Vinyl 178 - The Second Disc

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Dave Edmunds, Eydie Gorme, Faith No More, Jackie Lomax, John Lennon, Pete Townshend, Stephanie Mills, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Knack, The Rolling Stones, Valerie Simpson

So This Is Love: Disney Expands “Cinderella”, Premieres “The Silly Symphony Collection” Box Set

June 8, 2015 by Randy Fairman | 1 Comment

We’ve got a couple of bits of Disney music news to bring you today. One concerns an ongoing series and the other concerns material that many have long hoped would see release! First up, we can confirm more details about the next volume of Walt Disney Records’ Legacy Collection: Cinderella. Celebrating its 65th anniversary this year, Cinderella was Walt Disney’s twelfth animated feature and was released on February 5, 1950. It starred the voices of Ilene Woods as Cinderella, Eleanor Audley as Lady Tremaine and Verna Felton as the Fairy Godmother. After…

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Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston, Mack David, Various Artists

Volume 2: The Reaction Singles 1966

June 4, 2015 by Joe Marchese

The Who presents Volume Two of a four-part series of the band’s singles, collected by label (Brunswick, Reaction, Track and Polydor). This box features five 7-inch singles from the Reaction label, pressed on heavyweight vinyl with sleeves reproducing the period graphics with die-cut center holes. Includes remastered versions of Who classics such as “Substitute,” “Happy Jack,” “I’m a Boy,” the Ready Steady Who EP, and more. The singles are all housed in a full-color box that also contains a 7-inch-sized 8-page color booklet with liner notes about each release by Mark Blake.

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Coda [Various Editions]

June 4, 2015 by Joe Marchese

The Led Zeppelin remastered reissue campaign has reached the band’s final studio album, 1982’s Coda, available in various formats: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

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In Through the Out Door [Various Editions]

June 4, 2015 by Joe Marchese

The Led Zeppelin remastered reissue campaign marches on with 1979’s In Through the Out Door, the band’s final album recorded before John Bonham’s untimely passing. It’s available in a number of formats: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

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Presence [Various Editions]

June 4, 2015 by Joe Marchese

Led Zeppelin’s 1976 Presence arrives in a variety of remastered and expanded formats: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

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They’re Gonna Groove: Led Zeppelin Reissues Final Three Albums On July 31 In Variety of Formats

June 3, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 12 Comments

Come this July, worldwide release day shifts to Friday. And with this morning’s announcement from Led Zeppelin, it looks like Friday, July 31, will be the mightiest of the month – and perhaps even the summer! On that date, the band will conclude its deluxe edition series with a plethora of reissues for its three final studio albums: Presence, In Through the Out Door and Coda. As with the previous deluxe editions, Presence, In Through The Out Door, and Coda have been newly remastered by Jimmy Page and are accompanied by companion…

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Full Circle/Other Voices

May 29, 2015 by Joe Marchese

The Doors’ two post-Jim Morrison studio albums – 1971’s Other Voices (which arrived just six months after L.A. Woman!) and 1972’s Full Circle – are both presented on one CD and in individual, 180-gram vinyl replica editions. The CD two-fer features one bonus track, the B-side “Treetrunk.” Full Circle/Other Voices CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Other Voices LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Full Circle LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

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Break On Through: The Doors’ “Other Voices” and “Full Circle” Come To CD, LP

May 29, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

A lost chapter of The Doors’ story is finally coming to light this fall. On September 4, Rhino will reissue for the very first time on officially-sanctioned CD and 180-gram vinyl the two albums released by The Doors – John Densmore, guitarist Robby Krieger, and keyboardist Ray Manzarek – following the 1971 death of Jim Morrison: Other Voices (1971) and Full Circle (1972). The albums will be made available as a two-CD set, newly remastered by The Doors’ longtime associate and original Other Voices co-producer Bruce Botnick. “Treetrunk,” the B-side of the…

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Classic Quadrophenia

May 20, 2015 by Joe Marchese

Pete Townshend and Billy Idol join opera and Les Miserables star Alfie Boe in a new symphonic version of The Who’s seminal rock opera Quadrophenia, with orchestrations by Townshend’s partner Rachel Fuller. The deluxe CD/DVD edition includes the complete CD and a 44- minute DVD featuring an exclusive on-camera interview with Pete Townshend, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the album, and the new music video for “Love Reign O’er Me” shot on location at Brighton Beach Pier in England, site of the Mods and Rockers riots of 1964. Also available…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 19

May 19, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring a number of rock legends! Yes, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This whopping 14-CD box captures seven complete concerts from Yes circa 1972 – the same tour leading up to the performances preserved on Yessongs. For those who don’t need 14 discs, 2-CD and 3-LP Highlights distillations are also available (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) ! Jeff Beck, Live+ (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Guitar hero Jeff Beck returns with a new live album culled from his 2014…

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Jeff Beck, Mariah Carey, Miles Davis, Rare Earth, The Knack, Thelonious Monk, Yes

What a Day for a Daydream: The Lovin’ Spoonful Goes Mono From Sundazed

May 18, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Do you believe in magic? Well, Sundazed clearly does, as the label is set to offer the first three albums by The Lovin’ Spoonful in mono editions on both CD and 180-gram vinyl. New York native John Sebastian fused pop and folk when he joined with Zal Yanovsky, Steve Boone and Joe Butler as The Lovin’ Spoonful. The band quickly established a knack for “good time music” with its very first album, November 1965’s Do You Believe in Magic. The Kama Sutra album yielded the hit title track (U.S. No. 9) and…

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Review: Wes Montgomery, “In the Beginning”

May 13, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Never-before-heard music by Wes Montgomery isn’t easy to come by. Montgomery – an influence to George Benson, Jimi Hendrix, Pat Metheny and every great guitar man in between – didn’t enter a recording studio until 25 years of age, didn’t record as a leader until another ten years had elapsed, and was dead ten years after that, felled by a heart attack at age 45. His body of work can neatly be divided into three distinct periods at different labels: Riverside (1959-1964), Verve (1964-1966) and A&M (1967-1968). The latter two stints were…

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Monk Montgomery, Quincy Jones, Wes Montgomery

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Review: Drivin’ N’ Cryin’, “Best of Songs”

May 12, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

In a career spanning almost thirty years on both independent and major labels, Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ has refused to be pigeonholed. The band, formed by Kevin (or Kevn) Kinney in 1985 has happily leaped from genre to genre, drawing on hard rock, country, pop, punk and other influences. Between June 2012 and January 2014, the band – now consisting of Kinney, founding member Tim Nielsen, Sadler Vaden and Dave V. Johnson – recorded a series of four EPs from which a tight, all-killer, no-filler collection has been culled. The simply-titled Best of…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 12

May 12, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

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 friend” to Omnivore Recordings for this first-ever release of Andrew Gold’s 1978 concert at West…

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Andrew Gold, Buck Owens, David Shire, Dionne Warwick, Drivin' N' Cryin', Henry Mancini, J.D. Souther, Leonard Cohen, Michael Fennelly, Roxette, The Muscle Shoals Horns, Todd Rundgren, Wes Montgomery

Private Dancer: 30th Anniversary Edition

May 11, 2015 by Joe Marchese

Tina Turner’s smash 1984 comeback album featuring “What’s Love Got to Do with It” and “Private Dancer” gets a belated anniversary reissue with a second disc of bonus tracks including remixes, live cuts and more. The original album gets a straight vinyl reissue, as well.

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The Adventures of Panama Red

May 11, 2015 by Joe Marchese

New Riders of the Purple Sage’s 1973 hit album returns to vinyl in a deluxe replica edition!

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#1 To Infinity

May 11, 2015 by Joe Marchese

The pop diva returns with this collection of nineteen chart-toppers. Read more here, including the full track listing.

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The Rolling Stones Celebrate 50 Years of “Satisfaction” In July

May 11, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

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 10. After a discarded attempt recording the song…

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Real Gone’s July Features Complete Ronny and the Daytonas Plus New Riders, Fanny, Grateful Dead, More

May 7, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

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 a mainstay since Real…

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Banana and the Bunch, Fanny, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Ronny and the Daytonas, The Grateful Dead, The Viscounts

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What’s Love Got to Do With It? Warner Celebrates 30 Years of Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer”

May 7, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

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 departure from the rhythm and blues that characterized her time with the Ike and…

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Before This World

May 5, 2015 by Joe Marchese

James Taylor is back with his first collection of original songs in over 13 years! The 10-track album Before This World will be available in a number of configurations including a single CD; CD/DVD Deluxe Edition (with the documentary There We Were: The Making of James Taylor’s Before This World; vinyl LP; and Super Deluxe Edition with bonus audio, an expanded cut of the film, a 40-page booklet and swag (handwritten lyric replicas, etc.) in a numbered limited edition. Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. CD/DVD Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K….

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 5

May 5, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

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, including seven previously unreleased tracks plus her four collaborations with Van Morrison and the…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Billy Ward and His Dominoes, Herbie Hancock, Jackie DeShannon, Jethro Tull, John Coltrane, John Lodge, Jorge Ben, Julie Andrews, Miles Davis, Nils Lofgren, Perry Como, Todd Rundgren

From Out of Nowhere: Two Faith No More Albums Go Deluxe

May 1, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

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 original albums plus selections from the CD…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 28

April 28, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

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 remaining tracks were left on the shelf, and thought…

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