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Jackie DeShannon, Perry Como, Nils Lofgren Lead Off Real Gone's Diverse May Slate

March 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Jackie

Rarities are the order of the day from Real Gone Music when it comes to the label's just-announced slate of releases scheduled for late April and early May. The label kicks things off on April 28 with its reissue of one of the most famous Grateful Dead shows of all time.  Dick's Picks Volume 8 captures the epic May 2, 1970 show at Binghamton, New York's Harpur College - a show even singled out by Jerry Garcia himself.  Then, on May 5, Real Gone has five more titles, all of which are packed

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Billy Ward and His Dominoes, Jackie DeShannon, Jorge Ben, Nils Lofgren, Perry Como, The Grateful Dead

Don't Go Breaking Her Heart: Kiki Dee's Rocket Albums Expanded and Reissued By Edsel

March 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Kiki Loving and Free Two Fer

When Kiki Dee was signed in 1973 to Elton John's Rocket Records label, the 26-year old was already a veteran of the music business as an in-demand background singer and a solo artist for Fontana and Motown. The former Pauline Matthews of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England had proven herself a versatile vocalist at both of those labels, but at Rocket would finally take flight as a top-tier blue-eyed soul singer with so much more to offer than just the duet part in "Don't Go Breaking My Heart."

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Elton John, Kiki Dee

The Studio Album Collection

March 11, 2015 By

Croce Box

Edsel boxes up all of late troubadour Jim Croce's studio albums as well as a bonus disc of demo recordings. This set begins with his self-released debut Facets and goes through the posthumously-released I Got A Name.  . Discs two and three are collaborative LPs with his wife Ingrid, and discs four, five and six represent his ABC Records discography. The final disc of this set features demo recordings including those which when presented to ABC secured the deal for the albums that followed. The

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Life and Times: Deluxe Edition

March 11, 2015 By

Croce Life

Edsel expands Jim Croce's second album featuring "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" to 2 CDs.  This edition adds the concert Live at Harper College plus lyrics and liner notes.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

I Got a Name: Deluxe Edition

March 11, 2015 By

Croce Name

Jim Croce's final album, posthumously released in 1973, is expanded on 2 CDs with the fan-recorded concert album The Final Tour.  Edsel's reissue also includes lyrics and new liner notes by Alan Robinson.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

You Don't Mess Around With Jim: Deluxe Edition

March 11, 2015 By

Croce You Dont

Edsel expands Jim Croce's 1972 ABC Records debut with ten bonus tracks, full lyrics and new liner notes.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

The Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990

March 11, 2015 By

Replacements Complete Studio Albums

Rhino boxes up the Minnesota rockers' complete studio output utilizing the 2008 remasters, but sans all bonus material.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock

Such a Much! Croydon Collects R&B Girls, Swingin' TV Themes

March 11, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Such a Much

Since its inception in 2013, Cherry Red’s Croydon Municipal label has reliably shed light on some of the least illuminated corners of the pre-Beatles pop world.  Two recent releases - Such a Much: R&B Girls of the ‘50s and ‘60s and TV is the Thing: Fifties and Sixties Television Themes – continue in this tradition. Like many of Croydon’s releases, Such a Much features a blend of names both familiar (LaVern Baker, Little Esther, Etta James, Ruth Brown) and less familiar (Paula Grimes,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Doris Troy, LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown, Various Artists

Review: "The Sound of Music: 50th Anniversary Edition"

March 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sound of Music

In the days when The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Peter and Gordon, The Zombies, The Animals and The Kinks were vying for chart supremacy, there was another British Invasion going on. And it was virtually a single-handed one. The invader in question was a winsome soprano named Julie Andrews, who was a perfect nanny not once but twice on the silver screen. Andrews’ performance as Mary Poppins saw her headlining the No. 1 album in the United States in March 1965 (emerging triumphant over Beatles

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Julie Andrews, Rodgers and Hammerstein

Release Round-Up: Week of March 10

March 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Mathis Cover

This week brings a particularly impressive slate by any standard, but we're particularly proud to introduce the world to Second Disc Records with our first two releases, from Johnny Mathis and the late Bob Crewe! Johnny Mathis, Life is a Song Worth Singing: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Here, on two CDs, we proudly present both of Johnny Mathis' album collaborations - including the never-on-CD Mathis Is... - with songwriter-producer

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Art Pepper, Bettye LaVette, Bob Crewe, Bread, Grace Slick, Grover Washington Jr., Jackie DeShannon, Johnny Mathis, Judas Priest, Julie Andrews, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, The Guess Who

Walt Disney Records Reshuffles Remaining "Legacy Collection" Releases

March 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

mary poppins 50

Less than one year ago, Walt Disney Records announced The Legacy Collection, a 12-title series marking various anniversaries of classic Disney films and even a theme park.  In June, the series kicked off with a deluxe expansion of the soundtrack to The Lion King to commemorate that film's 20th year, and since then we've received similarly expanded editions of Mary Poppins (50th), Sleeping Beauty (55th), The Little Mermaid (25th), Fantasia (75th) and Pinocchio (75th).  Future releases were

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alan Menken, Randy Newman, Stephen Schwartz, The Sherman Brothers

Back By Unpopular Demand: The Replacements' Studio Albums Boxed By Rhino In April

March 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Replacements Complete Studio Albums

The unlikely reunion of The Replacements - a.k.a. founding members Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson plus recent additions Dave Minehan (The Neighborhoods) and Josh Freese (The Vandals, Devo, Weezer) - marches on this spring (to perhaps everyone's surprise!) with the month-long "Back by Unpopular Demand" tour kicking off April 9 in Seattle. To coincide with this latest jaunt for the Minneapolis alt-rock heroes, Rhino has unveiled The Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990, containing the band's full

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Paul Westerberg, The Replacements, Tommy Stinson

Box Set Watch: Hawkwind, Fotheringay, Spooky Tooth Get Deluxe Collected Treatment

March 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Spooky Tooth Island

Formed in 1969, “space rock” group Hawkwind recorded its debut album in 1970.  Forty-five years later, an iteration of the band is still performing, but Parlophone’s U.K. division is turning the clock back with a new box set to celebrate Hawkwind’s earliest years.   This Is Your Captain Speaking…Your Captain Is Dead: The Albums and Singles 1970-1974 arrives on March 23 in the U.K. and one week later in the U.S., and brings together the band’s entire United Artists catalogue on 11 CDs in replica

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk Tags: Fotheringay, Gary Wright, Hawkwind, Sandy Denny, Spooky Tooth

Review: George Jones and Tammy Wynette, "Songs of Inspiration"

March 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

george and tammy inspiration3

When George Jones met Tammy Wynette, sparks flew. So, apparently, did dishes, utensils and glasses, when Jones interceded in an argument between the younger country starlet and her then-husband. It wasn’t long before Jones and Wynette were married, and dubbed “Mr. and Mrs. Country Music” by their adoring public. While maintaining separate recording careers, they also scored hits as a duo, joining the ranks of other famous country pairs – both married and platonic – like Porter and Dolly, Conway

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: George Jones, Tammy Wynette

Sensitive Chaos: Rhino To Release Anthology From Steve Howe of Yes

March 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Steve Howe Anthology

Get ready to say “Yes” to a new retrospective from progressive-rock great Steve Howe.  The English guitarist has curated a new 33-track retrospective, simply titled Anthology, for release on March 10 via Rhino.  The 2-CD set, also available as a digital download, is primarily drawn from the studio albums he’s recorded between 1975 and 2011.  It arrives just weeks before the May 19 release of Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two, the 14-CD box set preserving Howe and Yes' performances on their

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Steve Howe, Yes

Shake Your Pants! Robinsongs Goes "Insane" With New Cameo Reissues

March 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Cameo Ugly Ego Two Fer

In 2010, Cherry Red’s Superbird imprint combined Cameo’s first two albums, Cardiac Arrest and We All Know Who We Are, in one package.  Now, five years later, Cherry Red’s Robinsongs has just reissued the funk supergroup’s third and fourth outings, 1978’s Ugly Ego and 1979’s Secret Omen. Originally founded as The New York City Players, Larry Blackmon and his big band soon changed the group name to Cameo, to avoid confusion with the Ohio Players.  Prior to this, Blackmon (the band’s

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk Tags: Cameo

In Season: Bob Crewe's Lost Musical Revealed On "The Complete Elektra Recordings" Coming NEXT WEEK From Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music

March 4, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Crewe

"Bob Crewe's lyrics have meant so much--to so many--for so long; it is hard to imagine they will ever be forgotten. Bob had a way about him in life as he did in the studio, a charismatic personality, an ability to draw the best out of everyone and a limitless joy of music, art and life...We will never forget Bob Crewe." So spoke Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio upon the passing last year of Bob Crewe at the age of 83. A veteran songwriter, producer and entrepreneur, Crewe's vibrant, thrilling music

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bob Crewe, The Bob Crewe Generation

Deluxe (Tokyo Dome Live in Concert + Remasters)

March 4, 2015 By

VH Deluxe

Van Halen boxes up its new concert release featuring David Lee Roth with remastered editions of the band's debut and his (first) farewell, 1984.  Available on 4 CDs or 6 LPs.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

1984 (Remastered Edition)

March 4, 2015 By

VH 1984

David Lee Roth's (first) swansong with Van Halen is remastered, with no additional material, on CD, DD and LP.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Van Halen (Remastered Edition)

March 4, 2015 By

Van Halen Remaster

Van Halen's debut album returns in a remastered edition with no additional material on CD, DD and LP.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Tokyo Dome Live in Concert

March 4, 2015 By

VH Tokyo

The first-ever live album from Van Halen to feature David Lee Roth, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert was recorded on June 21, 2013 in Japan with Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Wolfgang Van Halen, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert boasts 25 songs representing all seven of the band's albums with Roth, right up through 2012's A Different Kind of Truth. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain and mastered by Chris Bellman, it will be released in 2-CD, 4-LP and DD configurations.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Progeny: Highlights from Seventy-Two

March 4, 2015 By

Progeny Highlights

If the 14-CD Progeny box is too much for you to say "Yes," how about this 2-CD or 3-LP distillation of highlights from the box chronicling Yes' 1972 tour?

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two

March 4, 2015 By

Yes Progeny

This 14-CD box captures seven complete concerts from Yes circa 1972 - the same tour leading up to the performances preserved on Yessongs.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Still Here: 1967-1973

March 4, 2015 By

Notations

Numero collects the best of the Chicago R&B vocal group, produced by Syl Johnson and Curtis Mayfield, illustrating the group's musical transition from smooth ballads to socially-conscious soul.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul

Short Takes: Yes' Massive Box Set, Metallica's Original Demo and Van Halen Remasters

March 4, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Yes Progeny

There soon will be many more Yessongs. Progressive rockers Yes released the triple-LP live album Yessongs in 1973. It captured the band at the height of its powers, riding a wave of success thanks to the 1972 album Close to the Edge. In the weeks leading up to the recording of Yessongs, however, the band recorded a number of shows that are now being collected in Rhino's massive 14-CD box set Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two. The May 19 release contains seven complete shows recorded in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Metallica, Record Store Day, Van Halen, Yes

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