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All Together Now: Springsteen, Hendrix, Nilsson, Mathis, Cash Headline Legacy's Record Store Day Slate

March 21, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

nilsson schmilsson

Record Store Day is turning 10 years old on Saturday, April 22, and Legacy Recordings isn't one to miss out on the fun!  The Legacy team has unveiled more than 20 exclusive releases on 7- and 12-inch vinyl that will be available at your local independent record retailer.  Many of the label's heaviest hitters and longtime favorites are represented here - including Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Harry Nilsson, Johnny Mathis, Ben Folds, Santana, and The Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson.  Legacy is also

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ben Folds, Bruce Springsteen, Dennis Wilson, Harry Nilsson, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Johnny Mathis, Pink Floyd, Santana, Toto

Hitting The Road: Kritzerland Offers World Premiere of Mancini's Original "Two for the Road"

March 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Two for the Road OST

With its most recent release, the Kritzerland label has one for the books...Two for the Road.  The soundtrack specialists are now accepting pre-orders for the world premiere release of Henry Mancini's original score as heard in the 1967 film classic.  As Mancini fans and collectors know, it was the composer's practice to re-record his scores for pop-friendly (and indeed, quite popular) LPs on the RCA Victor label.  This release from Kritzerland marks the first appearance anywhere outside of the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Henry Mancini

Quiet Nights: 50th Anniversary Reissue of "Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim" Set for April

February 24, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim

Fifty years ago, Frank Sinatra released one of his finest albums - and indeed, one of the finest albums of all time.  Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim arrived in late March 1967 on the Reprise label, marking the first collaboration between America's foremost vocalist and Brazil's foremost composer.  On April 7, UMe and Frank Sinatra Enterprises will reissue the original album for its 50th anniversary in a new edition featuring two previously unreleased bonus tracks. For the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Claus Ogerman, Frank Sinatra

Release Round-Up: Week of February 17

February 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Standells Dirty Water

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Evanescence, The Ultimate Collection (Concord Bicycle) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The long-delayed release ofThe Ultimate Collection features, on six vinyl albums, Evanescence's full studio discography on 180-gram vinyl. In addition to Fallen, The Open Door (a double LP) and Evanescence, the box features the first wide release of Origin, a 2000 self-released demo collection; plus Lost Whispers, a rarities disc featuring four

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Rock Tags: Alison Krauss, Evanescence, The Standells

Interstellar Overdrive: Six Pink Floyd Box Sets From "The Early Years" Coming In March

February 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Pink Floyd Cambridge Station

Late in 2016, Pink Floyd Records and Sony Music Entertainment unveiled a lavish box set that became one of the year's most acclaimed.  Pink Floyd: The Early Years 1965-1972 presented a comprehensive overview of the legendary band's pre-Dark Side of the Moon period via seven book-style CD/DVD/Blu-ray packages, tracing the Floyd's initial journey from the group's founding in 1965 through singles, soundtracks, and seven albums. (You can read all about that set right here.)  Now, six of those

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

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

Release Round-Up: Week of January 20

January 20, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Grateful Dead, The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Rhino) 2-CD (Original Album and Bonus Disc): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Picture Disc (Original Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition presents the original 1967 album on Disc 1 and an unreleased concert from July 29, 1966 in Vancouver, Canada on Disc 2.  The first disc has been remastered from the original tapes by David

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: George Benson, Grateful Dead, Muhammad Ali, Randy Newman, Various Artists

Go Down The Line: 30th Anniversary of Roy Orbison's "Black and White Night" Celebrated On Re-Edited Reissue

January 13, 2017 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Roy Orbison Black and White Night 30

Over the past several years, Roy's Boys, the company founded by Roy Orbison's sons to administer his catalogue, have put together several reissue projects celebrating the immense legacy of the late artist.  These have included a comprehensive box set of his years on the MGM label for Universal and a one-disc career-spanning greatest hits from Legacy Recordings.  They are teaming up with Legacy again to celebrate one of Orbison's landmark performances with Black &White Night 30, due to be

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Roy Orbison, Tom Waits

The Big D: Guitar Hero Dennis Coffey's Detroit Soul Released On "Hot Coffey In The D"

January 13, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Dennis Coffey Hot Coffey

Dennis Coffey's credits are too numerous to mention.  As a session guitarist, he brought a rock edge to numerous Motown hits including The Temptations' psychedelic soul favorites like "Cloud Nine" and "Ball of Confusion." As a producer, he helmed Gallery's soft-pop hit "Nice to Be with You" and "Sugar Man" Sixto Rodriguez's acclaimed debut album.  As a solo artist, he charted with the instrumental "Scorpio," and crafted guitar-driven disco soul at Westbound Records.  Now, the Resonance Records

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Dennis Coffey

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Frank Sinatra, "World on a String"

December 5, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Frank Sinatra World on a String 1

Leave it to Noel Coward to sum it all up.  In his introduction to Frank Sinatra's June 14, 1958 performance at the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, the famous British playwright-actor-songwriter-raconteur observed of his American friend's on-screen performances, "I've never yet known him to strike a false note."  As Coward undoubtedly knew, the same was true of Sinatra's musical recordings, sung with the emotional honesty and unvarnished directness of a great actor and communicator.  From his

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra

Yes, Sir-ee! Kritzerland to Release "The Gang's All Here" Score Featuring Benny Goodman

December 5, 2016 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

The Gangs All Here

By 1943, Busby Berkeley was a Hollywood veteran who had choreographed the dance sequences that would make him famous for decades.  He had also directed several classic films such as the Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney vehicles Babes In Arms and Strike Up The Band.  However, he had never directed a full motion picture in color, where his choreographed tableaux could be more vividly realized.  That all changed with The Gang's All Here.  This famous musical has never had its soundtrack officially

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Benny Goodman, Carmen Miranda

The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

November 22, 2016 By

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead

2-CD (Original Album and Bonus Disc): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Picture Disc (Original Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition presents the original 1967 album on Disc 1 and an unreleased concert from July 29, 1966 in Vancouver, Canada on Disc 2.  The first disc has been remastered from the original tapes by David Glasser and restored via Plangent Processes (a tape transfer technique which has been used on other Dead projects).  The second

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Start Down The Golden Road: Rhino Reissues Grateful Dead's Debut to Launch 50th Anniversary Campaign

November 18, 2016 By Randy Fairman 5 Comments

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead

2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Grateful Dead and there were many projects to celebrate the occasion:  concerts, CD anthologies and boxsets, documentaries, DVDs/Blu-rays, and more.  But the Dead did not release their first studio album until 1967 and Rhino is celebrating that anniversary with a new 2-disc version of The Grateful Dead on January 20, 2017.  And Rhino promises that this release is just the start of a massive new reissue campaign focused on the band. The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

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

Kritzerland Solves The Swingin' Riddle with Nelson's "Paris When It Sizzles"

October 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Paris When It Sizzles OST

Kritzerland is taking listeners to the City of Light with a new 2-CD soundtrack release composed by the legendary Nelson Riddle.  The label is accepting pre-orders now for the world premiere complete release of Riddle's score to Paris When It Sizzles, the 1964 Paramount romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Tony Curtis and Noel Coward. A send-up of moviemaking with a glamorous backdrop, Paris starred Holden as a playboy screenwriter and his real-life old flame Hepburn as

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Meat Light: The Uncle Meat Project/Object

October 28, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Meat Light

Zappa Records continues its series of Project/Object titles presenting rare and unreleased material revolving around one classic Frank Zappa album - in this case, Uncle Meat.  Included is the original 1969 vinyl mix (restored, remastered and available digitally for the first time), an original sequence that includes unique source material, and bonus tracks largely compiled from the recording sessions at Apostolic Studios in NYC between 1967 and 1968.

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Tales From Topographic Oceans [Various Editions]

September 27, 2016 By

Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans

Panegyric continues its multi-format Yes reissue series with 1973's Tales from Topographic Oceans in 3-CD/1-BD and 2-CD/2-DVD editions. 3-CD/1-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD/2-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The 2-CD/2-DVD edition includes, on CD, a completely new stereo mix by Wilson plus an alternate extended "Dance of the Dawn" newly mixed from multi-track by Wilson and five single edits.  The region-free DVDs have: 5.1 MLP Lossless and DTS Surround Sound (24bit/96khz) new

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, DVD-Audio Genre: Classic Rock

Review: Fleetwood Mac, "Mirage: Deluxe Edition"

September 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Mirage

When Fleetwood Mac entered the Château d'Hérouville studio outside Paris at the dawn of the 1980s, the band had one goal in mind: to create a commercial pop success in the mold of their record-breaking Rumours.  Not everyone in the quintet was sold on this goal, necessarily, especially after the quantum leap forward from Rumours into the beautiful madness that was Tusk.  But while Tusk sold four million copies, it couldn't help but be viewed as a disappointment after the world domination of its

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Fleetwood Mac

Daybreak For Dolenz: Micky's "MGM Singles" Expanded For CD Premiere

September 21, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Micky Dolenz MGM

Last July, the 7a Records label debuted with a limited edition vinyl release of Micky Dolenz's The MGM Singles Collection.  Since that auspicious release, the all-things-Monkees label founded by Iain Lee and Glenn Gretlund has enriched Micky, Peter, Michael and Davy's discography with numerous other releases on both vinyl and compact disc.  On October 7, the label will be going full circle with the first-time CD release of The MGM Singles Collection in a lavishly expanded edition featuring the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Christian Nesmith, Circe Link, Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

WIN! WIN! WIN! Ready To Take A Chance: Varese Reissues Charles Fox Soundtrack, Solo LP

September 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Foul Play OST

If, by chance, you don't know the name of Charles Fox, you undoubtedly know his songbook: "Ready to Take a Chance Again."  "Killing Me Softly with His Song."  "I Got a Name."  The themes to The Love Boat, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Love American Style, The Bugaloos, Angie, Wonder Woman, and more.   Varese Vintage has recently celebrated the Emmy and Grammy-winning composer's enormous legacy with two reissues.  The soundtrack to Foul Play returns to CD (having been previously issued as a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Barry Manilow, Charles Fox

SoulMusic Records Round-Up: Label Reissues Isaac Hayes, Curtis Hairston, Mass Production

September 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Isaac Hayes Love Attack

A quartet of recent releases from SoulMusic Records in association with Cherry Red turn the spotlight onto overlooked classics of 1980s R&B. Isaac Hayes' Love Attack (1988) put the hot buttered soul man squarely into Big '80s territory with thumping drum machines and gleaming synthesizers.  It was the Stax legend's second album for Columbia Records and built on the sound of his label debut U-Turn on which he'd played almost every instrument on the record.  For Love Attack, he was joined

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Curtis Hairston, Isaac Hayes, Mass Production

The Isley Brothers' "Groove with You...Live!" Hits Stores TOMORROW From Second Disc Records!

September 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Isley Brothers Groove with You Live

Tomorrow, September 2, is the date for the latest - and funkiest! - release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!  Groove with You...Live! was the great "lost" Isley Brothers album, a sizzling slab of live-in-the-studio soul...but it's lost no more! In 1980, Ronald, Rudolph, O'Kelly, Ernie and Marvin Isley and Chris Jasper were riding high with their singular, electrifying fusion of rock, funk and soul.  After having transformed in 1973 from a three-man vocal group to a self-contained

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: The Isley Brothers

Wild Music: Lost Erroll Garner Recordings Unearthed For September Release

August 10, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Erroll Garner Ready Take One

Following the success of last year's Complete Concert by the Sea, Legacy Recordings has another special release planned for fans of late jazz legend Erroll Garner.  On September 30, the label will release Garner's Ready Take One, presenting fourteen previously unreleased selections by Garner released between 1967 and 1971.  This is the first album of all-new Garner material to be released in almost 25 years. The performances on Ready Take One have been culled from seven sessions held in 1967,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Erroll Garner

Kritzerland Takes Flight With "The Red Balloon" World Premiere Release

August 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

The Red Balloon

For its latest release, the Kritzerland label has turned to a classic film in which music is very nearly a central character.  Though it won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, writer-director Albert Lamorisse's 1956 The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge) has very little dialogue.  Many scenes of its whimsical story play only with music, and others just with natural sound.  Now, the movie's bewitching score by Maurice Le Roux is coming to disc for the very first time in a two-for-one

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Jean Prodromidès, Maurice Le Roux

Let There Be More Light: Pink Floyd Announces Massive Box Set Tracing Band's Early Years

July 28, 2016 By Randy Fairman 10 Comments

Pink Floyd Creation

Back in May we told you about Pink Floyd's vinyl reissue campaign for this year.  At the time, there was no word on any further CD reissues.  But all that changed this morning when word came out about what may be the most expansive Pink Floyd project yet:  the 27-disc The Early Years 1965-1972.  Due to be released on November 11 from Pink Floyd Records/Sony, the set contains 6 CD/DVD or Blu-ray book-style packages (which will be released separately) and a 7th "Extra" CD/DVD or Blu-ray package

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

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