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Satisfy Your Soul: RPM Collects Rare Rock and Soul from Larry's Rebels and Ronnie Jones

July 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Larrys Rebels

RPM Records, an imprint of the Cherry Red Group, continues to delve deep into the vaults for another pair of rare rock-and-roll releases. Larry's Rebels has long been a beloved band to fans in the group's native New Zealand; with RPM's release of I Feel Good: The Essential Purple Flashes of Larry's Rebels 1965-1969, the rest of the world can get hip to the Rebels, too!  Active for a rough five-year period during which time the band, like so many others, endured personnel changes, Larry's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Larry's Rebels, Ronnie Jones

New "Rare Soul" Collection Features Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, Solomon Burke, Mary Wells and More

July 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Rare Soul

If Rare Soul is what you're looking for, PopMarket has an exclusive release just for you.  The online shop has recently released A Crate Digger's Collection of Rare Soul, a 3-LP set pressed on heavyweight180-gram vinyl presenting 35 tracks culled from the Warner Music Group family of labels including Atlantic, Cotillion, Loma, Atco and Warner Bros. itself.  This handsome package, a limited edition of 1,000 units, features 35 tracks from some of the labels' heaviest hitters as well as names that

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Ben E. King, Bettye LaVette, Dee Dee Sharp, Mary Wells, Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, Solomon Burke, Various Artists

Takin' It To the Streets: Rhino Announces 10-CD Doobie Brothers Box Set Collecting 1971-1983 Albums

July 13, 2015 By Randy Fairman 8 Comments

Doobie Brothers Warner Years

Rhino Records is continuing to release complete album box sets of artists in their catalog.  We've recently told you about sets for Chicago, Alice Cooper, and America and the label has just announced another similar box for The Doobie Brothers.  The Warner Bros. Years 1971 -1983 features the band's 10 albums recorded during that period, and it's set to be released in under two weeks on July 24. The core of The Doobie Brothers was formed when drummer John Hartman and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Michael McDonald, The Doobie Brothers

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

Review: Ronny and the Daytonas, "The Complete Recordings"

July 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Complete Ronny and the Daytonas

The sound was surf-rock, but the pedigree was pure Nashville.  Ronny and the Daytonas burst onto the scene in 1964 with the rip-roaring California-style car tune "G.T.O.," scoring a Top 5 hit on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts.  The group - in actuality, singer-songwriter John "Buck" Wilkin and a rotating cast of Music City's finest - recorded a couple of albums and notched other hits, most notably 1965's dreamy "Sandy," through 1966 on the Mala label before moving to RCA for a stint

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bucky Wilkin, Ronny and the Daytonas

A Brilliant Disguise: Springsteen Live Archive Series Spotlights Los Angeles, 1988

July 9, 2015 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Springsteen Live LA

The next release in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's live archive series has just been announced: LA Sports Arena, California, 1988.  Coming toward the end of the U.S. leg of the Tunnel of Love Express Tour, this concert is from April 23, 1988 - the second night of a five-night stand in Los Angeles.  Performances from other nights in this stand have shown up on Springsteen videos over the years. The Tunnel of Love Express Tour marked several changes for Springsteen.  Most

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

Making Their Mind Up: Cherry Pop Expands Bucks Fizz's Four RCA Albums

July 8, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bucks Fizz

Bucks Fizz burst onto the pop scene in 1981, winning the Eurovision Pop Contest for Great Britain with "Making Your Mind Up."  The well, fizzy, infectious track had more than a slight ABBA flavor to it, with the group paying homage to their fellow Eurovision winners.  Between 1981 and 1986, five English-language albums were released by Bucks Fizz, the first four of which featured the original quartet of Bobby G, Jay Aston, Cheryl Baker and Mike Nolan.  Following the 2014 release of the Remixes

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bucks Fizz

Get On Up, Get On Down: Roy Ayers' Jazz, Funk and Disco Revisited On "Searching for Sunshine"

July 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Roy Ayers Searching for Sunshine

In a career spanning six decades, vibraphonist and composer Roy Ayers has pushed the boundaries of jazz, transitioning from bop to soul-jazz, funk and acid jazz.  Three classic albums from the "Godfather of Neo-Soul" have recently been reissued by Australia's Raven Records label with a handful of bonus selections, as well.  The 2-CD set Searching for Sunshine: 1973-1980 collects Ayers' Polydor albums You Send Me (1978), Fever (1979) and No Stranger to Love (1979) and then dips into other areas

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Roy Ayers

Whiter Shades: Esoteric Kicks Off Deluxe Reissue Campaign For Procol Harum

July 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Procol Harum Procol Harum

Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint is skipping the light fandango with its new reissue campaign dedicated to the classic albums of Procol Harum.  Though these titles have been previously issued on CD before (including recent, now out-of-print deluxe editions from Salvo Music), Esoteric's new editions boast previously unreleased music and other new bonuses as well as copiously-annotated booklets and restored original album artwork.  The first two titles in the series, 1967's Procol Harum

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Procol Harum, Robin Trower

Can't Get It Out Of My Head: Jeff Lynne and ELO's 2014 Hyde Park Concert Gets Fall Release

July 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

ELO Hyde Park

Last September, 50,000 lucky spectators bore witness to Jeff Lynne's return to the concert stage when the Electric Light Orchestra frontman took the stage at London's Hyde Park for the most eagerly-anticipated performance of BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day.  Now, Lynne's performance - backed by his band (including ELO's Richard Tandy) and the BBC Concert Orchestra - is coming to DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats.  On September 11, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Live in Hyde Park preserving

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Digital Download, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne

Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Edsel to Release Belinda Carlisle Singles Box Set

July 3, 2015 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Belinda Carlisle CD Singles

Following a series of deluxe reissues and a career-spanning box set, Edsel is once again turning to the catalogue of Belinda Carlisle.  A new 29-CD box set has just been announced which collects the songs and edits released in the U.S. and U.K. across her entire solo recording career for IRS, Virgin, Chrysalis and up to the new song from her UMe Icon entry.  Belinda Carlisle: The CD Singles 1986-2014 is due to be released on August 21, 2015. The California-born Carlisle rose to fame as the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle, The Go-Go's

Live at The Fillmore East: October 4th and 5th, 1968

July 2, 2015 By

Dance to the music!  On October 4th and 5th, 1968, shortly after the release of the band's third album Life, Sly & The Family Stone took the stage for a two-night, four-show engagement at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York City.  Epic Records recorded all four of the band's concerts (two shows per night) with plans to release a live album.  This new box includes all four sets with the group at its funkiest and most exciting!

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

I'm A Believer: Micky Dolenz's Rare MGM Singles Arriving On Deluxe Reissue

July 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Micky Dolenz MGM

7A Records sure isn't Monkee-ing around with its first release! On July 13, the newly-formed label - a labor of love for BBC radio and television presenter Iain Lee - will release Micky Dolenz's The MGM Singles Collection on vinyl.  This collection reissues for the first time all ten single sides released between 1971 and 1974 by Dolenz on the MGM, Lion and Romar labels.  That Lee and his partner at 7A are Monkees fans is an understatement; even the label's name is derived from the studio

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

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

Release Round-Up: Week of June 30

June 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Private Dancer 30th

Welcome to our final Tuesday Release Round-Up - and it's a doozy!  As many of you know, the record industry will next week adopt a universal Friday release day.  No releases are scheduled for Tuesday, July 7; instead, Friday, July 10 is the date!  DVDs and Blu-rays will, for the foreseeable future, remain released on Tuesdays.  We'll resume with a new Release Round-Up on Friday, July 10! Ronny and the Daytonas, The Complete Recordings (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / The

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: 311, Brian Wilson, Dean Martin, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Fanny, Grateful Dead, Harry Chapin, Janis Ian, KC and the Sunshine Band, Nancy Wilson, Neil Young, Pete Townshend, Ronny and the Daytonas, Tavares, The Fantastic Four, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Who, Tina Turner

Cry Baby: Ace Collects Complete UA, Veep Singles for Soul Man Garnet Mimms

June 29, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Garnet

We've already filled you in on Ace's recent collection from the great Jackie Wilson; today, we turn the spotlight to another classic R&B vocalist, Garnet Mimms! West Virginia-born, Philadelphia-raised Garnet Mimms is best remembered today for his 1963 hit "Cry Baby," which reached No. 1 R&B/No. 4 Pop and inspired Janis Joplin's scorching revival years later.  "Cry Baby" was the work of songwriters Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns, both of whom played key roles in the vocalist's career. 

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Bert Berns, Garnet Mimms, Jerry Ragovoy

Meet Me Down in Soulville: Numero Unearths The Royal Jesters' "English Oldies"

June 26, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Royal Jester English Oldies

To residents of San Antonio, Texas, The Royal Jesters are hometown heroes.  To even the most astute music fans outside of the San Antonio region, the vocal group might be all but unknown.  Thanks to Chicago's Numero Group reissue specialists, however, The Royal Jesters have gotten a big break.  The group founded by high school pals Oscar Lawson, Henry Hernandez, Mike Pedraza and Louis Escalante in 1958 continued to perform and record through 1977, with sporadic reunions after that.  Their sound

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: The Royal Jesters

New Eydie Gorme Collection Celebrates Her Career, Premieres Unreleased Songs

June 25, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Eydie Gorme American Treasure

In a career spanning six decades, the late Eydie Gorme was a leading light of the Great American Songbook, employing versatile voice and powerful belt on record and on stage both solo and with her husband of over 55 years, Steve Lawrence.  Now, Lawrence is paying tribute to her immense legacy in song with a new collection.  An American Treasure presents 34 solo recordings by Gorme on three discs - 12 tracks per disc of The Hits and Steve's Favorites, and 10 previously unreleased tracks on the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence

Long Live Love: RPM Collects Sixties Sound of The Stormsville Shakers

June 25, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Stormsville Shakers

Phillip Goodhand-Tait has had his songs recorded by artists ranging from Gene Pitney to Roger Daltrey and has also fronted a number of bands in his many decades in the music industry.  Cherry Red Group imprint RPM has collected 27 tracks by singer-musician-songwriter Goodhand-Tait, solo and with his bands The Stormsville Shakers and Circus as One and One is Two: Complete Recordings 1965-1967. Born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Goodhand-Tait began his music career while still in

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Phillip Goodhand-Tait, The Stormsville Shakers

You're The Inspiration: Rhino to Release 10-CD Box Collecting Chicago's Studio Albums From 1979-2008

June 24, 2015 By Randy Fairman 11 Comments

Chicago Box Set 2

Rhino is following up its box set news of last week from America and Alice Cooper with even more news this week.  They have just announced a new box set celebrating the second half of Chicago's career: The Studio Albums 1979-2008 to be released on July 10th.  This set follows 2012's The Studio Albums 1969-1978 which collected the first ten studio albums from the band.  That set is being re-pressed in conjunction with the new box. The end of the 1970s saw Chicago in a time of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Chicago

Here They Grow Again: Varese Premieres Expanded "Gremlins 2" Soundtrack

June 23, 2015 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Gremlins 2

Varese Sarabande remembered the rules when announcing their latest Soundtrack Club release--a surprise expansion of Jerry Goldsmith's madcap horror-comedy score to Gremlins 2: The New Batch--informing customers Monday morning instead of after midnight, sparing buyers from a horde of anarchic green beasts. Released 25 years ago in 1990, Gremlins 2 may be one of the most brazen sequels ever put forth by a major Hollywood studio. Joe Dante's delicious original film, written by Chris Columbus and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Jerry Goldsmith

In Memoriam: Back Tracks - James Horner (1953-2015)

June 23, 2015 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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We're deeply saddened to share the news of the tragic and unexpected death of film composer James Horner whose stirring melodies have thrilled, excited and inspired generations of moviegoers on films like Aliens, Avatar, An American Tail, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and of course, Titanic.  Back on March 8, 2010, our own Mike Duquette paid tribute to the Horner legacy with a special installment of Back Tracks.  In memory of Mr. Horner and his immense contributions to cinema and music, we're

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: James Horner

Release Round-Up: Week of June 23

June 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rolling Stones Marquee Club

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a vintage live concert from The Rolling Stones in a variety of formats, an all-star salute to the great Carole King, a rare soundtrack from a beloved performer to a classic children's film, and much, much more! The Rolling Stones, From the Vault: The Marquee Club Live in 1971 (Eagle Rock) DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. SD Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. SD Blu-ray + CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD DVD + CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Carl Hall, Carole King, Jerry Garcia, Rickie Lee Jones, Rod McKuen, The Lover Speaks, The Rolling Stones, The Royal Jesters

I'll Remember Erroll: Garner's Classic "Concert by the Sea" Expanded To 3 CDs

June 22, 2015 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Erroll Garner Complete Concert by the Sea

Nearly sixty years to the day after it was recorded, Sony Legacy and Octave Music Publishing will release, on September 18, an expanded edition of jazz piano legend Erroll Garner's best-selling live LP, Concert by the Sea.  The new 3-CD set will present a nearly-doubled presentation of the concert together with a newly remastered version of the original LP release. Recorded on September 19, 1955 at a military base near Carmel, California, Concert by the Sea was never intended to be recorded

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz Tags: Erroll Garner

Soul Time: Ace Digs Into the Vaults for New Jackie Wilson Anthology

June 22, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Jackie Wilson NYC

When it comes to classic soul men, the roster at Ace Records is second to none.  Two recent releases shed light on two underrated yet titanic talents - Jackie Wilson and Garnet Mimms - in the label's typically comprehensive fashion.  Today, Part One of Two, looks at the latest from Wilson! Ace has dug deep into the archives of Brunswick Records for an unparalleled look at the sixties' New York sessions for Mr. Excitement himself, Jackie Wilson!  The simply-titled NYC 1961-1966 presents 48

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Jackie Wilson

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