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Release Round-Up: Week of June 17

June 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up!

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Chicago, Quadio (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD / Amazon Canada)

This week’s biggest and most hotly-anticipated release, Chicago’s Quadio, brings together nine albums from the legendary band in remastered high-resolution 192/24 DTS-HD Master Audio in both their original quadraphonic and stereo mixes on nine Blu-ray discs.  This lavish celebration of the Windy City’s favorite band is housed in a rigid two-piece box, with every album presented in a replica sleeve promised to “replicate the original release down to the last detail, including mini-posters, and the iron-on that came with Chicago VIII.”  Read the full albums list and more here!

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Grace Jones, Warm Leatherette various editions (Universal U.K.)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
Blu-ray Pure Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD

Universal U.K. brings a variety of reissues of Grace Jones’ Warm Leatherette, her fourth record and her first of three recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, The Bahamas. Working with a sensational team that included producers/engineers/mixers Chris Blackwell and Alex Sadkin, keyboardist Wally Badarou and the immortal rhythm section of Sly and Robbie, Jones fused R&B, New Wave, disco and reggae into a formula that would influence the general sound of pop music for generations. With unorthodox covers of The Pretenders (“Private Life”), Tom Petty (“Breakdown”), Smokey Robinson (“The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game”) and Roxy Music (“Love is the Drug”), Warm Leatherette became the first act in Jones’ incredible ’80s career, as a singer, actress, muse and all-around icon.  Available in 2-CD, 4-LP and Blu-ray Audio configurations.  Note that Amazon seems to have mislabeled the 2-CD edition as “Blu-ray Audio” for both the U.S. and U.K., and the U.K. site does not have a link to the actual BD release which you can see on the Amazon U.S. link, above.  Read more here!

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The Kingbees, The Big Rock: Expanded Edition (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Omnivore expands The Kingbees’ 1981 RSO swansong with four bonus tracks appearing for the first time on CD!  The Big Rock, celebrating its 35th anniversary, features The Kingbees’ trademark blend of rock-and-roll, punk and country in full force.  After the original release of the album in 1981, The Kingbees disbanded. Shortly thereafter, Jamie James recorded four new songs with a brand new rhythm section. Those songs comprise the bonus tracks for this expanded edition.  James also supplies his own recollections in the liner notes!  Available on CD and DD.

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Keith Emerson, Nighthawks: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

We missed this recent release, but we didn’t want you to miss it!  Varese has a fine new reissue of the 1981 soundtrack for Nighthawks starring Sylvester Stallone and Billy Dee Williams, composed by the late, great Keith Emerson.  The prog legend’s score – his first for an American film – also features his own vocal on the Stevie Winwood classic “I’m a Man” as well as a vocal by Johnny Mathis’ onetime duet partner Paulette McWilliams on “Nighthawking.”  Jerry McCulley has written new liner notes just for this release, and remastering is by Chas Ferry and Daren Chadwick.

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Bobby Darin, In a Broadway Bag: Expanded Edition (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Bobby Darin teamed with arrangers Shorty Rogers and Perry Botkin Jr. for this 1966 Atlantic Records LP featuring swinging renditions of then-recent Broadway showtunes from musicals including Mame, Golden Boy, Skyscraper and most notably Funny Girl (Bobby’s “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” immortalized in the film American Beauty).  Edsel’s standalone reissue is housed in a digipak and features three previously issued bonus tracks, all from period Atlantic singles: “Walking in the Shadow of Love,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Merci Cherie.” Read more here!

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Bobby Darin, Sings The Shadow of Your Smile: Expanded Edition (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Bobby Darin’s 1966 Sings The Shadow of Your Smile marked the superstar’s return to Atlantic Records.  The album, arranged by Shorty Rogers and Richard Wess, was titled after the Oscar- and Grammy-winning Johnny Mandel/Paul Francis Webster tune from the 1965 film The Sandpiper.  Joining “The Shadow” were its four fellow  Oscar nominees for Best Original Song: Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini’s “The Sweetheart Tree” (The Great Race), Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “What’s New Pussycat” (from the film of the same name), Michel Legrand, Jacques Demy and Norman Gimbel’s “I Will Wait for You” (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and Hal’s brother Mack David and Jerry Livingston’s “The Ballad of Cat Ballou” (Cat Ballou).  The album, rounded out by standards and a Darin original, has four bonus tracks in Edsel’s digipak reissue all culled from original singles: “We Didn’t Ask to Be Brought Here,” “Funny What Love Can Do,” “The Breaking Point” and “Silver Dollar.”  Read the full track listing and more here!

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John Phillips, John, The Wolf King of L.A. (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Varese Vintage has a special vinyl reissue this week: the first solo album (and only one released during his lifetime) from The Mamas and the Papas’ John Phillips.  John, The Wolf King of L.A. was produced by Lou Adler and featured the contributions of Wrecking Crew veterans including Hal Blaine, Joe Osborn, James Burton and Larry Knechtel.  This snapshot of 1969-1970 Los Angeles features “April Anne,” “Topanga Canyon,” “Mississippi” and more, all classics from the pen of one of the era’s finest songwriters.

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Toni Braxton, Toni Braxton: Expanded Edition (Funky Town Grooves) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

FTG’s expanded edition of Toni Braxton’s dynamic debut arrives next Tuesday, June 21.  This 1993 classic introduced the hit singles “Another Sad Love Song” and “Breathe Again,” and became a Grammy-winning triumph for the artist.  This 2-CD reissue adds 21 bonus tracks of rare singles, remixes and more including Braxton’s performance of the perennial “The Christmas Song.”

Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Chicago, Grace Jones, John Phillips, Keith Emerson, The Kingbees, Toni Braxton

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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