With summer nearly upon us, we're all beginning to make plans for the next few months. Real Gone is doing the same, having just revealed what its releases are going to be for middle of summer in August! The first item on the list is the first of an eventual three-volume collection chronicling Wilson Pickett's tenure at Atlantic Records. Pickett released a total of 66 single sides at the label and The Complete Atlantic Singles Vol. 1 collects the first 22 of these. When Pickett moved to
Release Round-Up: Week of June 17
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Chicago, Quadio (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD / Amazon Canada) This week's biggest and most hotly-anticipated release, Chicago's Quadio, brings together nine albums from the legendary band in remastered high-resolution 192/24 DTS-HD Master Audio in both their original quadraphonic and stereo mixes on nine Blu-ray discs. This lavish celebration of the Windy City's favorite band is housed in a rigid two-piece box, with every album
Release Round-Up: Week of June 10
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, with some of the most high-profile releases yet for 2016! The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds 50 (Various Editions) (Capitol/UMe) 4-CD/1-BD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD Deluxe Edition (CD 1 + highlights from 4-CD set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mono 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Stereo 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Beach
People of the World, Rise: BBR Reissues "The Trammps III" and Gaynor's "Glorious"
Today, we're looking at two recent releases on Cherry Red's Big Break Records label from two legends of disco (and so much more): The Trammps and Gloria Gaynor! "Where were you when the lights went out in New York City?" asked The Trammps in song on the opening track of 1977's Trammps III. (The answer? Everyone was making love, naturally!) The urgent, atypically topical track by Allan Felder, Ron Tyson and arranger-producer Norman Harris is just one highlight on this underrated album,
Tutti Frutti! Little Richard Is Back On New "Mono Box"
Here's Little Richard! Specialty Records is celebrating the career of the rock and roll pioneer with the July 15 release of Mono Box: The Complete Specialty and Vee-Jay Albums. 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 notes by Bill
Rainy Night In Georgia- The Complete Reprise & Cotillion Singles As & Bs
When Brook Benton joined Cotillion Records in 1968 following a stint at Reprise, his commercial fortunes were on a downturn...but not for long. His chart fortunes would turn around with the release of "Rainy Night In Georgia" in 1970. The southern soul cover of the 1962 Tony Joe White song would top the Billboard Soul Chart and reach No. 4 on the Hot 100. At Cotillion, Benton worked with Arif Mardin and the Dixie Flyers, and several more of his singles made the charts. Rainy Night In Georgia
40 Classic Soul Sides
The Delfonics' 40 Classic Soul Sides collects tracks from the legendary Philly soul group's first four Philly Groove LPs on 2 CDs. When Stan Watson introduced a group (including brothers William and Wilbert Hart and Randy Cain) he was managing to a young Thom Bell at Cameo in the late 1960s, magic was born and a major force in a new genre emerged. Collaborating with lead singer William on songwriting duties, Bell produced three groundbreaking LPs in the new Philly Soul genre on Watson's Philly
My Oh My What A Groove: Ace Collects Unreleased Motown on "One Track Mind"
The first volume of Ace/Kent's series dedicated to the male artists of Motown was entitled Satisfaction Guaranteed - but that title would be equally apt for the recent release One Track Mind: More Motown Guys, a second disc of rarities from the Sound of Young America. With 16 previously unissued cuts among this collection's 24 tracks, it proves that the treasures of the Motown vault are far from exhausted. This is also one volume sure to keep your foot tapping and your body moving, with each
The Essential Going Back: Deluxe Edition
No stranger to the music of Motown, Phil Collins released Going Back in 2010 - an album packed with faithful covers of The Four Tops, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations and many more. With the assistance of both original members of Motown backing band The Funk Brothers and some crucial in-studio trickery (following a surgery on Collins' vertebrae, he was able to drum by taping his sticks to his hands), Going Back became an expansive love letter to The Sound of Young America. In fact,
La-La Means I Love You: The Delfonics, Survivor, Brook Benton and Sea Level Join Eddy Arnold On Real Gone's July Slate
Yesterday we told you about Second Disc Records' and Real Gone Music's July 1 release of Eddy Arnold's Chet Atkins and Lee Hazlewood albums from 1970 and now we've got the news of the rest of Real Gone's line-up for right before Independence Day. First up is a compilation featuring notes by our very own Joe Marchese: 40 Classic Soul Sides from The Delfonics. When Stan Watson introduced a group (including brothers William and Wilbert Hart and Randy Cain) he was managing to a young Thom Bell
BBR Is On "Fire" with Expanded Reissue of "Pointer Sisters' Greatest Hits"
One of the ten songs on The Pointer Sisters' Greatest Hits is "The Love Too Good to Last," one of four songs reprised from the trio's 1982 album Special Things. Happily, however, Ruth, June and Anita Pointer's special things certainly have lasted. Big Break Records has in recent years reissued the group's complete Planet Records/RCA discography from 1978's Energy through their label swansong, 1988's Serious Slammin', in remastered and expanded editions. Now, BBR is culminating its reissue
Let's Do It Again: Ace Collects Funk Brother Jack Ashford's "Just Productions"
Jack Ashford's story is about how a Philadelphia jazz man ended up in Detroit, playing on hundreds of the greatest R&B recordings ever made. The percussionist's unforgettable work with Motown's Funk Brothers has been oft-chronicled, but on a recent compilation, Ace Records' Kent imprint has turned its attention to Ashford's producing and songwriting work away from Hitsville, USA between the years of 1968 and 1977. Just Productions features 24 sizzling slices of ultra-rare Detroit soul
Feel That You're Feelin': Robinsongs Reissues Two Live Albums From Frankie Beverly's Maze
Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint is continuing its series dedicated to the quiet-storm sound of Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly with a two-fer containing both 1981's Live in New Orleans and 1986's Live in Los Angeles. Maze began its life as Raw Soul, but a felicitous association with Marvin Gaye led to a change of name for the smooth-soul band to Maze as well as to a deal with Capitol Records. (As Raw Soul, the band's only previous major label releases were on the RCA-affiliated Gregar label
Release Round-Up: Week of May 13
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Linda Ronstadt, Frenesi (Remastered Edition) (Elektra/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Linda Ronstadt's 1992 Spanish-language album Frenesi returns to CD in a newly-remastered edition with no additional content. Consider this an appetizer for the upcoming expanded remaster of Trio! Allen Toussaint, The Complete Warner Recordings (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino has a reissue of its 2003
It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volume 1
Van Morrison's classic 1974 live double album recorded in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and London gets the remastered treatment, while three CDs of additional material from the concerts is available as a stand-alone release.
It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volumes II, III, IV & DVD
Legacy revisits Van Morrison's seminal 1974 double live album with this release of additional material. The CDs ofVolumes II-IV collect previously unreleased concert recordings from the dates that yielded the original album, while the DVD contains professionally-shot footage from the Rainbow Theatre stand which originally aired on the BBC in the U.K. but has never before been commercially available. The original It's Too Late was compiled by Morrison and co-producer Ted Templeman from eight
People Get Ready: The Blind Boys of Alabama's Soul-Gospel Returns From Omnivore
Since first coming together as children at the Alabama Institute for the Blind in 1939, The Blind Boys of Alabama have forged a singular musical path. Forming professionally in 1944, the group has recorded over 60 albums, won five Grammy Awards, appeared in a Broadway musical, played on the world's stages and spread the joyful sound of gospel everywhere. Tomorrow, May 13, Omnivore Recordings has newly-expanded editions of two of the group's Grammy-winning albums: 2001's Spirit of the Century
What'cha Gonna Do: Big Break Reissues Chaka Khan, Brenda Russell, Stargard
Big Break Records has unveiled its an exciting slate of releases from The Emotions, Kool and the Gang, Gloria Gaynor, and more! But first we'd like to turn our attention to a trio of recent releases from the Cherry Red imprint that you might have missed! First up, BBR has an expanded edition of the third solo album from the one and only Chaka Khan. What'cha Gonna Do for Me was named for the infectious title song (an R&B No. 1 hit) co-written by Ned Doheny, the underrated
Release Round-Up: Week of May 6
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring Second Disc Records' very first title of 2016, plus more fantastic releases from our partners at Real Gone Music and titles from Brian Wilson, The Cars, and more! Bobby Darin, Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We know that you all know about this one...it's the ultimate celebration of Bobby Darin's time at Motown Records on 2 CDs, newly remastered from the
Happy Birthday, Bobby: Darin's "Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years" ARRIVES TOMORROW!
Will the real Bobby Darin please stand up? Between his first single in 1956 and his final recordings in 1973, the artist born Walden Robert Cassotto on May 14, 1936 blazed his path through rock-and-roll, big-band swing, jazz, R&B, soul, country, folk, pop, rock, and everything in between. Yet each reinvention was genuine, and each represented the real Bobby Darin. The driven artist brought fervor and passion to every style he tackled throughout his tragically-short life. Tomorrow,
Glam Slam: Warner Bros. Plans Vinyl Bonanza for Prince
The world continues to reel from the passing of Prince on April 21, but fans have also taken to listening to his amazing catalogue however they can. And thanks to the folks at Prince's former home at Warner Bros. Records, the entire year will see a spate of vinyl (and--believe it or not, cassette) reissues. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that 11 of Prince's original Warner Bros. albums will be repressed on vinyl throughout 2016. In 2011, four of the artist's most enduring albums from
WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: THE IMPRESSIONS "THE CURTOM YEARS" GIVEAWAY!
CONGRATULATIONS! The following 10 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage's brand-new The Best of The Impressions: The Curtom Years on CD! If you entered our contest via Facebook and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook with your name and mailing address! If you entered via email, you don't have to do anything - your CD will be in the mail soon! Watch this space soon for more exciting giveaways! RON
Wild Nights: Legacy Expands Van Morrison's "It's Too Late to Stop Now"
Following last year's releases of The Essential Van Morrison and The Complete Them 1964-1967, Legacy Recordings continues to mine the Van Morrison back catalogue with the June 10 releases of the remastered 2-CD or 2-LP It's Too Late to Stop Now and the 3-CD/1-DVD box set It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volumes II, III, IV & DVD. It's Too Late to Stop Now, of course, is Morrison's 1974 double album with his Caledonia Soul Orchestra, capturing concert recordings from his May to July 1973 tour
Rounder Records Celebrates Cajun and Zydeco Legacy With New Initiative
Rounder Records, the pioneering American roots music label, is continuing its 45th anniversary celebration. Over the past months, the Cambridge-founded, Nashville-based Rounder has been making titles from its deep catalogue available as digital downloads. We've previously reported on Rounder's bluegrass initiative, and now Rounder is turning its attention to a digital roll-out of the label's diverse and rich Cajun and Zydeco catalogue. Rounder's VP of A&R, Scott Billington, comments,
Even The Nights Are Better: Real Gone's June Slate Features Petula Clark, Air Supply, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Fairport Convention, More
With spring having just begun, it might be hard to believe that summer is going to be here before we know it. But the year marches on and Real Gone Music is kicking off the summer with its June 3rd slate of titles. As per usual with the label, there are a wide variety of genres being represented, including one that Real Gone has never dipped into before. We'll begin with the two titles that feature liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese. The first is a collection from sixties British
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