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The Four Freshmen

Blue World (1950-55) acmem82cd
	Now You Know Pick Up Your Tears And Go Home It¹S A Blue World Stormy Weather The Day Isn¹T Long Enough Baltimore Oriole Poinciana It Happened Once Before I¹Ll Be Seeing You Over The Rainbow After You Mood Indigo How Can I Tell Her It Never Occured To Me Day By Day In The Whole Wide World Mam Selle Speak Low Somebody Loves Me We¹Ll Be Together Again
A pre-echo of the sixties, The Four Freshmen pioneered a revolutionary new style of close-harmony vocals that set the stage for bands like the Beach Boys, The Mamas & Papas, Spanky & Our Gang, the Hi-Los, The Lettermen, the Manhattan Transfer and countless others. Taking their inspiration from barbershop quartets, Glenn Miller¹s Modernaires and Mel Torme¹s Mel-Tones. The greatest vocal group of all time the four freshmen prepared the ground for such artists as the beach boys and mamas and papas and association to create a sound that is synonymous with classsic sixties pop. Brian Wilson has always insisted that hearing the four freshmen changed his life. indeed The beach boys style can be heard eveywhere on this collection of hit singles, significant album tracks and high quality rarities from the early fifties. Most of these great recordings are still out of print and will export well to America and Japan where there are many four freshmen societies and fan clubs. By today, no fewer than 22 lineups of the Four Freshmen have continued the legendary vocal tradition of the original band. In 2000 the group won Downbeat Magazine's reader's poll award for Vocal Group of the Year, proving the quartet's timeless appeal and securing their role as one of the most innovative, imitated and influential vocal groups in history.

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Graduation day acmem122cd
	Laura Intermission Riff I Knew You When If I Knew Then Jo Ann I Remember You Easy Street Every Time We Say Goodbye Laughing On The Outside After You've Gone Goodbye There Will Never Be Another You Got A Date With An Angel Something In The Wind Someone Like You The Night We Called It A Day Give Me The Simple Life Goodnight Sweetheart For All We Know Graduation Day Lonely Night In Paris (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
The greatest vocal group of all time, one whose influence on both contemporary jazz and rock is impossible to overestimate. The recordings on this very collection established their unique style of harmonising. It is well known that their beautiful unique quality directly influenced Brian Wilson; so much so that one can hear the Beach Boys (and indeed the burgeoning sixties) in any one of these recordings.

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