Release Round-Up: Week of June 30

June 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up!

The Beach Boys, 1967: Sunshine Tomorrow (Capitol/Brother/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The Beach Boys’ Sunshine Tomorrow, a new 2-CD and digital collection, not only premieres the first-ever true stereo mix of 1967’s Wild Honey, but also premieres a whopping 54 rarities recorded that year including the live album Lei’d in Hawaii, session material from both Wild Honey and Smiley Smile, and further live recordings (spanning 1967-1970). Read all of the specs here, and tune back in soon for our full review of this landmark compendium of one of The Beach Boys’ most underrated, creatively fertile periods!

The Beau Brummels, The Very Best of The Beau Brummels: The Complete Singles (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Varese Vintage rounds up 16 single sides from San Francisco’s British Invasion-inspired Beau Brummels including hits like “Laugh, Laugh” and “Just a Little” in their original mono mixes, plus rare solo singles from singer Sal Valentino on this single-disc collection. Watch for a full report soon!

Beach House, B-Sides and Rarities (Sub Pop)

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

The acclaimed Baltimore-based psych-rock/dream-pop duo (consisting of French-born, niece-of-Michel vocalist/keyboardist Victoria Legrand and guitarist/bassist Alex Scally) rounds up 14 rarities and previously unreleased songs and mixes on this new collection. Read all of the details right here!

Various Artists, Gotta Get Up! The Songs of Harry Nilsson 1965-1972 (Ace) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Put the lime in the coconut, and get ready to enjoy a collection of the early songs of the one and only Harry Nilsson as performed by a galaxy of pop artists including The Monkees, The Yardbirds, The 5th Dimension, Al Kooper, Sandie Shaw, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Andy Williams! Watch for a full review soon!

Peggy March, If You Loved Me: RCA Recordings from Around the World (Ace) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Ace “will follow” the career of the onetime “Little” Peggy March on this fun anthology of her international recordings from the swinging sixties including tracks released in Japan, Italy, Germany, France, and The Netherlands. You’ll find songs in English and other languages, among them tunes penned by Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and Randy Newman – and it’s all wrapped up with a new essay by Sheryl Farber and Peggy’s own track-by-track notes.

Various Artists, Marylebone Beat Girls (Ace) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Ace continues its rocking Beat Girls series with a new volume drawing on the girl-pop recordings made by the Marylebone-based EMI’s family of labels between 1964 and 1967! Featured artists include Billie Davis, Alma Cogan, Julie Driscoll, Helen Shapiro, Beryl Marsden, and of course, Cilla Black! Available in a 25-track CD iteration and a 12-track vinyl LP version!

Art Pepper Presents West Coast Sessions Vol. 3: Lee Konitz / Vol. 4: Bill Watrous (Omnivore)

Vol. 3: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Vol. 4: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Omnivore continues its series of expanded editions of jazz great Art Pepper’s records for Atlas Japan, which featured the alto saxophonist playing sideman to a host of renowned musicians including, here, Lee Konitz and Bill Watrous!

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock

Tags:

Art Pepper, Beach House, Harry Nilsson, Peggy March, The Beach Boys, The Beau Brummels, Various Artists

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.