This is the same torrent that was uploaded to Demonoid in November 2008.


Brenda Lee - Anthology 1956-1980 (1991) (2 CDs)
 
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Includes:
Files by track, ripped at FLAC 8 using Easy CD-DA Extractor (www.poikosoft.com)
DVD-ROM: LG GDR816B
Tracks have full tags (including embedded thumbnail).
All artwork in jpgs at 300 d.p.i. Rotated and cropped losslessly using jpegcrop. (Includes two 16 page booklets.)
AMG Bio.txt
AMG Review.txt
Notes.txt (which is simply these notes included in the torrent)

Bio Excerpt from All Music:

One of the biggest pop stars of the early '60s, Brenda Lee hasn't attracted as much critical respect as she deserves. She is sometimes inaccurately characterized as one of the few female teen idols. More crucially, the credit for achieving success with pop-country crossovers usually goes to Patsy Cline, although Lee's efforts in this era were arguably of equal importance. While she made few recordings of note after the mid-'60s, the best of her first decade is fine indeed, encompassing not just the pop ballads that were her biggest hits, but straight country and some surprisingly fierce rockabilly.

Lee was a child prodigy, appearing on national television by the age of ten, and making her first recordings for Decca the following year (1956). Her first few Decca singles, in fact, make a pretty fair bid for the best preteen rock & roll performances this side of Michael Jackson. "BIGELOW 6-200," "Dynamite," and "Little Jonah" are all exceptionally powerful rockabilly performances, with robust vocals and white-hot backing from the cream of Nashville's session musicians (including Owen Bradley, Grady Martin, Hank Garland, and Floyd Cramer). Lee would not have her first big hits until 1960, when she tempered the rockabilly with teen idol pop on "Sweet Nothin's," which went to the Top Five. ...

To read the entire bio: 
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfexqy5ldke~T1

All Music Album Review:

Brenda Lee hasn't been treated well by reissue culture -- no remastered albums -- and, excepting the Bear Family box set she deserved (and received), only a few compilations, like this two-disc set from MCA. Fortunately, Anthology, Vols. 1 & 2 (1956-1980) is all most fans will need to appreciate why Lee was one of the most intense performing personalities recording in Nashville, just behind Elvis Presley. But Lee had more power than Presley, and more control as well, and the two ranked nearly even in delivery. (Of course, Elvis received song material of a much higher quality than she did.) Her first hit, "Dynamite," along with "Sweet Nothin's," and "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home" rank with the best country/pop/rockabilly performances of the era. Lee could pull off bright novelties such as "Let's Jump the Broomstick" or "Dum Dum" with no problem, and add something new to a well-worn standard, like her bluesy, swinging version of Leiber & Stoller's "Kansas City," or the vocal jazz chestnut "You Can Depend on Me." As the later material here proves, Lee also excelled in the melodramatic countrypolitan mode; moving from teenaged exuberance to middle-aged reflection and resignation -- in character, of course; she only turned 30 in 1974 -- to bring across moving country heartbreakers "Johnny One Time," "As Usual," and "Emotions." The track selection is excellent, touching on every major performance of her career, as well as those she's best known for in rock circles: "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" and "Is It True?," the latter a 1964 rock & roll hit recorded in London with Jimmy Page on guitar.

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Reviews and for sale here:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000002OHP

Track List:

Disc 1:

01. Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
02. Bigelow 6-200
03. One Step At A Time
04. Dynamite
05. Little Jonah (Rock On Your Steel Guitar)
06. Let's Jump The Broomstick
07. Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
08. Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
09. Sweet Nothin's
10. Weep No More My Baby
11. I Want To Be Wanted (Per Tutta La Vita)
12. That's All You Gotta Do
13. I'm Sorry
14. Emotions
15. If You Love Me (Really Love Me)
16. You Can Depend On Me
17. Kansas City
18. Dum Dum
19. Fool #1
20. So Deep

Disc 2:

01. Break It To Me Gently
02. Everybody Loves Me But You
03. Heart In Hand
04. Someday You'll Want Me To Want You
05. All Alone Am I
06. My Coloring Book
07. Losing You
08. I Wonder
09. The Grass Is Greener
10. My Whole World Is Falling Down
11. As Usual
12. Is It True
13. Too Many Rivers
14. Coming On Strong
15. Johnny One Time
16. Nobody Wins
17. Big Four Poster Bed
18. Rock On Baby
19. Tell Me What It's Like
20. Broken Trust