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R-E-S-P-E-C-T A Century of Women in Music


Format: 5 CDs
Label: Rhino R2 75815
Country: USA
Release Date: October 5, 1999
Length: Disc One: 76:12 / Disc Two: 78:02 / Disc Three: 79:20 / Disc Four: 75:08 / Disc Five: 78:53
Notes: This five-CD box set spans 89 years of recorded women's voices. Liz's contribution is a short comment about her Lilith Fair peers, followed by "Polyester Bride", taken from whitechocolatespaceegg.
Tracks:

Disc One:

    Broadway, Blues, and Truth
  1. By The Light Of The Silvery Moon - Ada Jones (2:19)
  2. Some of These Days - Sophie Tucker (4:14)
  3. Carry Me Back To Old Virginny - Alma Gluck (4:44)
  4. She's Good Enough To Be Your Baby's Mother And She's Good Enough To Vote With You - Anna Chandler (3:24)
  5. Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds (3:23)
  6. I'm A Jazz Vampire - Marion Harris (3:10)
  7. My Man (Mon Homme) - Fanny Brice (3:36)
  8. Devilish Mary - Roba Stanley (3:00)
  9. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - Marian Anderson (2:34)
  10. See See Rider Blues - Ma Rainey (3:13)
  11. Beale Street Blues - Alberta Hunter (3:16)
  12. Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family (2:46)
  13. I Wanna Be Loved By You - Helen Kane (2:52)
  14. Gotta Feelin' For You - Joan Crawford & The MGM Studio Chorus (2:40)
  15. Love Me Or Leave Me - Ruth Etting (3:21)
  16. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Bessie Smith (3:02)
  17. Am I Blue? - Ethel Waters (3:19)
  18. Calamity Jane (From The West) - Adelyne Hood & Vernon Dalhart (3:16)
  19. Kentucky Miner's Wife - Aunt Molly Jackson (5:32)
  20. Bucking Bronco (My Love Is A Rider) - The Girls Of The Golden West (2:32)
  21. When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain - Kate Smith (4:19)
  22. I Like A Guy What Takes His Time - Mae West (2:47)
  23. You're The Top - Ethel Merman (2:53)

Disc Two:

    Torch, Twang, and Swing
  1. I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart - Patsy Montana With Prairie Ramblers (3:08)
  2. Pretty Polly - Coon Creek Girls (2:50)
  3. Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland (2:48)
  4. A-Tisket A-Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald With Chick Webb & His Orchestra (3:17)
  5. Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday (3:13)
  6. Me And My Chauffeur Blues - Memphis Minnie (2:46)
  7. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - Andrews Sisters With Vic Schoen & His Orchestra (3:05)
  8. Let Me Off Uptown - Gene Krupa & His Orchestra With Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge (3:03)
  9. Stormy Weather - Lena Horne With Lou Bring & His Orchestra (3:22)
  10. Sentimental Journey - Les Brown & His Orchestra With Doris Day (3:43)
  11. Move On Up A Little Higher - Mahalia Jackson (3:00)
  12. Cuanto Le Gusta - Carmen Miranda (2:08)
  13. Buttons And Bows - Dinah Shore & Her Happy Valley Boys (2:04)
  14. Philadelphia Lawyer - Maddox Brothers & Rose (3:12)
  15. Black Coffee - Sarah Vaughan (3:18)
  16. Satisfied - Martha Carson (2:37)
  17. The Tennessee Waltz - Patti Page With Jack Rael & Orchestra (3:24)
  18. Come On-A My House - Rosemary Clooney (2:00)
  19. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells (2:32)
  20. (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Ruth Brown (2:58)
  21. Ricochet (Rick-O-Shay) - Teresa Brewer (2:42)
  22. Tammy - Debbie Reynolds With Orchestra directed by Joesph Gershenson (3:08)
  23. Big Long Slidin' Thing - Dinah Washington (2:57)
  24. Tweedlee Dee - LaVern Baker (3:09)
  25. The Wallflower - Etta James & "The Peaches" (2:58)
  26. My Boy Elvis - Janis Martin (2:07)
  27. Walkin' After Midnight - Patsy Cline (2:33)

Disc Three:

    Shoop-Shoop, Motown, Get Down, Sister
  1. Maybe - The Chantels (2:54)
  2. Fever - Peggy Lee With Jack Marshall's Music (3:44)
  3. Funnel Of Love - Wanda Jackson (3:38)
  4. Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles (4:19)
  5. Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee (3:16)
  6. Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas (3:20)
  7. Hello Stranger - Barbara Lewis (4:47)
  8. You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore (3:33)
  9. The Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte-Marie (5:01)
  10. My Guy - Mary Wells (3:23)
  11. Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) - The Shangri-Las (4:05)
  12. Too Many Fish In the Sea - The Marvelettes (5:59)
  13. Respect - Aretha Franklin (5:14)
  14. Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield (5:01)
  15. Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes (5:20)
  16. Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane (4:16)
  17. Stoned Soul Picnic - Laura Nyro (3:38)
  18. Both Sides Now - Judy Collins (4:19)
  19. To Be Young, Gifted And Black - Nina Simone (3:16)
  20. Bold Soul Sister - Ike & Tina Turner (3:20)
  21. Clean Up Woman - Betty Wright (4:47)
  22. Pillow Talk - Sylvia (3:33)
  23. I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers (5:01)
  24. You're So Vain - Carly Simon (3:23)
  25. So Far Away - Carole King (4:05)
  26. I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton (5:59)

Disc Four:

    Rock to Electric Shock
  1. Move Over - Janis Joplin (3:40)
  2. You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt (3:42)
  3. I've Got To Use My Imagination - Gladys Knight & The Pips (3:47)
  4. The Pill - Loretta Lynn (2:36)
  5. Boulder To Birmingham (Live) - Emmylou Harris (3:26)
  6. Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez (5:15)
  7. Crazy On You - Heart (4:16)
  8. I Love Playin' With Fire - The Runaways (3:43)
  9. X Offender - Blondie (Deborah Harry) (3:12)
  10. You Make Loving Fun - Fleetwood Mac (Christine McVie & Stevie Nicks) (3:35)
  11. Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn (3:44)
  12. She Works Hard For The Money - Donna Summer (4:12)
  13. We Belong Together - Rickie Lee Jones (5:02)
  14. Show Some Emotion - Joan Armatrading (3:32)
  15. Typical Girls - The Slits (3:43)
  16. It Tango - Laurie Anderson (3:00)
  17. Walking On Thin Ice - Yoko Ono (6:00)
  18. Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Go's (2:45)
  19. Identity - X-Ray Spex (Poly Styrene) (2:22)
  20. Precious - The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde) (3:36)

Disc Five:

    Hip-Hop, Pop, and Passion
  1. Hero Takes A Fall - The Bangles (2:53)
  2. Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush (5:00)
  3. She Bop - Cyndi Lauper (3:43)
  4. Roxanne's Revenge (Street Version) - Roxanne Shanté (4:21)
  5. Tramp - Salt-N-Pepa (3:33)
  6. Ladies First - Queen Latifah Featuring Monie Love (4:27)
  7. People Have The Power - Patti Smith (5:08)
  8. Thing Called Love - Bonnie Raitt (3:49)
  9. Passionate Kisses - Lucinda Williams (2:38)
  10. The Emperor's New Clothes - Sinéad O'Connor (6:08)
  11. Silent All These Years - Tori Amos (4:12)
  12. Constant Craving - k.d. lang (4:38)
  13. The Wheel - Rosanne Cash (4:20)
  14. Possession - Sarah McLachlan (4:39)
  15. Legs - P.J. Harvey (4:44)
  16. 32 Flavors - Ani DiFranco (6:09)
  17. Where Have All The Cowboys Gone - Paula Cole (4:26)
  18. Liz Phair talks about her Lilith Fair peers (0:38) / Polyester Bride - Liz Phair (4:05)
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