Original Album Classics

Original Album Classics CD Box Sets
Budget Price CD Box Sets by Original Artists
Sony Original Album Classics series and the Warner / Rhino Classic Album Series budget CD box sets. Bargain priced CD box sets. Featuring major artists and some classic recordings. Original Album Classics web site Sony and Warner have huge back catalogs of music covering the major labels from the 20th century including Columbia, Epic, WEA, BMG, Masterworks, Warner, RCA, Dreyfus and more. They now have a large series of CD box sets originating in Europe and cover all genres, blues music, roc...

Lonnie Liston Smith Original Album Classics CD Box Set
Intro to the Lonnie Liston Smith Original Album Classics 5 CD Box Set
Review of the Sony Original Album Classics box set by jazz fusion pioneer Lonnie Liston Smith containing the albums Astral Traveling (1973), Expansions (1974), Cosmic Funk (1974), Visions Of A New World (1975) and Reflections Of A Golden Dream (1976) Released as part of the Sony Original Album Classics series bargain priced CD box sets. Lonnie Liston Smith on Original Album Classics web site

Laura Branigan, Gloria, Umberto Tozzi and Disco
From Italy to Disco - Umberto Tozzi to Laura Branigan
The story of how an Italian ballad singer created a 1980s disco smash hit. In 1979 Umberto Tozzi was well established in Italy but virtually unknown elswhere. He co-wrote a song titled Gloria which was soon to become a disco anthem in it's English version by Laura Branigan.

Professor Brian Cox, D:Ream, Dare and Hair Metal
the Professor and the 1980s Hair Metal Band
Yes both pictures on the left are the same person about 20 years apart. Professor Brian Cox, has had a few interesting careers so far. His first was in the 1980s touring and recording as a keyboard player with a band called Dare. The pictures show him as recently seen on TV and 20 years earlier as a member of Dare. So let's go on a sort of backwards journey through the working life of Professor Brian Cox. We will finish with his career in 1980s rock band Dare, his first job. His time with Dar...