50 years ago, singer Vince Hill had a most unexpected hit when his rendition of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Edelweiss," from The Sound of Music, rose to the No. 2 slot on the U.K. Singles Chart, remaining on the survey for an impressive seventeen weeks. The success of "Edelweiss" sent the same-titled LP up to a top 25 berth on the Albums chart, establishing the big-voiced vocalist as a top draw on stage and on records. Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment label has begun a series of
Guaranteed to Raise a Smile: The Second Disc Hears The 50th Anniversary "Sgt. Pepper" Remix
NEW YORK (NY) - Could it really be getting better? That was a fair question on the lips of the crowd assembled last Friday, April 28, at New York City's World of McIntosh Townhouse. The Second Disc was privileged to be among those members of the press assembled for a "first listen" to the upcoming 50th anniversary stereo remix of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, due for release on May 26 from Capitol, UMe, and Apple Records. Jeff Jones, the chief executive of Apple Corps,
Groove Is In The Heart: Cherry Red Expands Titles From Deee-Lite, Jermaine Stewart, The Adventures
Today, we're looking at three recent releases from Cherry Red and Cherry Pop! With 1990's World Clique, Deee-Lite proved that "Groove is in the Heart." The lead-off single from the house/club group's debut record became an international hit, reaching the top 5 in the United States and United Kingdom, and topping the U.S. Dance chart. Cherry Pop has expanded World Clique, a top 20 entry on the Billboard 200, into a 2-CD set with a bonus disc of remixes. Vocalist Lady Miss Kier from
WIN! WIN! WIN! Varese Reissues Dave Grusin's Soundtrack to "On Golden Pond"
When The Hollywood Reporter asked Jane Fonda in 2011 to identify her proudest moment, the second-generation film star offered, "Certainly producing On Golden Pond and giving the Oscar to my father five months before he died was very special." Indeed, Jane had purchased the rights to Ernest Thompson's stage play in order to give her father a final big-screen hurrah. On Golden Pond, produced by and co-starring Jane, netted three Academy Awards - for Henry Fonda, his equally legendary co-star
Back To The Tallahatchie Bridge: Kritzerland Reissues Bobbie Gentry, Michel Legrand's "Ode to Billy Joe"
Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge and right into the hearts and minds of listeners as the subject of Bobbie Gentry's gothic mystery in song, "Ode to Billie Joe." The 1967 single from the country songstress - recorded far from Chickasaw County, Mississippi, in Hollywood, California - went to No. 1 on the U.S. Hot 100 while also charting on the Easy Listening, Country, and R&B (!) surveys. It topped the charts in Canada, and made an impressive No. 13 showing in the
Review: Van Morrison, "The Authorized Bang Collection"
The first sound that jumps out at you after inserting Van Morrison's The Authorized Bang Collection is that of the familiar "Brown Eyed Girl," but something about it is different. As presented in its original stereo mix as remastered from the original 1967 first-generation tape, it's more vibrant than ever, with pronounced instrumental separation and a crisp sheen - as if that misty morning fog has been lifted, and the green grass smells fresher than ever. It will have you singing sha la la la
Release Round-Up: Week of April 28
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, Supremes A' Go-Go: Expanded Edition (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Here we A' Go-Go! The Supremes' landmark, chart-topping 1966 album (with "You Can't Hurry Love" and "Love is Like An Itching In My Heart" - and that's just for starters!) gets lavishly expanded on two remastered CDs. This release has got it all: mono and stereo mixes of the original album, a whopping 29 bonus tracks (a full 24 of which
I'm A Believer: Varese Reissues The Golden Gate Strings' Monkees Tribute
Tomorrow, April 28, Varese Vintage will reissue one of the most delightfully unexpected Monkees-related titles in recent memory with the compact disc premiere of Stu Phillips Presents The Monkees Songbook, as played by The Golden Gate Strings. The 1967 Epic Records release featured ten favorites from the height of Monkeemania, all rendered in lushly orchestral "easy listening" style. Veteran composer-arranger Stu Phillips (Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider) spearheaded the project.
Ella Fitzgerald at 100: Analog Spark Reissues "The Cole Porter Song Book" On SACD and Vinyl
Today, Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 100 years old. While the First Lady of Song passed away in 1996 at the age of 79, her rich legacy of music has hardly waned. She recorded over a remarkable seven-decade span, from 1935 through the early 1990s, yet her most significant contribution to the canon of American song just might be her Songbook series. Between 1956 and 1964, Fitzgerald teamed with a variety of arrangers (including Buddy Bregman, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Nelson
Shining Stars: SoulMusic Anthologizes The Manhattans, Mother's Finest, Norman Connors
Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint has continued its collection of artist-focused anthologies with another batch of releases drawn from the Sony Music family of labels. This group includes 2-CD sets for the smooth vocal group The Manhattans, jazz/R&B soul man Norman Connors, and funk band Mother's Finest. Though they were named The Manhattans, their story is actually a tri-state one. The group came together in Jersey City, New Jersey, took their name from the city across the Hudson
Coming Up Roses: Analog Spark Reissues Classic Musicals From Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, More
Analog Spark kicked off 2016 with a trio of cast recordings - Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, and West Side Story - on deluxe 180-gram vinyl LPs, and now, the label is welcoming this spring with another three landmark titles from the Sony vaults: Columbia Records' original Broadway cast recordings of South Pacific (1949), Gypsy (1959), and Company (1970) - each one representing a classic period of American musical theatre. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's South Pacific, the
Keep On Movin': Robinsongs Reissues Funky Jazz from Deodato and Fuse One
Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint has recently released a pair of two-fers sure to excite jazz fusion fans. Keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Eumir Deodato began his career as a major proponent of the bossa nova scene in his native Brazil, and soon became a sought-after arranger for the likes of Roberta Flack, George Benson, and even The Chairman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra. Although he had been a solo recording artist since the early 1960s, Deodato's solo career took off at Creed
Shell Shocked: The Turtles Come to Vinyl for Record Store Day U.K.
Demon Music Group is showing a display of Turtle Power for Record Store Day U.K. this Saturday! On that date, the label will unveil the 6-LP box set The Albums Collection, collecting all of The Turtles' original White Whale Records albums originally released between 1965 and 1970. Though The Turtles have long been recognized as top-flight purveyors of classic 45s, a journey through their compact yet potent six-album catalogue unearths numerous riches beyond the big hits. With a gleeful sense
Release Round-Up: Week of April 21
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Honeybeat: '60s Groovy Girl-Pop (Real Gone Music) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Honeybeat: Groovy 60s Girl Pop, curated by Sheila Burgel from the Sony archives and released on Real Gone Music, features 19 songs from nine different labels, nearly a third of which have never been released on CD. While some tracks come from known artists such as Little Eva, Skeeter
Review: The Doors, "The Doors: 50th Anniversary Edition"
Suffice it to say that Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, and John Densmore set the night on fire with their debut album, the 1967 Elektra release of The Doors. That amalgamation of blues, rock, pop, jazz, and pure poetry has recently turned 50 years old, and so it's received its first-ever box set expansion from Rhino as a limited, numbered 3-CD/1-LP hardcover book-style box set including both the original mono and stereo mixes of the original LP (with the mono version appearing on CD
With A "Z": Cherry Red Reissues Two Columbia Albums From Liza Minnelli, Plans "Results" Box
When Columbia Records released Liza Minnelli's The Singer in March 1973, the album's understated title wasn't nearly enough to encapsulate her many facets. The singer-dancer-actress had, in fact, already received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress - the second one of which, for Cabaret, would result in a win that very same month. Just two months later, in May, her television variety special Liza with a Z would win multiple Emmy Awards. The Singer inaugurated the third major-label
Review: Fleetwood Mac, "Tango in the Night: Deluxe Edition"
The music of Fleetwood Mac could fairly be said to define the 1970s - in all its style, tumult, and excess. Where did that leave the union of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham once a new decade emerged? 1982's Mirage found Fleetwood Mac trying to recapture the magic of 1977's epochal Rumours, and succeeding in large part. Yet Mirage felt as if it firmly had one foot planted in the previous decade. With its belated follow-up, 1987's Tango in the
Somewhere In The World: Playback Collects Sixties Pop, Jazz and Gospel From Judy Jacques
Playback Records' second recent jazz-oriented release comes from Melbourne's Judy Jacques. Whereas Sue Barker's brand of jazz was a soulful one with strains of pop and rock, Jacques' style was firmly in the "trad jazz" camp derived from New Orleans and Dixieland. The Sixties Sessions collects 24 tracks recorded between 1962 and 1966 from the solo artist (including some atypical pop sides) as well as The Yarra Yarra New Orleans Jazz Band, and Judy Jacques and Her Gospel Four. When she was
Big White Cloud: Ace Collects Folk Rock Sounds on "English Weather"
To many, the phrase "English weather" conjures images of fog, clouds, and rain. To Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, English weather means something "melodic, melancholy, with jazz and folk touches, and the same similar shrug of resignation..." So explains the compilers of the recent English Weather, an absorbing 18-track compendium from Ace Records collecting rare and unusual songs that might be, in their words, akin to "an unfamiliar album with a hint of Crosby, Stills and Nash, but an identifiably
Release Round-Up: Week of April 14
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Michael Nesmith, Infinite Tuesday: Autobiographical Riffs - The Music (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino Records offers a 14-track companion CD to Michael Nesmith's memoir Infinite Tuesday - An Autobiographical Riff (due on April 18). This collection has tracks from Nesmith solo as well as The Monkees and The First National Band, charting his singular and often-trailblazing work over the decades. Read more here! The
The Music Never Stopped: Rhino To Issue Grateful Dead's "Long Strange Trip" Soundtrack
A new documentary reflecting on the legacy of the Grateful Dead is on its way to theatres, and a companion soundtrack release promises to complement the long-awaited motion picture. Long Strange Trip: Motion Picture Soundtrack chronicles the band's history via a selection of career-spanning studio and live performances, including previously unreleased tracks. Two versions of the album - a 2-CD set and an expanded Amazon-exclusive 3-CD edition (both also available on digital download and
Love Byrd: Big Break Collects Funky Jazz-Soul of Donald Byrd's Complete Elektra Years
Trumpeter/bandleader Donald Byrd began his career as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers while still pursuing his master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music. Upon graduating from both institutions, Byrd played with John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, and a host of jazz's finest leaders. By 1958, he was leading his own quintet. Twenty years later, however, much had changed for Byrd and the sound of jazz. After a nearly twenty-year association with the venerable Blue Note
I Just Want to Make Love to You: El Reissues Two From Ann-Margret
"Baby, come and swing with me!" When that invitation was extended by the flame-haired siren known as Ann-Margret, who could resist? Cherry Red's El label has recently reissued two of the sultry entertainer's classic RCA Victor albums on one CD: Songs from The Swinger and Other Swingin' Songs, and the soundtrack to her starring vehicle, The Pleasure Seekers, to create one happily nostalgic musical time capsule for fans of music and movies alike. Ann-Margret Olsson of Valsjobyn, Sweden
The Sound of Old T. Rex: Edsel Loads "Bolan's Zip Gun" In New Deluxe Edition with "Futuristic Dragon"
This fall will mark 40 years since Marc Bolan's untimely death in a car crash in September 1977 at the age of 29, yet in that time, the music he left behind with T. Rex has only grown in stature. Hardly a year has gone by without posthumous compilations, deluxe reissues, and box sets, and 2017 is shaping up similarly. Edsel has recently followed its book-style box sets dedicated to Born to Boogie and the pairing of Tanx and Zinc Alloy with a new 3-CD Deluxe Edition bringing together Bolan's
Release Round-Up: Week of April 7
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! B.J. Thomas, New Looks from an Old Lover-The Complete Columbia Singles (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) New Looks from an Old Lover - The Complete Columbia Singles from B.J. Thomas gathers up all of the A and B sides the singer recorded for that label during his tenure there in the 1980s including the No. 3 Country hit "Two Car Garage" and two No. 1s: "Whatever Happened To Old-Fashioned Love" and "New Looks from an
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