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All the Way

March 26, 2016 By

Frank Sinatra All the Way

Frank Sinatra's All The Way album, originally released in 1961 by Capitol to round up twelve non-LP singles, arrives on 180-gram vinyl. This Billboard Top 5 album features the Oscar-winning, hit title track by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Charlotte Sweet: Original Cast Recording

March 26, 2016 By

Charlotte Sweet

The Original Cast Recording of the beloved 1982 off-Broadway musical by Michael Colby and Gerald Jay Markoe receives a deluxe, expanded reissue - complete for the very first time on 2 CDs.  None other than Leonard Cohen presciently observed, "I loved the show. Some of those songs are classic theatre pieces--I think they'll be around for a long time."  Charlotte Sweet is available at Amazon.com, but those who order directly from JAY Records will receive a CD-R of Colby and Markoe's related

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings

Motortown Revue In Paris: Deluxe Edition

March 26, 2016 By

Motortown Revue in Paris

Universal U.K. expands Motortown Revue in Paris, originally released in 1965, to 2 CDs or 3 LPs - both of which add a previously unreleased twelve tracks of live Motown magic!  Martha and the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, The Miracles, Earl Van Dyke and, of course, The Supremes are all here.  31 tracks total.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul

Sarah Vaughan's "Live at Rosy's" Premieres 1978 Concert On CD

March 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Sarah Vaughan Rosys

"Live from Rosy's...The Divine One, Sarah Vaughan!"  So begins Resonance Records and NPR Music's new release, Live at Rosy's.  It would take an extraordinary talent to live up to that sobriquet, but throughout her career, Sarah Vaughan certainly did.  Live at Rosy's is the first commercial release of Vaughan's May 31, 1978 performances at the New Orleans nightspot, recorded for NPR's Jazz Alive program and presented here as remastered from the original eight multitrack reels.  Vaughan was backed

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Sarah Vaughan

Release Round-Up: Week of March 25

March 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Dylan Live 1964 Bootleg SACD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall (Audio Fidelity)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall comes to hybrid 5.0 multichannel SACD for the first time. Audio Fidelity's release will boast a full booklet (as on the original standard CD release) and is playable in stereo on all CD players.  Read more here! Various

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Kleeer, Mark Murphy, Sarah Vaughan, Stargard, The Kinks, Various Artists, Winfield Parker

With a Little Help From Their Friends: Esoteric Reissues "McGough and McGear" In Mono and Stereo

March 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

McGough and McGear

The original 1968 LP issue of McGough and McGear reprinted a handwritten list of "People on a Train." These famous people included Jimi Hendrix, Spencer Davis, Gary Leeds of the Walker Brothers, Dave Mason, John Mayall, Graham Nash, Paul Samwell-Smith, Jane Asher and a certain Paul McCartney.   The train, in fact, was the studio where Roger McGough and Mike McGear - real name, Mike McCartney - recorded their only album as a duo.  The unconventional yet accessible art-rock classic, produced in

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: McGough and McGear, Mike McCartney, Paul McCartney, Roger McGough, The Scaffold

Made For These Times: TRACK LISTING REVEALED For The Beach Boys ' "Pet Sounds 50"

March 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Pet Sounds 50

On June 10, Capitol/UMe will reissue The Beach Boys' 1966 masterwork Pet Sounds in a variety of formats to mark its 50th anniversary.  If you haven't read our previous story on the upcoming 4-CD/1-Blu-ray box set and more, do not pass go, do not collect $200...just go right here! Now, without further ado, here's the complete, newly-confirmed track listing and pre-order links for the various iterations of Pet Sounds 50! The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

De-Luxe: Cherry Red Chronicles The Sound of Shoegaze On "Still in a Dream" Box Set

March 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Still in a Dream Story of Shoegaze

Noise-rock, dream-pop, post-punk, drone-rock, neo-psychedelia...all of these musical subgenres and more became components of the shoegaze sound.  The term itself was rather derisively coined by the press to describe a certain group of musicians' tendencies to stare down at their feet while performing - partly out of introspection, partly out of necessity to operate guitar effects pedals.  But the "shoegaze" term stuck, and so did the music.  Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze, a lavish,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Cocteau Twins, Lush, Ride, The Flaming Lips, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Various Artists

Still Driving: America Releases "Lost and Found" On Vinyl

March 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

America Lost and Found

Last year, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, a.k.a. America, released two significant archival collections bookending their still-thriving career.  Archives Vol. 1 presented 15 previously unreleased alternate versions, early mixes, demos, rehearsals and outtakes spanning the halcyon period between America's 1971 debut album America and 1975's Hearts.  These, of course, featured Beckley and Bunnell in addition to original member Dan Peek.  Lost and Found pressed fast-forward on the band's history

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: America

Slip Away: Ace Reissues, Expands Two Albums From Soul Legend Clarence Carter

March 22, 2016 By Ted Frank 1 Comment

Clarence Carter This Is and Dynamic

As 2000 ushered in a new millennium, it also reintroduced the soulful voice of Clarence Carter on Cameron Crowe's Grammy-winning soundtrack to Almost Famous.   Being the sole (pun intended) R&B gem on this compilation, Crowe embedded Carter's hit song, "Slip Away" into what is otherwise his definitive 1970s classic rock retrospective.  This is not to say that Carter is the only R&B artist found in the film proper.  On the contrary, Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour" was masterfully used

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Clarence Carter

Chance of a Lifetime: 7a Releases Micky Dolenz's First Single In 33 Years

March 21, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Micky Dolenz Chance of a Lifetime

Come April, Micky Dolenz will be returning to a place where he hasn't appeared in 33 years.  No, the performing mainstay won't be discovering some new, far-flung venue.  But he will be returning to the single shelves of record store racks with his first 45 RPM release since 1983.  7a Records, the label responsible for Dolenz's The MGM Singles Collection and the recent An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz, will release "Chance of a Lifetime" b/w "Living on Lies" in

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Micky Dolenz, Record Store Day, The Monkees

Breathe Me: Sia's "Colour the Small One" Gets Vinyl Debut

March 21, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Sia Colour the Small One

Before Sia hit it big, both as a pop songwriter for Rihanna, Beyonce and Britney Spears and an enormous-voiced singer of tunes like "Titanium," "Chandelier" and recent hit "Alive," she was a quirky, tuneful indie-pop artist whose albums became critical darlings if not commercial successes. One such project, her third album Colour the Small One, is being reissued this spring, as both a digital expanded edition and, for the first time, a vinyl offering. Colour the Small One was, upon release in

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Sia

English Heart

March 20, 2016 By

Ronnie Spector English Heart

The one and only Ronnie Spector returns with an all-new studio album saluting her British Invasion friends. Expect Ronnie-ized renditions of the Jagger/Richards-written "I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys" (as "I'd Much Rather Be with the Girls") as well as "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying," "Tell Her No," "Girl Don't Come" and more!  Amazon has an exclusive CD/DVD edition as well as an exclusive autographed vinyl LP!  You can access all formats from the links below!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Live at Rosy's

March 20, 2016 By

Sarah Vaughan Rosys

Resonance Records and NPR Music premiere a never-before-released 1978 concert from Sarah Vaughan, recorded for NPR at Rosy's Jazz Club in New Orleans.  Sarah is supported by Jimmy Cobb, Walter Booker, and Carl Schroeder on a set including "Time After Time," "Somebody Loves Me," "Send in the Clowns," "The Man I Love," "Everything Must Change" and more.  The deluxe 2-CD set includes a 36-page booklet with essays by James Gavin and Will Friedwald, plus new interviews!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

Jazz at the Philharmonic: The Ella Fitzgerald Set

March 20, 2016 By

Ella Jazz at the Philharmonic

UMe/Verve brings together all of Ella Fitzgerald's swinging JATP performances (from 1949, 1953 and 1954) originally issued on various albums over the years.  This remastered edition features a new essay by historian Will Friedwald.  Features "A Foggy Day," "The Man That Got Away," "How High the Moon," "Perdido," "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" and more!

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Formats: CD Genre: Jazz

Wouldn't It Be Nice: "Pet Sounds" 50th Anniversary Celebrated in June With Multiple Editions Including 4 CD/Blu-ray Box Set

March 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 18 Comments

beach boys standard pet sounds

On May 16, 1966, one of the most acclaimed albums in pop/rock history was released: The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of this landmark album and it is being commemorated in several ways. Brian Wilson is embarking on a concert tour in a little under a week in which he and his band will play the album in its entirety for what's being billed as the last time. And it has just been revealed that a new box set is due to be released on June 10 by Capitol/UMe to join the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

Review: Elvis Presley, "The Album Collection"

March 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Elvis Album Collection 2

I. Playing for Keeps "You don't have to face the music...you don't have to face the crowd...Just go back where you came from," sings a world-weary Elvis Presley on "It's Easy for You," the closing track of his 1977 album Moody Blue.  "If you ever tire of the good life, call me in a year or two...I've got no choice, I'll forgive you, 'cause it's easy for you."  Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical recrimination not only dated back to the superstar artist's final studio session - at home

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 18

March 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Elvis Album Collection 2

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a host of titles on CD and vinyl! Elvis Presley, The Album Collection (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) To coincide with the 60th anniversary of his signing to RCA, Elvis Presley's The Album Collection is a whopping 60-disc box set containing 57 RCA albums released during Presley's lifetime (many with bonus tracks added) and 3 bonus discs of rarities, one disc each for the '50s, '60s and '70s.  A 300-page

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: a-ha, Elvis Presley, Garry Tallent, Julian Slade, The O'Jays, Todd Rundgren

One Track Mind! More Motown Guys

March 17, 2016 By

One Track Mind More Motown Guys

Ace brings on another 24 tracks of the cream of the male Motown crop - including 16 previously unreleased tracks!  One Track Mind! More Motown Guys has The Spinners, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Fantastic Four, Edwin Starr and more on a group of uptempo songs designed to have listeners hit the dancefloor, Detroit-style!

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

Dan Fogelberg, Johnny Paycheck, Beau Brummels, More Join Bobby Darin On Real Gone's May Slate

March 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Dan Fogelberg Definitive Anthology

Real Gone Music has just announced its May release slate, and with rock, jazz, gospel, country, pop and beyond, it's one of the label's most diverse months yet! Naturally, we're partial to the May 6 release of Bobby Darin's Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years from Real Gone and our own Second Disc Records (get all of the details right here!), but there's plenty more on offer, too!  Bobby Darin was a remarkable singer-songwriter; another beloved titan of popular song is the late Dan

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Cactus, Cannonball Adderley, Dan Fogelberg, Grateful Dead, Johnny Paycheck, The Beau Brummels, The Staple Singers

Find Out What's Happening: Ace Explores "Where Soul Meets Country" On New Collection

March 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Where Soul Meets Country

Between 2012 and 2014, Ace issued three volumes of Where Country Meets Soul.  All three volumes featured many of the greatest soul singers of all time tackling country-and-western repertoire. Now, the label has revisited the country-soul territory - in reverse! Out of Left Field: Where Soul Meets Country presents 24 sizzling R&B songs as sung by country's greatest performers, and most are surprisingly comfortable fits. Stax thought it was onto something when it ushered Daaron Lee into the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, R&B/Soul Tags: David Allan Coe, Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Loretta Lynn, Ronnie Milsap, Skeeter Davis, Tanya Tucker, Various Artists, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson

Love is the Drug: Grace Jones' "Warm Leatherette" Gets Expanded

March 16, 2016 By Mike Duquette 11 Comments

Grace Jones Warm Leatherette

"See the breaking glass in the underpass..." Universal will expand Grace Jones' influential fourth album Warm Leatherette this summer with a variety of formats. Jones' tenure on Island Records has been the subject of some fascinating reissues in recent years. Her 1981 masterpiece Nightclubbing was expanded in 2014, and the following year saw the release of Disco, a box set compiling her first three albums with producer Tom Moulton, released between 1977 and 1979. Warm Leatherette is the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Grace Jones, Record Store Day

The Collection: An Adventure in Sound (Hybrid 4.0 SACD)

March 16, 2016 By

Audio Fidelity Collection

Despite the nondescript title, this set features 14 tracks from the quadraphonic library of Sony on hybrid 4.0 channel SACD.  Many of the artists featured are heavy hitters, including Bob Dylan, Santana, Miles Davis, The Jeff Beck Group, Henry Mancini, and Harry Nilsson. LAY, LADY, LAY - Bob Dylan MILES RUNS THE VOODOO DOWN - Miles Davis BLACK MAGIC WOMAN/GYPSY QUEEN - Santana DEFINITELY MAYBE - Jeff Beck Group SHINING STAR - Earth, Wind & Fire GRAZING IN THE GRASS - The Friends Of

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Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul

Soundstage: Brian Wilson and Friends

March 16, 2016 By

Brian Wilson Soundstage

Salvo brings the 2015 Soundstage television program starring Brian Wilson, taped in Las Vegas, to a CD/DVD package.  The concert united Wilson with Al Jardine, Blondie Chaplin, Billy Hinsche and various special guests to celebrate his legendary songbook and his new album No Pier Pressure.  The CD features 19 tracks, and the DVD has 25 plus two bonus tracks and additional interview footage.

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Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop

Playing In The Band: Rhino Unveils 12-CD, 3-CD Sets For Grateful Dead's July 1978 Concerts

March 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Grateful Dead July 1978

There's more Dead on the way from Rhino. 1978 was a successful year for Grateful Dead on many levels.  The band released Shakedown Street, its second album for Clive Davis' Arista label, and played over 80 shows, including three landmark performances at the Giza Pyramids in Egypt.  On May 13, Rhino will draw into that vast well of live recordings for a major box set.  The 12-CD set July 1978: The Complete Recordings focuses on five previously unreleased concerts from that month, and marks the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

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