LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) continues its acclaimed ICON series this summer with several new releases on July 30, including Blues Traveler, Bobby Brown, Natalie Cole, Nat King Cole, Great White, Billy Idol, Freddie Jackson, George Jones, and Bobby Womack. New ICON collections will be released on August 6 for John Mellencamp and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
With its history and vast catalog of artists, UMe’s continuing ICON series showcases the best music from the most popular, iconic and influential artists of all time. ICON is a proven physical line, a true cross-genre success with more than six million copies sold in fewer than three years.
The following new ICON collections will be released July 30:
Nearly 20 years after scoring the GRAMMY® Award winning, harmonica-laced Billboard Top Ten breakthrough hit that came to define pop music in the mid-‘90s, Blues Traveler are still finding unique ways to ensure that they don’t give their legion of worldwide fans the “Run-Around.”
One of the original progenitors of the jam band phenomenon as founders of the famed H.O.R.D.E. Tour, singer/harp player John Popper and company’s ICON entry features the five-times-platinum “Run-Around,” as well as Billboard Mainstream Rock Top 10s “Carolina Blues” and “Hook.”
1. Run-Around
2. But Anyway
3. The Mountains Win Again
4.
Carolina Blues
5. Hook
6. Orange In The Sun
7. Conquer Me
8.
Back In The Day
9. 100 Years
10. Most Precarious
11. All
In The Groove
The New Edition alum and dance dervish’s multi-platinum solo recording career is neatly captured on this ICON set, which includes his smash hit, “My Prerogative,” a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. “Every Little Step,” his 1989 GRAMMY® winner for Best R&B Vocal, is also here, and his No. 1 R&B/Hip-Hop hit, “Girlfriend,” makes this a must for any Brown fan.
1. My Prerogative
2. Roni
3. Don't Be Cruel
4. Rock
Wit'cha
5. Every Little Step
6. Girlfriend
7. On Our Own
8.
Humpin' Around*
9. Good Enough
10. Get Away
11. That’s
The Way Love Is
Natalie Cole is beloved around the world, a multi-GRAMMY® winning singer who earned her first GRAMMY® nod as Best New Artist in 1975. The new ICON set includes her No. 1 hits, “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” and “Sophisticated Lady (She’s A Different Lady),” which each earned her GRAMMY® Awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in consecutive years, along with the nominated, chart-topping R&B classic, “Our Love.” This must-have set also includes her duet with Peabo Bryson, “What You Won’t Do for Love.”
1. This Will Be
2. Inseparable
3. Our Love
4.
Sophisticated Lady (She’s A Different Lady)
5. Mr. Melody
6.
I’ve Got Love On My Mind
7. Party Lights
8. What You Won’t Do
For Love (Natalie Cole and Peabo Bryson)
9. Someone That I Used To
Love
10. Stand By
11. Annie Mae
One of the greatest voices of the 20th century, as well as a mainstream television star hosting his own national show, this legendary jazz pianist turned world-class baritone recorded an “Unforgettable” catalog of classics. This 11-song collection includes that timeless track, later immortalized in a virtual duet with daughter Natalie Cole, and such standards as the No. 1 Billboard R&B hit, “Send for Me,” “Mona Lisa” and Cole’s Yuletide perennial, “The Christmas Song.”
1. L-O-V-E
2. Unforgettable
3. (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
4.
Mona Lisa
5. Send For Me
6. (I Love You) For Sentimental
Reasons
7. Looking Back
8. Too Young
9. Straighten Up And
Fly Right
10. A Blossom Fell
11. The Christmas Song (Merry
Christmas To You)
These Los Angeles hard rock mainstays, fronted by singer/songwriter Jack Russell, burst forth from the Sunset Strip in the ‘80s. This collection features their anthemic Top 5 Billboard smash, “Once Bitten Twice Shy” (the title track to their platinum album), the Mainstream Rock follow-up, “Call It Rock N’ Roll,” and subsequent Top 10 hit, “Save Your Love.”
1. Lady Red Light
2. Once Bitten Twice Shy
3. Desert Moon
4.
House Of Broken Love
5. Save Your Love
6. Mista Bone
7.
Rock Me
8. All Over Now
9. Face The Day
10. Call It Rock
N’ Roll
11. Big Goodbye
Billy Idol remains crucial to rock ‘n’ roll. His style, charm, charisma and bravado transcend trends and time. Where would rock music be without him? Would it look the same? Would it sound the same? Who hasn’t chanted along to “Rebel Yell,” “Mony Mony” or “White Wedding?”
The snarling British punk rocker first rose to fame with the groundbreaking Generation X. Relocating to New York, he launched a successful solo career on the heels of MTV exposure that combined elements of punk and dance music in a revolutionary new way. All the hits which made him an ICON are here, including the popular live version of his No. 1 Billboard hit cover of Tommy James’ “Mony Mony,” the memorable video smash, “White Wedding,” and the 1990 Mainstream Rock chart-topper, “Cradle Of Love.”
1. Dancing With Myself (with Generation X)
2. White Wedding (Pt. 1)
3.
Hot In The City
4. Rebel Yell
5. Eyes Without A Face
6.
Flesh For Fantasy
7. Catch My Fall
8. To Be A Lover
9.
Don’t Need A Gun
10. Sweet Sixteen
11. Mony Mony (Live)
A versatile vocalist known for his sophisticated, romantic soul ballads, Freddie Jackson is also capable of tackling urban contemporary dance fare and even the occasional jazz tune. The Harlem-born crooner got his start singing gospel in his local church, then stormed the R&B charts in 1985 with “Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake),” spending six weeks at No. 1, followed by his second straight chart-topper, "You Are My Lady," which crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100, earning him a GRAMMY® nomination for Best New Artist. This new ICON collection also includes No. 1 R&B hits "Tasty Love," "Have You Ever Loved Somebody" and "Jam Tonight," as well as his 1988 American Music Award winner for Favorite Soul/R&B Single, “Nice ‘N’ Slow.”
1. Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)
2. You Are My Lady
3.
He’ll Never Love You (Like I Do)
4. Love Is Just A Touch Away
5.
A Little Bit More (with Melba Moore)
6. Jam Tonight
7. Tasty
Love
8. Have You Ever Loved Somebody
9. I Don’t Want To Lose
Your Love
10. Nice ‘N’ Slow
11. Love Me Down
Frank Sinatra famously (and coyly) referred to Jones as “the second greatest singer in America.” Garth Brooks summed up the consensus view when he called him “the greatest voice ever to sing country music.” Waylon Jennings expressed a common envy when he said, "If we all could sound the way we wanted, we'd all sound like George Jones." Keith Richards put things in more honorific terms: "George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly.”
The great country singer practically defines the word ICON, and these two compilations, one a double-disc set, are a great place to start for newcomers and longtime fans alike. The single-disc set features his Billboard No. 1 Country singles “White Lightening,” “Tender Years” and “She Thinks I Still Care” as well as Top 5 hits such as “A Girl I Used to Know,” “Your Heart Turned Left” and “You Comb Her Hair.”
1. White Lightning
2. She Thinks I Still Care
3. Tender Years
4.
The Window Up Above
5. A Girl I Used To Know
6. We Must Have
Been Out Of Our Minds (featuring Melba Montgomery)
7. The Race Is On
8.
Aching, Breaking Heart
9. You Comb Her Hair
10. Treasure Of
Love
11. Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was On The Right)
DISC 1
1. Don't Stop The Music
2. Too Much Water
3.
Treasure Of Love
4. White Lightning
5. Who Shot Sam
6.
Money To Burn
7. Accidentally On Purpose
8. The Window Up Above
9.
Tender Years
10. Aching, Breaking Heart
11. Waltz of the
Angels (with Margie Singleton)
DISC 2
1. She Thinks I Still Care
2. Open Pit Mine
3. A
Girl I Used To Know
4. Big Fool Of The Year
5. Not What I Had
In Mind
6. We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds (featuring Melba
Montgomery)
7. You Comb Her Hair
8. Your Heart Turned Left
(And I Was On The Right)
9. Where Does A Little Tear Come From
10.
The Race Is On
11. Wrong Number
2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Robert Dwayne “Bobby” Womack is a consummate soul ICON, perhaps better known as the songwriter of rock classics including the Rolling Stones’ “It’s All Over Now,” but he is an impressive performer in his own right. This overview includes his No. 2 R&B and Top 40 crossover hit, “That’s the Way I Feel About 'Cha” and the evocative “Across 110th Street,” the title track to the 1972 blaxploitation film classic starring Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto, later used for Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 homage, Jackie Brown.
1. Lookin' For A Love
2. Woman's Gotta Have It
3. Across 110th
Street
4. That's The Way I Feel About ‘Cha
5. Nobody Wants You
When You're Down And Out
6. You're Welcome, Stop On By
7.
Check It Out
8. Harry Hippie
9. Daylight
10. How I Miss
You Baby
11. I Wish He Didn’t Trust Me So Much
The following ICON collections will be released August 6:
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ICON has been a fixture on the rock scene since emerging from his home state of Indiana to storm the charts as John Cougar. After releasing a few albums, he broke out in 1979 with his first hit, "I Need A Lover." His fifth studio release, 1982’s American Fool, was the year's best-selling album.
This new ICON collection features his No. 1 smash single, “Jack And Diane,” the No. 1 Mainstream Rock hit “Lonely Ol’ Night,” the Top 5 singles “Crumblin’ Down,” and “Small Town,” and the MTV staple, “Pink Houses,” which was the theme to one of the then-fledgling music network’s most visible early promotional contests, giving away a home—painted pink, naturally—to a lucky viewer.
1. Paper And Fire
2. Minutes To Memories
3. Jackie Brown
4.
Small Town
5. Lonely Ol’ Night
6. Check It Out
7. Human
Wheels
8. Crumblin' Down
9. Ain't Even Done With The Night
10.
Jack And Diane
11. Pink Houses
The most successful composer of musicals of his generation is an ICON on London’s West End as well as Broadway as the composer of such theatrical hits as Joseph and the Amazing Technical Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Starlight Express, and Sunset Boulevard, among many others. His awards include seven Tonys®, three GRAMMYs® (including Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Requiem), seven Oliviers®, a Golden Globe®, an Oscar®, two International Emmys®, the Praemium Imperiale®, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre® and the Kennedy Center Honors®. This new ICON collection spotlights some of the show-stoppers from his remarkable career.
1. Superstar (Murray Head with the Trinidad Singers)
2. As If We
Never Said Goodbye (Glenn Close)
3. Memory (Betty Buckley)
4.
Any Dream Will Do (Donny Osmond)
5. All I Ask Of You (Sarah
Brightman and Steve Barton)
6 I Don’t Know How To Love Him (Yvonne
Elliman)
7. Love Never Dies (Sierra Boggess)
8. Buenos Aires
(Elena Roger)
9. Love Changes Everything (Michael Ball)
10.
Tell Me on a Sunday (Marti Webb)
11. Starlight Express (Ray Shell)
