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Rhino Handmade Redux: Introducing Tartare

June 28, 2010 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

One would think Collectors' Choice Music would have had its hands full with July's release of the complete Allan Sherman catalog. Not so. The fine folks at Collectors' Choice have joined forces with Warner Music Group to introduce a new label designed to reissue LPs so rare, even WMG's Rhino Handmade wouldn't tackle them. With that in mind, the new label is named Tartare, and its first 10 releases are all due to ship on July 6. Any new reissue label is cause for readers of The Second Disc to rejoice; what makes this announcement particularly exciting is that many of the initial 10 LPs have long been coveted in a digital format, and all are making their worldwide authorized CD debuts according to Collectors' Choice. It's not yet known whether Tartare's releases will include new liner notes; only original album artwork has been confirmed. It's also indicated that the label is actually making the CDs to order for their customers, so it's a fair guess that these may not be released to stores. To find out which titles from the WMG vaults are receiving the Tartare treatment, click to read more after the jump!

Renowned film composer Henry Mancini teamed with comic lyricist Irving Taylor for 1958's Terribly Sophisticated Songs: A Collection of Unpopular Songs for Popular People (Warner Bros. 1210), which is as wildly kooky as its title would indicate. Tartare turns its attention to instrumental pop with three 1960s releases. The Outriggers' 1960 Golden Hits of Hawaii (Warner Bros. 1549) is a prime example of island exotica, while Mel Torme and Sammy Davis Jr.'s famed arranger Marty Paich tackled the Beatles, Tony Hatch and Burt Bacharach in 1966 on his The Rock-Jazz Incident (Reprise 6206). The Marketts' 1963 Take to Wheels (Warner Bros. 1509) featured engineering by producer Bones Howe (The Fifth Dimension, The Association) on a collection of car-themed tunes.

R&B fans have long been waiting for a release of Dee Dee Warwick's Atco material. Dionne's younger sister had a style wholly different from that of her famous sibling, imbued with a deep soul, gut-wrenching gospel feel. Dee Dee's 1970 LP Turning Around (Atco 33-337) featured production by Arif Mardin, The Dixie Flyers as the house band and the Sweet Inspirations on backing vocals; Top 10 R&B single "She Didn't Know (She Kept on Talking)" emerged from the LP, as did covers of "If This Was the Last Song" and "More Today Than Yesterday." Warwick's catalog is long, long overdue for re-examination; let's hope this is the first of many such CDs restoring her work to print. (A British release promising Warwick's complete Atco recordings has never materialized.)

Folk fans have treats coming via Tartare. Bud Dashiell and Travis Edomonson had great success in the 1950s as the duo Bud & Travis; Dashiell's post-Bud & Travis group recorded one album, Bud Dashiell & The Kinsmen (Warner Bros. 1429), in 1961, which now is seeing CD release. Folk-pop star Trini Lopez teamed with one of Frank Sinatra's preferred arrangers, Don Costa, for his 1965 set The Love Album (Reprise 6165), on which he brought his unique style to "Our Day Will Come," "A Taste of Honey" and "Moon River." Irish folk music is spotlighted by Dennis Day's 1963 Shillelaghs and Shamrocks (Reprise 6065), recorded for Frank Sinatra's Reprise label, on which you can hear Jack Benny's favorite Irish crooner sing lilting renditions of perennials like "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra."

Finally, fans of straight-ahead pop are rewarded with the final two releases to mention in Tartare's initial batch. Nino Tempo and April Stevens teamed in 1966 at Atlantic Records to record Hey Baby! (Atlantic 587017) with its covers of then-favorites originally recorded by artists such as Otis Redding, Chris Kenner and Bruce Channel. Pratt & McClain's Featuring "Happy Days" (Reprise MS-2250) is of 1976 vintage. P.F. Sloan's collaborator Steve Barri and Michael Omartian produced this set which includes Pratt & McClain's hit single of Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel's theme to the popular sitcom.

Collectors' Choice promises more releases in the upcoming months from Tartare, so watch this space!

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others. Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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  1. plasket says

    June 29, 2010 at 11:32 am

    Request: Good God's self-titled Atlantic release, on which they tackle (among others) Zappa's "King Kong" and John McLaughlin's "Dragon Song." I would normally have absolutely zero hope of this being reissued.

    And if someone reissued "Calling All Girls" by Hilly Michaels, that would be nice.

    I might have to check out that Mancini.

    Reply
    • Watch Dog says

      June 29, 2010 at 3:52 pm

      I'll second the request to get ALL of Hilly Michaels' Warner Brothers stuff onto the CD format, especially the "Calling All Girls" album!

      Reply
  2. charles pugh says

    August 10, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    happy to see reissues of any kind.Also what I have noticed is that Warner Brothers is releasing new music as media on demand via amazon.com but not to traditional stores.

    Reply

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