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Release Round-Up: Week of April 8

April 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!

Ronnie Spector - English Heart

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Ronnie Spector, English Heart (Savoy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The one and only Ronnie Spector returns with an all-new studio album saluting her British Invasion friends. Expect Ronnie-ized renditions of the Jagger/Richards-written "I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys" (as "I'd Much Rather Be with the Girls") as well as "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying," "Tell Her No," "Girl Don't Come" and more!  Amazon has an exclusive CD/DVD edition as well as an exclusive autographed vinyl LP!  You can access all formats from the links above!

Charlotte Sweet

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Michael Colby and Gerald Jay Markoe, Charlotte Sweet: Original Cast Recording (JAY Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD)

The Original Cast Recording of the beloved 1982 off-Broadway musical by Michael Colby and Gerald Jay Markoe receives a deluxe, expanded reissue - complete for the very first time on 2 CDs.  None other than Leonard Cohen presciently observed, "I loved the show. Some of those songs are classic theatre pieces - I think they'll be around for a long time."  Charlotte Sweet is available at Amazon.com, above, but those who order directly from JAY Records will receive a CD-R of Colby and Markoe's related Christmas musical, Ludlow Ladd!

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Michael Colby and Paul Katz, Tales of Tinseltown (JAY Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD)

Michael Colby and Paul Katz's deliciously funny showbiz musical Tales of Tinseltown receives its premiere recording on April 8 on this dazzling new CD produced by Jeffrey Lesser (Rupert Holmes, Barbra Streisand) and starring a theatrical Who's Who: Harriet Harris, Richard Kind, Klea Blackhurst, Christina Bianco, Jake Epstein, Nat Chandler, Tony Yazbeck and Alison Fraser!

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Deep Purple, Stormbringer: 35th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

On the occasion of Deep Purple's induction tonight into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rhino brings the 35th anniversary CD/DVD edition of 1974's Stormbringer back into print for the U.S. market featuring the original album, surround mixes, and more.

Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band

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Deep Purple, Come Taste the Band: 35th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Stormbringer is joined by another re-reissue: this time, of 1975's Come Taste the Band.  This edition features the original album and 2010 remixes on two CDs.

Tiny Tim - The Complete Singles Collection

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Tiny Tim, The Complete Singles Collection (1966-1970) (Now Sounds) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Now Sounds is tip-toeing through the tulips once again with the first-ever Complete Singles Collection (spanning the years 1966-1970) for the late Tiny Tim.  This set includes the original single mixes of all of Tiny's Reprise singles, as well as his debut 45 on Blue Cat and his post-Reprise era one-off single for Scepter Records, for the first time ever on CD!  Many of the rare mono mixes are also making first-time CD appearances.  All tracks have been remastered from the original tapes!  Includes "Tip-Toe Thru the Tulips with Me," "April Showers," "Fill Your Heart," "Great Balls of Fire," "What the World Needs Now is Love," and many more!  Watch for a full report soon!

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Johnny Mandel, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea: Original Soundtrack (Kritzerland)

Kritzerland brings Johnny Mandel's stirring, melodic score to the 1976 film starring Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles to CD.  (Kristofferson even supplied the melody to the movie's "Sea Dream.")  Pre-orders are open now; the album is due the second week of May, though pre-orders from Kritzerland usually arrive an average of four weeks early.

Nicolette Larson - BGO Three-Fer

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Nicolette Larson, Nicolette/In the Nick of Time/Radioland (BGO) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

BGO brings together the first three albums by the late Nicolette Larson - Nicolette, In the Nick of Time and Radioland - in one 2-CD slipcased edition.

Spinners - Can't Shake and Labor of Love

Spinners, Can't Shake This Feelin'/Labor of Love (Expansion) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Expansion brings two late-period, post-Thom Bell Spinners albums to one CD.  Can't Shake This Feelin' was produced by James Mtume and Reggie Lucas and features a recording of Bell's Delfonics hit "Didn't I Blow Your Mind (This Time)" while the Michael Zager-helmed Labor of Love has a medley of Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More" plus "Nothing Remains the Same."  Note that the latter LP is complete here unlike on Collectables' prior CD reissue.

Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Deep Purple, Johnny Mandel, Nicolette Larson, Ronnie Spector, The Spinners, Tiny TIm

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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 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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Comments

  1. Vince says

    April 8, 2016 at 4:02 am

    Hilarious that Nicolette's much loved remix of Lotta Love has now been excluded from 4 different CD reissues in a row. Slapping albums together for remastering just isn't enough these days.

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  2. Magnus Hägermyr says

    April 8, 2016 at 3:04 pm

    "I'd much rather be with the boys" is a Stones-tune really out of their character sounding very much "spectorian". Suitable for Ronnie then. Maybe Nina Simone rightly would disagree that "Don't let me be missunderstood" was part of the British invension but that only shows what a great band The Animals was.

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