(2-CD Set) They say that love is a many splendored thing and you could apply that to Avid's latest release in the Essential Collection series. For all you lovers out there we have collected a wonderful selection of classic love songs just in time for Valentines Day. We start with an Avid debut from Elvis Presley singing Love Me Tender. The King is in good company with such great singers as Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett and even our very own living legend Vera Lynn! They also say that love comes in many guises, bet you never thought you would live to see Elvis and Vera on the same album, it's a funny old world but that's the power of love for you!
2 Lover - Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra & Chorus, Peggy Lee
3 Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
4 You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me - Connee Boswell
5 Unchained Melody - Al Hibbler, Jack Pleis & His Orchestra
6 Tenderly - Rosemary Clooney, Percy Faith & His Orchestra
7 Buona Sera - Sam Butera & the Witnesses, Louis Prima
8 My Funny Valentine - Richard Hayman & His Orchestra, Sarah Vaughan
9 Memories Are Made of This - Dean Martin, the Easy Rides & Orchastra
10 Secret Love - Doris Day
11 On the Street Where You Live - Vic Damone, Percy Faith & His Orchestra
12 Where or When - Julie London, Al Viola
13 Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes - Perry Como, Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra, the Ramblers
14 That Ole Devil Called Love - Camarata and His Orchestra, Billie Holiday
15 Be My Love - Jeff Alexander Orchestra and Chorus, Mario Lanza
16 Man I Love - Lena Horne
17 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Al Alberts, Jack Pleis & His Orchestra, the Four Aces
18 How Deep Is the Ocean? - Stanley Black Orchestra, Anne Shelton
19 Woman in Love - Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Frankie Laine
20 Softly, Softly - Ray Martin & His Orchestra, Ruby Murray
21 No Other Love - Ronnie Hilton
22 Tree in the Meadow - Frank Devol & His Orchestra, Margaret Whiting
23 Hooray for Love - Johnny Mercer, the Pied Pipers, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
24 Midnight Sun - June Christy, Pete Rugolo
25 Take Me Back Again - Tony Bennett, Percy Faith & His Orchestra
26 Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart - Airmen of Her Majesty's Forces, Vera Lynn
- Disc 2 -
1 (Love Is) the Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra
2 If You Love Me (Really Love Me) - Edith Piaf
3 More I See You - Dick Haymes
4 Birds and the Bees - Alma Cogan
5 St Therese of the Roses - Malcolm Vaughan
6 More Then You Know - Stan Freeman, Lee Wiley
7 Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
8 Let There Be Love - Pearl Bailey
9 I Don't Want to Walk Without You - Roland Shaw & His Orchestra, Mel Torm
10 You're My Everything - Gisele MacKenzie
11 No-One But You - Billy Eckstine
12 Come Rain or Come Shine - Judy Garland
13 True Love - Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly
14 Side By Side - Harold Mooney, Kay Starr
15 Stars Fell on Alabama - Jack Teagarden
16 Night and Day - Jo Stafford, the Starlighters, Paul Weston & His Orchestra
17 My Foolish Heart - Steve Conway, Roberto Inglez & His Orchestra
18 My Resistance Is Low - Dorothy Squires
19 'Deed I Do - Russ Case & His Orchestra, Billy Daniels
20 It Had to Be You - Frank Devol & His Orchestra, Dinah Shore
21 Cara Mia - Mantovani, David Whitfield
22 When I Fall in Love - Jeri Southern, Victor Young & His Orchestra
23 Only You - the Platters
24 With a Song in My Heart - Jane Froman
25 All the the Time and Ev'rywhere - Dickie Valentine
26 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald
(2-CD Set) They say that love is a many splendored thing and you could apply that to Avid's latest release in the Essential Collection series. For all you lovers out there we have collected a wonderful selection of classic love songs just in time for Valentines Day. We start with an Avid debut from Elvis Presley singing Love Me Tender. The King is in good company with such great singers as Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett and even our very own living legend Vera Lynn! They also say that love comes in many guises, bet you never thought you would live to see Elvis and Vera on the same album, it's a funny old world but that's the power of love for you!