Click to listen to Darlene Love's "Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home" and "He's A Rebel"

In the age of girl groups, Darlene Love was a woman in charge, the exultant voice atop Phil Spector's Wall of Sound on records often credited to others, including the Crystals ("He's a Rebel") and Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans ("Not Too Young to Get Married"). This single disc sets those hits next to Love's own majestic songs with Spector ("Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home," the coltish delight of "A Fine, Fine Boy") plus later Motown- inflected tracks with her group the Blossoms. A last session for Spector in 1974, "Lord, If You're a Woman" sounds like a genuine goodbye — that voice in front of massive echo, Spector and his Wall receding into the distance.

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“Ambling Alp”

The "Ambling Alp" was the nickname of the six-and-a-half-foot-tall Primo Carnera. Though the song is named after the Italian-born 1930s heavyweight champion, Yeasayer are actually paying tribute to boxing legend Joe Louis with this first-person psychedelic dance-rock tune. “I was always interested in writing a song that had boxing mythology in it,” Yeasayer’s Chris Keating said. “It’s pretty fascinating: There were so many amazing characters, and it was so closely entwined with 20th century history.” Yeaseyer also invokes German champ Max Schmeling and hints at the historical significance placed on the historic bouts between the Nazi-era boxer and the African-American Louis.