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Not Fade Away: Grateful Dead's Legendary 1977 Cornell Concert To Get Official Release On Its Own and As Part of 11-Disc May 1977 Concert Box

February 21, 2017 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Grateful Dead Cornell 5 8 77

A month ago, Rhino Records released a 50th Anniversary edition of the Grateful Dead's self-titled debut album.  When it was announced, Rhino promised that it would kick off a series of anniversary reissues of all of the band's albums.  Details of the next Dead project have now emerged and it is not a new edition of an officially released album but rather the first authorized released of one of the band's most famous concert bootlegs:  the Cornell 5/8/77 show.  It will be released on May 5 to

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

Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo: Cherry Red Collects Derringer, Hawkwind Albums on New Box Sets

February 21, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Derringer Blue Sky Albums

Cherry Red Records has recently continued its series of "complete albums"-style box sets with a set from Derringer on its Hear No Evil Recordings imprint, and a continuation of the Hawkwind story from its Atomhenge imprint. Guitarist/songwriter/producer Rick Derringer has one of the most enviable C.V.s in all of rock and roll - as lead singer of The McCoys' classic oldie "Hang On, Sloopy," as writer of the hit "Rock 'n' Roll Hoochie Koo," as producer of "Weird Al" Yankovic's beloved parodies

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Derringer, Hawkwind, Rick Derringer

Great Southern Land: Icehouse CD Box, Vinyl Reissue Mark Band's 40th Anniversary

February 16, 2017 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

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Australian rockers Icehouse are celebrating four decades with two new catalogue pieces on CD and vinyl, out this month. Led by singer Iva Davies, Icehouse racked up 18 Top 40 hits in their native land, including "Love in Motion," "Great Southern Land," "Hey Little Girl" and "Crazy." Their sole chart-topper in Australia was also their only Top 10 hit in the United States: the stellar pop single "Electric Blue," written by Davies with Icehouse fan John Oates. Davies still leads the group on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Icehouse

It Only Takes a Minute: SoulMusic Collects Tavares Remixes On "Don't Take Away the Music"

February 16, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tavares Remix Project

To date, Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint has reissued seven of the ten albums recorded by Tavares for Capitol Records between 1974 and 1981.  Late in 2016, the SoulMusic team added an eighth Tavares title to their collection.  Don't Take Away the Music: The Remix Project features eleven floor-filling remixes from the Rhode Island brothers Ralph, Arthur (Pooch), Antone (Chubby), Feliciano (Butch) and Perry (Tiny) of such classic songs as "It Only Takes a Minute" (Pop No. 10/R&B No. 1,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Tavares

Ya Got Trouble: Stage Door Celebrates "The Music Man" With Rare Albums on CD, Reissues "Drake's Dream"

February 9, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Meredith Willson And Then I Wrote The Music Man

Stage Door Records is kicking off 2017 with two generous helpings of rare show music: a two-fer celebrating the legacy of Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway classic The Music Man, and the original London cast recording of Drake's Dream, starring Manfred Mann's Paul Jones! In 1957, composer-bandleader Meredith Willson crafted one of the most enduring Broadway musicals of all time when he wrote book, music and lyrics for the nostalgic The Music Man.  To mark the sixtieth anniversary of this Tony

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Lynne and Richard Riley, Meredith Willson, Paul Jones

How Happy I Can Be: 7a Records Releases Rare Davy Jones On New Live Single

February 7, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Davy Jones Daydream Believer

Attention all daydream believers!  The diehard Monkeephiles at 7a Records have an upcoming release that's sure to cheer up sleepy Jean.  Oh what can it mean?  On February 24, the 7a team will unveil the label's latest limited-edition vinyl single, and its first from the late, great Davy Jones.  Daydream Believer/I Wanna Be Free captures Jones' performances of the two all-time Monkees classics recorded on his 1981 tour of Japan.  This 7-inch single, strictly limited to 500 copies pressed on

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Davy Jones, The Monkees

Turn The World Around: Legacy Celebrates Harry Belafonte's 90th with New Collection

February 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Harry Belafonte When Colors Come Together

On March 1, Harry Belafonte will turn 90 years old.  To mark the occasion, the acclaimed actor, singer, songwriter, activist, humanitarian and American icon has looked back on his storied career to curate a new collection for Legacy Recordings.  When Colors Come Together: The Legacy of Harry Belafonte is a single-disc, 19-track compendium drawing on the venerable entertainer's RCA recordings released between 1956 and 1972, and features one new recording performed by a children's

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Harry Belafonte

Release Round-Up: Week of February 3

February 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Lesley Gore Love Me By Name

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring Second Disc Records' first release of the year plus another incredible slate from Real Gone Music, box sets, anthologies, and more! Various Artists, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Expanded Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are tipping off 2017 with the first-ever CD release of Thom Bell's soulful soundtrack to 1979's The Fish

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Black Sabbath, Delaney and Bonnie, Duke Ellington, Jim Kweskin, Judas Priest, Larry Coryell, Lesley Gore, Lynn Anderson, Soft Machine, Thom Bell, Vangelis

Stop The World! Cherry Red's él Label Reissues Anthony Newley, Peter Sellers, John Barry, José Feliciano, More

January 31, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

John Barry Plays 007

Cherry Red's él imprint had a busy 2016, most recently with a number of titles from Anita Kerr including We Dig Anita! and box sets dedicated to her recordings with The Anita Kerr Singers and The San Sebastian Strings.  We've already filled you in on most of the imprint's titles from last year, but here are some nice things you might have missed from the él catalogue, many of which have been drawn from the vaults of Ember Records. John Barry Plays 007 and Other '60s Themes for Film,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Annie Ross, Anthony Newley, John Barry, José Feliciano, Lita Roza, Peter Sellers

Playing with Electric Trains: Squeeze's Chris Difford to Release Solo Box Set

January 27, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Chris Difford Chris to the Mill

Arguably one of the finest British songwriting duos since Lennon and McCartney, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook have made perfect, powerful pop as leaders of Squeeze since the release of their first material in 1977--all the way up to an out-of-nowhere triumph with 2015's Cradle to the Grave, the band's first album of new material in more than 15 years. Since that initial dissolution of the duo's partnership after 1998's Domino, both Chris and Glenn sought to found their voices as solo

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Chris Difford, Squeeze

RPM Records Round-Up, Part Two: Spotlight on The Boots and "Svenska Shakers"

January 26, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Svenska Shakers

Welcome to Part Two of our RPM Records Round-Up!  Part One put a spotlight on the Cherry Red imprint's recent releases from Welsh-born vocalist Maureen Evans and the New Zealand pop-psych band, The Avengers.  Today, we're looking at Germany's The Boots, and a collection of Sweden's finest rockers circa 1964-1968!  Don't miss out on Part One, either.  You can read it right here! RPM's international tour continues with a complete release from Germany's The Boots.  Beat! The Complete Telefunken

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Boots, The Hep Stars, The Lee Kings, Various Artists

The Way It Was: SoulMusic Reissues and Expands Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole

January 24, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Gladys Knight The Solo Collection

We filled you in recently about Cherry Red and SoulMusic Records' recent salute to songstress Vivian Reed, but the label has also offered a pair of titles from two more great ladies of song: Gladys Knight and the late Natalie Cole. Gladys Knight's The Solo Collection collects her first two Pips-less albums, from 1978 and 1979: the Buddah Records release of Miss Gladys Knight, and its Columbia follow-up, Gladys Knight.  The second disc features eight bonus tracks associated with the latter

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole

Cool It Now: New Edition Digital Reissues (And More) Unveiled

January 20, 2017 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

New Edition

Ahead of an officially-sanctioned TV biopic of the lives and careers of New Edition, Universal Music Enterprises has digitally expanded four of the group's studio albums plus an additional four spin-off projects. The band's classic-era output for MCA Records, New Edition (1984), All for Love (1985), Heart Break (1988) and the reunion album Home Again (1996), as well as Bobby Brown's Don't Be Cruel (1988), Bell Biv DeVoe's Poison (1990) and 1990 solo albums by members Johnny Gill and Ralph

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Categories: News Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Bell Biv DeVoe, Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, New Edition, Ralph Tresvant

When The Bullet Hits The Bone: Golden Earring Plan Complete Studio Recordings Box

January 16, 2017 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Golden Earring Complete

Though they may not be a household name outside their native Netherlands, Dutch rockers Golden Earring are the subject of a comprehensive box set to be released next month. The Complete Studio Recordings collects 26 (!) of the group's albums released between 1965 and 2015 (!), with an additional three discs of single and B-side material. Eighteen of these albums reached the Top 10 on the Dutch charts, with seven (including their most recent full-length album, 2012's Tits 'N Ass), reaching No.

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Golden Earring

RPM Records Round-Up: Spotlight on Maureen Evans and The Avengers

January 16, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Maureen Evans Like I Do

From the United Kingdom to Germany, Sweden and New Zealand: in the final months of 2016, Cherry Red's RPM label continued its international tour of great lost pop and rock with a quartet of new releases.  In Part One of this two-part Round-Up, we'll look at two of those titles! Maureen Evans' The Sixties Recordings collects 31 songs from the Welsh-born vocalist's recordings for the Oriole and CBS/Columbia labels between 1960 and 1968.  Evans began her career as a teenager in Waldini's Gypsy

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Maureen Evans, The Avengers

Release Round-Up: Week of January 13

January 13, 2017 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Gerry Rafferty Best Of

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - our first of the New Year! Gerry Rafferty, The Very Best of Gerry Rafferty: United Artistry (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Varese Vintage goes right down the line with Gerry Rafferty's greatest hits, including "Stuck in the Middle with You" from Stealers Wheel, and the solo "Baker Street," "Get It Right Next Time," "Right Down the Line" and more!  This newly-remastered 16-track compilation has seven U.S. and U.K.

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Dennis Coffey, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Gerry Rafferty, Lee Hazlewood, The Delfonics

See You Later: Vangelis to Remaster Polydor Catalogue in New Box

January 9, 2017 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Vangelis Delectus

Greek synthesizer legend Vangelis has recently overseen a CD box set of some of his most celebrated albums for release next year. Delectus features 13 Vangelis albums released between 1973 and 1985 for the Vertigo and Polydor labels. This includes studio creations like Earth (1973), China (1979), See You Later (1980), Soil Festivities (1984) and Mask (1985) plus soundtrack albums like the nature documentaries L'Apocalypse des animaux (1975), Opera Sauvage (1979) and Antarctica (1983) and the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Vangelis

Johnny Cash, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell Featured On "Chartbusters USA: Special Country Edition"

January 9, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Chartbusters USA Country

The latest entry in Ace Records' long-running Chartbusters USA series arrived late in 2016.  The Special Country Edition turned its spotlight on Hot 100 hits which had crossed over from the Billboard Country chart.  The 24 tracks on Chartbusters USA: Special Country Edition are all from the period of 1963-1969, needless to say a time of seismic change in pop music, and many come from the greatest names in any genre of music. The set, appropriately enough, opens with George Jones' 1964

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Porter Wagoner, Various Artists

Don't You Wonder Sometimes: Bowie's "Sound and Vision" Gets Picture Disc In February

January 4, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bowie Sound and Vision Single

On February 10, Rhino Records and Parlophone will continue the long-running series of David Bowie 7" vinyl picture disc singles with the release of "Sound and Vision" in time for the classic song's 40th anniversary. "Sound and Vision" was released almost forty years ago to the day of this reissue - February 11, 1977 - in the United Kingdom from Bowie's Low, the first album in the artist's storied Berlin Trilogy created in collaboration with co-producer Tony Visconti and Brian Eno, among other

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: David Bowie

Never Ending Song of Love: Real Gone's February Slate Includes Delaney & Bonnie, Lesley Gore, Duke Ellington, Lynn Anderson, More

December 20, 2016 By Randy Fairman 5 Comments

Lesley Gore Love Me By Name

As Christmas approaches and 2016 winds down, we start looking ahead to 2017 and what will be released.  We've already told you about the Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music reissue of Thom Bell's all-star soundtrack to The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh due in February, and now we're here to tell you about the rest of Real Gone's killer lineup for that month. First up are two titles with liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese.  In 2015, Real Gone reissued Lesley's Gore's Someplace Else Now

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Delaney and Bonnie, Duke Ellingfton, Jim Kweskin, Larry Coryell, Lesley Gore, Lynn Anderson, Soft Machine, Thom Bell

Love Me By Name: Expanded Edition

December 15, 2016 By

Lesley Gore Love Me By Name

Real Gone Music brings Lesley Gore's sole album for A&M Records, 1975's Love Me By Name, to CD for the very first time anywhere in the world!  Love Me By Name reunited Lesley with producer Quincy Jones, and featured an A-list of guests including Herbie Hancock, Tom Scott, Toots Thielemans, Dave Grusin, and The Brothers Johnson as it touched on pop, disco, jazz, and funk.  This newly-remastered reissue adds two bonus tracks - the unique single versions of "Immortality" and "Give It To Me,

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A Groovy Kind of Love: Ace Collects Classical-Inspired Pop Songs on "Classical Gassers"

November 30, 2016 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Classical Gassers

Classical music has long been a source of inspiration for pop.  Just ask Barry Manilow ("Could It Be Magic"), Eric Carmen ("All By Myself," "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again"), Billy Joel ("This Night"), or Walter Murphy ("A Fifth of Beethoven").  Ace Records has recently collected 24 of these classical "crossovers" on the aptly-titled Classical Gassers: Pop Gems Inspired by the Great Composers.  These tracks date between 1960 and 1971 and feature such hitmaking artists as Lesley Gore, Jay and the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Pop Tags: Allan Sherman, Harpers Bizarre, Jay and the Americans, Lesley Gore, Roy Orbison, Shorty Long, Various Artists

Beyond "The Year 2525": Tune In Collects Zager and Evans' RCA Recordings

November 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Zager and Evans In the Year 2525

In the annals of one-hit wonders, few are as well-remembered as the duo Zager and Evans.  Rick Evans and Denny Zager, both of Lincoln, Nebraska, hit it big in 1969 with their dark, apocalyptic single "In the Year 2525."  But the duo never scored another Hot 100 hit despite the fact that "2525" topped the Pop and AC charts in the United States and also went to the top in the United Kingdom.  Now, their recordings for RCA have been collected by Cherry Red's Tune In imprint as In the

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They're On Their Way: "Dick Tracy," "Blue Lagoon" Expansions Due from Intrada

November 15, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Dick Tracy

Intrada has added two scores from very popular composers to their Special Collection line: Basil Poledouris' soundtrack to 1980's romantic drama The Blue Lagoon, and Danny Elfman's ambitious score to Disney's 1990 adaptation of Dick Tracy. Based on the 1908 novel of the same name, The Blue Lagoon starred Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins as two cousins shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, living (and loving) in a faraway paradise. The R-rated antics of the couple caused a stir, as

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Basil Poledouris, Danny Elfman

To The Batcave! La-La Land Reissues Nelson Riddle's "Batman" For 50th Anniversary

November 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Batman 50th OST

Today, La-La Land announced a new reissue of Nelson Riddle's score to 1966's Batman: The Movie, just in time to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary.  The label premiered its expanded edition of Batman in 2010 (itself an expansion of a prior Film Score Monthly CD) and it proved to be a sold-out success.  Though the same master will be utilized for the upcoming reissue, the 2016 edition features colorful new artwork by Jim Titus, as well as all-new liner notes by John Takis.  The Second Disc

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Neal Hefti, Nelson Riddle

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