TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Billy Eckstine
Billy Eckstine
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.2425
Billy Eckstine Album Rankings
1
Unlike other big-band singers who regarded the other musicians in the orchestra as little more than backup to their generally sugarcoated stylings, Billy Eckstine was a man with wide-ranging tastes an
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2
This two-CD set improves upon the original two-LP package by adding 14 more songs.
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3
Not the greatest-hits compilation listeners may think it is,Billy's Best!is in fact a full LP, one of Eckstine's first for Mercury, and the best of his career.
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5
In England, singles matter. They get enormously hyped and then played on the radio with lengthy introductions by deejays. They’re anticipated, talked about and remembered.
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13
Two early-'70s albums from Billy Eckstine -- Stormy and Feel the Warm, both originally on the Stax subsidiary Enterprise -- were combined by Stax on a single compact disc in 1994.
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19
This reissue of an early-'60s collection of movie themes sung by Billy Eckstine is labeled as a jazz CD, which is a bit of a stretch.
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36
This CD has an unusual cover picture showing Billy Eckstine singing while holding a trumpet.
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38
Billy Eckstine's final recording (although he would live until 1993) finds the 72-year old singer showing his age. Mr.
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45
This Drive Archive budget CD reissues an Alamac LP, material that has also appeared on the English Spotlite label.
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