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Review: Rhonda Ross, "In Case You Didn't Know"

July 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Rhonda Ross In Case You Didnt Know

In Case You Didn't Know: Rhonda Ross has dropped a new release.  The album of that title showcases the singer-songwriter on a set of fourteen potent, original tracks.  Ross, a gifted vocalist with an expressive instrument, has written or co-written every song on the album, and though the CD's exclusive retailer CD Baby categorizes the record as "Jazz Fusion" - calling to mind the liquid soundscapes of Return to Forever or Weather Report - that term only tells part of the artist's story.  The

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Rhonda Ross

Above and Beyond: Varese Brings Papa John Phillips, Wynn Stewart to Vinyl

July 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

John Phillips John the Wolfking of LA

For his first solo album - and lone solo LP released during his lifetime - John Phillips was careful not to repeat himself.  With The Mamas and the Papas in the rearview mirror at that moment in time, Papa John reinvented himself as John, The Wolfking of L.A. and surrounded himself with the day's top musicians to craft a beguiling, mellow portrait of Los Angeles circa 1970.  Varese Vintage expanded this one-of-a-kind record on CD in 2006, and has recently issued it on a new 180-gram vinyl

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: John Phillips, The Mamas and The Papas, Wynn Stewart

Full Sail (Quadraphonic Hybrid SACD)

July 26, 2016 By

Loggins and Messina Full Sail SACD

Loggins and Messina's 1973 Columbia album featuring "My Music" and "Watching the River Run" makes its multichannel SACD debut.  Full Sail will play in stereo on all CD players but will play in 4.0 (quad) on SACD players equipped with a multichannel system.

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Formats: SACD Genre: Pop

Greatest Hits (Stereo Hybrid SACD)

July 26, 2016 By

BST Greatest Hits

Blood Sweat & Tears' original 1972 Greatest Hits collection, featuring 11 songs including "You've Made Me So Very Happy," "Spinning Wheel," "And When I Die," "I Can't Quit Her," "Lucretia MacEvil" and more, arrives on hybrid stereo SACD from Audio Fidelity.  This disc from the jazz-rock pioneers can be played on any CD player but will play in high-resolution on SACD players.

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Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Sugar, Sugar: The Complete Albums Collection

July 26, 2016 By

Archies Sugar Sugar Complete

At long last!  The complete albums of The Archies are being assembled in one 5-CD box set by Cleopatra Records.  You'll find The Archies, Everything's Archie, Jingle Jangle, Sunshine and This Is Love each in a mini-LP replica sleeve, along with a booklet containing new liner notes. Bubblegum never tasted so good as in these top-notch AM radio productions by Jeff Barry and co., featuring Ron Dante, Toni Wine and others!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Let's Go Out Tonight: David Bowie's "Who Can I Be Now" Box Set Arrives In September

July 25, 2016 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

David Bowie Who Can I Be Now

Hot on the heels of last Friday's announcement that the next David Bowie box would include the unreleased album The Gouster, the details of what will be in the box have been released from Parolphone.  Coming on September 23 in CD, vinyl and digital download editions, David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976) will contain the following albums: Diamond Dogs (Remastered) 1-CD David Live (Original Mix) (Remastered) 2-CD David Live (2005 Mix) (Remastered) 2-CD The Gouster (Previously

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: David Bowie

Can You Hear Me: Upcoming David Bowie Box To Premiere Unreleased Album "The Gouster"

July 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

David Bowie The Gouster

What is The Gouster? Parlophone Records has the answer with the upcoming release of the second in the series of David Bowie's complete albums box sets, Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976). The label promises a full announcement next week of the set which will follow last year's Five Years (1969-1973), but in the meantime, a special addition to the box has been confirmed: the unreleased album The Gouster, an embryonic version of 1975's "plastic soul" classic Young Americans which found Bowie

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: David Bowie

RPM Collects Unit 4 + 2 On "Concrete and Clay: The Complete Recordings"

July 21, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Unit 42 Complete

Unit 4 + 2 still gets airplay today thanks to "Concrete and Clay."  The 1965 single which hit No. 1 on the U.K. Pop charts and No. 28 on the U.S. Hot 100, and inspired covers by everyone from Gary Lewis and the Playboys to They Might Be Giants (including Randy Edelman's hit revival in 1976).  But there was more to the British pop band, as evidenced by RPM's double-CD anthology, Concrete and Clay: The Complete Recordings.    The 43 tracks here hail from 1964-1969 and encompass two albums, an EP

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Unit 4 + 2

Live at The Hollywood Bowl

July 20, 2016 By

Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four's legendary catalogue.  That's about to change with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via Apple/UMe.  The newly-retitled, remixed, remastered and expanded Live at the Hollywood Bowl will arrive one week in advance of the September 16 premiere of director Ron Howard's documentary film Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years which

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Ticket to Ride: The Beatles' "Live at The Hollywood Bowl" Arrives In September

July 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese 21 Comments

Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four's legendary catalogue.  That's about to change with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via Apple/UMe.  The newly-retitled, remixed, remastered and expanded Live at the Hollywood Bowl will arrive one week in advance of the September 16 premiere of director Ron Howard's documentary film Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years which

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beatles

Sail Away: "The Randy Newman Songbook" Box Set, "Vol. 3" Coming Soon

July 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Randy Newman Songbook 1

Randy Newman is back...just when America needs him the most!  While we're all waiting for the mordant troubadour's new studio album, due in 2017, Nonesuch Records has announced the September 23 release of the limited edition vinyl box set The Randy Newman Songbook.  This collection will premiere the third volume of his Songbook series (also available in a standalone edition) which began back in 2003. For more than fifty years, Newman has been a foremost chronicler of the American experience,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Randy Newman

They Say It's Wonderful: Real Gone September Slate Includes Robert Goulet, Porter Wagoner and The Meters

July 19, 2016 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Robert Goulet Definitive

Even though summer has just begun, Real Gone Music is already looking toward the end of the season with its September releases.  As per the label's norm, the artists represented span a wide range of styles and genres. We've already told you about the Second Disc Records/Real Gone release of The Isley Brothers' lost Groove With You...Live! album.  Joe has also written the liner notes for another of Real Gone's September offerings:  Robert Goulet's 2-CD The Definitive Collection.  Joe put

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Angel Witch, Dionne Warwick, Porter Wagoner, Robert Goulet, The Isley Brothers, The Meters, X-Ray Spex

Last Train To Clarksville: The Monkees Compile Hits and Favorites On "50" and "Forever"

July 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Monkees 50 and Forever

"You Bring the Summer," goes one of the brightest tracks on The Monkees' new hit album Good Times!  Well, the summer is bringing more of Micky, Davy, Peter and Mike with the dual August 26 releases of Monkees Forever and The Monkees 50.  This announcement comes hot on the heels of the release of the lavish, definitive Blu-ray collection of The Monkees' television show! These two new collections are timed for the band's 50th anniversary (currently being celebrated on the road by a successful

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: The Monkees

An Apple A Day: RPM Collects Grapefruit's Fab "Yesterday's Sunshine"

July 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Grapefruit Yesterdays Sunshine

RPM Records continues to leave no stone unturned as it explores groups and artists that may have fallen between the cracks over the years. A recent release from Grapefruit is no exception. Throughout their relatively short existence, the members of the four-piece pop-psych band Grapefruit enjoyed the imprimatur of The Beatles.  Signed to Apple Music Publishing, the band was given a major promotional push but never attained any major success on the singles chart, and by the time the album

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Grapefruit, The Beatles

Release Round-Up: Week of July 15

July 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Little Richard Mono Box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!   Little Richard, Mono Box: The Complete Specialty and Vee-Jay Albums (Concord/Specialty) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This new, 5-LP vinyl box set collects all of the studio albums that Little Richard recorded for both the Specialty and Vee-Jay labels between 1957 and 1965. The mono albums, each replicating the original label and jacket art, have been remastered from analog tapes. A 16-page booklet featuring new liner

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Diana Ross, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Little Richard, Marvin Gaye, Maynard Ferguson, Nina Simone, Sonny and Cher, The Hollywood Brats

One More Night: Phil Collins Preps "The Singles" Set

July 13, 2016 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Phil Collins The Singles

Phil Collins isn't ready to stop asking fans to "Take a Look At Me Now," with a new compilation to finish out his yearlong reissue campaign. The Singles, due in stores October 14, a week ahead of his autobiography, Not Dead Yet: The Memoir, collects Phil's various A-sides through nearly 30 years of recording. While nearly all the tracks, newly remastered by Nick Davis, have appeared in each batch of his expanded albums, The Singles collects a dozen tracks not included in those sets. There

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Phil Collins

Lost Era of London Celebrated On Croydon Municipal's "Soho Continental"

July 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Soho Continental

Next stop: bohemian London, circa the 1950s and 1960s.  That's the itinerary for Croydon Municipal's latest release in conjunction with Cherry Red, Soho Continental.  This 25-track collection conjures the period in which Soho was dotted not with chain stores and restaurants but with coffee bars, cocktail spots and trattorias populated by artists of every stripe and ethnicity.  As co-compiler Martin Green points out in his liner notes, "this album reflects the international sounds emanating from

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Connie Francis, George Shearing, Various Artists

The Bobby Darin Story

July 11, 2016 By

Bobby Darin Story

The late, great Bobby Darin (a favorite around these parts!) narrates his own story on this 1961 Atco LP featuring his greatest hits to that point including "Splish Splash," "Dream Lover," "Beyond the Sea," "Artificial Flowers" and more!  Friday Music has a remastered 180-gram vinyl edition to mark the album's 55th anniversary, and has restored its original white cover!  (Subsequent issues have featured the cover in black.)

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

The Summer Knows: Varese Collects Snuff Garrett's Movie Music On "50 Guitars Go to the Movies"

July 11, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett Movies

Between 1961 and 1973, legendary producer Thomas Lesslie "Snuff" Garrett released over two dozen albums as The 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett, making an indelible contribution to the "easy listening" instrumental market.  The multitalented Garrett was at his most prolific, overseeing the 50 Guitars albums during a period in which he produced a variety of artists including Cher, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Vicki Lawrence, Vikki Carr, and Jim Nabors.  Last year, Varese Vintage reissued The 50

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Snuff Garrett, Tommy Tedesco

The Definitive Collection

July 9, 2016 By

Mitch Miller Definitive Collection

Mitch Miller is probably most famous today for his tenure as the head of A&R at Columbia Records from 1950 through 1965 where he guided the careers of Dinah Shore, Jo Stafford, Ray Conniff, Johnny Mathis and Tony Bennett among others and discovered Aretha Franklin.  (Also infamously known for his distaste for rock-n-roll, he reportedly passed on signing Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and The Beatles!)  Yet Miller was a popular recording artist in his own right, with most of his records begin

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Live! 8.24.1979

July 9, 2016 By

The B 52s Live

The B-52's Live! 8.24.79 was recorded just one month after the band's debut album dropped on the Warner Bros. label.  It features 9 songs (including the hit "Rock Lobster") taken from that first album and also from their second album, Wild Planet, released nearly a year to the day later in August of 1980.  This concert was released last year digitally and on limited-edition vinyl on Black Friday Record Store Day by Rhino and it makes its CD debut here from Real Gone Music.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Faithful [Limited Edition Orange Vinyl]

July 9, 2016 By

Dusty Springfield Faithful

Real Gone has first-ever vinyl issue of Dusty Springfield's Faithful album.  In 1971, Springfield went into the studio with the legendary Jeff Barry for what was supposed to be her third Atlantic album.  Alas, it was not meant to be at the time and the album was shelved.  Last year, Real Gone collected up all of the songs from those sessions and compiled them on one CD.  Now, you will be able to listen to this unreleased album on the format it would have been heard on in the early 1970s.  This

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Cherish The Love: BBR Expands Kool and the Gang's "Emergency"

July 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Kool and the Gang Emergency

Over 45 years after their first release, Kool and the Gang remain synonymous with party music and delicious dancefloor grooves, from "Celebration" to "Ladies Night."  Big Break Records has recognized the band's legacy with an ongoing series of reissues, of which the recent Emergency is the ninth.  Originally released on De-Lite Records late in 1984, Emergency has been expanded by BBR into a deluxe, 2-CD set with a full complement of sixteen bonus tracks! Emergency continued Kool and the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Kool and the Gang

Release Round-Up: Week of July 8

July 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

The Monkees The Complete Series

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! John Coltrane, The Atlantic Years in Mono (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino's new box set, available on both CD and LP, includes original mono mixes of Trane's Giant Steps; Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson); Ole Coltrane; Coltrane Plays The Blues and The Avant Garde (with Don Cherry) plus one disc of outtakes.  All of these remastered albums are housed in replica jackets and a 32-page

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Carly Simon, Charlie Parker, David Bowie, John Coltrane, Sid and Marty Krofft, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, The Rave-Ups

Keep Me Singing

July 8, 2016 By

Van Morrison Keep Me Singing

Van Morrison returns with his 36th studio album!  Keep Me Singing features 13 tracks - 12 originals including the instrumental "Caledonia Swing" (with Van on saxophone!) plus a cover of the blues standard "Share Your Love With Me."  For the track "Every Time I See A River," Morrison has collaborated with lyricist Don Black ("Born Free," "To Sir with Love").

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

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