May 30, 2014

Legendary Voices Collects The Great Vocalists Behind The Great Songs

Behind every great song, there’s a great singer.  This May, StarVista Entertainment/Time Life debuts a singular CD set for anyone who loves the all-time classics of the 50s, 60s and 70s performed by the greatest talents of their time: THE LEGENDARY VOICES COLLECTION.  Never before has one CD collection gathered together the greatest singers of our lifetime singing their biggest hits, but in this timeless set, fans of the era will hear everything from Elvis crooning “Love Me Tender” and Bobby Darin singing “Mack the Knife” to Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind” among many, many others.  THE LEGENDARY VOICES COLLECTION, features 9 CDs, a bonus CD of instrumental favorites, and liner notes, and will be available exclusively via direct response beginning May 29.

The LEGENDARY VOICES COLLECTION will be introduced via a long-form commercial featuring The Lettermen (Tony Butala, Donovan Tea and Bobby Poynton), one of the era’s greatest male vocal groups best known for songs such as “The Way You Look Tonight” and “When I Fall in Love” .  With 16 Top 10 singles including one #1, 32 consecutive Billboard Magazine chart albums, 11 gold records and five Grammy® nominations since 1959, there are few groups better qualified to host the LEGENDARY VOICES COLLECTION commercial, during which they perform songs such as “Moon River” and “Can’t Take My Eyes off of You” live.

“I can still remember when a song was a song – with a great melody, a memorable lyric and a vocalist who could sing,” says original Lettermen member Tony Butala. “The Legendary Voices Collection brings me back to a time when the charts were ruled by many of the greatest singers and vocal groups of our time — Sinatra, Bennett, Vinton, Presley, Darin, The Drifters, The Platters.  And there’s truly something magical about a collection that gathers together all the classics from an era when vocals really meant something to a song”.

Featuring 150 unforgettable songs spread over 10 CDs, THE LEGENDARY VOICES COLLECTION includes artists such as Johnny Mathis, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin,Patsy Cline, Perry Como, Andy Williams, as well as selected vocal groups such as The Mills Brothers, The McGuire Sisters, The Righteous Brothers, The Everly Brothers and The Lettermen.

THE LEGENDARY VOICES COLLECTION features vocalists and songs including:

  • Andy Williams/ “Moon River”
  • Ben E. King/ “Stand by Me”
  • Bobby Darin/ “Beyond the Sea”
  • Bobby Vinton/ “Blue Velvet”
  • Dean Martin/ “Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu)”
  • Dinah Shore with Henri René and His Orchestra/ “Love and Marriage”
  • Dionne Warwick/ ” I’ll Never Fall in Love Again”
  • Elvis Presley/ “Love Me Tender”
  • Engelbert Humperdinck/ “After the Lovin'”
  • Etta James/ “At Last”
  • Frank Sinatra/ “Night and Day”
  • Frankie Valli/ “Can’t Take My Eyes off You”
  • Judy Garland/ “Over the Rainbow”
  • Lena Horne with Orchestra conducted by Lennie Hayton/ “Stormy Weather”
  • Patsy Cline/ “Crazy”
  • Peggy Lee/ “Fever”
  • Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers/ “Papa Loves Mambo”
  • Ray Charles/ “Georgia on My Mind”
  • Roger Williams/ “Born Free”
  • The Everly Brothers/ “Bye Bye Love”
  • The Five Satins/ “In the Still of the Nite”
  • The Four Aces Featuring Al Alberts/ “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing”
  • The Four Coins/ “Shangri-La”
  • The Lettermen/ “The Way You Look Tonight”
  • The Platters/ “Only You (And You Alone)”
  • The Righteous Brothers/ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'”
  • This Ole House/ “Rosemary Clooney”
  • Tom Jones/ “It’s Not Unusual”
  • Tony Bennett with Percy Faith & His Orchestra/”Rags to Riches”
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