Bobby Darin

Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music's Go Ahead & Back Up: The Lost Motown Masters lifts the curtain on the final years of Bobby Darin's life and career with 24 never-before-released recordings directly from the Motown vaults, their existence largely unknown to even Darin's most ardent collectors and biographers.  This years-in-the-making project (the landmark 25th release for Second Disc Records) premieres a lost album produced by Bobby in the raw, stripped-down style of his stage shows of the period; a return to standards as only Bobby could have recorded; and an entire album's worth of stunning, surprising tracks written and produced by Motown's cream of the crop including Smokey Robinson, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, The Corporation, Jerry Marcellino and Mel Larson, and Mike Randall.  TSD's Joe Marchese has co-produced with Motown's Andrew Skurow, and everything has been mastered by Kevin Reeves from the original Motown tapes.  A deluxe 28-page booklet designed by John Sellards includes liner notes, track-by-track annotations, and rare, never-before-published photographs!