Stage Door Records follows up its popular Lost West End with a second volume of rare songs from forgotten London musicals. This time out, the 22-track collection features shows from 1970 to 2008: 'Isabel's A Jezebel' (1970), 'Bordello' (1974), 'Jack The Ripper' (1974), 'Maggie' (1977), 'Dean' (1977), 'Fire Angel' (1977), 'After Shave' (1977), 'Drake's Dream' (1977) 'Flowers For Algernon' (1979), 'Wild Wild Women' (1982), 'Blondel' (1984), 'The Importance' (1984), 'Winnie' (1988), 'Moby Dick'
Full Sail (Quadraphonic Hybrid SACD)
Loggins and Messina's 1973 Columbia album featuring "My Music" and "Watching the River Run" makes its multichannel SACD debut. Full Sail will play in stereo on all CD players but will play in 4.0 (quad) on SACD players equipped with a multichannel system.
Go For Your Guns: Expanded Edition
1977's Go For Your Guns, the fifth album by the 3+3 line-up of The Isley Brothers, introduced the chart-topping single "The Pride" as well as the hits "Livin' in the Life" and "Voyage to Atlantis." This No. 1 R&B/No. 6 Pop classic is reissued by Iconoclassic in an expanded edition featuring Mark Wilder's remastering, new liner notes, and three bonus tracks previously released on The Isleys' 2015 box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters: "The Pride (Disco Mix)," "Voyage to Atlantis
Greatest Hits (Stereo Hybrid SACD)
Blood Sweat & Tears' original 1972 Greatest Hits collection, featuring 11 songs including "You've Made Me So Very Happy," "Spinning Wheel," "And When I Die," "I Can't Quit Her," "Lucretia MacEvil" and more, arrives on hybrid stereo SACD from Audio Fidelity. This disc from the jazz-rock pioneers can be played on any CD player but will play in high-resolution on SACD players.
Ring of Changes
Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings premieres the long-lost 1972 A&M album recorded by "Dream Weaver" Gary Wright and his band Wonderwheel, featuring guitarist-singer Mick Jones, later of Foreigner, as well as bassist Tom Duffey and drummer Bryson Graham. George Harrison guest stars on this prime slice of classic rock recorded at Apple Studios on Savile Row in London! This release also includes three bonus tracks - two related singles and one outtake!
Dream Weaving: Gary Wright's Lost "Ring of Changes" Premieres, Features George Harrison and Mick Jones
In a career spanning seven decades, there's little Gary Wright hasn't accomplished. Having earned a role on Broadway before hitting his teenage years, the musically-talented New Jersey native moved to London, formed Spooky Tooth, befriended George Harrison, played on hit records from Harrison, Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson, and launched his own successful career with smashes like "Dreamweaver" and "Love is Alive." But one chapter of the Gary Wright story has been long lost: his 1972 album Ring
Let's Go Out Tonight: David Bowie's "Who Can I Be Now" Box Set Arrives In September
Hot on the heels of last Friday's announcement that the next David Bowie box would include the unreleased album The Gouster, the details of what will be in the box have been released from Parolphone. Coming on September 23 in CD, vinyl and digital download editions, David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976) will contain the following albums: Diamond Dogs (Remastered) 1-CD David Live (Original Mix) (Remastered) 2-CD David Live (2005 Mix) (Remastered) 2-CD The Gouster (Previously
Release Round-Up: Week of July 22
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Dio, A Decade of Dio 1983-1993 (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A Decade of Dio 1983-1993 collects all six studio albums released by Warner Bros. and Reprise in the first decade of the band Dio's soaring career. Formed by Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny Appice after their split from Black Sabbath in 1982, the group first gained prominence with the title track of debut Holy Diver, a staple of MTV and a recurring metal cult
Bad Boy for Life: New Five-Disc Box Celebrates East Coast Hip-Hop Label
In the late '90s and early '00s, East Coast rap was dominated by one label: Bad Boy Entertainment. Now, their first 20 years will be celebrated in a five-disc box set later this summer. First reported by Billboard, Bad Boy Presents The 20th Anniversary Box Set features 80 curated tracks spanning from the label's first release, Craig Mack's "Flava in Ya Ear," up to 2014. Longtime Bad Boy associate and current president Harve Pierre produced the set, and journalist Michael A. Gonzalez provides
An Apple A Day: RPM Collects Grapefruit's Fab "Yesterday's Sunshine"
RPM Records continues to leave no stone unturned as it explores groups and artists that may have fallen between the cracks over the years. A recent release from Grapefruit is no exception. Throughout their relatively short existence, the members of the four-piece pop-psych band Grapefruit enjoyed the imprimatur of The Beatles. Signed to Apple Music Publishing, the band was given a major promotional push but never attained any major success on the singles chart, and by the time the album
Release Round-Up: Week of July 15
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Little Richard, Mono Box: The Complete Specialty and Vee-Jay Albums (Concord/Specialty) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This new, 5-LP vinyl box set collects all of the studio albums that Little Richard recorded for both the Specialty and Vee-Jay labels between 1957 and 1965. The mono albums, each replicating the original label and jacket art, have been remastered from analog tapes. A 16-page booklet featuring new liner
More Powerful Than A Locomotive: DC Celebrates Musical Legacy with New Collection
Superheroes and comic book characters have become a larger force in pop culture over recent years with many comic-book based properties racing to the top of list box-office winners each year, and over ten comic book-related television shows scheduled to air this fall on various networks. DC Comics, home to Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and dozens of others, has been a big part of that. Next week also sees the annual San Diego Comic Con taking place, the largest comic and pop culture gathering
Grim Grinning Ghosts! New Children's Book Series Features Audio Treasures from Disneyland
If you're a Disney fan looking for the perfect gift for a young reader and/or catalogue obsessive in training, have we got a gift for you! Next Tuesday sees the first release in a new Disney Publishing series for children. "Disney Parks Presents" will extend the experience of your favorite Disney attractions to the page and your CD player! It's a series of picture books with new original artwork, packaged with custom CDs that offer a newly-created audio version of the featured
Lost Era of London Celebrated On Croydon Municipal's "Soho Continental"
Next stop: bohemian London, circa the 1950s and 1960s. That's the itinerary for Croydon Municipal's latest release in conjunction with Cherry Red, Soho Continental. This 25-track collection conjures the period in which Soho was dotted not with chain stores and restaurants but with coffee bars, cocktail spots and trattorias populated by artists of every stripe and ethnicity. As co-compiler Martin Green points out in his liner notes, "this album reflects the international sounds emanating from
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
Ramblin' [Expanded Edition]
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
Live! 8.24.1979
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.
Faithful [Limited Edition Orange Vinyl]
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
Review: Everclear's First Two Capitol Releases on Audiophile LP from Intervention
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
Release Round-Up: Week of July 8
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
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").
Try A Little Tenderness: Morello Reissues Four From Marty Robbins
Morello Records, an imprint of Cherry Red Group, is back with its fifth and sixth two-fers drawn from the considerable catalogue of the late country superstar Marty Robbins. Today/Don't Let Me Touch You brings together two Columbia LPs from 1971 and 1977, respectively, while All Around Cowboy/Everything I've Always Wanted has Robbins' 1979 and 1981 albums. Singer-songwriter Marty Robbins spent most of his career, spanning roughly thirty years and over 50 studio albums, at Columbia, departing
Sid and Marty Krofft's "Les Poupees de Paris"
Sid and Marty Krofft are beloved creators of a pantheon of children's television classics includingH.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 on Amazon. Considerably less well-known is the production the Kroffts created for the 1964's World's Fair. Sid and Marty Krofft's Les Poupees de Paris (The Puppets of Paris) featured an amazing array of Krofft puppets, set to a soundtrack provided by songwriters
Truer Faith: New Order to Update "Singles" Collection
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
Review: 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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