With "Hitchin' a Ride" and "Early in the Morning," Vanity Fare assured its immortality to AM radio connoisseurs. The two 1969 hits are still in rotation on oldies radio today, but they're just two of the nearly 50 songs cut by the British band over the ten year period of 1966 to 1976. Cherry Red's RPM label has recently put those two famous tunes in context with Vanity Fare's I Live for the Sun: Complete Recordings 1966-76. This 2-CD anthology collects the band's output for the Page One, DJM,
Release Round-Up: Week of May 12
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! We kick off with a quartet of releases drawing on never-before-released live material! Leonard Cohen, Can't Forget: A Souvenir of The Grand Tour (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Leonard Cohen offers ten selections - including two songs never previously recorded and a pair of covers - from his recent world tour. Andrew Gold, The Late Show - Live 1978 (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) You'll say "thank you for being a
The Rolling Stones Celebrate 50 Years of "Satisfaction" In July
Sticky Fingers isn't the only Rolling Stones classic celebrating an anniversary this year. On June 6, 1965 in the U.S. and August 20, 1965 in the U.K., listeners had their first opportunity to pick up "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" on a 45 RPM record. To commemorate the golden anniversary of perhaps the most enduring hit single from the greatest rock and roll band of all time, ABKCO is reissuing "Satisfaction" as a remastered 12-inch vinyl single in a replica sleeve on Friday, July
Review: The Pretenders CD/DVD Reissue Series
Chrissie Hynde, Pete Farndon, James Honeyman Scott and Martin Chambers may have taken the name of The Pretenders, but anybody paying attention soon realized that there was nothing "pretend" about this band - not its brash amalgam of British and American styles (Hynde was a U.S. émigré; the other three were Brits), not its unabashedly punk approach to a classic rock sound, not its effortless, cool swagger. 1979's Pretenders launched the band on a journey that continues to this day. It's been a
Real Gone's July Features Complete Ronny and the Daytonas Plus New Riders, Fanny, Grateful Dead, More
Summer is just around the corner, but Real Gone Music isn't taking a vacation! The label has just announced its June 30 - July 10 slate of releases! If you just can't wait to roll down the windows and crank the car stereo up, you'd be hard-pressed to find more appropriate music than the complete recordings of Ronny and the Daytonas ("G.T.O.") ! And to coincide with the summer's most in-demand concert ticket, Real Gone has another volume of live rarities from Grateful Dead. The Dead has been
What's Love Got to Do With It? Warner Celebrates 30 Years of Tina Turner's "Private Dancer"
What's love got to do with it? Plenty, in fact! On June 30, Warner Music/Rhino will issue a new 2-CD deluxe edition celebrating the 30th anniversary of Tina Turner's landmark "comeback" album, Private Dancer. The four-time Grammy-winning album yielded seven singles and catapulted Tina Turner straight back to the top. When Private Dancer was issued in May 1984, it was Turner's first album since 1979's Love Explosion. Recorded in England with four different production teams, it marked a
Ace Super Soul Round-Up Part Two: Unheard Music From Sam Dees, George Jackson and Dan Greer Sees Release
Welcome to Part Two of our Ace Super Soul Round-Up! You can read Part One here! Birmingham, Alabama native Sam Dees has worn many hats in a long and illustrious career - producer, singer, songwriter, among them. He's gifted music to George Benson and Aretha Franklin ("Love All the Hurt Away"), Atlantic Starr ("Am I Dreaming"), Gladys Knight and the Pips ("Save the Overtime (For Me)" and Loleatta Holloway ("The Show Must Go On") - as well as Larry Graham, whose No. 1 R&B/No. 9 pop hit
Seven Steps to Heaven: Miles Davis' Bootleg Series Continues With "Newport 1955-1975"
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings are headed to Newport with Miles Davis. The Friday, July 17 release of Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 chronicles the evolution of Davis' style as it treks from 1955 to 1975 with live performances from the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island as well as New York City, Berlin, and Switzerland. The set arrives sixty years to the day of the first performance it includes (July 17, 1955) and just before this summer's annual Fest,
Motorpsycho Nightmares: Subversive French Pop of Stella Vander Arrives on CD From RPM
Who is Stella? The single-named French pop queen was born Stella Zelcer, and is today known as Stella Vander, wife and collaborator of Christian Zander of the jazz-influenced progressive rock group Magma. Cherry Red's RPM Records label has recently unearthed the 1967 debut album of the singer then known simply as Stella for an expanded edition which doubles as an anthology of her recordings for the French division of RCA Victor. Stella differentiated herself from the popular yé-yé girls
UPDATED 5/5: He's a Tramp (But She Loves Him): "Lady and the Tramp" Comes To Disney's Legacy Collection
UPDATED FROM ORIGINAL POST OF 4/28/15 [UPDATES IN BOLD]: Monday was a bella notte as Intrada began accepting orders for the long-awaited Legacy Collection reissue of the soundtrack to Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp. The 1955 film, featuring an orchestral score by Oliver Wallace and songs by Sonny Burke and Peggy Lee (who also portrays Peg and other roles in the film), has been expanded to two CDs as the latest release in Walt Disney Records' series of deluxe soundtracks. Inspired by Ward
It's Nice To Be Back: RPM Anthologizes The Hep Stars, With ABBA's Benny Andersson
Before "Dancing Queen," "Fernando" and the rest, ABBA's Benny Andersson was the keyboardist and frequent songwriter for The Hep Stars. The Stockholm-formed group became Sweden's most successful English-language pop group, paving the way for Andersson's subsequent triumphs with ABBA and on the musical theatre stage. Following its 2013 reissue of The Hep Stars' 1968 album It's Been a Long, Long Time, Cherry Red's RPM label returns to the group's catalogue for Like We Used To: The Anthology
Release Round-Up: Week of May 5
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Oddly, releases were split between yesterday and today, but both days add up to a wealth of titles in nearly every genre! Without a doubt, this is one of the most packed weeks yet this year! Jackie DeShannon, All the Love: The Lost Atlantic Recordings (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) All the Love--The Lost Atlantic Recordings brings together DeShannon's entire 1973 Atlantic Records material in one place for the first time,
Review: Frank Sinatra, "Ultimate Sinatra"
On August 31, 1939, Frank Sinatra stepped into a New York recording studio as vocalist of Harry James' orchestra for a two-song session. The second song recorded, Arthur Altman and Jack Lawrence's "All or Nothing at All," captured a philosophy that the 23-year old "boy singer" would hold closely. "All or nothing at all/Half a love never appealed to me," he asserted. "If it's love there is no in-between..." Indeed, Frank Sinatra's life was one of triumphant highs and shattering lows - no
"Boz Scaggs" Returns In Deluxe 2-CD Edition
After appearing on the first two albums by The Steve Miller Band, singer-songwriter-guitarist William Royce "Boz" Scaggs sensed that it was time to strike out on his own once more. In 1968, he inked a deal with Atlantic Records to record his second solo album; his first, 1965's Boz, was a Swedish release that to this day hasn't seen a reissue. So Scaggs and his co-producers Marlin Greene and Jann Wenner (yes, that Jann Wenner) headed down to Muscle Shoals' Alabama's most famous address, 3614
From Out of Nowhere: Two Faith No More Albums Go Deluxe
This May, Faith No More, the hard-rocking San Francisco band, will unveil Sol Invictus, its first new album since 1997. To mark the occasion, Rhino Records is revisiting the pair of albums that solidified the group's place in the rock pantheon: 1989's The Real Thing and 1992's Angel Dust. On June 9, the label will reissue both albums as two-disc sets, with each containing a second disc of rarities. In addition to the CD sets, Rhino will issue 2-LP. 180-gram black vinyl editions with the
Kritzerland Turns 10! Label Launches New Soundtrack Series, Begins Indiegogo Campaign
Happy Birthday, Kritzerland! Ten years ago this month, producer Bruce Kimmel, known for his work at labels including Bay Cities and Varese Sarabande, launched the Kritzerland label. Since 2005, Kritzerland has released over 150 CDs: classic soundtracks from composers like Burt Bacharach, Henry Mancini, John Barry and John Williams, vintage cast recordings of musicals including stunning remixes of Follies and Promises, Promises, and solo albums by artists such as Sandy Bainum and the elusive
But Beautiful: "Lady in Satin: The Centennial Edition" Expands Billie Holiday Classic To 3 CDs
Billie Holiday was just a couple months away from her 43rd birthday when she entered Columbia Records' 30th Street Studio on February 18, 1958 to record Lady in Satin. The album controversially promised a new, glamorous setting for the artist, who had recently been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver following a lifetime of troubles including alcohol and drug dependency, abusive relationships, stints in reform school and prison, and even a period as a teenaged prostitute. The LP's original
He's a Tramp (But She Loves Him): "Lady and the Tramp" Comes To Disney's Legacy Collection
Monday was a bella notte as Intrada began accepting orders for the long-awaited Legacy Collection reissue of the soundtrack to Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp. The 1955 film, featuring an orchestral score by Oliver Wallace and songs by Sonny Burke and Peggy Lee (who also portrays Peg and other roles in the film), has been expanded to two CDs as the latest release in Walt Disney Records' series of deluxe soundtracks. Inspired by Ward Greene's short story "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog," Lady
Wouldn't It Be Loverly? Two Julie Andrews Classics Return to CD
By anyone's estimation, Julie Andrews was one of Columbia Records' leading lights by 1962. Her Tony-nominated performances onstage in My Fair Lady and Camelot had both led to chart-topping, record-breaking original cast recordings on the Columbia label; in fact, it was under the leadership of president Goddard Lieberson that the record label underwrote the original Broadway production cost of My Fair Lady - an investment that, needless to say, paid off many times over! So it was unsurprising
Release Round-Up: Week of April 28
Dusty Springfield, Faithful (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Faithful assembles for the first time on one CD all of the masters produced by Jeff Barry ("Chapel of Love," "Leader of the Pack," "Sugar, Sugar") for Dusty Springfield in 1971. From his home base at New York's Century Sound, Barry produced thirteen songs for Dusty - twelve intended for album release and one for a non-LP single. Four songs were released on two 45s, but when Dusty departed Atlantic Records, the
Review: "Beale Street Saturday Night"
Beale Street in downtown Memphis, Tennessee runs approximately 1.8 miles from the Mississippi River to East Street. Created in 1841 and originally named Beale Avenue, it was immortalized in 1916 by composer, musician and bandleader W.C. Handy in his "Beale Street Blues." By the middle of the century, Louis Armstrong, B.B. King, Albert King, Muddy Waters and more had all played Beale Street, recognized as one of the nation's foremost cradles of the blues. But by the mid-1960s, the legendary
Loaded: Jeff Beck Offers "Live+" With Tour Performances, New Studio Recordings
With Jeff Beck currently hitting the road once more, the time is right for Atco's upcoming release of Jeff Beck Live+ culled from performances on the legendary guitarist's 2014 tour with ZZ Top. The May 19 release features 14 live cuts along with Beck's first two studio recordings since 2010. Beck's tour last year with ZZ Top was curtailed due to the injury of the band's bassist, Dusty Hill; Live+ will arrive in the midst of the April 30-May 10 tour dates for ZZ Top and Beck. On May 12,
Ace Super Soul Round-Up Part One: Put a Little Love in Your Heart With Jimmy Holiday
Readers around these parts know that Ace Records can be counted on for the finest in rare soul music - and three recent releases prove to be no exception. We'll cover one of those titles today in our new Super Soul Round-Up, with more to come next week! Spread Your Love collects the complete Minit Records singles recorded between 1966 and 1970 by singer-songwriter Jimmy Holiday, best-known for his co-writing credit with the incomparable Jackie DeShannon and her brother Randy Myers on the
Rip It Up! New Box Set Spotlights Little Richard at Specialty and Vee-Jay
On June 2, 2015, Specialty Records, a unit of Concord Music Group, celebrates one of the founders of rock-and-roll with the release of a new box set from the inimitable Little Richard. Directly from My Heart: The Best of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years brings together 64 tracks on three CDs from the piano-pounding legend, including all of Richard's early classics as well as B-sides and rarities. This deluxe package puts the music in context with a 30+-page booklet containing new liner notes
Say "Aloha": Fleetwood Mac, David Crosby, Beck Featured On New Cameron Crowe Soundtrack
Since making his big-screen debut as a writer with the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, onetime teenaged Rolling Stone scribe Cameron Crowe has made music an integral part of his films - and we're not just talking about Almost Famous! Every one of his movies as writer-director, from 1989's Say Anything... to 2011's We Bought a Zoo, has had its share of musical highlights. His next film, Aloha, should prove to be no exception. On May 26, Legacy Recordings and Madison Gate Records
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