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Diana Ross (1976)

July 11, 2016 By

Diana Ross 1976

Miss Ross' self-titled 1976 classic - featuring such classics as "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)," "Love Hangover" and "I Thought It Took a Little Time" - returns to vinyl for its 40th anniversary in a new pressing from Motown.  With productions from Michael Masser, Hal Davis, Berry Gordy and Don Costa, Gil Askey, and Ashford and Simpson, Diana Ross remains one of the great lady's most remarkable achievements on record.  No additional tracks are featured on this LP

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

The Summer Knows: Varese Collects Snuff Garrett's Movie Music On "50 Guitars Go to the Movies"

July 11, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett Movies

Between 1961 and 1973, legendary producer Thomas Lesslie "Snuff" Garrett released over two dozen albums as The 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett, making an indelible contribution to the "easy listening" instrumental market.  The multitalented Garrett was at his most prolific, overseeing the 50 Guitars albums during a period in which he produced a variety of artists including Cher, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Vicki Lawrence, Vikki Carr, and Jim Nabors.  Last year, Varese Vintage reissued The 50

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Snuff Garrett, Tommy Tedesco

Mother's Pride [Expanded Edition]

July 9, 2016 By

Fanny Mothers Pride

Real Gone has an expanded edition of 1973's Mother's Pride from the all-female rock group Fanny.  Produced by Todd Rundgren, this would be their final album for Reprise Records.  After the record's release, founding members June Millington and Alice de Buhr quit the band.  A reconstituted group would record one album for Casablanca Records in 1974 before dissolving for good in 1975 (ironically after "Butter Boy" became their highest-charting single).  Real Gone's expanded edition adds 8 bonus

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Ramblin' [Expanded Edition]

July 9, 2016 By

New Christy Minstrels Ramblin

Real Gone has an expanded reissue of Ramblin' by The New Christy Minstrels from 1963.  The large vocal folk group got its start in 1961, founded by Randy Sparks.  They have had many members over the years including Kim Carnes, Kenny Rogers, Gene Clark and Barry McGuire.  It is McGuire who got his shot at solo fame after singing "Green, Green" from the Ramblin' album.  It was the group's first major hit and it went gold in 1963.  It also assured that the album itself would stay on the charts for

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Formats: CD Genre: Folk

The Definitive Collection

July 9, 2016 By

Mitch Miller Definitive Collection

Mitch Miller is probably most famous today for his tenure as the head of A&R at Columbia Records from 1950 through 1965 where he guided the careers of Dinah Shore, Jo Stafford, Ray Conniff, Johnny Mathis and Tony Bennett among others and discovered Aretha Franklin.  (Also infamously known for his distaste for rock-n-roll, he reportedly passed on signing Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and The Beatles!)  Yet Miller was a popular recording artist in his own right, with most of his records begin

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

The Definitive Hits Collection

July 9, 2016 By

Diamond Rio Definitive Hits

Diamond Rio's The Definitive Hits Collection rounds up 40 tracks from the country group's Arista Nashville tenure.  One of the few bands to come out of performing out of an amusement park, they made their debut as The Grizzly River Boys (and later the Tennessee River Boys) at Opryland in Nashville in 1982.  They stopped performing at the park in 1985 and began to record demos and perform in hopes of landing a record deal.  It would take until 1990 when they signed with the newly-created Arista

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

Live! 8.24.1979

July 9, 2016 By

The B 52s Live

The B-52's Live! 8.24.79 was recorded just one month after the band's debut album dropped on the Warner Bros. label.  It features 9 songs (including the hit "Rock Lobster") taken from that first album and also from their second album, Wild Planet, released nearly a year to the day later in August of 1980.  This concert was released last year digitally and on limited-edition vinyl on Black Friday Record Store Day by Rhino and it makes its CD debut here from Real Gone Music.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Faithful [Limited Edition Orange Vinyl]

July 9, 2016 By

Dusty Springfield Faithful

Real Gone has first-ever vinyl issue of Dusty Springfield's Faithful album.  In 1971, Springfield went into the studio with the legendary Jeff Barry for what was supposed to be her third Atlantic album.  Alas, it was not meant to be at the time and the album was shelved.  Last year, Real Gone collected up all of the songs from those sessions and compiled them on one CD.  Now, you will be able to listen to this unreleased album on the format it would have been heard on in the early 1970s.  This

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

The Complete Atlantic Singles Vol. 1

July 9, 2016 By

Wilson Pickett Complete Atlantic Singles Volume One

Real Gone Music has the first release in a three-volume collection chronicling Wilson Pickett's tenure at Atlantic Records.  The Wicked Pickett released a total of 66 single sides at the label and The Complete Atlantic Singles Vol. 1 collects the first 22 of these in their original mono single mixes.  You'll find some of his biggest and most indelible hits on here like "In The Midnight Hour" and "Land of 1000 Dances."  This new collection features brand-new liner notes by our very own Joe

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

Review: Everclear's First Two Capitol Releases on Audiophile LP from Intervention

July 8, 2016 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Everclear So Much for the Afterglow

Joining its sonically and visually beautiful releases from the likes of Stealers Wheel and Joe Jackson, Intervention Records has recently released deluxe 180-gram audiophile pressings of Everclear's first two proper Capitol albums: Sparkle and Fade (1995) and So Much for the Afterglow (1997).  These are the two albums that first put the trio of Art Alexakis (guitar and vocals), Greg Eklund (drums) and Craig Montoya (bass guitar) on the map and made Everclear a major part of the alternative

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Everclear

Release Round-Up: Week of July 8

July 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

The Monkees The Complete Series

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! John Coltrane, The Atlantic Years in Mono (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino's new box set, available on both CD and LP, includes original mono mixes of Trane's Giant Steps; Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson); Ole Coltrane; Coltrane Plays The Blues and The Avant Garde (with Don Cherry) plus one disc of outtakes.  All of these remastered albums are housed in replica jackets and a 32-page

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Carly Simon, Charlie Parker, David Bowie, John Coltrane, Sid and Marty Krofft, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, The Rave-Ups

Keep Me Singing

July 8, 2016 By

Van Morrison Keep Me Singing

Van Morrison returns with his 36th studio album!  Keep Me Singing features 13 tracks - 12 originals including the instrumental "Caledonia Swing" (with Van on saxophone!) plus a cover of the blues standard "Share Your Love With Me."  For the track "Every Time I See A River," Morrison has collaborated with lyricist Don Black ("Born Free," "To Sir with Love").

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

It's All Happening: "Charlie Faye and The Fayettes" Captures The Girl Group Sound

July 6, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Charlie Faye and the Fayettes

Summer is at last here, and leave it to New York native and Austin music mainstay Charlie Faye to have provided us with one of the first must-have, window-down soundtracks for the season!  In shaping Charlie Faye and The Fayettes, her tribute to the girl-group sound, the singer-songwriter has clearly done her homework.  This brisk and breezily enjoyable listen places Faye's voice up front over sweet, honeyed group harmonies on eleven, new hook-filled tunes. Faye wrote or co-wrote every

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Charlie Faye and the Fayettes

The Complete Original Album Collection

July 6, 2016 By

Turtles Album Collection

The definitive Turtles box set is here!  The Complete Original Albums Collection presents all six albums released by The Turtles between 1965 and 1970, expanded with rare bonus material. Each of the group's first three albums -- It Ain't Me Babe, You Baby and Happy Together -- is presented in its original mono and stereo mixes, while each of the remaining three -- The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, Turtle Soup and Wooden Head -boast rare bonus tracks, including previously unreleased

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

All The Singles

July 6, 2016 By

Turtles All the Singles

The Turtles are back!  The two-CD, 48-track All the Singles collects the A and B sides of every original 1965-1970 Turtles 45, with the freshly-remastered tracks presented in the same mono or stereo mixes that were heard on the original singles. All the Singles additionally features several songs that were prepared for singles release but not issued at the time, and includes a deluxe booklet with track-by-track liner notes!

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Truer Faith: New Order to Update "Singles" Collection

July 6, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

New Order Singles

One of the best New Order compilations on the market is getting even better. Warner Music is reissuing the band's Singles in a remastered and updated version, to be released almost 11 years after its first release as a 2CD or 4LP set. The collection, which originally collected the band's A-sides from 1981 to 2005, adds one more track: "I'll Stay with You," from the 2013 collection Lost Sirens, which featured outtakes from 2005's Waiting for the Sirens' Call. (Lost Sirens also featured the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: New Order

Review: Chicago, "Quadio"

July 5, 2016 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

Chicago Quadio

Surround yourself with Chicago!  With the recent release of Rhino's immense - and immensely enjoyable - new box set Quadio, it's possible to enjoy the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-honored band's classic 1969-1976 albums with added dimension: that of 4.0-channel quadraphonic sound.  The nine Blu-ray Audio discs on Quadio (playable on all Blu-ray players) present every one of Chicago's studio albums from Chicago Transit Authority through Chicago X, plus IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits, in remastered

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Chicago

Back To The Nineties: Cherry Red Expands Suggs, Betty Boo To 2 CDs

July 5, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Betty Boo Grrr

A recent pair of offerings from Cherry Red Records turns the clock back to the 1990s! Suggs (real name: Graham McPherson) came to fame as the lead singer of ska band Madness before striking out on his own with the 1995 release The Lone Ranger.  The album, a No. 14 U.K. hit, has recently been reissued as a 2-CD set with a whopping 23 bonus tracks. The original 11-track album (included in full on Disc One of this release) was largely composed by Suggs with writer/Madness co-founder Mike

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Betty Boo, Madness, Suggs

Good Times [Expanded Mono Edition]

July 4, 2016 By

Sonny and Cher Good Times

The soundtrack to Sonny and Cher's 1967 film Good Times features new songs written by Sonny, as well as two new recordings of the duo's beloved No. 1 hit "I Got You Babe."  Varese's reissue of the original mono album adds two bonus singles: "Plastic Man" and the single edit of "It's The Little Things."

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks

Town + Country

July 4, 2016 By

The Rave Ups Town and Country

Omnivore offers a 30th anniversary expanded edition of The Rave-Ups' Town + Country.  The band may be best known for its appearance in the film Pretty in Pink, but this reissue proves there's plenty more to the group.  The reissue of this lost Americana classic produced by Stephen Barncard (Grateful Dead's American Beauty) features the original 10 songs, plus 11 previously unissued bonus tracks--including live radio performances recorded for Deirdre O'Donoghue's KCRW-FM program Snap and material

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Country, Pop, Rock

"The Rocketeer" Score Blasts Off from Intrada

July 1, 2016 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Rocketeer OST

One of comics' most underrated heroes--and one of the late James Horner's crowning score achievements--is back in flight. Intrada has reissued and expanded the score to the ambitious period superhero flick The Rocketeer. Based on the acclaimed comic by the late Dave Stevens, The Rocketeer is the story of Cliff Secord, a dashing pilot in pre-World War II California who unwittingly discovers a jetpack. He uses it to perform extraordinary and heroic deeds, but it isn't long until forces of good

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

Cash, Robbins, Jones, Arnold Feature On Ace's "More Country Hits"

July 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

More Country Hits

Ace Records has recently continued its Golden Age of American Popular Music Series with another volume dedicated to the sounds of country-and-western.  More Country Hits follows The Country Hits, released in 2008, and like that volume, presents a collection of country classics that crossed over to the pop side on the Billboard Hot 100.  Many familiar names from the first collection show up here, too, including Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash, Faron Young, Ray Price, George Jones, Skeeter Davis, Marty

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Carl Perkins, Eddy Arnold, George Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of July 1

July 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Delfonics 40 Classic Soul Sides

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  We've got the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music as well as plenty more that we know you won't want to miss! Eddy Arnold, Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Our newest release brings together two seminal, never-before-reissued albums by Eddy Arnold on one CD, both from 1970. Love and Guitars captured Arnold

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Betty Davis, Brook Benton, Burt Bacharach, Chet Atkins, Davy Jones, Eddy Arnold, Eric Clapton, Harry Nilsson, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Lee Hazlewood, Micky Dolenz, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Sea Level, Survivor, The Delfonics

These (Cowboy) Boots Are Made For Walkin'! Eddy Arnold, Lee Hazlewood, Chet Atkins Sessions OUT TOMORROW!

June 30, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Eddy Arnold Each Road I Take

Richard Edward Arnold - better known as Eddy Arnold - proved throughout an eight-decade career that he could sing anything.  The countrypolitan crooner scored 147 U.S. chart hits between 1945 and 2008, sold over 85 million records, and earned inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame and The Grand Ole Opry.  Yet, in 1970, the superstar known as "The Tennessee Plowboy" found himself at a crossroads.  That year, he released two remarkable albums ending one chapter in his career and beginning

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Chet Atkins, Eddy Arnold, Lee Hazlewood

Masterworks Announces Summer Slate with Kroffts' "Poupees," "Alice" and "Getting My Act Together"

June 30, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Les Poupees de Paris

Masterworks Broadway has announced a new slate of three titles in the Sony imprint's ongoing CD-R/DD initiative restoring classic cast recordings to print.  This trio hails from the RCA Victor and Columbia catalogues, with two titles new to the digital domain. Sid and Marty Krofft are beloved creators of a pantheon of children's television classics including H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, the latter of which has recently been revived as a brand-new program

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Bing Crosby, Gretchen Cryer, Jimmy Van Heusen, Liberace, Moose Charlap, Nancy Ford, Pearl Bailey, Sammy Cahn, Sid and Marty Krofft

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