Charles Brown

"Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful...

There is some debate as to whether this 1956 release from Hollywood Records was the first LP to compile Christmas music singles. But there is no debate that it's one of the best. Subtitled Intimate Christmas Music for Young Lovers, its headliners were the original versions of two of the biggest R & B holiday hits of all time, Charles Brown's Merry Christmas, Baby and Lowell Fulson's Lonesome Christmas (Parts 1 & 2), but with other standouts like Mabel...