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Through the Eyes of Love: The Complete Arista 7" Singles

July 20, 2017 By

Melissa Manchester Through the Eyes of Love

The timeless songs of Melissa Manchester are collected on a new, comprehensive anthology from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music. Through the Eyes of Love: The Complete Arista 7" Singles brings together 43 songs and 157 minutes of beautiful music on two CDs, including such all-time hits and classics as "Midnight Blue," "Come in from the Rain," "Don't Cry Out Loud," "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" (in both its single and extended versions!), and "Theme from Ice Castles (Through the

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

BREAKING! Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Celebrate Melissa Manchester with "The Complete Arista 7" Singles"

July 20, 2017 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Melissa Manchester Through the Eyes of Love

"Please, don't let this feeling end..." The sentiment of that famous lyric is one shared by listeners every time Melissa Manchester begins to sing. From her earliest pop hits through her recent triumphs on the jazz charts, Manchester's voice has always resonated with warmth and power. In 1975, she was one of a handful of select talents chosen by Clive Davis to inaugurate his Arista Records label, and during her near-decade on the label, the fiercely independent artist established herself as

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Melissa Manchester

The Thrill of the Hunt: Real Gone's September Slate Begins with "Predator" on Vinyl Plus Duane Eddy RCA Singles and Grateful Dead

July 19, 2017 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Duane Eddy Complete RCA Singles

While we are now in the height of the summer heat, Real Gone is looking ahead to the fall.  The label has announced the first part of its release slate for September of this year and it is another eclectic mix of titles. First up is a title from the artist most people consider to be the greatest rock-instrumentalist of all time: Duane Eddy.  Guitar Star: The Complete RCA Singles A's and B's collects all 22 single sides Eddy recorded for RCA Victor in the early to mid-1960s on CD, and is due

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Duane Eddy, Fifteen, Grateful Dead

Take My Anthem: Live's First Album Expanded in August

July 17, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Mental Jewelry 25

Fans of '90s alternative staple Live have had a lot to be happy about in the last few months. Late last year, after an acrimonious split, lead singer Ed Kowalczyk returned as lead singer of the band after seven years apart. With tour dates and a new album in the works, the quartet are also taking time to look back, with a newly expanded edition of their first album as Live, 1991's Mental Jewelry. After a self-released album and EP under the moniker Public Affection, Live (Kowalczyk, guitarist

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Live

Release Round-Up: Week of July 14

July 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dusty Springfield Brand New Me Complete

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, A Brand New Me: The Complete Philadelphia Sessions (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Dusty Springfield's 1970 A Brand New Me LP (her follow-up Atlantic effort to the landmark Dusty in Memphis) found Dusty traveling to Sigma Sound in Philadelphia to work with Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell, architects of the orchestrated soul known as "The Philadelphia Sound."  Springfield would have a #3 AC

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dusty Springfield, Eagles, k.d. lang, Lifehouse, Nick Lowe, The Grateful Dead, Yoko Ono

Berlin and Beyond: Third Bowie Box Set Announced

July 12, 2017 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Bowie Box 3

The newest career-spanning David Bowie box set chronicles the icon as he ends the '70s with some of his most experimental work yet, adding rarities to spare. A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) follows 2015's Five Years (1969-1973) and 2016's Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), offering material from five major studio and live albums: Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Stage (1978), Lodger (1979) and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980). Low, "Heroes" and Lodger are, of course, referred to as the

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

Love Never Dies: Belinda Carlisle Plans 'Heaven On Earth' Vinyl Box

July 11, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Heaven On Earth 30

Vinyl enthusiasts and fans of Belinda Carlisle have quite the package to look forward to this year, when Edsel releases a vinyl box set edition of her second solo album, 1987's Heaven On Earth, for its 30th anniversary. The former Go-Go's frontwoman hit it big with her first solo single, the Top 5 hit "Mad About You," a year prior in 1986. But Heaven On Earth is what established Carlisle as a solo performer for the '80s and '90s, with three Top 10 hits in the U.S. and the U.K. with the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle, The Go-Go's

Say Hello to Yesterday: Mark Wynter Anthology Traces Career From Pop Hits to Rare Showtunes

July 11, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Mark Wynter

Mark Wynter scored his first hit pop single at the age of seventeen in 1960 with "Image of a Girl" on the Decca label, paving the way for future U.K. smashes like "Venus in Blue Jeans" and "Go Away Little Girl."  By the end of the decade, he had taken his first steps towards an enduring theatrical career with a lead role in the musical Phil the Fluter.  Flash-forward to 2016, and after decades onstage in such diverse musicals as Robert and Elizabeth, Cats, On the Twentieth Century, and Phantom

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Mark Wynter, Tony Hatch

Simple Dreams: 40th Anniversary Edition

July 10, 2017 By

Linda Ronstadt Simple Dreams

Linda Ronstadt's 1977 multi-platinum smash album featuring "Blue Bayou," "It's So Easy" and "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" is remastered and expanded by Rhino in a new edition featuring three bonus live versions of the above-mentioned songs, first heard in a 1980 HBO television special.  Available on CD, LP, DD and streaming.

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

I'm Goin' Back Someday: Linda Ronstadt's "Simple Dreams" Gets Expanded In September

July 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese 20 Comments

Linda Ronstadt Simple Dreams

Trivia: What album replaced Fleetwood Mac's Rumours on top of the Billboard Album Chart after its 29-week stay?  The answer: Linda Ronstadt's Simple Dreams.  Ronstadt's eighth studio album, it became one of her most successful and most beloved.  Now, on the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the Grammy Award-winning Simple Dreams is receiving an expanded edition from Rhino Records.  It's due on CD, vinyl LP, DD, and streaming platforms on September 22. The multi-platinum smash was Ronstadt's

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt

Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere: Ace Collects Shel Talmy Productions From The Who, David Bowie, More

July 7, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Making Time A Shel Talmy Production

An advertisement reprinted in Ace Records' splendid new collection Making Time: A Shel Talmy Production reads, "Artistes Shel Talmy Has Recorded: The Kinks, The Bachelors, The Who, Chad and Jeremy" and so on.  Add to that list Manfred Mann, The Creation, The Fortunes, Trini Lopez, Lee Hazlewood, and a certain David Bowie, and you have an idea of the scope of this first-of-its-kind collection dedicated to the work of the producer-engineer-impresario.  Though born in Chicago, Talmy made his name

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: David Bowie, Shel Talmy, The Creation, The Who, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of July 7

July 7, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Laura Nyro A Little Magic A Little Kindness

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring our latest Second Disc Records title and much, much more! Laura Nyro, A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to present, for the first time on CD, the ultra-rare, original mono mixes of Laura Nyro's first two albums: More Than a New Discovery (Verve Folkways, 1967) and Eli

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Charley Pride, Chris Bell, Del Shannon, Delegation, Eddy Arnold, Keely Smith, Laura Nyro, Radiohead, Rosanne Cash, Tim Buckley, Weather Report

Tapestry: Live in Hyde Park (CD/DVD)

July 6, 2017 By

Carole King Tapestry Live at Hyde Park

This new CD/DVD release features Carole King's 45th anniversary performance of her seminal 1971 classic Tapestry, performed live in front of 65,000 fans in London's Hyde Park on July 3, 2016.  The setlist, preserved on both CD and DVD, includes the entire album plus numerous highlights from King's illustrious songbook, and special guest appearances by King's daughter, singer-songwriter Louise Goffin, and the West End cast of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical!

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Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop

COMING TOMORROW! Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music Release Laura Nyro's "Complete Mono Albums Collection"

July 6, 2017 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Laura Nyro A Little Magic A Little Kindness

TOMORROW, July 7, Second Disc Records is proud to unveil its fifteenth release in conjunction with Real Gone Music - and quite possibly the title of which we're most proud. We're inviting you to surry to a stoned soul picnic to celebrate the music of visionary singer-songwriter Laura Nyro in the 50th anniversary year of her first release, More Than a New Discovery.  Throughout the course of her life, Nyro wrote and introduced some of the most beloved popular songs of all time with her

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Laura Nyro

Home Again: Carole King Brings "Tapestry: Live in Hyde Park" to CD/DVD in September

July 5, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Carole King Tapestry Live at Hyde Park

On July 3, 2016, those people in and around London's Hyde Park could feel the earth move.  That was the date that Carole King performed her first U.K. show in 27 years, performing her complete Tapestry album in front of 65,000 enrapt fans.  Now, King's performance of the seminal 1971 album - and a few additional favorite songs - is coming to CD/DVD on September 1 in a new package from Legacy Recordings and Rockingale Records. Carole King had nothing to prove when she decamped from New York to

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop Tags: Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Louise Goffin

Up, Up and Away: Cherry Red Collects Charlie Byrd's Sixties Pop-Jazz Recordings

July 5, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Charlie Byrd Sixties Byrd

Today, the name of Charlie Byrd (1925-1999) remains synonymous with jazz guitar and moreover, with the soft sounds of Brazil's bossa nova, which he helped bring into the mainstream of American popular culture.  Cherry Red's El Records imprint has recently celebrated a key decade in Byrd's career with a fun new compilation.  Sixties Byrd draws on eight albums from the prolific artist originally released on Columbia Records between 1965 and 1969, all produced by Teo Macero (Bitches Brew, Time

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop Tags: Charlie Byrd

Review: The Beach Boys, "1967: Sunshine Tomorrow" and "Wild Honey" (Stereo LP)

July 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Beach Boys Sunshine Tomorrow

There's nothing quite nice as a kiss of wild honey... Carl Wilson - the angelic voice from on high of "God Only Knows" - unleashed his inner soul man with a fury on "Wild Honey," the title track of The Beach Boys' second album of 1967.  The funky, Theremin-driven ode to a "girl with the sweetness of a honey bee" opened the LP which turned out to be one of the most singular in the band's storied catalogue.  Its fusion of pulsating R&B and raw rock-and-roll, anchored by nine Brian

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: The Beach Boys

Body of Work 1978-1988

July 3, 2017 By

Godley Creme

Caroline International has a 5CD box set detailing what Kevin Godley and Lol Creme did as a duo after leaving 10cc in 1976. The artier half of the band, the duo nonetheless scored two U.K. Top 10 hits in the 1980s with "Under Your Thumb" and "Wedding Bells." Body of Work 1978-1988 features, in full, each of the band's six albums in that decade (L (1978), Freeze Frame (1979), Ismism (1981), Birds of Prey (1983), The History Mix Vol. 1 (1985, presented in its expanded "Plus" form as issued by

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Anthology

July 3, 2017 By

Eric Stewart Anthology

Cherry Red's Lemon imprint is assembling a 2CD set devoted mostly to the solo work of 10cc frontman Eric Stewart. This 2CD Anthology includes six tracks from the latter half of 10cc's career with Stewart and Gouldman at the helm (mostly drawn from their final album, 1995's MirrorMirror) plus material from Stewart's four solo albums recorded between 1980 and 2009, including tracks from 1980's Girls and 1982's Frooty Rooties making their debuts on CD.

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Before, During, After: The Story of 10cc

July 3, 2017 By

10cc packshot

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2CD (During, After: The Best of 10cc): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Before, During, After: The Story of 10cc is a new box set devoted to the history and legacy of Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. This 4CD collection includes a disc of the group's hits ("During"); from there, it's a disc of post-10cc material ("After") by Godley & Creme, Wax (Gouldman's duo with singer-songwriter Andrew Gold), solo tracks by Stewart, Gouldman and

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Filet of Soul Redux: The Rejected Master Recordings

July 3, 2017 By

Jan and Dean Filet of Soul Redux

In 1966, Liberty Records rejected a new album from Jan and Dean - a blend of music and comedy the duo entitled Filet of Soul.  Months later, with Jan Berry in recovery from his tragic car accident, the label issued a version of the LP created without the duo's participation.  Now, decades later, Dean Torrence has partnered with Omnivore Recordings to release the original, rejected version of Filet of Soul for the first time.  Available in CD and DD formats.

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Results: Expanded 4-Disc Edition

July 3, 2017 By

Liza Minnelli Results Expanded

Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment revisits Liza Minnelli's 1989 collaboration with The Pet Shop Boys on a new 3-CD/1-DVD set.  The original Results album is presented on Disc One, with the various single mixes associated with Results on two further CDs.  Finally, a DVD has the promotional videos for all three singles plus a television performance of "Love Pains," and as an unrelated bonus, the promotional video for 1993's "The Day After That."

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop

The Monkees Celebrated On New Benefit Release "Listen to the Bands"

July 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Listen to the Bands

With its latest project, 7a Records has invited Monkees fans to Listen to the Bands - yes, plural.  This recent 25-track collection features modern, independent artists all tackling Davy, Micky, Mike, and Peter's classic songbook - and making it even more special, all profits from the limited edition album will be donated by the label to the Davy Jones Equine Memorial Foundation. Appropriately, curators Glenn Gretlund and Iain Lee of 7a have made sure that many of the famous songwriting names

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: The Monkees, Various Artists

It's a Happening World: Warner Japan Collects Sunshine Pop on "Soft Rock Nuggets" Series

June 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Soft Rock Nuggets 1

As longtime collectors know, great "nuggets" show up in the most unlikely places...and so do Nuggets, naturally.  Warner Music Japan has just issued four volumes of Soft Rock Nuggets, but most of the tracks on these collections are firmly in the harmony-drenched, lushly melodic, sunshine pop genre.  Any fans of Rhino Handmade's Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults (reissued on vinyl this year for Record Store Day) will find much to savor on these latest additions to the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Dino Desi and Billy, Harpers Bizarre, Jackie Trent, Paul Williams, Roger Nichols, The Association, The Hollies, Tony Hatch, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of June 30

June 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Beach Boys Sunshine Tomorrow

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Beach Boys, 1967: Sunshine Tomorrow (Capitol/Brother/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Beach Boys' Sunshine Tomorrow, a new 2-CD and digital collection, not only premieres the first-ever true stereo mix of 1967's Wild Honey, but also premieres a whopping 54 rarities recorded that year including the live album Lei'd in Hawaii, session material from both Wild Honey and Smiley Smile, and further live recordings (spanning

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Art Pepper, Beach House, Harry Nilsson, Peggy March, The Beach Boys, The Beau Brummels, Various Artists

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