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New Carols For Christmas: The Rod McKuen Christmas Album

October 11, 2018 By

Rod McKuen Christmas

Real Gone has a newly-remastered reissue of Rod McKuen's New Carols For Christmas - The Rod McKuen Christmas Album from 1971.  Unusual for many Christmas albums, it consists of original songs in the spirit of the season written by McKuen and such collaborators as Anita Kerr, Art Podell of The New Christy Minstrels, and electronic music pioneer Mort Garson.  It was recorded in December, 1970 in London with members of the Westminster Symphony Orchestra.  The album was briefly available on CD in

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Pop

A Christmas Sound Spectacular/Let's Ring the Bells All Around the Christmas Tree

October 11, 2018 By

John Klein Christmas Two Fer

Real Gone has a twofer from John Klein of 1959's A Christmas Sound Spectacular and 1964's Let's Ring The Bells All Around The Christmas Tree.  Trained by Igor Stravinsky and Nadia Boulanger, Klein was a musical renaissance man who made several albums featuring carillons for Columbia and RCA Victor in the 1950s and 1960s.  Real Gone's two-for-one reissue features notes with personal recollections from R. Steve Harmon, whose father was President and Program Director of radio station XETRA ("the

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday

Season's Greetings From the McGuire Sisters - The Complete Coral Christmas Recordings

October 11, 2018 By

McGuire Sisters Seasons Greetings

The McGuire Sisters' first and only full-length Christmas album for Coral Records came in 1958 with Greetings From the McGuire Sisters.  The LP was actually a collection of earlier holiday-related tracks.  All but "Happy New Year" and "The Cactus Christmas Tree" were previously released as singles with "He" hitting No. 10 in Billboard and No. 4 in Cashbox in 1955.  Real Gone has added three tracks ("Peace" and "Ave Maria" from 1959 and "Be A Santa" from 1961) to encompass the Sisters' complete

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

Beggars Banquet: 50th Anniversary Edition

October 11, 2018 By

Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada For its 50th anniversary, the classic Stones album has been transferred from the original tapes to DSD, and freshly remastered by Bob Ludwig.  Featuring "Street Fighting Man" and "Sympathy for the Devil," Beggars Banquet will be reissued as a straightforward CD remaster and an expanded vinyl edition.  The vinyl release will add a bonus 12-inch disk of "Sympathy for the Devil" with its original mono

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

The Complete Christmas on the Ponderosa

October 11, 2018 By

Complete Christmas on the Ponderosa

Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are proud to ring in the holiday season with a true yuletide Bonanza.  The Complete Christmas on The Ponderosa brings together the newly-remastered 1963 album Christmas on The Ponderosa - featuring Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright), Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright), Dan Blocker (Hoss Cartwright), and Michael Landon (Little Joe Cartwright) reprising their television roles for a merry family sing-along - plus the worldwide CD premiere of Lorne Greene's 1965

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Formats: CD Genre: Country, Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

The Complete Christmas Albums

October 11, 2018 By

Andre Kostelanetz Complete Christmas Albums

This comprehensive 2-CD, 43-track set from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music features all three of the legendary conductor's classic Columbia Christmas LPs - Joy to the World: The Music of Christmas (1959), Wonderland of Christmas (1963), and Wishing You a Merry Christmas (1965), on which he was joined by vocalist Phyllis Curtin and The St. Killian Boychoir - plus a host of holiday bonuses.  These include Kostelanetz's rare 1950 single of "White Christmas," a complete recording of "The

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Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

The Best of Everything

October 11, 2018 By

Tom Petty The Best of Everything

On the heels of the release of the acclaimed rarities box set An American Treasure, a new career-spanning anthology arrives from the late Tom Petty.  The Best of Everything is subtitled The Definitive Career-Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016 and features 38 tracks from the soulful rock-and-roller, including two previously unreleased cuts (an alternate of "The Best of Everything" and the outtake "For Real.")  Petty's solo work is heard alongside his recordings with both The Heartbreakers and

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Glen Campbell Sings For The King

October 11, 2018 By

Glen Campbell Sings for The King

This new release premieres never-before-released recordings made by Campbell for his friend Presley.  These fully-produced demos were recorded by Campbell for the songwriting team of Ben Weisman and Sid Wayne.  The set also includes a posthumous duet with Elvis on "We Call On Him."  Glen Campbell Sings For The King will be released on CD, LP, digitally, and as a limited edition, 180-gram clear vinyl edition available exclusively at the artist's website.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop

The Studio Albums Collection

October 11, 2018 By

CCR Studio Albums Box Cover

Craft Recordings has a deluxe box set containing Creedence Clearwater Revival's complete seven-album studio discography.  The Studio Albums Collection contains new half-speed masterings of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willy and the Poor Boys, Cosmo's Factory, Pendulum and Mardi Gras.  Each album in the new box set has been mastered at half-speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, and housed in a tip-on-style jacket, replicating the

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Faster Than The Speeding Light: Rhino's Black Friday RSD Slate Features Madonna, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Todd Rundgren and More

October 11, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Madonna Ray of Light

As we continue to look at the offerings for this Black Friday Record Store Day on November 23, here is a peek at the twelve titles Rhino will be releasing.  As always, these will be available exclusively at all finer independent music shops on Black Friday! The B-52's - Cosmic Thing The group's fifth album from 1989, featuring the hits "Love Shack" and "Roam."  Limited edition of 4,500 copies on 140-gram rainbow colored vinyl. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Devo's debut album,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Devo, Duke Ellington, Grateful Dead, Madonna, Ramones, Record Store Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Talking Heads, The B-52's, The Doors, The Flaming Lips, Todd Rundgren, Yes

Big Wheel Keep On Turnin': Creedence Clearwater Revival's Complete Albums Get Half-Speed Mastered For New Box Set

October 11, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

CCR Studio Albums Box Cover

50 years ago, John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook released their first album together as Creedence Clearwater Revival, providing the perfect soundtrack for a tumultuous period in American history.  Over just seven albums issued between 1968 and 1972, the band's rootsy rock-and-roll sensibility yielded such all-time classic hits as "Proud Mary," "Bad Moon Rising," "Green River," "Down on the Corner," "Who'll Stop the Rain," and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain."  To celebrate the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Creedence Clearwater Revival

Review: Ramones, "Road to Ruin: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition"

October 10, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Ramones Road to Ruin

The Ramones entered New York's Mediasound Studios in May 1978 with their mission clearly laid out: to achieve radio airplay and mainstream success without sacrificing their punk values.  It wasn't such a far-fetched idea; a love of '60s pop had been ingrained in the band since their debut.  For their fourth album, Road to Ruin, the band would continue on the path blazed on 1977's Rocket to Russia with stronger playing, stronger production, stronger songwriting, bigger hooks, and more varied

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Ramones

Anyone Can Play: Capitol Serves Up 18 Unreleased Tracks on "Glen Campbell Sings For The King"

October 10, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Glen Campbell Sings for The King

This morning, Capitol Records and UMe announced a title that unites two late titans of song.  Glen Campbell Sings for The King arrives on November 16, premiering never-before-released recordings made by Campbell for his friend Presley.  It will be released on CD, LP, digitally, and as a limited edition, 180-gram clear vinyl edition available exclusively at the artist's website. Between 1964 and 1968, Glen was engaged by the songwriting team of Ben Weisman and Sid Wayne to record

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell

Record Store Day Black Friday Round-Up: Craft Recordings Unveils Slate of Rock, R&B, Jazz and More

October 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Collective Soul Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid

Craft Recordings is contributing to the annual Record Store Day Black Friday event, to be held this year on Friday, November 23, with six limited edition vinyl releases.  These include the first-ever vinyl pressings of Collective Soul's smash 1993 debut, Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid, and Violent Femmes' 2005 best-of collection, Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes. The label also has a reissue of the self-titled debut from Butch Trucks' pre-Allman Brothers Band group,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Butch Trucks, Collective Soul, Record Store Day, Violent Femmes

Record Store Day Black Friday Round-Up: Run Out Groove Preps Two Limited Edition Releases

October 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Type O Negative Bloody Kisses

Today is the final day for pre-orders of Run Out Groove's next title: an expanded vinyl edition of Secret Machines' Ten Silver Drops.  Similarly, polls close today for voting on the label's next release.  Will it be an expanded edition of the eponymous album from sixties prog-rockers Ars Nova, the vinyl premiere of Victoria Williams' Water to Drink, or a brand-new rarities collection from Devo?  The choice is yours!  Visit Run Out Groove's website today to place those orders and make those

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Rock Tags: Dexter Gordon, Record Store Day, Type O Negative

And On The Third Day: Jack Bruce Joins Gary Burton, Michael Gibbs On Live "Festival '69" Concerts

October 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Festival 69

Later this month, Cherry Red's Turtle Records is turning back the clock almost 50 years for the first official release of two 1969 concerts from longtime friends and collaborators Michael Gibbs and Gary Burton.  Festival '69, due September 28, is a 3-CD set of performances from Gibbs at Lancaster University (February 1969) and Burton with Gibbs at Whitla Hall in Belfast (November 20, 1969) primarily featuring Gibbs' own compositions. Students of Herb Pomeroy, trombonist Gibbs and vibraphonist

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz Tags: Gary Burton, Jack Bruce, Michael Gibbs

Southern Accents: Tom Petty's "The Best of Everything" Retrospective Premieres Two Unheard Tracks

October 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Tom Petty The Best of Everything

On the heels of the release of the acclaimed rarities box set An American Treasure, a new career-spanning anthology will arrive in CD, vinyl, and digital formats on November 16 from the late Tom Petty.  The Best of Everything, on the Geffen/UMe label, is subtitled The Definitive Career-Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016 and features 38 tracks from the soulful rock-and-roller, including two previously unreleased cuts.  Petty's solo work is heard alongside his recordings with both The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Everything Your Heart Desires: Legacy Unleashes Rare Hall & Oates Mixes To Digital Channels

October 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese 31 Comments

Hall and Oates Single Mixes

Whoa-oh, here they come!  On Friday, Legacy Recordings reissued a treasure trove of rare remixes from the enduring rock 'n' soul duo of Daryl Hall and John Oates onto all digital platforms, including two new collections and three EPs. Single Mixes scoops up 16 alternate versions of some of Hall and Oates' greatest hits, including the U.K.-only mix of the 1981 chart-topper "Private Eyes," the seven-inch remixes of "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" (No. 1, 1981) and "One on One" (No. 7, 1983),

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Daryl Hall and John Oates

Release Round-Up: Week of October 5

October 5, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

john lennon imagine

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face)/Song Sung Blue: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music have paired two 1972 albums from the legendary Johnny Mathis as an expanded 2-CD set.  Both albums were produced by Jerry Fuller and make their standalone CD debuts here.  The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face) had not only Mathis' rendition of the hit

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Four Tops, Grateful Dead, Joe Simon, John Lennon, Johnny Mathis, Lindsey Buckingham, Steve Perry, Sugar Ray

OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc, Real Gone's Johnny Mathis Expanded Series Continues with Two New Titles

October 4, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Johnny Mathis Me and Mrs. Jones

Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to continue the journey through the catalogue of the legendary Johnny Mathis TOMORROW with the two latest additions to our ongoing series. First up is an expanded 2-CD release comprising both of the artist's classic albums originally released in 1972: The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face) and Song Sung Blue.  These teamed Mathis with renowned producer Jerry Fuller (Gary Puckett and The Union Gap, The Knickerbockers, Mark Lindsay) for the first

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Jerry Fuller, Johnny Mathis

The Right Track: Cherry Red Retells "The Contempo Story 1973-1977" with Major Lance, Fontella Bass, The Exciters, More

October 4, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

The Contempo Story

Between 1973 and 1977, the London-based Contempo Records label released roughly 150 singles (not to mention numerous albums) celebrating soul in its various strains.  Contempo made its mark with both reissues of classic soul material and all-new recordings, and now its legacy has been celebrated in a new 3-CD box set from Cherry Red's Soul Time imprint.  The Contempo Story 1973-1977 collects 83 tracks featuring such boldface names as Major Lance, Fontella Bass, Bettye Swann, Doris Duke, Sam and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Dorothy Moore, Fontella Bass, Sam and Dave, The Exciters, Various Artists

Stax '68: A Memphis Story

October 3, 2018 By

Stax 68 A Memphis Story

This comprehensive 5-CD set contains the A- and B-sides of every single released under the Stax Records banner in the tumultuous year of 1968, including the company's sub-labels, for a total of 120 tracks.  Some tracks are by soul legends like Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, William Bell, Booker T. & The M.G.'s and Johnnie Taylor and some come from the deeper Stax catalogue, featuring artists such as Linda Lyndell, The Soul Children and The Mad Lads.  The set includes a 56-page book with

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: R&B/Soul

Decade: 1967-1976

October 3, 2018 By

Lulu Decade Cover

This new 5-CD, media book-style box set brings together virtually all of Lulu's recordings for Columbia, Atco, and Chelsea, plus a generous helping of rarities and a handful of new-to-CD tracks.  Decade: 1967-1976 includes the complete albums Love Loves to Love Lulu, Lulu's Album, New Routes, Melody Fair, Lulu, and Heaven and Earth and the Sky, plus over three dozen bonus tracks and new-to-CD rarities in a package with new liner notes by Alan Robinson.  Also available as a single-disc, 14-track

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Glastonbury 2000

October 3, 2018 By

David Bowie Glastonbury 2000

Glastonbury 2000 documents David Bowie's epic festival performance from June 25 of that year, in multiple editions including 2CD, 2CD/DVD, 3LP, and standard and high-resolution digital.  It presents the late superstar's complete 21-song, hits-heavy set in both audio and video formats.  Previously, only 30 minutes of the show had been broadcast on television including "Heroes," which was seen in the recent David Bowie Is... museum exhibition.

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

From Lulu, With Love: Edsel Preps New Box Set "Decade: 1967-1976" For Singing Superstar

October 3, 2018 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Lulu Decade Cover

Lulu (real name: Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) burst onto the scene in 1964 with her earthy, throaty rendition of The Isley Brothers' "Shout!"  The fifteen-year old parlayed that memorable U.K. top ten hit into an international career that remains vibrant and active to this very day.  Lulu remained on Decca Records, the home of "Shout!," for a two-year stint, departing the label in late 1966 to sign with producer Mickie Most for EMI's Columbia Records arm (not to be confused with the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Lulu

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