Weichlein - MessenRomanus Weichlein was born in Linz to parents who were musicians and who gave him a good musical education. He received his first formal training at the abbey of Lambach and entered the Benedictine Order in 1671. He then went to Salzburg where he got acquainted with Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. He returned to Lambach, and later became chaplain and musical director of the Benedictine convent of Nonnberg in Salzburg. His oeuvre consists of twelve

meditation

His landmark debut album for Capitol The Birth Of The Cool

and featuring various vocalists

Martha Tilton was one of the coterie of big band vocalists who made their mark in the late 1930s and early 1940s with the big swing bands of the era

anywhere and includes only those tracks that have been positively identified as being by Joe Barry

His hits It's Only Make Believe (with Conway Twitty) and Never Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll (with Jerry Lee Lewis) join renditions of the King Is Gone

and who would say their records don't belong in the R&B chart

By the end of the '50s he had become totally identified with country

24 tracks drawn largely from sessions cut in Northern California in 1954 plus material from members of McCracklin's Blues Blasters

best-known for his easy-going pop recordings although he equally at home with big band and jazz material

break through and expand patterns of perception

Specializing in the French and Italian repertoires of the 17th century