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VA - The Country No. 1s Of The 40s (2024)

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VA - The Country No. 1s Of The 40s (2024)

VA - The Country No. 1s Of The 40s (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 3:11:53 | 403 / 468 Mb
Genre: Country

Acrobat already has on catalogue collections which present “America’s No. 1s of the ‘50s” (ACFCD7501), “America's No. 1s of the '40s” (ACSCD6005), “America’s R&B No. 1s of the ‘50s” (ACSCD6003), “America’s R&B No. 1s Of The '40s” (ACQCD7168), and “Country No. 1s of the '50s” (ACTRCD9034), and this release completes that set with presenting the “Country No. 1s of the ‘40s”.

VA - Americas Greatest Your Hit Parade Hits 1936 (2024)

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VA - Americas Greatest Your Hit Parade Hits 1936 (2024)

VA - Americas Greatest Your Hit Parade Hits 1936 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 4:50:59 | 647 / 597 Mb
Genre: Instrumental, Easy Listening, Jazz, Pop

One of Acrobat’s most popular and successful series are the America’s Greatest Hits collections – 4-CD sets featuring the biggest hits from the Billboard charts from 1940, when the Billboard record sales chart was launched, through to 1962. However, before the Billboard chart was first published, the popular US weekly radio show Your Hit Parade, sponsored by Lucky Strike, began producing a chart in 1935, which was sometimes a Top 10, sometimes a Top 15, so we decided to take the America’s Greatest Hits format back into the Your Hit Parade era of the 1930s.

Cootie Williams - Concerto For Cootie: Selected Recordings 1928-62 (2024)

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Cootie Williams - Concerto For Cootie: Selected Recordings 1928-62 (2024)

Cootie Williams - Concerto For Cootie: Selected Recordings 1928-62 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 4:50:10 | 889 Mb
Genre: Jazz

Charles Melvin Cootie Williams was a jazz trumpeter, born in Mobile Alabama in 1911, who enjoyed a lengthy career as a sideman and bandleader, and was especially renowned for his associations with Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. This collection takes its title Concerto For Cootie from a tune Duke Ellington composed in his honour.

Barbecue Bob - Barbecue Blues: The Collection 1927-30 (2024)

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Barbecue Bob - Barbecue Blues: The Collection 1927-30 (2024)

Barbecue Bob - Barbecue Blues: The Collection 1927-30 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:26:50 | 299 Mb
Genre: Blues, Folk, Americana

Born Robert Hicks in Georgia in 1902, Barbecue Bob was an early exponent of the Piedmont style of blues, and was a contemporary around the Atlanta scene of artists like Blind Blake, Josh White, Curley Weaver, Blind Willie McTell, Buddy Moss and others. He had a distinctive guitar style, using the frailing technique as well as using a bottleneck on a 12-string guitar, and acquired his stage name because he was working as a barbecue chef when he did his first recordings, and publicity shots featured him in his chef's outfit. His career was tragically curtailed when he died from tuberculosis and pneumonia in 1931 at the age of 29. This 47-track 2-CD collection comprises a significant proportion of his career recordings on the Columbia label, and includes recordings with his brother Charlie Laughing Charley Lincoln, and with Curley Weaver and Buddy Moss as The Georgia Cotton Pickers. It includes his Motherless Child, a song regularly performed by Eric Clapton, along with his famous song Mississippi Heavy Water Blues, inspired by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. He is one of those blues artists who is not widely known but whose music helps to appreciate the nuances of the Piedmont blues tradition.

VA - The 1952 R&B Hits Collection (2024)

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VA - The 1952 R&B Hits Collection (2024)

VA - The 1952 R&B Hits Collection (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 4:15:24 | 788 / 541 Mb
Genre: R&B, Soul

This great value 90-track 4-CD anthology include just about every record which peaked during the year in the published Top 10 Best Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues Records and Most Played Juke Box Rhythm & Blues charts.

VA - The JFK Inauguration Hot 100 20th January 1961 (2024)

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VA - The JFK Inauguration Hot 100 20th January 1961 (2024)

VA - The JFK Inauguration Hot 100 20th January 1961 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 3:57:00 | 887 / 510 Mb
Genre: Rock, Pop, Rock & Roll

The JFK Inauguration Hot 100 20th January 1961 is a captivating album that captures the essence of one of the most significant moments in American history. Released by Acrobat, this compilation features various artists who were at the peak of their careers during that time. With a total running time of approximately XX minutes, this album offers a unique and nostalgic musical experience. This album takes listeners on a journey back to January 20th, 1961, when John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States.

Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go: The Collection 1935-62 (2024)

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Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go: The Collection 1935-62 (2024)

Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go: The Collection 1935-62 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 5:54:14 | 1.2 Gb
Genre: Blues / Label: Acrobat Records

Big Joe Williams was a Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist famous for the distinctive sound of his unique nine-string guitar, as well as for recording classic songs like Baby Please Don't Go and Crawling King Snake. His career was remarkable for the fact that he recorded through every decade from the mid-1930s into the'70s, although his periods of active recording were somewhat erratic, while he maintained a constant round of 'live' performing. This great-value 115-track 5-CD set comprises most of the A & B sides of his releases on the Bluebird, Columbia, Bullet, Trumpet & VeeJay labels from 1935 to 1957, plus EP titles and the titles from his albums Piney Woods Blues, A Man Sings The Blues, Tough Times, Blues On Highway 69, Nine-String Guitar Blues and Mississippi's Big Joe Williams & his Nine-String Guitar from 1957 through to 1962. It includes recordings where he is accompanied by noted contemporaries like Sonny Boy Williamson, Ransom Knowling, Robert Lee McCoy, Judge Riley and others. He was one of the most impressive blues performers of his era who inspired many artists of later years like Bob Dylan, and this substantial collection offers an entertaining showcase for a highly original and influential artist.

Art Farmer - The Art Of Farmer: Classic Albums 1953-55 (2024)

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Art Farmer - The Art Of Farmer: Classic Albums 1953-55 (2024)

Art Farmer - The Art Of Farmer: Classic Albums 1953-55 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:29:31 | 451 Mb
Genre:Jazz / Label: Acrobat Records

Art Farmer was a jazz trumpeter, born in 1928, who came to the fore in the post-war bebop era, and recorded and performed continuously and prolifically in the USA and Europe through the latter half of the 20th century until shortly before his death in 1999. His reputation was enhanced by his recording of Farmer's Market in 1952, shortly after which he embarked on the sessions featured here for the Prestige label during the middle years of the decade, which were along his first as a band leader. Those sessions were mixed and matched across several 10 and 12 LPs over the next few years, and this 42-track 2-CD collection comprises the complete contents of the Prestige albums Work Of Art, Art Farmer Quintet, Art Farmer Plays, The Art Farmer Septet, Early Art, When Farmer Met Gryce and Evening in Casablanca. His bands on these sessions featured a number of noted musicians of the day, including Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke, Wynton Kelly, Gigi Gryce, Philly Joe Jones and others. Comprising mainly original material, but with a sprinkling of standards, it captures Farmer at a key moment of his career as he blossomed into one of the most respected trumpeters of the era.

Blind Lemon Jefferson - Complete Releases 1926-29 (2023)

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Blind Lemon Jefferson - Complete Releases 1926-29 (2023)

Blind Lemon Jefferson - Complete Releases 1926-29 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 4:13:38 | 525 / 545 Mb
Genre: Blues

Blind Lemon Jefferson was one of the most important, influential and successful of the early bluesmen, a singer, songwriter and guitarist who has been called The Father Of Texas Blues, and he was one of the earliest and most prominent figures in the blues movement that developed in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas. He was one of the first solo guitarist/vocalists in the commercial recording world, being invited to Chicago in early 1926 to do his first sessions for Paramount. His high-pitched voice and unusual guitar style made him a distinctive performer, writing songs about everyday life and experiences, and his skilful guitar playing and impressive vocal range created opportunities for other solo performers like Charley Patton and Furry Lewis. This substantial and excellent-value 87-track 4-CD collection comprises, as far as we are aware, every recording he made which was commercially released, primarily comprising his releases on Paramount, but also featuring titles he made in a brief foray to the Okeh label, and including a couple of titles he made as a member of the Paramount All Stars. He wrote and recorded many classics of the genre, all of which are featured here, and the collection is a comprehensive and definitive showcase for an innovative blues pioneer.

Mildred Bailey - The Queen Of Swing All The Hits And More 1929-47 (2023)

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Mildred Bailey - The Queen Of Swing All The Hits And More 1929-47 (2023)

Mildred Bailey - The Queen Of Swing All The Hits And More 1929-47 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 3:39:52 | 448 / 479 Mb
Genre: Jazz

Mildred Bailey was a jazz singer of Native American descent who was known variously as “The Queen Of Swing”, “The Rockin’ Chair Lady” and “Mrs Swing”, and who enjoyed a successful career during the 1930s and ‘40s, having more than 40 hits in her own name and as a band singer with Glen Gray’s Casa Loma Orchestra, and the orchestras of Paul Whiteman, The Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman and Red Norvo (who was also her husband).

Hank Jones - Hank Jones: Solo & With His Own Bands 1947-59 (2023)

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Hank Jones - Hank Jones: Solo & With His Own Bands 1947-59 (2023)

Hank Jones - Hank Jones: Solo & With His Own Bands 1947-59 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:25:08 | 317 / 418 Mb
Genre: Jazz

Hank Jones was a jazz pianist of the post-war decades, whose active recording career spanned 60 years, but who did much of his most renowned work during the post-bop years of the 1950s. Learning his trade as bebop developed in the '40s, he was a noted sideman with many different leaders' bands, but, with a style that critics called eloquent, lyrical and impeccable, he made many noted recordings as a solo artist and leading his own small groups, recording for a variety of labels during these years.

Johnny Hartman - Smooth & Swinging The Singles & Albums Collection 1947-58 (2023)

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Johnny Hartman - Smooth & Swinging The Singles & Albums Collection 1947-58 (2023)

Johnny Hartman - Smooth & Swinging The Singles & Albums Collection 1947-58 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:23:51 | 488 / 317 Mb
Genre: Jazz

some of the top bands and accompanists of the day during his career, including Earl Hines, Dizzy Gillespie and Erroll Garner, and became famous during the 1970s, beyond the scope of this collection, for an album he made with John Coltrane. Unlike his more middle-of-the-road peers in the world of post-war sophisticated pop, he did not make records aimed at the singles charts so is less well-known than artists like Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis and Mel Torme, but was a singer who was highly-regarded by his peers and aficionados.

Flip Phillips - The Clef Years: Classic Albums 1952-56 (2023)

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Flip Phillips - The Clef Years: Classic Albums 1952-56 (2023)

Flip Phillips - The Clef Years: Classic Albums 1952-56 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 3:23:04 | 532 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Acrobat

Flip Phillips was a tenor saxophonist who came to the fore in the post-war era playing with the bands of Woody Herman, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman and Frankie Newton, and was perhaps most famously associated with Norman Granz’ Jazz At The Philharmonic concerts in the late ‘40s and into the 1950s.

Mac Wiseman - The Voice With A Heart: The Singles Collection 1951-61 (2023)

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Mac Wiseman - The Voice With A Heart: The Singles Collection 1951-61 (2023)

Mac Wiseman - The Voice With A Heart: The Singles Collection 1951-61 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:23:18 | 613 Mb
Genre: Country, Bluegrass / Label: Acrobat Records

Mac Wiseman was a an American bluegrass and country singer, as well as a bass player and guitarist, who hailed from Virginia, and came to the fore with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs’ Foggy Mountian Boys in 1948 and later played with Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys. In 1951 he signed a solo deal with Dot Records and immediately shot to prominence with his big seller “Tis Sweet To Be Remembered”. He sang with a clear, mellow tenor voice that helped him stand out from the usual run of bluegrass performers in his early career, with his appealing style earning him the nickname of “The Voice With A Heart”. This great-value 59-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from his releases on Dot during this era, as he gradually moved from bluegrass towards more mainstream country and pop-flavoured material. It features his Top 10 country hits from these years with “The Ballad Of Davy Crockett” and “Jimmy Brown The Newsboy”. He was a noted ambassador for traditional country music over the years, and this collection provides an admirable showcase for his distinctive style of the genre.

Big Jay McNeely - The Singles Collection 1949-62 (2023)

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Big Jay McNeely - The Singles Collection 1949-62 (2023)

Big Jay McNeely - The Singles Collection 1949-62 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:21:57 | 556 Mb
Genre: Jazz Blues / Label:Acrobat Records

Big Jay McNeely was an R&B saxophonist, whose music ran the gamut of R&B styles, from jazz-tinged pieces and pure blues to out-and-out rock ‘n’ roll, and was famous as one of the leaders in the “honkin’” saxophone style alongside the likes of Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, King Curtis and Lee Allen, developing a wild stage act as he as he explored every sound the sax could make played in every bizarre position. He recorded for a variety of labels after making his debut with Johnny Otis, and this great-value 53-track 2-CD collection comprises A & B sides of his singles with his band The Blue Jays on the Savoy, Exclusive, Aladdin, Imperial, Veejay and Swingin’ labels, during this era. It features his R&B No. 1 with “Deacon’s Hop” in 1949 that immediately brought him to public attention, along with his other R&B hits “Wild Wig” and, from later years “There Is Something On Your Mind”. On some of his releases he featured vocalists like Clifford Blivens, Ted Shirley, Jesse Belvin, Mercy Dee Walton and Sonny Warner as well as organist Leon Haywood. He was one of the most distinctive and unusual R&B artists of the ‘50s and this collection is an entertaining trawl across his primary recording career.