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RUPERT HOLMES
Holmes: The Mystery of Edwin Drood [Original Broadway Cast Betty Buckley, Cleo Laine, George Rose / Broadway Cast [ Varese Sarabande Spotlight Series / CD - released 17/May/1986 ] The Mystery of Edwin Drood (or simply Drood) is a musical based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel. Written by Rupert Holmes, the show was the first Broadway musical with multiple endings (determined by audience vote). |
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Betty Roche / Marilyn Moore
Four Classic Albums (Take The A Train / Singin' & Swingin' / Lightly And Politely / Moody) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/May/2017 ] Mary Elizabeth Roche was somewhat of an unsung heroine in the jazz and blues singing world of the 1940's. Hers is partly a story of being in the right place at the wrong time! Changing her name to Betty Roche her career began in 1939, recording with... |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: On The Town Nancy Walker, Adolph Green, Betty Comden / 1960 Cast (featuring four members of the original 1944 cast) [ Sony / Columbia / CD - released 17/May/1998 ] On the Town is a musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on Jerome Robbins' idea for his 1944 ballet Fancy Free, which he had set to Bernstein's music. |
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Betty Wright
Betty Wright Live (Yellow Vinyl LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 7/Aug/2020 ] Betty Wright (original name Bessie Regina Norris) rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman", "Lovin' Is Really My Game", and "Tonight Is the Night". She was an outstanding performer and this Live album provides much evidence of... |
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Betty Carter
The Modern Sound Of Betty Carter (Verve By Request Series LP) [ Verve Us / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] This 1960 album's inventive Richard Weiss arrangements combine with Carter's uniquely masterful - and modern - vocals for fresh takes on standards. Highlights include a lively run through "What A Little Moonlight Can Do", inspired scatting on "On The... |
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Betty Who
Betty (LP) [ Inertia / LP - released 3/May/2019 ] Casting a striking presence as a performer, emanating confidence as a writer, and inspiring as an independent force, Australia-born and Los Angeles-based pop star Betty Who has quietly elevated herself to a worldwide phenomenon on her own... |
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Betty Davis
Crashin' From Passion [ Light In The Attic / CD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre-punk, funk-blues fusion that had yet to be normalized in mainstream music - a style that few musicians have... |
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Betty Davis
Crashin' From Passion (Gatefold LP) [ Light In The Attic / LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre-punk, funk-blues fusion that had yet to be normalized in mainstream music - a style that few musicians have... |
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FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Violin Concerto / Piano Concerto / Eventyr / A Song Before Sunrise Betty Beecham (Piano) / Jean Pougnet (Violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Sir Thomas Beecham's almost single-handed promotion of the music of Delius to international acceptance through his own personal standing and his conducting genius, besides being among the singular feats of the twentieth century, remains unrivalled in... |
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Betty Boo
Grrr! It's Betty Boo [ Cherry Pop / 2 CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] |
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Betty Carter
The Audience With Betty Carter [ Polygram Records / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] After years of being told what she ought to do by record companies and producers, and then putting up with being ignored thanks to the public's fanatic interest in rock & roll, virtuoso jazz singer Carter started her own label. |
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Betty Carter
Four Classic Albums (Meet Betty Carter And Ray Bryant / Out There / The Modern Sound Of Betty Carter / Ray Charles And Betty Carter) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2014 ] AVID Jazz presents four classic Betty Carter albums , including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. "Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant"; "Out There"; "The Modern Sound Of Betty Carter" and "Ray Charles and Betty... |
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Betty Carter
The Modern Sound of Betty Carter + Out There [ American Jazz Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2012 ] |
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Betty Davis
Betty Davis [ CD ] Re-mastered digipack re-issued of Betty Davis' legendary first album, featuring extensive liner notes and three bonus tracks. |
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Betty Davis
Betty Davis [ LP - released 21/Sep/2011 ] |
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Betty Davis
Is it Love or Desire? [ Light in the Attic / CD - released 19/Oct/2009 ] Betty Davis was a musical maverick with vision. Image, substance, sex, and grit combined with a badass band that could deliver the funk bed backbone to the sultry music between the sheets. |
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Betty Grable
More From The Pin-Up Girl [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] Disc 1 comprises songs from Shows such as "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim" and "Mother Wore Tights". On Disc 2, you can hear recordings from "My Blue Heaven" and "Call Me Mister". |
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Betty Grable
The Pin-Up Girl [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/1997 ] Thank God for modern technology. Here you have recordings that otherwise, you would only be able to listen to and view from screenings. What a gem she was, and through these sound recordings that capture her magic, an appreciation of her talent,... |
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Betty Hutton
The Blonde Bombshell In Hollywood [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] "Rumbustious, exuberant, screwball". Just some of the words used to describe the wacky talent of Betty Hutton. Just check out the opener on this two disc set "OL' MAN MOSE" if any proof is needed of her frenetic style! |
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Betty Padgett
Betty Padgett [ Luv n' Haight / LP - released 20/Apr/2009 ] |
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Betty Padgett
Sugar Daddy (Limited 12 / Vinyl) [ Luv n' Haight / 12in - released 2/Mar/2009 ] This 12" single is available only while stocks last! |
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Betty Who
Betty [ Inertia / CD - released 5/Apr/2019 ] Casting a striking presence as a performer, emanating confidence as a writer, and inspiring as an independent force, Australia-born and Los Angeles-based pop star Betty Who has quietly elevated herself to a worldwide phenomenon on her own... |
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Betty Wright
Danger High Voltage [ Wagram / LP - released 29/Oct/2012 ] |
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Betty Wright
I Love The Way You Love (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Bessie Regina Norris, better known by her stage name, Betty Wright is an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter, who rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight is the Night". Like Aretha Franklin, Betty was blessed... |
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Betty Wright and the Roots
Betty Wright: The Movie [ S-Curve Records / CD - released 5/Apr/2012 ] |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Mass No.6 in E Flat, D.950 (with J.S. Bach-Motet-Jesu, meine Freude) Pilar Lorengar, Betty Allen, Fritz Wunderlich, Manfred Schmidt, Josef Greindl / Berliner Philharmoniker / Erich Leinsdorf [ Testament / CD - released 12/Jul/2008 ] Recorded in STEREO in 1962 & 1964 |
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IRVING BERLIN
Annie Get Your Gun (Original Broadway Cast 1946) / (Original Film 1950) Ethel Merman, Ray Middleton, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Wynn Keenan & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 28/Nov/2005 ] Annie Get Your Gun began, like many of the greatest musicals, with a series of unexpected events - some happy, some not. Dorothy Fields was a woman at loose ends early in 1945. Her latest show, Up In Central Park, had opened on 27 January, and... |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
On the Town (Original Cast Recording 1940-1956) Betty Comden, John Frank, Adolph Green, Nancy Walker, Leonard Bernstein & others [ Naxos Musicals / CD - released 5/Apr/2010 ] "We'll catch up some other time," sing the lovers in the touching finale to On the Town, but the irony is that this show, perhaps more than any other in musical comedy history couldn't have happened at any other time than exactly when it did. Not... |
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ROUND THE HORNE
Round The Horne: Collectors Edition - Series 2 Radio Show with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and Pat Lancaster [ BBC Radio Collection / 8 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2009 ] Kenneth Horne is the suave host, whilst around him orbit those no-holds-barred satellites Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee. |
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ROUND THE HORNE
Round the Horne: The Very Best Episodes: Volume 1 Radio Show with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and Pat Lancaster [ BBC Radio Collection / 2 CD - released 7/Nov/2005 ] Four of the best episodes from the classic BBC radio comedy series, which took comedy to a new level of outrageousness in the late 1960s. |
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ROUND THE HORNE
Round The Horne: Collectors Edition - Series 1 (Rec 1965) Radio Show with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and Pat Lancaster [ BBC Radio Collection / 8 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2009 ] This is a comprehensive collection of "Round the Horne", presented here is a special collector's edition box set of 8 CDs. The zany humour of the original 1960s radio shows makes for essential listening. |
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ROUND THE HORNE
Round the Horne: Collectors Edition - Series Three Radio Show with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and Pat Lancaster [ BBC Radio Collection / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2003 ] Written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, and broadcast between 1965 and 1968, Round the Horne starred Kenneth Horne, Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee, with significant contributions from news-reader Douglas Smith. |
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ROUND THE HORNE
Round The Horne: The Very Best Episodes: Volume 3 Radio Show with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and Pat Lancaster [ BBC Radio Collection / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2007 ] Four more bona shows from one of the most popular comedies in the history of radio, chosen by Lyn Took and Lauretta Feldman, the widows of writers Barry Took and Marty Feldman. |
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PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (complete ballet recorded in 1968) Royal Ballet / Lesley Collier, Rudolf Nureyev, Merle Park, Leslie Edwards, Betty Kavanagh, Keith Martin, Ann Jenner, Gerd Larsen, Wayne Sleep / John L [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] "Explore the dreamlike world of Rudolf Nureyev's interpretation of The Nutcracker. In his imaginative retelling of a 19th-century classic, the young Clara is propelled by dark forces from the realm of childhood into a radiant kingdom where she takes... |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Wonderful Town (Original Broadway Cast 1953) / Comden and Green Performances (1955) Justin Arndt, Jordan Bentley, Al Caiola, Betty Comden,Warren Galjour, Adolph Green, and others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 26/Feb/2007 ] Touched by tragedy, conceived in confusion and delivered with dissent, there's no possible reason that Wonderful Town should have lasted past opening night, yet alone become one of the classics of the musical theatre. Yet somehow it did and... |