Absolutely the Best, Vol. 1 [Original recording remastered]

1. Talk About a Party

2. As Long as I'm Movin'

3. Chicken Wire

4. Tip of My Fingers

5. Spooky Movies

6. Sally Was a Good Old Girl

7. Goodtime Charlie

8. Through the Eyes of Fool

9. Alabama Jubilee

10. When the Wind Blows (In Chicago)

11. Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young

12. Just Like That There

13. Turn Around and Look Again

14. South

Absolutely the Best, Vol. 1,Roy Clark,Varese Records,Country,Country & Western,Country-Pop,Instrumental Country,Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan,Pop,Traditional Country

Average customer rating: GREAT SAMPLING OF GREAT MUSIC!!!

Absolutely the Best of Cajun & Zydeco, Vol. 1 & 2 Various Artists Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Zydeco | Cajun & Zydeco | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Cajun & Creole | Cajun & Zydeco | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005RIJZ Release Date: 2001-11-20

Tracks:

1. Ya Ya - Buckwheat Zydeco
2. Je Me Fu Pas Mal - Clifton Chenier
3. Saturday Night Special - Lesa Cormier & The Sundown Playboys
4. Zydeco Gris Gris - Beausoleil
5. My Toot Toot - Fats Domino
6. Alligator Waltz - Rockin' Sidney
7. Sweet Susannah - Clint West
8. Paper In My Shoe - Boozoo Chavis
9. Parlez-Nous Borie (Let's Talk About Drinking) - Balfa Brothers
10. My Girl Josephine - Queen Ida & Her Zydeco Band
11. Jolie Blon - Vin Bruce
12. The Promised Land - Johnnie Allan
13. Backdoor - Badeaux & The Louisiana Aces
14. Zydeco Around The World - Rockin' Dopsie

Tracks:

1. In The Summertime - Buckwheat Zydeco
2. Sugarbee - Cleveland Crocket
3. Zydeco Pas Salee - Mark Bon Ton St. Mary
4. Be My Chauffeur - Clifton Chenier
5. Mathilda - Cookie & The Cupcakes
6. Ma Brunette - Beau Jocque
7. Jolie Blond - Immy C. Newman
8. Le Noveau Two-Step - Aldius Roger
9. A Ma Maison - Terrance Simien
10. Uncle Bud - Boozoo Chavis
11. Lafayette Two-Step - Aldus Roger
12. Creole Stomp - Jimmy Breaux
13. Hey Jolie! - Vin Bruce
14. Run Here To Me Baby - Rockin' Dopsie

Customer Reviews:

GREAT SAMPLING OF GREAT MUSIC!!!.......2003-02-26

This collection offers a wide range of slow and fast beats with lots of accordion and washboard rhythms! About half the music is sung in Cajun (which grew on me) and the other half is English. The diversity of African American and Caucasian influences in the music is impressive. You'll like this collection if you like a good blend of great music that's a little out of the ordinary.

Average customer rating: Cher: Absolutely The Best Volume One (2002)

Absolutely the Best, Vol. 1 Cher Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00007G77O Release Date: 2002-12-10

Tracks:

1. Dream Baby
2. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
3. You Better Sit Down Kids
4. Sunny
5. Magic in the Air (I Feel Like Something in the Air)
6. Alfie
7. All I Really Want to Do
8. The Bells of Rhymney
9. Hey Joe
10. Where Do You Go
11. I Go to Sleep
12. Behind the Door
13. I Want You
14. A Young Girl
15. Reason to Believe
16. She's No Better Than Me
17. I Wasn't Ready
18. Until It's Time for You to Go

Customer Reviews:

Cher: Absolutely The Best Volume One (2002).......2005-05-13

In 2002, a year after releasing the LIVING PROOF ALBUM, Cher went on tour to promote the album. The tour was entitled, LIVING PROOF: THE FAREWELL TOUR. This tour was said to be Cher's final tour. While she was on tour in 2002, Cher released another greatest hits compilation. This one is entitled, ABSOLUTELY THE BEST VOLUME ONE. This is just simply another album that contains only the 60s hits from Cher, so I was not totally impressed.

DREAM BABY
From the album ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO (1965). Not bad.

BANG BANG (MY BABY SHOT ME DOWN)
From the album THE SONNY SIDE OF CHER (1966). Excellent song with even more powerful re-recording by the Dark Lady herself.

YOU BETTER SIT DOWN KIDS
From the album WITH LOVE, CHER (1968). Not bad.

SUNNY
From the album CHER (1966). Not bad.

MAGIC IN THE AIR (I FEEL LIKE SOMETHING IN THE AIR)
From the album CHER (1966). Not bad.

ALFIE
From the album CHER (1966).

ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO
From the album ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO (1965). Fourty years ago. That's all I'm saying. Fourty years ago, and this song still rocks.

THE BELLS OF RHYMNEY
From the album ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO (1965). Not bad.

HEY JOE
From the album WITH LOVE, CHER (1968). Not bad.

WHERE DO YOU GO
From the album THE SONNY SIDE OF CHER (1966). Great.

I GO TO SLEEP
From the album ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO (1966). Not bad.

BEHIND THE DOOR
From the album WITH LOVE, CHER (1968). Not bad.

I WANT YOU
From the album CHER (1966). Not bad.

A YOUNG GIRL
From the album THE SONNY SIDE OF CHER (1966). Not bad.

REASON TO BELIEVE
From the album BACKSTAGE (1967). Not bad.

SHE'S NO BETTER THAN ME
Previously unreleased. Not bad.

I WASN'T READY
From the album BACKSTAGE (1967). Not bad.

UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO
Previously unreleased. Not bad.

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Absolutely the Best of Reggae, Vol. 1 Various Artists Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dance Hall | Reggae | International | Styles | Music Dub | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music Rocksteady | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | Compilations | International | Styles | Music Ska General | Ska | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004YX3A Release Date: 2000-10-10

Tracks:

1. Gal Wine - Chaka Demus And Pliers
2. Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers
3. Kingston Town - Lord Creator
4. Train To Skaville - The Ethiopians
5. Cherry Oh Baby - Eric Donaldson
6. Zion Gate Dub - King Tubby
7. Israelites - Desmond Dekker
8. Lee Perry Special Dub - Lee Perry
9. Gal Your Body Good - Buju Banton
10. Cool Cool Rider - Beenie Man
11. Red Red Wine - Tony Tribe
12. All I Have Is Love - Gregory Isaacs
13. Ain't No Sunshine - Horace Andy
14. The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
15. Soul Rebels - Bob Marley

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Absolutely the Best, Vol. 1 Willie Nelson Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Nashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B00006LWRP Release Date: 2002-11-05

Tracks:

1. Crazy
2. Touch Me
3. Funny How Time Slips Away
4. Hello Walls
5. Part Where I Cry
6. Right or Wrong
7. Half a Man
8. Mr. Record Man
9. Night Life
10. Three Days
11. Wake Me When It's Over
12. Take My Word
13. Undo the Right
14. You Took My Happy Away

Average customer rating: Welcome to the Blues

Absolutely the Best of the Blues, Vol. 1 Various Artists Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chicago Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Delta Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Texas Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Compilations | Blues | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000JNOP Release Date: 1999-07-27

Tracks:

1. Shame, Shame, Shame - Jimmy Reed
2. Boogie Chillun - John Lee Hooker
3. Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
4. Don't Think 'Cause You're Pretty - Lightnin' Hopkins
5. One Way Out - Elmore James
6. Good Rockin' Tonight - Roy Brown
7. Candy Man - Mississippi John Hurt
8. Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams
9. Got To Move - Mississippi Fred McDowell
10. Rooster Blues - Lightnin' Slim
11. Walk On - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
12. Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
13. My Baby - Lowell Fulson
14. Recession Blues - B.B. King
15. Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters

Customer Reviews:

Welcome to the Blues.......2007-05-21

The liner notes say the following of this CD: "`Absolutely the Best of the Blues' is not just a nifty desert island disc or, in this case, an underground bunker classic but a true primer on the roots of that venerable form of music which arose out of the primal chants and tribal beats of the Delta, perhaps the most important contribution from this Continent over the past 100 years." The liner notes conclude by noting, accurately I think, that this is something like "a time capsule."

There is a long list of some of the "greatest hits" of the blues sung by some of the major figures, from acoustic to electric blues, from the Delta to Chicago.

The CD begins with Jimmy Reed and "Shame, Shame, Shame." Then, to John Lee Hooker's classic "Boogie Chillen" and on to a live version of T-Bone Walker's iconic "Stormy Monday" (I can't get over the great lines:
"They call it stormy Monday
Tuesday's just as bad.
Wednesday's worse,
And Thursday's oh so sad.")

Mississippi John Hurt is represented by "Candy Man." Fred McDowell wails away with "Got to Move." B. B. King does a turn with "Recession Blues," and the CD closes with Muddy Waters' great "Hoochie Coochie Man." Others are represented as well (e.g., Big Joe Williams).

One can always complain that a CD entitled "Absolutely the Best of the Blues" is excluding someone who ought to be included (What about Howlin' Wolf or Sonny Boy Williamson?). Still and all, this does a nice job of representing some of the major figures and their hits. This might be especially attractive for someone not familiar with the blues who wants an entranceway to the genre.

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Absolutely the Best, Vol. 1 Roy Clark Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Nashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: Bluegrass: It's About Time, It's About Me ASIN: B00008AY4L Release Date: 2003-02-25

Tracks:

1. Talk About a Party
2. As Long as I'm Movin'
3. Chicken Wire
4. Tip of My Fingers
5. Spooky Movies
6. Sally Was a Good Old Girl
7. Goodtime Charlie
8. Through the Eyes of Fool
9. Alabama Jubilee
10. When the Wind Blows (In Chicago)
11. Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
12. Just Like That There
13. Turn Around and Look Again
14. South

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Absolutely the Best of Gospel, Vol. 1 Various Artists Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Compilations | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00003002G Release Date: 1999-11-23

Tracks:

1. Will The Circle Be Unbroken - The Staple Singers
2. This Little Light Of Mine - Aretha Franklin
3. Rock Of Ages - The Harmonizing Four
4. Precious Lord - Little Richard
5. Just A Closer Walk With Thee - The 5 Blind Boys Of Alabama
6. Working On A Building - Swan Silvertones
7. It's Gonna Rain - The Carolina Spirituals
8. Amazing Grace - Highway Q C's
9. Where He Leads Me - The Blind Boys of Mississippi
10. Early In The Morning - Cross Jordan Singers
11. Lord Don't Leave Us Now - The Caravans
12. Uncloudy Day - The Staple Singers

Average customer rating:

Absolutely The Best, Vol. 1 Mickey Gilley Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008J2GD Release Date: 2003-03-04

Tracks:

1. Lonely Wine
2. Down The Line
3. Forgive
4. My Babe
5. I'm To Blame
6. Turn Around
7. Night After Night (Love After Love)
8. Susie-Q
9. I'll Make It All Up To You
10. Is It Wrong
11. Breathless
12. Lotta Lovin'
13. A World Of My Own
14. Love In The Want Ads
15. Now I Can Live Again
16. You Can Count Me Missing
17. She's Still Got A Hold On You
18. Mohair Sam

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Vol. 1-Roadshow Records Independent Artists Manufacturer: Roadshow ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA6JBW Release Date: 2004-08-31

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6. Best of Remixed [Import]
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