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Long Time Comin': Next Bruce Springsteen Live Archive Release Highlights 2005 "Devils & Dust" Tour

September 29, 2015 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Bruce Springsteen Ohio 2005

The next installment in Bruce Springsteen's live archive series has been revealed:  Schottenstein Center, Columbus, Ohio 2005. The show for this release is from July 31, 2005 and falls in the middle of Springsteen's Devils & Dust Tour.  Devils & Dust was released in April of that year, debuting at Number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.  It was his first album following 2002's The Rising which had reunited Springsteen with the E Street Band for the first time on a new studio record in

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

One Singular Sensation: "A Chorus Line" Returns In 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition

September 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

A Chorus Line 40th

Of a remarkable and indeed, singular, career that crowned him as an EGOT - winner of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards - and one of only two EGOTs with a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers), Marvin Hamlisch's most lasting musical accomplishment might well be his score to A Chorus Line.   Working with lyricist Ed Kleban, director/choreographer Michael Bennett, co-choreographer Bob Avian, and writers James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, composer Hamlisch struck a universal chord with the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Donna McKechnie, Ed Kleban, Marvin Hamlisch, Priscilla Lopez

Sing Christmas Music/The Little Drummer Boy

September 21, 2015 By

Living Voices Christmas

The Living Voices' Sing Christmas Music/The Little Drummer Boy adds up to a nostalgic holiday treat.  The Living Voices, together with The Living Strings and several other groups with "Living" in their names, were studio musicians brought together by RCA producer Ethel Gabriel who recorded albums targeted at an older demographic.  These LPs featured lushly arranged versions of popular hits, and these two Christmas albums - including 1965's never-on-CD The Little Drummer Boy featuring The Anita

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

A Man and His Music

September 20, 2015 By

Sinatra Man and His Music

Frank Sinatra's 1965 Reprise double-album set arrives on 180-gram vinyl for its 50th anniversary as part of the Sinatra centennial reissue program.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Miss Show Business

September 20, 2015 By

Judy Garland Miss Show Business

Judy Garland's 1955 Capitol album Miss Show Business - a Billboard top 5 smash - turns 60 this year, and Capitol/UMe is celebrating with a 180-gram vinyl reissue featuring new liner notes from Lorna Luft!

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album

September 16, 2015 By

Elvis Costello Unfaithful Music

Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his upcoming memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink.  Featuring songs that "offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book," Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album non-chronologically spans his entire recorded discography, from 1977's My Aim is True to 2013's Wise Up Ghost, his collaboration album with hip-hop group The Roots.  In addition, two unreleased tracks premiere here along with three "audio

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock

Beatles 1+ [Various Editions]

September 16, 2015 By

Beatles 1 Plus CD 2 BD

The Fab Four turns the best-selling Beatles 1 into an audiovisual extravaganza with new audio mixes and never-before-released video footage, available in a variety of editions and formats: Beatles 1: 1 CD/1 DVD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1: 1 CD/1 BD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1: 1 CD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1: 1 BD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1: 1 DVD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1+: 1 CD/2 BDs (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1+:

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror: Elvis Costello Compiles "Unfaithful Music and Soundtrack Album"

September 14, 2015 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Elvis Costello Unfaithful Music

"Every day I write the book," sang Elvis Costello on his first U.S. Top 40 hit, and this year he is indeed writing one. The iconoclastic British rocker, who's chased his muse through the most diverse of places, from punk to bluegrass, will let it all out in prose on the hotly anticipated memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. And now, Universal Music Enterprises, the home base for Elvis' catalogue for nearly a decade (following stints at Rykodisc/Demon in the 1990s and Warner

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Allen Toussaint, Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson, Rosanne Cash, The Roots

Music from "Love and Mercy"

September 2, 2015 By

Love and Mercy OST

Capitol Records belatedly releases a soundtrack to director Bill Pohlad's acclaimed Brian Wilson biopic Love and Mercy featuring Atticus Ross' original score plus music from the solo Wilson ("Love and Mercy," "One Kind of Love"), The Beach Boys ("God Only Knows," "Good Vibrations," "Don't Worry Baby") and star Paul Dano ("God Only Knows").

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks

Sweet Touch of Love: Raven Collects Three Albums From Allen Toussaint

September 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Allen Toussaint The Real Thing

Of all the great names in the annals of R&B history, there is only one Allen Toussaint.  A pianist, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and all-around renaissance man, the Louisiana native is responsible - in one capacity or another - for some of the most memorable songs and recordings in the modern pop and soul canon: "Working in the Coal Mine," "Southern Nights," "Mother-in-Law," "Lady Marmalade" and "Yes We Can Can" among them.  Though those hits for Lee Dorsey, Glen Campbell, Ernie

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Allen Toussaint

Release Round-Up: Week of August 28

August 28, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Faces You Can Make Me Dance

Welcome to New Release Friday and this week's Release Round-Up! Faces, You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975) (Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This long-awaited 5-CD box set includes Faces' First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse (1971), and Ooh La La (1973), and adds never-before-released bonus tracks to each album.  The set is topped off with a bonus disc containing non-LP selections.

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Conway Twitty, Faces, Gloria Gaynor, Jimi Hendrix, Lee Hazlewood, Margo Smith, Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart, The Kitchen Cinq, Van Morrison

Big Break Boasts Bursting Line-Up With Chaka and Rufus, Gloria Gaynor, Kool and the Gang, More

August 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Gloria Gaynor Ive Got You

Big Break Records has been on a big roll with its powerhouse slate of recent releases!  We've already filled you in on the worldwide CD debut of MFSB's Philly soul classic Universal Love; today, we'll take a look at another quartet of releases from the Cherry Red imprint. BBR has returned to the catalogue of Gloria Gaynor with another first-time-on-CD reissue.  I've Got You was Gaynor's third solo album and first for Polydor Records.  Released 39 years ago in August 1976, the album found her

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Chaka Khan, Forrest, Gloria Gaynor, Kool and the Gang, Rufus

EXCLUSIVE! It's Yesterday Once More: Carpenters "Complete Singles" Released For Public Television

August 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 28 Comments

Carpenters Complete Singles cover low res reference

On November 5, 1969, the very first single by Carpenters was released on A&M Records.  "Ticket to Ride" b/w "Your Wonderful Parade" announced the fresh talents of Richard Carpenter, 23, and Karen Carpenter, 19.  The dramatically reinterpreted Beatles song introduced radio to Karen's richly intimate voice, and the bitingly ironic flipside heralded the songwriting team of Richard Carpenter and John Bettis  - while both sides revealed Richard's prodigious gifts for arrangement

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Carpenters

Release Round-Up: Week of August 21

August 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Isley Brothers T Neck and RCA Masters

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, packed with box sets, reissues, special collections, and more! The Isley Brothers, The RCA Victor and T-Neck Album Masters (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Legacy has boxed up 23 discs of The Isley Brothers - featuring every one of the group's RCA and T-Neck albums released between 1959 and 1983, including one previously unreleased album and a total of 84 previously unissued or new-to-CD bonus tracks!  Every track has been newly-remastered

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Belinda Carlisle, Jeff Beck, Linda Ronstadt, Nicolette Larson, Paul Young, Peggy Lee, Singers and Players, Teddy Pendergrass, The Isley Brothers, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Sherman Brothers, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of August 14

August 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Lesley Gore Someplace Else Now

Welcome to New Release Friday! Lesley Gore, Someplace Else Now (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Someplace Else Now marked Lesley Gore's first full immersion into the world of the singer-songwriter.  She penned every one of the twelve tracks on this 1972 album for MoWest Records, writing solo and with lyricists Ellen Weston and her brother Michael Gore.  Joe Porter (Gladys Knight and the Pips, Thelma Houston) supplied the passionate production.  Lesley's lost Motown gem - a

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Lesley Gore, Steppenwolf, The Muffs, The Replacements, The Who

Release Round-Up: Week of August 7

August 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dusty Come for a Dream

Welcome to another New Release Friday, and today's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, Come for a Dream: The U.K. Sessions 1970-1971  (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Earlier this year, Real Gone released Faithful - a collection of Dusty Springfield's complete sessions with producer-songwriter Jeff Barry, compiled for the first time as originally envisioned on one disc.  Now, the label has turned its attention to Dusty's 1970-1971 London sessions intended for the album See All

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alex North, Ben E. King, Dusty Springfield, Elvis Presley, Georgie Fame, Mike Bloomfield, Robbie Robertson, Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Rush

Just One Look: Classic Linda Ronstadt

August 4, 2015 By

Linda Ronstadt Just One Look

Rhino collects 30 hits and album tracks from Linda Ronstadt on this newly-remastered 2-CD set.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Get Closer: Two Discs of Linda Ronstadt Collected on "Just One Look"

August 4, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Linda Ronstadt Just One Look

Roughly one year following the release of Starbucks' Opus Collection anthology, Rhino has announced a new compilation celebrating the resplendent voice of Linda Ronstadt.  Just One Look - Classic Linda Ronstadt is due from the label on August 21, featuring 30 newly-remastered tracks on two CDs. The chronologically-assembled collection begins with Michael Nesmith's timeless "Different Drum" as performed by The Stone Poneys featuring Linda, then jumps forward to the 1973 solo album Don't Cry

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Linda Ronstadt

Review: Various Artists, "Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson"

August 3, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Here Today The Songs of Brian Wilson

The title of Ace Records' recent collection is Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson, after one of those famous Wilson songs off The Beach Boys' 1966 Pet Sounds.  But the fact of the matter is - as this enjoyably diverse set proves over the course of its 25 tracks - Brian Wilson's music is not only here today, but will be here for many tomorrows. Unlike Ace's 2003 volume Pet Projects: The Brian Wilson Productions, this anthology concentrates on Brian as songwriter.  But there are a couple of

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bobby Vee, Brian Wilson, Carmen McRae, Hugo Montenegro, Jan and Dean, Nick DeCaro, The Beach Boys, The Tokens, Three Dog Night, Various Artists

Review: "The Sound of Music: Original Soundtrack Recording" on SACD

July 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Sound of Music Original

RCA Victor expected the soundtrack album to 1965's big-screen musical The Sound of Music to be a juggernaut.  The label backed the release with a $100,000.00 promotional campaign, and arranged for tie-ins at locales including the New York World's Fair.  The release was joined on the label's roster by other albums of the already-famous Rodgers and Hammerstein score in styles from jazz (Gary Burton's The Groovy Sound of Music) to "easy listening" (The Living Strings' Music from The Sound of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Julie Andrews, Rodgers and Hammerstein

Happy in the Morning: Sony Masterworks Reissues Lauren Bacall, Mickey Rooney Musicals and More

July 16, 2015 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Woman of the Year

Last week, we told you about Masterworks Broadway's search for suggestions of cast albums to reissue on vinyl.  This week, the label has just announced three new releases in their ongoing download/CD-R program. The first up on July 17 (this Friday) is the 1957 television cast of Pinocchio starring Mickey Rooney.  This is not the Disney musical, but a version of the story featuring music by Alec Wilder and lyrics by William Engvick.  It has only been available on CD before by public domain

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Alec Wilder, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Lauren Bacall, Mickey Rooney

Fairport Convention, Vashti Bunyan, Bill Fay Featured On New Underground Folk Box "Dust on the Nettles"

July 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dust on the Nettles

In the spirit of past box sets such as Love, Poetry and Revolution which spotlighted the British underground psychedelic scene circa 1966-1972, Cherry Red's Grapefruit label has just released Dust on the Nettles, a new 3-CD compendium of British underground folk in roughly the same time period (1967-1972). This new mini-box set, subtitled A Journey Through the British Underground Folk Scene, boasts 63 tracks and a running time of nearly four hours.  The emphasis is on the genre sometimes

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Folk Tags: Bill Fay, Fairport Convention, Joan Armatrading, The Incredible String Band, Vashti Bunyan

Fare Thee Well [Various Editions]

July 9, 2015 By

Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well

The final (?) performances of the Grateful Dead, recorded on July 3-5 at Chicago's Soldier Field, come to CD, DD, DVD and BD in a variety of audio and video formats: FARE THEE WELL - Exclusive Complete Versions (Exclusively for order at dead.net)          •    12-CD/7-Blu-ray Complete Version - Full audio and high-definition video from all three shows on CD and Blu-ray plus exclusive bonus disc of behind-the-scenes footage. Individually numbered, limited edition of 20,000.          •   

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD Genre: Rock

Live From The Rock 'n' Roll Fun House

July 2, 2015 By

The Knack Rock n Roll Funhouse

Omnivore's latest reissue from power-pop heroes The Knack is the band's first official live album, from 2002. The "soundtrack" to a performance on an imaginary 1960s television special, Live at the Rock 'n' Roll Fun House has been remastered and expanded, and also boasts new artwork and liner notes.  With the addition of two tracks recorded for the original CD/DVD, but never issued until now (Normal As The Next Guy's "It's Not Me" and "Seven Days Of Heaven)," Fun House now represents material

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They've Got the Music in Them: Edsel Expands Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri's "A Place" With Unreleased Songs

June 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Kiki and Carmelo A Place

If you're a fan of Kiki Dee, rest assured that Edsel won't be breaking your heart any time soon.  The Demon Music Group label has recently followed its series of Kiki's Rocket albums with a deluxe, expanded edition of her most recent release: 2013's collaboration with singer/songwriter/guitarist Carmelo Luggeri, A Place Where I Can Go.  The original 11-track album has been expanded with an entire second disc of previously unreleased bonus material. Kiki Dee first joined in performance with

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Carmelo Luggeri, Kiki Dee

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