I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time (Tab Hunter)
77 Sunset Strip (Warren Barker Orchestra)
Kookie, Kookie(Lend Me Your Comb)(Edd Byrnes With Connie Stevens)
Abe Lincoln Vs Madison Avenue (Bob Newhart)
Sixteen Reasons (Connie Stevens)
Cathy's Clown (The Everly Brothers)
Let's Think About Living (Bob Luman)
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah(A Letter From Camp) (Allan Sherman)
Blowin' In The Wind (Peter, Paul And Mary)
If I Had A Hammer (Trini Lopez)
The Lonely Surfer (Jack Nitzche)
Out Of Limits (The Marketts)
Everybody Loves Somebody (Dean Martin)
It Was A Very Good Year (Frank Sinatra)
Girl Don't Come (Sandie Shaw)
The Vatican Rag (Tom Lehrer)
I'm A Fool (Dino, Desi, and Billy)
These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (Nancy Sinatra)
Tiny Bubbles (Don Ho)
They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! (Napoleon XIV)
Just Dropped In(To See What Condition My Condition Is In) (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Never My Love (The Association)
59th Street Bridge Song(Feelin' Groovy) (Harpers Bizarre)
Sit Down, I Think I Love You (The Mojo Men)
Track Listings (22) - Disc #2
Purple Haze (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
The Golden Road(To Unlimited Devotion) (Grateful Dead)
I Had Too Much To Dream(Last Night) (The Electric Prunes)
Crystal LLiason (The Fugs)
Some Velvet Morning (Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra)
The All Golden (Van Dyke Parks)
Classical Gas (Mason Williams)
Morning Girl (The Neon Philharmonic)
Tip Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me (Tiny Tim)
I've Gotta Be Me (Sammy Davis Jr.)
Oh Well (Fleetwood Mac)
Spirit In The Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
But It's Alright (J.J. Jackson)
Vehicle (Ides Of March)
Express Yourself (Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band)
Fire And Rain (James Taylor)
If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)
Surf's Up (The Beach Boys)
Virginia Plain (Roxy Music)
Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull)
Bang A Gong(Get It On) (T. Rex)
Stay With Me (Faces)
Track Listings (21) - Disc #3
Smoke On The Water (Smoke On The Water)
School's Out (Alice Cooper)
Low Yo Yo Stuff (Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band)
Willin' (Little Feat)
Love Me Like A Man (Bonnie Raitt)
Heart Of Gold (Neil Young)
Sail Away (Randy Newman)
Summer Breeze (Seals And Crofts)
Blue Sky (The Allman Brothers)
City Of New Orleans (Arlo Guthrie)
A Horse With No Name (America)
Hello It's Me (Todd Rundgren)
Suavecito (Malo)
China Grove (The Doobie Brothers)
So Very Hard To Go (Tower Of Power)
Midnight At The Oasis (Maria Muldaur)
Andalucia (John Cale)
In My Hour Of Darkness (Gram Parsons)
Tattler (Ry Cooder)
Hey Pocky A-Way (The Meters)
Butterfat (David Sanborn)
Track Listings (21) - Disc #4
Just Us (Richard Pryor)
Let's Do It Again (The Staple Singers)
Your Love (Graham Central)
Fooled Around And Fell In Love (Elvin Bishop)
Dream Weaver (Gary Wright)
Ain't Misbehavin'(I'm Savin' My Love For You) (Leon Redbone)
Boulder To Birmingham (Emmylou Harris)
Tonight's The Night(Gonna Be Alright) (Rod Stewart)
This Masquerade (George Benson)
Popsicle Toes (Michael Franks)
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (Leo Sayer)
Let Your Love Flow (Bellamy Brothers)
Slow Ride (Foghat)
Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
Excuse Me (Steve Martin)
You Light Up My Life (Debby Boone)
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (Ramones)
Bootzilla (Bootsy's Rubber Band)
What A Fool Believes (The Doobie Brothers)
Lotta Love (Nicolette Larson)
Chuck E's In Love (Rickie Lee Jones)
Track Listings (7) - Disc #5
Cheap Sunglasses (ZZ Top)
Rock Lobster (The B-52's)
Once In A Lifetime (Talking Heads)
Natural's Not In It (Gang Of Four)
Freedom Of Choice (Devo)
The Glow Of Love (Change)
One In
Warner Bros. Records marks its 50th anniversary with Revolutions In Sound, highlighting the iconic label's incredible musical history. This deluxe CD box set contains ten CDs packaged with an accompanying 64 page booklet.
Warner Bros. Records marks its 50th anniversary with Revolutions In Sound, highlighting the iconic label's incredible musical history. This deluxe CD box set contains ten CDs packaged with an accompanying 64 page booklet.
CD Reviews
Excellent, not perfect box
Philip A.Cohen | Bay Harbor Islands, Florida United States | 12/28/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This 10-CD, 199-song box covers 50 years(1958-2008) of Warner Bros Records(including the Reprise & Sire labels) as well as some labels which were once manufactured and distributed by Warners(Capricorn,Geffen,Chrysalis), and luckily the present-day owners or distributors of those labels were willing to license recordings for this box.
Almost anybody who was anybody who recorded for these labels is included, however, the absence of Prince,Van Morrison, The Kinks, Black Sabbath, Kraftwerk & Enya fairly glares at you. Presumbably those artists refused permission.
The box does rush quickly through the label's first 8 years(on one CD!), but you get a remarkable selection of hits,misses & album tracks covering novelty songs, comedy, MOR, top 40, rock,soul,dance & alternative music and an attractive 64-page booklet.
Some have complained about the packaging. The discs fit(very snugly) onto hubs made of a gel material, and it is difficult to get the discs onto or off of these hubs. Disc 5 & disc 10 fit into the package in a way that they sit overlapping onto the other discs, so you will likely not get discs 5 & 10 in pristine condition. However, they played fine.
Still, I recommend the set."
Eclectic time capsule and then some
Luigi Facotti | Chicago Il | 12/27/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Warner Brothers was a pioneering MoR record label in the 60s and 70s with these strengths represented in the present collection in Sinatra (Frank and Nancy) and the Rat Pack (Dino and Sammy), comedy (Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor) and pop (Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple,Neil Young, Leo Sayer, Paul Simon etc.,) but with the occasional forays into soul (Loma, WB, Ze, Capricorn, - Percy Sledge, Dobie Gray, Candi Staton,Lorraine Ellison!!) and jazz (Randy Crawford, Joe Sample, Bob James etc.,) woefully underrepresented. The full history of WB and its ground breaking PR activities are wonderfully documented in Stan Cornyn's book "Exploding".
WB could and would never, ever be accused of confusing product with altruism - unlike the Ertegun's at sister label, Atlantic or Jim Stewart at Stax. Nonetheless, this is a magnificently produced time capsule - the sonics are wonderful - if you've only heard Tiny Tim and Napoleon XIV (They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! Ho Ho, hee Hee etc.,) on mono 45s, you are in for a treat - or audio abuse - take your pick - betcha did'nt know "Tip-Toe Thru The Tulips" actually had any bass?
This is an indispensable collection for anyone interested in the history of pop music and maybe - now that WB has recognized value in its 50th Anniversary - we'll see more expertly remastered golden oldies - remember Leroy Van Dyke's "It's All over Now Baby Blue"?
"
Some missing artists and one glaring error
Steven A. Ferentzy | Fairfield, CT | 05/26/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)
"No Prince? No surprise. That feud will never be resolved. No Van Morrison? Also not surprising. Still, a good many of the label's megahits are here, and the story unfolds rather nicely across ten CDs. There are no rarities included in this set, which is OK - doing so would sort of diminish the picture it paints, which is that WB grew from an offshoot of the movie studio at the beginning of the 1960s to a rock/pop powerhouse by decade's end. Still, given the fact that the label is under the same corporate umbrella as Rhino, the reissue kings, couldn't they have asked someone there to review the production copies to verify that the correct masters were being used for every track? Case in point: the version of the Bellamy Brothers' "Let Your Love Flow" is not the 1976 original as it should be, it is a remake from 2005 featuring '90s country stars Hal Ketchum and Lisa Brokop. An inexcusable, bush-league error that sullies this set by corrupting the timeline of its history. This never would have happened if Mo Ostin were still in charge."
A great historical Overview Of Warner Brothers Records
William a Bourne | Fort Wayne, IN United States | 03/28/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is a 10 CD box set and it includes a great mix of the varied artists that recorded for the Warner Brothers label. A great mixture of different talent. If you are a collector of past music, this would be a great addition of a great label from the late 50's til the 21st Century. The price is a bit salty. I would expect some of the songs on this collection are making their first presence on a CD. A great booklet is included that gives one a historical prespective of this label. Even though it doesn't have the long history like RCA, Decca and Columbia it still was a great music influence in the last 40 years of the 20th Century giving a lot of artists the opportunity to present their art to the public."
Lavishly produced, but...
Tom | Toronto | 03/18/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Warner Bros. has had an illustrious yet eclectic 50 years in music featuring artists ranging from Madonna to Steve Martin to Randy Newman to Kid Creole and the Coconuts. This 199-song collection, which is beautifully packaged, does a decent job of covering WB's unique role in music history. But the omissions are glaring.
Where is Prince?? Peter Gabriel? Both are featured prominently in the accompanying booklet, but there is no "Kiss", no "Raspberry Beret", no "Sledgehammer", no "Big Time". Other glaring omissions include Ashord & Simpson (who gave WB some of the best R&B songs of the '70s, recently compiled in an excellent anthology), no Petula Clark, whose '60s hits were distributed in North America via WB, no Laurie Anderson, no solo Chaka Khan, no Joni Mitchell!
Usually I'm not such a nit-picker, but these omissions were big. I am not sure why they were not included. I would imagine WB owns the rights to these songs. It would certainly be embarrassing if the compilers overlooked these artists and their songs...
I still recommend this compilation because what you get is high quality, but the omissions are just too obvious."