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Release Round-Up: Week of December 8

December 8, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Johnny Mathis Voice of Romance Cover Art

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Debby Boone, You Light Up My Life: 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Finally, the platinum LP containing the biggest hit of the 1970s arrives on CD!  Real Gone's new edition expands Debby Boone's original You Light Up My Life album by a whopping thirteen tracks, tracing Debby's career back to her earliest recordings with her sisters as The Boone Girls.  You'll hear their effervescent

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbra Streisand, Bert Berns, Bing Crosby, Chip Taylor, Debby Boone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Henry Mancini, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Webb, John Fogerty, Johnny Mathis, Julie Andrews, The Searchers, William Tabbert

Sleepless in Seattle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

December 1, 2017 By

Sleepless in Seattle Vinyl

The soundtrack to Nora Ephron's beloved 1993 romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle returns on vinyl from Real Gone Music.  The score was composed by Marc Shaiman, and the soundtrack album featured classic standards from artists such as Louis Armstrong, Nat "King" Cole, Gene Autry, and Jimmy Durante.  Also on the album were standards performed by contemporary artists like Carly Simon, Dr. John, Joe Cocker, Harry Connick, Jr. and the pair of Celine Dion and Clive Griffin.  Dion and Griffin's

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks

Watcha Gonna Do: Real Gone to Release "Papa" Denny Doherty's Complete Solo Recordings for ABC/Dunhill, Including Unreleased Steely Dan Songs

December 1, 2017 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Denny Doherty Of All The Things

Back in January 2016, Real Gone collected the complete singles of The Mamas & The Papas onto one 2-CD collection to celebrate the group's 50th anniversary.  Two years later, on January 12, 2018, the label is turning its attention to a solo member of the band by releasing Of All the Things: The Complete ABC/Dunhill Masters by Denny Doherty, featuring Doherty's 1971 album Watcha Gonna Do together with other assorted tracks (including four unreleased) and including liner notes written by our

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Denny Doherty, Steely Dan, The Mamas and The Papas

Release Round-Up: Week of December 1

December 1, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rolling Stones On Air

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the Sky: 35th Anniversary Edition (Arista/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The eye in the sky is still looking at you...Legacy Recordings has a 35th anniversary box set celebrating The Alan Parsons Project's 1982 best-seller Eye in the Sky.  The album, which yielded the APP's biggest hit single with its title track as well as the classic instrumental "Sirius," will be enhanced for this lavish

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Big Country, Ella Fitzgerald, John Williams, Minnie Riperton, Neil Young, Rush, Sex Pistols, The Alan Parsons Project, The Rolling Stones, U2, Van Morrison, Wilco

In Memoriam: Jim Nabors (1930-2017)

November 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Jim Nabors Best Photo

"Did you hear that voice, Andy?  Did you hear that beautiful instrument out there?," choir director John Masters (Olan Soule) asked Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) on the February 24, 1964 episode of The Andy Griffith Show.  Masters had just heard Gomer Pyle, the lovably sweet-natured, bumbling gas station attendant portrayed by Jim Nabors with a thick southern drawl, break out in song.  Singing along to the traditional Neapolitan melody "Santa Lucia" as he changed a tire on the street

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Categories: News Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Jim Nabors

Who Ya Gonna Call? Big Break Anthologizes Best of Ray Parker, Jr. and Raydio

November 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Ray Parker Jr For Those Who Like to Groove

It would be a mighty task to distill the career of Ray Parker, Jr. - singer, songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger, and more - into one collection, but Big Break Records has boldly done just that with the enticing anthology entitled For Those Who Like to Groove: The Essential Ray Parker, Jr. and Raydio.  The Cherry Red imprint has collected 32 hits and rarities on 2 CDs from the period of 1978-1987, proving there's a whole lot more to the artist than just his

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Ray Parker Jr., Raydio

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Eagles, "Hotel California" [3CD/1BD Box Set]

November 29, 2017 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

hotel california

Everything about Hotel California, the late-1976 album by Eagles, was larger than life - beginning with the epic title track.  Upon its release, its stature grew as mighty as the music within its grooves.  It yielded two U.S. No. 1 singles, was certified platinum within a week of release, and sold over 17 million copies in the U.S. alone as of 2013 - a number that grew to over 32 million worldwide, and counting.  Over forty years after its initial release, the most famous Eagles album has

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Eagles

We Are Not Alone: La-La Land's Massive Black Friday Slate Includes Williams, Horner, More

November 28, 2017 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Die Another Day LLL OST

While all of the Thanksgiving and Black Friday excitement was going on last week, La-La Land announced five exciting new limited-edition soundtrack reissues which are going to be available today at 12 pm PST on the label's website. First up, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is the soundtrack to Richard Fleischer's 1967 musical Doctor Dolittle.  The film, based upon the character created by the Hugh Lofting in 1920, starred Rex Harrison as Doctor Dolittle, Samantha Eggar as Emma

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: David Arnold, David Shire, James Horner, John Williams, Leslie Bricusse, Lionel Newman

Stop, Listen, Look & Think: Exposé's Second Album Expanded by Cherry Pop

November 28, 2017 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Expose What You Dont Know

Earlier this year, Cherry Red imprint Cherry Pop issued a greatly expanded edition of the 1989 sophomore album by the vocal freestyle group Exposé, following from their 2015 2-CD expanded edition of the group's first album.  The 11-track What You Don't Know has been augmented by 34 bonus tracks on this impressively exhaustive 3-CD set. The group was the brainchild of Miami-based DJ, producer and songwriter Lewis Martineé.  In 1984, he decided to form a dance-based vocal group and hired three

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Exposé

A.M. [Expanded Edition]

November 26, 2017 By

Wilco AM 1

Wilco revisits its 1995 debut album in an expanded edition with eight previously unreleased bonus tracks, including "When You Find Trouble," the last track recorded by Jeff Tweedy's previous band, Uncle Tupelo.

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

New Tricks: 60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

November 26, 2017 By

Bing Crosby New Tricks

1957's New Tricks, originally released on Decca, featured Bing Crosby accompanied by Buddy Cole and His Trio.  The original 12-song program featured a host of familiar standards including "You're Driving Me Crazy," "Georgia on My Mind," "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," and "When I Take My Sugar to Tea."  For this reissue, an additional twelve tracks have been added, nine of which are previously unreleased.  Among the bonus cuts are renditions of film classics "Gigi" and "Tammy," and

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

High Tor: Original Television Cast

November 25, 2017 By

High Tor OCR

Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, and Everett Sloane starred in the 1955 made-for-television musical fantasy High Tor, from songwriters Arthur Schwartz and Maxwell Anderson, based on Anderson's 1936 play of the same name. Decca's original "songs and story" album comes to CD for the first time from Stage Door, along with two bonus tracks of the score's "When You're in Love," performed by The Lancers and The Leroy Holmes Orchestra.  Limited to 500 units.

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings

Release Round-Up: Week of November 24

November 24, 2017 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Phil Collins box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! "Weird Al" Yankovic, Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of "Weird Al" Yankovic (Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The world's premier parodist celebrates his discography with a box set unlike any other: all 14 of his original albums, newly remastered; Medium Rarities, a bonus album of rare and unreleased material; and a 100+ page book of rare photos and memorabilia--all packaged

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Bananarama, Bonnie Tyler, Eagles, Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Presley, INXS, Phil Collins, Ramones, The Fall, The Scorpions, Wilson Pickett, XTC, Yes

Star Wars: A New Hope [Vinyl Box Set]

November 23, 2017 By

Star Wars Hologram Box

Disney's first catalogue release from the Star Wars universe is here - a vinyl box set dedicated to John Williams' original soundtrack to the original 1977 classic.  The 3-LP, 180-gram vinyl set features a 48-page hardcover book with essays by Jeff Bond and Jeff Eldridge, and holograms hand-etched by Tristan Duke of Infinity Light Science, including a 3D Death Star on Disc 1.  Disc 2 features the Star Wars 40th Anniversary logo etched into the vinyl.

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks

Live At Lafayette's Music Room

November 23, 2017 By

Big Star Live At Lafayettes

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) Omnivore revisits a vintage Big Star gig as a first-time standalone CD release.  The set showcases the legendary power pop band kicking off 1973 at the acclaimed Memphis venue. Co-founder Chris Bell had recently departed the group, leaving singer/guitarist Alex Chilton, bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens to continue as a trio. While the group would not yet commit to

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Ella at Zardi's

November 23, 2017 By

Ella At Zardis

Two previously unreleased live sets from Ella Fitzgerald, recorded at Zardi's Jazzland in Hollywood on February 2, 1956, arrive on CD featuring both familiar classics and songs she never recorded in the studio!

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Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

Fleetwood Mac [Various Formats]

November 23, 2017 By

Fleetwood Mac packshot

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) 3CD/DVD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) The 1975 debut album by the Fleetwood Mac line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood arrives in a variety of deluxe formats, including a 3CD/DVD/LP box with the remastered album on CD and vinyl, bonus singles, previously unreleased studio outtakes and a live concert recording,

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

In Memoriam: David Cassidy (1950-2017)

November 22, 2017 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

DavidCassidy2

Singer, actor and teen idol David Cassidy passed away yesterday at the age of 67. It seems so strange that the eternally youthful presence behind one of the most enduring pop hits of the '70s, The Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You," would not be with us--never mind having recently retired from the road to care for himself following a diagnosis of the dementia that affected his mother and grandfather. In fact, it was only just over a year ago that Cassidy took the stage at the Count Basie

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Categories: News Genre: Pop Tags: David Cassidy, The Partridge Family

Release Round-Up: Week of November 17

November 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

News of the World 40 front

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Queen, News of the World: 40th Anniversary Edition (UMC (U.K.) / Hollywood (U.S.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) Queen's sixth album, 1977's News of the World, is being generously expanded for its 40th anniversary in a new 3CD/1DVD/1LP box set.  The original album is presented on CD and LP.  The first bonus CD, the entirely unreleased Raw Sessions, presents an alternate version of the original album from demos, outtakes and live

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Bob Seger, Carpenters, Chuck Berry, Dan Fogelberg, Diana Ross, Garth Brooks, Green Day, Jimmy Buffett, John Fogerty, Mavis Staples, Micky Dolenz, Mike Love, Paul McCartney, Queen, The Bee Gees, The Doors, The Moody Blues, The Sweet, Whitney Houston

World Turning: Fleetwood Mac To Expand Self-Titled 1975 Album

November 16, 2017 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Fleetwood Mac packshot

Over the last few years, Fleetwood Mac and Warner Music have worked together to expand their most "classic rock" era--the albums recorded with the line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood between 1975 and 1987. After deluxe editions of Rumours, Tusk, Mirage and Tango In The Night, the group finally unites the chain with a new expansion of their self-titled 1975 album, the first to feature this line-up, due in January 2018. Before the album

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks

Big Break Big Round-Up: Spotlight on Spyder Turner, Randy Crawford and Enchantment

November 16, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Enchantment Sunshine Anthology

Today, we're taking a look at three recent releases from Big Break Records that you just might have missed! Spyder Turner may be best remembered today for a novelty single.  His 1967 reworking of Ben E. King's classic "Stand by Me" found him channeling his inner Rich Little or Sammy Davis, Jr. to impersonate such famous voices as James Brown, Sam Cooke, and Smokey Robinson.  Love it or loathe it, Turner's "Stand by Me" made it all the way to No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.  But the West

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Enchantment, Randy Crawford, Spyder Turner

Shine a Little Light: Jeff Lynne's ELO's "Wembley or Bust" Arrives In November

November 15, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

ELO Wembley or Bust

Jeff Lynne's ELO packed London's enormous Wembley Stadium to the rafters this past June with a greatest-hits set featuring many of the band's most classic songs including "Mr. Blue Sky," "Evil Woman," and "All Over the World."  Now, that gig is getting a wide release this Friday, November 17.  Wembley or Bust will arrive on that date from Columbia Records in a variety of formats: 2CD/1DVD; 2CD/1BD; 2 CD; and 3LP. Recorded on June 24, the Wembley concert has been described by recent Rock and

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

I'm a Believer: 7a Brings Micky Dolenz Concert with Orchestra to CD and Vinyl

November 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Micky Dolenz Out of Nowhere

Micky Dolenz always attracts a crowd whenever he's performing one of his hits-packed shows.  Whether Dolenz is playing a large theatre or an intimate nightclub, the consummate entertainer brings the goods.  Now, the Monkees specialists at 7a Records are unveiling a particularly exciting treat: a brand-new live album from Micky, and his first to be recorded with an orchestra.  Micky Dolenz & The American Metropole Orchestra: Out of Nowhere will hit stores on November 17 in the U.K. (and one

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

Every Time I Dream: Morello Releases More Twofers from Tammy Wynette

November 14, 2017 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Tammy Wynette You and Me Two Fer

For the past couple of years, Cherry Red imprint Morello Records has been releasing twofers from Tammy Wynette's Epic Records catalog ranging from the 1960s to the 1980s.  We've got two more to tell you about now:  Another Lonely Song/Woman to Woman and You and Me/Let's Get Together.  These four albums all hail from the mid-1970s and were produced by Wynette's longtime collaborator Billy Sherrill.  They also chronicle the period before and after her divorce from fellow country superstar George

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Tammy Wynette

Soundtrack Watch: Varese Preps Limited Editions For Goldsmith, Jarre, Stephen King Films

November 13, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stephen King Varese

There's been a flurry of great catalogue activity from our friends at soundtrack label Varese Sarabande! A trio of limited editions, an exciting wide reissue of two soundtracks to a popular film series, and a quirky, cool box set tied to a popular novelist have all been announced by the label in the last few weeks. Varese recently put the latest titles in their long running limited edition CD Club on sale, right around Halloween--so it's fitting that the first is a horror score from the late,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: James Newton Howard, Jerry Goldsmith, Jerry Reed, Maurice Jarre, Tangerine Dream

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