BRAND NEW AND SEALED 3 CD BOX SET


Ministry of Sound: Cool Cats & Diamond Dolls by Various Artists (2017) 3 Disc CD Album Box Set.



This album encapsulates a period in the late 50s and early 60s when jazz influenced sounds merged with pop and formed a unique blend of glamour fused with music and entertainment.

Good looking crooners like Bobby Darin, Tom Jones effectively invented the term ‘Cool’ along with The Rat Pack (Dean Martin Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jnr) along with their ‘kid brother’ Paul Anka who would eventually write Sinatra’s classic My Way.

These cool cats were accompanied by some of the most glamourous women from all over the World who for the first were finding there own success from the Bondess excitement of Shirley Bassey, to the all American sweetheart sound and look of Doris Day, the sexy French voice of Francois Hardy

and the sultry Girl From Ipenema. Many of them were real Diamond Dolls summed beautifully by Marilyn Monroe.

Great times, great music when Cool was born!


TRACK LISTING


Disc: 1


1 Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin

2 Music to Watch Girls By - Andy Williams

3 Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

4 What's New Pussycat? - Tom Jones

5 Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka

6 Move Over Darling - Doris Day

7 When I Fall In Love - Nat King Cole

8 That's Amore - Dean Martin

9 Jackie - Scott Walker

10 The Good Life - Tony Bennett

11 Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend - Marilyn Monroe

12 Trains and Boats and Planes - Dionne Warwick

13 Alfie - Cilla Black

14 A Little Love and Understanding - Gilbert Bécaud

15 Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat

16 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head - B.J. Thomas

17 Just Walkin' in the Rain - Johnnie Ray

18 On the Street Where You Live - Vic Damone

19 December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - The Four Seasons

20 Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison


Disc: 2


1 Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey

2 Thunderball - Tom Jones

3 From Russia with Love - Matt Monro

4 Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey

5 The James Bond Theme - The John Barry Seven & Orchestra

6 Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Sounds Orchestral

7 Classical Gas - Mason Williams

8 I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Tony Bennett

9 For the Good Times - Perry Como

10 Do You Know the Way to San Jose - Dionne Warwick

11 Spanish Eyes - Al Martino

12 The Girl from Ipanema - Stan Getz & João Gilberto feat. Antonio Carlos Jobim & Astrud Gilberto

13 My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli

14 Why - Anthony Newley

15 Chanson d'Amour - Manhattan Transfer

16 Feelings - Morris Albert

17 Spooky - Dusty Springfield

18 Joanna - Scott Walker

19 Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) - Doris Day

20 Las Vegas - Tony Christie


Disc: 3


1 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Frank Sinatra

2 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Dean Martin

3 It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Andy Williams

4 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas - Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra

5 Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley

6 When a Child Is Born - Johnny Mathis

7 Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee

8 Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Rydell & Chubby Checker

9 Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt

10 Pretty Paper - Roy Orbison

11 The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) - Nat King Cole

12 Silver Bells - Jim Reeves

13 Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me) - Elvis Presley

14 Lonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop) - Adam Faith

15 Winter Wonderland - Johnny Mathis

16 Little Donkey - Nina & Frederik

17 The Little Drummer Boy - Harry Simeone Chorale

18 Mary's Boy Child - Harry Belafonte

19 Silent Night - Bing Crosby

20 White Christmas - Pat Boone