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Real Gone Music is winding back the clock a few decades with reissues that are sure to please crate-diggers.  First, on June 12, the label will release two mid-’80s cult classics – Kleeer’s Intimate Connection and the Predator soundtrack.  Fiftieth anniversary reissues of Eugene McDaniels’ Outlaw and Fanny’s self-titled debut will follow on June 26.

Long a favorite of electro-funk connoisseurs, New York-based Kleeer recorded half a dozen acclaimed albums for Atlantic.  One of their most enduring is Intimate Connection, which will see a limited run on “red telephone” color vinyl.

With production by famed CTI alum Eumir Deodato, the dancefloor-ready grooves found throughout the album have influenced countless musicians in the last 35 years.  In fact, Tupac Shakur not only sampled the album’s title track (find it on 1995’s “California Love”), but also used pieces of Kleeer’s “Tonight.”  Now’s your chance to go back to the source of those grooves with this special run limited to only 1,000 copies.

The same day, Real Gone Music will re-reissue a cult favorite among soundtrack recordings with a blood-red/neon green vinyl edition of Alan Silvestri’s original score – limited to a run of 1,000.

Previously released on CD by Intrada and on vinyl by Real Gone, the “complete and definitive edition” of the material now returns to the latter format with a front cover design by Rafal Wechterowicz featuring the titular character.  Add to it a deluxe gatefold sleeve, and it’s a must for any vinyl-loving soundtrack collector.

Two weeks later, on June 26, Real Gone will celebrate two lost classics from 1970: Eugene McDaniels’ Outlaw and Fanny’s self-titled debut.  Eugene McDaniels had already tasted fame when he released Outlaw on Atlantic in 1970.  “A Hundred Pounds of Clay,” “Tower of Strength,” and “Point of No Return” had been crossover hits almost a decade earlier, while his Vietnam protest song “Compared To What” had been recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival by Les McCann and Eddie Harris mere months before.

That antiwar anthem was something of a launching pad for the album to come.  Outlaw  left no doubt as to McDaniels’ association with political resistance.  In fact, legend has that members of President Nixon’s administration were so offended with the material that they took it up with Atlantic Records, urging the label to cease their association with McDaniels.  Fifty years on, in a new period of civil unrest, the oft-sampled grooves of McDaniels, Ron Carter, Eric Weissberg, Hugh McCracken, and co. remain as insightful as ever.  The 50th Anniversary reissue will be limited to just 700 copies, each pressed on neon red vinyl and paired with liner notes from Pat Thomas, featuring quotations from McDaniels.  Record club Vinyl Me, Please will have another color variant available, this one cloudy clear with black smoke.  That run will be limited to only 300 copies and will be available exclusively to members.

Also on June 26, Real Gone Music will shine a spotlight on “the godmothers of ‘chick rock,'” Fanny.  The band was the first all-female rock band to be signed to a major label and their self-titled Reprise debut remains a boundary-pusher.  With Richard Perry producing, sisters June and Jean Millington, Alice De Buhr and Nickey Barclay offered up original songs that they played on their own in a style that was just as heavy as any other band.  They quickly became the buzz of the Sunset Strip and have since influenced generations, including including Joan Jett, Girlschool, and Courtney Love.  Real Gone Music’s 50th Anniversary Edition marks the first-ever vinyl reissue (on white vinyl, no less!) and features a reproduction of the original gatefold packaging.  It will be limited to only 700 copies.  Once again, Vinyl Me Please will carry a member-exclusive variant pressed on orange and blue splatter vinyl.  The special colorway will be limited to 500 copies.

So get ready to revisit some lost classics from decades passed this June!  You can find all the details and Amazon (and Vinyl Me Please where applicable) order links below!

Kleeer, Intimate Connection (originally Atlantic LP 780145-1, 1984 — reissued Real Gone Music LP, 2020) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)