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
In Memoriam: Cilla Black (1943-2015)
We're deeply saddened at the news of the passing of Cilla Black, 72. Throughout the course of a recording career spanning five decades, the Liverpool-born artist lent her distinctive sound and big voice to songs by The Beatles ("Love of the Loved," "It's for You," Step Inside Love"), Burt Bacharach and Hal David ("Alfie," "Anyone Who Had a Heart"), Randy Newman ("I've Been Wrong Before") and the greatest songwriters of her era. Also beloved in the United Kingdom as a television presenter on
Release Round-Up: Week of July 31
Led Zeppelin, Presence / In Through the Out Door / Coda [Various Editions] (Swan Song/Atlantic) Presence: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. In Through the Out Door: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album
Together In Perfect Harmony: Paul McCartney's "Tug of War" and "Pipes Of Peace" Join Archive Collection
At last, we can say, say, say it's true: the next two volumes of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection are on their way for October 2 release in a variety of formats. Macca's second and third albums of the 1980s, the platinum sellers Tug of War and Pipes of Peace, will arrive from Concord Records and MPL with the expected array of bonus material, highlighted by a complete 2015 remix of Tug of War. 1982's Tug of War marked McCartney's first album following the breakup of Wings. It followed
Celebration Day: Final Led Zeppelin Reissues Arrive TOMORROW, July 31!
REMINDER! Tomorrow, July 31, marks one month of Friday release days, and it's perhaps the most momentous yet - because tomorrow is when Led Zeppelin will conclude its much-heralded deluxe edition series with a plethora of reissues for its three final studio albums: Presence, In Through the Out Door and Coda. As with the previous deluxe editions, Presence, In Through The Out Door, and Coda have been newly remastered by Jimmy Page and are accompanied by companion audio
Cherry Red's él Label Revisits John Wayne Westerns, Brazil's Elis Regina
Cherry Red's él label continues to trawl through the annals of musical nostalgia for a recent pair of releases spotlighting a legendary team of actor and director, and a Brazilian music queen. John Ford/John Wayne: Western Classics celebrates the partnership between director Ford and star Wayne that survived, personally and professionally, for 50 years. Ford was already an established, successful director when he first met USC student Marion Morrison, at the time working a summer job at 20th
Omnivore's Got The Knack! Three Reissues, Reviewed
"Pop is dead, bring a shovel!" So proclaimed The Knack in the acerbic lyric to the opening track of 1998's "comeback" album Zoom. Of course, the song proved otherwise, as the years between 1991's Serious Fun and Zoom had been kind to the band, a.k.a. Doug Fieger (lead vocals/rhythm guitar), Prescott Niles (bass) and Berton Averre (lead guitar/keyboards/vocals). Omnivore Recordings has recently reissued Zoom and its follow-up, Normal as the Next Guy, along with 2001's Live from
Release Round-Up: Week of July 24
Today's Release Round-Up features an array of high-resolution music, plus box sets, vintage reissues, live albums and more! Roger Waters, Amused to Death (Remixed Editions) (Columbia/Legacy) Roger Waters revisits his 1992 album Amused to Death, featuring contributions from Don Henley, Rita Coolidge, P.P. Arnold, Andy Fairweather Low and Michael Kamen, in a variety of formats featuring new stereo and 5.1 surround mixes. Read our full coverage here. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon
Return to "Battersea Power Station": Esoteric Reissues Debut of Junior's Eyes, Onetime Bowie Backing Band
Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has recently unearthed another rock cult classic. Battersea Power Station, from Junior's Eyes, was produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T Rex) and appeared in June 1969 on EMI's Regal Zonophone label. Alas, it was to be the band's only original album release. Esoteric has dusted off Battersea Power Station and reinvigorated the album as a 2-CD set with a bonus disc of singles, demos and sessions, some previously unreleased. Junior's Eyes was led
Ooh La La! Rhino Boxes Up Expanded Editions Of Faces Albums
It's been a long wait, but expanded editions of Faces' four studio albums are finally almost here. On August 28, Rhino Records will release You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975), a 5-CD box set containing expanded editions of all four LPs by the legendary (and legendarily, happily shambolic) rock-and-roll lineup of Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan, plus a bonus disc. Expanded versions of the small but seminal Faces catalogue were first mooted
Let's Hang On! Real Gone Has Four Seasons, Texas Tornados, More in September
We've already told you about the two September releases from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music - Wilson Pickett's The Complete RCA Studio Recordings and an expanded edition of Ricci Martin's all-star California rock classic Beached - but we know that you're going to be just as excited about the entire action-packed Real Gone slate! For starters, it's a line-up that's always in season - with new deluxe mono mini-sleeve editions of The 4 Seasons' first two albums for the first time ever
Catch a Wave! Second Disc Records Expands Ricci Martin's All-Star "Beached" Featuring Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Chicago Horns and More
What if key members of The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, and Wings had teamed up to create one of the greatest California rock albums you've never heard? Well, they actually did! And on September 11, Second Disc Records, in association with Real Gone Music, will be bringing it to CD in the U.S. for the very first time in a newly-remastered and expanded edition! Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and director Ricci Martin, the sixth child of legendary "King of Cool" Dean Martin
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Second Disc Records Presents Complete Wilson Pickett On RCA
You don't have to wait for the midnight hour - Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, is ready now to announce its latest release! We're thrilled to welcome to our label one of the true legends of rhythm and blues, The "Wicked" Wilson Pickett, with the world premiere CD release of Mr. Magic Man: The Complete RCA Studio Recordings. This new 2-CD set is due in stores on September 4. Between 1964 and 1972, Pickett established himself as one of the greatest soul men of all
Review: "The Sound of Music: Original Soundtrack Recording" on SACD
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
Release Round-Up: Week of July 17
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring classic rock, soul and jazz box sets and more! Sly and the Family Stone, Live at the Fillmore East: October 4th and 5th, 1968 (Epic/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) 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
Happy in the Morning: Sony Masterworks Reissues Lauren Bacall, Mickey Rooney Musicals and More
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
Satisfy Your Soul: RPM Collects Rare Rock and Soul from Larry's Rebels and Ronnie Jones
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
Bookends: Simon and Garfunkel Reissue "The Concert in Central Park" On CD/DVD, Collect Studio Albums on Vinyl
Legacy Recordings is seeing that the only sound isn't silence with the release this summer of two new projects from Simon and Garfunkel. In less than a month, on August 7, the label will issue Simon & Garfunkel - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection, a six-album, newly-remastered set featuring each one of the duo's studio albums plus Greatest Hits, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl. The box will be joined by a new, remastered CD/DVD reissue of The Concert in Central Park, as
Takin' It To the Streets: Rhino Announces 10-CD Doobie Brothers Box Set Collecting 1971-1983 Albums
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
Give My Regards to Broadway: Sony Masterworks Seeks Votes on Vinyl Reissues
Are you a vinyl enthusiast? Do you enjoy the music of Broadway? If so, then you might be interested in the poll being conducted right now by Sony Masterworks' Broadway division. The label has just announced that it's seeking suggestions for Broadway cast album to reissue on vinyl. By going to this link at Masterworks' website, you can vote on which titles you would like to see. The 14 titles on which you currently can vote encompass musicals by some of Broadway's biggest names including
Release Round-Up: Week of July 10
Welcome to today's Release Round-Up for the first international Friday release date! Like you, we're still adjusting to the switch from Monday in the U.K./Tuesday in the U.S. to a worldwide Friday date. Please sound off in the comments below on whether you would like to see us run this longtime feature each Friday, or earlier in the week (so that you may plan ahead for Release Day)! The Hollies, Changin' Times: The Complete Hollies, January '69 - March '73 (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. /
Review: Ronny and the Daytonas, "The Complete Recordings"
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
Making Their Mind Up: Cherry Pop Expands Bucks Fizz's Four RCA Albums
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
Get On Up, Get On Down: Roy Ayers' Jazz, Funk and Disco Revisited On "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
Whiter Shades: Esoteric Kicks Off Deluxe Reissue Campaign For 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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