News Round-Up: Release Date Changes, Hip-o Select Releases and More

August 14, 2010 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

A quick note that both Queensryche’s 20th anniversary reissue of Empire and Morrissey’s 20th anniversary reissue of Bona Drag – both from EMI – have been moved on the calendar. The latter will now street October 5 (the reissue of the “Everyday is Like Sunday” single will still street September 28) and the former will be released on September 28.
MusicTAP tweeted this intriguing article from Billboard and Reuters: the Pink Floyd catalogue is now digitally out of print. There was talk for awhile of them moving the catalogue from longtime home EMI; now it looks like more of a reality.
Two new Hip-o Select titles are available today: a reissue of John McLaughlin’s modern jazz classic The Promise for Verve in 1996 and a new volume in Smokey Robinson’s solo albums set! Order them here and here and hit the jump for track listings.

John McLaughlin, The Promise (Verve/Hip-o Select, 2010 – originally released as Verve 314 529 828-2, 1996)

Django
Thelonius Melodius
Amy and Joseph
No Return
El Ciego
Jazz Jungle
The Wish
English Jam
Tokyo Decadence
Shin Jin Rui
The Peacocks

Smokey Robinson, The Solo Albums Volume 2 (Motown/Hip-o Select, 2010)

Quiet Storm
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Baby That’s Backatcha
Wedding Song
Happy (Love Theme from “Lady Sings the Blues”)
Love Letters
Coincidentally
When You Came
Get Out of Town
Do Like I Do
Open
So in Love
Like Nobody Can
Castles Made of Sand
An Old-Fashioned Man

Tracks 1-7 from A Quiet Storm (Tamla T6-337S1, 1974)
Tracks 8-14 from Smokey’s Family Robinson (Tamla T6-341S1, 1975)
Track 15 was a non-LP B-side – Tamla T-54276F, 1976

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Mike Duquette

Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.