EMI Music Distribution has Music for Everyone On Your Holiday List

Business Wire, Oct 29, 1999

Kenny Rogers knows a thing or two about country also. A four-CD box set, "Kenny Rogers: Through the Years," and a single album compilation, "Kenny Rogers - A&E Biography: A Musical Anthology" are testimony to his success in both the country and pop fields. Among the 80 songs included in the box set are all 20 of his No. 1 pop and/or country hits brought together in one treasure trove for the first time, plus 35 top 50 hits, as well as unreleased tracks and rarities.

The 14 hits on the single disc, from "Lucille" and "Lady" to "The Gambler," are released in conjunction with A&E's Emmy(R) Award-winning series "Biography," which profiled Rogers earlier this year.

The Rolling Stones and the J. Geils Band are still performing Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now" and "Lookin' For A Love." Now hear the original versions again along with 16 of Womack's other treasures on his new "Greatest Hits" compilation. Womack has also been keeping busy recording his first holiday album. "Traditions" puts his soulful spin on such favorites as "Silent Night," "Joy to the World" and "Winter Wonderland." It also features two versions of "Dear Santa Claus," one of which is a children's version Womack recorded with his daughter Cheyenne.

It has now been 40 years since The Chipmunks began their quest for world domination with "The Chipmunk Song" which topped the charts for four weeks during Christmas 1958, and sold 4 million copies. Making this year especially bright is "The Chipmunks' Greatest Christmas Hits." It combines two previous holiday albums digitally remastered and a never before released version of "The Chipmunk Christmas Song" with Canned Heat.

For year-round listening pleasure, check out The Chipmunks' Greatest Hits collection, "Still Squeaky After All These Years" with their recording landmark, "The Chipmunk Song" as well as the million-selling "Alvin's Harmonica," their version of The Beatles' "She Loves You" and all of their other vinyl novelties.

Who but James Bond could bring together some of the world's top artists from the past 30 years? From Shirley Bassey to Paul McCartney and Wings to Duran Duran to Sheryl Crow, "The Best of Bond ... James Bond 007" gets the drop on the music that is synonymous with 007.

Along with "Goldfinger," "Live And Let Die," "A View To A Kill" and "Tomorrow Never Dies," also included in the 19 tracks, are hits from Carly Simon, Sheena Easton and Tina Turner. A retrospective that comes just in time for the new Bond film, "The World Is Not Enough" opening on November 19.