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God Bless Tiny Tim [Pink Vinyl]

March 12, 2018 By

God Bless Tiny Tim Stereo

Real Gone celebrates the 50th anniversary of Tiny Tim's debut album, produced by Richard Perry and featuring the hit "Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips," with its first-ever U.S. vinyl reissue, pressed on pink vinyl and strictly limited to 900 copies!

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Love Has No Reason/Savin' It Up

March 12, 2018 By

Debby Boone Love Has No Reason Two Fer

Debby Boone's fourth and fifth Warner/Curb albums, both from 1980, are expanded with rare bonus tracks for their CD debuts from Real Gone Music.  These albums found the versatile artist teaming with superstar producer Larry Butler for Nashville sessions which yielded a Country chart-topper, "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again," and other hits.  TSD's Joe Marchese has penned the liner notes, drawing on a fresh interview with Debby!

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Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop

Midstream/Debby Boone

March 12, 2018 By

Debby Boone Midstream Two Fer

Real Gone Music reissues Debby Boone's second and third Warner Bros./Curb releases, from 1978 and 1979, on CD for the very first time.  Produced by Brooks Arthur, this two-fer features Boone's silky treatments of songs by the pop cream of the crop including Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager, Bruce Roberts, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, Jimmy Webb, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.  TSD's own Joe Marchese has written the liner notes based on a new interview with

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Genre: Pop

Don't Fear The Reaper: Real Gone's Record Store Day Lineup Includes Tim Buckley, Harry Nilsson, Blue Oyster Cult and The Rascals

March 12, 2018 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Nilsson Pussy Cats

As we continue our look through this year's upcoming Record Store Day releases, here is what Real Gone Music will be offering on April 21 at your local record store! Tim Buckley, Live at the Troubadour - 2-LP 12" Clear Vinyl First appearing on CD in 1994, this album is drawn from Tim Buckley's September 3  and September 4, 1969 shows at West Hollywood's famed Troubadour.  Buckley was joined by Lee Underwood on guitar, Carter C.C. Collins on congas, John Balkin on bass, and Art Trip on

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, Record Store Day, The Rascals, Tim Buckley

RPM Round-Up, Part Two: Spotlight on The Dave Miller Set, The Deejays, and Elton's Friends Birds of a Feather

March 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Dave Miller Set Mr Guy Fawkes

Welcome to Part Two of our RPM Records Round-Up, exploring another three titles from the Cherry Red retro imprint!  If you missed Part One, just click here! The first release heads down under, collecting The Dave Miller Set's recordings for Australia's Spin label in the late 1960s.  Mr. Guy Fawkes: The Complete Spin Recordings and More (1967-1970) has 19 tracks, including one previously unreleased, from the New Zealand-born frontman and his musical collaborators.  The compilation takes its

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Birds of a Feather, Elton John, The Dave Miller Set, The Deejays

Release Round-Up: Week of March 9

March 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Both Sides of the Sky

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Jimi Hendrix, Both Sides of the Sky (Legacy/Experience Hendrix) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The latest collection of posthumously-released material from Jimi Hendrix arrives in CD, vinyl, and digital formats, featuring 13 songs recorded between January 1968 and February 1970 - ten of which are previously unreleased, including performances with Stephen Stills of Joni Mitchell's

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: David Byrne, Eva Cassidy, Jimi Hendrix, John Cage, Justin Hinds, Leonard Bernstein, Marillion, Tania Chen, Uncle Walt's Band

Mixed Up, Torn Down: Releases from The Cure, Madonna, Miles Davis and More Form Rhino's Record Store Day 2018 Schedule

March 7, 2018 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

The Cure Torn Down

Rhino isn't holding back this Record Store Day, planning more than 30 special vinyl releases for Saturday, April 21, to be sold at all participating retailers. Interestingly, several releases are companion pieces to recent general reissues, offering bonus content from different re-releases and box sets as standalone vinyl. Several singles and oddities are in the mix, from a 12" of The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Juicy," to a rare "short version" of Prince's 1999, featuring only seven tracks from the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

RPM Round-Up, Part One: Label Reissues James Royal, Shel Talmy Productions from Jon-Mark and Wild Silk

March 7, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Wild Silk Visions

Cherry Red's RPM label continues to trawl the deepest vaults for truly rare gems in the realms of pop, rock, and R&B.  Part One of this two-part RPM Round-Up focuses on three rarities-packed collections from the mid-to-late 1960s! Despite releasing eighteen singles and one album between 1965 and 1972 in his home of the U.K., James Royal never achieved stardom while he was recording.  But the blue-eyed soul man's stellar body of work began attracting fans on the northern soul and mod

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: James Royal, Jon-Mark, Shel Talmy, Wild Silk

Keep It Thoro: Legacy Announces Record Store Day Slate with Dylan, Cash, Mathis, Elvis, Pink Floyd, More

March 6, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Johnny Mathis I Love My Lady

Record Store Day is a little over a month away - Saturday, April 21 - and record labels large and small are celebrating in high style.  Legacy Recordings is looking to make this the biggest and best RSD yet, with a line-up of nearly 30 titles in genres including classic rock, pop, jazz, R&B, hip-hop, comedy, and beyond. Many of the label's heavy hitters are represented, including Johnny Cash (an expanded vinyl box set of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition), Jimi Hendrix (a new

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Big Audio Dynamite, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Eurythmics, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Johnny Mathis, Marvin Gaye, Pink Floyd, Record Store Day, The Allman Brothers Band, The Grateful Dead, Van Morrison

Review: "Stax Singles Vol. 4: Rarities and the Best of the Rest"

March 6, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Stax Singles 4 cover

Stax Records is rightfully renowned for its catalogue of deep southern soul straight from the heart of Memphis.  But, like its famous Detroit competitor Motown, the label founded by Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton released music in a variety of sounds and styles.  The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (released in 1991 and reissued by Rhino in 2016 was the first major archival box to begin to address the Stax legacy in record-by-record fashion.  It was followed by The Complete Stax-Volt Soul

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Barbara Lewis, Big Star, Billy Eckstine, Carla Thomas, Delaney and Bonnie, Isaac Hayes, O.B. McClinton, Rufus Thomas, Various Artists

UPDATE: Massive Toto Box Set "All In" to Also Include All Albums on CD

March 5, 2018 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Toto All In

Are you ready to go All In with Toto?  The band has just announced a limited edition 17-LP/13-CD/1-BD box set due on October 12 from Legacy Recordings.  This one-of-a-kind collection, exclusively available through the band's website now through April 10 only (for fall delivery), will offer a complete portrait of the band's Columbia Records years, plus some previously unreleased extras.  All In features the following albums on seventeen LPs and thirteen CDs: Toto (1978) Hydra (1979)

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Toto

Review: Chris Hillman, "The Asylum Years"

March 5, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Chris Hillman Asylum Years

Chris Hillman is surely one of rock's largely unsung heroes.   A veteran of groups including The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Desert Rose Band, and supergroup The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, Hillman last year released the acclaimed album Bidin' My Time - only his seventh solo album.  Produced by Tom Petty (one of the late superstar's last projects) with one foot in the past and another in the present, the LP reaffirmed the artist's deserved place in the pantheon.  Now, Omnivore

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Chris Hillman

On The Road To Lovin' Again: Real Gone to Release Debby Boone's Remaining Warner/Curb Albums on Pair of Two-fers in April

March 2, 2018 By Randy Fairman 5 Comments

Debby Boone Midstream Two Fer

Back in December, Real Gone Music released the 40th Anniversary Edition of Debby's Boone's platinum You Light Up My Life album.  At that time it was also revealed that Boone's remaining Warner Bros./Curb Records albums were heading to CD for the first time as well.  And now we have details on those releases.  On April 6, Real Gone Music, in association with Curb Records, will release a pair of two-fer packages: Midstream/Debby Boone and Love Has No Reason/Savin' It Up.  Both of these

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Debby Boone

Release Round-Up: Week of March 2

March 2, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Johnny Mathis Bacharach and Kaempfert

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music, and much, much more! Johnny Mathis, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Johnny Mathis' 1970 album - featuring the songs of Bacharach and David, Paul Simon, Jimmy Webb, George Harrison and others - gets its first-ever expanded CD reissue from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music.  And

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Axe, Bert Kaempfert, Burt Bacharach, Charles Wright, Debbie Reynolds, Jackie DeShannon, Jethro Tull, Johnny Mathis, Ken Boothe, Pet Shop Boys, Phyllis Dillon, The King's Singers, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Sherman Brothers

Welcome to the Blackout: Three David Bowie Titles Announced for Record Store Day

March 1, 2018 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Bowie RSD 2018

If you're saving up for any of the exclusive vinyl titles available at the final David Bowie Is exhibition in Brooklyn announced earlier this week, make a little more space in the budget for the trio of Bowie titles announced for this year's Record Store Day (April 21, 2018). A host of rare and unreleased material will be made available on these discs, including an unreleased live show and a different version of the first rarity we heard from the Bowie camp this year. First up is Welcome to

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: David Bowie, Record Store Day

COMING THIS FRIDAY! Second Disc, Real Gone Launch Johnny Mathis Series with "Sings Bacharach and Kaempfert," "Raindrops"

February 28, 2018 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Johnny Mathis Raindrops

Today, the music of Johnny Mathis is more vibrant than ever.  The eternally youthful "voice of romance" gained a whole new generation of fans in 2017 with an album featuring his recordings of future standards by Adele, Bruno Mars, and Pharrell Williams.  At the dawn of the 1970s, Mathis was celebrating the great songwriters of that day, too.  This Friday, March 2, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to kick off a new series celebrating the legendary artist's classic albums of the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bert Kaempfert, Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mathis

When Will I Be Loved: Morello Reissues Two Phil Everly Solo Albums Featuring Warren Zevon

February 28, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Phil Everly Two Fer

The Everly Brothers' contribution to American popular song can hardly be overestimated. With hits like "Bye Bye Love," "Wake Up, Little Susie" and "When Will I Be Loved," brothers Don and Phil merged classic country and rock-and-roll into an influential whole, while their longing, ethereal vocal blend on "All I Have to Do is Dream" established them as timeless balladeers. At the beating heart of The Everly Brothers' sound was their deep respect for the music of the land, the rough-and-tumble,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Phil Everly, The Everly Brothers, Warren Zevon

Waiting in the Wings: Three Vinyl Exclusives Join Final 'David Bowie Is' Installation in New York

February 27, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Live in Berlin

David Bowie Is, the stellar worldwide exhibition offering an unprecedented deep dive into the world of one of rock's greatest icons, is making its final bow this year, opening this Friday (March 2) at the Brooklyn Museum in New York and running there through July 15. A trio of exclusive vinyl titles, made available at the exhibition's shop, were announced today, offering color variants of two rare releases and a live mini-album with several unreleased tracks. First up is a reissue of "Time,"

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: David Bowie

In The Garden In the Moonlight: Real Gone's Limited Edition Vinyl Slate in April Includes Tiny Tim, Girlschool, Jack Kerouac and Scientist & Jammy

February 27, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

God Bless Tiny Tim Stereo

We recently told you about Real Gone's line-up of limited edition vinyl soundtracks due in April and now we've got word of four more limited vinyl titles.  All of these are due to be released on April 6. First up is the 1982 dub album Scientist and Jammy Strike Back!.  Scientist (Hopeton Overton Brown) and Prince Jammy (Lloyd James) were both proteges of King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock), a sound engineer who was a pioneer in dub and remixing in Jamaica in the 1960s and 1970s.  Both Scientist and

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Reggae, Rock Tags: Girlschool, Jack Kerouac, Scientist and Prince Jammy, Tiny TIm

The Road to Utopia: The Complete Recordings 1974-1982

February 23, 2018 By

Utopia The Road to Utopia

Friday's new box set celebrating Todd Rundgren's Utopia has all six of the band's studio and live albums as originally released between 1974 and 1982 as newly remastered by the label's Joe Reagoso from the Warner/Bearsville tapes.  Each album will be housed in an individual gatefold digipak with original art elements from each LP including inner sleeves and inserts.  Rundgren, Sulton, Wilcox, and Powell have all made written contributions to this set, as well.  Fifteen bonus tracks are spread

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

Who, What, When, Where, Why: Rupert Holmes' "Songs That Sound Like Movies" OUT TODAY from Cherry Red [UPDATED]

February 23, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Rupert Holmes Songs That Sound Like Movies

There are songs that sound like movies/There are themes that fill the screen/There are lines I say that sound as if they're written/There are looks I wear the theatre should have seen... With those words, Rupert Holmes welcomed listeners into his singular musical world - one in which the only limits were those of the singer-songwriter's boundless imagination.  In other words, there were no limits to Holmes' finely crafted, elaborately realized pop dramas.  His 1974 Epic Records debut,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Rupert Holmes

Release Round-Up: Week of February 23

February 23, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Concert for George

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Concert for George [Various Formats] (Craft Recordings) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/2DVD/2BD/4LP Limited Online Exclusive Box Set: George Harrison Shop The star-studded 2002 concert celebration of the life of George Harrison - featuring Paul McCartney,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Belinda Carlisle, David Bowie, Edgar Winter, George Harrison, Glen Campbell, Hawkwind, Isaac Hayes, Neil Young, Nina Simone, Precious Wilson, Rupert Holmes, The Doors, Todd Rundgren

Bear Family Chronicles The Forgotten War On "Battleground Korea" Box Set

February 22, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Battleground Korea

Having previously tackled the music and sounds of The Vietnam War on a comprehensive box set, the Bear Family label has turned its attention to chronicling another conflict.  Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War, arriving from the label in the U.S on March 23, is a lavish 4-CD anthology from the historically-minded musical specialists, bringing into the sharp focus the soundtrack of the Korean War. Over 121 tracks, the Bear team brings together songs in the various

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Ernest Tubb, Fats Domino, Gene Autry, Lloyd Price, Red Foley, Tex Ritter, The Louvin Brothers, Various Artists

Gonna Take a Lot: Toto Take Pre-Orders for Massive Columbia-Era Box

February 22, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Toto All In

Are you ready to go All In with Toto?  The band has just announced a limited edition 17-LP/1-BD box set due on October 12 from Legacy Recordings.  This one-of-a-kind collection, exclusively available through the band's website now through April 10 only (for fall delivery), will offer a complete portrait of the band's Columbia Records years, plus some previously unreleased extras.  All In features the following albums on seventeen LPs: Toto (1978) Hydra (1979) Turn Back (1981) IV

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Toto

Love is the Answer: Friday Music Collects "The Complete Todd Rundgren + Utopia: 1974-1982" On New Box Set, Coincides with Reunion Tour

February 22, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Utopia The Road to Utopia

Friday Music is traveling The Road to Utopia with an upcoming 7-CD box set from Todd Rundgren's progressive band.  The April 20 release of The Road to Utopia: The Complete Recordings 1974-1982 will coincide with the long-awaited reunion tour of Rundgren, Kasim Sulton (who toured with his own iteration of Utopia earlier this year), Willie Wilcox, and Ralph Schuckett which kicks off this April and runs through June. The new box set will trace Utopia's evolution from its 1974 debut album -

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Todd Rundgren, Utopia

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