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The Who Sell Out [Various Formats]

February 26, 2021 By

The Who Sell Out

5-CD/2x7" box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-LP (stereo): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-LP (mono): The Who Online Shop​ The Who revisit 1967's Sell Out in a variety of editions including a massive 5-CD/2x7" box set featuring the original mono and stereo album mixes, bonus tracks in mono and stereo, demos, alternates and outtakes, and a

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

March Is Bustin' Out All Over: Stage Door Collects First Volume of RCA's "Show Time" Series of Classic Musicals

February 22, 2021 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Show Time Series Volume One

By 1953, RCA Victor already boasted a considerable number of Broadway classics in its catalogue - from original cast recordings of Brigadoon and Paint Your Wagon to studio cast renditions of South Pacific and Finian's Rainbow.  But the label was eager to build up its musical theatre repertoire and compete with the likes of Columbia and Decca.  To that end, the Show Time series was launched - a collection of 16 EPs, each dedicated to four songs from a beloved musical or operetta.  The EPs were

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Jack Cassidy, Jerome Kern, John Raitt, Lisa Kirk, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers

Impulse! Records: Music, Message, and The Moment

February 15, 2021 By

Impulse Music Message and The Moment

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Impulse! Records celebrates its 60th anniversary with this new collection (available on 2 CDs or 4 LPs) charting the label's history from 1961-1976 with a selection of tracks that explore the sounds of Impulse! during the societal and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.  Its 25 often-lengthy tracks reflect on politics, social upheaval, spirituality, and the African-American experience.  The label's

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Way Down in the Rust Bucket [Various Formats]

February 12, 2021 By

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4-LP/2-CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand Online Store / Neil Young Archives 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand Online Store / Neil Young Archives 4-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand Online Store / Neil Young Archives Way Down in the Rust Bucket is Volume 11.5 in Neil Young's ongoing Archives Performance series and features Crazy Horse

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

Young Shakespeare [Various Formats]

February 12, 2021 By

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CD/DVD/LP box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand DVD: Greedy Hand Digital: Neil Young Archives (Streaming) / XStream (Digital Download) / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Young Shakespeare documents the earliest known filmed live concert footage of Neil Young, in an array of

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Add Some Music: Universal Japan Reissues Beach Boys Collections on CD

February 5, 2021 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

Beach Boys Best of Vol 2

Beach Boys collectors' alert: late in December 2020, Universal Japan quietly released a series of six collections from the group in the MQA-CD format on UHQ (Ultimate High Quality) CDs and housed in mini-LP paper sleeves with OBIs.  While these discs are playable on all CD players, those listeners equipped with MQA decoders are promised a higher-fidelity listening experience.  All titles have been 24-bit remastered. The six titles from Brian, Carl, Dennis, Mike, Al, and Bruce (plus Ricky and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beach Boys

Get Down: Real Gone Continues Black Jazz Series with Henry Franklin and Gene Russell, Goes Brazilian with Sivuca

January 28, 2021 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Gene Russell Talk to My Lady

Real Gone Music has announced a trio of new releases for February 26 including two more additions to its growing Black Jazz library and one from an unsung hero of Brazilian music. Bassist Henry Franklin has an enviable musical resume, from playing with Hugh Masekela at Monterey Pop and on the chart-topping "Grazing in the Grass" to recording and performing with such luminaries as Stevie Wonder, The Three Sounds, Woody Shaw, O.C. Smith, and Al Jarreau.  Franklin made his debut as a leader with

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Gene Russell, Henry Franklin, Sivuca

Puttin' on the Ritz: Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" London Cast Comes to CD from NoteforNote Music

January 27, 2021 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Young Frankenstein, billed as The New Mel Brooks Musical, came to Broadway in fall 2007 as one of the Great White Way's most hotly-anticipated tickets.  A musical adaptation of Brooks' beloved 1974 film, the production reunited the creative team behind The Producers, the record-breaking, multiple Tony Award-winning show that had closed in spring '07 after six years and 2,502 performances: composer, lyricist, and librettist Brooks; co-librettist Thomas Meehan (Annie, Hairspray);

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Mel Brooks

Heavy: Cherry Red, Esoteric Collect Iron Butterfly's "Unconscious Power" on New Box Set

January 27, 2021 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Iron Butterfly Unconscious Power

Truth in advertising: Iron Butterfly's first album was titled Heavy.  The 1968 Atco Records release introduced the band's dense sound fusing hard rock and psychedelia with a set of original songs plus a reimagining of Allen Toussaint's "Get Out of My Life Woman."  While three-fifths of the band left after that debut, Heavy nonetheless began Iron Butterfly on a journey encompassing four studio LPs, one-off tracks, and live sets through 1971.  Now, that journey has been lavishly chronicled on a

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Iron Butterfly

Wake Up Everybody: 50 Years of Philadelphia International Celebrated by Legacy Recordings, VMP, Snapper Music

January 25, 2021 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

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Fifty years ago, the release of Billy Paul's Going East on LP and The Ebonys' "You're the Reason Why" on a 45 RPM single marked the birth of Philadelphia International Records.  By 1971, co-founders Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff had already garnered significant chart success with their songs and productions for such artists as The Soul Survivors ("Expressway to Your Heart"), The Intruders ("Cowboys to Girls"), Archie Bell and the Drells ("(There's Gonna Be A) Showdown"), Lesley Gore, Dusty

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Thom Bell

Takin' Care of Business: Dutton Vocalion Reissues Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Burton Cummings, Mott the Hoople, Leonard Bernstein, More in Quadraphonic

January 25, 2021 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Mott the Hoople Vocalion

The Dutton Vocalion label has announced its first batch of hybrid SACD releases (playable on all CD players) for 2021 including another group of long-out-of-print quadraphonic surround mixes. First up is a three-for-one release from Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople.  The first disc of this 2-SACD set presents 1974's The Hoople (the band's highest charting album in the U.S.) in stereo and quadraphonic; followed by a stereo-only presentation of 1972's All the Young Dudes (featuring David Bowie's

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Jazz, Pop Tags: Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Burton Cummings, Grover Washington Jr., Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski, Mott the Hoople, New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez

In the Meantime: UMe Reconfigures 'What's Going On' Bonuses for 50th Anniversary

January 23, 2021 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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As one of the most striking albums in Motown Records' deep catalogue and one of the most moving pieces of conscientious Black expression in pop music, What's Going On has been in the spotlight many times since its release nearly a half-century ago. This week, Universal Music Enterprises seeks to streamline the album's reissues in the 21st century with three new digital products. What's Happening Brother: Earlier Reissues What's Going On first got the deluxe treatment for its 30th

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Marvin Gaye

Love and Only Love: Neil Young Announces Long-Awaited "Way Down in the Rust Bucket" Concert Album and Film

January 15, 2021 By Sam Stone 10 Comments

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Neil Young has been exciting fans lately with his comprehensive journey through the past. Following an extensive box set anthologizing an era and a 50th anniversary edition of a landmark album, he now turns his focus to a beloved Crazy Horse-backed concert from November 1990. On February 26, Young will release the long-awaited archival release, Way Down in the Rust Bucket. It's volume 11.5 in his ongoing Archives Performance series and features Crazy Horse - newly reignited after the release

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Crazy Horse, Neil Young

Like Someone In Love: Craft Recordings Launches New "Small Batch" Audiophile Vinyl Series With John Coltrane's "Lush Life"

January 14, 2021 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Craft Recordings has announced a new series of specially curated and high-quality vinyl reissues: the Small Batch collection.  It kicks off with a new pressing of John Coltrane's Lush Life, due February 19.  Each limited edition release in the Craft Recordings Small Batch series is a deluxe affair, combining audiophile-approved mastering techniques, a special vinyl lacquering process, and stunning design - adding up to what the label promises is the highest quality listening experience. The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: John Coltrane

Let the Sunshine In: Music on Vinyl Reissues Expanded Edition of "Hair"

January 13, 2021 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Hair OBC

Ready to head back to the dawning of the Age of Aquarius? Hair, from composer Galt MacDermot and librettist-lyricists Gerome Ragni and James Rado, made quite a splash Off-Broadway in 1967, but when it moved uptown under the avant garde direction of Tom O'Horgan, it was an immediate, shocking sensation.  The original Broadway production of "the American tribal love rock musical" would ultimately run for 1,750 performances and inspire three Broadway returns, but the reach of the pro-peace,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Galt MacDermot, Idris Muhammad, Melba Moore, Paul Jabara, Ronnie Dyson

Russ Meyer's Cherry... & Harry and Raquel: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "Cherry-Red" Limited Vinyl Edition

January 12, 2021 By

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Real Gone reissues composer-arranger-conductor Bill Loose's soundtrack to Russ Meyer's 1970 sex comedy Cherry... & Harry and Raquel starring Larissa Ely, Linda Ashton, and Charles Napier.  For this score, Loose was joined by composer Stu Phillips for garage pop tune "Toys of Our Time," which appears on the soundtrack in mono and stereo versions.  This LP is mastered at 45 RPM and available in two limited editions: cherry red vinyl limited to 750 copies and pink bubblegum vinyl limited to 200

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks

Russ Meyer's Vixen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "Neon-Green" Limited Vinyl Edition

January 12, 2021 By

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Real Gone reissues composer Bill Loose's score to Russ Meyer's sexploitation flick Vixen on limited edition green vinyl.  The Erica Gavin-starring movie was the first to receive an "X" rating for a sex scene.   Vixen is mastered at 45 RPM and comes in neon green vinyl limited to 750 copies and bubblegum pink vinyl limited to 200 copies, with the latter edition only available at Real Gone's website.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks

The Year In Review: The 2020 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z

January 4, 2021 By The Second Disc 10 Comments

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Happy 2021 and welcome to The Second Disc's 11th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! The past year has presented any number of unprecedented challenges.  But music has filled a more important role than ever, providing solace, comfort, and escape in a time unlike any other.  With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc once again wishes to recognize 2020's cream of the catalogue music crop - those exemplary reissues and box sets big and small that proved to be truly outstanding for music lovers

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, DVD-Audio, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Gold Bonus Disc Awards

Stage Fright: 50th Anniversary Edition [Various Formats]

December 22, 2020 By

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2CD/1BD/1LP/1-7″ single: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (CD 1 & 2 of box set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 1LP (Remixed Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Band slightly belatedly revisits 1970's Stage Fright for its 50th anniversary in a variety of editions anchored by Bob Clearmountain's stereo and surround remixes of the original album, now resequenced by Robbie Robertson: A multi-format Super Deluxe

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

So Much Love: Real Gone Music Collects Dusty Springfield's "Complete Atlantic Singles," Expands Norma Tanega's Debut Album

December 16, 2020 By The Second Disc 17 Comments

Dusty Springfield Complete Atlantic Singles

For several years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dusty Springfield was romantically linked to singer-songwriter Norma Tanega.  On February 5, 2021, the late, talented duo will be linked once more with a pair of new releases from our friends at Real Gone Music. Real Gone has previously surveyed Springfield's remarkable career on releases including Faithful (premiering her complete, lost album with producer-songwriter Jeff Barry in standalone form), A Brand New Me: The Complete Philadelphia

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Dusty Springfield, Norma Tanega

After the Gold Rush: 50th Anniversary [Vinyl + 7" Edition]

December 9, 2020 By

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The 50th Anniversary Edition of Neil Young's classic album features new art based on Gary Burden's original album cover design.  The CD was released on December 11, 2020 while the vinyl edition will be presented in a box set with the LP and a bonus 7″ single in a newly designed picture sleeve due on March 19, 2021.  This set includes two different versions of the After the Gold Rush outtake "Wonderin'."  The A-side version was recorded in March 1970 in Topanga (previously heard on his Archives

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

I Told You I Was Trouble: Two Amy Winehouse Box Sets Coming to CD, LP

December 2, 2020 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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This Friday, two new box sets will celebrate the legacy of the late Amy Winehouse across vinyl and CD.  12 x 7: The Singles Collection and The Collection (both currently available in the U.K.) will respectively collect all of the late British singer's A- and B-sides on 12 pieces of vinyl and her three studio albums on CD alongside a live concert and remix collection previously unreleased in the format. (A 2015 vinyl variant of the album-focused The Collection included those same studio and live

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Amy Winehouse

Voices Inside: Vinyl Me, Please Details December Exclusive Titles and Next 'VMP Anthology' Volume, A Tribute to Tribe Records

November 30, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Vinyl Me, Please has built a name as skilled curators of a music experience, whether through monthly record club releases, immersive multimedia box sets, or selected special pressings.  This month, the online club has announced several new projects continuing in that vein. For this month's Essentials selection (one of three monthly "tracks" available to subscribers, along with Classics and Hip-Hop), VMP will press up a special, all-analog-remastered edition of Billie Holiday's Lady Sings the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Big Boi, Billie Holiday, David Durrah, Donny Hathaway, Dough Hammond, Harold McKinney, Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison

Behind That Locked Door: 50th Anniversary Celebrations for George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" Kick Off TODAY With Remixed Title Track, "My Sweet Lord" RSD Black Friday Release

November 27, 2020 By Sam Stone 13 Comments

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This morning, the estate of George Harrison has released a new 2020 remix of the artist's classic song, "All Things Must Pass."  Originally released 50 years ago today on the All Things Must Pass triple-album, it's now released as a digital single as "a prelude of what's to come." The new stereo mix has been undertaken by Paul Hicks, who's been involved with recent Beatles archival projects as well as the John Lennon Gimme Some Truth box set.  It arrives the same day as the reissued "My Sweet

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: George Harrison

Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 5: Boston Music Hall 6/9/76

November 24, 2020 By

Grateful Dead Road Trips Volume 4 Number 5

Real Gone Music continues the long, strange trip with the release the 3-CD set Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 5 featuring the Grateful Dead's show at the Boston Music Hall on June 9, 1976. The long-out-of-print final entry in the Road Trips series spotlights one night of a four-night jaunt during the Dead's return to stage after a 20-month break. With rare material like "Franklin's Tower," "Crazy Fingers," and a lengthy "St. Stephen" this June 6, 1976 concert remains a fan favorite, and with good reason.

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