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In Memoriam: Jackie Trent (1940-2015)

March 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Jackie Trent Once More

When I think of the songs of Jackie Trent, I think of the big sound, the pulsating brass, the bold vibrancy, the irresistible beat, the drive.  With her first husband Tony Hatch, Trent penned some of the most indelible songs of a golden age of pop music – “I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love,” “Don’t Sleep in the Subway,” “The Other Man’s Grass is Always Greener,” “Joanna” – and saw her work recorded by many of the era’s most remarkable performers, among them Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Scott

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Jackie Trent, Tony Hatch

Release Round-Up: Week of March 23

March 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Bee Gees 1974 1979

It's a Monday release date here in the U.S., so here's your early Release Round-Up! Bee Gees, 1974-1979 (Reprise/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This box set brings together the band’s Mr. Natural, Main Course, Children of the World and Spirits Having Flown plus a disc of previously issued bonus material.  Full track listing and details here.  Watch on Record Store Day for a companion vinyl release to this set featuring the 12-inch mixes from Saturday Night Fever! Kansas,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bee Gees, Dean Martin, Hawkwind, James Brown, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Kansas, Kenny Rankin, Paul McCartney, Phyllis Hyman, Roger Taylor, The Brecker Brothers, Toto, Van Morrison, Willie Nile

Original Album Classics

March 20, 2015 By

Kansas Original

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Original Album Classics

March 20, 2015 By

Tony Bennett Original

Five Tony Bennett albums get boxed in this Original Album Classics volume: I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Perfectly Frank, Steppin' Out, MTV Unplugged and Here's to the Ladies.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Original Album Classics

March 20, 2015 By

John Denver Original Album

The late, great John Denver gets an entry in the Original Album Classics series with five albums packaged in a no-frills, budget-priced slipcase: Rhymes and Reasons, Aerie, Rocky Mountain High, Farewell Andromeda and Back Home Again.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country, Pop

Original Album Classics

March 20, 2015 By

Paul Simon Original Album

Five assorted albums from Rhymin' Simon are boxed up in this budget-priced Original Album Series set: Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Hearts and Bones, Songs from the Capeman and You're the One.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Original Album Classics

March 20, 2015 By

Janis Box

Janis Joplin gets an entry in Legacy's Original Album Classics series of five albums in one budget-priced slipcased edition: Big Brother and the Holding Company, Cheap Thrills, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, Pearl and Live at Winterland '68.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Original Album Classics

March 20, 2015 By

Dean Martin Original Album

Legacy packages five of Dean Martin's original Reprise albums in one budget-priced, slipcased set.  Dino's Original Album Classics features Dream with Dean (1964), Everybody Loves Somebody (1964), The Door is Still Open to My Heart (1964), Houston (1965) and The Dean Martin TV Show (1966), presumably in their remastered editions.  (Martin's entire catalogue was remastered upon its acquisition by Legacy.)

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Kansas: Miracles Out of Nowhere

March 20, 2015 By

Kansas

The new documentary film Miracles Out of Nowhere chronicles the band Kansas' journey from obscurity to superstardom. It features the original Kansas lineup, revisiting Topeka together for the first time in more than 30 years.  The film also features interviews with Garth Brooks, Brian May of Queen, producer Brendan O Brien, Rolling Stone journalist David Wild, and more.  Legacy's CD/DVD package includes a soundtrack with greatest hits, album cuts and dialogue from the film serving as a special

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Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour

March 20, 2015 By

Leonard Cohen Cant Forget

Leonard Cohen offers ten selections - including two songs never previously recorded and a pair of covers - from his recent world tour.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop

Nothing But The Truth: RPM Uncovers Complete Recordings of Sixties Mod Duo

March 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

The Truth

In keeping with its mission of uncovering some of the best, criminally-unknown pop of the 1960s, RPM has just unveiled Who’s Wrong? Mod Bedlam 1965-1969 from the mod-R&B duo known as The Truth.  Frank Aiello and Steve Jameson issued seven singles between 1965 and 1968 and even notched a minor hit with their recording of The Beatles’ “Girl,” but have gone largely unrecognized in the decades since.  RPM’s compilation rights that wrong, and collects all of the duo’s singles plus a number of

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

Rare Bernard Herrmann Score To "12-Mile Reef" Resurfaces On CD

March 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Beneath the 12 Mile Reef

Romeo and Juliet at sea? Such was the premise behind 1953’s epic adventure Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. Only the third film shot in the widescreen CinemaScope process, the Twentieth Century Fox film starred Robert Wagner and Terry Moore as the star-crossed lovers from warring families on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Adding luster to the picture was the score by Bernard Herrmann. By 1953, Herrmann was already well-known for his Oscar-winning score to The Devil and Daniel Webster and nominees Citizen Kane

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann

The Disco Years

March 18, 2015 By

Jones Disco Box

This new box set includes the fashion and music icon's Portfolio, Fame and Muse, three albums recorded for Island Records at the height of the disco era with contributions from Tom Moulton, Vince Montana and more.  The albums are expanded with over 20 bonus B-sides, edits, instrumentals and extended mixes, some previously unreleased.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance

Dick's Picks Vol. 8--Harpur College, Binghamton, NY May 2, 1970

March 18, 2015 By

Dicks Picks 8

Real Gone continues reintroducing classic Dick's Picks entries to the catalogue, including this beloved show of May 2, 1970 on three CDs!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

The Complete Federal/King Singles

March 18, 2015 By

Billy Ward

This 2-CD set presents 58 freshly-remastered tracks from the group that launched both Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson to stardom, and adds a 5,000-word essay from Bill Dahl!

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

Ben (Expanded Edition)

March 18, 2015 By

Jorge Ben

Real Gone and Dusty Groove kick off a series of reissues from Brazilian pop legend Jorge Ben's catalog, starting with his 1972 masterpiece, Ben. This edition adds seven bonus tracks, including a fast-paced 1972 version of his first big hit "Mas Que Nada" and a rare single with Gilberto Gil, "Jazz Potatoes." Peter Margasak provides new liner notes!

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Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop

Nils Lofgren

March 18, 2015 By

Nils Lofgren

E Street axeman Nils Lofgren's 1975 self-titled solo record returns to CD in a new edition featuring liner notes from Nils himself and rare photographs!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Look to Your Heart (Expanded Edition)

March 18, 2015 By

Perry Look to Your Heart

Perry's 1968 album of love songs and Broadway showtunes makes its debut on CD, expanded with an entire second's album worth of material: non album-singles and five previously unreleased recordings capturing Perry in a time of musical transition.  Features songs from Harry Nilsson, Sedaka and Greenfield, Bacharach and David and more, plus new remastering by Maria Triana and new liner notes from TSD's Joe Marchese!

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

All the Love--The Lost Atlantic Recordings

March 18, 2015 By

Jackie

All the Love--The Lost Atlantic Recordings brings together DeShannon's entire 1973 Atlantic Records material in one place for the first time, including seven previously unreleased tracks plus her four collaborations with Van Morrison and the songs which originally premiered on Rhino Handmade's Jackie...Plus.  The Second Disc's own Joe Marchese provides the liner notes.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Still Into Something Good: Ace Collects More From Carole King and Gerry Goffin

March 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Hung on You

The songs of Carole King and Gerry Goffin have been enjoying a rather spectacular renaissance on both sides of the Atlantic thanks to the success of King’s biographical Broadway and West End musical Beautiful. Happily, Ace Records has returned to the duo’s catalogue for a fourth anthology. Hung on You: More from the Goffin and King Songbook follows three previous excursions: Goffin & King: A Gerry Goffin and Carole King Song Collection 1961-1967 (2007), Honey and Wine: Another Gerry Goffin

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Various Artists

Something's Coming: él Salutes "West Side Story" On New 2-CD Set

March 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

West Side Story Jazz

Last August, Steven Spielberg was asked to confirm rumors that he was planning to direct a new film adaptation of the Broadway musical West Side Story. The legendary filmmaker confessed, “Well, you know something, West Side Story is one of my favorite Broadway musicals and one of the greatest pieces of musical literature, my goodness, one of the greatest scores and some of the greatest lyrics ever written for a musical, so just let me put it this way: it’s on my mind.” The musical by librettist

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Stephen Sondheim, The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Release Round-Up: Week of March 17

March 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Pretty Things Bouquets

This week's Release Round-Up has box sets and deluxe editions a-plenty... The Pretty Things, Bouquets from a Cloudy Sky (Snapper) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This box set is much in the style of last year's Small Faces set Here Come the Nice, and contains 11 studio albums on CD with 42 bonus tracks, two rarities CDs with 45 previously unreleased tracks, 2 DVDs including a new documentary by Reelin' in the Years Productions, a 10-inch replica acetate disc, posters, an art print, and a

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Anthony Phillips, Basia, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Game Theory, Genesis, Jim Croce, Simple Minds, The Notations

Soul Deep: Raven Collects The Box Tops' Complete Studio Albums

March 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Box Tops Original Albums

For Alex Chilton, coping with the legacy of The Box Tops wasn’t always easy. As the band’s frontman – and future cult hero as leader of Big Star – once ruminated to the San Francisco Chronicle, “I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business.  The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I’ll ever have.” He was, of course, speaking of “The Letter,” the Wayne Carson Thompson song that opens Raven Records’ new 2-CD collection The Original Albums 1967-1969 containing

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Alex Chilton, Big Star, The Box Tops

English Folk Heroine Bridget St. John's Dandelion Albums and More Collected On New Box Set

March 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Bridget St John

Venerated BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel once called Bridget St. John “the best lady singer-songwriter in the country.”  So when Peel formed Dandelion Records in 1969, the label’s first signing was St. John; in fact, Peel once commented that “the main reason why we started the label [was] ‘cos nobody else was going to record her stuff.”  Cherry Red Records has just reissued all three of St. John’s moody, evocative Dandelion albums (individually released in 2005 on CD) recorded between 1969 and 1972,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Folk Tags: Bridget St. John, John Martyn, John Peel

Can We Talk? Rare Joan Rivers Album Comes to CD for Record Store Day

March 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Joan Rivers Next to Last Album

When Joan Rivers released The Next to Last Joan Rivers Album in 1969 on Buddah Records, could she have realized that the title would indeed remain accurate?  The first album from the trailblazing comedy legend arrived on Warner Bros. in 1965, while the last Joan Rivers album came via Geffen Records in 1983.  Now, the next to last Joan Rivers album – that just so happens to be called The Next to Last Joan Rivers Album – is making its CD debut on Record Store Day this April 18 on the Stand Up!

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else Tags: Joan Rivers, Record Store Day

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