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River Deep Mountain High: Ace Returns to the Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich Songbook

June 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sweet Things from Greenwich and Barry

With Sweet Things, Ace Records has picked a most apt title for its third volume of music from the Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry songbook (Ace CDCHD 1434).  Though Greenwich and Barry were united as husband and wife for just the short period of 1962-1965, and only worked together for a short time after that, a year hasn't gone by since when their enduring songs haven't been recorded and re-recorded.  The collection's 24 titles span 1963-1978 and blend hits and rarities from the duo with tracks

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Darlene Love, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Phil Spector, The Crystals, The Shangri-Las, Various Artists

Gasoline Alley Bred: The Hollies' "Complete 1969-1973" Box Set Coming From Parlophone

May 28, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Hollies Changin Times

Parlophone is getting back on a carousel this July with the release of a new 5-CD box set from The Hollies.  Changin' Times: The Complete Hollies January '69 - March '73 follows up the label's 2011 collection The Clarke, Hicks & Nash Years: The Complete Hollies: April 1963 - October 1968.  The July 10 U.K. release collects every commercially-released album track and non-album single from the band recorded between January 1969 and March 1973, for a total of 92 songs (including some previously

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Hollies

Release Round-Up: Week of May 26

May 26, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Yes Progeny

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  We hope all of our U.S. readers enjoyed a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.  And now, without further ado, onto the music! Yes, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Finally, after a brief delay, Progeny is here! 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

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, SACD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Joel, Bruce Hornsby, Cy Coleman, Donna Summer, Labelle, Patti Labelle, The 5th Dimension, The Textones, Yes

The Essential Bruce Hornsby

May 22, 2015 By

Essential Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Hornsby is the newest addition to Legacy's long-running Essential series with this 2-CD, 29-track volume touching on his work with The Range, The Noisemakers, solo and beyond.

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Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Up, Up and Away/Stoned Soul Picnic/The Magic Garden/The Age of Aquarius

May 22, 2015 By

Fifth Dimension Four Fer

Australia's Raven label reissues the first four albums by The 5th Dimension, originally released between 1967 and 1969, as a 2-CD set also including five previously issued bonus tracks.  Includes the group's legendary hits "Up, Up and Away," "Stoned Soul Picnic," "The Age of Aquarius," "Wedding Bell Blues," "Workin' on a Groovy Thing" and more!

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

Review: Andrew Gold, "The Late Show - Live 1978"

May 22, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Andrew Gold Late Show

Isn't it about time for an Andrew Gold renaissance?  Then again, the late artist's music is still very much a part of today.  Just tune in to TV Land, Hallmark, or Logo TV and you'll hear Cynthia Fee's rendition of Gold's "Thank You for Being a Friend" introducing the exploits of Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia on every episode of The Golden Girls.  And when "yacht rock" playlists started popping up, reviving breezy, laid-back 1970s soft rock sounds (many of which emanated out of California),

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Andrew Gold

Ace Collects Good Vibrations On "Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson"

May 22, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Here Today The Songs of Brian Wilson

2015 has been a banner year for Brian Wilson.  The Beach Boys legend has already released a new album, is currently preparing for a tour with Searching for Sugar Man cult hero Rodriguez, and will next month see the full release in theatres of his biopic Love and Mercy.  Ace Records is joining the celebration with the June 29 U.K. release (July 10 in the U.S.) of Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson. One of Ace's first releases in its Songwriters and Producers Series was 2003's Pet Projects:

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bobby Vee, Brian Wilson, Bruce and Terry, Carmen McRae, Gary Usher, Hugo Montenegro, Jay and the Americans, Nick DeCaro, The Beach Boys, The Tokens

Storytellers: Raven Anthologizes Jerry Jeff Walker, Bobby Bare

May 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bobby Bare Storyteller

Two American country legends have recently been celebrated by Australia's Raven Records label with new 2-CD, multi-label anthologies - Jerry Jeff Walker ("Mr. Bojangles") and Bobby Bare ("Detroit City"). No Leavin' Texas 1968-82: The Classic Jerry Jeff follows Raven's recent reissue of three of the New York-born troubadour's albums in one package.  This 2-CD anthology collects 39 tracks sourced from 15 albums on five different labels (Atco, Vanguard, Decca, MCA and Elektra) originally

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Folk, Pop Tags: Bobby Bare, Jerry Jeff Walker

Mister Remember Me: Esoteric Reissues Joan Armatrading's Debut

May 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Joan Armatrading Whatevers

Singer/songwriter Joan Armatrading first burst onto the scene in 1972 with the Cube Records release of Whatever's for Us.   In the 40+ years since, the Caribbean-born British artist has released eighteen studio albums, scored three U.K. and two U.S. Top 40 singles, and netted three Grammy nominations in an enduring and rich career.  Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has just returned to Whatever's for Us for a newly remastered reissue. An early break came for Joan Armatrading when she

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Joan Armatrading

Release Round-Up: Week of May 19

May 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Yes Progeny

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

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: 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

lovin spoonful magic

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.

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: John Sebastian, The Lovin' Spoonful

The Ides of March Celebrate 50 Years with "Last Band Standing" Box Set

May 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Ides of March Last Band Standing

"Beware the ides of March," goes the famous admonition.  Thankfully, Jim Peterik, Larry Millas, Bob Bergland and Mike Borch didn't heed the warning.  Formed in Berwyn, Illinois in 1965 as the Shon-Dels, The Ides of March are still going strong 50 years later with their brassy blend of good-time rock and roll, R&B, pop and soul epitomized on the 1970 hit single "Vehicle."  These rock and roll survivors and local legends around the Chicago scene have recently assembled a definitive box set

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Jim Peterik, The Ides of March

In The Air Tonight: Phil Collins Signs with Warner Music, Deluxe Editions Coming Soon

May 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Phil Collins Both Sides

Phil Collins is getting ready to open the vaults. Warner Music Group has just announced its partnership with Collins to make the superstar artist's solo albums available worldwide through WMG.  Though Collins' American fans have long been used to seeing his solo releases on WMG's Atlantic Records label, fans in the U.K. and Ireland were used to seeing the Virgin Records logo on Collins' classic solo records such as Face Value, Hello, I Must Be Going and No Jacket Required.  This deal marks

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Genesis, Phil Collins

RPM Hitches a Ride with Vanity Fare On New 2-CD Complete Anthology

May 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Vanity Fare I Live for the Sun

With "Hitchin' a Ride" and "Early in the Morning," Vanity Fare assured its immortality to AM radio connoisseurs.  The two 1969 hits are still in rotation on oldies radio today, but they're just two of the nearly 50 songs cut by the British band over the ten year period of 1966 to 1976.  Cherry Red's RPM label has recently put those two famous tunes in context with Vanity Fare's I Live for the Sun: Complete Recordings 1966-76.  This 2-CD anthology collects the band's output for the Page One, DJM,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Vanity Fare

Release Round-Up: Week of May 12

May 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Leonard Cohen Cant Forget

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

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 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

Private Dancer 30th

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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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

The Complete Recordings

May 11, 2015 By

Complete Ronny and the Daytonas

The complete recordings of Ronny and the Daytonas ("GTO") are compiled on two CDs - and this 48-track set boasts four previously unreleased tracks plus solo sides from John "Bucky" Wilkin and the songs released by Buzz (Cason) and Bucky!

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Zoom: Expanded Edition

May 11, 2015 By

The Knack Zoom

The Knack's 1998 "comeback" album, featuring Doug Fieger, Berton Averre, Prescott Niles and new drummer Terry Bozzio, gets the deluxe treatment by Omnivore!  This set, kicking off a campaign that will see reissue of The Knack's final three albums, adds five bonus tracks - four of which are previously unreleased!

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

#1 To Infinity

May 11, 2015 By

Mariah Infinity

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

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Review: The Pretenders CD/DVD Reissue Series

May 8, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

pretenders box

Chrissie Hynde, Pete Farndon, James Honeyman Scott and Martin Chambers may have taken the name of The Pretenders, but anybody paying attention soon realized that there was nothing "pretend" about this band - not its brash amalgam of British and American styles (Hynde was a U.S. émigré; the other three were Brits), not its unabashedly punk approach to a classic rock sound, not its effortless, cool swagger.  1979's Pretenders launched the band on a journey that continues to this day.  It's been a

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Chrissie Hynde, The Pretenders

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

May 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Complete Ronny and the Daytonas

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

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Banana and the Bunch, Fanny, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Ronny and the Daytonas, The Grateful Dead, The Viscounts

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

Private Dancer 30th

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

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Motorpsycho Nightmares: Subversive French Pop of Stella Vander Arrives on CD From RPM

May 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Stella

Who is Stella? The single-named French pop queen was born Stella Zelcer, and is today known as Stella Vander, wife and collaborator of Christian Zander of the jazz-influenced progressive rock group Magma.   Cherry Red's RPM Records label has recently unearthed the 1967 debut album of the singer then known simply as Stella for an expanded edition which doubles as an anthology of her recordings for the French division of RCA Victor. Stella differentiated herself from the popular yé-yé girls

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Before This World

May 5, 2015 By

James Taylor Before This World

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:

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

It's Nice To Be Back: RPM Anthologizes The Hep Stars, With ABBA's Benny Andersson

May 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Hep Stars Anthology2

Before "Dancing Queen," "Fernando" and the rest, ABBA's Benny Andersson was the keyboardist and frequent songwriter for The Hep Stars.  The Stockholm-formed group became Sweden's most successful English-language pop group, paving the way for Andersson's subsequent triumphs with ABBA and on the musical theatre stage.  Following its 2013 reissue of The Hep Stars' 1968 album It's Been a Long, Long Time, Cherry Red's RPM label returns to the group's catalogue for Like We Used To: The Anthology

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: ABBA, The Hep Stars

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