All-Time Hits & Picks

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With Unforgettable With Love, Natalie Cole presents 22 of the great Nat King Cole songs with a classic duet on “Unforgettable.” Natalie has what you would call a crystal clear voice. She’s wonderful on the ballads and elegant on the swing tunes. The lush harmony and backing of her voice against Nat’s on “Unforgettable” is reason enough to get this CD.

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Julio Iglesias... he of the endearing Latin accent, makes alal his songs sound sexy. So it’s no surprise that the selections here smolder with the approximate heat of high noon in his native Madrid. What may be surprising to longtime listeners, though, is the range of songs he chose to cover: “It’s Impossible,” “This Guy’s in Love With You,” “I Want to Know What Love Is” and “Careless Whisper” are all perfect for that romantic interlude. First English CD in over 10 years.

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Featuring 50 tracks, mostly standards, showcasing the sexy, sultry, supercool voice of this ’50s/’60s star: ’Fly Me to the Moon’, ’Cry Me a River’, ’Sway’, ’One for My Baby’, ’Wives and Lovers’ and many more tracks spanning her entire career. (2 CDs)

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Johnny Mathis's 2006 return to the spotlight was richly deserved, not because his career needed resurrecting--he's continued touring and recording for breathless fans well into his seventh decade--but because post-boomer generations shouldn't be allowed to roam the world asking "Johnny Who?" when his name gets mentioned. Mathis is that important an artist, and this compendium of his work, best thought of as a winking glance, does an able job of demonstrating why: "Chances Are," a slice of pop brilliance set to a piano with a broken heart, has always sounded as though it's been pulled off a silver platter. The Mathis voice--rich and deep at some turns, high and fragile at others, poured gold either way--seals it in timelessness; it's a pop scholar's very definition of a classic. —Tammy La Gorce

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This is vintage Sinatra in a 5-CD/DVD set of all his great hits in live concerts in Las Vegas plus a sensational DVD of his 1978 concert at Caesar's Palace.

Bonus: Click here to read the famous Gay Talese article “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.”

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This definitive collection of the great singer’s hits plus several previously unreleased singles was assembled as of December 12, 1990, on the occasion of his 75^th birthday. The songs spanned 30 years, and number 81 musical delights set on 4 CDs. The collection includes a 36-page booklet that discusses Sinatra’s career and includes some great pictures.

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