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If Everybody Had An Ocean: The Beach Boys' 6-CD Box Set "Made in California" Premieres 60 Previously Unreleased Tracks

June 11, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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On my way to sunny California, on my way to spend another sunny day… The sounds of summer will be in perfect harmony on August 27 when Capitol Records releases the Beach Boys’ long-awaited, retrospective box set Made in California.  Word first came last summer of the 50th anniversary box, as the reunited group of Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks were winding down a phenomenally successful world tour.  Since then, the Love/Johnston faction of the band has

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

The Bright Side of Life: Harry Nilsson's "Flash Harry" (Finally!) Comes To CD In Expanded Form

June 11, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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What should have been a new beginning became a rather inauspicious end to a remarkable career.  Harry Nilsson's final studio album, 1980's amusingly-titled Flash Harry, was his first on the Mercury label.  It followed a decade-plus stint at RCA and signaled a fresh start.  But despite its starry array of musicians, and typically solid songwriting, the album produced by Stax guitar legend Steve Cropper with engineer Bruce Robb was withheld from release in North America.  Flash Harry only was

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Harry Nilsson

Release Round-Up: Week of June 11

June 11, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Paul McCartney and Wings, Rockshow (Eagle Rock) Macca's newly-restored live show may not be in the Wings Over America box, but that means you can buy it for that much less now. (DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.; BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) ZZ Top, The Complete Studio Albums 1970-1990 (Warner Bros./Rhino) So not only are you getting all of ZZ Top's London/Warner-era albums in one convenient box, but you're getting a fair amount of them in their original mixes for the first time ever on CD.

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, DVD Tags: Burt Bacharach, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Richard Pryor

Southern Soul Rarities Compiled On Omnivore's "South Side of Soul Street"

June 10, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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One dictionary defines a "minaret" as "a lofty, often slender tower or turret attached to a mosque...from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer."  So it's appropriate that the Minaret Records label was a beacon itself, inspiring soulful fervor in those who made the pilgrimage to its platters.  Founded in Nashville in the early 1960s, it was purchased in 1966 by Finley Duncan.  Three years later, the producer-entrepreneur founded the Playground Recording Studio in Valparaiso, Florida,

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What Goes Up: Blood, Sweat & Tears' "Rare, Rarer & Rarest" Tracks Come To CD

June 10, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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What goes up must come down.  So sang David Clayton-Thomas in the opening line of his Grammy-winning song "Spinning Wheel," which became a No. 2 Pop/No. 1 AC in 1969 for Blood, Sweat & Tears.  And so went the fortunes of the jazz-rock band itself.  The band's signature rock-with-horns style was soon eclipsed by that of Chicago (Transit Authority), who shared a producer in James William Guercio.    But when BS&T was hot, few bands were hotter.  Wounded Bird Records is revisiting the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbra Streisand, Blood Sweat and Tears

Don't Walk On By: Dionne Warwick's "Unissued Warner Bros. Masters" Joins "The Complete Warner Bros. Singles" On CD

June 7, 2013 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

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When Dionne Warwick signed on the dotted line with Warner Bros. Records, the possibilities must have seemed endless.  The singer had embraced change, after all.  A new decade was in its infancy.  She had traded a feisty New York independent (Scepter) for a Burbank giant.  She had even added an "e" to her surname on the advice of an astrologer.  And although the exact amount wasn't disclosed, Warwick had reportedly signed the biggest deal ever for a female vocalist.  What didn't change, at least

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Thom Bell

Review: A Trio from Townes Van Zandt

June 7, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Steve Earle once famously wrote, “Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world,” adding for good measure, “and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” Earle later backtracked on his statement, answering in the negative whether he really believed Van Zandt was Dylan’s superior. Van Zandt was also embarrassed by the fulsome praise (“I’ve met Bob Dylan’s bodyguards and if Steve thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table, he’s sadly mistaken!”) but

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Categories: News, Reviews Tags: Townes Van Zandt

A Paramount Package: Three Vintage Franz Waxman Scores Premiere On New Release

June 6, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Long before Andrew Lloyd Webber set Sunset Boulevard to music, Franz Waxman was Norma Desmond’s composer of choice, having created the score to the original Paramount picture.  But Sunset wasn’t Waxman’s only Paramount film.  Nor was it his only collaboration with legendary director and screenwriter Billy Wilder. Waxman’s scores for the studio are among his most renowned works – think of A Place in the Sun, Come Back, Little Sheba or Rear Window, to name three.  The Kritzerland label, already

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks

The Roots of Philadelphia International: BBR Reissues O'Jays, MFSB Classics

June 6, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Though London, England is some 3,500 miles away from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States, the spirit of the City of Brotherly Love is alive and well thanks to Cherry Red’s Big Break Records label.  Two more remarkable artifacts from Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff’s Philadelphia International empire have recently arrived from BBR, and though both titles have previously been available on CD, these new reissues are their best representations in the format yet. Fans who only know The

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Categories: News, Reviews Tags: MFSB, The O'Jays

Throw Off Your Mental Chains: Howard Jones Releases Music Video Anthology

June 5, 2013 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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New Wave hitmaker Howard Jones did a fantastic job remastering his catalogue through his own Dtox label with the help of Rhino U.K., releasing three great waves of remastered albums from his years on WEA/Elektra over the past three years. Now, he's got one more package up his sleeve: a new anthology of music videos. The Video Collection will nicely collate not only all of Jones' videos from his MTV years (with all the audio newly remastered), but four recent videos, taken mostly from the

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Categories: News Formats: DVD

The Aeroplane Flies Even Higher: Smashing Pumpkins Singles Box Gets Generous Expansion

June 5, 2013 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

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Details for the next title in the ongoing Smashing Pumpkins reissue series, a new edition of the box set The Aeroplane Flies High, have been announced. Originally released in 1996 after the success of the diamond-certified double-album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (itself the latest notch in the Pumpkins' reissue campaign, with a six-disc box set edition released last year), Aeroplane collated and expanded all of the CD singles released to promote that album, featuring "Bullet with

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Smashing Pumpkins

Ramblin' Men: Allman Brothers Band's "Brothers and Sisters" Goes Super Deluxe In June

June 5, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Though it was The Allman Brothers Band’s fifth album, 1973’s Brothers and Sisters actually marked a rebirth.  The tight-knit unit had weathered the tragic deaths of leader Duane Allman and Berry Oakley in 1971 and 1972, respectively.  The 1972 double album Eat a Peach would be the last to feature Duane’s inimitable slide guitar, as he died during its recording.  And Oakley perished as sessions for Brothers and Sisters were occurring.  Yet the band soldiered on, and even flourished.  The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: The Allman Brothers Band

Tell All The People: "The Best of Merry Clayton" Shines Spotlight on "Gimme Shelter" Singer

June 4, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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For Merry Clayton, fame was just a shot away.  For she was a member of a very exclusive club of well-respected yet all-too-unheralded performers: background singers.  Documentarian Morgan Neville’s new film 20 Feet from Stardom chronicles some of the great artists who have excelled in that capacity, including Clayton, Darlene Love, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, Claudia Lennear and Táta Vega.  Many of music’s greatest background singers also had solo careers, though, and Legacy Recordings and Ode

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Categories: News Tags: Merry Clayton

She's Got The Beat: Belinda Carlisle's Deluxe 2-CD/1-DVD Reissues Due in August (UPDATED WITH TRACK LISTINGS)

June 4, 2013 By Joe Marchese 18 Comments

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The Tabu catalogue isn't the only major acquisition of late for the Demon Music Group.  Back in March, Demon - home to labels including Edsel, Harmless and Music Club Deluxe - announced that a deal had been struck for much of the solo catalogue of onetime Go-Go Belinda Carlisle.  Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth?  Demon picked up rights to four of Carlisle's studio albums, the rights to which had previously resided with Virgin (part of the former EMI).  Demon's agreement covers the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle, The Go-Go's

Sandie Shaw Reissues Are At Your Feet from Salvo (UPDATED 6/3)

June 4, 2013 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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UPDATE (6/3): Available today, Salvo has expanded and reissued three more Sandie Shaw LPs. They are 1968's The Sandie Shaw Supplement, featuring covers of The Rolling Stones ("(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction") and Simon & Garfunkel ("Scarborough Fair"); the self-produced cult hit Reviewing the Situation (1969) and 1988's Hello Angel, her first LP for Rough Trade and featuring a heap of single-only material with labelmates and fans The Smiths. ORIGINAL POST (4/8/2013): British pop chanteuse

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Categories: News Tags: Morrissey, Sandie Shaw, The Smiths

Release Round-Up: Week of June 4

June 4, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Bob Dylan, Greatest Hits Volume 2 (SACD) (Audio Fidelity) A double hybrid SACD version of the classic Dylan compilation, mastered by Steve Hoffman. (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Sandie Shaw, The Sandie Shaw Supplement / Reviewing the Situation / Hello Angel: Expanded Editions (Salvo) Sandie Shaw's late '60s and '80s material gets newly remastered and expanded. Smiths alive! (Click on the post above for a full breakdown and order links.) Ben Folds Five, Live (ImaVeePee/Sony Music) The power

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Mason Williams, Sandie Shaw, Surf Punks, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, The Grateful Dead

What's It All About: Burt Bacharach Celebrated On PBS, Lost Song Included on "Dionne Warwick Sings Burt Bacharach"

June 3, 2013 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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The first voice you’ll hear on My Music: Burt Bacharach’s Best, now airing on PBS stations nationwide, is that of The Maestro himself.  “What’s it all about, Alfie?,” he sings in his familiar, quavering tone, finding the fragility in the Hal David lyric that he calls his favorite.  Then comes “What the World Needs Now is Love,” sung by its composer with an assist from that International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers (Mike Myers).  It’s appropriate that the solo Bacharach introduces this

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick

Review: Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, "Playlist: The Very Best Of"

June 3, 2013 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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When Bruce Springsteen gave the green light to officially release his 1973 recording of “The Fever” on 1999’s 18 Tracks, The Boss’ decision was rightfully greeted with acclaim.  But many of us Jersey boys were in on a secret: Bruce wrote it, but “The Fever” belonged to Southside Johnny Lyon and his Asbury Jukes.  Springsteen’s torrid evocation of a burning blue-collar romance, as produced by “Miami” Steve Van Zandt, was the centerpiece of the band’s 1976 Epic Records debut I Don’t Want to Go

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Categories: News, Reviews Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

Resistance is Futile: Iconic "Star Trek: TNG" Episode Gets Expanded Score Release

June 3, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh9GDlGZm7Y] "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service us." Fewer words sent a chill down the spine of millions of Trekkies on the night of June 18, 1990, toward the conclusion of "The Best of Both Worlds, Part I," the third season finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Not since James T. Kirk engaged Khan Noonien Singh in the Mutara Nebula in 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath

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It's a Family Affair: Sly and the Family Stone Want to Take You "Higher!" With New Career-Spanning Box Set

May 31, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Epic Records and Legacy Recordings want you to have some hot fun in the summertime. On August 27, the labels will release the first-ever career-spanning box set dedicated to Sly and the Family Stone, as previewed on Record Store Day 2013.  The box succinctly entitled Higher! wants to take you there.  77 tracks chronicle the period between 1964 and 1977, and 17 of those recordings are previously unissued. Sly Stone, born Sylvester Stewart in 1943, couldn’t hide his prodigious musical talents

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Sly & The Family Stone

The Art of Excellence: Tony Bennett's Columbia Catalogue Reissued On CD and Digital Formats

May 31, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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"My ambition has always been to create a hit catalogue rather than hit records," wrote Tony Bennett in 2011.  Of course, the modest Mr. Bennett has managed to do both.  He's charted successful singles and continues to chart albums, but has also crafted a catalogue distinguished by its sustained excellence. On the same day as the release of Bennett/Brubeck, the landmark 1962 concert performance of Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck, Sony’s Legacy Recordings also made good on a couple of other

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Categories: News Tags: Tony Bennett

Review: Tabu Wave 2 - Alexander O'Neal, Cherrelle, Kathy Mathis and The S.O.S. Band

May 30, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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The earth has music for those who listen, proclaimed Clarence Avant's Tabu Records label.  A major force in contemporary R&B from the late 1970s through the 1990s, Tabu followed in the footsteps of other black-owned, independent music empires as Berry Gordy's Motown and Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International.  While Tabu never achieved the same level of crossover success as those aforementioned labels, it indeed picked up the torch of "The Sound of Young America," and its

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Categories: News, Reviews Tags: The S.O.S. Band

Rock & Roll Revival: Edsel Plans Massive Box for U.K. Act Showaddywaddy

May 29, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Fans of classic rock and roll revival act Showaddywaddy have got quite the box set coming their way from Edsel in June. The Complete Studio Recordings 1973-1987 collects just about the band's entire output, released or otherwise, in a 10-disc set. The U.K. act rose to almost improbable fame in the mid-to-late '70s by dressing up in 1950s-London fashion (known to the uninitiated as "Teddy Boy" subculture) and covering a host of old-time rock songs, from Buddy Holly ("Heartbeat") and Eddie

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WE HAVE OUR WINNERS! Judas Priest's "Epitaph," on DVD and Blu-Ray from Legacy Recordings, Are YOURS (and There's More!)

May 29, 2013 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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CLICK THE BANNER ABOVE TO FIND OUT WHO WON!

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD

Review: Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck, "Bennett/Brubeck: The White House Sessions, Live 1962"

May 29, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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It was a Tuesday afternoon in Camelot when giants met. These giants weren’t the types who resided in the clouds atop beanstalks, of course.  These were giants of a decidedly more earthy variety.  It was at the behest of John F. Kennedy’s White House that Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck came together.  On August 28, 1962, they shared a bill at the base of the Washington Monument as a parting gift to an audience of college-age interns who had served that summer in the nation’s capital.  Following

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Tony Bennett

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