Andy Williams - Andy Williams/Sings Steve AllenThe number of best selling albums that Andy Williams has released, in a career that now spans seven decades, is almost incalculable. The two presented on this new Ace CD have a special place in the hearts of Andy's millions of fans, in that they were the first two that he ever released. Recorded for Cadence Records, the label that brought Andy his first chart action and that set him on the road to superstardom, "Sings Steve Allen" and "Andy Williams"

Born Alvin McBurney in California in 1908

Composer: Antonio Bertali

The recording Shakespeare's Sonnets is dedicated to the contemporary works of Prague composers - Lukáš Hurník

in the German language) in Prague's premiere venue: the Dvorak Hall at the Rudolfínum

discovering that slide guitar techniques are ideally suited to the microtonal inflections and disarmingly vocal-like melodic cadences of Hindustani forms

Ant Clemons' name has already been cemented in music history

but who emigrated to the USA after the First World War

Marcia Cross

25th 1962" each comprising the records in the Top 100 for the date in question

the film offers rare and personal insights into the worlds of two of the most fascinating personalities in the international arts and music scene

After making an early recording for Columbia in 1921

of which eight made the Top 10 - Besame Mucho