Here’s a prescription for convalescent hippies you oughta know... Webster’s defines serendipity as “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for,” making it an apropos name for The Serendipity Singers. The group was formed in 1963 at the University of Colorado in the days when The New Christy Minstrels could sell one million copies of “Green, Green” and folk music was being happily served to the masses by clean-scrubbed young men and women with a spoonful of
Archives for September 12, 2013
Best of Their Love: Eagles LPs Boxed Up on Vinyl
Some seven months after packing up all of the Eagles' studio albums in one CD box set, Rhino's at it again, doing the same for those six albums on vinyl. The Studio Albums 1972-1979 collects all of the Asylum-era LPs - Eagles (1972), Desperado (1973), On the Border (1974), One of These Nights (1975), Hotel California (1976) and The Long Run (1979) - and replicates the original packaging almost entirely to the letter of the original releases. We say "almost" thanks to two upgrades made by Rhino
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! The Beatles' "On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2" Rocks November
The worst-kept secret of this fall's upcoming release schedule is finally out - and we're shouting, "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" After weeks of speculation, Capitol Records has finally confirmed the November 11 arrival of The Beatles' On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2. Its 63 tracks - encompassing 40 musical performances (37 of which are previously unreleased) and 23 selections of on-air, in-studio repartee - were all recorded for the Fab Four's 1963-1964 BBC radio performances on shows such as Pop Go