Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new releases available today! Rush, Moving Pictures: 40th Anniversary [various editions] (Mercury/UMe) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD/5LP/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rush's seminal 1981 Moving Pictures receives a number of belated 40th anniversary reissues today including a 3CD version with the 2015 album remaster (debuting in
So Much Excitement to Be Found: UMe Reissues Frank Sinatra's Concept Album "Watertown"
Old Watertown/Nothing much happening down on Main, 'cept a little rain... Something's happening in Watertown - on June 3, to be precise. That's the date when UMe and Frank Sinatra Enterprises (FSE) will release a remixed and expanded edition of Frank Sinatra's 1970 masterwork Watertown on CD and digital/streaming platforms. In addition, the remixed album only will be reissued on vinyl. Watertown remains an album unlike any other in the Sinatra discography. The seeds of the two-part
Shoot the Moon: Blue Note Expands Norah Jones' "Come Away with Me" For 20th Anniversary
Since its release over 20 years ago on February 26, 2002, Norah Jones' Come Away with Me has become one of the biggest-selling albums of all time. With its fusion of jazz, folk, traditional pop, and blues, Come Away with Me crossed over to multiple audiences. The Blue Note album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and received eight Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, as well as Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (all
The Doris Day Centennial: Celebration of the Late Superstar Begins This Weekend!
Tomorrow, April 3, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of Doris Day's birth. Yesterday, Real Gone Music kicked off the festivities with two releases celebrating the singer-actress-activist's extraordinary musical legacy. Early Day: Rare Songs from the Radio 1939-1950 features two dozen rarities from the dawn of Day's career (as well as a booklet with period photographs and a new essay by TSD's Joe Marchese) on one CD, while Day's final album, 2011's My Heart, premieres on vinyl. (Read more
Dance a Little Closer: Stage Door Reissues "Rainbows: The Lorna Dallas Album"
Over the course of seven decades, Lorna Dallas has forged a remarkable career path all her own. The Illinois-born vocalist and Indiana University graduate toured with the national company of the Metropolitan Opera and appeared on the WCBS-TV talent program Callback (its musical director: a young Barry Manilow) before making a splash in London as Magnolia in the acclaimed 1971 company of Show Boat starring Cleo Laine, Kenneth Nelson, and Andre Jobin. Dallas made London her home and soon was
Release Round-Up: Week of April 1
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles arriving in stores today! Daryl Hall, BeforeAfter (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Daryl Hall is looking back with his first-ever solo anthology. BeforeAfter, curated by the artist, draws on all five of his acclaimed solo albums: the Robert Fripp-produced cult classic Sacred Songs (1980), Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine (1986, including the top five hit "Dreamtime" and top
The Weekend Stream: March 26, 2022
En Vogue, Funky Divas (Expanded Edition) (Elektra/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) The R&B quartet's sophomore album, released in 1992, was their biggest, featuring the Top 10 pop hits "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)," "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" (a cover of Aretha Franklin's Curtis Mayfield-penned classic from the film Sparkle) and the rock-oriented "Free Your Mind." This digital expansion offers an additional eight vintage
The Weekend Stream: March 19, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! From hard-rockin' brothers to non-stop dance vibes, you've got quite a selection this week. Nelson, Imaginator / Silence is Broken / Brother Harmony / Life / Like Father, Like Sons / Before the Rain / Perfect Storm (After the Rain World Tour 1991) / Lightning Strikes Twice (Stone Canyon/UMe) Imaginator: iTunes
The Weekend Stream: March 12, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! Georgia Satellites, Lightnin' in a Bottle: The Official Live Album (Cleveland International/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Recorded at Cleveland club Peabody's at the end of 1988 - two years after their only hit, the No. 2 smash "Keep Your Hands to Yourself," had fallen off the charts - this blistering set showcases
Release Round-Up: Week of March 11
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland. The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Music from Season Four
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy issues the soundtrack to the fourth season of Amazon Prime's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and it's another collection of favorites and rarities from the show's period setting as well as a handful of original songs sung on the show. This time out, the set features Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, and Broadway showstoppers from Wonderful Town, Oh,
Tell Me Again: Tomorrow's Real Gone Vinyl Slate Includes Irma Thomas and Soundtracks to Two Nora Ephron Romantic Comedies
Tomorrow, March 11, sees a new batch of Real Gone Music vinyl titles hitting store shelves. Among the trio is a lost album by Irma Thomas and a pair of soundtracks to Nora Ephron rom-coms. Two of the releases are making their vinyl debuts. First up is Full Time Woman: The Lost Cotillion Album from Irma Thomas. Thomas, known as "The Soul Queen of New Orleans," was born approximately 50 miles from that city in Ponchatoula, Louisiana in 1941. As a child, she sang in church choir and began
A Point of View [Expanded Edition]
Omnivore has rescued and remastered jazz vocal singer-songwriter Bobby Cole's 1967 Concentric Records album A Point of View for this generous expanded edition that ups the tunestack from 12 songs to 25. Cole made a fan of Frank Sinatra while tickling the ivories at Jilly's, was enlisted by Judy Garland for her ill-fated but illustrious CBS variety show as well as live at the Palace, and had his songs recorded by Nancy Sinatra, Freddy Cole, and Tom Jones, among others. Now his own voice and
They Came, They Danced: Legacy Releases Fourth Season Soundtrack to "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
The fourth season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is now underway, with two episodes arriving each Friday on Amazon Prime Video for four weeks. The series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls, Bunheads) chronicles the colorful life of Midge "Mrs." Maisel (portrayed by Emmy Award winner Rachel Brosnahan) as she carves out a career in New York in the rough-and-tumble world of stand-up comedy; the current season finds her in 1960, working at a seedy burlesque house and navigating the
The Weekend Stream: March 5, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week's got some choice soundtracks plus rock, hip-hop, country, and classic vocalists. Depeche Mode, Construction Time Again | The 12" Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Rhino continues its series of 12" single releases from the Depeche Mode catalogue. This offering gathers up the extended mixes
My Heart
Real Gone Music brings the final studio album of Doris Day's lifetime, My Heart, to vinyl for the first time. My Heart was perhaps the most unexpected hit record of the year, hitting the charts in the U.S. and making it all the way to No. 9 on the U.K. Albums Chart. My Heart was dedicated to the memory of Day's son, producer-singer-songwriter Terry Melcher (who predeceased his mother when he passed away in 2014 at the age of 62). "These songs all mean so much to me...They bring back happy
Early Day: Rare Songs from the Radio 1939-1950
Real Gone Music celebrates the Doris Day centennial with Early Day: Rare Songs from the Radio 1939-1950, collecting on CD two dozen painstakingly-restored rarities from the first decade of Doris Day's extraordinary career. The collection opens with a moving 1944 rendition of her first signature song, "Sentimental Journey," with The Les Brown Orchestra before journeying back to 1939 and two songs with Barney Rapp's big band performed by 17-year-old Doris on their very first nationwide
Sentimental Journeys: Real Gone Music Celebrates Doris Day Centennial with Two New Releases
"That kid is a real hot singer!" Cincinnati bandleader Barney Rapp was quick to recognize young Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff. The leader of the New Englanders urged the young vocalist to change her name, taking his cue from the song with which she left him smitten: "Day After Day." She became Doris Day, and the rest is history. On April 1, Real Gone Music celebrates the centennial year of the timeless artist, actress, and passionate animal rights advocate who died in 2019 at the age of 97 with
The Weekend Stream: February 26, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week's got plenty of remixes, from New Wave to soul - plus some novelty hip-hop that'll offer a much-needed laugh or two. Depeche Mode, A Broken Frame | The 12" Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Last week, Rhino made the 12" singles set devoted to Depeche Mode's debut digitally available, and
Release Round-Up: Week of February 25
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the week's best new titles! The Left Banke, Strangers on a Train (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Omnivore brings The Left Banke's 1978 reunion album - featuring Steve Martin Caro, Tom Finn, and George Cameron - to CD for the first time, and adds a previously unreleased 2001 session from Michael Brown, Caro, and Finn. Scott Schinder provides the liner notes, and Michael Graves has remastered the
Isn't It Romantic? Stage Door Collects Rarities from Broadway and West End Star Sally Ann Howes
Over the course of an extraordinary seven-decade career, Sally Ann Howes exemplified entertainment royalty. Born in London into a showbiz family, she starred on stage, screen, and television, sang in front of three U.S. Presidents, originated roles on Broadway and in the West End, appeared on the cover of Life, and earned a Tony Award nomination. Now, just months after her passing on December 19, 2021 at the age of 91, Stage Door Records is celebrating the legacy of this Truly Scrumptious
Spellbound
Judy Collins releases her 29th studio album, and it's a very personal one: every song on Spellbound is a self-written original composition. Her collaborators on the song cycle include c0-co-producer Alan Silverman, singer-songwriter Ari Hest, multi-instrumentalist Thad DeBrock, bassist Zev Katz, and drummer Doug Yowell. It's packaged in a digipak featuring a 16-page booklet with the artist's own liner notes and lyrics. Available on CD and digital/streaming.
Live '77
Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly present the premiere release of Melissa Manchester's Live '77, recorded by Arista Records in October 1977 at Gainesville, Florida's Great Southern Music Hall but unreleased until now! The 21 songs on Live '77 include Manchester's hits "Midnight Blue," "Better Days," and the song Bob Dylan admired, "Just You and I," as well as the now-standard "Come in from the Rain," fan favorites "We've Got Time," "Happy Endings," and "Caravan," and spirited
Come In From The Rain: Melissa Manchester's Previously Unreleased "Live '77" Arrives in May from Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music
1977 was a whirlwind year for Melissa Manchester. The singer-songwriter toured North America's arenas and amphitheaters that summer with Leo Sayer before launching a solo tour in the fall that attracted the attention of none other than Bob Dylan, who attended the Minneapolis date. Melissa played Carnegie Hall, appeared on network television specials, taped a memorable commercial with Ella Fitzgerald, and released her sixth studio album, Singin'. But that wasn't all. On October 30, 1977 at
The Weekend Stream: February 5, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! Some fascinating finds ahead from the '70s, '80s, '90s and far beyond - but first, another streaming housekeeping note... You may have read our thoughts last week about streaming services, what they're doing, what they should be doing, and how artists are reacting. We had no intention of telling people where they
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