Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has recently unearthed another rock cult classic. Battersea Power Station, from Junior's Eyes, was produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T Rex) and appeared in June 1969 on EMI's Regal Zonophone label. Alas, it was to be the band's only original album release. Esoteric has dusted off Battersea Power Station and reinvigorated the album as a 2-CD set with a bonus disc of singles, demos and sessions, some previously unreleased. Junior's Eyes was led
Ooh La La! Rhino Boxes Up Expanded Editions Of Faces Albums
It's been a long wait, but expanded editions of Faces' four studio albums are finally almost here. On August 28, Rhino Records will release You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975), a 5-CD box set containing expanded editions of all four LPs by the legendary (and legendarily, happily shambolic) rock-and-roll lineup of Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan, plus a bonus disc. Expanded versions of the small but seminal Faces catalogue were first mooted
Let's Hang On! Real Gone Has Four Seasons, Texas Tornados, More in September
We've already told you about the two September releases from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music - Wilson Pickett's The Complete RCA Studio Recordings and an expanded edition of Ricci Martin's all-star California rock classic Beached - but we know that you're going to be just as excited about the entire action-packed Real Gone slate! For starters, it's a line-up that's always in season - with new deluxe mono mini-sleeve editions of The 4 Seasons' first two albums for the first time ever
Catch a Wave! Second Disc Records Expands Ricci Martin's All-Star "Beached" Featuring Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Chicago Horns and More
What if key members of The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, and Wings had teamed up to create one of the greatest California rock albums you've never heard? Well, they actually did! And on September 11, Second Disc Records, in association with Real Gone Music, will be bringing it to CD in the U.S. for the very first time in a newly-remastered and expanded edition! Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and director Ricci Martin, the sixth child of legendary "King of Cool" Dean Martin
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Second Disc Records Presents Complete Wilson Pickett On RCA
You don't have to wait for the midnight hour - Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, is ready now to announce its latest release! We're thrilled to welcome to our label one of the true legends of rhythm and blues, The "Wicked" Wilson Pickett, with the world premiere CD release of Mr. Magic Man: The Complete RCA Studio Recordings. This new 2-CD set is due in stores on September 4. Between 1964 and 1972, Pickett established himself as one of the greatest soul men of all
Review: "The Sound of Music: Original Soundtrack Recording" on SACD
RCA Victor expected the soundtrack album to 1965's big-screen musical The Sound of Music to be a juggernaut. The label backed the release with a $100,000.00 promotional campaign, and arranged for tie-ins at locales including the New York World's Fair. The release was joined on the label's roster by other albums of the already-famous Rodgers and Hammerstein score in styles from jazz (Gary Burton's The Groovy Sound of Music) to "easy listening" (The Living Strings' Music from The Sound of
Take On Me: a-ha's "Hunting High and Low" Goes Super Deluxe With New Box Set
If you set your Wayback Machine to February 1, 2010, you'll find one of The Second Disc's earliest posts - the inaugural Reissue Theory column, dedicated to imagining a 25th anniversary multi-disc edition of a-ha's 1985 debut studio album Hunting High and Low. Well, good things do come to those who wait, because Warner Bros. and Rhino are finally delivering on such a project with the album's upcoming 30th anniversary box set! With 4 CDs and a DVD, this handily bests the 2010 double-CD edition.
Release Round-Up: Week of July 17
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring classic rock, soul and jazz box sets and more! Sly and the Family Stone, Live at the Fillmore East: October 4th and 5th, 1968 (Epic/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Dance to the music! On October 4th and 5th, 1968, shortly after the release of the band's third album Life, Sly & The Family Stone took the stage for a two-night, four-show engagement at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York City. Epic Records recorded all four of
Satisfy Your Soul: RPM Collects Rare Rock and Soul from Larry's Rebels and Ronnie Jones
RPM Records, an imprint of the Cherry Red Group, continues to delve deep into the vaults for another pair of rare rock-and-roll releases. Larry's Rebels has long been a beloved band to fans in the group's native New Zealand; with RPM's release of I Feel Good: The Essential Purple Flashes of Larry's Rebels 1965-1969, the rest of the world can get hip to the Rebels, too! Active for a rough five-year period during which time the band, like so many others, endured personnel changes, Larry's
Bookends: Simon and Garfunkel Reissue "The Concert in Central Park" On CD/DVD, Collect Studio Albums on Vinyl
Legacy Recordings is seeing that the only sound isn't silence with the release this summer of two new projects from Simon and Garfunkel. In less than a month, on August 7, the label will issue Simon & Garfunkel - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection, a six-album, newly-remastered set featuring each one of the duo's studio albums plus Greatest Hits, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl. The box will be joined by a new, remastered CD/DVD reissue of The Concert in Central Park, as
Fairport Convention, Vashti Bunyan, Bill Fay Featured On New Underground Folk Box "Dust on the Nettles"
In the spirit of past box sets such as Love, Poetry and Revolution which spotlighted the British underground psychedelic scene circa 1966-1972, Cherry Red's Grapefruit label has just released Dust on the Nettles, a new 3-CD compendium of British underground folk in roughly the same time period (1967-1972). This new mini-box set, subtitled A Journey Through the British Underground Folk Scene, boasts 63 tracks and a running time of nearly four hours. The emphasis is on the genre sometimes
New "Rare Soul" Collection Features Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, Solomon Burke, Mary Wells and More
If Rare Soul is what you're looking for, PopMarket has an exclusive release just for you. The online shop has recently released A Crate Digger's Collection of Rare Soul, a 3-LP set pressed on heavyweight180-gram vinyl presenting 35 tracks culled from the Warner Music Group family of labels including Atlantic, Cotillion, Loma, Atco and Warner Bros. itself. This handsome package, a limited edition of 1,000 units, features 35 tracks from some of the labels' heaviest hitters as well as names that
Release Round-Up: Week of July 10
Welcome to today's Release Round-Up for the first international Friday release date! Like you, we're still adjusting to the switch from Monday in the U.K./Tuesday in the U.S. to a worldwide Friday date. Please sound off in the comments below on whether you would like to see us run this longtime feature each Friday, or earlier in the week (so that you may plan ahead for Release Day)! The Hollies, Changin' Times: The Complete Hollies, January '69 - March '73 (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. /
Review: Ronny and the Daytonas, "The Complete Recordings"
The sound was surf-rock, but the pedigree was pure Nashville. Ronny and the Daytonas burst onto the scene in 1964 with the rip-roaring California-style car tune "G.T.O.," scoring a Top 5 hit on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts. The group - in actuality, singer-songwriter John "Buck" Wilkin and a rotating cast of Music City's finest - recorded a couple of albums and notched other hits, most notably 1965's dreamy "Sandy," through 1966 on the Mala label before moving to RCA for a stint
Making Their Mind Up: Cherry Pop Expands Bucks Fizz's Four RCA Albums
Bucks Fizz burst onto the pop scene in 1981, winning the Eurovision Pop Contest for Great Britain with "Making Your Mind Up." The well, fizzy, infectious track had more than a slight ABBA flavor to it, with the group paying homage to their fellow Eurovision winners. Between 1981 and 1986, five English-language albums were released by Bucks Fizz, the first four of which featured the original quartet of Bobby G, Jay Aston, Cheryl Baker and Mike Nolan. Following the 2014 release of the Remixes
Get On Up, Get On Down: Roy Ayers' Jazz, Funk and Disco Revisited On "Searching for Sunshine"
In a career spanning six decades, vibraphonist and composer Roy Ayers has pushed the boundaries of jazz, transitioning from bop to soul-jazz, funk and acid jazz. Three classic albums from the "Godfather of Neo-Soul" have recently been reissued by Australia's Raven Records label with a handful of bonus selections, as well. The 2-CD set Searching for Sunshine: 1973-1980 collects Ayers' Polydor albums You Send Me (1978), Fever (1979) and No Stranger to Love (1979) and then dips into other areas
Whiter Shades: Esoteric Kicks Off Deluxe Reissue Campaign For Procol Harum
Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint is skipping the light fandango with its new reissue campaign dedicated to the classic albums of Procol Harum. Though these titles have been previously issued on CD before (including recent, now out-of-print deluxe editions from Salvo Music), Esoteric's new editions boast previously unreleased music and other new bonuses as well as copiously-annotated booklets and restored original album artwork. The first two titles in the series, 1967's Procol Harum
Can't Get It Out Of My Head: Jeff Lynne and ELO's 2014 Hyde Park Concert Gets Fall Release
Last September, 50,000 lucky spectators bore witness to Jeff Lynne's return to the concert stage when the Electric Light Orchestra frontman took the stage at London's Hyde Park for the most eagerly-anticipated performance of BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day. Now, Lynne's performance - backed by his band (including ELO's Richard Tandy) and the BBC Concert Orchestra - is coming to DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats. On September 11, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Live in Hyde Park preserving
Good Grief! Varese Premieres "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" On CD
When Charles Schulz, director-producer Lee Mendelson and co-producer Bill Melendez announced they were bringing Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang to the big screen for the very first time, anticipation was naturally high. A Boy Named Charlie Brown was well-received upon its December 1969 theatrical debut, going on to do good business and receiving credit for breaking the Disney monopoly on feature-length animation. Today, it's still remembered as the best of the four Peanuts animated
I'm A Believer: Micky Dolenz's Rare MGM Singles Arriving On Deluxe Reissue
7A Records sure isn't Monkee-ing around with its first release! On July 13, the newly-formed label - a labor of love for BBC radio and television presenter Iain Lee - will release Micky Dolenz's The MGM Singles Collection on vinyl. This collection reissues for the first time all ten single sides released between 1971 and 1974 by Dolenz on the MGM, Lion and Romar labels. That Lee and his partner at 7A are Monkees fans is an understatement; even the label's name is derived from the studio
No Parlez: Four Discs of Paul Young Collected On New Rarities-Packed Box Set "Tomb of Memories"
Sony Music U.K. is unearthing a Tomb of Memories - but this isn't a dusty tomb but rather one filled with the vital, vibrant sound of eighties hitmaker Paul Young. Over 4 CDs and 64 tracks, this new box set subtitled The CBS Years will present an overview of Young's tenure with CBS and Columbia Records including new-to-CD tracks and previously unreleased alternate mixes, outtakes, demos and more. Between 1983 and 1993, Paul Young released five albums on Columbia. His solo debut (also his
Run, Woman, Run: Morello Brings Two Tammy Wynette Albums to CD
The late country queen Tammy Wynette has been the recipient of much reissue love lately, with release coming on both sides of the Atlantic from labels including Real Gone Music and BGO Records. Now, Cherry Red Group imprint Morello Records has turned its attention to two of Wynette's solo albums recorded during her famously tumultuous marriage to George Jones. The First Lady/We Can Sure Love Each Other brings to one CD her Epic albums from 1970 and 1971, respectively. Tammy Wynette's
They've Got the Music in Them: Edsel Expands Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri's "A Place" With Unreleased Songs
If you're a fan of Kiki Dee, rest assured that Edsel won't be breaking your heart any time soon. The Demon Music Group label has recently followed its series of Kiki's Rocket albums with a deluxe, expanded edition of her most recent release: 2013's collaboration with singer/songwriter/guitarist Carmelo Luggeri, A Place Where I Can Go. The original 11-track album has been expanded with an entire second disc of previously unreleased bonus material. Kiki Dee first joined in performance with
Release Round-Up: Week of June 30
Welcome to our final Tuesday Release Round-Up - and it's a doozy! As many of you know, the record industry will next week adopt a universal Friday release day. No releases are scheduled for Tuesday, July 7; instead, Friday, July 10 is the date! DVDs and Blu-rays will, for the foreseeable future, remain released on Tuesdays. We'll resume with a new Release Round-Up on Friday, July 10! Ronny and the Daytonas, The Complete Recordings (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / The
The Pieces Fit: Omnivore Reissues Three From Peter Frampton
Following the label's deluxe, expanded box set edition of Humble Pie's legendary Rockin' the Fillmore, Peter Frampton is returning to Omnivore Recordings - this time as a solo artist. Frampton is coming alive once again via remastered reissues of 1986's Premonition, 1989's When All the Pieces Fit, and 2003's Now. All three titles are due from Omnivore between August 28 and September 11. Premonition returned Frampton to the Billboard charts and the airwaves after the disappointment of his
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