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Heritage: Home Recordings/Demos 1970-1973

September 30, 2017 By

America Heritage

America's  Heritage: Home Recordings/Demos 1970-1973 boasts sixteen tracks from the band's early days, ten of which are previously unreleased, from the original trio of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Diamonds [Various Formats]

September 30, 2017 By

Elton Diamonds

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John looks back on his extraordinary career with a new retrospective, available in 1-CD 2-CD, 3-CD, and 2-LP formats.  Whew!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

Your Songs: Elton John Plans New "Diamonds" Collection

September 29, 2017 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

Elton Diamonds

Five decades ago, an aspiring singer/songwriter named Reginald Dwight, frontman for a band named Bluesology, answered an ad in the New Musical Express placed by an A&R man for Liberty Records. At the ensuing meeting, Dwight was given a stack of lyrics written by someone who'd answered the same ad: an up and coming lyricist named Bernie Taupin. Dwight wrote a melody to Taupin's lyrics, placed the ensuing song in the post--and thus started a partnership that continues to this day, with scores

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Elton John

Reach The Stars and Fly A Fantasy: Cherry Red Expands "The NeverEnding Story" Soundtrack

September 29, 2017 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

NeverEnding Story

"A Boy Who Needs a Friend Finds a World That Needs A Hero."  So proclaimed the tagline to the 1984 fantasy film The NeverEnding Story.  The film became a hit that year and featured a title song which also climbed the charts.  Cherry Red imprint Strike Force Entertainment has recently released an expanded reissue of the film's soundtrack. The movie, based upon the 1979 German fantasy novel by Michael Ende, tells the tale of ten-year old Bastion Balthazar Bux who begins to read a book

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Giorgio Moroder, Klaus Doldinger

Release Round-Up: Week of September 29

September 29, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

David Bowie A New Career Cover Only

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! David Bowie, A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) (Parlophone) 11CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 13LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. The third release in Parlophone's series of chronological box sets dedicated to the music of David Bowie, A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) closes the book on the legendary artist's RCA career.  It follows 2015's Five Years (1969-1973) and 2016's Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976),

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Anne Murray, Art Pepper, Belinda Carlisle, David Bowie, David Crosby, David Gilmour, Debbie Gibson, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Nilsson, Herb Alpert, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Mathis, Michael Jackson, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Pink Floyd, Stone Temple Pilots, The Association, The Golliwogs, The Rolling Stones, Tommy Steele

Viva Cavalera: Two Sepultura Albums Expanded By Rhino This Fall

September 28, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Sepultura Chaos AD

Rhino is heading back to the '90s this fall with a pair of deluxe, expanded reissues from the Brazilian hard rock/metal band Sepultura.  Both 1993's Chaos A.D. and 1996's Roots will be available in remastered and expanded form on double CD and vinyl LP, with Chaos arriving on October 6 and Roots on November 3. Sepultura was founded in 1983 by brothers Max and Iggor Cavalera with Wagner Lamounier and Jairo Guedes.  Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. joined just a few short months later.  Four years later,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Sepultura

Generals and Majors: Steven Wilson Remixes XTC's 'Black Sea'

September 27, 2017 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Black Sea cover

Sgt. Rock (or is that Steven Wilson?) is going to help XTC fans this season with the fifth in an ongoing series of remixes of the beloved Swindon band's albums for Virgin Records: 1980's Black Sea. XTC's fourth album (and second with the lineup of singer/guitarist Andy Partridge, singer/bassist Colin Moulding, guitarist/keyboardist Dave Gregory and drummer Terry Chambers) was almost immediately praised by critics upon its release, thanks to a potent brace of catchy, frenetic, barbed pop/rock

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD Genre: Rock Tags: XTC

Willie's Boogie: Cherry Red, SoulMusic Reissue Two From Motown's Willie Hutch

September 26, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Willie Hutch House Party Two Fer

Willie Hutch ensured his place in Motown history with his era-defining soundtracks to the blaxploitation films Foxy Brown and The Mack.  But the singer-songwriter's C.V. was much deeper and more all-encompassing, both at Motown and elsewhere; he provided The 5th Dimension with memorable songs like "California My Way" and recorded as a solo artist for labels including RCA, Soul City, and Whitfield Records.  SoulMusic and Cherry Red, hot off a recent rarities anthology for Motown's Brenda

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: Willie Hutch

Been Through the Desert: Omnivore Collects Early, Unreleased America on "Heritage"

September 25, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

America Heritage

Omnivore Recordings is heading down Ventura Highway this fall with the November 17 release on CD of a new archival collection from America.  Heritage: Home Recordings/Demos 1970-1973 boasts sixteen tracks from the band's early days, ten of which are previously unreleased, from the original trio of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. Heritage comprises demos, home recordings, alternate versions, and outtakes from the era of the first three America albums: 1971's self-titled release,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: America

Love Me Two Times: The Doors' "Strange Days" Celebrates 50 Years in Mono and Stereo

September 25, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

The Doors Strange Days

Earlier this year, the self-titled 1967 debut album by The Doors arrived in a 50th anniversary box set presenting the original album on CD in both mono and stereo plus the mono version on vinyl.  Much as The Doors followed that debut months later with Strange Days, Rhino is following up the reissue of The Doors with a 50th anniversary presentation of that sophomore album, due on November 17.  Strange Days: 50th Anniversary Edition will be released in two configurations: a 2-CD set with the mono

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Doors

Smiling Faces: Ace Brings Three Motown Classics From Undisputed Truth to CD

September 25, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Undisputed Truth Nothing But the Truth

Had you crossed The 5th Dimension with Sly and the Family and Stone, the result might well have sounded like The Undisputed Truth.  Assembled in 1971 by Motown veteran and "psychedelic soul" pioneer Norman Whitfield, The Undisputed Truth (a.k.a. Joe Harris, Billy Rae Calvin and Brenda Joyce Evans) scored a hit off their first LP with the hauntingly ominous "Smiling Faces Sometimes."  Enduring personnel changes, the group went on to record six LPs in all for Motown's Gordy imprint before moving

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: The Undisputed Truth

Sings The Great New American Songbook

September 22, 2017 By

Johnny Mathis Great New American Songbook

The eternal Voice of Romance, Johnny Mathis, returns with a new studio album celebrating future standards.  On this new 11-track set, Mathis tackles contemporary songs by Adele, Keith Urban, Pharrell Williams, and Bruno Mars, among others!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

Making a List and Checking It Twice: Real Gone's Christmas Offerings Revealed, Including Percy Faith, Fred Waring and Robert Shaw

September 22, 2017 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Percy Faith Music of Christmas Reissue

We've already told you about the three Christmas offerings coming from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music this year from The Supremes, The Ames Brothers and Connie Smith. Now here's the rest of Real Gone's superlative slate of yuletide releases...and one more non-holiday reissue, all due on November 3! First up is an expanded edition of the classic Music of Christmas from Percy Faith and His Orchestra.  This was actually the second album to bear this title from the prolific conductor. 

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Cliff Martinez, Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, Percy Faith, The Robert Shaw Chorale

Release Round-Up: Week of September 22

September 22, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Brian Wilson Playback

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request: 50th Anniversary Special Edition (ABKCO) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Rolling Stones' controversial 1967 immersion into psychedelia, Their Satanic Majesties Request, gets a 50th anniversary box set from ABKCO containing the original album in mono and stereo on both 180-gram vinyl and hybrid SACD (playable on all CD players) as newly remastered by Bob Ludwig, plus restored

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Brian Wilson, Chris Hillman, Isaac Hayes, Judy Collins, Leon Russell, Stephen Stills, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison

Ultimate Christmas

September 21, 2017 By

Sinatra Ultimate Christmas

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Capitol collects 20 Christmas classics from Frank Sinatra, drawing on both his Capitol and Reprise tenures, originally recorded between 1954 and 1991.  This set will be available in CD, digital, and 180-gram 2-LP black vinyl editions, as well as a limited 2-LP white vinyl edition exclusively offered for preorder on the Sinatra Store and Universal's webstore, UDiscover Music.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

Sex Pistols Offer Reissued "Bollocks" Box, "More Product"

September 21, 2017 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Sex Pistols Bollocks 40

40 years after Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols charged into record stores, Virgin and Universal Music Catalogue are bringing a box set version of the set back into print--and they've also recently expanded a collection of interview excerpts for hardcore fans, too. Five years ago, Virgin/Universal expanded Never Mind The Bollocks as a deluxe box set which featured the original remastered album, a disc of studio rarities, a live disc and a DVD of performances and vintage

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock Tags: The Sex Pistols

Joy To The World: Expanded Edition

September 21, 2017 By

Connie Smith Joy to the World

Connie Smith's 1975 Christmas classic comes to CD for the first time anywhere in the world from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music! This heartfelt holiday collection is a joyful and reverent Americana celebration of Christmas featuring the Grand Ole Opry legend backed by some of Nashville's finest session players.  Connie herself has written a new introduction and participated in an interview for this release, which adds one bonus track: her duet of "Silent Night" with Willie Nelson.

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Formats: CD Genre: Country, Gospel, Holiday

There'll Always Be a Christmas: 60th Anniversary Deluxe Mono Edition

September 21, 2017 By

Ames Brothers Therell Always Be a Christmas

Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly present a deluxe, expanded 60th anniversary reissue of The Ames Brothers' beloved 1957 holiday classic.  Featuring the group's resplendent harmonies on 12 joyous seasonal tunes, There'll Always Be a Christmas is offered in its original mono mix for the first time on CD, and boasts a pair of rare bonus tracks.  TSD's Joe Marchese has written the liner notes based on a brand-new interview with the only surviving member of the group, stage and screen

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

Deck the Halls: Second Disc Records, Real Gone Add to Christmas Slate with The Ames Brothers, Connie Smith

September 21, 2017 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Ames Brothers Therell Always Be a Christmas

Last week, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music announced details of The Supremes' Ultimate Merry Christmas, our 2-CD celebration of the legendary group's joyous 1965 holiday album.  Today, we're keeping spirits bright as we announce two more Christmas classics coming to CD on November 3! On their 1957 album of the same name, The Ames Brothers proclaimed in song, "There'll Always Be a Christmas" - and as it turns out, Ed, Vic, Gene, and Joe Ames had created a joyful Christmas album for all

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Connie Smith, Ed Ames, The Ames Brothers

Hallelujah: Johnny Mathis Releases New Album of Current Songs, Confirms Date of Career-Spanning Box Set

September 21, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Johnny Mathis Great New American Songbook

For more than sixty years, the voice of Johnny Mathis has been synonymous with romance, class, and sophistication.  He's performed songs by everyone from Richard Rodgers to Burt Bacharach, and worked with world-class musicians like Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, Henry Mancini, Thom Bell, Nelson Riddle, and Don Costa.  Now, the eternally youthful singer is turning to a new repertoire for his latest studio album.  On September 29, Columbia Records will release Johnny Mathis Sings the Great New American

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Johnny Mathis

Stayin' Alive: 'Saturday Night Fever' Soundtrack Gets Super Deluxe Treatment

September 20, 2017 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Capito UMe Saturday Night Fever 40th Anniversary Edition

Get ready to strut into record stores--Saturday Night Fever's immortal soundtrack is being reissued as a super deluxe set alongside the film itself. Based on a New York Magazine article that was later found to be fabricated, Saturday Night Fever ironically solidified the image of disco in popular culture. John Travolta's rough-edged but sympathetic Tony Manero--a Brooklyn bum working in a hardware store by day and tearing up the floor of the 2001 Odyssey by night--established the young TV

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Soundtracks Tags: Bee Gees, David Shire, KC and the Sunshine Band, Kool and the Gang, MFSB, Tavares, The Trammps, Walter Murphy, Yvonne Elliman

Pass Your Light Around

September 20, 2017 By

Jerry Yester Pass Your Light Around

Omnivore premieres 15 previously unissued tracks from artist/songwriter/producer Jerry Yester (Farewell Aldebaran, The Association, The Turtles, Tim Buckley) recorded in the 1960s and 1970s.   These never-before-heard songs were written with poet/lyricist and Tim Buckley collaborator Larry Beckett, and feature performances by Yester with Rosebud bandmates David Vaught and John Seiter, future Lone Justice member Don Heffington, and Laurel Masse from The Manhattan Transfer, among others.

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door: Bob Dylan's New Bootleg Series Volume "Trouble No More" Explores The Gospel Years

September 20, 2017 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Dylan Bootleg 13

Bob Dylan's acclaimed Bootleg Series is back, and for its newest volume, it's taking aim at one of the most controversial, and misunderstood, periods of the Bard of Hibbing's musical journey.  Due from Columbia and Legacy on November 3, Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 focuses on Dylan's so-called "gospel years," during which time he crafted some of his most enduring songs in praise of a higher power.  The Deluxe Edition features nine discs - 8 CDs and 1 DVD - and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan

Cherry Red's El Label Celebrates Miles Davis, Bill Evans On Two Collections

September 19, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Quiet Passion of Bill Evans

Cherry Red's El label has recently turned its attention to two late titans of jazz for a pair of releases.  The Cinema of Miles Davis and The Quiet Passion of Bill Evans: Collaborations, Trios and Guest Sessions both focus on the artists' early periods in which they were pushing the envelope and shattering preconceived notions of bop. The Cinema of Miles Davis captures the trumpeter between 1954 and 1961 on a variety of performances either written for films or used in films.  Representing the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Soundtracks Tags: Bill Evans, Miles Davis

Forget Your Troubles: New Judy Garland Love Songs Collection to Arrive on Jasmine In 2018

September 18, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Judy Garland 1939

Hot on the heels of two recent Judy Garland collections from Mint Audio Records and JSP Records, the U.K.-based Jasmine label has announced that it will be celebrating the late superstar in 2018 with a new 24-track collection.  I Can't Give You Anything But Love features a selection of Garland's most timeless love songs recorded between 1939 and 1961.  We have the full press release below, and will share more - including cover artwork and track listing - as soon as complete details are announced

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Judy Garland

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