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October 12, 2022 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Anita Kerr Bert Kaempfert Turns Us On

Tennessee native Anita Kerr (born Anita Jean Grilli) was only in her early twenties when her eight-voice choir achieved a spot on WSM Radio, venerable home of the Grand Ole Opry.  Her weekly broadcasts led to a call to join "Mr. Country Music," Red Foley, in the recording studio for "Our Lady of Fatima."  Foley's tune became a No. 16 Pop hit in 1950, and from there, Anita Kerr's career took off to the stratosphere.  The Second Disc has just learned of the

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Categories: News Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Anita Kerr, The Anita Kerr Singers

December 11, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week offers a fistful of digital deluxe editions, expansions on holiday favorites, and at least one Bond theme in the mix. Tina Turner, GoldenEye (Parlophone) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify) If you're still riding high off the excellent latest James Bond film No Time to Die, released a few months ago, you

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Anita Kerr, Burt Bacharach, Don Williams, Dru Hill, Harold Faltermeyer, Herbie Nichols, Hoobastank, Jackie Gleason, James Brown, Jerry Goldsmith, Jimmy Durante, Loretta Lynn, Neon Trees, Pebbles, Pete Yorn, Post Malone, Rick Derringer, Sarah Brightman, The Tea Party, Tiffany, Tina Turner, Waylon Jennings

December 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Anita Kerr Warner Brothers Albums

Earlier this year, Cherry Red's él imprint collected Anita Kerr and Rod McKuen's classic "mood music" trilogy The Sea/The Earth/The Sky in one compact box set.  Now, él has turned its attention to another set of engaging albums from the vast Anita Kerr discography.  The Five Classic Warner Brothers Albums 1966-1968 brings together The Anita Kerr Orchestra's 1966 And Now...The Anita Kerr Orchestra!  and The Anita Kerr Singers' four subsequent Warner LPs in one package. Memphis native Anita

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Anita Kerr, Bert Kaempfert

June 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

The Sea The Earth The Sky

When singer-songwriter-poet Rod McKuen teamed with composer-arranger-conductor Anita Kerr for the 1967 album The Sea, neither had any inkling that the record's success would lead to an entire series of albums under the San Sebastian Strings moniker through 1975.  The oft-imitated, never-duplicated, platinum-selling The Sea epitomized the now-moribund genre of "mood music," offering spoken word and music in a relaxing, spellbinding mélange.  Cherry Red's él imprint has recently reissued the box

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop Tags: Anita Kerr, Rod McKuen, The San Sebastian Strings

June 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Anita Kerr We Dig Anita

Cherry Red's él imprint has previously celebrated the legendary career of Anita Kerr with various album reissues, and now the label is putting the spotlight on her prolific work in the studio supporting a host of music's most famous artists.  We Dig Anita: The Oohs and Aahs of the Nashville Sound brings together 33 tracks from this multi-talented pioneer of the lush country-pop Nashville Sound - an accomplished singer, musician, arranger, producer and composer.  All of the tracks on We Dig

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Jazz, Pop Tags: Ahmad Jamal, Anita Kerr

December 8, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

atkins and kerr christmas

Cherry Red Records' él imprint is celebrating this Christmas in Nashville with the recent release of The Anita Kerr Singers and Chet Atkins at Christmas. This new two-for-one CD includes both Christmas with Chet Atkins (1961) and The Kerr Singers' On This Holy Night (1959) plus a smattering of related bonus tracks. It's nearly impossible to sum up the career of Chet Atkins in a mere few words. The fourteen-time Grammy winner (1924-2001) was a mainstay of the RCA Victor label between 1947 and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Anita Kerr, Chet Atkins, The Anita Kerr Singers

July 18, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

anita kerr genius in harmony

The release of director Morgan Neville's documentary 20 Feet from Stardom has rightfully placed the spotlight on those dynamite vocalists who toil in the shadows on record and onstage, often without credit.  Background singers are part and parcel of the story of popular music, and Neville's film has given richly-deserved attention to Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Claudia Lennear, Judith Hill, and other greats of the field.  The story of background groups like The Breakaways, The Jordanaires, The

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Anita Kerr, The Anita Kerr Singers

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