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
Ticket to Ride: The Beatles' "Live at The Hollywood Bowl" Arrives In September
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
Sail Away: "The Randy Newman Songbook" Box Set, "Vol. 3" Coming Soon
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,
They Say It's Wonderful: Real Gone September Slate Includes Robert Goulet, Porter Wagoner and The Meters
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
Last Train To Clarksville: The Monkees Compile Hits and Favorites On "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
An Apple A Day: RPM Collects Grapefruit's Fab "Yesterday's 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
Release Round-Up: Week of July 15
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
One More Night: Phil Collins Preps "The Singles" Set
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
Lost Era of London Celebrated On Croydon Municipal's "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
The Summer Knows: Varese Collects Snuff Garrett's Movie Music On "50 Guitars Go to the 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
Cherish The Love: BBR Expands Kool and the Gang's "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
Release Round-Up: Week of July 8
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
It's All Happening: "Charlie Faye and The Fayettes" Captures The Girl Group Sound
Summer is at last here, and leave it to New York native and Austin music mainstay Charlie Faye to have provided us with one of the first must-have, window-down soundtracks for the season! In shaping Charlie Faye and The Fayettes, her tribute to the girl-group sound, the singer-songwriter has clearly done her homework. This brisk and breezily enjoyable listen places Faye's voice up front over sweet, honeyed group harmonies on eleven, new hook-filled tunes. Faye wrote or co-wrote every
Truer Faith: New Order to Update "Singles" Collection
One of the best New Order compilations on the market is getting even better. Warner Music is reissuing the band's Singles in a remastered and updated version, to be released almost 11 years after its first release as a 2CD or 4LP set. The collection, which originally collected the band's A-sides from 1981 to 2005, adds one more track: "I'll Stay with You," from the 2013 collection Lost Sirens, which featured outtakes from 2005's Waiting for the Sirens' Call. (Lost Sirens also featured the
Review: Chicago, "Quadio"
Surround yourself with Chicago! With the recent release of Rhino's immense - and immensely enjoyable - new box set Quadio, it's possible to enjoy the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-honored band's classic 1969-1976 albums with added dimension: that of 4.0-channel quadraphonic sound. The nine Blu-ray Audio discs on Quadio (playable on all Blu-ray players) present every one of Chicago's studio albums from Chicago Transit Authority through Chicago X, plus IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits, in remastered
Back To The Nineties: Cherry Red Expands Suggs, Betty Boo To 2 CDs
A recent pair of offerings from Cherry Red Records turns the clock back to the 1990s! Suggs (real name: Graham McPherson) came to fame as the lead singer of ska band Madness before striking out on his own with the 1995 release The Lone Ranger. The album, a No. 14 U.K. hit, has recently been reissued as a 2-CD set with a whopping 23 bonus tracks. The original 11-track album (included in full on Disc One of this release) was largely composed by Suggs with writer/Madness co-founder Mike
Cash, Robbins, Jones, Arnold Feature On Ace's "More Country Hits"
Ace Records has recently continued its Golden Age of American Popular Music Series with another volume dedicated to the sounds of country-and-western. More Country Hits follows The Country Hits, released in 2008, and like that volume, presents a collection of country classics that crossed over to the pop side on the Billboard Hot 100. Many familiar names from the first collection show up here, too, including Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash, Faron Young, Ray Price, George Jones, Skeeter Davis, Marty
Release Round-Up: Week of July 1
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! We've got the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music as well as plenty more that we know you won't want to miss! Eddy Arnold, Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Our newest release brings together two seminal, never-before-reissued albums by Eddy Arnold on one CD, both from 1970. Love and Guitars captured Arnold
These (Cowboy) Boots Are Made For Walkin'! Eddy Arnold, Lee Hazlewood, Chet Atkins Sessions OUT TOMORROW!
Richard Edward Arnold - better known as Eddy Arnold - proved throughout an eight-decade career that he could sing anything. The countrypolitan crooner scored 147 U.S. chart hits between 1945 and 2008, sold over 85 million records, and earned inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame and The Grand Ole Opry. Yet, in 1970, the superstar known as "The Tennessee Plowboy" found himself at a crossroads. That year, he released two remarkable albums ending one chapter in his career and beginning
Nothing Has Been Proved: Cherry Red to Expand Dusty Springfield's "Reputation"
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dusty Springfield rightfully regained her reputation as one of the best British soul singers of her generation, with the help of some famous collaborators. The fruits of that labor, 1990's Reputation, is being expanded by Cherry Red Records this summer. While Dusty had dominated part of the '60s with a unique brand of soul-pop on tracks like "I Only Want to Be with You," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and the Burt Bacharach-Hal David-penned "Wishin' and
Surfin' Is The Only Life: Omnivore Collects The Beach Boys' Earliest Recordings, Unreleased Tracks
Before Pet Sounds, before SMiLE, heck, before "Surfin' USA," The Beach Boys were a scrappy family band with little but big dreams and tight harmonies. Things happened quickly for brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine; in September 1961, the quintet first captured their voices together, and by the following May, they had signed a seven-year contract with major Capitol Records. In the few months in between, The Beach Boys recorded nine songs
Born to Love You: Freddie Mercury's Solo Singles Collected on New Set
A new Freddie Mercury anthology will be released this fall, chronicling the late Queen singer's solo tracks on two CDs and 13 vinyl singles. Messenger of the Gods: The Singles features 25 tracks recorded by Mercury and released between 1973 and 1993--several of which were never released in America, or released widely on CD. Among the set's rarer treasures is Mercury's first "solo" single, credited to Larry Lurex in 1973. The single, featuring covers of Phil Spector's "I Can Hear Music"
Do You Like The Rain? Cherry Red Revisits Kerr and McKuen's "The Sea, The Earth, The Sky"
When singer-songwriter-poet Rod McKuen teamed with composer-arranger-conductor Anita Kerr for the 1967 album The Sea, neither had any inkling that the record's success would lead to an entire series of albums under the San Sebastian Strings moniker through 1975. The oft-imitated, never-duplicated, platinum-selling The Sea epitomized the now-moribund genre of "mood music," offering spoken word and music in a relaxing, spellbinding mélange. Cherry Red's él imprint has recently reissued the box
Release Round-Up: Week of June 23
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Bangles, Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles! (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles!, first released digitally in 2014, features all of the band's pre-Columbia studio material, plus four unreleased demos, two live tracks and other odds and ends! It arrives in stores from Omnivore just before Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson and Debbi Peterson hit the road again! Read more here! Laura
We Dig Anita and Ahmad! Cherry Red's él Label Collects Kerr and Jamal
Cherry Red's él imprint has previously celebrated the legendary career of Anita Kerr with various album reissues, and now the label is putting the spotlight on her prolific work in the studio supporting a host of music's most famous artists. We Dig Anita: The Oohs and Aahs of the Nashville Sound brings together 33 tracks from this multi-talented pioneer of the lush country-pop Nashville Sound - an accomplished singer, musician, arranger, producer and composer. All of the tracks on We Dig
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