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Release Round-Up: Week of October 14

October 14, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Diana Ross - Eaten Alive

Diana Ross, Why Do Fools Fall in Love / Silk Electric / Ross / Swept Away / Eaten Alive / Red Hot Rhythm and Blues (Expanded Editions) (Funky Town Grooves)

Why Do Fools Fall in Love: Expanded Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)
Silk Electric: Expanded Edition  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)
Ross: Expanded Edition  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)
Swept Away: Deluxe Edition  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)
Eaten Alive: Deluxe Edition  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)
Red Hot Rhythm and Blues: Deluxe Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Funky Town Grooves has remastered and expanded all six of Miss Ross' RCA albums, first released between 1981 and 1987 during what turned out to be an extended hiatus from Motown.  These editions are loaded with rarities and remixes; see full details here!

Foreigner - Complete

Foreigner, The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977-1991 (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Rhino boxes up 7 CDs from Foreigner, including five U.S. multi-platinum smash LPs and hits like "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Feels Like the First Time," "Cold as Ice," "Hot Blooded,"  and "I Want to Know What Love Is."

Essential Kinks

The Kinks, The Essential Kinks (RCA/Arista/Legacy)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Legacy kicks off its Kinks campaign (kampaign?) with this 48-song, 2-CD anthology featuring just about every Kinks hit except for the original studio recording of "Lola."  (A live recording from 1979 takes its place.)  Every track has been newly (and splendidly) remastered by Vic Anesini, and the deluxe 28-page booklet include liner notes from David Bowie and critic Bob Mehr, plus appreciations from Iggy Pop, Howard Kaylan, Creed Bratton, Pete Townshend and many more!

Jaco Anthology

Jaco Pastorius, Anthology: The Warner Bros. Years (Warner Bros./Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Rhino has 2 CDs and 22 tracks from jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius (1951-1987) drawing on the albums Word of Mouth, Invitation and The Birthday Concert plus tracks on which Jaco joined Mike Stern and Airto Moreira and one previously unreleased bonus track, "Donna Lee," from 1981.  Bill Milkowski, author of Jaco: The Extraordinary And Tragic Life Of Jaco Pastorius, provides new liner notes.

Ozzy - Memoirs

Ozzy Osbourne, Memoirs of a Madman (Legacy)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

2-LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

This career spanning release features 17 of the Black Sabbath legend's greatest hit singles compiled in one place for the first time in his career and will be available in a single CD, two-LP set and two-LP picture disc set configurations. The companion 2-DVD set includes classic music videos, plus previously unreleased and out-of-print live performances, and interviews from his solo career.

Sly - Stone Flower

Sly Stone, I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-1970 (Light in the Attic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. )

During those creatively fertile days of the late 1960s, producer-arranger-composer Sly Stone couldn't be confined to work with his band Sly and the Family Stone, so he formed the Stone Flower label and production company.  Stone Flower released a handful of tracks on its own label as well as on Scepter and Atlantic by the artists Little Sister, Joe Hicks, and 6ix; those are collected here along with ten previously unissued songs.  The sound on these tracks recalls the Family Stone's groundbreaking There's a Riot Goin' On thanks to Sly's use of the early Rhythm King drum machine/beat box.  Light in the Attic packages this fascinating and essential chapter of the Sly and the Family Stone story with a 52-page booklet including a new interview by Alec Palao with Stone himself.  Also available on vinyl.

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Dean Martin, The Essential Dean Martin (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. )

Legacy has 40 tracks on 2 CDs from the king of cool, Dean Martin.  Though this compilation concentrates on Dino's Reprise years, five key Capitol cuts are included as well as one late-period single at Warner Bros. Records.  You'll hear "Volare," "That's Amore," "Sway," "Everybody Loves Somebody," "Memories Are Made of This," "Houston," "I Will" and many more on this set which has been remastered by Vic Anesini and annotated by James Ritz.

Meat Loaf - Icon

Meat Loaf, ICON (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Universal's budget-priced ICON series is back with a new entry for Meat Loaf.  This odd volume features six of the eleven tracks from 1993's smash hit comeback Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and four songs from its follow-up, 1995's Welcome to the Neighborhood.  "Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)" from Rocky Horror rounds out the 11-song compilation.

White Christmas BD

White Christmas: Diamond Edition Blu-ray with CD (Paramount) (Amazon U.S.)

This new Blu-ray edition of the 1956 musical film has, among its bonus features, a 12-song CD featuring Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney, with guest appearances by Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Judy Garland. Eight of the songs on this exclusive bonus CD are previously unreleased.

Miles - Bitches Brew SACD

Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (Hybrid SACD) (Mobile Fidelity) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

The great trumpeter's revolutionary 1970 jazz-rock double album arrives on stereo hybrid SACD as part of Mobile Fidelity's series of Davis reissues.

Peyroux - Keep Me in Your Heart

Madeleine Peyroux, Keep Me In Your Heart For A While: The Best Of Madeleine Peyroux (Rounder) (Amazon U.S.)

Here's the very first compilation release in the singer-songwriter's 18-year career, including tracks from the Rounder, Atlantic and Decca/Emarcy catalogues. Keep Me in Your Heart will include one previously unreleased song, the Warren Zevon title track which appeared in 2011's independent film Union Square. Liner notes by former Atlantic Records A&R man Yves Beauvais, complete the package of the chanteuse's greatest performances.  A 2-CD edition is also available from Amazon U.K. with 27 tracks vs. the domestic version's 15.

Strayhorn

Billy Strayhorn, Out of the Shadows (Storyville) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

This 7-CD/1-DVD box set from venerable label Storyville turns the spotlight on a man who preferred to remain in the shadow of his close friend, collaborator and benefactor, Duke Ellington.  62 of Strayhorn's compositions are presented here, both with and without Duke's company, featuring such personnel as Art Tatum, Tommy Flanagan, Johnny Hodges, Clark Terry and Ben Webster plus Strayhorn and Ellington.  Tracks were recorded between 1939 and 2007; see here for more details!

Essential Swing Out Sister

Swing Out Sister, The Essential Swing Out Sister (Salvo) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. )

This set has 17 tracks from the Manchester band formed in 1985 including their breakout hit "Breakout" and more originals and covers like "La La Means I Love You," "Am I the Same Girl" and "The Windmills of Your Mind."  This survey of the sophisti-pop duo's career concludes with a previously unreleased "Big Band" version of "Forever Blue," a track arranged in its original version by Jimmy Webb.

Seger - Ride Out

Bob Seger, Ride Out (Capitol) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. )

The Detroit rocker returns with his first studio album since 2006 and seventeenth overall.  It's available in a variety of formats including deluxe edition CD, vinyl and a Target exclusive with two bonus tracks.

Our Man Flint

 

Jerry Goldsmith, Our Man Flint/In Like Flint: Original Motion Picture Scores (Intrada)

Intrada brings two of Jerry Goldsmith's grooviest scores to CD for the very first time, remastered from the recently discovered original 20th Century Fox stereo album session masters! Differing from the Varese Sarabande release of soundtrack highlights from these spy capers, this single disc offers both classic original albums exactly as Goldsmith recorded them.  For more background, see Joe's review of Our Man Flint at The Digital Bits!

Summer of '42

Michel Legrand, Summer of '42/The Picasso Summer: Original Motion Picture Scores (Intrada)

Here's the world premiere expanded release of two "summer" Michel Legrand soundtracks including his Oscar-winning score for Summer Of '42 (1971).  Legrand's complete score runs just 17 minutes, so to fill the original Warner Bros. soundtrack album, 30 minutes of his score for the 1969 film The Picasso Summer was included.   Intrada premieres the entire 55-minute Picasso score on the second disc of this 2-CD set, while the original album assembly of his "Picasso Suite" also plays intact on CD 1, following Summer Of '42.

Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Strayhorn, Bing Crosby, Bob Seger, Diana Ross, Foreigner, Madeleine Peyroux, Michel Legrand, Miles Davis, Ozzy Osbourne, Swing Out Sister, The Kinks

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Joe Marchese

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, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. 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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Comments

  1. Zubb says

    October 14, 2014 at 12:39 pm

    Is there a track listing for CD with the White Christmas Blu Ray DVD/CD? I am hoping that it is the actual sound track recording featuring Rosemary Clooney instead of the tracks recorded by Peggy Lee. I realize that back then there were label obligations that prevented Rosemary from appearing on a Decca release, thus Peggy Lee was called in to record Clooney's parts for the LP release but after all these years you would think we could finally get the actual sound track. The masters that Crosby, Clooney, Kaye and Trudy Stevens recorded for the film have to be in the vault somewhere, not to mention the orchestral and incidental music score. It's about time to give us White Christmas fans that original soundtrack on CD.

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    • Tom says

      October 14, 2014 at 12:52 pm

      I can confirm it isn't the original WC soundtrack. It's a collection of Christmas songs by different singers.

      So... we continue to wait for a proper White Christmas soundtrack. Maybe Intrada or La-La Land could finally make it happen.

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      • Joe Marchese says

        October 14, 2014 at 12:53 pm

        Here's the track list. I believe these are all radio-sourced performances, eight of which have never before been released on CD:

        1. Winter Wonderland – Rosemary Clooney
        2. Deck the Halls/Away in a Manger/O, Little Town of Bethlehem/The First Noel – Bing Crosby
        3. Waltz Around the Christmas Tree – Danny Kaye
        4. Marshmallow World – Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald
        5. The Christmas Song – Rosemary Clooney
        6. Just What I Wanted For Christmas – Bing Crosby
        7. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town – Rosemary Clooney
        8. Jingle Bells – Danny Kaye & Peggy Lee
        9. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
        10. Home For The Holidays – Rosemary Clooney
        11. Some Children See Him – Danny Kaye
        12. The Night Before Christmas – Bing Crosby

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