ESSENTIALS [Small & Silver Screen Edition]

Track Artist Title
1. Anderson, Marian Ave Maria
2. Coltrane, Alice Lord Help Me To Be
3. Naim, Yael New Soul
4. Adele First Love
5. Jones, Norah Turn Me On
6. Parton, Dolly Coat Of Many Colors
7. James, Etta At Last
8. Channing, Stockard There Are Worse Things I Could Do
9. Hill, Lauren Doo Wop (That Thang)
10. Flack, Roberta First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
11. Raitt, Bonnie I Can't Make You Love Me
12. Sade Is It A Crime
13. Reese, Della Don't You Know
14. Bush, Kate Sexual Healing
15. Larson, Nicolette Lotta Love
16. Minelli, Liza Say Liza (Liza With A "Z")
17. Moreno, Rita America
18. Cassidy, Eva True Colors

Where The Shadows Run From Themselves

Disc 1
Track Artist Title
1. Cream White Room
2. Robert Pollard Red Cross Vegas Night
3. David Gray Kangaroo
4. Damien Rice Volcano (Demo)
5. Carole King Will You Love Me Tomorrow
6. Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns
7. Mary Chapin Carpenter Closer and Closer Apart
8. Stan Getz Samba De Uma Nota So
9. Armik Puerto De Malaga
10. Santana Europa
11. Suzanne Vega St. Clare

Disc 2
Track Artist Title
1. Jimi Hendrix Come On
2. Led Zeppelin Moby Dick
3. Beastie Boys Gratitude
4. Anthrax featuring Public Enemy Bring The Noise (Live)
5. Ice Cube No Vaseline
6. A Tribe Called Quest Excursions
7. Cypress Hill Hits From The Bong
8. Yes Sound Chaser
9. Chuck E. Weiss Sweetie-O
10. John Coltrane Blue Train
11. Robyn Hitchcock Cathedral

Disc 3
Track Artist Title
1. Connie Francis Everybody's Somebody's Fool
2. Peter & Gordon A World Without Love
3. Cat Stevens Peace Train
4. Jack Johnson Upside Down
5. Ahmad Jamal But Not For Me (Live)
6. Gladys Knight I Hope You Dance
7. Neil Young Heart Of Gold
8. Bob Dylan As I Went Out One Morning
9. The Church Almost With You (Acoustic Version)
10. Golden Shoulders Everybody's Trying To Be A Villian
11. Syd Barrett She Took A Long Cold Look At Me
12. Simon & Garfunkel April Come She Will
13. James Taylor Sweet Potato Pie

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Producer Series Present: RICK RUBIN

Track Artist Title
1. Run-DMC feat. Steven Tyler & Joe Perry Walk This Way
2. Public Enemy Bring The Noise
3. The Cult Love Removal Machine
4. Linkin Park What I've Done
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers Under The Bridge
6. Avett Brothers I And Love And You
7. Weezer Beverly Hills
8. Beastie Boys (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)
9. Johnny Cash Hurt
10. LL Cool J I Need A Beat
11. Chef (Isaac Hayes) Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)
12. Neil Diamond Home Before Dark
13. Jakob Dylan Evil Is Alive And Well
14. Metallica The Unforgiven III
15. Jay-Z 99 Problems
16. Beastie Boys She's Crafty
17. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Mary Jane's Last Dance
18. Sir Mix-A-Lot Baby Got Back

On top of his game in the middle to late 1980s, Rick Rubin merged his love of rock and roll and heavy metal to the street sounds of hip hop and rap. The result of this marriage was one hit after another for Def Jam Records. You don't need to have a golden ear for samples to detect the guitar riffs that Rick added to songs by LL Cool J as well as the Beastie Boys. Rick was well ahead of the pack when it came to metal rap sound which has now been taken even further by contemporary acts.
On the Beastie Boys' album Licensed to Ill, Rick is credited not only as the producer, but also as co-writer. With Rick's contacts in the world of metal, it was easy to bring in Kerry King of Slayer to play lead guitar on the Beastie Boys' anthem "No Sleep Till Brooklyn." It was Rick, under the name DJ Double R, that performed on stage with the Beastie Boys as they opened for Madonna on her Like A Virgin Tour. Sensing he was on to something big and controversial, Rick went into the studio with the band to record "She's On It". The "She's On It" video featured Rick and the Beastie Boys chasing girls and getting into trouble. What may have seemed innocent at the time, was in fact the launch pad for the skirt chasing chaos that would encircle both Def Jam and the Beastie Boys within the year as Licensed to Ill.

Producer Series Present: LEONARD & PHIL CHESS

Track Artist Title
1. Etta James At Last
2. Jimmy Rogers Walking By Myself
3. Chuck Berry You Never Can Tell
4. Muddy Waters Got My Mojo Working
5. Buddy Guy The First Time I Met The Blues
6. Lowell Fulson Reconsider Baby
7. The Moonglows The Ten Commandments
8. The Flamingos I'll Be Home
9. Howlin' Wolf Change My Way
10. Little Walter Mellow Down Easy
11. Bo Diddley Who Do You Love?
12. Sonny Boy Williamson Dissatisfied
13. Gene Ammons You're Not The Kind
14. John Lee Hooker One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
15. Willie Dixon Wang Dang Doodle


Brothers Lejzor and Fiszel Czyz (family name changed to Chess) were two immigrants from Poland who came to Chicago in 1928. They were involved in the liquor business and by the 1940's, they owned several bars on the south side of Chicago. Their largest establishment was a nightclub called the Macomba. The Macomba had live entertainment, many of those being blues performers that had migrated to Chicago from the Mississippi delta in the '30s and '40s. They realized that these performers were not being properly recorded, so they decided to start recording them themselves.

During the early years of the label, Leonard and Phil Chess did everything. They were the quintessential '50s record men: they owned the label, they produced the music they loved themselves and managed the financial end of the business.

Producer Series Present: QUINCY JONES

Track Artist Title
1. Quincy Jones Soul Bossa Nova
2. Lesley Gore It's My Party
3. Frank Sinatra Fly Me To The Moon (Live, Sinatra At The Sands)
4. Quincy Jones Sanford & Son TV Theme
5. Bill Cosby Hikky-Burr a/k/a Bill Cosby Show TV Theme (1969)
6. Quincy Jones Ironside TV Theme
7. Quincy Jones Roots Mini-Series TV Theme
8. Aretha Franklin Angel
9. Lesley Gore You Don't Own Me
10. Brothers Johnson Strawberry Letter #23
11. James Ingram Just Once
12. George Benson Give Me The Night
13. Michael Jackson Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
14. Michael Jackson Billie Jean
15. Tevin Campbell Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)
16. Patti Austin & James Ingram Baby, Come To Me
17. USA For Africa We Are The World
18. Celine Dion I Knew I Loved You
19. Quincy Jones Miss Celie's Blues a/k/a "Sister" (The Color Purple)
20. Will Smith Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire TV Theme
21. Michael Jackson Thriller
22. Ray Charles & Chaka Khan I'll Be Good To You





My favourite Quincy Jones story is about under-handed Phil Spector...



Phil Spector - Acclaimed producer who also oversaw the production of a version of “It’s My Party.” When Quincy ran into Spector at a Charles Aznavour concert at Carnegie Hall, Spector told Quincy that he had just cut a version of the song with the Crystals. After hearing that, Quincy rushed back to the studio and had the engineer cut 100 acetates of the Lesley Gore versions and mailed them to radio stations over the weekend. Three weeks later, Lesley Gore’s version of the song topped the charts.
"Soul Bossa Nova" was a theme for the 1998 World Cup, the Canadian game show Definition, the Woody Allen film Take The Money And Run and the Mike Myers movie Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, and was sampled by Canadian hip hop group Dream Warriors for their song, "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style".

Producer Series Present: PHIL SPECTOR

Track Artist Title
1. John Lennon Imagine
2. The Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody
3. The Crystals He's A Rebel
4. The Beatles The Long And Winding Road
5. Ike & Tina Turner River Deep, Mountain High
6. Darlene Love (Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry
7. The Ronettes Be My Baby
8. Connie Francis Second Hand Love
9. Gene Pitney Every Breath I Take
10. Teddy Bears To Know Him Is To Love Him
11. The Crystals Then He Kissed Me
12. The Ramones Rock And Roll High School
13. John Lennon Instant Karma!
14. George Harrison My Sweet Lord
15. Ray Peterson Corinna, Corinna
16. The Righteous Brothers You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'





Considered by many to be the greatest rock and roll producer of all time

In the early Sixties, created the famous "Wall of Sound" technique that inspired countless musicians and producers

Put girl group music on the map with hits by The Ronettes and The Crystals

Called on to salvage The Beatles' Let It Be album, he went on to produce John Lennon and George Harrison's most famous solo work

Producer Series Present: JERRY WEXLER

Track Artist Title
1. Ray Charles I Got A Woman
2. Big Joe Turner Shake, Rattle and Roll
3. Aretha Franklin (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
4. Wilson Pickett Mustang Sally
5. Bobby Darin Beyond The Sea
6. Bob Dylan Gotta Serve Somebody
7. Ray Charles What'd I Say
8. LaVern Baker Tweedle Dee
9. Solomon Burke If You Need Me
10. Wilson Pickett In The Midnight Hour
11. George Michael Careless Whisper (Original Version)
12. Dusty Springfield Just A Little Lovin'



Gerald "Jerry" Wexler (January 10, 1917 - August 15, 2008) R.I.P.

At the age of 12, Jerry Wexler was a New York City brat, hanging out at Artie's poolroom on 181st Street in Washington Heights and learning to talk fast and act tough. These traits would serve him well in the recording industry. In 1952 Wexler became a producer at fledgling Atlantic Records, an independent label dedicated to the genre that Wexler himself rechristened "rhythm and blues" in a 1941 Billboard article.

With an intense passion for jazz and soul, Wexler became an expert at distinguishing talent, and during his years at Atlantic, he launched many artists who became world- famous: Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, the Clovers, and the Drifters. He also discovered country legend Willie Nelson before the singer moved to CBS Records and stardom. Wexler's enthusiasm and intellectual edge, in fact, provided the support necessary for many artists' best work. Among the plethora of musicians he has promoted are Joe Turner, Wilson Pickett, Patti LaBelle, Cher, Sam and Dave, Dr. John, Doug Sahm, and Etta James.