Mickey and Sylvia - The Singles & Albums Collection 1952-62Mickey Baker was a guitarist and Sylvia Vanterpool was a singer who was also one of his guitar pupils, and they teamed up to make records as Mickey & Sylvia, becoming famous for recording the first hit version of the timeless and much recorded pop standard "Love Is Strange", the first of their eight hits together through to 1961. This great value 59 track 2 CD set comprises most of their A & B sides together on the Rainbow, Groove, Vik, RCA and Willow

as well as making his first recordings leading his own different line-ups - his two sets of recordings with Monk's Quartet and Quintet in 1948 and 1951 are especially notable

Etta James is one of the greatest-ever singers of Soul and R&B

so that she could never be clearly categorized as a jazz

When they had their first big hit as The Four Seasons in 1961 with "Sherry"

Packaged in a paper sleeve

A snapshot of young raw talent before they won awards

Gene Krupa and others

punk and other styles

most fiercely independent black-owned record companies of the era

and was persuaded to record the lead vocal on a dance track

It features his Top 20 pop and R&B hit "Sea Cruise" and his other career chart entries "Alimony"

born in Germany in 1925