I Ever Get A Job Again, Connee Boswell's Boulevard Of Broken Dreams & Louis Armstrong's duet with the Mills Brothers on WPA. And, of course, Bing Crosby performs the Depression's most poignant anthem, Brother Can You Spare A Dime. Comes complete with a 160-page hardcover book in a deluxe 12" picture box. Still factory sealed, the contents are mint) more...
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VARIOUS-40S/BIG BAND & SWING That's What I Call Sweet Music (1999 UK 24-track compilation CD.These cracking American dance band recordings date from the 1920s and are sourced from legendary cartoonist and record collector Robert Crumb's personal archive, it's big band jazz that truly swings from people you've never heard of that but that just doesn't matter! Presented in a hardback booklet style sleeve with integral 8-page booklet, designed and drawn by the great man himself) more...
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VARIOUS Legends Of The Big Band Era (2006 UK Collector's Edition 239-track 12-CD box set including ten discs dedicated to a single artist - Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Duke Ellington, Harry James, Artie Shaw, Eddy Duchin, Glenn Miller and Count Base; plus two 20-track compilation CDs. Each CD features a colour picture of Glenn Miller and they are mounted inside a fold-out hardback sleeve - all housed in a 12" x 10½" picture slipcase with full tracklisting onreverse APWCD6415) more...
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VARIOUS Big Band Best Now (1990 Japanese 20-track promotional sample CD compilation album issued to radio stations and reviewers ahead of the actual release date. Featuring material from Artie Shaw, Glen Gray, Les Brown, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Duke Ellington and more. Custom stamped inner rim on the disc and promo stickered back insert, complete with picture sleeve plus gold embossed 'Best Now' obi-strip TOCP-9097) more...
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